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#2499 From: JamesNPost@...
Date: Wed Dec 16, 2009 6:16 pm
Subject: Grundy vs. Brounstain
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All right, here's another Grundy...  I had to make this new edition, because the earlier one was too long for YouTube. 
 
 
 
 
 

#2498 From: JamesNPost@...
Date: Wed Dec 16, 2009 4:01 pm
Subject: From General E. Brownan Grundy
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Ok, here's the newest (#4) Grundy video.
 
General Grundy, Save Us From Borax!
 
 
 

#2497 From: JamesNPost@...
Date: Mon Dec 14, 2009 11:27 am
Subject: Taliban humor
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"There were these two nigg... wait, we can't use that.  these two nips.. no, not that either.  these two gook... nope... two Polack... nope.   Krauts.... nope..    let's see, there were these two ragheads...  Right, now we got it!   We can still do ragheads, Frenchies, and fags, can't we?"
 
"Would our God the giftie gie us, to see ourselves as other see us."    
 
 
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#2496 From: sheldon waxman <sheldonw72@...>
Date: Mon Dec 14, 2009 12:47 pm
Subject: Reel NewZ
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UN official: Druglord cash “rescued” banks
Raw Story

“The vast majority of an estimated $352 billion in proceeds of organized crime, mostly from the drug trade, was funneled through the global banking system during the financial crisis of the past two years, and in some cases, the money rescued banks from collapse, says the head of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime. Antonio Maria Costa told the UK Observer that intelligence agencies and prosecutors alerted him 18 months ago to evidence that drug money was being ‘absorbed into the financial system. In many instances, the money from drugs was the only liquid investment capital,’ Costa said. ‘In the second half of 2008, liquidity was the banking system’s main problem and hence liquid capital became an important factor.’” (12/12/09)


http://rawstory.com/2009/12/crime-rescued-banks/


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#2495 From: sheldon waxman <sheldonw72@...>
Date: Sun Dec 13, 2009 9:53 pm
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#2494 From: sheldon waxman <sheldonw72@...>
Date: Sat Dec 12, 2009 11:57 pm
Subject: Re: LAWYER-ARTIST SUES THE MUMBAI ART CRITIC FOR 1 CENT FOR SLANDER AND HYPOCRISY
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Subject: LAWYER-ARTIST SUES THE MUMBAI ART CRITIC FOR 1 CENT FOR SLANDER AND HYPOCRISY
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Peerhaps you could mention the enclosed story in your brilliant e-Journal. Regards
M. Iftikhar Hussein RAJPOOOT   BCom AM



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#2493 From: sheldon waxman <sheldonw72@...>
Date: Sat Dec 12, 2009 11:57 pm
Subject: Fwd: LAWYER-ARTIST SUES THE MUMBAI ART CRITIC FOR 1 CENT FOR SLANDER AND HYPOCRISY
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Peerhaps you could mention the enclosed story in your brilliant e-Journal. Regards
M. Iftikhar Hussein RAJPOOOT   BCom AM



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#2492 From: sheldon waxman <sheldonw72@...>
Date: Fri Dec 11, 2009 1:57 pm
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 Russia admits "swirl UFO" was missile launch
The Sun [UK]
"Russia last night admitted the amazing light swirl over Norway was
caused by one of its missiles going haywire. ... Defence officials
finally confirmed Norway's suspicions that the swirl was caused by a
technical failure in a Bulava missile launched by a nuclear
sub." (12/11/09)
 
 
Pentagon held in contempt for failing to tape Gitmo detainee's
testimony
CNN

"A federal court has held the Defense Department in contempt after
officials at the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, failed to
videotape the testimony of a Yemeni detainee as ordered. Attorneys for
Mohammed Al-Adahi, a Yemeni citizen held at Guantanamo, filed a motion
seeking sanctions against the government after al-Adahi's testimony
was not videotaped during a four-day hearing held in June." (12/10/09)

http://tinyurl.com/yzppqcn

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#2491 From: sheldon waxman <sheldonw72@...>
Date: Thu Dec 10, 2009 2:49 pm
Subject: Hmmmm
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Spiral UFO puts Norway in a spin
The Sun [UK]

"A mysterious giant spiral of light that dominated the sky over Norway
this morning has stunned experts -- who believe the space spectacle is
an entirely new astral phenomenon. ... Theories ranging from a
misfired Russian missile, meteor fireball, never-before-seen type of
northern light, 'black hole' and even alien activity were all
proposed. ... The spiral spectacle -- which lasted for two minutes --
was seen by vast swathes of the Scandinavian country's almost five
million population, with sightings as far north as Finnmark to
Trondelag in the south." (12/09/09)

http://tinyurl.com/ycpdztx

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#2490 From: JamesNPost@...
Date: Wed Dec 9, 2009 12:07 pm
Subject: Re: Digest Number 1059
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The truth is simple:  every computer on the internet has an identification number, and every keystroke you send is linked to that number.  Everything you post is technically available for recording.  Every word you send is public in fact, whether by law or not. Some servers, like Google, record everything. Everything, not only your comments, but also what you searched for.  I believe even with encryption, every company that makes encryption software must make the key to that code available to the US Government.  They know where you are, who you are, what you buy and sell, and what you think.  There is no such thing as internet privacy.  Fugittaboutit!  We are The Borg.
 
In a message dated 12/9/2009 9:29:30 A.M. Mountain Standard Time, freedom-lawyers@yahoogroups.com writes:
Subject: Yahoo Sells All Its Users

#2489 From: sheldon waxman <sheldonw72@...>
Date: Wed Dec 9, 2009 2:36 pm
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CA: NorCal's "pot paradise"
Fox News

"Tucked amid the vast forestland of Northern California's Trinity
County, the small town of Hayfork is -- literally -- going to pot ...
with marijuana being smoked, grown and sold more than ever before.
Legal cannabis cultivation has become Hayfork's #1 industry.
Sophisticated growing operations are flourishing, thanks to the
region's climate, cheap real estate and local laws allowing medical
marijuana farming and possession. Lawful or not, the cannabis culture
is dividing the town. ... But with the timber industry gone, and gold
mining a thing of the past, others maintain Hayfork's fledgling pot
farms need all the support they can get." (12/08/09)

Euros become currency of drug cartels
Guardian [UK]
"International drug cartels have abandoned the US dollar for high
denomination euros to launder millions in illegal profits, Europol has
revealed. The gangs no longer use $100 bills because [euro]500 notes
-- the largest denomination of euro -- take up less room when
transporting large amounts of cash across the world." (12/06/09)

#2488 From: sheldon waxman <sheldonw72@...>
Date: Wed Dec 9, 2009 1:16 am
Subject: Fwd: Yahoo Sells All Its Users Private Email Contents to U.S. Agencies for Small Price
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(Mathaba) Yahoo isn't happy that a detailed menu of the spying services it provides to "law enforcement" and spy agencies has leaked onto the web.  http://www.mathaba.net/news/?x=622292
Yahoo Lawful Spying Guide December 2, 2009 yahoo-spy.pdf
Cox Lawful Spying Guide December 2, 2009  cox-spy.pdf  
SBC-Ameritech Lawful Spying Guide December 2, 2009  sbc-ameritech-spy.pdf 
SBC Lawful Spying Guide December 2, 2009  sbc-lea-spy.pdf 


After earlier reports this week that Yahoo had blocked an FOIA Freedom of Information release of its "law enforcement and intelligence price list", someone helpfully provided a copy of the Yahoo company's spying guide to the whistleblower web site Cryptome.org.

