Shane Atwood's Blog

Mark Twain's War Prayer

2011-12-15T14:32:00.000-08:00

Twain wrote The War Prayer during the US war on the Philippines. It was submitted for publication, but on March 22, 1905, Harper's Bazaar rejected it as "not quite suited to a woman's magazine." Eight days later, Twain wrote to his friend Dan Beard, to whom he had read the story, "I don't think the prayer will be published in my time. None but the dead are permitted to tell the truth." Because he had an exclusive contract with Harper & Brothers, Mark Twain could not publish "The War Prayer" elsewhere and it remained unpublished until 1923.

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Radio Interview with Michael Scheuer - Osama Bin Laden Expert

2011-11-02T10:07:00.000-07:00

231. It Is ALL Blowback

It's NOT because they just "hate us."

What Ever Happened to the Constitution? - Andrew Napolitano

2011-10-21T15:49:00.000-07:00

This one-hour presentation is super interesting, and a good history lesson.

I love Judge Napolitano - I don't follow him all the time, but I have yet to disagree with him.

2011-10-21T10:58:00.001-07:00

The Tea Party Movement, Republicans, and Ron Paul

2011-10-18T12:07:00.001-07:00

This sums up why Ron Paul is the only candidate to vote for.
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America's Video Game Drone Killing

2011-10-18T11:34:00.000-07:00

This is for you mom - in reference to our recent discussion.
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Gerald Celente speaks :-)

2011-08-08T09:53:00.001-07:00

Interesting thoughts on marriage:

2011-06-17T10:55:00.000-07:00

Privatize Marriage Now
Reviewed by Ryan McMaken

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Media Can't Touch 9/11

2011-06-15T13:52:00.000-07:00

Pentagon Papers Whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg Says that the Government Has ORDERED the Media Not to Cover 9/11

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- Paul Craig Roberts

2011-05-25T09:35:00.000-07:00

"Independent thought is not a concept with which very many Americans are familiar or comfortable. Most want to have their emotions stroked, to be told what they want to hear. They already know what they think. A writer’s job is to validate it, and if the writer doesn’t, he is, depending on the ideology of the reader, a misogynist, a pinko-liberal commie, or an operative for the fascist establishment. All will agree that he is a no good SOB . . . respect for truth has fallen and taken everything down with it."

Like this quote:

2011-05-21T09:09:00.001-07:00

If you are distressed by any external thing, it is not this thing which disturbs you, but your own judgment about it. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgment now.
- MARCUS AURELIUS

Funny but telling . . .

2011-05-16T10:44:00.000-07:00

“Do you know why the Amish sell raw dairy? Because they hate our freedom.”

- Myles Kantor

America's Will to War: the Turning Point by Ralph Raico

2011-04-28T14:11:00.000-07:00

We pay lip service to the Founding Fathers, but we ignore their wisdom.

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2011-04-28T08:44:00.001-07:00

John F. Kennedy . . .

2011-04-21T14:23:00.001-07:00

"The very word "secrecy" is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and secret proceedings. We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweighed the dangers which are cited to justify it. Even today, there is little value in opposing the threat of a closed society by imitating its arbitrary restrictions. Even today, there is little value in insuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it. And there is very grave danger that an announced need for increased security will be seized upon those anxious to expand its meaning to the very limits of official censorship and concealment. That I do not intend to permit to the extent that it is in my control. And no official of my Administration, whether his rank is high or low, civilian or military, should interpret my words here tonight as an excuse to censor the news, to stifle dissent, to cover up our mistakes or to withhold from the press and the public the facts they deserve to know."

Patrick Henry . . .

2011-04-21T13:59:00.001-07:00

"The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them."

From: CRIMINALITY OF WAR By Howard Malcom, D. D. President of Georgetown College, KY - 1845

2011-04-13T11:12:00.000-07:00

     "The universal maxim has been, "in peace prepare for war;" and men are all their days contributing and taxing themselves to defray the expenses of killing each other. Scarcely has a voice been lifted up to spread the principles of peace. Every other principle of Christianity has had its apostles. Howard reformed prisons; Sharp, and Clarkson, and Wilberforce arrested the s1ave-trade. Carey carried the gospel to India. Every form of vice has its antagonists, and every class of sufferers find philanthropists. But who stands forth to urge the law of love? Who attacks this monster WAR? We have not waited for the millennium to abolish intemperance, or Sabbath breaking; but we wait for it to abolish war. It is certain that the millennium cannot come, till war expires.
     Shall it so remain? Shall this gorgon of pride, corruption, destructiveness, misery and murder, be still admired and fed, while it is turning men’s hearts to stone, and the garden of the Lord into the desolation of death? Let every heart say no. Let Christians shine before men as sons of peace, not less than as sons of justice and truth. If wars and rumors of wars continue, let the church stand aloof. It is time she was purged of this stain. Her brotherhood embraces all nations. Earthly rulers may tell us we have enemies; but our heavenly King commands us to return them good for evil; if they hunger, to feed them; if they thirst, to give them drink.
     Rise then, Christians, to noble resolution and vigorous endeavors! Retire from military trainings, and spurn the thought of being hired by the month to rob and kill. Refuse to study the tactics, or practice the handicraft of death; and with "a hope that maketh not ashamed," proclaim the principles of universal peace, as part and parcel of eternal truth.

For the full essay Click Here and scroll down a bit.

Interesting thought from Patrick Buchanan:

2011-03-25T13:45:00.001-07:00

"Since Bush I, we have intervened in Panama, Kuwait, Iraq, Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia, Serbia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Libya. Had Sens. John McCain and Joe Lieberman gotten their way, we would have been fighting Russians in Georgia and bombing Iran.

Add up all those we have killed, wounded, widowed, orphaned or uprooted, and the number runs into the millions. All these wars have helped mightily to bankrupt us.

Have they made us more secure?"

Is dirt really such a Bad Thing? by Steve Jones

2011-03-23T11:28:00.000-07:00

    "Germ-free mice do not thrive: their immune system is feeble, their bowels do not move as they should, and they are generally unhealthy. Such animals are also anxious and obsessive. Our internal bacteria make plenty of the nerve transmitters associated with mood, and inner filthiness may even play a part in keeping us cheerful.
     The developed world is in the midst of an attack of conditions in which the body’s defences fail to respond properly to external enemies. They include allergies, multiple sclerosis, juvenile onset diabetes and irritable bowel syndrome, in all which the immune system turns upon itself.
     Too much hygiene can be harmful. Children from affluent families without a dog, living in cities rather than the country, who stay home rather than going to nursery are shielded from infection – and are more likely to suffer from such diseases."

