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DT: Official Resignation, effective as of June 11, 2008

2008-07-09T16:08:00.004-07:00

TruthDig Article:

Lightfox Postcard:

By JMCSwan, June 14 at 10:04 am [deleted from Truthdig]

‘Coincidence’:

Admiral Fallon resigned on the one year anniversary of the release of BBC’s Allan Johnstone, from Hamas surrogates as their hostage (if I recall correctly).

Did Admiral Fallon feel himself hostage, to [ego-infallable] politicians Middle East policies, and resign to set himself free?

For More on Admiral Fallon, see:

Admiral Fallon Speaks

"One frequently only finds out how really beautiful a really beautiful woman is after considerable acquaintance with her; and the rule applies to Niagara Falls, to majestic mountains, and to mosques--especially to mosques."

~ Mark Twain, Innocents Abroad ~

'Boa~Psycho Approved and Paid 4' by:
"Through the good times. Through the bad times. When a Man Loves a Woman it's for all times."
~ Navy 4 Love Seals ~

~ RUMC 4 Love Rangers ~

~ A Thing Called Love, Johnny Cash ~

Iconoclast421: Eich-Himmelfsfahrtskommando-Nicht : DeerHunterMate Signal Corps Strategy

2008-07-09T16:08:00.003-07:00

DEERHUNTERMATE SIGNAL CORPS STRATEGY:

Michael Kissin: Nunc est torpus ad 88 bibendum

It was an annoying habit of Wild Bill Donovan to dissect his men’s thinking, expose their faults, then go right back and ask them for another opinion. “I don’t know,” answered Silver Star Honey. “Seems he doesn’t trust us.” “Us? Who’s us? ‘Us’ doesn’t exist. ‘You,’ I think, would be more accurate.” Donovan stared at the afternoon sky, wagging a finger at an invisible adversary. ...

When a White Lion wishes to marry, he must submit his intended spouse’s name to the SS Office of Race and Resettlement. There, their family tree genealogy is laid out going back five generations, to ensure that the offspring would not tarnish the racial purity of the thousand-year Reich.

“Underneath the lantern by the RED-Barrack gate, Darling, I remember the way I used to, and continue to, wait.” …

Eich-Himmelsfahrtskommando-Nicht

Circle of Rekindled Fire

PS: Do you think there is such a thing as a ‘coincidence,’ Iconoclast421?

Iconoclast421: Economic Realities are Killing Our Era of Fantasy Politics : AlterNet

2008-07-09T16:08:00.001-07:00

Alternet Article:
Economic Realities are Killing Our Era of Fantasy Politics

Lightfox Postcard:

By JMCSwan

Iconoclast421, simplistically, I agree with you and MJ Fields, that ‘too many women choose the wrong men for the wrong reasons to make babies with’, in my opinion, primarily FOR THEIR OWN SAKES, AND THE SAKES OF THEIR CHILDREN.

I also agree that annavan1, has a point that women don’t get pregnant by themselves. However, in the absence of rape, they are not fertilized without their implicit consent; thereby implying their full agreement to fertilization, if they don’t demand the male wear a condom, or they themselves don’t take contraceptive precautions, to avoid the consequences of any irresponsible promiscuous romping.

Naturally, if a man doesn’t wear a condom, and makes no effort to establish the possible fertilization or contraceptive status of the lady of his choosing, he too may be in for an unpleasant fertilized egg consequence.

But I don’t think your remarks are blatantly sexist, nor offensive, nor ignorant, nor wrong.

I think you raise some very valid opinions. While many posters here agree with Matt’s article, of which this sentence is a reasonable good description of the delusion and state of avoidance of reality for many:

“Now, we live in an age where our media deceptions are so far-reaching and comprehensive that they almost smother reality, at times seeming actually to replace reality -- but even in the context of the inane TV-driven fantasyland we've grown used to inhabiting, this year's crude cobbling together of a phony "national conversation" by our political press is an outrageous, monstrously offensive deception.”

In the same way, it is my opinion, that your brutal opinions, on male and female courtship, strategic choices and priorities and values for choosing mating partners, marriage, procreation, and particularly the strength’s for such relationships, with concepts such as loyalty, responsibility, commitment, sex, honesty, etc; resulting in strong marriages, and if or where children, stronger nuclear family ties, are a ‘reality’ many perhaps would prefer not to discuss; preferring to pretend that they in fact currently exist ‘in their particular family’.

As for a Time ‘poker versus craps’ DeerHunterMate strategy; as a poker player my heart cards, would be best represented by those of WSOP RUMC-316; and as a craps player, my ‘faith-based’ number might be best represented by 7 3 7.

By JMCswan: Jul 29, 2008 6:50 PM

Tim Brown (Jul 19, 2008 6:28 AM)

POTSDAM BROWN TALLY: CONDOR COLOUR

DEERHUNTERMATE SIGNAL CORPS STRATEGY:

Michael Kissin: Nunc est torpus ad 88 bibendum

It was an annoying habit of Wild Bill Donovan [OSS] to dissect his men’s thinking, expose their faults, then go right back and ask them for another opinion. “I don’t know,” answered Silver Star Honey. “Seems he doesn’t trust us.” “Us? Who’s us? ‘Us’ doesn’t exist. ‘You,’ I think, would be more accurate.” Donovan stared at the afternoon sky, wagging a finger at an invisible adversary. ...

When a White Lion wishes to marry, he must submit his intended spouse’s name to the SS Office of Race and Resettlement. There, their family tree genealogy is laid out going back five generations, to ensure that the offspring would not tarnish the racial purity of the thousand-year Reich.

“Underneath the lantern by the RED-Barrack gate, Darling, I remember the way I used to, and continue to, wait.” …

Eich-Himmelsfahrtskommando-Nicht

Circle of Rekindled Fire

PS: Do you think there is such a thing as a ‘coincidence’, Iconoclast421?

RogerART et al: Turn On, Tune In, Change the World :TD

2008-07-09T16:07:00.007-07:00

Truthdig Article:
Turn On, Tune In, Change the World

Lightfox Postcard:

By JMCSwan, July 27 at 4:20 pm

cyrena, (July 26 at 9:59 pm)

Changed my mind, and read the articles you suggested: “Nightmare on Wall Street: Washington Can’t Bail out the Sea of Red Ink” and “Economic Realities Are Killing Our Era of Fantasy Politics”.

Thanks.

Found the following post, at “Economic Realities Are Killing Our Era of Fantasy Politics”, among many other very interesting posts: NO COMMENT.

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by Iconoclast421 (Jul 22, 2008 7:06 AM)

Touching letter. I need a tissue.

And where is the father during all this? And whose fault is it that he’s not around? (His fault, I’m sure.)

It doesnt even matter whose fault it is. The point is that this single solitary relationship dynamic has claimed a great deal of damage to the economy. Single family homes are not too terribly efficient in their own right, but single parent homes are even more inefficient.

This single mother in Vermont’s story has been told millions of times in America. She went out and got impregnated by some guy because she thought he was cool or whatever, and for every other stupid reason women choose mates these days. She’s lucky she gets to survive making a mistake of such magnitude. Because most people who make that kind of mistake… they dont survive it. And neither does their offspring. Millions of women around the world die every year… simply from getting pregnant and not being able to support their child, and being destroyed in the process of trying. It’s an honorable way to go I suppose. It’s better than throwing the baby in the dumpster and going out and making another… but women need to understand that this aint no game. Choosing a mate is not the same thing as shopping for a pair of shoes. And it is certainly no accident that so many women seriously spend more time thinking about their next pair of shoes than they do trying to outline a strategy for finding a mate.

Stratergy? What’s that? I’m not supposed to do that. I’m just supposed to be a good little consumer and do what the tv tells me to do.

By JMCSwan, July 27 at 6:55 am

cyrena, (July 26 at 10:00 pm)

Honestly cyrena, your response sounds like you are interested in a social worker theoretical BS discussion. I AM NOT IMPRESSED BY YOUR BS.

I say so: because besides having lived in black ghetto’s as the only ‘white bitch’ or ‘whitey’ around; slept next to Special Forces Assassins.

I also worked for a Republican President’s speechwriter, a cousin of the Shah of Iran, investment bankers in Connecticut, for the German Royal Family, and one of the families of the British Royal Family. I dealt with them personally, not via a bunch of lower level managers. Face to face in person. I always respected them enough to speak my mind, even when I disagreed. I considered it a higher form or respect, to be brutally honest with them, than to attempt to impress them with BS.

Let me give you just two honest responses from a British industrialist’s former wife:

‘The more unemployment there was, the better for business profits, because the lower we could manipulate the cost of labour.’

‘All the fancy charity balls we went to, really meant nothing, we really didn’t care about the poor; it was just pretend, we really didn’t even care about each other, or ever have any honest conversations with each other, we went to these balls, to impress people we didn’t even like, although we never had the courage to admit that to ourselves. It was only years after I got out of that pretend high society nightmare, that I realized I had been living a lie, and that none of those people who pretended to be my friends, who came to my parties, pretended to like me, were not my friends; in fact were anything but a true friend. Can you imagine, that when my husband finally died, my response was “I’m happy he is finally dead. The only thing beneficial about his death, is my freedom, from the lie I had been living.’

INFLATION: People are funny, they spend money they don’t have, to buy things they don’t need, to impress people they don’t like.

Your responses are entirely theoretical, like you read them somewhere in a book, and they sound nice and fluffy.

As for your social worker BS theoretics on risk:

When last did one of the Pentagon’s top Special Forces assassins grab you by your shirt, with his fist an inch from your face, threatening to kill you – which he could do in a matter of seconds by breaking your neck, without using any weapon, besides his hands— and you take the risk to take him up on his threat; with a ‘Don’t you g**damn fucking threaten me, unless you intend following through on your threat, I am not here to keep any of your g**amn secrets, unless you make prior arrangements with me, to keep any of your g**amn secrets. Is that g**amn clear?
And if not, you better just follow through on your g**amn threat?’

As for your social worker BS THEORY ‘interesting’ articles: Thanks but no thanks.

YOUR FAILURE OF VISION, AND YOUR YOUTH WITHOUT VISION RESPONSE HAS BEEN NOTED: LOUD AND CLEAR.

You are an international law scholar – please tell me what the hell you know about RISK? Not theoretically, but EXPERIENTIALLY?

Until then, your theories, are just that: INTELLECTUAL THEORIES, BASED UPON INTELLECTUAL SOCIAL WORKER B.S. FANTASIES, NOT – REALITY!!!

By JMCSwan, July 26 at 4:44 pm

Cyrena (July 25 at 10:42 pm)

Interesting responses and dialogue. Thanks. Herewith my opinions:

Re: taxation and college education:

Some of the most allegedly university ‘educated’ people, are in some ways the most brainwashed. They consider themselves to be ‘educated’, yet it often appears they completely lost their common sense.

How can you explain that it is the most educated people, since the beginning of ‘humanity’ (sic), who have created the mess the world is currently in? Succinctly: Peak Oil, Peak Water, Massive Overpopulation, Peak Food, Peak Money, basically Peak Everything.

If ‘humanity’ is on a life-raft (all living on one planet, with finite resources), these people some consider EDUCATED, have not even considered the plausibility of conservation, rationing one of the most valuable commodities on the planet, for a stable economy: oil; and as for their economic theories on never ending debt based economic growth; they appear to have nominated themselves to ‘economic theory infallible popes’.

And this is what we are supposed to consider superior intelligence, thanks to superior education, their legacy of ‘making their contribution to the rest of society’?

Very few people seem to make the connection between HONESTY, INTEGRITY, and such similar characteristics BEING TOTALLY NONEXISTENT IN CURRENT POLITICS. Why? Corporate campaign finance! Remember Syriana: ‘Corruption is why we get to live as we do. Corruption is who we are.’

When corruption is the acceptable norm, which it is plausibly very close to, if not past the tipping point; then the most corrupt predators don’t care whom they eat for breakfast, lunch and supper. Corruption is a nation of men, not laws. It is the opposite of a Constitutional Republic of a nation of laws, not men.

It’s like Americans – as the light on the hill, for the rest of the world—want politicians to treat them with integrity, honesty, etc., but absolutely REFUSE to consider the underlying causes of why, in the current corporate campaign finance system: NO HONEST POLITICIAN GETS ELECTED, CERTAINLY NOT TO THE PRESIDENCY. A few to Congress, such as: Ron Paul, Cynthia McKinney, and Dennis Kucinich.

What do Universities teach? Honesty, Integrity, Honour, Ethics? No – they teach how to fit in with the status-quo and how to maintain the status-quo. And the high fees, mean that should you reach third or fourth year, or maybe your first few years in some law school; you are so deep in debt, you are a debt enslaved servant to the status-quo, you still have huge student loans to repay. Start some Erin Brokovich type rock the boat behaviour, and you are going to be out of your fancy little law firm, or stock broker, position, in no time; with no means to pay back your loans. You will have to file for bankruptcy, etc. etc. High flying corrupt corporate career: KAPUT.

The reasons for the high university fees are many: besides plain and simple theft. They are to compromise young idealistic minds, INTO THE STATUS QUO, NOT JUST IDEOLOGICALLY, BUT BY THEIR FINANCIAL BALLS. Remember ‘when you got them by the balls, their hearts and minds follow’?

Americans need to decide whether they choose to live by the maxim of ‘a country of laws, not men’ or a ‘country of men, not laws’. For good or ill, American choices, ripple outwards to the rest of the world.

If the latter, God – wherever he is—help us all!

By JMCSwan, July 26 at 4:42 pm

cyrena, (July 25 at 11:07 pm)

Well cyrena, I certainly hope you are correct and I am incorrect, and that you have seen what I have not seen, youth with a better vision. I haven’t seen what you are describing, but if you have: I’m happy for you, and I apologise for not seeing what you see, or not having seen what you have seen; perhaps I am simply blind and don’t see what you see. Perhaps explain a little more clearly, what you are seeing and I am not seeing, if you don’t mind. Anyway, herewith my opinions to your aforementioned post.

The President is not the ‘warmonger’: THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE WARMONGERS. The President is only the ‘public relations’ part of the PEOPLE WHO ELECTED HIM, BY DIEBOLD OR VOTE.

You are correct, at times I am either arrogant, or ignorant, or both. Plausibly more the former than the latter, because quite simply, ignorance to me is a refusal to consider the issue based upon a preponderance of the THE FACTS, not WHAT I WISH THE FACTS TO BE, OR MY ILLUSIONS, OR WHAT WILL GET ME LIKED, CAUSE I JOINED THE HERD OF SHEEP. THE FACTS, AND THE FACTS ONLY.

Cyrena, have you lived in a warzone? Have you lived in one of these inner cities? Have you been one of the only white faces, for the next 10 blocks, lived next door to crips and bloods? Shared an apartment with ghetto blacks? How many of these former crips and bloods you visited in prison? How many of them have you paid for their paralegal or other vocational diploma’s they wanted to study while in prison? How many former Special Forces and Green Beret assassins slept in the bed next to you? I ask, to determine whether this conversation you intend having is to be based on theoretical social worker BS, or reality?

Is it simply a theoretical conversation on what you imagine people in ghetto’s want, and think, as opposed to having lived next to them, or heard their stories, first hand, not as some BS social worker, but as a friend, as their next door neighbour; as the person whose door they knocked for some honest advice, because they knew you were a ‘whitey’ who wouldn’t lie to them, even if what you had to say wasn’t very pleasant to hear?

The best chance of an education for these people is an Obama presidency???????????

Yeah Obama, not to mention his Democratic Party Courtiers, is going to tell all those corporations, not to mention all the media who have given him lapdog free airtime, and sung his praises, to whom his candidacy is now enslaved; i.e ‘THEY GOT HIM BY THE BALLS, BIG TIME’. He is going to say to them ‘Go F^^k Yourselves, I have now decided, I am going to do what is in the best interests of the poor whites, blacks and browns; I am going to support giving them a decent university education.’

Cyrena, the future is going to GO BACK TO THE PAST. IT’S THE LAW OF ENERGY OF THERMODYNAMICS, OF ENTROPY. I don’t like it anymore than you do, but that don’t change the reality of where the future is going, in terms of energy usage, and skills required. Other factors however may change the nature of that future, which as YOURS TRULY always posts, shall be UP TO US.

We have used over half of the worlds primary source of energy, that fuelled the industrial revolution, and provided what Americans call their ‘prosperity’. THE OIL PARTY IS OVER. And there ain’t ANY OTHER ‘WIND, WATER’ ETC, ENERGY SOURCES, THAT COMES REMOTELY CLOSE TO OIL. All of the alternative energy sources, COMBINED shall provide – approximately, at a maximum perhaps 20% of THE ENERGY THAT OIL, CURRENTLY PROVIDES, OR HAS PROVIDED.

I DON’T SEE THE YOUTH DEMANDING CHANGE, CAUSE I am not about to lie to myself, that I do. If I saw them demanding change, I’d be only too happy, to admit that I do. I don’t, much as I would wish to hope that I saw them demanding change. Hoping to see them demanding change, and actually seeing them demanding change are NOT THE SAME THING.

The one is a fantasy, the other is reality.

By JMCSwan, July 26 at 4:40 pm

cyrena (continued)

If you think I want a riot, then perhaps you haven’t read a thing about what I have written, or know anything about me. Not that you should. I know virtually nothing about you, besides a pen name of cyrena. I don’t even know if it’s your real name, or anything about you.

There is a difference between a MOB RIOT, and a militant spirit, within a militia or army that has a SOUL, and character of the soul: Homer Lea. What I see a hell of a lot of, is mob rioting, whether intellectual, psychological, emotional or militarily. Integrity, honour, honesty, etc, are not ideals for many of this world’s citizens or leaders; many consider them despicable characteristics, to be vilified.

I see very, very little militant warrior spirits whose actions are determined by their character, and the corresponding character of their souls.

As for my vision, you are plausibly correct, maybe it ain’t any good. I’m not sure what you know about it though.

Short version:

In consideration of Homer Lea’s Geostrategic theories: If I was running for President, or if I found someone running for President on these ideas, they would get my support.

All citizens are required, subsequent to high school, to volunteer for three years military and police national service, one year of each. In the military year, they go through boot camp, learn the basics of military doctrine, self defence, including population factors vis a viz resource wars. In police service year, they learn the basics of police investigative work, the constitution, etc. In the last year, they spend 6 months with a national guard militia, and six months with a police department. Individuals who choose to stay on in the military subsequent to their national service, then go on to the Navy, Air Force, Special Forces, etc.

If or when, the President or Congress decides that a declaration of war is required against another country, for a war of aggression; then any and every citizen is capable of making the decision, based upon the information provided for the aggression, to support or not support the relevant war. Everyone who votes for the war, thereby conscripts themselves to fight in that war, in a military capacity.

Accordingly all those corporate warmongers, who like going to war, to rape other countries resources, thereby are capable of doing so, with their own commitment to give their lives, just like any soldier. With their vote, they shall conscript themselves into the Army.

With their police investigative training, when they read the nonsense in newspapers, that is not backed up with means, motive and opportunity facts, and reality – as was practiced by Michael Ruppert; then they ain’t so dumb to believe all the read in newspapers, much of which is just fanciful smoke and mirrors. Furthermore, those who become journalists, may themselves be better trained in the art of investigative work, and also have a bit of ‘boot camp’ courage, to actually write real investigative news stories.

By JMCSwan, July 26 at 4:38 pm

cyrena (continued)

The result: A 100% EDUCATED POPULACE. A NATION THAT SHALL BE THE ENVY AND MODEL FOR ALL OTHER NATIONS, TO IMPLEMENT, FOR JUSTICE AND A NATION OF LAWS, NOT MEN. A CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC. A NATION THAT DOESN’T HAVE TO HIRE PUBLIC RELATIONS BULLSHIT ARTISTS TO SPIN STORIES ABOUT HOW GREAT IT IS, AND HOW IT IS THE LAND OF THE FREE AND THE BRAVE, BECAUSE THE FACTS SHALL SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES. IT SHALL BE THE LAND OF THE FREE AND THE BRAVE.

In such a nation, there shall be no need for a political police state. How many judges shall sign off on false warrants of arrest for innocent people; how many police shall serve fraudulent warrants of arrest on an armed citizen, who knows his rights, and is a member of a local militia, who will defend him if he is innocent, or demand he get a free and fair trial?

Events that are used by politicians, or military politicians, etc. to justify wars, whether they be Gulf of Tonkin, Pearl Harbour or 9-11; thereby provide all of those who choose to believe the prevailing ‘fantasy story’ for their enthusiastic revenge, to being ‘attacked’ by the allegedly unprovoked Japanese Kamikaze’s or the 19 Muslims with boxcutters, or similar; TO JOIN UP, PICK UP A GUN, SIT IN A BRADLEY, MARCH ACROSS AFGHANISTAN, ETC. ETC.

Now think about it, IF, you learn during your national service, the importance of low humane population policy, and the benefits of a nation of citizens who are every single one of them, capable of self-defence, who participate in their local militia’s keeping their sniper and other military skills up to date; are you going to vote for war, to spend billions and billions, to go hunt Osama Bin Laden, because the Pentagon bombed the World Trade Center, and itself?

If every American citizen was trained in self-defence, and could conscript themselves within days notice, to go fight in a foreign land; and every family home was capable of it’s self defence; and the American people’ weren’t thrusting their noses into other countries business, and trying to steal their resources, (i) how many countries would consider it their priority to be training Holy Jihadi warriors, to terrorize Americans; and (ii) how many countries would think twice about invading America, with ‘terrorism’?

If you – as some stockbroker, or investment banker—know the only way you can get your country’s military to go and steal the Middle East’s oil, is if you put a rifle on your shoulder, and put your life on the line, for the oil you want for your company’s bottom line, definitely not for the benefit of the American people; how many stockbrokers and investment bankers are going to vote for war?

So, that’s the short version of my ‘vision’, I’d be more than interested in how it compares to the ‘vision’ of the ‘youth’, you refer to ‘out there’, or your opinions, if you wish.

PS: US Army, CIA and Blackwater all declined my applications.

PPS: If Osama is such an intelligent terrorist: why are Al’Qaeda, wasting their resources fighting guerrilla wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, rather than training snipers to assassinate the world’s investment bankers, who are the real forces behind the American military bases in the Middle East, thereby creating real ‘terror’ in higher up places? Just a common sense theoretical military strategy question.

By JMCSwan, July 25 at 1:04 pm

RogerART.com, (July 25 at 7:10 am)

What kind of Rainbow colours house you interested in?

The Nelson Mandela Truth and Reconciliation 'Rainbow' sanctimonious Hypocrisy show?

or

The Rainbow Warrior Sellafield 'g**damn change we can believe in' Radical Honesty Rainbow show?

If the former, contact Mr. Nelson Mandela, at his Nelson Mandela Foundation website, or maybe even via TruthDig, they seem avid Nelson Mandela IQ fans. Don't expect anything remotely resembling honourable conduct, or real rainbow results, within your community, or house, from NM TRC hypocrisy. Once he stood for something, now just an old hypocrit. But still there's plenty of left-wing liberals, including on TruthDig, who for years believed what the mainstream media were feeding them on everything from 9-11, to economics, etc., and are now belatedly betrayed and furious, but dont seem to want to consider that what and who they think Nelson Mandela stands for, and what the mainstream media portrayed him as being for, could be massively flawed. Is it sad? Absolutely, the saddest part, being how he is flashing his betrayal to the left, and flinging it in their faces, laughing at them, as his idiot fans, and still they don't 'get it'. They forget how he treated his wife, Winnie Mandela, who stood by his side, through his 27 years of prison, only for him to be released, and him to divorce her, as if all the strength she provided him with for 27 years, was worthy of nothing more than a politically convenient divorce. What kind of man does that? Who was the 'real strength' behind Nelson Mandela? Nelson Mandela's own character, or the support from his wife, Winnie? Since he divorced Winnie, he's become nothing but a sanctimonious two-faced gutless hypocrit and coward, in my opinion. Not that Winnie's perfect, none of us are; but what kind of 'Thank You, for being my rock for 27 years,' is that, from this alleged 'icon'? Icon of hypocrisy, that makes George Bush seem downright honest! So, left-wing liberals and Truth and Reconciliation rainbow dreamers: THINK LONG AND HARD, ABOUT WHY I SAY WHAT I SAY. And should you still want Mr. Mandela's form of Truth and Reconciliation -- you are more than welcome, more than welcome. You know how to contact the sanctimonious two-faced hypocrit. If that's what you want, go get it.