The 17-page guide, which Yahoo has tried to suppress via legal letters to the Cryptome.org site run by freedom of information champion John Young, describes Yahoo's policies on keeping the data of Yahoo Email and Yahoo Groups users, as well as the surveillance and spying capabilities it can give to the U.S. government and its agencies.

The Yahoo document is a price list for these spying services and has already resulted in many people closing down their accounts in protest. However, closing a Yahoo account is not as easy as one might expect: users have reported great difficulty in finding the link to delete their account, and, Yahoo will still keep data for another 90 days.

If you ask Yahoo! to delete your Yahoo! account, in most cases your account will be deactivated and then deleted from our user registration database in approximately 90 days. This delay is necessary to discourage users from engaging in fraudulent activity.
Please note that any information that we have copied may remain in back-up storage for some period of time after your deletion request. This may be the case even though no information about your account remains in our active user databases.

Many government leaders and officials around Africa, Asia and Latin America are known by Mathaba to widely be using Yahoo, Gmail, and Hotmail in spite of these Email services being hosted on U.S. computers and the ease that gives the hosts to access their data.. Mathaba has also long been aware of a great many business people, politicians and even Presidents who use the "free" web-based email services of Yahoo for their Email communications, thus making it easy for the U.S. and its owners to spy on them with negligible cost.
Cryptome also published lawful data-interception guides for Cox Communications, SBC, Cingular, Nextel, GTE and other telecoms and Internet service providers.

But of all those companies, it appears to be Yahoo's lawyers alone who have been stupid enough to try to issue a "DMCA takedown notice" to Cryptome demanding the document be removed. Yahoo claims that publication of the document is a copyright violation, and gave Cryptome owner John Young a Thursday deadline for removing the document.

We estimate Yahoo stand a near-zero chance of success given that Young has thousands of intelligence and other leaked documents on his site and in the past decade has yet to remove a single document upon legal threats, the same 10-year track record held by Mathaba on documents on British Intelligence in spite of having computers seized and properties raided.

Mathaba is now also hosting the Yahoo leaked document on its servers around the world, and the cat is long out of the bag with the original document having been downloaded and distributed by many already.

When John Young was asked if there was anything he wouldn't reveal on his site -- a fault in the President's Secret Service detail, for instance -- he said, "Well, I'm actually looking for that information right now", much to the chagrin of those who believe that the U.S. government and its hopelessly corrupt agencies should have a right to supress information from the public.

The Compliance Guide reveals, as has been known to Mathaba prior to the leak via our own sources, that Yahoo does not retain a copy of e-mails that an account holder sends unless that customer sets up the account to store those e-mails. Yahoo also cannot search for or produce deleted e-mails once they've been removed from a user's trash folder.

The guide also reveals that the company retains the IP addresses from which a user logs in for just one year. But the company's logs of IP addresses used to register new accounts for the first time go back to 1999. The contents of accounts on Flickr, the photo sharing and storage site which Yahoo also owns, are purged as soon as a user deactivates the account.

Chats conducted through the company's Web Messenger service may be saved on Yahoo's server if one of the parties in the correspondence set up their account to archive chats. This pertains to the web-based version of the chat service, however. Yahoo does not save the content of chats for consumers who use the downloadable Web Messenger client on their computer.

Instant message logs are retained 45 to 60 days and includes an account holder's friends list, and the date and times the user communicated with them.

Young responded to Yahoo's takedown request with a defiant note:

I cannot find at the Copyright Office a grant of copyright for the Yahoo spying document hosted on Cryptome. To assure readers Yahoo's copyright claim is valid and not another hoary bluff without substantiation so common under DMCA bombast please send a copy of the copyright grant for publication on Cryptome.

Until Yahoo provides proof of copyright, the document will remain available to the public for it provides information that is in the public interest about Yahoo's contradictory privacy policy and should remain a topic of public debate on ISP unacknowledged spying complicity with officials for lucrative fees.

Note: Yahoo's exclamation point is surely trademarked so omitted here.
The company responded that a copyright notice is optional for works created after March 1, 1989 and repeated its demand for removal on Thursday. For now, the document remains on the Cryptome site.

Threat Level reported Tuesday that muckraker and Indiana University graduate student Christopher Soghoian had asked all agencies within the Department of Justice, under a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, to provide him with a copy of the pricing list supplied by telecoms and internet service providers for the surveillance services they offer government agencies. But before the agencies could provide the data, Verizon and Yahoo intervened and filed an objection on grounds that the information was proprietary and that the companies would be ridiculed and publicly shamed were their surveillance price sheets made public.

Yahoo wrote in its objection letter that if its pricing information were disclosed to Soghoian, he would use it "to 'shame' Yahoo! and other companies ­ and to 'shock' their customers."

"Therefore, release of Yahoo!'s information is reasonably likely to lead to impairment of its reputation for protection of user privacy and security, which is a competitive disadvantage for technology companies," the company added.

The price list that Yahoo tried to prevent the government from releasing to Soghoian appears in one small paragraph in the 17-page leaked document. According to this list, Yahoo charges the government about $30 to $40 for the contents, including e-mail, of a subscriber's account. It charges $40 to $80 for the contents of a Yahoo group.

Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and other U.S. "social networking" sites are at minimum providing information in similar fashion to U.S. agencies, and in some cases have also received substantial funding by U.S. government related entities as a most efficient and cost-effective means of spying on their users around the world. -- Mathaba

-- Includes extensive reporting by Wired.com's Kim Zetter


ALSO NOTE:  Famous Miranda rights warning could get rewrite
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1370067.html
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court on Monday seemed headed toward telling police they must explicitly advise criminal suspects that their lawyer can be present during any interrogation.

The arguments in front of the justices were the latest over how explicit the Miranda warning rights have to be, as justices debated whether the warnings police gave Kevin Dwayne Powell made clear to him that he could have a lawyer present while being interrogated by police.