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The 1st Great War of the 21st Century Has Begun by Gerald Celente

2011-03-22T15:19:00.000-07:00

     "Only in a mad political science fiction movie could a President engaged in perpetuating two unjust, immoral, interminable, and expensive wars begun by his predecessor, take his nation into yet another unjust, immoral, expensive, and, in all likelihood, interminable war … and expect a happy ending.
     Eight years of war in Iraq and 11 in Afghanistan have resolved nothing and served only to inflame anti-American sentiment around the world, drain the US treasury, kill and wound hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of innocent people, and destroy the lives, limbs, and souls of thousands of American troops.
     Batting zero on the battlefield, the mad political scientists have stepped up to the plate again. Despite nothing but failure, President Obama has decided, unilaterally, to squander still more American men and money in a war on Libya, promising that this time he won’t strike out."

Interesting Article Click Here

Food for thought: The State vs. Christian Moral Values by Scott Lazarowitz

2011-03-21T09:40:00.000-07:00

"If one's loyalty is to the State, as opposed to being loyal to the Rule of Law and to moral values, then one's loyalty to the State requires one to support acts by . . . the State that are immoral, thus un-Christian. Unfortunately, too many people, in their intellectual laziness and their passive, blind obedience to anything the State tells them, have accepted their government's crimes against others . . . in the name of "fighting terrorism," or punishing people for using drugs or whatever.
It is very difficult for me to believe that someone who is Christian-minded and who believes in the aforementioned moral values could approve of a government knowingly apprehending and detaining totally innocent individuals at random as the Bush Administration had done for years following 9/11. Or the U.S. military's and CIA's indiscriminate drone-bombing murders of innocent Afghani and Pakistani civilians. Those who believe that's okay but don't believe it's okay for Al-qaeda or the Pakistani government to fly remote-controlled drones over the U.S. and indiscriminately murder innocent Americans do not believe in the philosophy, 'Don't do unto others what one would not want others to do unto you.'"

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Zero Tolerance Policies: Are the Schools Becoming Police States? by John W. Whitehead

2011-02-17T11:48:00.000-08:00

For Joe Buck & Kirk who will never read it :(

“We end up punishing honor students to send a message to bad kids. But the data indicate that the bad kids are not getting the message.” ~ Professor Russell Skiba

What we are witnessing, thanks in large part to zero tolerance policies that were intended to make schools safer by discouraging the use of actual drugs and weapons by students, is the inhumane treatment of young people and the criminalization of childish behavior."

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Interesting . . .

2011-02-16T07:05:00.000-08:00

      Want to see something freaky and very telling? In witchcraft and demonology, spells are "cast" by means of "magic mirrors" - which are believed to be the entrance to other dimensions. "Through the looking glass" is more than simply symbolic, and the Qabala mystery religions teach that "Lilith" enters into this "world" via "mirrored walls" which are "the entrance to her cave."
     Now comes the freaky part. On May 1, 1776, Sabbatean cult disciple Jacob Frank conspired with Adam Weishapt and Nathan Rothschild. In a highly demonic ritual, the trio communicated with "Father Lucifer" who revealed unto them the "Darkest Priesthood the World had ever known!" The Jewish "Frankite" cult named their organization the "Illuminated Ones" (Lucifer, the "Son of the Morning" brings "first light" or "enlightenment" to the world.) The House of Rothschild controls much of the earth's wealth. Their elitist organization is called the "Illuminati".
      In demonology, secret names have power inter-dimensionally when reversed or "mirrored". Thus Illuminati becomes itanimulli. Check out what happens when you add .com to itanimulli:
http://www.itanimulli.com

9/11 – Mission Accomplished? by Nila Sagedevan

2011-01-26T16:16:00.000-08:00

"Have no doubt: Fear has been drummed hard and hammered deep into the Sheeple. Precisely as planned, millions of ordinary human beings have been artfully molded into a submissive, tractable pulp, ready to believe virtually anything they’re told, eager to concede just about every freedom they cherish, willing to relinquish almost every right they hold precious—all so they can be “protected” from those turbaned, self-detonating camelback bogeymen lurking behind every bush . . . utterly brainwashed into believing one thing above all else: “Al Quaeda’s gonna getcha!”
. . . if we can willingly sink to this level of abject degradation, and elect to live in a world of manufactured illusion and deception—perhaps we deserve it."

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Patrick Henry:

2011-01-26T15:36:00.000-08:00

"The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them."

Pro-Lifers for Mass Murder, by Laurence M. Vance

2011-01-24T15:20:00.000-08:00

This is a great illustration of "consevative" hypocrisy, and what I once tried to explain to someone on a long road trip to Boise . . .

"Why are pro-lifers so indifferent to, and in some cases so defensive of, war, militarism, and nationalism? I think the main reason is ignorance. Ignorance of the Republican Party. Ignorance of U.S. foreign policy. Ignorance of history. Ignorance of the military. Ignorance of the Bible they profess to believe . . .
Pro-lifers should be just as concerned about their government sanctioning the killing of foreigners on the battlefield in an unjust war as they are about their government sanctioning the killing of babies in the womb in an abortion.
It is hypocrisy in the highest degree to talk about the sanctity of life and the evils of abortion and then turn around and show contempt for, or indifference to, the lives of adults and foreigners."

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The Banality of Killing by Jacob G. Hornberger

2011-01-13T09:27:00.000-08:00

     "How can all this massive, regular, permanent death and destruction not affect and infect a society? Sure, it all takes place thousands of miles away. Sure, it’s buried on page 14 of the newspaper. We don’t see the caskets or the burials. We don’t see the crying, the anguish, or the anger of the survivors. We just go about our daily business, deferring to authority. Our public officials know what is best. That is their job. We have to trust their judgment. If they say that American soldiers and CIA officials have to stay in Afghanistan and Iraq permanently and just go on killing people forever, then we, the citizenry, just have to accept that. If they say they have to expand the killing to Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia or wherever, then that is just the way things are. They are the experts. They are in charge.
     In the process, everyone convinces himself that the people who are being killed are “bad guys” or people who just happened to be too close to the bad guys, including their wives, children, other family members, or friends.
     Of course, the possibility that the U.S. government – the invader, the occupier, the interloper – is the “bad guy” doesn’t even enter into most people’s minds. The thought is too horrible, too terrifying. It might cause citizens to have to search their consciences. Easier to simply continue “supporting the troops” who are “defending our freedoms” by killing all those people on a regular, weekly basis."

For this important article Click Here.