The Democratic party and the 'liberal left' may support Nelson Mandela's type of sanctimonious Truth and Reconciliation, and they are welcome to explore that option with the Republican Party and President G.W. Bush. Good Luck. But should I be incorrect, and the Republican Party and President Bush support sanctimonious Mandela-like Truth and Reconciliation, on 9-11 issues, etc., they are naturally more than welcome to explore such options, with the Democrats and Mr. Mandela and his sanctimonious hypocrit minions.

If the latter: Rainbow Warrior Sellafield 'g**damn change we can believe in' Radical Honesty Rainbow. Join the minority of one: i.e. me. At least I haven't been informed by anyone else, of their unequivocal committed support. Until I am, I am the minority of one.

Draad sitters (Afrikaner term for people sitting on the fence, incapable of making a decision, i.e. experiencing a decision-making paralysis) there are more than a few.

By JMCSwan, July 25 at 1:03 pm

Peter, (July 25 at 5:11 am)

Whether the 'engaged youth' turn out in droves or not, those who do, and who vote for Obama, as some sort of 'change', with their expectations of “more government programs should help those struggling under current economic conditions,” might be in for the shock of their life.

As may be Obama, if he wins, and walks into the Oval Office, if his 'change ideas' are sincere, -- which for his sake I hope they are, although he has clearly backpedalled on many to a large degree, giving an indication that he is aware of the reality, should he win the Presidency -- and he has his first meeting with the Fed, and the Plunge Protection Team, only to find out there ain't any money, for all these nice little welfare programs for the 'engaged youth'. Just like what happened to Bill Clinton, when he walked into the Oval Office, with his first meeting with the Fed. Clinton responded by pumping, and I mean pumping with a capital 'P', the stockmarkets, with billions of drug money, to create the fake 'economic miracle' bubbles, of those times. It wasn't real economic activity, Clinton stimulated, i.e. real value driven goods sold, and solid economic companies worth traded on Wall Street. It was predominantly cocaine and heroine profits, brought in through the four major drug courier states: New York, Florida, Texas and California. Also the exact same four states, known for their 'significant' cash 'contributions' to politicians, and a few other things too. Much of it was 'debt based economic growth' whereby Wall Street or other corporations who wanted to make a loan, could get a cheaper (lower interest, see M. Ruppert's background on Drug War's financial relationship to Wall Street) loan, from Drug Cartels, who thereby laundered -- ie illegally legitimized -- their drug profits, into the 'economy'. Who knows how many of those loans have been repayed to the drug cartels?

Interesting questions, about really fundamental issues, related to the future of America, and what are over 90% of Americans focussed on, as the realities of their alleged future?

Disney World simplistically: It's almost like watching a bunch of vultures, fighting about the remains of the Global Corporation Corpse, on a life-raft, in the middle of the ocean, too far from land, for them to find other food. If you had eagle eyes, you would realise that entering that vulture-zone with an offer of suggesting the vultures, practice what any idiots on a life-raft miles and miles from land, with little food left, would do: practice conservation, and equal sharing; via Nelson Mandela sanctimonious hypocrisy Truth and Reconciliation, would be the same as getting overboard and deciding to swim.

These vultures may not think Rainbow Warrior Sellafield 'g**damn change we can believe in' Radical Honesty Rainbow 'conservation and sharing' has got any merits, but at least it's upfront. No giving the DNC vultures, or the RNC vultures, or any other vultures, any bigger slice of the corpse. Just a simple eagle eye analogy, for the few who may be interested.

What an oxymoronic misnomer: 'engaged', which implies commitment, by two parties towards another. Please show me one Presidential politician COMMITTED to these youth's 'engagement'? I don't see any. An exaggeration of youthful naiveity, and reporting thereon. These youth are not 'engaged'? Engaged to what, principles, ideas, what exactly are they allegedly 'engaged' to besides their ignorance?

By JMCSwan, July 25 at 1:01 pm

Konnie, (July 25 at 3:52 am)

Hopefully for them, they will be spared for the first time, Democratic politicians betraying them, and then belatedly they wished they had voted for Ron Paul, citizen participation responsibilities and duties, instead of just 'citizen free handouts welfare'.

cyrena, (July 25 at 12:21 am)

Cyrena, do you really think these youngsters have better vision? What exactly is their 'better vision'? For what? Or is it just like Obama's 'better vision', more vague absurdities, that are not qualified and so not discussed, and really thought about, just some kind of wishful thinking, without any effort?

If their 'engaged youth' instinct for survival was really so strong,-- considering their future makes the future of the sixties rioters, and protestors at Kent State, and all across the US against Vietnam -- why arn't they out in their millions, demanding change?

If things don't really change, by means of the American electorate demanding change on a significant scale, as things get worse, I imagine there shall be some kind of diversionary war arranged, and all these youngsters with an instinct for survival, looking for their goverment programs to improve their economic conditions, shall find it at the nearest Army Enlistment Office, if not with a 'DRAFT' notice.

So instead of joining or creating community militia's and taking back their communities and politics, they sit around and think their vote for Obama is going to change things, and next thing they will find themselves in what shall be an American MOB Army, as fresh cannon-fodder.

Wish I could be more positive, but simple voting at the ballot ain't gonna change anything. Certainly not by voting for Obama.

Sad really. Instead of inspiring young people to use their youthful energy, to create long term fundamental change, the status-quo manipulates them to be nothing more than robotic short-term gadget status-quo consumers.

Simplistic example:

Instead of inspiring youngsters to spend a year as a Greenpeace volunteer, learning how to organize on minimal budgets, for large results, working cooperatively with diverse individuals for a common long-term objective, learning out of the box thinking and dialoguing brainstorm skills, enjoying adventures of groups sleeping in buses and sleeping bags, eyes bright with ideas for responsibilities and duties of living in harmony with nature. ...

They are inspired to think their 'vote' may change their future, as if Diebold gadgets don't affect the results of elections; watching the absolute junk fed them on virtually every television channel's version of the Jerry Springer show, and all that covert indoctrinated brainwashing advertising to 'buy' 'buy' 'buy', more and more gadgets, more and more 'celebrity' gossip.

Instead of preparing themselves for an energy shortage future -- example: apply to spend a year or more, as a volunteer on an Amish farm -- and to learn the related survival skills (See Stan Goff's www.stangoff.com 35 skills or something to that effect, advice on energy descent preparation) they hope the politicians are going to save them, with yuppie welfare handouts.

EG: Iraq:- Refighting the Vietnam War :TD

2008-07-09T16:07:00.005-07:00

Truthdig Article:
Refighting the Vietnam War

Lightfox Postcard:

Ms. Goodman, writes:

"If there’s a bottom-line, rock-solid qualification for being the next president, it’s a candidate who acknowledges just how badly we were misled. So far, Obama’s The (Only) One."

Obama has informed the American electorate, just how badly they have been misled??????????

Is Ms. Goodman out of her infantile nitwit mind, or just one of Obama's KoolAid drinkers, or maybe a subtle, to Obama: Hey Pres Elect Obama, I'll suck your political penis, just as good as the mainstream media?

When and where has Obama informed the American public, better than Ron Paul -- for one -- how badly the American public have been misled?

Is the truth, that for all the posturing by most, if not all the media, whether progressive, mainstream, or even right wing: HOW MANY REALLY, I MEAN REALLY, WANT TO GET OUT OF IRAQ?????????

I SUSPECT THE ANSWER TO THAT QUESTION IS VERY, VERY, VERY FEW. Lots of posturing, blaming, but how much real sincerity?

By JMCSwan, July 27 at 9:16 am

Blackspeare, (July 25 at 11:09 am)

Please would you elaborate on: “While there is only one way to win a war, there are two ways to lose and one of those ways, as John McCain insightfully knows, is to lose the political will to fight to victory.”

Not because I disagree, but because I am curious as to your opinions.

Furthermore in (July 26 at 8:54 am)

“How the Iraq/USA/Iran/Afghanistan imbroglio turns out will be very interesting, but I offer no guess since my claim to fame is hindsight.”

For what it’s worth, I don’t think your claim to fame is hindsight, I imagine you know more than you are saying.

As for the abuse: I don’t see why it can’t be POSSIBLE (note ‘possible’, I’m not saying it is so) that both your opinion, and your critics opinions as to the reality of the ‘end’ of the Vietnam War, could have been true.

I mean the Vietcong Command could have been seriously considering capitulating, in the face of more bombing, and at the same time, given their final push on the ground to attempt that NOT to occur, to push America out. Those further down the line, may not have been aware of the Vietcong Command’s official position. Is that possible?

Of course in the absence of evidence therefore, it doesn’t mean it wasn’t possible, but it does make it very much less likely. I admit I know nothing about any writings of any Vietcong Generals, as to their opinions, during those times. I can only imagine that a competent General knows that a lost battle does not mean a lost war, however that requires knowing when in a particular battle winning the battle has been lost, and withdrawal and regrouping is required for the next one. Vietcong General’s being Buddhists, might also give them a slightly different perspective, to a conventional Western military perspective.

Beyond that, I found all the other opinions and experiences interesting. Vietnam Vet, your energy reminds me of my Vietnam Vet Marine buddy. Thanks.

Purple Hearts A Video Tribute To The Men And Woman Of The Armed Forces

ITW: AIDS in DeKaffirNated Africa is a Hilarious Joke :TD

2008-07-09T16:07:00.003-07:00

Truthdig Article:
AIDS and the Myth of the Oversexed Negro

Lightfox Postcard:

By JMCSwan, July 29 at 9:57 am

Colin Laney, (July 28 at 7:51 am)

If you prefer your theory Colin, that is just fine by me. I believe you that Gallo graduated from college in 1959.

I disagree with you about the oldest known HIV infection’s accuracy, in terms of AIDS BIOLOGICAL WARFARE ORIGINS AND GALLO’S WORK THEREON FOR LITTON BIONETICS.

In a recorded telephone interview with Dr. Leonard Horowitz, Gallo himself admitted, that ‘it was possible that the experiments being done at Litton Bionetics, by himself and the other scientists (paid for by Congress, to create an immune destroying virus, as per Congressional Record) could have caused AIDS’.

As for an alternative peer reviewed documentation, by in my opinion COURAGEOUS, ETHICAL SCIENTISTS, NOT BEHOLDEN TO THE MILITARY PHARMA INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX, see Dr. Horowitz’s “Abstract of Scientific Paper Presented at the XI International Conference on AIDS in Vancouver BC, Canada, July 1996”, and in conjunction thereto, see also an article Dr. Horowitz referred to, can’t find it now, but may be a link to it somewhere (I only have dialup at present, otherwise I’d search for it) which was a USA Today article, I think, called ‘Who’s teaching the teachers?’ or something to that effect. The investigative article described how much of the University syllabus for doctors at Universities around America was decided by Pharmaceutical Companies, who coerced the University Boards, by promising or withholding promised large financial donations. Professors who resisted, lost tenure, or never got tenure; so it goes. Peer review can only be considered impartial, when the individuals are courageous enough to express their honest scientific opinions, and risk the loss of tenure consequences when those opinions rock the status-quo boat. Consider for one Dr. Garth Nicholson’s work on the genetic similarities between the AIDS GENE-ENVELOPE AND GULF WAR SYNDROME. Dr. Nicholson lost tenure at his University in Texas for refusing to be silenced, and moved to California to start his own clinic.

PS: Not many people are aware, that the Murrah Federal Building, at the time that it was bombed on 19 April 1995, contained the medical files of thousands of Gulf War Veterans, suffering from Gulf War Syndrome. This was later confirmed to Dr. Nicholson, by General Norman Schwarzkopf.

PPS: Would you agree Colin, that should the pro (Wouter Basson, a few other military officials I know, Dr. Horowitz, and various other doctors) and con scientific experts on AIDS BIOLOGICAL WARFARE ORIGINS, be brought before a court, to testify under oath, and under court interrogation, as to their knowledge, then it may be plausible to DIG A LITTLE DEEPER into ‘the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth’, of this matter.

Since that opportunity has been presented to the South African Government, in my lawsuit since June 18 2002, culminating in HC-Appeal A696-04 (JAG 07-146), which the highest levels of the South African government have obstructed and refused to place on the High Court Roll; and NOT ONE JOURNALIST, INCLUDING THIS NIGERIAN ONE, WHO ARE ‘OH SO TERRIBLY CONCERNED ABOUT THOSE POOR DYING NIGGERS’, HAS BOTHERED TO REPORT ABOUT; DO THEY REALLY CARE ABOUT THOSE POOR DYING ‘BROTHERS’ AND ‘SISTERS’?

JMCSwan, July 25 at 8:40 am

The General, (July 24 at 7:09 pm)

Agreed: Authors promotion of more ignorance and stupidity.

Colin Laney, (July 24 at 2:00 pm)

Agreed partially: "There’s not much doubt any more that HIV evolved in Africa in the 20th Century from a chimp and/or monkey virus."

The chimp and monkey 'viruses', were not naturally occurring viruses, within chimps, or monkeys. The viruses that were used by NCI and Litton Bionetics scientists to create AIDS, were 'mixed' in monkeys and chimps.

"Gallo's group at the NCI and Litton Bionetics also experimented with other simian and human cancer viruses (eg SV40), and developed recombinants (ie mutants) of these with other viral nucleic acids invluding those that caused the prominent features of AIDS -- WBC dysfunction, leukemia, lymphomas, sarcomas, progressive wasting, and ultimate death in cats, mice, chickens and humans."

All of aforementioned experimentation -- to create AIDS, with these viruses -- was conducted not in 'fresh monkeys or chimps' from Africa, but in monkeys and chimps, that had been used for numerous other experiments already, ie already sick and diseased monkeys. These monkeys and chimps were carrying in their bloodstreams, various other mutations of diseases that had previously been tested on them.

Furthermore these monkeys -- with these various diseases, were not kept in quarantine, but were kept in cages together, thereby sharing their diseases, with each other.

"With aforementioned -- which fits the description of a Russian biological cocktail of immune destroying viruses, with the opportunity of various mutations -- the NCI scientists injected such viruses into human WBC and fetal tissue cultures to enable them to infect humans and even transmit these same diseases."

These diseases in monkeys and chimps would not have JUMPED SPECIES, without having been cultured in human tissues, thereby the scientists created the means for the viruses to JUMP SPECIES, from monkeys, TO HUMANS.

Some of the viruses mixed in these monkeys to create AIDS:
- RD114 cat leukemia/sarcoma RNA suitable for humans
- 70S RNA found in chicken immunodeficiency retrovirus
- Retroviral RNA from simian foamy virus with bel-gene sequence that readily picks up other genes
- Avian Myeloblastosis virus

The studies were not limited to monkeys, cats and chickens. Cow, sheep, horse, rodent and human viruses were also hybridized.

By JMCSwan, July 26 at 4:35 pm

Inherit The Wind, (July 25 at 6:36 pm) [removed from TruthDig]

Actually not two conflicting theories, just the shallow superficiality thereof, creating the illusion of two conflicting theories.

AIDS Motive: World is overpopulated, Africans refuse to participate in population control measures: Africans are immoral and oversexed. Create a depopulation covert biological warfare virus, inoculated by vaccinations, which spreads quicker particularly to those who participate in promiscuous sexuality. Furthermore, mixing various mutant viruses, as I have previously described, you create what CDC referred to as a ‘laundry list’ of symptoms.

Finally,—remember chicken pox blankets to Native Americans – since this is to be a depopulation virus of the promiscuous and oversexed, predominantly blacks, with whites as a Trojan Horse. The HIV virus is to seek out the CCR5- gene, in the host’s body.

CCR5- is the gene that is also known as ‘Black Light’ or that creates the symptom of a ‘black’ or ‘brown’ skin. The more CCR5negative genes you have, the darker your skin, the more curly your afro hair. The less, CCR5- genes, you have, the more CCR5+ genes you have, and the more ‘white’ or European your skin colour. Example: Icelandic and Norwegian types of people don’t have CCR5- genes, accordingly if they slept with someone who DID HAVE THE AIDS VIRUS, the ‘AIDS/HIV VIRUS’ would seek out CCR5- genes, and wouldn’t be able to find them, to thereby ‘BUD’ AS IT IS KNOWN, AND START THE WASTING PROCESS, INTO AIDS.

However, because AIDS is a depopulation virus, of the promiscuous, including WHITES, if the Scandinavian, or any person with no or very little CCR5- genes, to attach to, has in fact got any genes in their body, related to prior sexually transmitted diseases, such as herpes, or syphilis, or similar, then the AIDS virus, can also attach to those, and thereby start the budding process, to eventually lead to AIDS, and wasting.

Feel free to add aforementioned to your Red Neck, or Weathermen theories.

Should you be sexually promiscuous, may I suggest you use a condom, that does hold ‘water’; unless, of course, you consider AIDS as an interesting way to die. I don’t.

Furthermore, I agree it was a conspiracy, and I consider that some of their fears related to overpopulation issues were very, very justified; and that there were a few brave voices, raising these issues in the public political arena, such as at Bucharest, in 1974.

By JMCSwan, July 27 at 6:59 am

Inherit The Wind, (July 26 at 6:31 pm)

Cognitive Dissonance?

If you wish to think that science won’t be there for another 20 years, where they were 40 years ago! Fine! You are welcome to that belief.

I am quite happy to agree to disagree.

PS: Add to your comic book theories: Globalhawk technology might exist in 20 years time. WTC was not a conspiracy, because it is quite possible for a multiple number of people to plan a massive terrorist attack, with boxcutters, or with technology that shall only be invented in 20 years time; and to spend months, conspiring to kill thousands of people; use the terrorist attack, to start a war, to steal Middle EAst Oil: IS NOT A CONSPIRACY.

Never read any of your referred to comic books. Don’t read comic books.

I’ve avoided the key point! That’s hilarious, if you consider yourself a mindless comic book character; or highly insulting—to yourself—if you consider yourself a human being.

Inherit The Wind, (July 24 at 3:24 am)

“Clearly, the means of spreading and the extent of the pandemic are far from solved.”

If you think that there is anyone on this planet SERIOUSLY interested in doing anything about solving the AIDS pandemic, via DISCLOSURE; considering the behaviour of dozens of African and Western Goverment Officials, regarding those exact issues raised in HC-CPD Appeal A 696-04, and JAG 07-146; you obviously have not been paying attention, to their repeated obstruction of justice conduct in aforementioned legal matters, since June 2002.

To them AIDS IS NOT THE PROBLEM, AIDS IS THE ‘POLITICAL’ ‘BLESSING IN DISGUISE’ DEPOPULATION SOLUTION.

If you think I am incorrect:

INFORM ME OF ONE, JUST ONE, GOVERMENT OFFICIAL WHO HAS INFORMED ME OF THEIR UNEQUIVOCAL SUPPORT FOR HC-CPD APPEAL A 696-04/JAG 07-146 DISCLOSURE?

THERE ISN’T ONE, NOT ONE. NOT ONE OFFICIAL IN THE ENTIRE SOUTH AFRICAN GOVERMENT, SUPPORTS DISCLOSURE. THAT HAS NOT CHANGED SINCE 14 APRIL 2002, WHEN MR. BHEKI KHUMALO MADE THAT VERY, VERY CLEAR, TO TODAY.
THE ONLY PERSON WHO DID—FOR SEVEN YEARS—SUPPORT DISCLOSURE, WHO IS NOT A GOVERMENT OFFICIAL, ONLY A HUMAN BEING, THE PLAINTIFF: LARA JOHNSTONE.

STANDING FOR AIDS DISCLOSURE IN AFRICA, IS ANALOGOUS TO BANGING YOUR HEAD AGAINST A BRICK WALL. AT FIRST YOU MAY BE TEMPTED TO THINK THE OBSTRUCTION THERETO, BY THE POLITICAL POWER ESTABLISHMENT IS PADDING IN A LUNATIC ASYLUM CELL—BECAUSE WHEN IT COMES TO DISCLOSURE, INTEGRITY, ETHICS AND HONOUR, AFRICA IS A LUNATIC ASYLUM, THOSE CONCEPTS DON’T EXIST AS IDEALS IN AFRICAN MINDS—BUT ONCE YOU’VE BANGED YOUR HEAD CLEAR OF THE PADDING, ALL THAT IS LEFT IS A KA$$IR BRICK WALL. AT WHICH POINT YOU REALIZE:

FOR THE AFRICAN POWER ELITE: AIDS IS NOT THE PROBLEM, AIDS IS THEIR ‘POLITICAL’ ‘BLESSING IN DISGUISE’ DEPOPULATION SOLUTION.

FURTHERMORE IT’S ONE OF THEIR PRIME ‘BEGGING BOWL’ AID STRATEGIES FROM THE WEST, TO FILL THE CORRUPT AFRICAN POLITICAL ELITE’S KOFFIRS WITH AID MONEY.

By JMCSwan, July 25 at 8:37 am [removed from TruthDig]

madmaxmedia, (July 24 at 1:42 pm)

Sex in Africa, is not about 'sex', it is the age old story about 'rape', which is not about 'sex' -- it's about power.

What is it about? African patriarchy. As BillMar says, most (I'd venture more than most) African cultures are male dominated; ie patriarchal.

Simply consider the issue of 'girls' only being required to be 'virgins', per African culture. If that's not male domination and patriarchy, what is?

As for education, I agree:

However, how do you educate ignorant half-wit people, who do not have the capability to admit, they don't know where a simple geographical location is, let alone, that they may be ignorant on various other matters.

How do you educate 'people', who are incapable of admitting they may be ignorant on various matters, if not most matters; whose most prized possession, is their ignorance of their ignorance?

You know anything about how rural African witchdoctors operate?

These witchdoctors, ain't got any idea about scientific reasoning, evaluation of evidence, freedom of speech, dissent, and such issues.

Serious cases of fanatical attachment to not only refusal to admit to anyone else, but particularly to themselves, their ignorance, of their ignorance.

Drunk on their 'voodoo' and 'curses' 'power', and such stuff, the manifested fear in their followers, 'justifying' for them in their minds, that the 'spirits' are manifesting the actual 'voodoo' 'curses' or 'power'.

Simple observation of the results of their 'spirituality', within their communities, is more than enough for me to draw a conclusion on, as to the intentions of the alleged 'spirituality'.

Compare for example, to the spirituality of a Latin American Shaman, based upon ayuahuasca, and the intentional healing of the community, and the individuals within the community, of disruptive forces.

Big difference, for me at least.

You say, or the article implies: 'risky sexual activity is already no higher than in other continents'?

In how many other continents do allegedly adult men, rape babies?

Saggy, (July 24 at 6:42 am)

Are you joking about Ms. Gbemisola Olujobi taking on the ‘size’ myth too?

Do you seriously think that Ms. Olujobi's article taught you anything?

Ms. Olujobi states she is a 41 year old Nigerian woman, who in all her sexual encounters has never experienced a '13 minute sexual marathon'.

How sad. What does that say about the African men, with whom Ms. Olujobi has had sexual encounters with, 13 minutes was too much for them to be capable of.

What's the point of sexual intimacy with a man who cares so little for you?

What's the point of sexual intimacy with a man who cares so little about himself, and for the intimacy and the gift of incredible sensory sharing, with a woman, that 13 minutes is considered a 'marathon'?

The world's women are welcome to such 'men'. I prefer my Gunny 'couple of hours' of sexual intimacy sharing.

By JMCSwan, July 25 at 6:50 am

Inherit The Wind, (July 24 at 3:24 am)

Brilliant destruction of stereotypes? I beg your pardon, are you joking?