Powell was convicted of illegally possessing a firearm after telling police he bought the weapon "off the street" for $150 for his protection. Before his confession, Powell signed a Miranda statement that included the statements "You have the right to talk to a lawyer before answering any of our questions. If you cannot afford to hire a lawyer, one will be appointed for you without cost and before any questioning. You have the right to use any of these rights at any time you want during this interview."

The Florida Supreme Court overturned the conviction on grounds the Tampa police didn't adequately convey to Powell that he was allowed to have a lawyer with him during questioning.

Joseph W. Jacquot, Florida deputy attorney general, argued that the warning given Powell "expresses all the rights required under Miranda."

Justice Stephen Breyer clearly disagreed.

"Aren't you supposed to tell this person, that unlike a grand jury, you have a right to have the lawyer with you during interrogation?" Breyer said. "I mean, it isn't as if that was said in passing in Miranda. They wrote eight paragraphs about it. And I just wonder, where does it say in this warning, you have the right to have the lawyer with you during the interrogation?"

Different courts have came down on different sides on what exactly should be said, Justice Sonia Sotomayor said.

"We've got a split of circuit courts and state courts on whether this reasonably conveys or not. Shouldn't that be enough of an ambiguity for us to conclude it can't reasonably convey, if there's this many courts holding that it doesn't?" Justice Sonia Sotomayor said.

Powell's lawyer, Deborah K. Brueckheimer, said that the warning Powell was given from Tampa, Fla., police gave him the impression that "once questioning starts, that he has no right to consult with a lawyer anymore, and it certainly doesn't tell him that he has the right to the presence of an attorney with him in an interrogation room, where the coercion takes on a highly new meaning."

Justice Scalia called Brueckheimer's argument "angels dancing on the head of a pin."

"You are saying, 'Oh, if he had only known. Oh, if I knew that I could have an attorney present during the interview, well, that would have been a different kettle of fish and I would never have confessed,'" Scalia said. "I mean, doesn't that seem to you quite fantastic?"

Miranda rights have been litigated since they first came into being in 1966. The courts require police to tell suspects they have the right to remain silent and the right to have a lawyer represent them, even if they can't afford one. But those requirements likely will continue to be parsed by lawyers and judges.

For example, Justice Samuel Alito pointed out that most police start off Miranda rights by saying "You have the right to remain silent." But, Alito said, what happens if someone begins talking to the police and then decides that they want to be silent?

"Once you break your silence, there is nothing in there that says you have the right to resume your silence," Alito said.

"We could write that down. It could be the next case," Justice Anthony Kennedy said to laughter.

This is the third Miranda case the court has heard this year. The justices heard arguments earlier over whether officers can interrogate a suspect who said he understood his rights but didn't invoke them, and whether a request for a lawyer during interrogation can expire after a lengthy period of time.

Decisions in all three cases are expected next year.

The case argued Monday is Florida v. Powell, 08-1175.
http://www.google.com/search?q=Florida+v.+Powell%2C+08-1175



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#2487 From: sheldon waxman <sheldonw72@...>
Date: Tue Dec 8, 2009 1:00 am
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Kitty Werthmann spoke at the Eagle Forum national conference a couple of months back. She told a powerful story about what it was like growing up under Hitler.

*America Truly is the Greatest Country in the World. Don’t Let Freedom
Slip Away*

By: Kitty Werthmann  http://www.timebomb2000.com/vb/showthread.php?t=349456

What I am about to tell you is something you’ve probably never heard or
will ever read in history books.

I believe that I am an eyewitness to history. I cannot tell you that
Hitler took Austria by tanks and guns; it would distort history. We
elected him by a landslide – 98% of the vote. I’ve never read that in
any American publications. Everyone thinks that Hitler just rolled in
with his tanks and took Austria by force.

In 1938, Austria was in deep Depression. Nearly one-third of our
workforce was unemployed. We had 25% inflation and 25% bank loan
interest rates.

Farmers and business people were declaring bankruptcy daily. Young
people were going from house to house begging for food. Not that they
didn’t want to work; there simply weren’t any jobs. My mother was a
Christian woman and believed in helping people in need. Every day we
cooked a big kettle of soup and baked bread to feed those poor, hungry
people – about 30 daily.

The Communist Party and the National Socialist Party were fighting each
other. Blocks and blocks of cities like Vienna, Linz, and Graz were
destroyed. The people became desperate and petitioned the government to
let them decide what kind of government they wanted.

We looked to our neighbor on the north, Germany , where Hitler had been
in power since 1933. We had been told that they didn’t have unemployment
or crime, and they had a high standard of living. Nothing was ever said
about persecution of any group -- Jewish or otherwise. We were led to
believe that everyone was happy. We wanted the same way of life in
Austria . We were promised that a vote for Hitler would mean the end of
unemployment and help for the family. Hitler also said that businesses
would be assisted, and farmers would get their farms back. Ninety-eight
percent of the population voted to annex Austria to Germany and have
Hitler for our ruler.

We were overjoyed, and for three days we danced in the streets and had
candlelight parades. The new government opened up big field kitchens and
everyone was fed.

After the election, German officials were appointed, and like a miracle,
we suddenly had law and order. Three or four weeks later, everyone was
employed. The government made sure that a lot of work was created
through the Public Work Service.


Hitler decided we should have equal rights for women. Before this, it
was a custom that married Austrian women did not work outside the home.
An able-bodied husband would be looked down on if he couldn’t support
his family. Many women in the teaching profession were elated that they
could retain the jobs they previously had been required to give up for
marriage.

*Hitler Targets Education – Eliminates Religious Instruction for Children:*

Our education was nationalized. I attended a very good public school.
The population was predominantly Catholic, so we had religion in our
schools. The day we elected Hitler (March 13, 1938), I walked into my
schoolroom to find the crucifix replaced by Hitler’s picture hanging
next to a Nazi flag. Our teacher, a very devout woman, stood up and told
the class we wouldn’t pray or have religion anymore. Instead, we sang
“Deutschland, Deutschland, Uber Alles,” and had physical education.

Sunday became National Youth Day with compulsory attendance. Parents
were not pleased about the sudden change in curriculum. They were told
that if they did not send us, they would receive a stiff letter of
warning the first time. The second time they would be fined the
equivalent of $300, and the third time they would be subject to jail.
The first two hours consisted of political indoctrination. The rest of
the day we had sports. As time went along, we loved it. Oh, we had so
much fun and got our sports equipment free. We would go home and
gleefully tell our parents about the wonderful time we had.