Government-created Climate of Fear by Glenn Greenwald

2011-01-11T09:47:00.000-08:00

"A government can guarantee all the political liberties in the world on paper . . . but if it succeeds in frightening the citizenry out of exercising those rights, they become meaningless."

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Why I Pick on Republicans by Laurence M. Vance

2011-01-03T14:51:00.000-08:00

I haven’t always picked on Republicans. In fact, I used to be one, faithfully voting for all the Republicans on the ballot to keep those evil Democrats out of office. As a conservative who had never been exposed to libertarianism, I was a Republican by default. Oh, the political ignorance of youth! . . .

I rarely criticize the Democratic Party, but not because I have anything but utter contempt for it. The socialist and statist policies of the Democratic Party are well known. It is the party of liberalism, socialism, feminism, collectivism, abortion, organized labor, big government, environmentalism, affirmative action, welfare, paternalism, taxing and spending, income redistribution, and every alternative lifestyle known to man. The Democrats are evil, but they are predictably, dependably, and consistently evil. The conservatives who mistake me for a Democrat are many times warmongers who think that to oppose imperialism, militarism, war, and empire means that one is a liberal . . .

When was the last time a pro-life Republican ever expressed concern for the life of any foreigner killed by U.S. bombs and bullets? . . .

Why do I pick on Republicans? They deserve it, that’s why. America is quickly becoming a fascist police state, thanks in a great measure to Republicans and their PATRIOT ACT, Department of Homeland Security, war on terror, TSA, and war on drugs. Instead of complaining about Democratic legislation passed during the last two years, Republicans in Congress should look in the mirror."

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What if?

2011-01-03T14:39:00.001-08:00

An Iraq War Veteran’s Quest for the True Meaning of Liberty and Patriotism by Andrew Mason

2011-01-03T14:35:00.000-08:00

"Going into high school in 2001, I had no idea what the future held for me. Then 9/11 happened. I had the Bushian mentality (being raised in a staunch Republican household) of "let’s go get some," and since he had said that I could either be "either with the terrorists or against the terrorists," I wanted to be against the terrorists like every other American. My motivation and will to live were at their highest they had ever been after I enlisted in the Marine Corps. I thought to myself, "I am going to make a difference in this world. I am going to fight for our freedom!" I graduated from high school a semester early in January of 2005 to attend Marine Corps Basic Training. I deployed twice to the killing fields of Iraq, and I was completely oblivious to the fact that the war was based on total lies. . . ."

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Focus on the Policy, Not WikiLeaks by Ron Paul

2010-12-13T10:45:00.000-08:00

We may never know the whole story behind the recent publication of sensitive U.S. government documents by the WikiLeaks organization, but we certainly can draw some important conclusions from the reaction of so many in government and media.
At its core, the WikiLeaks controversy serves as a diversion from the real issue of what our foreign policy should be. But the mainstream media, along with neoconservatives from both political parties, insist on asking the wrong question. When presented with embarrassing disclosures about U.S. spying and meddling, the policy that requires so much spying and meddling is not questioned. Instead, the media focus on how so much sensitive information could have been leaked, or how authorities might prosecute the publishers of such information.

No one questions the status quo or suggests a wholesale rethinking of our foreign policy. No one suggests that the White House or the State Department should be embarrassed that the U.S. engages in spying and meddling. The only embarrassment is that it was made public. This allows ordinary people to actually know and talk about what the government does. But state secrecy is anathema to a free society. Why exactly should Americans be prevented from knowing what their government is doing in their name?
In a free society, we are supposed to know the truth. In a society where truth becomes treason, however, we are in big trouble. The truth is that our foreign spying, meddling, and outright military intervention in the post–World War II era has made us less secure, not more. And we have lost countless lives and spent trillions of dollars for our trouble. Too often "official" government lies have provided justification for endless, illegal wars and hundreds of thousands of resulting deaths and casualties.

Take the recent hostilities in Korea as only one example. More than fifty years after the end of the Korean War, American taxpayers continue to spend billions for the U.S. military to defend a modern and wealthy South Korea. The continued presence of the U.S. military places American lives between the two factions. The U.S. presence only serves to prolong the conflict, further drain our empty treasury, and place our military at risk.

The neoconservative ethos, steeped in the teaching of Leo Strauss, cannot abide an America where individuals simply pursue their own happy, peaceful, prosperous lives. It cannot abide an America where society centers around family, religion, or civic and social institutions rather than an all-powerful central state. There is always an enemy to slay, whether communist or terrorist. In the neoconservative vision, a constant state of alarm must be fostered among the people to keep them focused on something greater than themselves – namely their great protector, the state. This is why the neoconservative reaction to the WikiLeaks revelations is so predictable: “See, we told you the world was a dangerous place,” goes the story. They claim we must prosecute – or even assassinate – those responsible for publishing the leaks. And we must redouble our efforts to police the world by spying and meddling better, with no more leaks.
We should view the WikiLeaks controversy in the larger context of American foreign policy. Rather than worry about the disclosure of embarrassing secrets, we should focus on our delusional foreign policy. We are kidding ourselves when we believe spying, intrigue, and outright military intervention can maintain our international status as a superpower while our domestic economy crumbles in an orgy of debt and monetary debasement.

December 13, 2010
Dr. Ron Paul is a Republican member of Congress from Texas.

Why Don't Conservatives Oppose the War on Drugs? by Laurence M. Vance

2010-12-09T10:22:00.000-08:00

In article I, section 8, of the Constitution, there are eighteen specific powers granted to Congress. We call these the enumerated powers. Everything else is reserved to the states – with or without the Tenth Amendment. Nowhere does the Constitution authorize the federal government to concern itself with the nature and quantity of any substance Americans inhale or otherwise take into their body. Nowhere does the Constitution authorize the federal government to prohibit drug manufacture, sale, or use. Nowhere does the Constitution authorize the federal government to ban anything. When the Progressives wanted the United States government to ban alcohol, they realized that an amendment to the Constitution was needed.
Drug prohibition is likewise incompatible with private property, individual liberty, personal responsibility, free markets, and limited government – things that conservatives claim to believe in. What happened to the conservative emphasis on families, churches, private charities, and faith-based organizations solving problems instead of looking to the federal government to solve them?

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Am I on the Crazy Fringe? by Robert Wenzel

2010-11-23T13:06:00.000-08:00

The ultimate horrors in Nazi Germany were, indeed, much more terrible than anything close to what has occurred so far in America. But, one should do more than only consider just the ultimate horrors of what went on in Nazi Germany. One must think about the road that was travelled by the Germans to get to that point. . . . I believe one of the most serious misunderstandings about totalitarianism is that it arrives as a full package that requires no assembly. That it is put on the people, like a winter coat. All at one time, and in full view for all to see.