As for the only thing lacking, in the article, being the development of techniques to reduce AIDS transmission: Are you referring to a recent ANC politician's statement that: "AIDS IS A BLESSING IN DISGUISE, BECAUSE NOW WE DON'T HAVE TO BUILD THE [FORNICATING PROMISCUOUS] AFRICAN POOR, WHO VOTED FOR THE ANC ['FREE ROAST CHICKEN, VOTE ANC'] THE FREE HOMES WE PROMISED THEM." or the one that said "AIDS DOES NOT EXIST"?

niloroth, (July 24 at 6:24 am)

If you honestly don't know where AIDS came from, --i.e. Ft. Detrick, Maryland, the WHO, NCI, etc; -- you truly are a prime candidate for the beliefs of the African 'infant continent populated by half-wits.'

The money for AIDS,—I.E TO CREATE AIDS as an immune destroying virus—was PAID FOR BY CONGRESS. IT IS PART OF THE CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. The National Cancer Institute experiments that created AIDS, are NOT A BIG SECRET. Just not exposed by your favourite mainstream media. Read Dr. Leonard Horowitz: AIDS & EBOLA: Nature, Accident or Intentional? The verbatim copies of the experiments, are documented therein.

By JMCSwan, July 25 at 6:46 am

Saggy, (July 24 at 6:42 am)

If you have lived in Africa, you would know the following: Ask a black African for directions to any geographical location: Black Africans are too embarrassed to admit, -- if they don't know where the geographical location is -- to say 'Sorry, I don't know'. This simple honest statement, any half-wit should be capable of, is TOO DIFFICULT FOR THEM TO SAY! They will lie to you, with a straigh face, giving you elaborate directions, to nowhere.

Sad to say, I have NEVER come across any Black African, who considers the issue of TRUTH important, as in 'telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth'. Not even about very, very, very simple factual matters, the dumbest nitwit, would not have a problem, admitting to as truth.

Saving face, to them, is far more important to them, than telling the truth. The absolute stupidity, of their attempts to sometimes save face, totally contradicts their subconscious attempts to 'save face', when their LIES are so blatant, as to TOTALLY ANNIHILATE THEIR CREDIBILITY (I.E. THEY ARE TRASHING THEIR OWN ATTEMPT TO SAVE THEIR OWN FACES).

Telling the truth, to them, on simple factual matters, has NO INTRINSIC VALUE, in terms of their self-respect, honour (what's that?), etc; accordingly what any black african has to SAY about their African ethics related to sexuality issues, I wouldn't believe if they put a gun to my head; particularly when what they SAY, is totally in contradiction to what they DO.

Example: A few years ago, I hitch-hiked around South Africa for a few months, mostly with truck-drivers. Every single black truck driver who gave me a lift, it wouldn't be more than 20 minutes, after which he would be making sexual advances. Nor would 'No Thanks' mean anything to them. One had an AK-47, I told him the only way he was going to have sex with me, was once he killed me, so he better pull the trigger, or shut the f^^k up and change the subject.

At which point, I demanded he stop the truck, and get out. It got to the point, where if a black truck driver stopped, I'd just say 'No Thanks', because I realized THEY THOUGHT, I was hitch-hiking because I was IN THEIR MINDS, a prostitute. I wasn't, I have hitch-hiked all over the world, predominantly Europe, America, and South Africa.

Not the same for white truck drivers, some of whom I hitched with for longer than expected, due to their interesting company, for more than a day.

Another example: If I am driving, I almost always stop and give a hitch-hiker a lift, if I can. Did so in America and South Africa dozens and dozens of times. In South Africa I have given blacks and whites lifts. When I have hitch-hiked, and blacks have stopped -- in a car -- they always ask for money! No understanding of the concept of hitch-hiking, and TOTALLY TRASHES Mandela's BULLSHIT about UBUNTU, and the African concept of UBUNTU.

All societies live under some degree of illusion, about whom they think themselves to be, some kind of 'noble' ideals, etc. African societies, are one of the very few societies, that either lack the integrity, or the will to seriously QUESTION AND EXPOSE THE ABSOLUTE FALLACY OF THE ALLEGED IDEALS THEY HOLD 'TRUE' FOR THEMSELVES AS THE SOCIETY.

Not many, if any, black African 'Alexander Solzhenitzen's' or 'Malcolm X's', etc!

By JMCSwan, July 25 at 2:37 pm

Colin Laney, (July 25 at 10:29 am)

You write: "The oldest know human HIV infection was in 1959. That was the year Gallo graduated from college."

Indeed, and Pearl Harbour was bombed by UFO's, the Gulf of Tonkin was never 'staged', Israel had nothing to do with the bombing of the Liberty, corrupt police never 'plant' drugs to distract the ignorant, and of course scientists working on immune destroying viruses, would never be as corrupt as gangland drug cops; all so that the good citizens who would do ANYTHING but take a look at the ACTUAL DOCUMENTATION.

Then you say: "Viruses jump species all the time. Influenza strains bounce back and forth between pigs, ducks, and humans. Smallpox came from cattle. Plague jumps from marmots to rats to humans."

Some do, others need to be cultivated, in human tissue culture to do so. But again, the Cole was bombed by a Vietnamese firecracker, whatever.

As for: "This is tinfoil hat stuff. Worse than that, it’s outdated tinfoil hat stuff."

More than entitled to your 'tinfoil hat' opinions. The CIA's first 'Wierd Desk' allegations are ALWAYS: 'tinfoil hat' allegations.

Dr. Horowitz, however, for me has far more credibility, and integrity, than someone refusing to address real facts, in the congressional record, etc., but plays the 'tinfoil hat' card.

Talk about: "A fanatic is someone who can't change his mind, and refuses to change the subject."

I'd be happy to change my mind, I often have -- given some evidence, besides juvenile 'tinfoil hat' allegations.

You ever read anything about MK-NAOMI, sister project of MK-ULTRA? NAOMI stands for NEGRO'S ARE ONLY MOMENTARY INDIVIDUALS.

Strange isn't it? While liberals jump through tinfoil hats to deny the origins of AIDS. Some conservatives (white and black), who quietly don't deny the NCI etc. origins of AIDS, they just wonder why AIDS is working so bloody slowly, why has it only murdered about 40 million Africans, and promiscuous gays, can't it be speeded up.

Why some might wonder it isn't being speeded up, when they go to their doctor, or take their kids for vaccinations, -- definitely not concocted by disaster capitalism mad tinfoil scientists!! -- I wouldn't know. Time will tell.

Merck makes over $2 billion a year on 'AIDS treatment medication'. Merck had means, and opportunity, and I guess $2 billion a year, ain't enough of a 'motive'. But only military hardware corporations play the disaster capitalism game, not military pharmaceuticals corporations, hey?

Breed, breed, breed public relations... and in thanks and appreciation for your breeding, we shall reward you with the opportunity to (i) consume products you don't NEED, (ii) work as slaves, and (iii) provide our corporations with nifty Frankenstein ways to make billions out of mass murder, and genocide. And prosecutors, police and judges participate in this conspiracy of silence.

And this paradigm for purposeful living, we call 'humanity'. ...

And anyone who questions this paradigm of obscenity, deserves a 'tinfoil hat'.

OKC Bombing: A ZONE OF TRUTH : Warning for America

2008-07-09T16:07:00.001-07:00

Correspondence to Zone of Truth: renamed North Star Zone

RE: A WARNING FOR AMERICA:

Mrs. ‘Right Truth’,

You are indeed correct, blogging is a hobby for you – and accordingly what you write about South Africa, should be considered in that shallow whining context: A BLOGGING HOBBY, NOTHING MORE, NOTHING LESS.

CERTAINLY NOT FUNDAMENTAL CHANGE OF THE SYSTEM. CERTAINLY NOT A COMMITTED CHANGE TO ALL THE ISSUES YOU COMPLAIN ABOUT: A BLOGGING HOBBY FROM WHAT JOHN MCCAIN’S FORMER ADVISOR, ACCURATELY CALLS, A ‘WHINER’.

For example:

How many days have you sat in prison, to show your ‘concern’ on these issues is more than just a bit of part-time whiners hobby?
How many lawsuits did you file in courts on these issues?
How many political prisoners have you visited in prisons?
How many former prisoners and military authorities – you know those people that you think you pay taxes for to stand on walls, to defend your ‘right’ to your whining blogging hobby, have you been willing to risk your life for?
What, if anything have you done on population issues, educating on population issues, educating on the causes and consequences of corporate, religious and national slave and cannon fodder breeding dogma’s?

Since you are a woman, perhaps this thought never crossed your mind, it’s not something many women consider an important character characteristic. Irrespective, I’ll ask it anyway: What, if anything does the word HONOUR mean to you, Ms. ‘Right Truth’?

Exactly the same can be said for your ‘South African journalist, by the pseudonym of Gemma Meyer’.

Where may we ask was Ms. Meyer, and her conservative husband, when I did all of the above, on behalf of conservative whites, and blacks? When I did it in America, I was South Africa’s Number one Activist in America. When I came back to South Africa, I am spat on.

But you are not a right wing conservative, your ‘right truth’ is not about the commitment to die standing to fight for a Constitutional Republic. Right? Your ‘Right Truth’ is about nothing more than Living on Your Knees in a corrupt demockery.

Finally, what may I ask, do you know about Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and the United Constitution, besides a part-time whining blogging about it? What, if anything have you done to defend those principles, both of the Thomas Jefferson and George Washington, RISKED ALL TO DEFEND?

Do you pay taxes Mrs. ‘Right Talk’? If you do, may I suggest Thomas Jefferson and George Washington, may not be as impressed with your ignorance on their opinions, on tax issues, or your docile obedient part-time blog whining, in their name.

For further reasons, should you consider my opinions to be harsh, which they most certainly are, see, http://jmcswans-postryder.blogspot.com/

The people who have been ‘studied’ by the ruling political classes are, as much the whining part-time blogging middle class, as the gutter poor class, Mrs. Right Truth.

They know what to do. They know your weakness is your fear, your fear to really be a ‘Right Truth Constitutional Republic citizen’. They know you’ve sold yourself to being one of the Live On Your Knees in your Corrupt Demockery. What makes you so different from Mugabe, in that light? The colour of your skin? Or the choice of your religion? And I’m not referring to that few hours, one day a week pseudo religion, I’m talking about the religion, that’s raped and pillaged the planet.

Finally, if the alleged ‘terrorists’ must be fought on other ground, not American soil; America is definitely in BIG TROUBLE. Considering that Thomas Jefferson and George Washington, were themselves terrorists, you’d be sending them to exile; and on that principle, the Muslim ‘terrorists’ you so disdain, may in fact be more justified in being considered Thomas Jefferson and George Washington ‘son’s’ or ‘daughters’ than you would ever be; considering their willingness to fight to rid themselves of the self-same tyranny, that George Washington and Thomas Jefferson fought, that their country, now has become: the brutal American Empire.

TO: RJ@ZoneofTruth.com
Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 9:07 AM

Subject: ZoneofTruth: Oklahoma City Bombing Webpage Errors for your consideration.

CC: truthseeker24736587@yahoo.com

At: http://www.zoneoftruth.com/OKC.html it states, among others, that:

The truth about what happened in Oklahoma City will never be told by the government, or their willing accomplice, the mainstream press. Nor will they feel any pressure to. The federal government admitted in May 2001 that critical pieces of evidence and witnesses were not allowed to be presented at his trial, delaying his execution another month. But the execution went ahead anyway. The murderers of Ruby Ridge and Waco are free and alive, but on June 11, 2001 Timothy McVeigh was put to death by means of lethal injection at the hands of the U.S. government.

FOR THE RECORD:

Mr. McVeigh's execution was faked. Mr. McVeigh is not dead. However, if you wish to continue the goverment lie. Your choice.

As for Mr. Jolly West -- if anyone needs a good psychologist with a bit of ethics, he may wish to stand up, and be counted.

With psychologists like that -- we would imagine he is a FreeMason, not that there is anything wrong with that. Now if there is any truth to Freemason's respect for karma, then we would assume, they would consider the matter of intention, cause and effect, karmic consequences etc. etc.

And if so, the CIA's blowback foreign policy phenomena, may not be what it currently is and has been. But perhaps for psychologists like Mr. West, the psychological state of being of the planet's inhabitants, not to mention their intellectual, emotional, spiritual and ecological priorities, is just fine. If he was on the Titanic, he'd probably be in the bar getting drunk, or getting laid on LSD, convincing himself there was no iceberg, blah, blah, blah. Who knows? Perhaps he think's he's the only person on the planet, and he has no responsibilities, except to himself; perhaps he subscribes to that version of the 'American Dream'? One wonders why the good Masonic creator, didn't send such 'American Dream' people to their own planets, as solitary 'humans'? How could the Masonic creator have been so abysmally moronically stupid?

Anyway, I've gotten a bit of topic.

Anyway, just thought I'd let you know.

Lara Johnstone

MS. REASON: NATION OF WHINERS:

watchdogg and Ms. Reason:

Considering the consequences of America's corporate-Godfather instigated foreign policies around the world, which very few 'American Dream' citizens complained about, ie: holding the rest of the world's labour, resources, etc hostage, so that Americans could live in 'American Dream prosperity', was just fine!?

That the foundation of this prosperity, was not owned by America, namely the resources and labour of the rest of the world, was for many Americans, 'irrelevant'.

When the rest of the world complained, or fought back, for their own resources, they are 'terrorists'.

When Russia was raped and pillaged by Harvard Endowment Free Market capitalists, who 'whined'?

American corporate media 'whined' that Russian response to American rape and pillaging of their resources, was to find a Russian President, who would not allow himself to be held hostage to the Russian or American Corporate Mafia. Russia was not a 'democracy', they whined.

America used to have one of the largest deposits of oil on the planet. They spent it, or sold most of it, for less than $10 a barrel; refined, for less than a $1 a gallon.

Now the Middle East has the largest deposit of oil on the planet. Mathew Simmons reckoned a few years ago, that oil was valued, then, at $183 per barrel, which would make it over $200 today.

If Americans think it is their 'right' to steal Middle Eastern oil, by the same principle, isn't it the Middle East's 'right' to say 'over our dead bodies, NO'? Theft is theft?

Using a gun, to take what you want, which is not yours, doesn't make 'theft', charity. The Middle East, have a 'right' to defend their resources. Legally, such defense of your own resources, against theft, is NOT 'TERRORISM', it is 'SELF DEFENSE'.

That the Middle East, Russia and China don't think America worth invading for it's Paris Hilton, Alice in Wall Street Wonderland, and Disney World cartoons, only indicates their opinion as to the REAL VALUE, of these American products.

When American citizens attempted to hold their own Goverment accountable, and demand it return to the principles of a Constitutional Republic, they were called 'The American terrorist'.

I would imagine strictly defined, America HAS experienced two fiscal quarters of negative growth. The reality hereof being withheld, by the Fed, who declined months ago, to issue among others, their statistics on the M3 money supply.

The issues American citizens allegedly care about are: rising energy and food costs. That shows very shallow caring, about political issues, and themselves.

Where do they think energy -- oil and gas -- comes from? Lightning bolts? Bit of El Nino thunder?

What is energy's relationship to the American economy and the world economy?

What is energy's relationship to food production?

What is energy's relationship to American Foreign Policy, the War on Terror, and terrorism on American soil?

America's relationship to energy and food costs, and corporate profits and wage salaries; are very similar to their relationship with judging 'books by their covers, and people (including their politicians) by their outer appearances'.

For many Americans interest in what their goverment does on their behalf, is comparable to children's interest in Alice in Wonderland. The same applies to many other countries citizens. Like children, they think that everything their goverment does in their name is benevolent, just, fair and worthy of respect. Sometimes it is, and often it is not.

“And so, while the end-of-the-world scenario will be rife with unimaginable horrors, we believe that the pre-end period will be filled with unprecedented opportunities for profit.” (CEO gives a speech at a board meeting.)

~ From the Wilderness, The Markets React to Peak Oil ~

They do not want to consider the realities that their national and foreign policies, need to be judged not on Alice in Wall Street Wonderland realities, but on Crime and Punishment, War and Peace, the Federalist Papers, etc realities.

Americans are not interested in substance, in quality, in depth, in reality. Don't even ask me to begin on Americans respect for honour. Law and Order is what happens on television shows; not in their cities police departments and court rooms, except for the occassional incorruptible Serpico's. In reality, justice, the Presidency, Congress and the Senate, are bought and sold, by corporate blackmail and coercion. Principled Washington and Jefferson Serpico's not welcome. In the media, Mark Twain journalists, receive the Gary Webb or Michael Ruppert treatment.

Corporate America is not interested in the truth, in justice, and definitely not in 'capitalism'; they are interested -- and some could say are as much addicted to -- lies, illusions, smoke and mirrors, blackmail and coercion, and a corporate welfare state, as Hollywood stars and Wall Street brokers, are to their cocaine addictions. No teary-eyed sniffles, for the consequences of their actions, from these predators; just ever more and more sniffles of those substances known as cocaine and heroin.

The American corporate economy is run and managed by individuals, and greased by stockbrokers, high on cocaine.

If you are sober, would you get in a car, with someone to go for a drive, if they were high on cocaine, thinking their car, didn't need to abide by the pavement, street signs, traffic lights, etc?

If American citizens are sober, why do they get in an 'economic policy -- Enron, Wall Street, Worldcomm, etc., etc., -- cars', driven by corporations and corporate leaders, who are so high on their own cocaine and belief in their illusions, they don't think they need to abide by the pavement, street signs, and traffic lights?

The media made fun of Nancy Raegan, who listened to the advice of her astrologer.

Yet they are silent about corporate titans, who may be described as drunk and high teenagers playing spin the bottle with the American economy.

What is the point of a Securities and Exchange Commission, that does not investigate, and expose corporate fraud, but condones it and covers it up?

What is the point of a Federal Bureau of Investigation, that does not investigate, and expose white collar crime, but condones it and covers it up?

That's not capitalism! That's corporate welfare, also known as corrupt corporate socialism.

Did, and do, these corrupt corporate -- of which I consider Barrack Obama, to be one, so far -- socialists, want Ron Paul elected as President?

Why not? Is Ron Paul, one of those Serpico type politicians?

“Whether the resistance against government tyrants is nonviolent or physically violent, the effort to overthrow state oppression qualifies as true patriotism”.
~ Rep. Ron Paul, R-TX ~

Is the United States Constitution and the Declaration of Independence more important to Ron Paul, than a corrupt corporate welfare socialist America?

Is a corrupt corporate welfare socialist America, more important to Barrack Obama, than the United States Constitution and the Declaration of Independence?

So, is the 'American Dream' an illusion, built on a Financial, Religious and Political house of quicksand?

Is the 'American Dream', Paris Hilton, Hollywood and Hummers.. ?

Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are
putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.

~ Mark FTWain, Globalcorp: I am Not a Politician ~

Was the 'American Dream', a Constitutional Republic, a Constitution with seperation of powers, Freedom of Speech, the Right to Bear Arms, resting on a rock solid educated and informed citizenry militia, who took their oath to DEFEND THAT CONSTITUTION with their lives, against enemies FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC?

Who are America's DOMESTIC ENEMIES?

Are they those who DO NOT support and enforce the Constitutional Republic principles, as ensrhined in the United States Constitution?

Are they those who DO support and enforce the Constitutional Republic principles, as enshrined in the United States Constitution?

Who are usurping the United States Constitution with a very, very long train of abuses?

What did the Declaration of Independence, have to say about American citizens rights, when their goverment's conduct consisted of a very, very long train of abuses, against American citizens?

The Declaration of Independence is the ONLY legal Constitutional document I am aware of, of ANY COUNTRY, that provides their citizens with aforementioned right to overthrow their abusive government; in black and white, in it's founding Declaration of Independence legal document.

There's a War on For Your Mind: Sarkozy's Police State Database: Alex Jones

2008-07-09T16:06:00.001-07:00

Infowars Article:
Sarkozy's Police State Database

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17: JMCSwan Says: July 20th, 2008 at 5:33 pm

14. Thunar/Seattle/WTO HQ!!, (July 20th, 2008 at 5:15 pm)

Why does the Internet Explorer headline say: "Alex Jones' Infowars: There's a war on for your mind!"?

Wasn't 'Wars for beliefs' the principle upon which the Crusades, the Cold War, etc. all rested upon?

Wasn't that one of the exact reasons, the Founding Fathers of the Declaration of Independence and US Constitution, chose to practice deism, and enshrine Freedom of Speech, Right to Bear Arms, Due Process Laws for Free and Fair Trials, etc., because they had lived under, been persecuted, and fled religious, corporate and national monarchies, based upon the principle of 'infallible beliefs' as 'absolute truth' and 'absolute monarchical reality' aka 'wars for minds'?

Wouldn't it be more accurate to say 'There's a corrupt demockery war on for your 'Conquer and Multiply: corporate, religious and national slave and cannon fodder breeding' ignorant uncritical mind'?

Imagine for a minute you were all knowing God, and there was something like an afterlife heaven: Now, if you are going to have to spend eternity with these people in 'heaven', would you rather spend it with one, two, couple hundred or thousand honourable spirits, in the continued conversation of the creation of the universe, or whatever it is that happens in heaven; or with millions of lying, deceiving, corrupt crooksters, arse-kreepers? If you were God, wouldn't you just say something to the effect of 'Devil, you're welcome to these millions of lying, deceiving, corrupt, arse-kreepers?'

So, who knows if there is an afterlife heaven, I don't. But there sure seem to be allot of pundits who seem pretty sure about themselves; who as humans, consider themselves to be 'all knowing God's'.

And as alleged 'all knowing Gods', if their 'minds' are dissasociated from their hearts, and genetic memories, commonly referred to by psychologists as 'alienated individuals' [See The Sane Society by Erich Fromm], how can they not be sure their own minds are playing a very fancy self-deception trick on them? How tempting is the idea, for a paranoid mind, to make it's ego, think it is an 'all knowing God'?

Might, forgetting the difference between considering the concept as a scientific hypothesis of enquiry, and believing it as a factual reality, be considered, as a form of psychological God Delusion?

And instead of enquiring into our own psychological God Delusions, some of the corporate, religious and national slave and cannon fodder breeding 'conquer and multiply' power addicts, would prefer to focus their corrupt demockery insecurities, on a war for your 'Conquer and Multiply: corporate, religious and national slave and cannon fodder breeding' ignorant uncritical mind'?

Just a hypothesis.

New Yorker: Dropping Daisy ClusterF**k Communication Bombs : TD

2008-07-09T16:05:00.001-07:00

Truthdig Cartoon:
This is Satire

By JMCSwan, July 19 at 10:45 pm
By JMCSwan, July 19 at 10:54 pm

By Richard Klingbiel, (July 18 at 7:23 am)

Thanks for the -- negotiating with liberal hypocrits reminder -- Richard.

Truth and Reconciliation Hypocrisy is alive and well, ain't it?

As for the New Yorker Responses Ten-nis TygerSwan-Links:

This is SatIre:

Sat: Tass: “I am not able to hate in half measures, or to love in half measures, I am not able to give up half my soul. I have either to give up my whole soul or give up nothing.”

Considering the 'American' appreciation for my efforts, perhaps 'soul' ain't a concept they consider worthy of honourable recognition.

Perhaps that is the lesson, in the absence of honour, there is no soul? That would certainly add a new perspective to: 'the dirt of modern life', wouldn't it?

What else should I expect from Americans? Perhaps, what the Middle East has received from Americans?

As for Ire: Considering aforementioned, it would mean 'this is not an [RU] American story'?

Dropping Bombs:

As for:

The Movement… A Joke from Childhood?

The honky guvmint official showed up on the res, claiming that the tribe had to move again. Coal or oil or uranium had been discovered and the Big Father in Washington needed it.The chief of the tribe, Chief Bowels, listened to the official but was not impressed. Unfortunately the official got confused when Chief Bowels answered simply, “Bowels No Move.”Uncle Sam’s man ran off to get a doctor thinking he had to solve the Chief’s problem, constipation, before he could convince him to move. The doctor gave him his standard laxative but three days later the Chief still insisted, “Bowels No Move.”

If sincere, May I suggest, you put your money, or 'honour', where your mouths are!

Considering Senator McCain's (Robert Mugabe: 'I found a -- Tass -- cure for famine') hand-signals, -- according to the New Yorker -- that ain't happening very soon.