My mother was very unhappy. When the next term started, she took me out
of public school and put me in a convent. I told her she couldn’t do
that and she told me that someday when I grew up, I would be grateful.
There was a very good curriculum, but hardly any fun – no sports, and no
political indoctrination. I hated it at first but felt I could tolerate
it. Every once in a while, on holidays, I went home. I would go back to
my old friends and ask what was going on and what they were doing. Their
loose lifestyle was very alarming to me. They lived without religion. By
that time unwed mothers were glorified for having a baby for Hitler. It
seemed strange to me that our society changed so suddenly. As time went
along, I realized what a great deed my mother did so that I wasn’t
exposed to that kind of humanistic philosophy.

*Equal Rights Hits Home:*

In 1939, the war started and a food bank was established. All food was
rationed and could only be purchased using food stamps. At the same
time, a full-employment law was passed which meant if you didn’t work,
you didn’t get a ration card, and if you didn’t have a card, you starved
to death. Women who stayed home to raise their families didn’t have any
marketable skills and often had to take jobs more suited for men.

Soon after this, the draft was implemented. _It was compulsory for young
people, male and female_, to give one year to the labor corps. During
the day, the girls worked on the farms, and at night they returned to
their barracks for military training just like the boys. They were
trained to be anti-aircraft gunners and participated in the signal
corps. After the labor corps, they were not discharged but were used in
the front lines. When I go back to Austria to visit my family and
friends, most of these women are emotional cripples because they just
were not equipped to handle the horrors of combat. Three months before I
turned 18, I was severely injured in an air raid attack. I nearly had a
leg amputated, so I was spared having to go into the labor corps and
into military service.

*Hitler Restructured the Family Through Daycare:*


When the mothers had to go out into the work force, the government
immediately established child care centers. You could take your children
ages 4 weeks to school age and leave them there around-the-clock, 7 days
a week, under the total care of the government. The state raised a whole
generation of children. There were no motherly women to take care of the
children, just people highly trained in child psychology. By this time,
no one talked about equal rights. We knew we had been had.

*Health Care and Small Business Suffer Under Government Controls:*

*_Before Hitler, we had very good medical care_.* Many American doctors
trained at the University of Vienna . After Hitler, health care was
socialized, free for everyone. Doctors were salaried by the government.
The problem was, since it was free, the people were going to the doctors
for everything. When the good doctor arrived at his office at 8 a.m., 40
people were already waiting and, at the same time, the hospitals were
full. If you needed elective surgery, you had to wait a year or two for
your turn. There was *_no money for research_* as it was poured into
socialized medicine. Research at the medical schools literally stopped*,
_so the best doctors left Austria and emigrated to other countries_.*


*_As for healthcare, our tax rates went up to 80% of our income_.*
Newlyweds immediately received a $1,000 loan from the government to
establish a household. We had big programs for families. All day care
and education were free. High schools were taken over by the government
and college tuition was subsidized. Everyone was entitled to free
handouts, such as food stamps, clothing, and housing.

We had another agency designed to _monitor business_. My brother-in-law
owned a restaurant that had square tables. Government officials told him
he had to replace them with round tables because people might bump
themselves on the corners. Then they said he had to have additional
bathroom facilities. It was just a small dairy business with a snack
bar. He couldn’t meet all the demands. Soon, he went out of business. If
the government owned the large businesses and not many small ones
existed, it could be in control.

We had consumer protection. We were told how to shop and what to buy.
Free enterprise was essentially abolished. We had a planning agency
specially designed for farmers. The agents would go to the farms, count
the live-stock, then tell the farmers what to produce, and how to
produce it.

*“Mercy Killing” Redefined:*

In 1944, I was a student teacher in a small village in the Alps . The
villagers were surrounded by mountain passes which, in the winter, were
closed off with snow, causing people to be isolated. So people
intermarried and offspring were sometimes retarded. When I arrived, I
was told there were 15 mentally retarded adults, but they were all
useful and did good manual work. I knew one, named Vincent, very well.
He was a janitor of the school. One day I looked out the window and saw
Vincent and others getting into a van. I asked my superior where they
were going. She said to an institution where the State Health Department
would teach them a trade, and to read and write. The families were
required to sign papers with a little clause that they could not visit
for 6 months. They were told visits would interfere with the program and
might cause homesickness.

As time passed, letters started to dribble back saying these people died
a natural, merciful death. The villagers were not fooled. We suspected
what was happening. Those people left in excellent physical health and
all died within 6 months. We called this euthanasia.

*The Final Steps - Gun Laws:*

_Next came gun registration. _ People were getting injured by guns.
Hitler said that the real way to catch criminals (we still had a few)
was by matching serial numbers on guns. Most citizens were law abiding
and dutifully marched to the police station to register their firearms.
Not long after-wards, the police said that it was best for everyone to
turn in their guns. The authorities already knew who had them, so it was
futile not to comply voluntarily.

_No more freedom of speech. _ Anyone who said something against the
government was taken away. We knew many people who were arrested, not
only Jews, but also priests and ministers who spoke up.

Totalitarianism didn’t come quickly, _it took 5 years from 1938 until
1943, to realize full dictatorship in Austria . _ Had it happened
overnight, my countrymen would have fought to the last breath. Instead,
we had _creeping_ gradualism. Now, our only weapons were broom handles.
The whole idea sounds almost unbelievable that the state, little by
little eroded our freedom.

_After World War II, Russian troops occupied Austria_ . Women were
raped, preteen to elderly. The press never wrote about this either. When
the Soviets left in 1955, they took everything that they could,
dismantling whole factories in the process. They sawed down whole
orchards of fruit, and what they couldn’t destroy, they burned. We
called it The Burned Earth. Most of the population barricaded themselves
in their houses. Women hid in their cellars for 6 weeks as the troops
mobilized. Those who couldn’t, paid the price. There is a monument in
Vienna today, dedicated to those women who were massacred by the
Russians. This is an eye witness account.

“It’s true….those of us who sailed past the Statue of Liberty came to a
country of unbelievable freedom and opportunity.

*America Truly is the Greatest Country in the World. Don’t Let Freedom
Slip Away*

*_"After America , There is No Place to Go"_*



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Ft. Hood rampage raises gun control questions
Christian Science Monitor

"Anything involving guns in the United States is sure to stir up the
debate over government gun control. And the recent rampage at Ft.
Hood, Texas, where 13 people were killed and 38 wounded, is no
exception. Until 2003, the FBI had up to 180 days to investigate
information found in gun purchase background checks. But since then,
such information -- which might raise red flags for the FBI -- has
been available to the agency for just 24 hours, after which it is
destroyed. Why? Critics say it's because pro-gun lawmakers ... have
stymied efforts to give the FBI greater authority to look for gun
purchasers who might potentially be terrorists or otherwise prone to
attack innocent victims." [editor's note: Sane and intelligent folks
are still wondering why Ft. Hood was made a "gunfree zone" that left
those "innocent victims" entirely defenseless against even a single
nutcase murderer! - SAT] (11/28/09)

 
WA: Gun-toting Kent man takes aim at Seattle gun ban
KOMO News
"A Kent man who chose to 'exercise his right to bear arms' by carrying
a holstered Glock pistol into a community center earlier this month
has taken the mayor to federal court. Robert C. Warden filed a
complaint against the Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels and the city itself
in U.S. District Court, alleging the city's gun ban defies his
constitutional right to bear arms. The complaint cites an executive
order Nickels issued in June, directing all departments to review then-
present rules 'to determine the extent to which departments could
prohibit firearms on city property.' Nickels last month banned guns on
city facilities where children are likely to frequent. The places on
the ban list include parks, playgrounds." (11/27/09)

#2485 From: JamesNPost@...
Date: Sat Nov 28, 2009 11:10 pm
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Here is the new video of "You May Be A Taliban..."
 