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Economic Implosion Sets the Blame Game in Motion by

2010-11-19T15:09:00.000-08:00

"Do we continue burning money with entitlement programs we can’t afford? Socialists hate that question. Are we traditional conservatives empty of compassion? Not at all, but compassion is not the issue. The issue is one of means, and it’s an issue that people with their heads in Utopian clouds tend to ignore. If you can’t afford a beer, you can’t have a beer. If you can’t afford universal health care, then you can’t have universal health care. What is so difficult about this?"

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Unexpected look for the Rome Temple:

2010-10-25T11:37:00.001-07:00

Promises, Promises - by Laurence M. Vance

2010-10-19T14:10:00.000-07:00

"Do Republicans think we’re stupid? Do they think we’ve forgotten the eight-year presidency of Republican George W. Bush? Do they think we’ve forgotten that Republicans had an absolute majority in both houses of Congress for over four years of the Bush administration? Do they think we’ve forgotten that the Republican Party controlled the Congress during the last six years of Clinton’s presidency?
The empty promises, grandiose claims, vain assurances, and blatant lies in the Republican "Pledge to America" mean that it’s not worth the paper and toner it would take to print out a copy. Republicans are clearly trying to capitalize on voter discontent with the Democratic Party, garner the support of the Tea Party movement, and sucker Americans into voting them back into power.
Promises, promises."

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A World Made by War, by Tom Engelhardt

2010-10-18T11:33:00.000-07:00

"If you had told me then that we would henceforth be in a state of eternal war as well as living in a permanent war state, that, to face a ragtag enemy of a few thousand stateless terrorists, the national security establishment in Washington would pump itself up to levels not faintly reached when facing the Soviet Union, a major power with thousands of nuclear weapons and an enormous military, that "homeland" – a distinctly un-American word – would land in our vocabulary never to leave, and that a second Defense Department dubbed the Department of Homeland Security would be set up not to be dismantled in my lifetime, that torture (excuse me, "enhanced interrogation techniques") would become as American as apple pie and that some of those "techniques" would actually be demonstrated to leading Bush administration officials inside the White House, that we would pour money into the Pentagon at ever escalating levels even after the economy crashed in 2008, that we would be fighting two potentially trillion-dollar-plus wars without end in two distant lands, that we would spend untold billions constructing hundreds of military bases in those same lands, that the CIA would be conducting the first drone air war in history over a country we were officially not at war with, that most of us would live in a remarkable state of detachment from all of this, and finally – only, by the way, because I’m cutting this list arbitrarily short – that I would spend my time writing incessantly about "the American way of war" and produce a book with that title, I would have thought you were nuts."

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The Federal Reserve is Selling Paper Gold and Buying Physical Gold

2010-10-05T14:51:00.000-07:00

"Conclusions:
Officialdom will never admit it and it will NEVER be reported in the mainstream financial news but our financial system has NEVER been in a more precarious state. A banking crisis of unparalleled proportions is coming – probably soon – the exact timing is still sketchy.
Got physical precious metal yet?"

For the rest of the article by Ron Kirby, Click Here.

A Conspiracy Against Ourselves by J.T. Gatto

2010-10-04T09:37:00.000-07:00

"There are many ways to burn books without a match. You can order the reading of childish books to be substituted for serious ones, as we have done. You can simplify the language you allow in school books to the point that students become disgusted with reading because it demeans them, being thinner gruel than their spoken speech. We have done that, too. One subtle and very effective strategy is to fill books with pictures and lively graphics so they trivialize words in the same fashion the worst tabloid newspapers do – forcing pictures and graphs into space where readers should be building pictures of their own, preempting space into which personal intellect should be expanding. In this we are the world’s master.

Samuel Johnson entered a note into his diary several hundred years ago about the powerful effect reading Hamlet was having upon him. He was nine at the time. Abraham Cowley wrote of his "infinite delight" with Spenser’s Faerie Queen – an epic poem that treats moral values allegorically in nine-line stanzas that never existed before Spenser (and hardly since). He spoke of his pleasure with its "Stories of Knights and Giants and Monsters and Brave Houses." Cowley was twelve at the time. It couldn’t have been an easy read in 1630 for anyone, and it’s beyond the reach of many elite college graduates today. What happened? The answer is that Dick and Jane happened. "Frank had a dog. His name was Spot." That happened."

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Doug Casey on the Tea Party

2010-10-01T10:11:00.000-07:00

"The problem with the Tea Party movement is that it has no underlying philosophical basis. Without that sound foundation, it's either going to fail or transform into something really ugly. On average, Tea Party members know something is wrong. They're disgruntled, and they want change. Not the Obama type of change – but what? You just don't know which direction they may go, and there are some very disturbing directions they could end up taking. ... They tend to be thoughtless and reflexive. They conflate some muddled feelings of "tradition" with an actual belief system. They operate on a stimulus-response basis. They're religious in exactly the same way as fundamentalist Muslims. And they're hypernationalistic. ... The Tea Party is a middle-class movement that channels ... fear into the political arena – and politics always caters to the lowest common denominator. Fear is very dangerous, it can have all kinds of very nasty results. Fear causes people to act irrationally."

Great Interview about the Tea Party, Click Here.

Dave Daubenmire:

2010-09-30T14:47:00.000-07:00

"The problem in America is not that the god-less are acting like their father, but that Christians are not acting like theirs."

From D&C 123

2010-09-30T10:51:00.000-07:00

13 Therefore, that we should waste and awear out our lives in bringing to light all the hidden things of darkness, wherein we know them; and they are truly manifest from heaven—
14 These should then be attended to with great aearnestness.
15 Let no man count them as small things; for there is much which lieth in futurity, pertaining to the saints, which depends upon these things.

On the war in Afghanistan:

2010-09-30T10:37:00.000-07:00

"We're not leaving Afghanistan prematurely. ... In fact, we're not ever leaving at all."

Defense Secretary, Robert Gates

"You have to recognize that I don't think you win this war. I think you keep fighting. You have to stay after it. This is the kind of fight we're in for the rest of our lives and probably our kids' lives."

General David Petraeus

Thomas Jefferson:

2010-09-29T15:56:00.001-07:00

"If people let the government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny."

Important Message

2010-09-29T15:50:00.001-07:00

Trade war with China??