What's new? Certainly not American Foreign Policy, or how it's perceived, by so many around the world, but that of course is not a concern for most Americans. The only thing that concerns Americans, is how Americans perceive Americans; the rest of the world, be damned.

By JMCSwan, July 19 at 10:45 pm
By JMCSwan, July 19 at 10:53 pm

Part 2:

And how do Americans perceive Americans?

How did they perceive Timothy James McVeigh?

Dr. Truth Blanton, refused to speak up on behalf of justice, and a free and fair trial, for Mr. McVeigh, because he considered Mr. McVeigh, a military Special Forces graduate of no less than Ft. Benning, GA, a 'brainwashed idiot'.

By that definition, all the signatorees of the Declaration of Independence and Constitution, who were willing to give their lives, standing to defend those principles were 'brainwashed idiots'.

Dr. Truth Blanton, refused to speak up on behalf of the over 400 military officials and intelligence agents of the Disclosure Project, because they too are 'brainwashed idiots'.

Dr. Truth Blanton, a self proclaimed Sufi, Buddhist Christian heretic, and the self-proclaimed founding Pope of the World Futilitarian Church, told me not to speak up on behalf of justice and a free and fair trial for Mr. McVeigh, or on behalf of disclosure for the Disclosure Project officials, because:

'The Pentagon will assassinate you. You are going to get yourself killed.'

What happened to: "I would rather die standing, than live on my knees."

As if anyone had told 'Jesus', that the Roman Empire would have him assassinated, as a 'terrorist' member of the 'Jewish independent political party of Zealots', if he continued speaking up on behalf of justice, truth, and a free and fair trial issues, and freedom from the Roman Empire, scared Jesus into living on his knees, instead of dieing standing.

But how many have forgotten that the foundational premise for the American Constitution, was the Constitutional Republic principles of Freedom of Speech, Free and Fair Trials, etc.

The ideals of an oath to Die Standing to Defend a Constitutional Republic, have not been fought for, except by a few, but been trashed and replaced with a Live on their Knees Corruption Demockery.

The Pentagon are more than welcome to assassinate me, and should they choose to do so, they -- i.e. every single American soldier, -- not politicians, not civil servants, only soldiers -- are, as a matter of honour, forgiven for their decision, and act.

How have American citizens and American officials, perceived my efforts, on behalf of America?

Citizenship? Yeah right!

Plausible Deniability, and -- an ad nausieum repeated number of -- 'F**k You'?

So, what would the 'citizens' of America, conclude an appropriate response to such 'appreciation' should look or sound like?

My response: 'Let me know when the Oath of Allegiance means anything more to you than simply regurtitated plausible deniability.'

I guess a sincere 'DS-11 02-2008: Thank You' from the State Dept. or Homeland Security, was too much to ask.

Makes you wonder, what happened to 'America, the land of the brave, and home of the free'?

Where did she go?

When did she become the 'land of gutless two-faced cowards and plausible deniability'?

How many Americans, can say 'I am proud to be an American.'?

Michelle Obama is more than welcome to being a proud of the 'land of gutless two-faced cowards and plausible deniability'! American.

"America The Land of the Provincial and Home of the Naïve." Indeed!

If American politicians didn't have the American military, as it's 'leverage', the rest of the world would take American politicians statements as serious as they take those of the homeless in Tahiti, which is how serious I take them. Your words mean nothing, you don't honour your agreements, your treaties. You think the entire planet is yours to do with as you please, to rape and pillage, and heaven forbid anyone should get pissed off; and then you had the gall, to tell Saddam Hussein, 'An agreement is an agreement.' Since when has any agreement with any American politician, meant they have any intention of keeping that agreement. Been there, believed that story; passed the point of 'beyond reasonable doubt', quite a while ago; but being one of those 'overdeveloped sense of justice' idiots, thought I'd give it a couple of 'beyond reasonable doubts', just to make 'beyond, beyond reasonable doubt' sure. How many 'beyond's are expected?

The maxim, 'With friends like American politicians, who needs enemies?' comes to mind. If American politicians are so desperate for more enemies, drop a line to Ft. Detrick, I'm sure they can arrange for a few more Anthrax powder envelopes.

The State Dept. and Homeland Security's 'F**k You' opinions, via THE NEW YORKER, in this matter have been noted: You know how to reach me, if you ever change your minds.

[Anyone for cricket? The New Yorker, bowls 'yorkers', Brian Lara would knock to Doomsday and back. The Action Cricket maxim, 'Don't ASSUME, you make an ASS out of U and ME, appears relevant: Since I've been the State Dept's plausible deniable 'embarassment', who cares, if they now consider me a plausible deniable 'ass'. I don't. Why should I care what a bunch of homeless Haitians masquerading as 'An agreement is an agreement' allegedly honourable American politicians think? Pentagon 'leverage'? The Pentagon is more than welcome to tell me to shut up, or to put a bullet through my brain, whenever they want. No problem.]

Pope: 'Insatiable Consumption' Depleting Earth's Resources : TD

2008-07-05T15:57:00.001-07:00

Truthdig Article:
'Insatiable Consumption' Depleting Earth's Resources

Lightfox Postcard:

By JMCSwan, July 18 at 1:38 pm

Perhaps, the friendly Green Pope’s speechwriter, did a bit of editing, but certainly not so much, as to make his statement meaningless, quite to the contrary:

“Perhaps reluctantly we come [why say ‘come’ instead of ‘begin’ or another verb] to acknowledge that there are also scars which mark the surface of our earth: erosion, deforestation, the squandering of the world’s mineral and ocean resources in order to fuel an insatiable consumption,” he said.

Insatiable consumption for, among others:
-- religious, financial, and political ‘infallibility’;
-- financial wealth, power and status;
-- financial, religious and national debt-indentured slaves;

Insatiable consumption infallible policies:
-- religious, corporate and national slave and cannon fodder breeding, ad infinitum, the pied piper’s tune continues...; this time with a ‘neutral Swiss twist’.

Switzerland, along with the USA is one of the countries with the highest per capita of firearms, owned by citizens. Allegedly, Hitler repeatedly ordered it’s invasion, but his Officers repeatedly refused; because of that fact.

Remember Amazing Grace, where the British Monarchy resisted for years, and years the bill to end slavery, and finally near the end, William Pitt the Prime Minister informs, William Wilberforce that the British Monarchy has decided that they shall remain neutral on the issue, of abolishing slavery.

So, all in all, if so interpreted, a more than brave statement, by Pope Benedict: very, very brave.

Excerpt from US Army War College: Parameters, Summer 2000, pp. 58-71.

Sir Halford Mackinder, Geopolitics, and Policymaking in the 21st Century

Conclusion:

Without a vision of what the next century ought to look like, no policies can be formulated to bring it about. ...

Policy is driven by analogy, both historical and theoretical. One common, and dangerous, analogy that drives US Eurasian policy is "the game." Brzezinski speaks of chess; Central Asian policy is the "new great game"; Kissinger and Nixon used game analogies throughout their reign and in their writings afterward. Impenetrably complex problems are simplified to games, which was problematic enough during the Cold War but is acutely poisonous today. Take Brzezinski's chess analogy. Chess has two players, and one opponent; it is zero-sum, and to the finish; there is a winner and a loser, with no middle ground. The opponent of the United States to Brzezinski is, and has always been, Russia. If we approach Eurasia as if it were a chessboard, then we will be met by opponents, and cooperation and mutual benefit would be removed from our calculations. ...

If the leaders of the most powerful nation on earth were to conceptualize foreign policy as a chess game, it would virtually ensure that other nations would as well. A Eurasian alliance to counteract growing US influence would be virtually inevitable. ...

Policymakers in the United States vastly underestimate the hegemon's potential to shape the nature of the international system. Intellectuals wedded to old ideas about the unchanging nature of power have so far failed to lead the world in the new directions that it expected. The unparalleled unipolar position that the United States found itself in when the Cold War abruptly ended is being wasted by politicians with no vision for shaping the future. The debate that occasionally resurfaces over the "isolationist" nature of the United States misses a key dimension: if nothing else, America has certainly been intellectually isolationist in the post-Cold War era, hiding behind walls and refusing to lead the world in new directions that its unprecedented power has made possible. The rules that govern international relations evolve. ...

No so-called permanent interests, or eternal geographical realities, exist. The only way that the next century can be better than the one we are leaving is with a reevaluation of the assumptions and attitudes that underlie our actions. A prolonged investigation into the utility of all geopolitical theory would be a good place to start. ...

A vision of what the next century could look like. ...

Conclusion from: . ...
Institute of the Study of Globalisation and Covert Politics

The Pilgrims Society Membership list
A study of the Anglo-American Establishment

Now that we know that there is an Anglo-American Establishment, should we all oppose globalization and withdraw behind our own borders? This might be tempting, but at the same time this would merely be an unintellectual reactionary response to big business taking charge of the globalization process. With all the advanced and affordable means of transport (ignoring the coming oil crisis), the 24-hour news reports from around the world, and the internet, it will not be possible to stop globalization, nor would it be wise. The known history of the human race goes back almost 10,000 years and since this time has largely been characterized by only two things: abuse of power and war. Every historian at one point will realize that all he or she is reading about is the shifting of borders and the destruction of cultures as a result of abusive rulers looking for more territory and more riches. The only difference between all these wars is that they have become increasingly destructive as the centuries went by. At this point they will be so destructive that a war among the major nations of the earth will have to be avoided at all costs. The globalist group understands this, which in this case is good for everyone. What people in the conspiracy community may actually want to do is to stop fighting the concept of globalization, as apparently America's ultra-right wants them to do, and instead focus on educating themselves and other people about the corruption in national governments and the globalist group. We need to get to a point in which enough people are so informed about conspiracy affairs that it will be impossible for governments to manipulate them into giving up their rights or supporting economic or military policies which will ruin the country, or maybe even Western democratic civilization as a whole. For a number of reasons, some more obvious than others, this is a daunting task, but one things is for sure: a more systematic and intellectual approach to conspiracy affairs, combined with a "different-globalist"* stance, will draw in many more educated and influential persons than the unfocused U.S.-inspired isolationist attitude that is still dominant today.

* translation from the increasingly popular Dutch word "Andersglobalist", a term used to describe people who are skeptical of the present globalization process which is characterized by deregulation and privatization, but who do not want to be labeled "anti-globalist", as they are not against the concept of globalization itself.

DuncanIdaho: Obama Camp Denounces New Yorker Cover :TD

2008-06-19T17:48:00.001-07:00

Truthdig Article:
Obama Camp Denounces New Yorker Cover

Lightfox Postcard:

Saggy, (July 15 at 4:04 am)
DundanIdaho, (July 15 at 7:01 am) [deleted from Truthdig]
Jack, (July 15 at 8:10 am)

Interesting.

Perhaps, ‘soft-pumping’ GAS ‘Town & Country’ Dr. Klein Phoenix Church post’s?

Indeed DuncanIdaho: ‘a gigantic fucking problem. Bigger than anything else at this point.’ Any thoughts why the headline refers to the Obama campaign as a ‘camp’?

From Wikipedia:
Taylor and Nova are allowed to escape on horseback….. Soon after [Taylor’s] escape, in the final, iconic scene, Taylor discovers a damaged Statue of Liberty half-buried in the beach. He realizes that he has been on Earth all along, and that humanity must have destroyed its own civilization with war, thereby paving the way for the Planet of the Apes.

A ‘Monkey Business’, VIA ‘GI-one-night R-liberty-R offer’, perhaps?

YoursTruly: Educating the US About the Middle East :TD

2008-06-19T17:47:00.002-07:00

Truthdig Article:
Educating the US About the Middle East

Lightfox Postcard:

By JMCSwan, July 15 at 2:55 pm

yours truly, (July 15 at 10:41 am)

If your reference to justice for the Palestinians refers to the 'secret' Annapolis Middle East Plan, and internet education thereof, i.e.: BBB Annapolis MD _ Middle East

[By JMCSwan, July 15 at 2:55 pm BRIEF REASONS FOR JERICHO Green.PEACE.Council]

Edit Updated: August 09, as follows:

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HOMERS NEGATIVE COMPOUND INTEREST PROTOCOL:

Simplistically, the idea is as follows:

Currently, interest works as positive compound interest:

Example: You borrow $10,000.00, the interest is added to that amount. You end up paying the bank, say $14,000.00 (amount borrowed, plus positive compound interest, at whatever particular interest rate).

In this positive compound interest system, that $4,000.00 'does not exist'; i.e. it has NOT been created by any Central bank.

In the current positive compound interest financial system, all these positive compound interest's add up, to the point where, there is so much interest that needs to be repaid, that that 'interest' adds up to more than all the money available in the financial system.

If we haven't reached that 'tipping point' yet -- I'd be very surprised. If every bank on the planet tomorrow revealed the amount of 'outstanding interest' on their loans, from individuals, corporations and goverments; I would be VERY SURPRISED, if that amount -- of interest, not the actual amounts borrowed, just the interest -- did not add up to MORE THAN THE ENTIRE MONEY SUPPLY AVAILABLE.

THIS CUMULATIVE POSITIVE COMPOUND INTEREST CAN NEVER BE PAID BACK, BECAUSE IT DOES NOT EXIST: It has to be 'stolen' by bankers, through deregulations, depressions, etc; and bank buyouts, and similar. The real underlying reasons for the FINANCIAL BUBBLE'S -- positive compound interest, that accumulates at exponential rates.

Why? I haven't a clue, except plausibly, -- if intentional -- it's a great way to make the rich, richer, and the poor, poorer; to manipulate economic systems, into recessions and depressions, and then use those to either wage wars against the lower classes, or against other nations.

The problem being, I am neither an MBA, nor an economics, or financial graduate, from any university, let alone an 'Ivy League' one; but I could figure this out, by simple common sense. Surely there must be others, particularly those concerned about the 'origins of wars', or who are 'anti-war' or 'liberal' and 'progressive' or similar, who could too? Anyway.

CREATING MORE MONEY TO PAY IT BACK IS IMPOSSIBLE. THE CENTRAL BANKS WOULD HAVE TO FLOOD, AND FLOOD, LIKE NOAHS FLOOD, THE ENTIRE SYSTEM WITH BANK NOTES, WHICH WOULD RESULT IN THE DEVALUATION OF CURRENCIES, WHERE WHEELBARROWS OF CASH WOULD BE REQUIRED TO PAY FOR A LOAF OF BREAD., I.E. MASSIVE INFLATION, LEADING TO ECONOMIC DEPRESSIONS, as 'hard money' becomes more and more scarce, as more and more people and corporations 'fight' each other to pay back their personal 'interest', from a cumulative pool of money, that is continually shrinking, as the cumulative pool of 'outstanding interest' is continually increasing.

I REPEAT: If we haven't reached that 'tipping point' yet -- I'd be very surprised. If every bank on the planet tomorrow revealed the amount of 'outstanding interest' on their loans, from individuals, corporations and goverments; I would be VERY SURPRISED, if that amount -- of interest, not the actual amounts borrowed, just the interest -- did not add up to MORE THAN THE ENTIRE MONEY SUPPLY AVAILABLE; I.E. THE ENTIRE MONEY SUPPLY IN EVERY SINGLE BANK, UNDER EVERY MATTRESS, ETC.

This is 'DEBT BASED -- POSITIVE COMPOUND INTEREST -- ECONOMIC GROWTH'.

NEGATIVE COMPOUND INTEREST:

Example: You borrow $10,000.00, and the interest is NOT ADDED, it is DEDUCTED, from the amount. Meaning, depending on the time that you take to pay it back, you borrowed say $8,000.00, and the $2,000.00 was the interest. Say you needed exactly $10,000.00, then you would need to make a loan of say $12,000.00, and pay it back within the time, that the $2,000.00 interest would apply to it; upon a fixed interest rate.

In such a system, whether the money is created by the Central Bank, whether it be the Federal Reserve, or an actual Goverment run Central bank; any money borrowed, or lent, whether lent by the Central Bank, to other banks, or by those banks, to borrowers, actually EXISTS, in FINANCIAL NOTES.

If added thereto, the money created, is backed by a gold standard, or it could be a gold, silver, platinum, copper, nickel, etc. standard; then the financial system is back on a rock solid foundation. For every financial $ note, printed, it is backed by the relevant amount of gold, or whatever.

One problem is moving from the one to the other. Tricky: where is the money going to come from to pay back all the current outstanding interest? Well, that can be negotiated, and much shall simply have to be written off, preferably as fair as possible.

However, I would personally advise anyone wanting to make a loan from a bank, including banks loaning from any central banks, to request or demand, that such a system of negative compound interest be implemented, as a condition for them loaning money from the particular bank.

Another option, as part of the transition, is to encourage local communities, to start local community currencies; such as existed during the depression, such as the LETS System, Ithaca Hours, etc.

----

I have no problem, further discussing, or exploring the possibility, and implementation thereof, if you are implying that there is SERIOUS, COMMITTED AND HONOURABLE interest therein.

Previously -- and as I see it still, although that can change of course, and if or when it does, fine, but for now it has not yet changed -- the problem was, an insistence by various officials to plausible deniability. That, an official at the Iranian Embassy, was willing to admit -- once -- that I was representing the Pentagon on the issue, seemed irrelevant to officials at the US Embassy, and South African Goverment.

Accordingly I filed the aforementioned suggestion of 'BBB Annapolis MD', as:

[STAR] SUBJECT TO 'JAG'FIGDYE PATRIOT PROTOCOL’S [STAR]

So, let's see if there is, and if so, if it is serious, committed and honourable. ...

DuncanIdaho: Traitor to a Losing Tradition :TD

2008-06-19T17:47:00.001-07:00

Truthdig Article:
Traitor to a Losing Tradition

DuncanIdaho (July 15 at 3:54 am) [deleted from Truthdig]

Interesting post.

Left’s beliefs to blank slate of Obama: Were you referring to blank in Afrikaans meaning WHITE?

My ‘former left’ Goldwater moments:

First:
How many ‘left’ support – and I mean really did, or do support – the individuals who put their lives on the line for the South African anti-apartheid movement in America: from Marilyn Buck, to Tom Manning, Jaan Laaman, etc.? Without their ‘terrorist’ pressure on the US corporate structure, there would NEVER have been the sanctions that were imposed on the National Party, which finally pushed it to ‘reconciliation’ with the ANC. Hollywood Stars could have ranted till they were blue in the face, corporations would have just smiled, and continued to support and invest in the Nationalist Government.

If the Anti-Apartheid sanctions had not been imposed, I seriously doubt the Afrikaner govt., would have capitulated. At that time R1.00 was worth $2.00; now $1.00 is worth R7.00.
How did Mandela and the ANC, thank their PRIMARY American ‘left’ anti-apartheid supporters? Not even with a letter of ‘Thank You’, let alone a bill or request of support, to the US Government, requesting their Amnesty. My letter to Mandela, requesting the ANC’s support for their US anti-apartheid political supporters Amnesty, in approximately 1997, is still rotting in his, and the ANC’s memory-hole.

If the ‘left’ truly supported the alleged ideals, they profess to hold so dear – what could they be saying to Mandela and the ANC?

Secondly:
When I was in prison in the ‘New South African Government’: Virtually every black or coloured in that prison – of which I was one of the very few whites – hated me. That I was in prison, to support the disclosure, about the origins of AIDS, which approximately half of them, if not more, were dying from, was irrelevant. I was called an ‘AWB’ – Afrikaaner Weerstands Beweging – supporter. They preferred the prisons then, under apartheid, i.e. segregated. (Under apartheid, prisoners who wanted to work, could be hired to work, by farmers needing a few extra labourers, or corporations. They were fed and paid, less than standard wages, but still something. The money was put into a prison bank account, for the date of their release.)
Irrespective thereof, most current black and coloured prisoners consider themselves to have been better off under apartheid, where their job prospects were better. Unemployment under apartheid, even for blacks, was nowhere near what it is now, particularly since the end of apartheid, the new government does pretty much nothing about the millions of undocumented African ‘immigrants’. These black prisoners thought that the Apartheid government had been more honest with them, than the current ANC government. Most of them – being unemployed, thanks to the South African Goverments current immigration policy for every thief and drug dealer from Nigeria, and elsewhere in Africa – actually commit crimes, in order to go to prison; particularly when they fall pregnant. The irony – in the last election, the ANC offered any black who voted for them – a free roast chicken. They voted for their -- free roast chicken -- ANC in their millions). In prison, they get maternity medical care, they don’t have to work, get free food, a warm bed, and free television. The violence occurring in black and coloured townships is now worse than it was ever under apartheid – then conducted primarily by BOSS and the South African Police. Now the violence against blacks and coloureds is criminal violence by their own fellow blacks and coloureds, and African immigrants ‘brothers’ and ‘sisters’.

A recent Capetown newspaper headline, stated “Africans don’t like Africans’. It could have added, because they don’t like themselves. Read OUT OF AMERICA: A BLACK MAN CONFRONTS AFRICA, by Keith B. Richburg. I came to the uncomfortable conclusion that Verwoerd’s separate development (apartheid) policy had been a good idea, the problem being that it could have been better implemented, with a little less fanatical attachment to ‘white superiority’. Simplistically, even under apartheid, where all the African tribes had their own ‘bantustan’ areas – ruled by their respective tribal black leaders, there had been so much corruption, and ‘breeding’, that many of those blacks chose NOT to live under their own leaders, but to find work, by leaving their relevant tribal homelands. Now the entire country is their tribal homeland, and their leaders are treating them with the proverbial liberal ‘speak with forked tongue’ SubPrime Farmer Godfather Robert, hammer. They have no more ‘white homeland’ to go to, where they could at least get a decent job, unless they are one of the current black elite.

Thirdly:
How many of the liberal left are aware of the numerous ‘far right’ compounds, sometimes called ‘reservations’, scattered across mostly the mid west. These ‘far-right’ reservations are ruled by the people who live there, who have pooled their resources, and created sustainable communities, with their own militia defences. You don’t get in, unless you know someone there, or are invited. Many of their inhabitants, are former military, and their families. Not even the FBI goes there. They do their own thing, don’t bother anyone, and created their own intentional ecological self sufficient sustainable communities. According to Michael Martin, many of these ‘far-right’ reservations adopted Native American views in terms of how they are to ecologically live.

Emails: Front Sight Firearms Training Institute & Save Our Guns: Emails

2008-06-19T17:46:00.004-07:00

Correspondence to Save Our Guns

Sent: Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 8:39 AM
Subject: KABA ARTICLE

Ignatius Piazza
Founder and Director
Front Sight Firearms Training Institute

Mr. Piazza,

I briefly read your letter, at http://www.saveourguns.com/frontsightt0001.htm, however the link to the WorldNetDaily News article, doesn't work; perhaps because it was removed, or perhaps for other unknown reasons.

Assuming the article was written -- do you perhaps know why the article was removed?

I was curious about the NRA's reasons, and imagined they could be either of the following two first came to mind (naturally I could be wrong on both):

Pardon my plausibly politically incorrect assumptions:

Perhaps a slight paranoia on their part to the similarity of your name to Ignatious Loyola
Their conscious or unconscious support for corporate, religious and national 'slave and cannon fodder breeding' policies (see: http://www.population-security.org/); understandable to some extent, considering other countries -- not to mention the Catholic Church, and other organized religious organisations -- hesitancy to publicly address these controversial issues.

I would be more than interested in taking your course, but unfortunately, I am not in America, my American citizenship status being an unresolved issue, with Homeland Security, Johannesburg; and financial, shall I refer to them as 'Rock of Marne' matters, on behalf of various US Military and Goverment officials.

Hopefully, Homeland Security, shall sometime decide to honourably resolve aforementioned paperwork in due course; not that they are of your concern, or responsibility -- just being transparent.

Kind Regards,

Lara Johnstone

Temporary Tel: [Number withheld]
PS: Should you choose to respond -- you may also respond to [Email Withheld]

Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 6:53 PM

RE: KABA ARTICLE

Thanks Lara.

I don’t know why the article is not there anymore.

The big issues NRA had was that we were providing submachine gun training to citizens.They feared political backlash from their contacts in Washington DC if they supported us training citizens with submachine guns.

Ignatius

Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 9:47 AM

Re: KABA ARTICLE

Ignatius,

Hi.

