American
Wisdom,
applied
in earnest and according to the principles outlined in the documents
that define our democratic republic, will ultimately, through our
vigilance, control and hope, result in complete and permanent,
Peaceful Victory against Fascism.
The guys who own the Baywalk aren't guaranteeing that they'll invest 6 million into baywalk. They're saying "up to (6 million)". Even if they were guaranteeing it, why are you intent on selling out the freedom of your constituents by "vacating" the sidewalk there? This would set a very bad precedent in St. Petersburg. This move to give public space to private interests, just so you can keep certain people out of that area, reeks of racism and corporatism. In America, our public servants are charged with preserving our freedoms.
The city of St. Petersburg, FL wants to "vacate" the sidewalk in front of the Baywalk shopping and entertainment plaza so the owners of Baywalk can decide who can and who can't use that sidewalk. This is a selling out of citizen's rights to free speech and assembly. Tell the city the First Amendment is not for sale! City Council council@stpete.org 727-893-7117 Mayor Baker mayor@stpete.org 727-893-7201
"Bankrupt? Get another Credit Card!" -- this is the advice you would get from someone who seriously wants you to fail.
By bailing out the banks, that's what the bought-and-paid-for "representative government" in Washington is doing. There is an energy that wants the government of the United States to fail. In its official absence (there is a valid argument that it is really already gone) rich crooks would rampage over the land without anyone to stop them. Expenditures on wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have been instrumental in damaging America too.
Both political parties are guilty of this. Both are horrible but the "Republican" party is clearly the worst. Evidence is their desire for no regulation of business, including businesses that have weapons.
Both parties are representing corporations instead of us.
Corporate Government is Fascism.
Fascism is bad.
They force us to pay taxes, then they give the money to their corporate buddies, often for the purpose of dumping explosives on women and children, so some rich crook can make a profit. It's freaking sick.
This is not what America is about.
America is about the declaration of Independence and the Constitution including the Bill of Rights.
We Want it Back.
Message to President Obama:
Please stop giving our money to rich crooks. Please stop wasting our money and lives in these wars. Please arrange things so we can build a clean energy economy. This does not mean coal or nukes. Please put bunkhouses with soup in our cities. No-one should have to sleep under a bridge in America. No "great country" forces its citizens to do that.
Limbaugh TV Appearance discredits CNN, FOX and the Republican Party
Most Americans are not stupid, hateful or intellectually lazy enough to fall for the purile, misinformed tripe that spews forth from black-shirted Rush Limbaugh.
For those who are, I urgently encourage you to LEARN.
Read "It Can't Happen here" by Sinclair Lewis (1935) and see if any of that seems familiar today.
Learn about Father Coughlin and Joseph Goebbels.
Another publicly visible figure who vehemently hated "liberals" was Adolf Hitler. Why is this?
A Limbaugh in political office would be a tragedy for human beings everywhere. It would certainly mark the end of America.
" Dear Sir, The solution is right in front of us: the Sun. We can rally the efforts of our nation in the creation of a smart energy infrastructure based on solar-generated electricity and hydrogen batteries. It would put the country back to work. It would make grabbing the Caspian Region unnecessary. It would help us prevent the melting of Antarctica and Greenland and the resultant flooding of our largely littoral civilizations. Please be the first President to not just go with the flow, and give us some meaningful policy change. Use the Sun!
With Respect, Mark Frankenberg "
Another thing I could have added was the fact that we don't have to buy the Sun from anyone (this is why nobody in the commercial media is talking intelligently about it). http://www.AmericanWisdom.org
The Oath of Office is extremely important in all positions of public trust. I suspected that Roberts tried to trip up the new President a couple times while administering the oath, with the "faithfully" screw up, the "President to" wtf and the "so help you god" add-on. This doesn't make Roberts look Dumb, it makes him look deceitful.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com... " The Constitution says that a president-elect becomes the president automatically, at the stroke of noon on the appointed day, meaning that Barack Obama had already been president for a few minutes by the time he took the oath of office. " http://www.huffingtonpost.com...
Zeitgeist Addendum Producer "Interviewed" by Alex Jones
A friend of mine mentioned that Alex Jones (infowars.com) interviewed Peter Joseph, Producer of the Zeitgeist films recently, and noted to me that the interview didn't go very well.
Some of my observations about the interview (I grew irritated with it but stuck it through regardless) are:
1. Alex Jones apparently believes that human beings are programmed genetically to be competitive, while Peter Joseph emphasises the importance of nurture / surroundings.