2010-09-29T13:58:00.000-07:00

"Today, the downturn is rolling ahead full bore and the rhetoric against the Yuan is nearing fever pitch! Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao stated this past week that a 20% Yuan devaluation would trigger severe job losses and social instability, putting his country at risk. That is to say, the Chinese are presenting this (falsely) as a matter of life and death for them, a situation that requires an extreme response if escalation occurs. . . . Some U.S. business leaders have spoken out against pressure on the Yuan, pointing out that China holds all the cards if a currency war is initiated. . . . This is absolutely true. The problem is that the elites in our government fueling this conflict are well aware that China can and likely will begin a T-bond dump that will implode our currency. They know that China has absolutely no incentive to increase imports from the United States while it holds all the industrial capability necessary to supply itself with needed goods and a solidified ASEAN trading bloc to support its expansion. They also know full well that tariffs and trade embargos in the midst of economic meltdown tend to inflame retaliation and lead to even greater collapse, just as the Smoot – Hawley Tariff Act did in 1930, right before the Great Depression spiraled out of control."
For the complete article Click Here.

Prepare To Be Betrayed by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.

2010-09-22T14:42:00.000-07:00

"all candidates tend to water down their positions after the primaries . . . to get funding from the corporatists allied with both parties.

The larger problem occurs once they take office. Here is where the serious problems begin. They are leaned on by their new colleagues, the party elites, related financial interests, the press, and the entire system of which they are now part. Are they going to make themselves enemies of that system, or are they going to work within the system in order to achieve reform, and not just for one term but more terms down the line? Doing a good job means being part of the structure; doing a bad job means being an enemy of the very system that they now serve."

For the rest of the article Click Here.

From Søren Kierkegaard’s "Works of Love"

2010-09-16T08:52:00.000-07:00

"If honestly before God you wholeheartedly forgive your enemy . . . then you may also dare to hope for your forgiveness, because they are one and the same. God forgives you neither more nor less nor otherwise than as you forgive those who have sinned against you. It is only an illusion to imagine that one oneself has forgiveness although one is reluctant to forgive others . . . It is also a delusion to believe in one’s own forgiveness when one refuses to forgive, for how could a person truly believe in forgiveness if his own life is an objection against the existence of forgiveness!"
. . .
"God will do unto you exactly as you do unto others. In the Christian sense, you have nothing at all to do with what others do unto you – it does not concern you; it is a curiosity, an impertinence, a lack of good sense on your part to meddle in things that are absolutely no more your concern than if you were not present. You have to do only with what you do unto others, or how you take what others do unto you. The direction is inward; essentially you have to do only with yourself before God."

The LDS Church & Islam: some headlines . . .

2010-09-15T15:52:00.000-07:00

"McKay Coppins: Why I defend Muslims"
"LDS Church, Glenn Beck, Mitt Romney oppose Quran burning"
"Orange County, Calif., Muslims, Mormons break fast"
"LDS church gymnasium open for Muslim worship services"
"Muslim 'Day of Dignity' observed in Baltimore" (Muslim-Mormon team catches some people by surprise)
"Fast broken, ties built in New Haven, Conn" (Muslims, Jews, and Mormons from the community to share both in the nightly celebration of Ramadan and in a discussion about the traditions of fasting in all three faiths)

Gunning for Islam by Justin Raimondo

2010-09-14T14:43:00.000-07:00

"The very idea of forbidding the building of a mosque, or any religious edifice, is anti-American to the core, and must be fought tooth and nail. What could be a clearer confirmation of the libertarian contention that a foreign policy of global intervention necessarily means the rollback of our civil liberties here at home? For libertarians, there is no question but that Muslims must be defended against the gathering lynch mob."

For the rest of the article Click Here.

Seeing Third Nephi as the Holy of Holies of the Book of Mormon by John Welch

2010-09-10T12:00:00.000-07:00

"the Sermon on "the Mount" recalls the fact that the temple in Israel was equated with "the mountain of the Lord." Matthew begins chapter 5 in his gospel with these words: "And Jesus went up into the mountain (anebē eis to oros)" (my translation). It does not say, "And Jesus went out on a gentle hillside." Significantly, these words in Matthew are precisely the same as the words in the Septuagint text of Exodus 19:3 and 24:12, when Moses and the elders went up into Mount Sinai (anebē eis to oros). In the mountain, the seventy elders "saw God" and received the law. In the sermon, Jesus similarly promised his disciples that if they are pure in heart, "they [too] shall see God," and he likewise gave them a new dispensation of the law. As some recent biblical scholars have said, these points of parallelism "clearly cannot be ignored." 15 Moreover, when Psalm 24 asks, "Who shall ascend into the hill [or mountain] of the Lord" (anabēsetai eis to oros—the same words again), the psalm is asking, who is worthy to enter the temple? The precise verbal similarity between the Greek texts of these passages in Exodus, Matthew 5, and Psalm 24 comes as further confirmation of the temple setting for the Sermon on the Mount."

For the rest of the article Click Here.

Church Statement on the Burning of the Koran

2010-09-10T09:06:00.001-07:00

SALT LAKE CITY 8 September 2010 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, through a spokesman, issued the following statement today in response to news media inquiries:

“A key tenet of our faith is to accord everyone the freedom to worship as they choose. It is regrettable that anyone would regard the burning of any scriptural text as a legitimate form of protest or disagreement.”

The Triumph of Evil by John Kozy

2010-09-09T10:39:00.000-07:00

". . . the war against evil by the good cannot be won using evil tactics. Evil never yields goodness, and by using these evil practices, the amount of evil in the world increases both in amount and extent. Attempting to save the nation by becoming what you are trying to save the nation from is suicidal."

For the rest of the article Click Here.

Quote from Anthony Gregory's "The Persistence of Red-State Fascism"

2010-09-02T13:19:00.000-07:00

"The idea of religious tolerance should be sacred in America. If there is any reason to be patriotically proud of America’s legacy of freedom, religious freedom is at the top of the list. We were all taught as children how great America was in this regard. And, unlike some other examples of American exceptionalist propaganda, there is actually truth to this. We have no religious wars within our borders. We have no official state religion, thank God. Catholics, Protestants, Jews, atheists, Buddhists and others get along in nearly perfect harmony. This is the crown jewel of American liberty.

The rightwing, however, considers it "politically correct" or even "treasonous" to defend the right of Muslims to pray on their own private property. The explosion of hysteria over the Islamic Community Center in Manhattan was not, as some would have it, an example of political trivia taking over the national debate – it was rather an important national debate over a very fundamental issue on which Americans should by now be mostly united, but instead the rightwing clearly took the wrong side, showing their craven willingness to reject private property rights and the foundation of civilization simply to express their love of the U.S. government and their hatred of Islam."