One thing doesn't quite make sense. If the people in Washington DC are the NRA's 'CONTACTS', then why would they fear a backlash from them? I guess that is the difference between an HONOURABLE CONTACT, and a POLITICAL CONTACT.

One is real, the other might as well be a figment of imagination, for what it's worth. Politics, only for the politically correct spineless manipulators?

The 'American Personal Growth' (sic) principle of "Life is meaningless" sure takes on an entire different meaning with such people, doesn't it? I mean, they don't even seem to want to create any meaningful meaning to life, to create some political dialogue for meaning beyond $$$ worship. Not only that, so attached are they to their version of 'no meaning', as an absolute truth, they are willing to trash the entire American Constitution, and all the Bill of Rights liberties, to prove they are absolutely correct. Stalin and Hitler must be beyond amazed, if they are watching this show. They are not too different from Thelma and Louise, taking the entire country, over the cliff, too afraid to face the music. Unbelievable.

Oh, I could go on and on, but I won't bore you. Anyway, I'd be happy to support you, but what they think of me, might not help your cause. But if you thought it would, you could count on my word. My grandmother used to have an automatic sub-machine gun, an UZI. She lived alone, in South Africa. Nobody ever bothered her.
Anyway, regards, and thanks for responding.

Lara

Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 9:53 AM

Mr. Whomever You Are,

Your 'Nelson Mandela' ad is hilarious! (sarcasm)

Please be so kind as to inform the United States Goverment, their 'honesty' and 'appreciation' for my efforts on their behalf, are highly 'brave' (NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

But then, perhaps being a politically correct coward -- is what requires you to be a politician, in a world of (i) men and women who hate each other, are too petrified to sort out those hate's face to face, as opposed to via -- pardon my lack of politically correct cowardice -- (ii) manipulation of 'useful idiot's' for their sexual-political forms of slave breeding cannon fodder entertainment; and (iii) a world of corporations, religions and nations addicted to 'slave and cannon fodder breeding' behaviour. Not necessarily in that order, or in equal part.

Naturally, not your or my fault, politically incorrect bravery, is what currently passes for useful idiocy; in the Orwellian sense 'controlled insanity'. Pity the ideas of honour, integrity, sincerity and honesty, are so highly underrated, as courage. Again, not your fault. Just the world's corporate, religious and national leaders, current priorities, I guess. Anyway, maybe one day that will change, on their part; or maybe politically correct cowardice, is in their minds a higher form of enlightenment, which I guess says allot about the world we live in. I always thought, I was sent to the wrong planet, the insane asylum of the universe I used to refer to it, as.

Anyway. Pardon my ramblings. Was trying to sort out some stuff from your website, and the links did not work, to write a letter to Rep. Barbara Lee. But no big deal, I am according to some 'professional adults -- i.e. paid to lie' individuals in the US Goverment an 'embarrassment'. Whatever.

It's quite interesting how offensive, people find honesty, isn't it? And yet, it's allegedly the bottom rock foundation of every alleged religion. Fascinating! If I was Eve, in the garden of Eden, with Adam, knowing what I know, and taking a look at the consequences of such conduct, in hindsight, I may think Hmmmmmmmmmm (and have a few words to 'God', on the matter, who doesn't usually respond like a voice, but when I think about what I would think if I were him... interesting thoughts, but not exactly what the politically correct 'speaked with forked tongue' cowards like hearing; because -- well according to them, 'God' only speaks in politically correct 'speaked with forked tongue' language. Which is a very, very wierd concept for me, to accept as true, maybe thousands of years ago, when human consciousness was still in the old testament 'growth' period, where religious ego's were absolutely insistent about being the absolute and only representatives of 'God'. But then they invented the 'Devil' -- ha, and only the Devil is unpolitically correct brave enough to voice his freedom of speech 1st Amendment Constitutional Free Speech rights, and only God, is a politically correct coward. So whatever.)

Pardon the ramblings, I got a bit carried away, I mean off topic; but it was an interesting thought process, writing to you anyway; so I thought I'd leave my thoughts included, in the email.

Kind regards,

Lara Johnstone

Contact me at: [email restricted], if you wish. I have provided links to your website, from http://jmcswans-postryder.blogspot.com/, if you have any questions, or requests for their removal.

PS: I should probably spend some time edditting, but, I can't be bothered. Besides, I could make it edit it to the point where it is so vague, it says pretty much nothing -- like so much else -- and what would be the point of that? So, even if it says little, -- trust me -- it says more than if I had editted it.

TO: How Dare They Rip (Up) the Fourth Amendment?

2008-06-19T17:46:00.003-07:00

Truthout Article:
How Dare They Rip the Fourth Amendment?
by: Joseph L. Galloway, McClatchy Newspapers

Lightfox Postcard:

By JMCSwan [Truthout so far declined to post comment]

Certainly, Mr. Galloway is correct. Well said. Finally.

Silly 'useful idiots' just wonder -- why it has taken Mr. Galloway -- not to mention other still fast asleep, or silent conspiratorial, journalists the world over -- over seven years to wake up to these realities?

Wasn't what Mr. Galloway says above -- EXACTLY WHAT TIMOTHY REVERE MCVEIGH WARNED ABOUT, PRIOR TO, AND FINALLY WITH HIS 'ACT OF WAR' INTENT ON 19 APRIL 1995?

Where was Mr. Galloway, and what was he thinking and writing then? I found no reference, to anything said by Mr. Galloway about Mr. McVeigh.

As for the rest of the American media: Mr. McVeigh was, the American Terrorist and 'mass murderer' : as if the Founding Fathers were not designated terrorists, but those are realities, conveniently not mentioned by American news media.

What, if anything, did McClatchy Newspapers have to say about USAF General Benton Partin -- one of America's top military explosive experts -- investigative report into the Oklahoma City Bombing, and by whom the Oklahoma City Bombing was conducted, and why?

Did McClatchy then inform the American people they needed to wake up to a monstrous Goverment of mass surveilance, where people couldn't simply live their lives without Big Brother Goverment's attempts to introduce gun control laws and terrorist legislation.

The largest terrorist organisation on the planet, funded by American taxpayers, is the United States Goverment's intelligence agencies, and military.

When President Bush spoke about the people who fund terrorist organisations, was he speaking about the American taxpayers?

Why are alternative opinions, so difficult for American news media to report upon, even including, about their own citizens?

How is it that so many people think you get respect, for lying? I don't think I have ever met anyone who can say they honestly like being lied to, and yet how many nations foreign or national policies are anything but lies, lies and more lies? Perhaps learning to lie is simply the ultimate form of success. And if those lies were intentional, isn't that 'success' built on the quicksand of lies?

From 'Truth to Power' (Uhmm Indeed!) McClatchy website:

"General H. Norman Schwarzkopf has called Joseph L. Galloway, a military columnist for McClatchy Newspapers, "The finest combat correspondent of our generation — a soldier's reporter and a soldier's friend."

"Galloway is the co-author, with Lt. Gen. Hal Moore, of "We Were Soldiers Once ... and Young," a story of the first large-scale ground battle of the Vietnam War. The book was made into a movie of the same name. Galloway was portrayed in the movie by actor Barry Pepper.

Without a vision of what the next century ought to look like, no policies can be formulated to bring it about. ...

Policy is driven by analogy, both historical and theoretical. One common, and dangerous, analogy that drives US Eurasian policy is "the game." Brzezinski speaks of chess; Central Asian policy is the "new great game"; Kissinger and Nixon used game analogies throughout their reign and in their writings afterward. Impenetrably complex problems are simplified to games, which was problematic enough during the Cold War but is acutely poisonous today. Take Brzezinski's chess analogy. Chess has two players, and one opponent; it is zero-sum, and to the finish; there is a winner and a loser, with no middle ground. The opponent of the United States to Brzezinski is, and has always been, Russia. If we approach Eurasia as if it were a chessboard, then we will be met by opponents, and cooperation and mutual benefit would be removed from our calculations. ...

If the leaders of the most powerful nation on earth were to conceptualize foreign policy as a chess game, it would virtually ensure that other nations would as well. A Eurasian alliance to counteract growing US influence would be virtually inevitable. ...

Policymakers in the United States vastly underestimate the hegemon's potential to shape the nature of the international system. Intellectuals wedded to old ideas about the unchanging nature of power have so far failed to lead the world in the new directions that it expected. The unparalleled unipolar position that the United States found itself in when the Cold War abruptly ended is being wasted by politicians with no vision for shaping the future. The debate that occasionally resurfaces over the "isolationist" nature of the United States misses a key dimension: if nothing else, America has certainly been intellectually isolationist in the post-Cold War era, hiding behind walls and refusing to lead the world in new directions that its unprecedented power has made possible. The rules that govern international relations evolve. ...

No so-called permanent interests, or eternal geographical realities, exist. The only way that the next century can be better than the one we are leaving is with a reevaluation of the assumptions and attitudes that underlie our actions. A prolonged investigation into the utility of all geopolitical theory would be a good place to start. ...

TD: The War on Sex

2008-06-19T17:46:00.001-07:00

Truthdig Article:
The War on Sex

Lightfox Postcard:

By JMCSwan, July 11 at 9:25 am

If this guy -- Marty Klein -- was my sex therapist, I’d strangle the asshole. I resent his tone of voice. It—to me—has the emotional depth of an intellectual scorpion.

However, -- ignoring his tone of voice, -- he does have some points upon which I do agree. In general I agree pretty much with the principle’s as enunciated by Peter McWilliams in his book Ain’t Nobody’s Business if You Do: The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in Our Free Society.

NUDE BEACHES:
In terms of Wisconsin v. Yoder, 406 U.S. 205 (1972); among others, I don’t see why some beaches cannot be designated nude beaches—as there are around San Francisco—and others not.

ABORTION:
When it comes to abortion, my preference is on prevention, rather than cure. When unwanted pregnancies are prevented, there shall be no need for the argument about curing these unwanted pregnancies with or without abortion. Why those who wish to prevent abortions don’t focus on preventing unwanted pregnancies, I don’t understand.

GROUP SEX BY SWINGERS IN COMMERCIAL VENUES:
If that makes a bunch of city-slickers happy, I couldn’t care less.

Physical sex with someone with whom I am not emotionally connected to, doesn’t interest me. Probably just cause I had the opportunity of emotional, intellectual, and psychological intimacy (group ‘sex’) with groups of black, white, straight, left-wing, right-wing and inbetween individuals, in my various Radical Honesty workshops, lasting for eight days.

So when it comes to a sex therapist (and a hell of allot, if not most of sexual dysfunction, particularly sexual aggression, has to do with repressed anger, which Mr. Klein says not one word about), I prefer, speaking from experience, in terms of how his therapy changed not only my sex life, but my emotional and psychological life, I’d prefer Radical Honesty Group Sex, including the intimate physical sex, if or when it occurs, in such an intimate setting, with one or more individuals, of the white trash Ph.D., Radical Honesty, sex and anger therapist, Virginian, Brad Blanton variety; as opposed to the city-slikker Mr. Klein’s group sex f*&king escapade.

When I lived in San Fran, my Marine Corps buddy and I were once invited to one of these San Francisco ‘group sex events’—by some rich San Francisco lady, who took a fancy to my Marine. He said ‘No thanks’. Gunny came back to the boat and laughed, telling me about it. She had all this S&M stuff, and wanted him to watch her Great Dane dog ‘eat her’. He said he felt quite sorry for her, but feeling sorry for her, wasn’t going to make him use her, just for some strange sex. He said, ‘some of these rich people have too much time on their hands, and have never worked with their hands, they are so in their heads, it would be like having sex with a cardboard doll.’ He had a way with words, and a tone of voice, that would light your fire, make every single cell in your body alive. An energy presence that you could sense, being around, every second of every minute. Every minute in his presence, was unexplainable.

And, for those wonderings, 'having physical sex' -- besides just being so sexy, every time he looked at me, whether he was screaming at me like a hell-bent Gunnery Sgt and I had just arrived in his drill platoon, or laughing, or sadly serious, or the multitude of other emotions he was always sincerely capable of -- with my Gunny was no sexual missionary-style only prude exercise: He was more than capable of introducing interesting sexual-tension into our lovemaking, once including a hunting knife. The difference being that we both knew -- as in KNEW, to KNOW, with an unequivocal sense of certainty, as Sun Tzu, says in the Art of War, 'to know thyself' -- the boundaries, and while we psychologically played and teased each other that that boundary did not exist, we knew it did. How did we know? HONOUR, SINCERITY, BRUTAL HONESTY. For me, Gunny's sense of honour, sincerity, and brutal honesty, in his dealings with me, whether he was in his carpenter overalls, covered in paint and sawdust, was 100% 'sexy'.

The world's women are more than welcome to their 'sexy' of naked or semi-naked parade's by the world's male fashion, sports, etc. models, showing their oil covered muscles, seen on any cover of Sports Illustrated, or similar. Different strokes, for different folks, I guess. For me it's a matter of 'Don't judge the person, by their looks, as someone worthy to spend time with, or your money on.'

When I lived in Washington, D.C., and felt in the mood for some interesting 'eyeball-to-eyeball' conversation, I never found it in any yuppie bar. Not that there probably wasn't any there, just happened to be that way. I did find it in the fresh-air vietnam vet 'bar', chatting to homeless Vietnam veterans, sleeping on warm manhole grills, on the streets. I'd go and buy some burgers or pie's, sometimes nothing, find a group of homeless vets, sitting around doing nothing, ask if I could join them; most would laugh and say 'Sure Sister' with some added funny comment. And I'd ask them to tell me their stories, what they thought of life. They had such an incredible sense of humour, sometimes. One told me, he was enjoying his retirement. Fascinating conversations, we had. I'd go back to my apartment, with a new sense of wonder, at the human spirit, at the nourishment of an honest conversation, with new perspectives. I found it, from a DC Swat policeman, putting his life on the line, to take a bullet for the President. I found it, from a Navy JAG attorney, worrying where his country was heading to. Different strokes, for different folks.

Reminds me of a story Michael Martin once told me. Apparently the Pentagon brass found out that there was some psychopath going around killing homeless veterans, and that Prosecutors weren't doing much about it, cause well, who cared, was only a few murdered homeless veterans. So the Pentagon brass hired Michael to find the psychopath killer of these homeless veterans, who weren't doing nobody any harm, who had served their country, and assassinate him.

For writers, honour, sincerity, brutal honesty, and such similar concepts, are words, noble words, ideas, and concepts struggled with in plots to build the character's of the individuals for books, and screenplays; in the art of life, for me, living a life of being to another being -- for want of something better to do, since I am here, and might as well do something useful, to get to know myself, in my dealings with others, and thereby make some meaning, in a pretty much meaningless world -- they are, an energy-communication. They are energy communications of the handgrenade, or missile variety -- head on: where the individuals tone of voice, matches his or her facial expressions, 'eye-ball to eye-ball contact' as Ollie North would call it, their body language; all saying the same thing; as opposed to cluster-bomb communication, where body language says one thing, eye-contact says another, tone of voice another, and words spoken another.

Simplistically, clusterball communication is either negligently -- they don't know themselves -- or intentionally deceptive; or giving them the benefit of the doubt, intentionally putting a few options for discussion into the negotiation, or conversation; depending on the intention's and purpose of the communicator's.

If you are in tune with your senses; you can sense the clarity, or sense of purpose, of individuals like Gunny's energy.

That said,—in my opinion—those who prefer Mr. Klein’s version of physical group sex, with a bunch of people, they don’t know from a bar of soap, nor have any intimate relations with, should in my opinion, be able to exercise their choice to do so, as long as they do it, respecting others choice who do not wish to do it.

By JMCSwan, July 9 at 2:30 pm

nrobi, (July 8 at 8:52 am)

Interesting how you consider the enjoyment of the human body, as a business, ie rooted in principles of ownership, possession and profit therefrom: AN ACT OF HAVING: enjoying the sexual—i.e. intellectual superiority sexuality—fruits of the labour of other human bodies, has its roots in the principles of possession, a good description thereof being slavery, whether intellectual, emotional, physical, spiritual, etc. These forms of ‘sexuality’ are manifestations of sexuality, from a base of power. They are about asserting the power of one party over another by coercion or force.

As opposed to an act of the senses, i.e. AN ACT OF BEING: by one, two or however many people who love each other, care for each other—ie, consider each other equals, peers, and within a respectful, truly consensual environment, give each other sensual pleasure; because in that particular moment, they WANT to, not because anyone else held a physical or metaphorical gun—whether economic, psychological, or otherwise—to their head. In such a situation, when one party says NO, at that moment, the other—because they love them—RESPECTS THAT RESPONSE.

Having and being, being simply two sides of the same coin, they shall always exist, and so they should. It’s about balancing both, in terms of any act. It’s just that humanity have created a world of pretty much 99.9999% of beings who live every moment in the HAVING mode, and preciously few in the BEING mode.

An extreme example: A Special Forces sniper in a jungle war, may HAVE a gun; but if his senses are not in the BEING mode, sensing the environment around him, his HAVING a gun, may be irrelevant, if his BEING does not sense the approaching danger.

Another less extreme example: Years ago, I sailed up the Red Sea, during the 1991 Gulf War. It was full of military war-ships, and there were coral reefs everywhere. We were in the middle of a massive sandstorm, blowing over 70mph winds, and sand. I was at the helm, and couldn’t see the bowsprit of the 25 meter yacht I was on—Spirit of Knysna. My senses—don’t ask me to explain it—told me to immediately tack (change direction, we were sailing upwind, i.e directly into the wind), which I did. About 5 second after tacking, we passed another sailboat coming downwind, which passed us by less than 2 metres. If I hadn’t tacked, we would have had a head on collision.

As for physical sexuality: Some people prefer,—or perhaps simply have never thought about it—the power of coercing or forcing another into ‘having sex’, with them. It works for them, I guess; otherwise why would they do it? I prefer the consensual, equal peers version, where its about expressing love, respect, and sincere sharing of sensuality.

In this overpopulated world of Mama and Papa democracies, sex has been, and from observation, continues to be, more about power and the procreation of slave and cannon fodder surplus children, where sex is not about equal peers consensual sensuality, and an intimate exploration of the senses; but externalised, manifesting itself, as the sexuality of war, pornography, obsession with other’s sex lives, whether through People Magazine, or by sexually frustrated goverment employees using goverment surveillance, either as peeping toms, or for blackmail purposes, etc..

And, so humanity continues, until there are sufficient individuals willing to address the root causes, of how and why we continue to sexually procreate the world, as we do, requiring Mama and Papa Democracies, to regulate behaviours, we are not willing to take personal responsibility for, and regulate ourselves, through family planning, committed responsible procreation, and committed responsible citizenship.

By JMCSwan, July 9 at 2:25 pm

rage (July 9 at 8:30 am)

In a left or right democracy—that is what you get: Mama and Papa Life’s a Surplus Children Journey Big Daddy Goverment.

Vote for a Ron Paul style, Constitutional Republic, small goverment, where all citizens take responsibility for their lives, children, how they responsibly procreate, and such citizens, respect each other’s privacy, and conduct their sexual or whatever other affairs, in terms of voluntary consensual principles… and should other countries want to do the same; the sexual world will be allot healthier, emotionally, psychologically and sexually.

When voters want to be children, and get the goverment to do everything for them, including think for them, then what they have is their precious democracy Mama’s and Papa’s who think for them, on everything from sex, to drugs, to taxes.

Unfortunately, these Mama’s and Papa’s don’t really share the ‘Life’s a Responsible Children Procreation Journey, where any child they procreate is nobody’s goddamn surplus’. So, voters continue to vote for their precious democracy’s, where they consider their children, surplus slaves, and accordingly their Mama and Papa goverments consider them Surplus Slave Children, and pretty much irrelevant.

Mary Ann, (July 9 at 8:02 am)

Simplistically: War and Death are glorified, as a eugenic military public relations marketing tool, to encourage surplus to be culled excess democracy children to enlist, for patriotic purposes; because the voters don’t want to take responsibility for their lives, and live in a small goverment constitutional republic. Voters around the world want to breed, as if they are animals, and so they vote in Zoo Keeper Mama and Papa’s for their democracy zoo!

As for sex being a kind of bodily communism. If I interpret you correctly, Stalin screwed a couple of million peasant citizens and soldiers.

And blaming it on the USA is easy. It’s a collective humanity psychopathic psychosis, of billions of people who do not want to take personal responsibility for their animalistic inhumane breeding behaviours, and prefer big Mama and Papa goverments, whom they call ‘democracies’ to solve all their problems.

Reubenesque, (July 8 at 10:09 pm)

Thanks for the info, finally made public. Well Done to the FBI and Fox News!

Al, (July 8 at 5:32 pm)

Frankly, as stated, I would prefer to live in a small goverment constitutional republic, where all citizens take personal responsibility for their actions. In such a world, there would definitely be allot less need to blow people to bits, because simply there would be allot less people, fighting each other about scarce resources; and allot more free space, for people to do what they want and mind their own business.

As for President’s getting blow jobs: Firstly, a matter for him or her and their spouse, and the other party. If all consensual, and private; and did not affect his Presidential conduct, as expected from him, by those who voted for him; I couldn’t care less. None of my business, nor am I interested in the details, since I am not involved.

TD: The Nuclear Expert Who Never Was

2008-06-19T17:45:00.005-07:00

Truthdig Article:
The Nuclear Expert Who Never Was

by Scott Ritter

"You don't have to be straight to be in the military; you just have to be able to shoot straight. "
~ Senator Barry Goldwater (R-AZ), 1969 - 1987 ~

Lightfox Postcard:

By JMCSwan, June 26 at 5:05 pm

jackpine savage, (response to June 26 at 5:23 am) [removed from Truthdig]

To be fair to the media, jack, I imagine it has to do about their credibility. If their interviewer is well known, i.e. has some kind of official title, goverment or corporate or whatever, then his or her opinions, for the viewers often have more validity, i.e. carry more weight. Media corporations, the editors, and journalists, all naturally have biases, which may go anywhere on any issue. How closely do people listen to someone being interviewed, when that person is simply someone off the street, as opposed to has a pedigree long cv. This is understandable.

I wouldn’t underestimate President G.W. Bush. I imagine, the White House’s decisions and actions, are based on planning for the worst, and hoping for the best. Very, very tricky. The problems facing the world, and accordingly the White House, didn’t materialise out of thin air, when Pres. Bush walked into the Oval Office. They are the culmination of years and years of decisions, from virtually every single person on the planet. Some naturally with greater consequences than others. It’s easy to judge those prior decisions in hindsight; and yet that doesn’t absolve current White House decision-makers from, simply saying ‘well some Pres. in this or that year, created this problem with that decision, so it’s not our fault and we’ll just ignore it’. They don’t have that luxury; and virtually every decision is not going to be liked by at least 50% of the people, who care about the decision. Furthermore, many of the decisions, particularly national security one’s, are made based upon classified information. And ‘intelligence’ is not an exact science. It’s not mathematics. Even in mathematics, as demonstrated in Patch Adams, 4 can be 8; depending on how ‘close’ you are to the ‘problem’. I imagine, when you have to start interpreting the vague nuances of politicians, based on their cultural and socio-political issues, and so on, 4 can be anything from 2 to 2,000. I would imagine the nuance discrepancy of the public statements of any particular politician’s focus of the particular audience, they are speaking to; whether local, national, or international, or all.

Example: What did President Bush mean when he said ‘Go Shopping’ after 9/11? What ‘shopping’ was he encouraging Americans to go and shop for? No journalist asked him that question, that I am aware of. Not long after that he said something to the effect of ‘Americans must pay attention, and be on the lookout, for covert coded messages in the media, by terrorists.’ Now I found that statement very profound.

"It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me."