2. Alex Jones believes global warming is "total crap".
3. Alex Jones is openly adversarial to his guest throughout the interview.
4. Peter Joseph maintains his cool after continuous, purile assaults and intentional interruptions, including having his microphone cut in mid sentence.
5. Alex Jones comes off as a champion of aggression, competition and might-makes-right, and is unwilling at any time to consider seriously the ideas Joseph presents in his films, deriding the notion of intellectual thought as "elitism". He also makes disdainful comments about people wearing sandals and those who would use their brains to the point of contemplating the redesign of society.
6. In this "Interview", Alex Jones wouldn't even TOUCH the details of the fraudulent, debt-based, fractional-banking fiat-money system that is outlined in great detail in the Zeitgeist movies, nor would he seriously look at the inherent scarcities and exploitations that are the foundation of it. He briefly mentioned fiat-money and the fed, but WOULDN'T GO THERE.
I agree with Alex Jones' caution about the dangers of a centralized society, but I think his un-thoughtful, short-sighted approach to Joseph and the Zeitgeist Movies make Jones look like a Limbaugh-Wannabee and I couldn't help wondering, exactly what bankers or oil people or elements of the Radical Christian Right are supporting Alex Jones? The same ones who supported Ron Paul? I know that various Hate Groups were among Ron Paul's supporters. Jones is from Texas too, after all.
Remember folks, without working government (which we don't have at present), rich crooks will enslave you.
I highly recommend the Zeitgeist films, and I suggest you look at the SYMPTOMS of the problems that Alex Jones painstakingly lays out in his materials, and I also recommend that you think outside the box and about the future.
Could part of the solution be..
Republic?
Not the bullshit we have today, but a true republic based on the Declaration of Independence, Constitution and Bill of Rights, Ruled by We, the People? How about one based on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights? I suspect that would prompt Jones to go off on a rant about the U.N. He would have more credibility if he went after the WTO. Maybe elsewhere he does but I've heard two of his shows and just don't have the patience for it. I suspect that if he had more influence, McCain would have gotten in. Hmmmm?
Oh, another thing: Corporations are not people, and when you hear people braying about the second amendment, Mercenary companies are often behind it.
I'm not a wannabee Limbaugh. I'm not a wannabee Hartmann. I'm not running for office. I'm sharing what I got from it.
Call Nancy Pelosi. Tell her that now we've won the election for executive, she should put impeachment "back on the table".
Feingold and Nadler are now pushing for it.
I'm pushing for it.
Look. The guy invaded a country because he felt like it. He pillaged our national treasury and has substantially weakened the United States. That wasn't incompetence. It was malice. The people who brought him to power impeached a former president for getting a blowjob. It is your duty as a citizen to effectively demand impeachment of George W. Bush.
What is the purpose of Spirituality? Maybe it's the cultivation of a temperament that encourages people to live in peace together.
It is my opinion that Dogmatic Religion interferes with this stated purpose of spirituality.
I believe that the three primary focal points of meaningful spirituality are that which is True, that which is Good, and that which is WISE.
True Good Wise
Not all that is true is good or wise. Not all that is good is true or wise. Not all that is wise is true or good.
Thus there are three instead of one.
I suspect that many people refer to these three as a one and call it "God" or some other name. I think that opens the door to misinterpretation by crooks and quacks and their prey.
I think we all should aspire to do and be that which is TRUE, GOOD and WISE.
I've reviewed a lot of material from Howard Zinn, Amy Goodman and Noam Chomsky.
They emphasize the flaws of rule by unbridled, concentrated capital. They encourage the development of rule by human beings.
They indicate that they don't want to get tied up in 911 JFK whodunnits.
I suspect that they have probably been served with national security letters (gag orders) regarding both conspiracies.
This doesn't keep me from reviewing the stuff they DO cover.
Those actually responsible for 911 and JFK deserve fair trials (none of this unconstitutional tribunal bullshit) and, in the appropriate cases, imprisonment without cruel or unusual punishment.
"National Security Letters", "Military Tribunals", presidential "Signing Statements" and a slew of other attacks on our republic would best be undone and recognized publicly and offically as the treasons they are.
Our government, which is US with US WATCHING CAREFULLY, is fully capable of identifying the true perpetrators of 911/JFK, and bringing them to justice.
This can be done without hindering our progression towards a government of, by and for the people (actual human beings).
I won't knock Goodman, Chomsky and Zinn for not going off on 911/JFK. It's not their gig. Their focus is developing a world where PEOPLE come before PROFITS. Their view is more wholistic and conceptual, whereas the particular incidents are on a different scale.