I Quit, I Think by John Taylor Gatto

2010-08-31T15:26:00.000-07:00

"Bringing children up properly is a helix sport forcing you to realize that no boy or girl on earth is just like another. If you do understand this you also understand there can exist no reliable map to tell you all you need to do. Process kids like sardines and don’t be surprised when they come out oily and dead. In the words of the Albany Free School, if you aren’t making it up as you go along, you aren’t doing it right.

The managerial and social science people who built forced schooling had no scruples about making your kids fit into their scheme. It’s suffocating to the spirit to be treated this way. . . . All pedagogical theory is based on stage theories of human development. All stage theories of child rearing talk in averages. The evidence before your own eyes and ears must show you that average men and women don’t actually exist. Yet they remain the basis of social theory, even though such artificial constructs are useless to tell you anything valuable about your own implacably nonabstract child."

Fascinating Article: Click Here

The Truth Will Not Be Televised

2010-08-27T12:10:00.000-07:00

"Sadly, many people’s reality today does not allow any outside information to process, instead it is written off as conspiracy or blatant lies. Our consciousness has been destroyed so much that fiction has become reality. An entire lifestyle of poisonous foods, pharmaceuticals, and fluoridated water are accepted as safe and sold to us at the cost of our health and well being . . . Who would suspect getting born into a world where everything around you is a continuous lie? The youth of today are convinced that the experts and personalities on television are the authority of credible information while parents and older generations are foolish with dated ideas. Children are conditioned to disconnect from what is truly important to their well being and instead focus on mindless trivia, sports, celebrity gossip, and buying an array of material things. They invest their psychological worth in fantasy characters on television while ignoring or even scorning individuals contributing to the betterment of humanity. They are discouraged from getting involved in their local community and often lack the ability to think independently or to resist corruption. As their children’s minds are molded by television, there is barely a murmur from the public."

For the rest of the story Click Here.

Article by Giordano Bruno

2010-08-25T13:58:00.000-07:00

"It is far preferable to fool an individual into asking you to take over his life, than it is to attempt to do so through brute force."

For the full article Click Here.

Ernest Hemingway:

2010-08-18T14:08:00.001-07:00

"Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime."

George Orwell:

2010-08-18T14:07:00.001-07:00

"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."

War, Peace & the State, by Murray Rothbard

2010-08-17T10:56:00.000-07:00

"it is legitimate to use violence against criminals in defense of one's rights of person and property; it is completely impermissible to violate the rights of other innocent people. War, then, is only proper when the exercise of violence is rigorously limited to the individual criminals. We may judge for ourselves how many wars or conflicts in history have met this criterion . . .

It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society. Society becomes a herd, seeking to kill its alleged enemies, rooting out and suppressing all dissent from the official war effort, happily betraying truth for the supposed public interest. Society becomes an armed camp, with the values and the morale – as Albert Jay Nock once phrased it – of an 'army on the march.'"

This is a great article! Click Here.

Tylenol tied to childhood wheezing and allergies

2010-08-13T14:13:00.000-07:00

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A pair of studies suggests that the common painkiller acetaminophen -- better known as Tylenol in the U.S. -- may be fueling a worldwide increase in asthma. According to one study out Thursday, acetaminophen could be responsible for as many as four in 10 cases of wheezing and severe asthma in teens . . .

They were also more likely to have allergic nasal congestion and the skin condition eczema, Dr. Richard W. Beasley, of the Medical Research Institute of New Zealand, and colleagues report."

To read the article Click Here.

Myron C Fagan: The Mormon Church is Clean :-)

2010-08-13T10:41:00.001-07:00

What They Do In Our Name; by Sheldon Richman

2010-08-12T15:43:00.000-07:00

"to be an enemy of American occupation, bombing, and "nation building" is not the same thing as being an enemy of America or its people. It's time Americans understood that. When you invade another country and people there object, even forcibly, they are not aggressors. You are. To understand this, imagine our being invaded by a foreign military force. Would resistance be aggression? . . .

Is the American military to be permitted to go anywhere the politicians wish and expect the people of the invaded countries meekly to accept their fate and pledge allegiance to the United States? Would we receive an invader that way?"

For the rest of the article Click Here.

It is us . . . Article by Ted Nugent

2010-08-06T11:02:00.000-07:00

"There always have been bad, ignorant people in the world. But in the United States of America, land of the free and home of the brave, the epicenter of rugged individualism founded on the premise of live free or die, where the powerful DNA of defiance got us where we are as the last, best place on Earth, the ultimate violation is that so many hardworking, truly entrepreneurial, independent Americans backed down and failed to stand up when we saw the wimps squawking about all the wrong stuff.

Everything from the New Deal and Great Society on has been a dismal and grossly counterproductive failure, yet we continue to allow corrupt bureaucrats to keep jamming more of the same down our throats with barely a whimper of resistance. How pathetic. How lame. How un-American."

For the rest of the article Click Here.

Hmmmm, Interesting: about Sheeple (10 min)

2010-08-03T11:33:00.001-07:00

Interesting Article - Abolish the CIA

2010-07-28T12:28:00.000-07:00

"The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has confirmed the worst fears of its creator President Harry Truman that it might degenerate into “an American Gestapo.” It has been just that for so long it is beyond redemption. It represents 60 years of failure and fascism utterly at odds with the spirit of a democracy and needs to be closed, permanently.

Over the years “the Agency” as it is known, has given U.S. presidents so much wrong information on so many critical issues, broken so many laws, subverted so many elections, overthrown so many governments, funded so many dictators, and killed and tortured so many innocent human beings that the pages of its official history could be written in blood, not ink. People the world over regard it as infamous . . ."

For the rest of the article Click Here.

Interesting . . .

2010-07-23T11:33:00.001-07:00

"I am opposed to free education as much as I am opposed to taking property from one man and giving it to another who knows not how to take care of it... I do not believe in allowing my charities to go through the hands of robbers who pocket nine-tenths themselves and give one tenth to the poor... Would I encourage free schools by taxation? No!"

Author: Brigham Young, Source: Journal of Discourses Vol. 18, p. 357

Ayn Rand -

2010-07-14T10:38:00.000-07:00

"a statist system -- whether of a communist, fascist, Nazi, socialist or 'welfare' type -- is based on the ... government's unlimited power, which means: on the rule of brute force. ... Under statism, the government is not a policeman, but a legalized criminal that holds the power to use physical force in any manner and for any purpose it pleases against legally disarmed, defenseless victims."

"The basic principle and the ultimate results of all statist doctrines are the same: dictatorship and destruction. The rest is only a matter of time."

- Noam Chomsky

2010-07-13T14:23:00.001-07:00

"If we don't believe in freedom of expression for
people we despise, we don't believe in it at all."

Interesting . . .