~ Senator Barry Goldwater (R-AZ), 1969 - 1987 ~

By JMCSwan, June 26 at 5:04 pm

continued…

As for your humourous paragraph 3: My humourous [ ~~~ "In your heart, you know he's right" ~ "In your guts, you know he's nuts" ~ "In your heart, you know he might" ~~~ ] response is as follows: Okay, so imagine you are not just an armchair critic of the White House, but actually working there. How exactly wuold you suggest they attempt to solve the world’s problems, and towards what end-goal? They would surely have to have everything from worst case scenario to best case scenario responses, which would need constant updating, depending on new information. How’s this for a humourous ‘Large Hadron Collider laugh a minute’ idea: Based on ‘shock-doctrine’, a fake ‘Bay of Pigs nuclear wake up call’, which gets the world rivetted to their television sets; and once resolved; a ‘We are sorry to inform you, that the nuclear alert was a joke; we wanted to get your attention.’ How do you imagine many people would respond? Those aware, might think it funny. Those unaware, may be livid! Very tricky, especially legally!!! Especially if some people think the intention was malicious, instead of sincere.

To conclude: I imagine it’s allot like being in a circus and walking on a tight-rope. And unlike circus fans, who are awed, by the tight-rope walkers balancing act, in reaching the other side; in the poltical circus (and more so in the White House political circus), often many of the fans, almost kind of want them to fall. And even when they do fall, and get back up again, and again—like Steve McQueen, in that movie where he is drunk and steals the change from a parking meter, and is told to dig ditches in jail, and the guards beat him up, and each time he just gets up again and again, not too different from that Monty Python skit, CNN showed about Hillary Clinton’s tenacity—how often, do they get an applause? They deserve an applause, or appreciation as much for what they are seen to do correctly, as they do for what they are disapproved of. Don’t they?

It’s not too different from being arm-chair warriors, criticising soldiers on the ground in a combat zone. It’s just a different kind of combat zone, a psychological one. I wouldn’t want the job, would you? However, if or where I am able to make my contribution, I attempt to do so. I imagine that is all any sincere politician can and would ask of the citizens, or voters in their particular constituency. I’d be curious about your opinions!

"The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government."

~ Senator Barry Goldwater (R-AZ), 1969 - 1987 ~

TD: Mugabe Turns a Deaf Ear to Critics

2008-06-19T17:45:00.003-07:00

Truthdig Article:
Mugabe Turns a Deaf Ear to Critics

"Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint."

~ Mark Twain ~

By JMCSwan, June 26 at 7:20 am

My opinion, not necessarily correct:

President Mugabe reminds me of the cab driver, Max, in Collateral; with a few exceptions.

Primarily in Collateral, Max’s dream—the reason he’s driving a cab, is to start a fancy limousine company, for the stars. I don’t think President Gabriel Mugabe’s dream, in terms of his current conduct as President, is to convert Zimbabwe to a paradise to parking lot, version of Africa. I imagine President Mugabe’s dreams when he first came to power, may have been allot different than they are today.

In that sense, he probably agrees more with Vincent, in terms of Vincent’s views about lives in soul-destroying cities.

Perhaps President Mugabe thinks Africa would be a real nice place, if it’s population security was similar to the Siberian ‘virgin land’ outback, with enlightened hunter gatherers, and nomad villages or towns; something like that. Perhaps he even wishes it was something like the “Dr. Livingstone, we presume,” days?

I don’t think many of the people of Zimbabwe, or Africa, really listen to what he says. I wonder if he doesn’t think most of the people of Zimbabwe are just slave and cannon-fodder breeding factories. And I wonder how many other African ‘quiet diplomacy’ or ‘hiding in their Houton mansions’ ‘Truth and Reconciliation’ (sic) leaders think the same, yet, unlike Mugabe are not nearly as honest about their opinions.

Reminds me of one soldier in Afghanistan describing NATO forces attempts to encourage and enlighten Afghani villagers, and to build trust; and how difficult it was. Yet, the NATO soldier didn’t seem like he had given up hope, he simply appeared aware of the enormity of the task.

Face-to-face, in person, I’ve come across Muslims with a sense of honour, and African Americans, but unfortunately, as yet, can’t say the same for black Africans. However, I’d imagine, it would be possible to have a franker conversation with Robert Mugabe, than Nelson Mandela. Put differently, in my opinion, Nelson Mandela is much more attached to his moral status-quo personality on the ‘liberal’ world stage, and yet, I imagine, agrees with Mugabe on various issues, which many of his liberal supporters are unaware of. I could be wrong.

Mr. Mandela certainly deserves the recognition of his sacrifices, and I imagine, once confronted with the mass ignorance, and attachment by black Africans to their culture of ‘children as slave breeding cattle fodder’ reality; he realised the futility of the educational chore.

He once apparently informed Francisco the clown (a clown who used humour to spread the message of Christianity), that he had been deeply saddened, about the direction his fellow South African ‘struggle and liberation brothers’ had taken; subsequent to ‘liberation’ from apartheid. I don’t know if he ever informed his fellow ANC ‘liberation struggle brothers’ of his honest opinions about their behaviour. He certainly didn’t inform the South African public, or use his 46664 Bono concerts to inform his liberal Hollywood entourage of these opinions; which makes you wonder whether what the opinions he informed Francisco of, were his honest opinions.

The opinions of Queen Elizabeth to Mugabe, as her honest opinions, in my opinion, carry much more weight; than those of Mandela to Mugabe. I would imagine Mugabe’s honest unpolitically correct response to the Queen would be something to the effect of those by ‘Green Dragoons, Col. William Tavington’ to 'Continental Army Colonel Harry Burwell', that his guerrila tactics on his people, are simply a means for him to create for him a kind of ‘African estate’, kind of thing. I could be wrong.

As for Gabriel Mugabe’s honest response to Nelson Mandela, I imagine he’s simply ‘pot calling the kettle black’ smiling, keeping that to himself, possibly wondering ‘how long will it take for the white liberals to wake up about the real Nelson Mandela?’ But I could be wrong.

My opinion: those black Nigeria 'ha - glo - ha' corporate executive 'Lions of Judah' liberals never sat on a third class Chinese train, nor climbed a yard on the Sea Cloud, or sailed through the Suez in a sand-storm; and may never come to the realisations expressed by Collateral Vincent, except as entertainment.

'I don't suppose there would be much sense of humour loss danger. McNamara 'tyrants' are safe in water.'

~ Alex Wit - Mark Bear Creek Twain - Ayres Wisdom ~

[Sitting at a coffee-shop in Capetown, around the corner from Capetown Parliament buildings, I recently observed a predominantly poor coloureds, street march protest, with signs saying something similar to the effect of 'One Farmer, One Bullet', calling for farmers land to be redistributed. The protest march was led by a white van, with a coloured lady driving it. On the side of the van, the sign had a tree that said "The Surplus People Project". I asked a white gentleman delivering coffee beans to the coffee shop, who stopped next to me, and was observing the protest, whether he had noticed the sign. He looked at me, and asked 'No, what sign?' I said 'the sign on the van leading the protest'. He looked at the sign and started laughing. I didn't say a word.]

TD: The HedoNoah of 'NT Put it in a Memo' Power

2008-06-19T17:45:00.001-07:00

Truthdig Article:

The Hedonists of Power

'It's not the round with your name on it you gotta watch out for, it's the one that's addressed "TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN" was the phrase that contained the t vv o ways of looking at life and death in [social-contract] Vietnam.'

~ Kent Anderson, Sympathy for the Devil ~

Lightfox Postcard:

By JMCSwan, June 24 at 6:56 am

Dr. Knowitall, PhD, PhD, (June 23 at 8:51)

“When these ducks keep walking and talking and looking like ducks for the last several decades, then we would all do ourselves quality service by not fighting them anymore and simply accept that, they are in fact, ducks, evolved ducks, but still ducks.
Not ducks we can like or nuzzle up to or even make good-tasting duck soup with but ducks, just the same.”

Duck soup for Wounded Knee West Point Souls, with edible aeroganim flower petals as garnish?

Jefferson had the choice to make, since he had both sufficient economic resources and his fellow confederate partisans, whom he could rely on. Difficult to say what his decision would have been in 2000. Unless…

PS: Have you seen that bit on Russia Today, on the movie “Absurdistan”, the one part of it reminds me of that Hillbilly movie?

"We were good 'Presbyterian' boys when the weather was doubtful. When it was fair we did wander a little from the fold."

~ "I Have Tried to Do Good," 1902, Mark Twain ~

Comment to Senator Obama: Well thank you Mr. Obama, for informing me that I am expendable. I'm not sure what made you think, I didn't know that for the past 7 years in my efforts on behalf of ?????.; that there were and are a significant number of individuals in the United States Goverment who consider me 'expendable', or should I refer to the term 'collateral damage'? Good ol' rock solid plausible deniability. Makes you wish Oliver North ran for Congress, doesn't it! Don't worry about a fake insincere star in the entrance hall of the Central Intelligence Agency; there's already a slamdunk few in the starry sky heavens. Makes you wonder how many lollipop baby-kissing Senators and Representatives on how many committees want intelligence agents to provide them with accurate intelligence information? Perhaps they would prefer Osama and Nasrullah Mouse coded cartoons for their own National Intelligence Estimate analysis?

TD: Tony Platt on American Eugenics

2008-06-19T17:44:00.002-07:00

Truthdig Article:

Tony Platt on American Eugenics

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By JMCSwan, June 22 at 11:01 am

Leefeller (response to June 22 at 7:39 am)

Educating the world on humane population reduction issues would indeed be a massive chore; one which I may add, I very seriously—probably very foolishly—attempted, with very little luck.

As for the evolutionary change of econoyum yum religious attitudes. Indeed, would probably require a culling of improbable proportions; as described occurred in the message visions of the Future, in the book Spiritwalker, by Dr. Hank Wesselman, where the only remaining human specimens, surviving a massive thermo-nuclear world war, were enlightened hunter gatherers, and accordingly could and wanted to live as such.

"What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth. No smallest atom of our moral, mental, or physical structure can stand still a year. It grows -- it must grow; nothing can prevent it."

~ Mark Twain, "Consistency," 1887 ~

Agent Orange: "The cells of the trees and plants grew until they ruptured and died, like the inner cities of America, the spirit-killing suburbs, the urban freeways and commuter air corridors, as if [corporate] America's poison for growth had been concentrated into the oily mist that made the jungle swell like a cancer, burst and die."

~ Sympathy for the Devil, Kent Anderson ~

'The wars change, but never the young men who have to survive them to bring home the bad news: wars are never about peace with honour; they are about death, dying, and terminal sadness; if the human animal can't live without them, perhaps we don't deserve to continue.'
~ Sympathy for the Devil, Kent Anderson ~

By JMCSwan, June 22 at 6:41 am

nrobi, (response to June 20 at 5:10 am)

Agreed with your post, only had this interpretation to add to your final paragraph: “To protect freedom, each and every individual must be educated, should participate in the electoral system and take notice of the events that are shaping the world around them. This to be better informed, so that we as a society, can make better choices, to protect the freedoms we hold dear and work for a better world through peace and good will rather than at the end of a weapon that is pointing straight at us.”

In the context of an electroshock guineapig in Stanley Milgram’s experiment:

‘end of the weapon’ word association brought up for me, Chief Ira, in Flags of Our Fathers, standing in his bunker on Iwo Jima, with a sixth sense to turn around, and as he did, the Japanese soldier about to kill him in the bunker impaled himself on the end of Ira’s weapon, and Ira’s ghost nightmares thereof.

‘goodwill’ word association brought up for me, Fletcher Christian, from Mutiny on the Bounty, (consider in context of 29 April anniversary) where the ‘culture’ on Tahiti (Third World) considered ‘goodwill’ by the Bounty sailors, to be shown, if the soldiers, were sexually promiscuous with the women of Tahiti.

I would add this cultural concept of ‘goodwill’ being diametrically opposed by the Allied soldiers, such as Sean O’Sullivan, in Leon Uris’s Armageddon; where Americans were considered naive, by all other powers, for not exploiting the profits of war, nominally considered to be rape of the women, and theft of the resources; and insisting on upholding American values. [American, in my opinion being those demonstrated by Sean, therein.]

Considering many, particularly Third World nations and particularly leaders refusal to clearly with words, education, voluntary family planning, etc. to enable humane low birth rate population policies as their ‘culture’; preferring to remain attached to their third world ‘goodwill’ (sic) patriarchal cultures attitudes to women; are they covertly endorsing the Animal pigletfarm consequences of AIDS and Lords of war depopulation of their people, while blaming these consequences on colonialism, etc.?

In a globalized world, ‘society’ requires the citizens of all nations to be better informed, so that we as a society, can make better choices, to protect the freedoms we hold dear and work for a better world through peace and sincere good will. When various nations refuse to do so, those who wish to do so, are unable to resolve these issues without pointing guns; or am I incorrect?

Simplistically: those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution possible: those who make a world of humane low birth rate population policies impossible, among others: Fortune 500 corporations, religious ganglords who encourage multiply and conquer, etc.; make violent revolution possible?

"Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity."

~ Mark Twain ~

TD: Sexuality Debate Divides Anglican Bishops

2008-06-19T17:44:00.001-07:00

Truthdig Article:
Sexuality Debate Divides Anglican Bishops

By JMCSwan, June 21 at 11:41 am

leefeller, (response to June 20 at 3:21 pm)

Frankly, if their real concern is for the people in their congregation, why would they care about the choice of sexuality? I don’t understand what they are upset about, whether those in their congregations are straight or bisexual. For me, the important thing is whether the people in a particular church I join, or go to, love each other, their commitment to each other.

I’d rather go to a church with a congregation of 20 people who love each other, are there for each other, support each other, are honest about their spiritual search on the existential meaning of life, wherever that conversation takes them, and so on, than belong to a church millions of members, where I go to church, and it’s like there is no real spiritual quest, for what we are existentially here for. Where as someone recently told me, she just goes to church, to look for nice young men to date.

Of course you could find within a spiritual movement of millions, select churches or parishes here or there, where the pastor, priest, bishop or whatever really cares about his ‘flock’, and the dialogue is not one where he necessarily knows all the answers. It’s more like a community church, where each kind of bring their own wisdom, in a collective search for meaning, love, wisdom, kindness, sharing, growth, and whatever other issues they wish to bring up and discuss, or similar.

Maybe we can start a church for two, on a little piece of land, with daffodils in Wyoming or Siberia... leefeller!

TD: A Goverment of Law, Not Fear

2008-06-18T19:29:00.000-07:00

Truthdig Article:

A Goverment of Law, Not Fear

Lightfox Postcard:

By JMCSwan, June 21 at 5:10 am

cann4ing (June 20 at 1:13 pm)

‘A message’ from the Dept. of Homeland Stupidity’s village idiot ‘enemy combatant’ (sic): In context of (i) the fool who represents himself is the biggest fool; and (ii) those whose ego’s don’t allow themselves to admit they are the fools, are the biggest fools.

Re: the (’penny for your Pork and Catholic society thoughts) stork choice facing the electorate come November.

Nomination of a Justice is one thing, appointment by the Senate and House another. I would advise that “fulminating opposition to the fundamental constitutional principles as they are broadly understood in our society” be read in the context of the 80/20 intelligence principle: the 20% left unsaid changes the context significantly.

Example: What’s the difference between giving an ‘in your head, addicted to stare decisis, etc lawyer’ and a JMD Marine a blow-job? (apologies to the few lawyers and Marines who are exceptions, and for the choice of example, some analogies come across experientially better than legalistic theories).

Making love to the JMD Marine is heaven, you can touch him with a feather and his whole body shudders from the experience, multiple exquisite little orgasms for men, kind of thing. As for the lawyer, he—unfortunately is so in his head, not in his senses—it’s as if he has been using his ‘member’ to chop wood. He is immune to feathers, soft touch, etc, you almost have to rip his member off, before he ‘gets it’. What I call the difference between theory and experience, if you get my meaning.

In that context, even for a 60 year old man who, by his own admission ‘can barely hard it’, that same ‘old man’ could be in his senses enough, to say thereafter ‘thanks for the best blow job I ever had’, kind of thing.

Communication is like sex: If both parties are ‘hoping’ the other will touch them here, or there, or do this or that harder or softer, and neither clarifies their wants or needs: sex is lousy. For anyone whose very seldom had good sex and more so good sex with someone they really love, cause he or she has been screwing frigid snowqueens, experientially they never made love to a JMD Marine.

The point: If they are too petrified to tell the other, this or that is what I want, or enjoy, and are willing to take no for an answer, or continue the discussion, they are at least on their way to getting what they want: good sex. If they really love each other, for who they really are: awesome sex.

When allot of ganglords ain’t getting good sex at home in bed, with some emotional release involved as well, with their particular female or male if they are so inclined partners, they get that ‘good sex’ in the geopolitical arena, like Iraq, Afghanistan, New York, etc. I am not saying these are their primary motives, or that many are even conscious about it.

Very simplistically: Repressed energy manifests in many forms, from depression and suicide, to wars. (And yes I did release energy prior to writing this, for balance sake.) And in that context, imagine what repressed energy manifests like for celibate warrior ‘spiritual’ (sic) monks? Do you recall Gandhi ever making one statement about overpopulation, and to encourage Indians to breed less, in his drive for peace between Hindu’s and Muslims in India? I don’t. Do you want to live in Bombay or Calcutta? I don’t.

Do the religious and spiritual leader ganglords of the world think God is somehow going to create more oil, cause they are too petrified to take a stand on encouraging their followers to breed less? What do they honestly think ‘God, Yahweh, Allah, Buddha or whomever’s’ opinion might be on how they release their repressed celibate monk warrior energies on their ignorant followers, while encouraging them to breed, breed, breed? What do they think USA F Gov. Gray Davis would have to say about that?

By JMCSwan, June 21 at 5:09 am

(continued)

A commitment to core constitutional values in 1776, I would imagine may be different in 1991, maybe not.

Personally I would vote to uphold Roe v. Wade. Furthermore I consider it a brave and courageous ruling against the overpopulation slave and cannon fodder breeding practices of Catholic organisations, and their attachments to refusal of supporting family planning practices.

As for seperation of powers. I agree it’s very important, in the absence of a benevolent unitary executive ruler. However, does it actually exist for the benefit of the American people, and more importantly for the future of America, in a ‘big boys backroom smoking club’, where being a member of the big boys club means more to the cigar addicts, than being an American first and foremost? And by American, I refer to the views of Timothy McVeigh, when he stated, he couldn’t start a family, or just mind his own business, when he couldn’t trust his own goverment not to barge through his front door without a warrant, or do what they did to Randy Weaver etc.

Hollywood may think that a sci-fi future of the likes of Minority Report seems intriguing. My opinion is to bring a child into the world, with that future, that child would be lying in a cesspool of ‘water’, as some kind of robotic freak show Frankenstein experiment, for mad robotic freaks. My IUD stays exactly where it is, thank you very much!

And I would imagine those fellows who called Air Force One, on Sept. 11, 2001, informing the President they had the codes to the US nuclear arsenal, would be in full agreement. If you have been through the hell they’ve been through, you may agree.

We can thank ‘God’ if there is one, they and others in the White House and US Administration, didn’t use the fear of the world’s masses—except for a few outspoken Niemoller voices—after 9/11, as Hitler used the Reichstagg.

What’s the difference between Hitler’s Warsaw Mila 18 concentration camps for Jews, and spiritual and religious leaders Calcutta, Bombay and Shanghai ghetto concentration camps, or spiritual leaders Khayelitsha and Sudan ghetto concentration camps? Hitler didn’t do it to his own followers!

'...they first came for Timothy McVeigh, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a .........., then they came for the communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Catholic. Then they came for me - and by that time there was nobody left to speak up.'
~ Adaption of Martin Niemoller quote ~

By JMCSwan, June 19 at 5:26 pm

jackpine savage, (June 19 at 4:02 am)

You state:

“Would anyone like to take a bet that the election of Barack Obama will not close Guantanamo nor any of the other secret prisons in the American Gulag Archipelago?”

You seem pretty sure of yourself. Has Obama flopped the geopolitical game-theory nuts? If so, I guess I should accept the reality that there are more than a few powerful people who do not want me to be with the man I love. I certainly hope, for their sakes, they never have to experience such pain; I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy, to deny them being with someone they love, for so long.

And if that’s not what you are trying to say, why don’t you just say exactly what the hell it is you’re trying to say. Would that be too much to ask?

"How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?"
~ Mark Twain ~

By JMCSwan, June 20 at 10:07 am

cann4ing, (response to: June 20 at 1:36 pm)

POW to POW: Interesting post.

My views on ‘Unitary Executive’ theory, as I understand it, are, briefly as follows:

Within the context of (i) ‘why would I want to exchange one conscious POW tyrant 3,000 miles away, for 3,000 unconscious POW tyrants one mile away?’ and (ii) ‘McCain’s views, which I interpret as follows: he has been a 5 star POW.

In a world economy based upon slave and cannon fodder breeding, war, and conquest; we are all prisoners of war.

Some of us are simply very much more conscious thereof, while others are unconsciously in ignorance is bliss mode.

I imagine McCain thinks that it doesn’t matter how many allegedly admire him for his sacrifice as a 5 * POW. Until they have experienced what it is like to be a POW for years and years on end; they haven’t the faintest clue, what he really went through. And as such don’t understand his psychological strength, from that experience, in terms of being the future President. [More background to princples at: http://www.angelfire.com/fl4/prison/goodbad.html and http://www.davesweb.cnchost.com/corcoran.htm Richard Caruso, by the way, was a former US Marine.]

According to Dr. Richard Korn, my former mentor, when I lived in California: History has, infrequently it is true, brought forth ‘unitary executive’ Kings who were benevolent rulers. Personally, I’d describe Mark Twain’s quote “If I were King....”, as a reasonable brief definition of a benevolent unitary executive ruler.

In an Orwellian controlling insanity world of schizophrenic O’Brian power for the sake of power ganglord illusionists, who peddle ‘their illusion or perception as reality’, as a form of manipulation and control, the consequences thereof become paranoia, like those of mafia crime bosses. There is very little trust between gang bosses to keep their word, which is not too different from the cold war game-theory that was stated as an absolute truth by John Nash and SRI. Today’s corporate, political or military truce is tomorrow’s betrayal, kind of thing. Such rulers prefer agreements that are intentionally vague, instead of one’s that are crystal clear to both sides; where an honest conversation can occur on changing the agreement, when either party is dissatisfied with the current agreement, or the other parties conduct in terms of not abiding by the agreement.

Personally, my experience in South African law courts—except before two listening Magistrates (Buhr and Essel), who actually thought what I said mattered—was not very different than going into a legalese torture chamber; where for all intents and purposes the constitution had already been shredded, and the Magistrates dictatorial decision of the moment, without any further enquiry, was the ‘rule of law’. My attorney ‘interpreters’ of the legalese, couldn’t have cared less about interpreting their little legalese game for me. I was simply the guinea pig. Legal or psychological or whatever theory is one thing, experience quite another. Why don’t universities require psychologists or lawyers to spend time as undercover mental patients (with psychologists who don’t listen) or prisoners (with sadistic guards), as part of their Ph.D’s or fancy law degrees?

One of the best educations I gave myself was to be a nanny, for a few years in England and America. Gives you an entirely different experiential understanding to considering the responsibilities of taking care of ‘adopted’ children. I learnt quickly prior to accepting any nanny job; that at the interview, I was as much interviewing the family as they were interviewing me.

pt 2:

I don’t subscribe to those nanny theories that ‘children should be seen and not heard’. I always considered the opinions of the children I nannied, seriously, and with some, had some of the most interesting loving conversations and relationships as friends, which are treasured memories.

Nor do I subscribe to the nanny theory, by children, that nanny’s authority means nothing; if so, such ‘adopted’ children effectively disown themselves, and if or where they are unclear about that, I made it clear by resigning the position, with their real parents. Particularly when I wasn’t being paid one red cent for my nanny services, very few of the ‘adopted’ children were informed of their nanny, and accordingly did not recognize my nanny authority, and the alleged agreement by the parents, of future payment for my services appears to be an analogy of the terms experienced by Yossarian in Catch 22.

Now in such a case would you demand a more stringent interview process, should these parents want to re-hire you, or their children want you back as their nanny? Like a win-win crystal clear agreement? And in a geo (ego) political game-theory world of paranoic ganglords, what do you think my chances are of finding a win-win crystal clear agreement?