 
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Date: Sat Nov 28, 2009 4:08 pm
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I recently received what was being sent around as a good example of US humor among the troops in Afghanistan.  It says, “YOU MAY BE A TALIBAN IF
”

 

  1. You refine heroin for a living, but you have a moral objection to beer.
  2. You own a $3000 machine gun, but you can’t afford shoes.
  3. You have more wives than teeth.
  4. You wipe your butt with your bare hand, but consider bacon unclean.
  5. You think vests come in two styles, bullet-proof and suicide.
  6. You can’t think of anyone you haven’t declared Jihad against.
  7. You consider television dangerous, but carry explosives in your clothing.
  8. You were amazed to discover cell phones have other uses than setting off roadside bombs.
  9. You have nothing against women and think every man should own at least one.
  10. You’ve always had a crush on your neighbor’s goat.

 

Cute, huh?  It’s said there is wisdom in seeing ourselves as others see us, but I think most of us would prefer not to.  Employing a Post-Jedi mind trick an old shapeshifter on Tatooine taught me, I have called up the spirit of a dead jihado to show me those jokes from his side.

 

 

 OK, I'm a Taliban. So what were those again? ....

   1. You refine heroin for a living, but you have a moral objection to beer.

 

We don't consume heroin. We sell it to Americans, who can't get enough of it. The CIA buys half of it, and the Air Force bombs the other half to keep the price up.  Half of you buy it on the street, the other half have prescriptions for pharmo opiates. We would be happy to just stay home and raise poppies and rice all the time, and live in nice houses and peacefully pray in thanksgiving to Allah five times a day. To protect us from that life, you bomb our country and kill us, and set up a puppet police state to control us.  You are assholes.


2. You own a $3,000 machine gun, but you can't afford shoes. 

First things first.  If your country was being invaded by an army of people who think your God is evil, and who bomb your fields with everlasting land mines to keep you from growing poppies, or food, I expect you would learn to walk barefoot to own a gun too, "legal" or not... or maybe you'd just spend it all on tranquilizers and hope somebody's kid will join the army to protect you.


3. You have more wives than teeth. 

OK, you have beautiful plastic Hollywood teeth and three ex-wives who hate you.  I'll get one of my old sweethearts... or my new one...  to pre-chew the fajitas for me, and die a happy man, thank you.


4. You wipe your butt with your bare hand, but consider bacon "unclean." 

It's about cleanliness when you have no paper. Without Halliburton milking your working class to wipe your ass for you, what would you use, dollar bills?  For the cost of one of those cute little jets you use to bomb my family's outhouse, you could provide my whole country enough toilet paper for years.

 We don't eat pork; you don't eat horses.  So what?  


5. You think vests come in two styles: bullet-proof and suicide. 

 

You wear a full-body armor suit just to step outdoors to take a piss where I live.  You spend enough money on gasoline to feed my whole town for the rest of our lives to drop a bomb on my home from two miles up.  Fighter pilot, my ass, hot-shot.  You are a delivery boy, working for merchants.  Considering what you are delivering, you make Ted Kaszinski look like Mother Theresa. I pray all night to every name of God I know to live long enough to get even one of you puffed-up robo-cowards. 


6. You can't think of anyone you haven't declared Jihad against. 

If a great military empire of infinitely rich prideful and bigoted degenerate gluttons who hate your religion, your race, and your culture invaded your country to kill you to free you from your leaders and your God, and to connect you to their system of marketing and information control, you'd likely think of nothing but jihad too. 


7. You consider television dangerous, but carry explosives in your clothing. 

Considering its power of illusion to create the entire view of the world and of life for a whole nation of people, and thereby to control them and addict them to consuming things that kill them, and to ideas that lead them to kill other people, I would say in the long run television is more dangerous than explosives.... suckers.  


8. You were amazed to discover that cell phones have uses other than setting off roadside bombs. 

Oh yeah, unlike you who would be amazed to discover that cell phones have uses other than to order pizza and get laid, and who couldn't figure out how to set off a roadside bomb if you were given a hardware store and the whole afternoon... even if your family's life depended on it. 


9. You have nothing against women and think every man should own at least one. 

I believe that is the good Christian attitude, too, among those who take the book literally.  Some of us “ragheads” are even willing to work hard enough to feed and house several of them, and their children.  I hear most of you can't take care of even one, and hire lawyers to fight over who has to pay for the baby's lunch.

10. You've always had a crush on your neighbor's goat 

 

Sure I have, you sneering swine. You've always had a crush on your neighbor's little brother's fat butt, or your little sister’s. Your heroes hang themselves jerking off in the closet, or drug themselves wishing they were still your neighbor's little brother.   

  

So go ahead and laugh it up, you soulless schmucks.  Allah hu Kickbuttu, can you dig it? 

 

 â€ŠWell, clearly, those Talibans don’t have much sense of humor, do they?   As comics go, they’re really dying up there.  Our guys are killing them.  Get it?  Your neighbor’s goat?  Can you just picture that?  Haw, haw!  ‘Ja hear the one about the 72 Virgins and the smart bomb? It’ll kill you!  Whoo-hoo!

 

James Post      www.postpubco.com/anticyclops.htm


#2483 From: JamesNPost@...
Date: Sat Nov 28, 2009 1:37 pm
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“I remember from history that the men who created The Constitution Of The United States did not thereby give everything to everybody who happened to be here, then or now.  Certain rights and powers were conditional, upon various factors.  The stupidest thing this country ever did was letting the women, the refugees, and the field hands vote. The second stupidest thing was letting them elect people who agree that the government which sets them free is responsible to keep them all well fed and housed, no matter what acts of God they may suffer, meteorological, pathological, or congenital.”

            Gen. E. Grundy

US Maroon Core, Rtrdd.