I would advise those in the 911 truth movement not to discount that bigger picture. The bigger picture is PEOPLE over PROFITS.
911 and JFK were SYMPTOMS of our primary problem. They are both indicators of the tragic decline of the United States and much of the rest of the world into fascist dictatorship. Part of this tragedy is that a large segment of the U.S. population has been methodically indoctrinated and cowed into not being able to look rationally at it.
The Military Industrial Complex took out JFK. Concentrated Capital took out the twin towers. A largely dysfunctional press kept us all in the dark about both.
The struggle of Human Beings against Concentrated Capital [WTO, Federal Reserve, European Central Bank, NAFTA, FTAA are some manifestations] was evident in U.S. Union Battles, The Spanish Civil War, Cuba, El Salvador, Guatemala, Chile, Argentina, Columbia, The Russian Revolution (quickly co-opted by dictatorship), the French Revolution (same deal), the 1999 Seattle WTO police riot, the Miami FTAA police riot, the 2008 Republican Convention iron boot suppression of dissent... countless incidents where the powers of concentrated capital found the "insurrection" of ordinary human beings to be inconvenient or threatening.
They even attacked hippies, ravers, rappers and rastas because they recognized those groups as potential threats to the established order.
Americans have been fooled into thinking that Those in these struggles who are on the side of Human Beings (Left) are "Reds" or "Pinkoes" (a little Red).
Red is the color of Human Blood.
What's in your veins? Greed? Hatred? Fear?
It could be that Zinn, Chomsky and Goodman fear that actual resolution of 911/JFK could result in a violent power upset, in which the Constitution might be officially thrown out, opening up an opportunity for an ourtright murderous dictatorship to take its place, like in Russia and France, and thus they don't want to "go there".
Plus the threats. I think that will come to light eventually. Remember what Wilson said about the Federal Reserve later (said he destroyed america with it).
Be Wise.
I think we can get to Goodman, Chomsky and Zinn's goal (RULE by Human Beings) and have true accountability regarding 911/JFK too.
What would be some first steps?
Contact Nancy Pelosi and tell her to put impeachment back on the table, now that the Democrats have won the presidency. Inaction on this is a disgrace to all of us.
Push legislators for a media Fairness Doctrine in Monopolized Markets.
Show those around you that you don't accept this "Brave New World", and that you follow the TRUE, GOOD and WISE to the best of your ability.
A guy remarked to me once, "Fascism is what happens when the Oligarchy gets scared". The Emperor gets scared when it's shown that he has no clothes. The Right gets indignant when we are preposterous enough to show its flaws. The Right hates congresses and parliaments. The Right wants a King and its supporters are whores and thugs. A kiss-ass is a whore. A back-stabber is a thug.
After watching Zeitgeist Addendum (it's on Google Video Free and I highly recommend it), I was interested in learning more about Jacque Fresco's ideas. I just saw "The Future By Design" and find it thought-provoking as well.
Reason, Rationality and Love are essential to our survival.
Although Fresco trusts in a future automated system to manage our community affairs, and he apparently sees no use for human intervention in such systems, I personally believe that a free press and publicly transparent oversight of such automated systems would be essential. I also think a fundamental flaw in Ayn Rand's reasoning, and that of the libertarian right in general, is the idea that a rational society could function without public transparency and oversight.
It is naive to believe that an "automated government" wouldn't be tampered with, like the recently - disclosed republican / Ohio / Chattanooga 2004 computer election theft, without PUBLIC TRANSPARENCY and OVERSIGHT.
I would venture to say that Public Transparency and Oversight should characterize our government, starting now. This requires re-activation of the Fairness Doctrine in any/all monopolized media markets.
An aside: one solution to a disgraceful United States situation, this situation being our lost honor, will be the impeachment and fair trials of certain war criminals soon, now that the Democrats don't have to worry about winning the executive branch. Just thought I'd mention it. We should now PUT IMPEACHMENT SQUARELY ON THE TABLE. We don't have a lame duck to contend with. We have a CORNERED RAT.
It's not over in Minnesota yet. Keep an eye on this recount. At a glance, there are fishy circumstances and Franken could win the Senate Seat after the Recount.
Norm Coleman Sues Al Franken For Defamation http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/30/norm-coleman-sues-al-fran_n_139287.html
The sentiment that drums up Angst towards institutions such as the ACLU and ACORN is the same mentality that labels any community activist who is working for social justice a "red" or "pinko". It's the same hateful, oppressive attitude that murdered thousands of innocents in Central America in the 1980's.
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