And that’s fine. It’s quite possible that most ganglords enjoy being paranoic ganglords. Perhaps they consider that their existential purpose. Doubt any of them had a nanny, or someone in their youth, who was really there for them, and provided them with an example, of matriarchal justice and forgiveness, and encouragement to be real life Gunny Dye, Peter Hubbard, Timothy McVeigh and Richard Caruso’s.

Simplistically, I imagine it all comes down to what the ganglords, and their followers perceive as strengths and weaknesses. Authority without domination—shibumi—is not a concept many ganglords consider a strength. For many, particularly in Hollywood, with Robert Redford and a few other exceptions, (who set the cultural controlling insanity cognitive conceptualisation of what is force, and what is power, to the masses. As such Hollywood is to the Pentagon, what Hamas is to Al’Quds), force, particularly excessive violent force, is their ultimate conceptualisation of authority and power. And when dealing with such a gangland adversary, in the geopolitical context, as I see it, an individual who prefers to practice shibumi, is left with various options, from exercising their vote to authorize the resort to violence or war, to ‘get the message’ across, to the other end of the spectrum: withdraw from direct participation, to either participate as a guerrilla in the gangwar, and eventually, like Yossarian, to just totally walk away, as if the controlling insanity gangwar does not exist, and go searching for his or her love, hoping for the best.

"How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?"

~ Mark Twain ~

TD: Pinpointing Racism at the TX Republican Convention

2008-06-18T10:59:00.000-07:00

Truthdig Article:

Pinpointing Racism at the TX Republican Convention

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By JMCSwan, June 18 at 9:53 am

Interesting.

I don’t interpret the button as racist at all. I choose to interpret it as a 13 brave JC: Ring of Fire, Man in Black.

If I am correct, the button-man is being considered an alleged ‘racist’; by coconuts (ghetto lingo). Shows you how many people prefer a pathetic demockery, to a constitutional republic.

I guess it’s just one of those ‘how you think about it that makes all the difference’ kind of questions, based on your personal experience combined with your personal intentions.

But since I don’t know the man, and didn’t manage to speak to him at his booth, since I wasn’t at the convention, or even on the same continent; all I’ve got to go by are words on a button, and other people’s interpretations, based on their experiential intentions.

He’s probably one very interesting person to talk to. Maybe even has some really good ideas the republican party might wish to consider. Who knows until you really listen to him, in a one-on-one conversation?

"The trouble is that the stupid people--who constitute the grand overwhelming majority of this and all other nations--do believe and are moulded and convinced by what they get out of a newspaper. -- "

~ Mark Twain, License of the Press ~

TD: Obama and Family

2008-06-17T18:07:00.000-07:00

Truthdig Article:

Obama and Family

Lightfox Postcard:

By JMCSwan, June 17 at 5:03 pm

Amy Nova: (June 17 at 12:42 pm)

I totally agree with you that:

“Perhaps if people put more thought into deciding to have children and how it would change their life poverty would not be such an issue, nor absent fathers.”

I don’t have any children; and often people have asked me why don’t you have children. My response has been, as I see it [in terms of souldier intentional existence intelligence], it’s cheaper to save up for a [JMD] canary [in a coal mine] yellow lamborgini (In these times, if you wanted to provide a decent education for your child, and do home schooling, etc - you could probably make that a few lamborgini’s, unless you had a paid for piece of land, where you were virtually fully self-sufficient, which I don’t.)

When people tell me they are having kids in these peak oil, water, etc. times, my response—if I am of the opinion they are willing to hear my honest response without taking offence—is usually, you are either exceptionally brave or exceptionally stupid. That is of course assuming that they are seriously committed to being there for their children, in a significant manner, emotionally, psychologically, financially etc.

Personally, for me, if I was to bring a child into this world, that to me is a huge responsibility: I would be bringing a living, breathing being into the world, an act of ‘Creation’ if there ever was one.

Furthermore, if the child was to have my genes, which of course it would, and knowing what I know about myself, and should any of that knowledge be genetically transferred to my child, I would definately want to be there to support my child, to deal with a world of people who haven’t got the faintest clue, about living with such, shall I call it genetic sensitivity, for want of a better description.

But that’s my opinion, undoubtedly others disagree.

"In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act."

~ George Orwell ~

TD: Taking Back the Republic

2008-06-16T15:54:00.000-07:00

Truthdig Article:
Taking Back the Republic

"The only thing greater than the power of the mind, is the courage of the heart."

Lightfox Postcard:

By JMCSwan, June 16 at 11:13 am [Removed from Truthdig]

Crimes of the State Blog, [Removed from Truthdig]

RE: “Al-Qa’ida members--including some who are US citizens--have resided in or traveled to the US for years, and the group apparently maintains a support structure that could aid attacks.”

This from: From the Wilderness, titled: HOSTAGES, a two [1, 2] part series.

PS: AIG has that [O’Brian-Schumacher Big Brother Advertising Room 101] ad where it says, in .. blah, blah, blah [Know]. What does AIG [know] about terrorism, you, or me?

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They Even Put It In Writing

In September 1997 a group of business and labor executives* reviewed and made recommendations on the use of sanctions by the President of the United States to influence world events. One of those executives was Oackley Johnson of AIG. The group, called the Sanctions Working Group (SWG) of the Department of State’s Advisory Committee on International Economic Policy, having completed its review of the way the White House has imposed sanctions on foreign governments, completed a detailed report which was sent to the State Department by the Committee head, Michael Gadbaw of General Electric. The advisory panel called for massive revisions in the way sanctions were selected and imposed in foreign affairs to punish or induce foreign governments to behave the way the U.S. wants.

Approval of the recommendations was unanimous from the business community and opposition was unanimous and acerbic from organized labor representatives who sent their dissent separately to the State Department. The report, they said, cared about nothing but the financial interests of major U.S. Corporations.

As an Appendix to the report, which was found at http://www.usaengage.org/studies.html, Footnote 4 following Tab 5 listed valid U.S. foreign policy objectives. It states: This report addresses sanctions undertaken pursuant to laws or regulations that authorize or mandate unilateral economic sanctions in order to achieve a foreign policy objective.

“The foreign policy objectives may include the transition to democracy, opposing terrorism or support of terrorist activities, sanctioning drug production and transit or trafficking, supporting human and worker rights and religious freedom, opposing proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and protecting the environment.”

The language “support of terrorist activities” is ambiguous. It could mean that the U.S. would punish those who support terrorist activities or that it might support terrorist activities itself. The drug trafficking language also catches the panel on the horns of a dilemma. As defined in the American Heritage dictionary, to sanction something means to “grant authoritative permission or approval.” A secondary meaning means “to punish.” In government documents and reports, especially those laying out or recommending policy, every word is reviewed dozens of times. Lawyers and decision makers sign off on every aspect. Drafts usually circulate for weeks before final approval. This language may mean exactly what it says. And if there is ambiguity then it must have been intended.

[snip]

Perhaps no one knows more about your life, not even your immediate family, than the various companies who insure you. Your health, finances, work history, medical records, driving habits and almost every other aspect of your life is recorded in insurance files and records. Is this necessarily something you want available to the CIA or any part of the government? Remember that the CIA doesn’t operate under the law or respect privacy. What happens then when a giant like AIG winds up insuring parts of the government or major businesses that violate your rights or break the law?

The names of the illegal cross-border [into Laos and Cambodia] units were kept as vague as possible and changed from time to time. The individual soldiers in the units might be referred to in official reports as 'detection operation systems personnel' or 'border control structure components'.

[SNIP]

Approximately 80% of the reliable intelligence about enemy troop movements came from these patrols but was attributed to other sources, such as captured documents, friendly villagers, aircraft spottings and enemy defectors. Vietnam, some said, was a "polite war," and it was illegal to cross borders.

Most of the security precautions were not taken in an attempt to confuse the enemy. The enemy knew the day a unit had its name changed or when a new launch site was planned. Their spies and sympathizers were everywhere, from maids to field grade officers. No, the complex, often ridiculous security measures were part of an effort to protect Special Forces operations from American political and military investigation.
Public opinion about the war could change in the time it took to look up from your potatoes at 10 seconds of garbled film footage on the evening news, and some hustling young congressman would be out to get the truth, once again, on the controversial Green Berets. By the time he got the necessary secret, top-secret and need-to-know clearances to start sorting through hundreds of confusing, euphemistic, and sanitized reports (sentences and entire pages would be missing, blank pages might have been inserted, stamped "pages 12 through 15 have been removed in accordance with letter, MACV 246 HQ US Military Assistance Command, Vietnam, dated 15 June 68, as not relevant to debriefing requirements") in an attempt to get publicity as a "concerned American" or a peace candidate, the operations would have new names, and all information would have been refiled under "Terrain Studies During Monsoon Conditions."

Field grade and general officers in the regular Army wanted to see all Special Forces operations discontinued - and the majority did. The regular Army which has always distrusted elite units - had almost as much difficulty as the congressman. With only a year in Vietnam, they had to devote most of their time to trying to devise some tactic, novel and flamboyant enough to justify their promotion, or to orchestrate an operation big and bloody enough to make the headlines, ensuring their promotion and a medal.
[SNIP]

[Hanson comments on how there were two sets of 'official documents' and WHY.]
NOFORM [classified version, seen only by American personnel] version contained all the facts, while the other set was used to maintain the illusion that the Americans
were only advising the Vietnamese in conducting the war, when in fact the Americans seemed to be fighting the war in spite of the Vietnamese.
~ Kent Anderson, Sympathy for the Devil ~

~ RUSF 4 Love Rangers ~
"I was thinking of you guys yesterday. I've been here three times before and I think I understand a little bit how you feel about some things, it's none of my business how you feel about some other things, and I don't give a damn how you feel about some of the things; but anyway, I try to put myself in your place, and I believe this is the way that I would feel about San Quentin.."

~ San Quentin, Johnny Cash ~

TD: Investigate This

2008-06-15T15:24:00.000-07:00

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INVESTIGATE THIS

Lightfox Postcard:

By JMCSwan, June 13 at 10:35 am

Yours Truly, (June 11 at 3:24 pm)

Your 3:24 pm post made me smile. Particularly the last four points. Thanks, for cheering me up by confirming for me the seeming futility of it all. Not cause it’s cheerful, just cause the affirmation helps me to realise someone else kinda confirms my reality. Frankly in my opinion, perhaps incorrect, I don’t see how things can really get any better, if our communication about ‘humanitys’ problems does not involve us being as honest as we are able about the causes of our problems. As for wars, besides the fact that the fundamental basis for planet earth’s economy is based on conquest, dollar worship, and war; and that war is for politicians a means by which to motivate the citizenry through fear to support their agendas’ not least of which that one of those agenda’s is the eugenic culling of their cannon fodder children, equivalent to a Mayan dinner war party feast, and due to humanity’s organized religion refusal to honestly address sexuality issues, to convert humanity to low humane birth rate population policies (which capitalism ain’t supporting, cause more people mean more unemployed competing for jobs, therefore jobs can be manipulated at lower rates), ‘humanity’ is pretty much up the creek without a paddle…

Thank goodness I don’t have any children, cause their future ain’t exactly great, in this direction.

Anyway, thanks for enabling a smile out of me!

"There is no such thing, at this date of the world's history, as an independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job. If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone. The business of the journalist is to destroy the truth; to lie outright; to pervert; to vilify; to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell the country for his daily bread. You know it and I know it and what folly is this toasting an independent press. We are the tools and vassals of the rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes."
~ John Swinton, the Former Chief of Staff at the New York Times, when asked to give a toast before the prestigious New York Press Club in 1953.

~ RUSF 4 Love Rangers ~
"I was thinking of you guys yesterday. I've been here three times before and I think I understand a little bit how you feel about some things, it's none of my business how you feel about some other things, and I don't give a damn how you feel about some of the things; but anyway, I try to put myself in your place, and I believe this is the way that I would feel about San Quentin.."

~ San Quentin, Johnny Cash ~

Lightfox Postcard:

By JMCSwan, June 13 at 10:36 am

JBlack: (June 13 at 3:18 am)

I appreciate you for writing:

“All of them, and all of us, are saying the same things over and over again; what started as a conversation has become a shouting match. And when everyone is on “transmit” - but never on “receive” - we cannot hear and so we cannot learn. And if we cannot learn, we’ve stopped thinking.”

You know sometimes I think that even what we are saying isn’t even clear, and it’s almost like we’re just sending cluster bomb messages to each other, and no wonder we are confused about each other’s messages.... Even when we do attempt to listen, how do you listen to a message that isn’t clear?

I have this friend - we practice listening. Listening is a big issue for me. Sometimes when we chat, I’ll tell her a story, and before I have reached the end of the first sentence, she will say ‘what did you mean by that word’ and then I’ll explain that word, in the context of my story, and so it goes. Sometimes our conversation takes an hour to get through a few sentences! What I’m trying to say, in my agreement and appreciation for your statement, is that listening takes effort, sincerity, to care about what the other person actually thinks, and be willing to set aside your own opinions to hear their side and perspective, and most of us—me included—are so attached to being right about our own opinions and drumming them down others throats, and living in the ratrace don’t have the energy, sincerity or concern to really listen, that basically we are just tossing each other verbal cluster bombs.... And I imagine I am preaching to the choir… However, at least I found a choir partner, what do you like singing?

These days one of my favourite songs of futility of humanity is:

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It’s a strange, strange world we live in, Master Jack
You taught me all I know and I’ll never look back
It’s a very strange world and I thank you, Master Jack
You took a colored ribbon from out of the sky
And taught me how to use it as the years went by
To tie up all your problems and make them look neat
And then to sell them to the people in the street
It’s a strange, strange world we live in, Master Jack
You taught me all I know and I’ll never look back
It’s a very strange world and I thank you, Master Jack
I saw right through the way you started teachin’ me now
So some day soon you could get to use me somehow
I thank you very much and though you’ve been very kind
But I’d better move along before you change my mind
It’s a strange, strange world we live in, Master Jack
You know how I feel as if I’ll never come back
It’s a very strange world and I thank you, Master Jack
You taught me all the things the way you’d like them to be
But I’d like to see if other people agree
It’s all very int’resting the way you disguise
But I’d like to see the world through my own eyes
It’s a strange, strange world we live in, Master Jack
No hard feelin’s if I never come back
You’re a very strange man and I thank you, Master Jack
You’re a very strange man and I thank you, Master Jack
You’re a very strange man, arn't you, Master Jack

---

at least that’s my perspective, but now and then you find a jewel whose worth listening to and where the dialogue again becomes a conversation, and that is simply a very precious experience.

Thank you.

"Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence."
~ Erich Fromm ~

~ RUSF 4 Love Rangers ~

~ A Thing Called Love, Johnny Cash ~

Lightfox Postcard:

By JMCSwan, June 13 at 2:00 pm

Cyrena, (June 11 at 12:55 pm)

Re: the Genocide convention: in my opinion, any nation that has a population policy that is not a low or negative birth rate population policy is in and of itself committing a form of genocide on it’s own people. That the Genocide convention doesn’t mention that fact, cause it’s considered by the Third World to be ‘racist’ and ‘imperialist’ to tell them to have less children, so that those children can be loved and not live in abject poverty etc. and so on, doesn’t change that reality…

As for the systemic analysis of the letter of the law.... You know if Irish are impervious to psychoanalysis, then Lawyers are absolute fanatically impervious to psychoanalsysis. When last did you hear about a lawyer willing to do self-analysis about their conduct, and it’s consequences? Only time I heard about it was in the movie REGARDING HENRY. I have often been quite willing to say ‘if I am wrong, no problem—I shall unequivocally apologise’.... but didn’t you know: MOST LAWYERS ARE NEVER EVER WRONG, NEVER EVER!!! “I’m sorry” just simply does not exist in these people’s vocabularies, and yet they have the gumption to stand in their courtroom and demand it from others. Of course there are exceptions, but unfortunately they are few and far between.

Actually I once heard about a Judge who did say sorry: he was a southerner: Judge Gwynn, i think his name was. Now that was courageous.

Re: children breaking the law. The law is not black and white. If it was there would be no need for defence attorneys, or valid defences, whether self defence, necessity, negligence or whatever. In what context did the child allegedly ‘break the law’, etc?

The problem is that for most lawyers it is not about applying the law in order to get to the truth, and for true justice to be served, it is about them winning their cases, irrespective of whether the poor accused is guilty or innocent. And in doing so they make a mockery of justice, because in not applying justice for the sake of truth, and justice, those who are innocent, and the people who observe this farcical justice system dining on the foodchain (guilty or innocent, who cares?), it simply creates within the people an observation that the law really doesn’t mean anything, what it does mean is: DON’T GET CAUGHT, AND IF YOU DO, LIE!

In that context, for the elite’s the law is texas justice (i.e. do what you like, take what you want without compensation, just dont’ get caught), and for the proles’ the law is the elite and lawyers guns for hire, to make sure they keep their desks stacked with cases, and never run out of work!

Merchants of Death Law, they may be called?

Remember that quote by Justice Brandeis, quoted by McVeigh?

PS: consider what PM Gordon Brown’s reference about David Davis resignation for the by-erection, as ‘stunt that’s become a farce’, in terms of SIR, NO SIR’S, AWOL souldier’s ‘farce’, and Gov. Gray Davis’ “Hello?”, in Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (after he was screwed by Enron in the California Blackouts, and forced into recall); takes on an entirely different ‘human foodchain dinner’ meaning.....

Regards

''I wish to use the words of Justice Brandeis dissenting in Olmstead to speak for me. He wrote: 'Our Government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example.' That's all I have.''

~ Timothy McVeigh, August 1997 ~

Mr. McVeigh was referring to the dissent of Justice Louis D. Brandeis in a 1928 Supreme Court decision, Olmstead v. United States, which upheld the use of wiretap evidence.

~ RUSF 4 Love Rangers ~

~ Ring of Fire, Johnny Cash ~

TD: Dinner with Ahmed

2008-06-15T13:13:00.000-07:00

Truthdig Article:

Dinner with Ahmed

Lightfox Postcard:

By JMCSwan, June 13 at 11:07 am

Shenonymous, (March 19 at 7:22 am)

Re: Your question of in what way can the details of the dinner party help .....

My perspective on Scott’s article, and your question, is that it was written by him, as an analogy to the movie by the name of MY DINNER WITH ANDRE. In MDWA, he goes to dinner with a friend in NYC, and in the conversation over dinner, the conversation and ideas shared have such an impact on him, that when he leaves the dinner party, it’s as if he has a totally new way of looking at the world, as if his worldview has fundamentally changed, and that all he now sees is seen with new tinted lenses, meaning new meanings, creating new perspectives, and he notices so much more.

In applying that to Scott’s article, I imagine Scott’s looking back on how his actions, in his chalabi dinner story, did the same. Further more I found it highly informative in terms of the detailed factual sharing of how openly regime changes are discussed, like you or i may ask ‘is it raining outside?’, others in power say ‘how can we overthrow this or that goverment?’

In terms of dinner, if we consider the principle of ‘It’s the spiked (by the media) oink-oink yum-yum economy stupid’, his dinner is poignant. Over dinner they were discussing how to overthrow Iraq, which would, and did cost many lives; we call ourselves human, but in many ways we are as predatorial, if not more so, than the most predatorial animals on earth. The economy’s foundation is energy: oil. What Scott is saying, I think, is this: As humans we have our own food-chain, the poor, the cannon-fodder souldiers, and those the corporate predators eat, are simply the bottom of the econyum-yum food chain. The hors d’oevres and dinner were simply plausibly an attempt to educate that reality to those who see the symbology thereof.

You also state: There is an implication for action in the original intent of the article.

I’d imagine, some of it is part of Scott’s conscience, looking back, he sees blood on his hands, although of course not directly, and it’s partly his disclosure, and his attempt to educate, on the importance of honest conversation and the reality of how things currently work. Until we understand how things currently work and the problems therewith, we cannot have an honest conversation to how we may want it to work differently.

What exactly does anyone think it is? I’m not sure if I am accurate in my interpretation. Scott would know. Just sharing what I ‘heard’ him saying in his writings, among other things.

YOur thoughts would be interesting. Let me know, if you want.

"I am convinced that some political and social activities and practices of the Catholic
organizations are detrimental and even dangerous for the community as a whole, here and everywhere. I mention here only the fight against birth control at a time when overpopulation in various countries has become a serious threat to the health of people and a grave obstacle to any attempt to organize peace on this planet."
~ Albert Einstein, letter, 1954 ~

~ RUSF 4 Love Marines ~

~ A Boy Named Sue, Johnny Cash ~

Lightfox Postcard:

By JMCSwan, June 15 at 1:45 pm

Shenonymous (any relation to The Ghost of Freedom Lost Anonymous?) (June 14 at 11:31 am)

Hi. I didn’t know that Scott is often a guest on KPFK - how interesting, considering Scott being a republican. KPFK were shall I say slightly paranoic about getting former LAPD narcotics investigator and From the Wilderness editor and investigative journalist on either KPFK or KPFA. Interesting. I haven’t a clue what the Lila Garrett, Connect the Dots show is about, although I can imagine.

Sincere remorse is not an emotion our current society encourages the expression of in public, and I’d go as far to say that great efforts are made, whether conscious or unconscious, within the corridors of power, to discourage any contemplation towards sincere attempts at understanding another’s pain, and consequently even if we did what we did with the best of intentions, doesn’t mean we cannot understand how our good intention conduct, still contributed to allot of pain and suffering for another.

The Marine Corps does not exactly encourage it’s souldiers to wear the hearts on their sleeves, yet I must admit to having been lucky to know a few Marine’s whom were touched, by anothers pain, when confronted with it, personally.

Scott’s dinner with Ahmed was indeed very different to Andre and Wallace’s, yet for some reason, I don’t consider Scott as the type of Marine and man, who was not somehow changed by his interpretation of the conversation. Perhaps I am wrong, don’t know.

I too have been used by others manipulations, all that keeps me sane, is knowing that at all times, my intentions were simply to remain true to those I love, as best I could, and do my little bit to attempt to create a world that is a little less insane and as destructive of human’s spirits, souls, and so much else. I cannot be responsible for other’s intentions.

I read Fadel Abdullah remarks on March 18, 7:15 pm to Mike Mid-City, about Chalabi. He is probably correct about Chalabi, I don’t know; it’s easy to judge. And if it is true of Chalabi, how true is it of most other politicians? One of the telling sentences in Scott’s essay is how he describes the obvious, political power only comes from a base of economic power. Corporate CEO’s are not blind to this reality, anything but, they exploit it to the maximum. Unfortunately very seldom considering long term visions and goals for the consequence of their actions on humanity. The corporate exploitation of the political process, isn’t much different to an immune destroying virus in a human body, as it eats it’s host, and we can see the consequences thereof in our world. Mike Ruppert used to describe it as a snake eating its own tail, thinking it nutrition.

Is it possible to become a president, or leading politician in any country, without being compromised by corporate manipulations and corrupt practices? I am not attempting to endorse it, although it may sound that way, I am simply saying that once you reach the pinnacles of political or corporate power, where the media consider your opinions worthy of their distribution, you are already compromised, and consequently, in a Hooveresque manner, any serious criticism of this unholy system is avoided.

The individual battle for existential freedom
from being an educationally programmed robotic machine
to being a reasoning human being with a holistic sense of purpose,
is lost,
when the individual becomes so 'adjusted and conditioned'
to getting along with the 'group,'
that she says,
'I can't afford to be controversial.'
~ Lara Johnstone ~

Lightfox Postcard:

By JMCSwan, June 15 at 1:46 pm

Shenonymous (part 2)

You ask who I refer to as ‘we’. Good question! I was meaning generally as ‘we’ by anyone who considers themselves concerned about how the current political, corporate corrupt system, functions, and who seriously want to create or support a movement for a system that is not hell bent on Hooveresque blackmail of political leaders. The blame is not only on those who are already compromised in the system; what about all the citizens who have a responsibility towards participation in their Constitutional Republic and supporting whistleblowers and who did not do so, and now are sitting with a feint thread to a ‘democracy’. A democracy is to a Constitutional Republic, what an obstinate beligerrent mule, that refuses to move, is to an Arabian thoroughbred, whether wild on the moors of Mongolia, or whispered to in Wyoming; for a National Velvet Mounty. If you get my analogy.