 

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Obama regime: US won't join landmine ban
CNN

"The United States won't join its NATO allies and many other countries
in formally banning landmines, State Department spokesman Ian Kelly
said during his midday briefing Tuesday. 'This administration
undertook a policy review and we decided our landmine policy remains
in effect,' Kelly said in response to a question. 'We made our policy
review and we determined that we would not be able to meet our
national defense needs nor our security commitments to our friends and
allies if we sign this convention.'" (11/24/09)

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#2481 From: JamesNPost@...
Date: Tue Nov 24, 2009 3:15 pm
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Have friends who would appreciate reading something warm-hearted and fun for the Holidays?  The three stories in this trilogy of novelettes capture the character of old 1850's New Mexico, and also the mystery and enchantment of today. From the drunken chile farmer Cabrito who wins The Devil's Own Horse, and declares God has made him the town of Lastima's new priest, to little Chulita who prays for a miracle for the town's celebration of La Posada, to Buck Tyler, the archaeology prof who gets trapped in an ancient ceremonial cave, with a psychic Indian girl and the spirit of the old Medicine Chief "El Cacique"...
 
 
bon appetit, and best wishes,
  James

#2480 From: sheldon waxman <sheldonw72@...>
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CA: Man jailed after housing homeless on ranch
El Paso Times

"A California rancher who houses homeless people on his property chose
to serve 90 days in jail rather than accept probation after being
convicted of misdemeanor safety violations. Dan de Vaul says the terms
of probation offered Monday would prevent him from sheltering about 30
people who reside at his ranch and participate in a substance abuse
recovery program. The 66-year-old de Vaul says he is proud to go to
jail for housing the homeless. About 30 supporters applauded as he was
led out of court in handcuffs." (11/23/09)

http://www.elpasotimes.com/nationworld/ci_13852655

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#2479 From: sheldon waxman <sheldonw72@...>
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Militia movement resurfaces across nation
Associated Press

"Norm Olson's genial tone belies his reputation as a radical
militiaman, yet here he is, at 63, an affable grandfather explaining
why Americans should arm themselves against their government. ...
Olson -- a man whose conspiracy theories were so extreme that he was
kicked out of the group he founded, the Michigan Militia, 15 years ago
-- discourses on the need for a paramilitary Alaska Citizens Militia.
He lays out his ideas about imminent economic collapse and social
chaos incited by federal bailouts and other forms of intrusion by a
tyrannical government. Olson's militia is minuscule at the moment, but
there has been a resurgence of the militia movement nationwide, in
part coinciding with the advent of the Obama administration. At least
50 new right-wing militia groups have been identified by the
Montgomery, Ala.-based Southern Poverty Law Center, a nonprofit civil
rights organization. All have formed within the last two years, many
spreading their speeches and combat exercises on YouTube." (11/20/09)

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#2478 From: sheldon waxman <sheldonw72@...>
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China: Scaredy-cat tigers
Ananova [UK]

"Zoo-keepers in China say their tigers have grown so tame that they're
frightened of the chickens they're supposed to eat. Keepers have been
trying to encourage them to follow their natural instincts by throwing
them live chickens -- but without success. ... Feeder Shi Ruqiang
said: 'They're supposed to be wild and scary, but due to their soft
lifestyles and human care they have gradually lost their wild nature.
I have been trying to interest them with live chickens but it was
quite a funny scene. The tigers were so scared that they wouldn't go
near them. One chicken passed out and the tigers did eventually
approach it -- but then it woke up again and squawked and they ran for
their lives!'" (11/19/09)

http://www.ananova.com/News/story/sm_3568713.html

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#2477 From: JamesNPost@...
Date: Wed Nov 18, 2009 1:58 pm
Subject: Fwd: THE ANTI-CYCLOPS PAPERS
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This is a good time for ordering books for your holiday season gifts.  If you have friends who would welcome an unusual and often challenging viewpoint on subjects social and political, I invite your attention to THE ANTI-CYCLOPS PAPERS.  These are 80 cage-rattling column essays now in one volume, and many are now available as audio books on CD, and as DVD's with segments that appeared on Albuquerque's public-access TV show The Fringe Element. 

THE ANTI-CYCLOPS PAPERS 


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W.W. 2 in DVD on the History Channel. I saw first one last night. On at 7 p.m. Eastern all week.

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Samson Blinded has posted a new item, 'New world order of rogue nukes'

       The most significant changes slip by imperceptibly. In our case, the
dissolution of the world order started in backwater places few people can
pinpoint on the map: Pakistan and North Korea. Ancient Romans similarly wondered
about the Barbarians who eventually did away with them

       The Pakistani nuclear program broke ground in a way more important than the
military: it was, in a sense, the proverbial garage basement nuke.  The
Pakistani nuclear weapon was devised and implemented by a single man, A.Q. Khan,
without major political support. A.Q. Khan’s nuclear empire was a commercial
enterprise of the same type, though of a different magnitude than Osama Bin
Laden’s nut-selling corporation. Khan received venture financing from the
Saudis in return for the Wahhabites’ share in the nuclear bombs; several are
stored away in Saudi Arabia.  The Americans turned a blind eye to Khan’s
international espionage and his quest for nuclear secrets because the Soviets
openly abetted India in its nuclear development. The British-trained Pakistani
engineers proved capable of producing a bomb despite the Pakistanis’
characteristic dullness. Khan’s lesson is more important to your life than
anything you’ve learned in school: nuclear weapons are technologically simple,
no major financing is required, and they can be produced secretly without a
major country’s sponsorship. In short, nukes are available to terrorists.

       To underscore the point, Khan immediately started selling nuclear technology to
cash customers: Libya, Algeria, Iran, Syria, and North Korea, among others.
Joint efforts by these world outcasts honed an optimal technology: suitable for
low-scale production, highly secretive, inexpensive, and with abundant raw
inputs. In short, reprocessing spent fuel rods from peaceful power stations.
The North Koreans used a small number of outdated centrifuges to harvest
weapons-grade plutonium very slowly, enough for about one bomb a year.  The
Iranians concentrated on developing advanced centrifuges: with the best type,
enough material for a bomb can be harvested in two or three months; unable to
maintain secrecy, the Iranians poured on the speed. Their newest implementation
is plasma-extracting, which allows fuel rods to be reprocessed even in an
apartment.

       Spent rods are buried in many places around the globe, and guarded loosely.
Time and again, intelligence services report intercepting cargos of stolen rods.
Presumably many more slip away. There is no practical way to guard them in
remote places in poor, corrupt countries.

       The NATO pretends to be the leading force in the world, though it has lost even
in tribal Afghanistan. In the meantime, nuclear proliferators are building an
alliance of their own. Pakistan sold nuclear technology to North Korea, which
reciprocated with missile blueprints. Iran supported North Korea with $2 billion
for transferring nuclear know-how to Syria. Iran diversified its nuclear
activities into Venezuela, which also looks for an ostensibly peaceful reactor.
In the most direct challenge to the world’s security, North Korea shipped
weapon-grade uranium to Iran; that’s the closest thing to selling nuclear
bombs. The five or six Korean nuclear bombs are certainly up for sale: the
communists are desperate for cash and could not care less about Western
sanctions or precision bombing. North Korea holds its Southern counterpart
hostage against a major American attack.