2010-06-18T14:01:00.000-07:00

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints released this statement Wednesday (6/16/2010):

In the mid-19th century, when rhetorical, emotional oratory was common, some church members and leaders used strong language that included notions of people making restitution for their sins by giving up their own lives.

However, so-called "blood atonement," by which individuals would be required to shed their own blood to pay for their sins, is not a doctrine of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. We believe in and teach the infinite and all-encompassing atonement of Jesus Christ, which makes forgiveness of sin and salvation possible for all people.

Flashpoints for Global War - Neithercorp Press

2010-06-10T13:41:00.000-07:00

"War on a broad scale creates fear, and fear often inspires a senseless brand of collectivism and misguided patriotism in those uninformed subsections of the public, a patriotism based on blind zealotry instead of individual liberty. The average citizen faced with an ample and immediate threat by a foreign enemy tends to fall in line with establishment policy, even if the conflict with that foreign enemy is entirely fabricated, even if establishment policy is ultimately a greater threat. War has always been utilized as a tool by aristocrats and monarchy to not only expand kingdoms and empires, but to keep the “peasants” of their empires weak, weary, and subservient . . .

War makes drastic change, sometimes terrifying change, possible. Changes that would normally require decades to accomplish can be unleashed in the span of months or even weeks. War conditions the national psyche, and makes it susceptible to tyranny. It gives rise to collective madness, and makes us forget who we are."

For the rest of the article Click Here.

Sam Smith - When the Top Caves In.

2010-05-27T11:51:00.000-07:00

". . . No one controls the country any more. Yes, they are in charge of the buttons, but the buttons no longer work. The housing and stock markets have collapsed. Academics act as though they haven’t gotten their GED yet. Intellectuals grasp at adjectives and metaphors that bear no contact with reality. Corporate executives speak of markets long gone. We are in wars no one can defend reasonably yet against which there is no major protest. Reporters prefer adjectives over facts and have come to think of skepticism as a form of extremism. Sanctified, sanctimonious figures in the church and the GOP are caught in gay trysts. And a hustler named Madoff easily rips off the very high society of which he was a part . . .

But there still is an America and a good one. You just won’t find it on the front pages or on the evening news. It is in our communities, our towns and our states and we have to rediscover and build this America from the bottom up.

It can happen, but the first step is to stop listening to an elite that has destroyed our land and disgraced itself, an elite that has rolled into one great cultural tar ball."

For the full article Click Here.

Interesting

2010-05-27T10:01:00.000-07:00

“Abel, Elijah, the ONLY COLORED MAN WHO IS KNOWN TO HAVE BEEN ORDAINED TO THE PRIESTHOOD, ...he was ordained an ELDER March 3, 1836, and a SEVENTY April 4, 1841, AN EXCEPTION HAVING BEEN MADE IN HIS CASE WITH REGARD TO THE GENERAL RULE OF THE CHURCH IN RELATION TO COLORED PEOPLE.... In Nauvoo HE WAS INTIMATELY ACQUAINTED WITH THE PROPHET JOSEPH SMITH... In 1883, as a MEMBER of the Third Quorum of SEVENTY, he left Salt Lake City on a MISSION to Canada, during which he also performed missionary labors in the United States. Two weeks after his return he died, Dec. 25, 1884, of debility, consequent upon exposure while laboring in the MINISTRY in Ohio. He died in full faith of the gospel.”
(L.D.S. Biographical Encyclopedia, Vol. 3, p. 577)

The Constitution Applies to Terrorists, by Conner Boyak

2010-05-24T11:43:00.000-07:00

"Yes, you read that right. The Constitution applies to terrorists. It also applies to stay-at-home moms, illegal immigrants, truck drivers, anti-government radicals, and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad . . .

The Constitution is a document that created the federal government, and in so doing, specified powers granted to and denied that entity. It does not apply to a person or group of people, but rather to the government itself. In saying above that the Constitution applies to terrorists, truck drivers, etc., the idea is conveyed that the Constitution applies to all people who have any dealings with the federal government."

For the rest of the article Click Here.

The Breakup of the US is Inevitable - Chuck Baldwin's blog

2010-05-21T14:28:00.000-07:00

"Therefore, it is safe to say that, for the most part, America’s foreign policy is (and has been) controlled and manipulated by globalists. Accordingly, America’s armed forces are used more and more as international policemen to patrol the streets of the world on behalf of this international cabal of merchants and politicians. The cover for this is the mantra of fighting an international “war on terrorism.” But the real agenda is, keeping our troops fighting in perpetual war so that they might be available to the globalists at the UN and US State Department (not to mention countless “off the books” operations being run by the CIA and a host of other agencies) for the purpose of maintaining the “global economy” (and only God knows how many illegal enterprises).

Perpetual war also allows the Machiavellians who desire to turn America into a police state to increasingly encroach upon constitutionally protected liberties by keeping the populace in a perpetual state of fear. After all, as long as our troops are “over there” fighting (and making) enemies, we will always need Big Brother to keep us safe “over here.” And the only way he can do that is by putting us all in cages; but hey, it’s for our own good, right?"

To read the rest of the article Click Here.

Tyler Durden from an article on Zerohedge.com

2010-03-30T12:54:00.000-07:00

"On March 18, with very little pomp and circumstance, president Obama passed the most recent stimulus act, the $17.5 billion Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment Act (H.R. 2487), brilliantly goalseeked by the administration's millionaire cronies to abbreviate as HIRE. As it was merely the latest in an endless stream of acts destined to expand the government payroll to infinity, nobody cared about it, or actually read it. Because if anyone had read it, the act would have been known as the Capital Controls Act, as one of the lesser, but infinitely more important provisions on page 27, known as Offset Provisions - Subtitle A—Foreign Account Tax Compliance, institutes just that. In brief, the Provision requires that foreign banks not only withhold 30% of all outgoing capital flows (likely remitting the collection promptly back to the US Treasury) but also disclose the full details of non-exempt account-holders to the US and the IRS. And should this provision be deemed illegal by a given foreign nation's domestic laws (think Switzerland), well the foreign financial institution is required to close the account. It's the law. If you thought you could move your capital to the non-sequestration safety of non-US financial institutions, sorry you lose - the law now says so. Capital Controls are now here and are now fully enforced by the law."

Something to think about:

2010-03-10T12:09:00.000-08:00

"One good way to determine if someone is “controlled opposition” is to not just look at what they are saying – but, more importantly, look at what they are not saying!"

- The Grand Delusion (blog)

Interesting Quote

2010-03-10T12:05:00.000-08:00

The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves

– Vladimir Lenin

My co-worker made this for me :-)

2010-02-17T08:06:00.001-08:00

Personalize funny videos and birthday eCards at JibJab!