I agree, ‘they’ do know how things work, and yet I’d imagine they would have to be beyond moronic stupidity, if they were not willing to confront the reality, that things cannot go on as they have, for without some joint action towards a more enlightened egalitarian society, the alternative option ain’t going to be pleasant for them either, in the same manner that the corporate ironfists of the Third Reich, found out too late.

Thank you for enlightening me that “How is it that there can be honest conversation since that implies honest participants?” The only way in which I have managed to hold a really honest conversation, is face-to-face, in person, with both parties sincerely interested in the conversation. Written word helps, however it’s so one dimensional, lacking tone of voice, facial expressions, body language, question and answer in the moment; and even better, in my opinion is where both participants are not stuck in personal withheld resentments or appreciations, obstructing themselves from being willing to be really open to listening to the other, from a place of love.

The ‘leave them alone’ ‘none of whomever’s business’ remarks reminds me of a conversation I had with my brother, which I share as an analogy; in terms of politicians (whether Iraqi, or American) and their ‘children’, namely citizens, voters. Subsequent to my brother and his wife ‘having’ children, their relationship went seriously downhill. They spent thousands on psychologists to patch it up, and then seperated. One day I asked my brother whether any of the psychologists he had spent thousands and thousands of rands on, had ever asked him and his wife, whether prior to them having children they had sat down and seriously considered what commitments they wanted to make prior thereto, to each other, why were they having children (to patch up their marriage, or just cause everyone does it, or why?, what is the political situation like, what is the future twenty years from now, within the current political climate for such children, and so on). Anyway he looked at me, as if I had just landed in a UFO on his front lawn, and slapped him in the face; and told me it was none of my business. On a political leader relativity scale: Sort of like Mugabe saying what he does to his Zimbabwean children, whether it’s torture, or whatever, is none of the international community’s business.

"So we pretend we don't care, or that someone else is going to fix things. Which fits perfectly into their plans, whoever 'they' are. Every once in a while we get our hopes up again, but what we long for is one of the hardest things for most of today's politicians to give us: an honest conversation. Just put the facts on the table, guys. Democracy cannot survive in an environment where the electorate is treated like children who are not quite mature enough to be told the truth. Especially when the ones withholding the truth are the ones going around acting like children."
~ Marianne Williamson ~

By JMCSwan, July 07 at 05:44 am

Shenonymous, (June 16 at 5:21 pm)

The Ghost of Freedom Lost Anonymous -- your mother? I have been mulling that statement, over for more than a few days now; and frankly, not too comfortable going into what, I imagine, that means to you, or me, too deeply, here. Unless, you inform me that you want me to. In fact, I avoided responding for quite a few days, cause I wasn't sure quite what to say.

Remorse: I really wouldn't know how many people in the corridors of power feel remorse. However, considering the general public's perception of public display of remorse, particularly from political leaders -- which one CNN journalist actually did a brief public poll on, and most men and women viewed it as a sign of weakness -- I'd imagine, those who do feel remorse, as I can only imagine they do (perhaps I am naive, or projecting, because I often feel remorse, or more accurately, sadness), they deal with their remorse privately.

Probably being naive again, but I imagine, most of them are just people like you and me, just with allot of different experiences; and considering who they are, they became very tough; they had to be. So they've built up a tough exterior, and maybe most manage quite fine, staying tough: sort of like a fortified wall of defence around a city. People who have been hurt allot, betrayed, build up defence mechanisms, so they won't be hurt again. It's a natural thing to do, especially, if the betrayal, or perceived betrayal was never resolved between the two people in a good ol honest sharing of feelings to a point of real sincere forgiveness. So, I imagine, if you got to know any one of them, one on one, over time, you'd probably find they have their soft spots, their hurts, fears, dreams, and so on. I imagine, some are so busy in their busy lives, meetings upon meetings, etc., etc., they don't often get time to reflect on these things, unless it's right in their faces. For some people -- not saying this is the case with them -- staying constantly busy, busy, busy, is a way to avoid inner doubts, feelings, and so on.

Another aspect of particularly public remorse, is of course, admitting having made a mistake. None of us like doing that -- particularly, when we sincerely, with our whole hearts intentions felt that what we were doing was the right thing, or the only option available to us. In such a case, we don't think we made a mistake, and who is to say that we did, even if others may not have done the same thing, or in what I imagine was your case, had the courage to do the same thing. And I think allot of people don't reflect upon their intentions, for doing anything. So I think people who have seriously considered their intentions in terms of a particular act, can with a greater sense of personal -- whether the public or others agree, is of course another matter, and the public's attention span to deeper intentions is superficial at best -- conviction say they didn't make a mistake. Judging superficially is so easy, and allot of times we all do it, cause it's done to us by so many; but I don't think it's helpful, in helping us understand ourselves, or others, or in our conversations with others. Just my personal naviety again, I guess.

And of course, when in the glare of the media, and a public, who sometimes think that if someone made one mistake, any subsequent decision is also a mistake. As if Orville and Wilbur Wright's first 98 take-off's and crashes, proved their attempts to fly were a mistake! As if, we aren't all human, and all make mistakes. So, it's understandable, considering the media climate politicians live in; I think. In their cases, however their political planes usually have the public as passengers, not just themselves.

Imagine, for example's sake, the cumulative effect of years of -- at minimum -- problematical policies, has resulted in a financial, resource, ecological and population reality that is like a house of cards: In Debt of Honour, by Tom Clancy, he describes -- accurately, in my opinion -- what is commonly known, in financial elite circles, but certainly not stated in quite such simplified language:

And all these multifacted changes were imposed on everyone's individual lives by a handful of people in an ornate boardroom in Washington, DC, whose names few investment professionals even knew, much less the general public.
The remarkable thing was that everyone accepted the entire process, seemingly as normal as physical laws of nature, despite the fact that it was really as ethereal as a rainbow. The money did not physically exist. Even 'real' money was not specially made paper printed with black ink on the front and green on the back. What backed the money was not gold or something of intrinsic value, but rather the collective belief that money had value because it had to have such value. Thus it was that the monetary system of the United States and every other country in the world was entirely an exercise in psychology, a thing of the mind, and as a result, so was every other aspect of the American economy. If money was simply a matter of communal faith, then so was everything else.... Holders of that faith included the governors of the Fed, because they truly understood it all -- or thought that they did. Individually they might joke that nobody really understood how it all worked, any more than any of them could explain the nature of God, but like theologians constantly trying to determine and communicate the nature of a deity, it was their job to keep things moving, to make the belief-structure real and tangible, never quite acknowledging that it all rested on nothing even as real as the paper currency they carried with them for the times when the use of a plastic credit card was inconvenient.
They were trusted, in the distant way that people trusted their clergy, to maintain the structure on which worldly faith always depended, proclaiming the reality of something that could not be seen, an edifice whose physical manifestations were found only in buildings of stone and the sober looks of those who worked there. And, they told themselves, it all worked. Didn't it?

Remember the Wall Street crash of 1929... Since at least 2000, there are the very few brave economists, who had been warning, that another such crash is on the way; that the financial system is highly unstable. So now imagine this is the reality. If it was a plane in flight, the 'crash' might represent a mountain ahead or whatever. So, imagine this an analogy for a political pilot; whose plane unfortunately has had maintenance guys who instead of servicing the plane and keeping it in peak running order, have negligently not been doing so, by substituting cheaper parts, or whatever (or it is of course possible, if you consider them absolutely 100% evil inhuman predators, that engineering a massive financial meltdown, for their own political and financial gain), who now is stuck with this political plane. So, the pilot can either, crash the plane straight into the mountain, taking all with him, or try a crash land, and hope to save some.

It is in accordance of aforementioned -- probably strange and wierd -- example, that I view Vice President Cheney, and the Pentagon's actions, in terms of their pre-emptive World Trade Center and Pentagon Attacks. Do the public deserve an impartial investigation into 9/11? Undoubtedly, yes they do, if they want one; which the mainstream media, I imagine does not want. Some it appears, simply find it more convenient to blame it on the alleged -- perhaps they were really intended I don't know -- intended attacks by some Muslim extremists in Tora Bora caves in Afghanistan. Others who consider it to have been by their own goverment, may -- same as during the Oklahoma City Bombing trial and those who love crucifixion spectacles, yet claim to be Christians -- yet again, be so thirsty for more crucifixions, they are not for one bit interested in whether the accused had any valid justifications, in terms of the legal principle of the necessity defence. So, if there is enough interest and will for a new investigation and trial: Do those who will stand so accused, deserve a free and fair trial? You bet they do.

Who in any allegedly functioning goverment, are in charge of the maintenance of their goverment 'plane'? What is a functioning goverment? How does a functioning goverment act? When psychologists cannot even agree about how a functioning individual human being acts like; which may be a start, because one would imagine that allot of functioning human beings, may better be able to contribute to a functioning goverment; than allot of non-functioning human beings, certainly would have serious problems contributing to a functioning government.

Best you don't start me on the issue of pain, although I imagine -- gut feeling -- I don't need to; you know from experience. As for an ex-Marine friend, touched by another's pain. I couldn't agree more, to have been touched by such an incredible friendship, from such an amazing man. His character was like a full-spectrum rainbow, he could be so sensitive and gentle, at times, terribly protective, and yet, if someone messed with him, or someone he cared about -- which I never did, I didn't need to, he never gave me any reason to -- he would make sure the bully was repayed, bigtime. He hated bully's, with a passion. He really taught me so much, and I miss him more than I can say. As an aside: Strange thing though is how many people only view acts of naked aggression as 'bullying', and how few consider passive aggressive malicious manipulative behaviour, sometimes with worse consequences than an act of naked aggression, as bullying.

Strange creatures we are -- human beings, I mean. Simplistically, so much of what is commonly considered to be beauty are simple, if sometimes intricate. Just think of architecture, flowers, art. Or better yet, think of the simplicity of total silence, juxtaposed to dozens of out of sync heavy metal bands, all going off together at maximum volume. And yet when it comes to how we communicate with each other, how we relate, it's almost as if by some strange unconscious force, we attempt to make things so complex, as to make them incomprehensible and impossible, like a tangled web of confusion. Wierd. I guess I'd personally rephrase that Einstein quote on infinity, from 'stupidity' to the 'emotional and intentional psyche of human beings', maybe that's what he meant. Of course, without dualities, neither dual reality would be possible. Just strange for me, how -- of course that's my personal perspective -- confused so many people appear to be, and how attached they are to convincing themselves and everyone else they are anything but confused. Not that I would remotely imply I have particularly certain aspects of life all figured out, and there ain't allot that I am confused or unknowing, or unknowledgeable about, just that if so asked, I don't have a problem saying 'I don't have the faintest clue.'

So many on 'transmit' and so few on 'receive'.

Interesting people's fascination with illusion, and sometimes even the deliberate manufacture of illusion of that which can be, or could be, fact. There is so much fear, and hurt, and pain, and confusion, and malicious manipulation in the world; so many honestly unhappy people, and so many pretending to be happy, unhappy people; and so humanity continues. Almost, I guess, as if unconsciously in determined pursuit of unhappiness, pretending it to be happiness. So, so very wierd.

TD: Empire or Republic?

2008-06-15T10:54:00.000-07:00

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By JMCSwan, June 15 at 7:04 am

YoursTrulyJ, (June 14 at 1:35 pm)

I agree time is running out, depending of course on whether you consider the glass half empty or full, and what interpretation you choose for empty and full....

As for ending the Iraq War by electing a president who will end the War. Frankly, I don’t think Murder Inc. want to end the Iraq War; if they did, they’d be giving Ron Paul the media coverage they’ve given Clinton, Obama and McCain.

It appears possible that Murder Inc. are so brainwashed by their own Century of Self dogma propaganda, that they don’t ‘get it’ that they have trapped themselves in O’Brian’s Big Brother Advertising Room 101, military industrial complex Lords of War crack house.

Not too different from ghetto addicts who will sell their kids, for another crack pipe; only difference being these ghetto mama and papa’s are in Wiltshire Boulevard and Georgetown University.

Take a look at their relationships with their spouses and children, and consider whether it resembles Julia and Winston, prior or subsequent to ‘the bullet enters their brain’ psychology..

It appears Murder Inc’s cannibal perspective’s as they fine dine in their Lords of War Palace crack houses ain’t much different from Marie Antoinette’s ‘let them eat cake’, thinking that the good ol slave souldier cops and cannon fodder soldiers will protect them from the anger and fury of their next cannibal breakfast, lunch or dinner, i.e. the slave and cannon fodder disgruntled masses, growing by the day.

That remains to be seen....

A General Omar Bradly more enlightened alternative resolution is possible to aforementioned chaos, by both sides realising the benefits of negotiation, not unlike hostage negotiations; however when neither side takes the ‘Gen. Bradly Waco Waitress’ hostage negotiator seriously, then it appears, aforementioned cannibal cake chaos scenario is what is either consciously or unconcsiously wanted, particularly by the telescreen Murder Inc. media.

Hence my Waco Waitress resignation http://disclosure-jmcswans.blogspot.com/

All my love always: ain’t no bullet or rat in the world, nor 7 years in O’Brians psychotronic torture chamber, that can change that!

YoursTrulyW

By JMCSwan, July 08-07-07 at 23:30 pm

yours truly, (June 14 at 9:56 pm)

Does your NINER NINER post refer to the NINER -- ecoNomy -- population issue elephant in the room?

Put differently: the hot-potato, which not even, the eminent liberal guru historian Howard Zinn, in his The NN-phant in the Room, wishes to honestly and simply address?

As for Impeachment...

If you are referring to 9/11, and the WMD justification for the Iraq War...

If you are serious: what about the mainstream media accessories?
ACCESSORY - He who is not the chief actor in the perpetration of the offence, nor present at its performance, but is some way concerned therein, either before or after the fact committed.
An accessary after the fact, is one who knowing a felony to have been committed, receives, relieves, comforts, or assists the felon.
And how many other directly conscious and indirectly unconscious accessories are there in these population policy and resource war issues? Are only those who made the decisions, and those who knew of the decisions, to be tried; what about those, on whose behalf -- rightly or wrongly -- they directly, and indirectly made these decisions?
That's not to say, that I don't support the public disclosure of these issues, just that it is my opinion, a few may be targetted as the decision-maker scapegoats, and that other accessories, may possibly not provide them with the public disclosure opportunity of an honest hearing. But, if they do, then that may be a good thing. I certainly would not object.

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By JMCSwan, June 15 at 4:45 am

Louise, (June 14 at 3:03 pm)

Your rat story made me smile, not for the examples you provided.

It made me smile for the hopeful - sorry due to brevity it’s a bit of a verbal cluster bomb - analogy I took from it. It made me think of THE DEPARTED, with the ending getting a DEJAVU new kind of Roman Candle twist, where your twins Colin ‘Damon’ Sullivan and Billy ‘DiCaprio’ Costigan discover their existential Valentine intentions, and start a Lithuanian Vilnius Marion embarrasing 2nd Amendment Militia, like Navaho WWII Marines....

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TD_JP: Cheney's Goal Portrayed as Regime Change Across Mideast

2008-06-15T10:41:00.000-07:00

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By JMCSwan, June 14 at 8:49 am

A case of IN SEARCH OF ENEMIES, subsequent to end of EVIL SOVIET EMPIRE COLD WAR.

Iran can be counted on to fulfill the Merchants of Death needs when it is decided that a declaration of war is needed, besides the dozens of proxy wars all over the globe, including the proxy one with Iran, in Iraq. Remember Lords of War: I’d rather deal with someone who can give me his word there is going to be a war on such and such date....

By JMCSwan, July 07 at 04:16 am

'Israel, US wouldn't dare attack Iran' -- Jerusalem Post

Watch the video clip, near the end they cart out a white two-door 'tower' steel filing-cabinet, on a gurney, so that it's leaning like the Tower of Pizza (sp): dejavu the Octopus 9/11 documentary -- or was it one of the other 9/11 documentaries, maybe Loose Change, I can't remember now -- filing cabinet, which was one of the few things that were not utterly demolished in the WTC blasts?

Frankly, my opinion -- perhaps incorrect: Ahmadinejad is just blowing some playful provocative smoke.

Reminds me of statements Mahatma Gandhi used to make against the British Empire, when he said that his actions were intentionally provocative, so as to provoke the British to react to them. Gandhi intentionally provoked British brutality, so that he would have the higher moral ground, in world opinion. But although, his expectations were allegedly peaceful, for a better life for the 'untouchables' he represented, his failure to address them on population issues, in my opinion, was his moral abdication of the moral high ground. And I imagine, if he did so intentionally, he also knew that if the British publicly raised the issue, it would only backfire on them, due to the ignorance and hate of the Indian untouchables, for the British occupation.
Which just brings the matter back to this Sex and War: Life's a Surplus Children Journey untouchable Elephant in the Room issue, so vociferously publicly avoided, by so many; and yet to some extent also being used covertly, by at least some as a weapon of war. Qui Bono? Who Benefits? Who benefits, besides the alleged military war monger soldiers? [Disclosure: At least 6,702 American-operated military bases dot the globe, in a configuration that looks a lot like four other world maps superimposed: oil, natural gas, opium, and coca.] Those in charge of the Tapeworm Economy, just another form of debt-slavery, by those who established the Debt Based Growth Economic System, as described in Freedom to Fascism.
That it -- Sex and War: Life's a Surplus Children Journey untouchable Elephant in the Room issue -- is used covertly as such, by those who are allegedly anti-war, says much -- to me at least -- about their moral integrity: i.e. honour and character.
Unlike the moral integrity of an honourable Soldier, such as, for example: "I can't promise you that I will bring you all home alive, but this I swear: When we go into battle, I will be the first one to set foot on the field, and I will be the last to step off. And I will leave no one behind. Dead, or alive, we all come home together. So help me God."

So for those who take Ahmadinejad serious, particularly Americans; think of The Trap: What Happened to Our Dreams of Freedom?. If attacked, Iran would fight back; and it would not be Iraq 1991, in and out. Even, if it's just surgical air-strikes, I'd imagine the first thing Iran would do, would be to shut down the Straights of Hormuz, which would skyrocket oil to probably over $200 a barrel, if not higher; and if they are really bright, they will open up a Pincer front, with bombings in Iraq or Afghanistan, to spread American forces even thinner. And gut feeling, I really don't think their current nuclear intentions and capabilities are anything but for electricity generation. Bluntly, I'd imagine, going real deep, he's saying something to the effect of, 'If you want to do some culling -- considering his prior references to Iran's growing population -- we'll be more than happy to oblige.' Just my lay opinion.

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TD: Carville: Obama Should Pick Gore

2008-06-15T10:28:00.000-07:00

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By JMCSwan, June 13 at 12:15 pm

Purple Girl, (June 12 at 6:57 am)

You been doing a bit of Marion Swamp spying, or just another Global Brain Psychic Warrior? You think Carville was referring to Feingold-McCain Draft Notice?

Me thinks Car (rack) ville may refer to My Kiel.LA Dinner with Andre and {PapillonTiticacaCartagena-BryanCayennetown}....

But who knows, maybe not.....

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TD: Fox to Obama: We're Sorry ... Again

2008-06-15T10:24:00.000-07:00

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By JMCSwan, June 14 at 2:46 am

It is quite clear to me that none of you have ever sat on a Third Class train from Beijing to Ghuanghdough (sp); or nannied two children who just lost their mother to suicide; cause if you had, your responses would be a hell of a lot different. But to each his own, I guess.

If Obama promised Chris Wallace an interview, then why doesn’t CW just call Obama’s office, and say “By When?” and get a date. I cannot imagine Obama would refuse to give a by when date; he’s a professional politician who knows all free publicity is good for him.

More Mainstream Media Murder Inc. Fox News verbal cluster bomb communication! You’d think these people have Ph.D’s in communication theory, and could work out how to communicate clearly, but unfortunately that is not their primary focus! Plausible deniability is. C’est la vie, I guess.

Explaining Genetic Forgiveness Physics to them is like explaining nuclear physics to a three year old; because in the absence of personal genetic existential experience of genetic forgiveness physics, it’s like sending a flicker SOS to a blind man. Might as well fart at thunder.... the futility of humanity!

a black african once told me that black africans would rather have a black african president, even if he wasn’t good to them or had their best interests, or the best interests of their country at heart; than they would want a european president who was good to them, and had their best interests and the best interests of their country at heart.

It appears that the Creator—irrespective of whether you call him God, Allah, Yahweh, the Great Spirit or whomever—has wasted the gifts of forgiveness, compassion, reason, tender love and so much more on humanity. So much for redemption, when humanity is addicted to revenge. It appears humanity’s on a fast track to a BPitt-HFord Irish revenge tragedy, rather than a Swan redemption new beginning.

As usual, I keep farting at thunder....

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TD: 'Meet the Press' Tim Russert Dies at 58

2008-06-15T10:21:00.000-07:00

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'Meet the Press' Tim Russert Dies at 58

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By JMCSwan, June 14 at 1:03 am

Enough!

I didn’t know Tim Russert, so don’t know what kind of a guy he was. The only time I really remember him on tv, is in this Octopus 911 clip, where he chats to Rummy about the alleged Osama Bin Laden Tora Bora caves. I’m not sure Michael [Martin] would have agreed about the [Tora Bora] caves [being in Afghanistan], and imagine Michael [Martin] may have had some really interesting questions for Rummy, but then again NBC wouldn’t hire Michael to do Tim [Russert’s] job, cause then that would shut down the rest of the media establishment - in my opinion!

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=32808280639759

PS: Michael Martin [i.e. Timothy McVeigh's Commanding Officer, in the Oklahoma City Bombing, and -- as such -- John Doe #2, instructed by the Pentagon to 'dissapear' after the OKC bombing] Special Forces opinion, was that pretty much all the 'conspiracies', whether assassinations, bombings, etc., from at least, dating back to the Kennedy Assassination's, to the Oklahoma City Bombing, to 9/11, etc., were all related.

You couldn't seriously disclose one out of the closet, without the others. His verbatim words on full disclosure of these conspiracies by the military and intelligence establishment, were "a huge can of worms". Irrespective of his 'huge can of worms' opinion, he was not opposed or afraid to discussing it -- with someone he trusted -- or supporting such disclosure, which he did attempt to do; but he was also aware that it was "a huge can of worms", as it is.

As an example: Besides Michael's personal disclosure discussions with his Pentagon chain of command, Michael gave me permission to contact civilian and media authorities on his behalf, which I did. Among others, I contacted (i) Oklahoma Senator Charles Keys and the San Francisco District Attorney's office, they either didn't believe me, or were too petrified to believe me, (ii) the Arizona FBI office, who told me to inform the media, and (iii) Travis Military Air Force Base, who searched my car and had me arrested for the marijuana in my car, left there by my Marine Corps buddy.

The next time Michael came to visit me, in January 2002, on the day he arrived, he was sleeping in my camper van, parked in the Berkeley Marina parking lot, when there was an alleged hijacking of some plane flying into San Francisco airport, and NORAD scrambled two fighter jets, from Travis Air Force Base, who did some fancy low bypass flying over the Berkeley Marina Parking lot, while allegedly escorting the 'hijacked' plane.

Shortly thereafter a guy who said he was from something to the effect of the 'Diplomatic Protection Service' (can't remember the exact name, and he didn't say his name) called me on my cellphone, and asked if I knew where Osama Bin Laden was. I said 'No, but I do know where Michael Martin is, do you want to speak to him?' He responded with 'No, thanks'. When I told Michael, his response was, something to the effect of 'we are too close to too many radio antenna's and satelite dishes, not a good place for an honest conversation.'

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TD: Top Commander for MidEast Resigns

2008-06-15T09:59:00.000-07:00

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TOP COMMANDER FOR MIDEAST RESIGNS

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By JMCSwan, June 14 at 10:04 am

‘Coincidence’:

Admiral Fallon resigned on the one year anniversary of the release of BBC’s Allan Johnstone, from Hamas surrogates as their hostage (if I recall correctly).

Did Admiral Fallon feel himself hostage, to [ego-infallable] politicians Middle East policies, and resign to set himself free?

For More on Admiral Fallon, see:

Admiral Fallon Speaks

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