       A strike on North Korea cannot succeed because that country hid enough
plutonium and would use the attack as a pretext  to sell it openly. As usual,
tactical approaches exist: one is to bomb the known nuclear facilities and
immediately offer the communists billions of dollars for plutonium; America can
always overbid Iran or the terrorists.

       Tactical solutions cannot solve strategic problems. A.Q. Khan took the djinn of
nuclear secrets out of the bottle, and now too many countries will be developing
nuclear bombs. Some of them will exchange their military potential for aid, but
others will stick to political goals. The development will feed on itself. South
Korea cannot rely on American protection against the nuclear-armed North when
the United States is embroiled in two lost wars and headed by a
negotiations-minded administration. Seeing that America is not eager to save
Israel from nuclear Iran, the South Koreans will proceed to build their own
bombs. So will Japan, which sees North Korea as a rival (quite irrationally,
since the North has no way of conducting a war against Japan). Vietnam cannot
lose its regional dominance to Korea, and will reciprocate with nuclear
development. On another part of the globe, Iranian nukes would spark a nuclear
arms race in the Middle East, pitting nuclear-armed Israel, Syria, and Egypt
against each other. Latin America can nuclearize in a flash: Venezuela first,
then Brazil, Argentina, and then everyone.

       Terrorists need not act alone; a hostile state can hire them. Suppose Syria
decides to nuke Tel Aviv with Iranian bombs, and does so through
Hezbollah—what would Israel do? Probably, nothing. A retaliatory nuclear
strike requires hard evidence, and Syria would deny its involvement, Iran would
claim the uranium was stolen from it, and Lebanon would declare that it does not
bear responsibility for a terrorist group. Retaliation would be still more
problematic if the terrorists used biological weapons: they could use an
advanced Anthrax strain of Russian origin, stolen in Ukraine, modified in Iran,
and received from Syria, which would bet on Israel quarantining Tel Aviv
promptly enough that the epidemic wouldn’t spread to the Golan Heights.

       On the positive side, nuclear weapons are not apocalyptic. Missile defenses are
strong enough, and ground-level explosions are not immensely devastating. Both
Hiroshima and Nagasaki are vibrant towns today despite the fact that their
bombings were much more devastating than any ground-level attack likely to be
perpetrated by terrorists. Human losses in the range of 20,000 people from a
single explosion are not catastrophic. Losses can grow exponentially, though, if
terrorists put their nuclear bomb on a commercial aircraft and detonate before
landing.

       Nuclear proliferation signals the return to the historically standard situation
of the absence of large-scale security, where every man is for himself. For some
centuries, nation-states bought their subjects’ loyalty with promises of
police security and defense against external enemies, often created by the
nation-states themselves. No more. States are a fraud which endangers rather
than protects their citizens.

        The nuclear threat will force sensible people to abandon cities in the
supposition that terrorists won’t expend nuclear bombs on villages. Such a
development would probably take place after one or two bombings.  The
dissolution of the mega-cities would be an extremely positive process which
would bring back the bonds of neighborhood. People will know their neighbors and
exist in culturally homogenous, and thus morally comfortable communities. People
will become more normal, less susceptible to government or consumerist
propaganda and mental conditions. The technology allows for unhindered economic
cooperation through virtual networks.

       In the meantime, the diplomats must be happy to see nuclear proliferation, as
it takes the power out of the hands of their rivals, the military. Leftists love
the crumbling world order, which clears the scene for their great designs.  The
American administration welcomes the countries which lean toward it for
last-resort protection against their nuclear neighbors.

       And so we cannot expect any strong measures against North Korea and Pakistan.

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#2474 From: JamesNPost@...
Date: Sun Nov 15, 2009 1:56 pm
Subject: "Lost Illusions" -- Good clean fun?
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Good clean fun?  Well, not so clean, I'd have to admit, and not always fun.  To be fair, those who judge books to be obscene, subversive, or blasphemous might find grist for such judgment in LOST ILLUSIONS.  This steamy and turbulent novel is about sex, drugs, and religion taken as the great addictions of that most seductive decade, the 1970's.  In the counter-culture of northern California, a young couple struggle to make it through the changes, trying to fulfill the dreams and illusions of their parents' generation.
 
 
 
 

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North Korea threatens south over clash
Fort Dodge Messenger News

"North Korea threatened South Korea on Thursday with possible
punishment over a skirmish that left one of its warships badly damaged
and a crew member dead. The rival Koreas clashed at sea Tuesday for
the first time in seven years, with each side accusing the other of
violating the disputed western sea border and firing first. South
Korean officials claimed victory, saying a North Korean ship suffered
heavy damage during the two-minute battle. They said a South Korean
ship was lightly damaged and there were no casualties on their
side." (11/12/09)

 
 Mexico: Border city groups call for UN peacekeepers
ABC News
"Business groups in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez said
Wednesday they are calling for United Nations peacekeepers to quell
the drug-related violence that has given their city one of the highest
homicide rates in the world. Groups representing maquiladora assembly
plants, retailers and other businesses said they will submit a request
to the Mexican government and the Inter American Human Rights
Commission to ask the U.N. to send help." (11/12/09)

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 Saudis bomb rebels, blockade Yemeni coast
MSNBC

"Saudi Arabia on Tuesday imposed a naval blockade on the Red Sea coast
of northern Yemen to combat Shiite rebels along its border, an adviser
to the government said, in the latest escalation of fighting in the
southern Arabian peninsula. The Saudi move comes as Iran, the region's
dominant Shiite power accused by the Arabs of backing the rebels,
warned neighboring countries not to interfere in Yemen's internal
affairs." (11/10/09)

 
Dodd's reform plan takes aim at the Fed
Washington Post
"The chairman of the Senate Banking Committee on Tuesday unveiled a
sweeping regulatory reform bill that would strip the Federal Reserve
of nearly all of its power to oversee banks, setting up a possible
clash with the Obama administration, which has argued for the central
bank to play a pivotal role in addressing financial threats. The
legislation promoted by Sen. Christopher J. Dodd (D-Conn.) would
impose the most fundamental change in the Fed's mission since the
Great Depression, leaving it responsible for little besides setting
monetary policy. Senior administration officials and Fed leaders, by
contrast, have urged that the central bank retain its power to oversee
large and complex financial firms whose collapse could endanger the
global system." (11/11/09)
 
Michigan's cannabis college is quite a joint
Washington Times
"Nearly a year after voters in this economically disadvantaged state
overwhelmingly passed a ballot initiative approving the consumption of
medicinal marijuana, a new trade school has opened its doors to
educate aspiring growers. Med Grow Cannabis College, located in the
Detroit suburb of Southfield, is set to graduate its first class of
students later this month." (11/10/09)

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Today is the 71st anniversary of Krystalnacht.  On that day the German government and the German people decided to finally take real action against those whom they were convinced were out to destroy their nation, that is, the Jews. They had been told that by their Commander In Chief, the Intelligence division, their National Security agency, even by the leading scientists, historians, and thinkers of their country.  They had finally given those Jews all the slack that human decency could justify, and they had finally had enough.  They declared zero tolerance for Jews. They attacked the temples, and they smashed and looted the stores. They marched in the streets, wearing their uniforms, waving their flag, cheering, proud that their Leader had given them permission to take the steps the liberals and the weak had forbidden until then. They declared the people were finally taking back their country, and they were going to clean it up, and make it run right.  I remember in particular a film clip of an old man, weeping in confusion as he was dragged out of his home.  "I am German all my life, a true patriot," he protested, "a veteran of the trenches in the great war."   They laughed at him and kicked him.  "You are a Jew," they shouted, as though that explained and excused everything.
 
My good friend Angelo Koljenovic is a Muslim, a Bosniak who immigrated from his native Yugoslavia forty years ago.  Do you hear people ask, "Where are the American Muslims standing up and proclaiming their patriotism?"  Angelo is that Muslim.  He has been a hardcorps patriot, an activist for the support of our country's policies domestic and foreign, and closely involved with agencies of US intelligence, for decades. For many years, he has worked as a bartender in the greatest casino hotels of Las Vegas, most recently, The Sahara.  He likes the job because he is a great talker, and loves to meet people from all over the world. On his office wall hang framed letters of thanks from high-ranking statesmen, from German jet pilots, astronauts, and from foreign ambassadors.  One of the things he likes most to talk about is his patriotism, and his pride to be a naturalized US citizen, and a Muslim who deplores violence in the name of Allah.  Last month, he was terminated, without warning or severance.  "It was your performance," they told him.  "Talking about being a Muslim is driving people away from your bar. Sorry, but times are tough, and we can't take the loss of revenue."  As he is now unemployed, the bank is reluctant to talk about refinancing his mortgage.
 
From my veteran and libertarian friends I get historical diatribes about Muslims who have offended us, and snickering jokes about goats, virgins, and kiestered bombs.  I get hardly-veiled exhortations to form militant groups to take back our country from the closet-Muslim in the White House, to elect someone who will enforce and defend our freedom from dissidents and the faithless, and to do what the generals say we can do about Islamists foreign and domestic.  In the wake of the Ft. Hood massacre, where a man put his religion first, and his country second, I see the C-Street cultists of the Christianist cabal in the Congress proclaiming they owe allegiance to "a Higher Authority" than mere secular law.  Demanding that any Muslim in American uniform who speaks a word against our nation's wars against Muslim countries be closely examined and evaluated, I saw none other than Joe Lieberman stand up yesterday and call for "zero tolerance" to any dissent among Muslims, the enemies of America, the Free World, and the Jews. 
 
"How can you argue with the facts of 9/11?" they ask. "How can you even hint that we are like Germany on Krystalnacht?  We are the ones the Jews' side, Jim.  It's the ragheads causing all the problems."   There is another significant difference between Germany turning against its Jews, and America turning against its Muslims: the Jews Germany persecuted were about one percent of the population of the world; the Muslims we would alienate, and presumably have to eliminate to defend ourselves, comprise about one third.
 
Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.  Those who do not learn even from their own experience are just doomed.  Though I've been several decades trying to promote thinking I have believed would help us to avoid today's situation, I am not so taken with myself as to think I have been more than just another of the many voices shouting into the wind out here in the fringe, in the wilderness of 20th Century American literature. I should hope to have some voice in helping to shape the future, but as the quantum physics boys would say, "I think we've crossed the event horizon, Fred. Better hang on if you can, this is going to be a hell of a ride."
 
  
 
 

#2470 From: JamesNPost@...
Date: Sun Nov 8, 2009 10:43 am
Subject: Who Wants A Job?
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"Who Wants A Job?"

 

Like to play around with numbers?  Let's say you are single, and have no dependents.  You get a minimum wage job.  If the MW is about $6 (to keep the arithmetic easy), and you work 40 hours, your gross earnings are $240.  Your SS and IRS deductions will each be about $10.  If you drive about 25 miles going to work and back, you'll spend about $20 a week on gasoline. Liability (only) on a cheap old car will run you about $80 a month, or $20 of that weekly check.  Lunch is probably a burger combo on the run, at $5 a day, or $25 the week.  After those deductions and daily expenses, your weekly take-home is about $150.

            Not included in those figures is a payment on the car you need to have the job ($120/month?),  uniforms or other special clothes, using a coin-op laundry for cleaning ($10/week?), makeup and grooming ($5?), and parking costs ($5?).  If these are included, your net discretionary income is $100 a week.

That is to say, you must spend 60% of a minimum wage income for taxes, transportation, and lunch just to service the job.  Counting the two hours you must commit to rise, dress, and drive, the lunch hour you aren't paid for, and eight hours of sacktime, you have five hours a day left in which to live the life you are working for, and $20 each working day to spend.  If you are very careful, and save $5 of that each day, you will be able to buy a pizza and a 12-pack of beer for the weekend.  

            Not included in these figures are your rent, utilities, other food, and whatever you do besides eat, sleep, and work
. and oh, yes, your health care.

            Get a better job, you say? How about a good job, breaking that $10 per hour barrier?  OK, start with $400 a week gross, and deduct IRS and SS at about $30.   You'll be able to afford a newer car, raising your payment to $50 a week, and adding comprehensive ups your insurance to $40.  You'll be able to eat at a restaurant for lunch at $10.  You will likely need to improve your wardrobe, and add dry cleaning costs, as well as professional grooming.  Even only doubling those from the very frugal costs above, that will consume $40.  This goes way up if you are a woman. You drive to work in a nicer car, wear a nicer outfit, and you get to sit down to eat.  Now you are left with $190 you can call your own (before your rent and living costs... and your health care), which is $38 per working day.  If you are very careful, and save that extra $8, you will be able to take your sweetie to a movie on Saturday, and buy a bag of popcorn to go with that pizza and the 12-pack.  

            It surprises me to hear people whine they just don't understand why our youth, when told they need education to get a job, decide they don't want one, and drop out of school to hang out with their friends selling weed to the working man to buy the beer.

 

James Nathan Post

Albuquerque NM

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