Hmmmm, I wonder how they know ;-)

2010-02-03T11:26:00.000-08:00

Terrorist attempt 'certain' within months.

From the Washington Times - Click Here

Even for "good" laws:

2010-02-01T11:21:00.001-08:00

"The notion that an all-powerful, centralized state should provide monolithic solutions to the ethical dilemmas of our times is not only misguided, but also contrary to our Constitution. Remember, federalism was established to allow decentralized, local decision-making by states. Today, however, we seek a federal solution for every perceived societal ill, ignoring constitutional limits on federal power. The result is a federal state that increasingly makes all-or-nothing decisions that alienate large segments of the population."

Ron Paul

Are Humans Really Beings of Light?

2009-12-28T12:42:00.000-08:00

This is a fascinating article! I'm not a scientist so I don't understand everything in it, but the it was awesome in congruence with the D&C.

"Dr. Popp exclaims, 'We now know, today, that man is essentially a being of light.'"

To read the whole thing Click Here.

Anti-war Stance Is Right, Not Left

2009-12-16T14:39:00.000-08:00

"Using military force to right the wrongs in other countries and cultures dissimilar to our own is sure to backfire, even if the intent is sincere. As John Quincy Adams correctly observed: “America goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own.... She well knows that by once enlisting under other banners than her own, were they even the banners of foreign independence, she would involve herself beyond the power of extrication in all the wars of interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, envy and ambition, which assume the colors and usurp the standards of freedom.”

Countries that mind their own business are less likely to be attacked than those that intervene in other countries’ affairs, particularly when those interventions come to be viewed as unwanted occupations."

- Gary Benoit of the John Birch Society; for the rest of the article Click Here.

Better speaker than Obama - and on our side (6min)

2009-12-11T13:42:00.000-08:00

From maseporfolio.blogspot.com

2009-12-11T13:15:00.000-08:00

"Spain has just had its debt outlook lowered by Standard and Poor’s. In January, Spain’s debt rating was lowered from AAA to AA+. Now, Spain’s debt outlook has been reduced from “stable” to “negative”. The outlook: Spain is now expected to experience a “more pronounced and persistent deterioration” in its budget and a “more prolonged period of economic weakness,” than it expected at the start of the year. Enough said.

Spain now joins Dubai and Greece in the headlines that include the label “sovereign debt.” And, the guess is that this list is going to grow in the upcoming weeks and months."

For the rest of the article Click Here.

The 7 foods experts won't eat

2009-12-10T08:46:00.000-08:00

"A recent comprehensive study conducted by the USDA and researchers from Clemson University found that compared with corn-fed beef, grass-fed beef is higher in beta-carotene, vitamin E, omega-3s, conjugated linoleic acid (CLA), calcium, magnesium, and potassium; lower in inflammatory omega-6s; and lower in saturated fats that have been linked to heart disease. "We need to respect the fact that cows are herbivores, and that does not mean feeding them corn and chicken manure," says Salatin.

The solution: Buy grass-fed beef, which can be found at specialty grocers, farmers' markets, and nationally at Whole Foods. It's usually labeled because it demands a premium, but if you don't see it, ask your butcher."

For the rest of the article Click Here.

Interesting perspective from John & Yoko

2009-12-09T10:58:00.000-08:00

Jim Willie: The Golden Jackass

2009-11-20T13:22:00.000-08:00

"The rise in gold pre-sages a currency collapse, led by the USDollar. Gold vaults at commodity exchanges in New York and especially London are being drained by delivery demands. Gold demand is skyrocketing, as distrust for the USDollar is broadening and revolt against the US$ is deepening. The quintessential finance war is between the United States and China, with the battlefield being the US$ and Gold. The race over the $1000 price level came in the face of mammoth shorting by the same Usual Suspects on Wall Street, which do so with paper, but without the required collateral. The gold market is poised for a surprise upward move from a basic broken condition, as the Powerz are losing control. It would be a joy to watch except for the extreme hardship due to come to the betrayed American people."

Linda Brady Traynham from Whiskey & Gunpowder.com

2009-11-20T12:37:00.000-08:00

"Our world is a-swirl with forces building hurricane speed, each having an impact on the others. The concatenation of instability in the bond and stock markets, housing and commercial real estate, the mushroom cloud of increased “money” supply, job losses developing in the auto and tobacco industries due to recent legislation, the Chinese and Japanese at least eying manipulating our currency or replacing the dollar as the standard against which other currencies float, and the possibility that the government is going to appropriate the health industry are just some of the warning signs that indicate it is time to head for the storm cellars with the kiddies, the livestock, a kerosene lantern, a good book, and an enormous picnic lunch."

Copenhagen UN Summit coming up (5 min)

2009-10-20T15:59:00.000-07:00

Quote

2009-10-14T20:26:00.001-07:00

It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the Government from falling into error.

-- Robert Houghwout Jackson,
Chief Judge at the War-Crimes Tribunal in Nuremberg

mercola.com has good information

2009-10-13T09:17:00.000-07:00

"Study after study keeps coming to the same conclusion: Flu vaccines DO NOT WORK, and in many cases do more harm than good.

In fact, before the CDC advocated vaccinating children under the age of five, the number of children dying from the flu was very low, and on the decline. Then, in 2003, just after children aged five and under started getting vaccinated, the number of flu deaths skyrocketed."

Dr. Mercola - mercola.com

2009-10-07T15:00:00.000-07:00

Shortages during WWII:
Foods of all kinds, esp. sugar, meats, dairy, coffee, Tea, jelly and sweets
Clothing
Chocolate
Liquor
Gas
Toiletries
Children's toys
Lead and copper
Nails and building supplies

Common Barter items of WWII:
Clocks for city people
toothbrushes
toilet paper
floss
matches
salt
hooks
knives and scissors
animals-rabbits, goats, horses, pigs, cattle, poultry

Hmmm . . .

2009-10-06T10:13:00.000-07:00

"Cases of autism in the U.S. have now increased by over 2700 per cent since 1991, which is when vaccines for children doubled, and the number of immunizations is only increasing. Just one in 2,500 children were diagnosed with autism before 1991, whereas one in 91 children now have the disease, up from one in 150 just six years ago."
For the rest of the article Click Here

"Indeed, the swine flu vaccine contains no less than 25,000 per cent the amount of mercury considered safe."

Interesting article on why it's hard to change belief

2009-09-16T09:02:00.000-07:00

"Democracy is based on the assumption that people are rational beings who factually examine arguments and are not easily manipulated. Studies are not finding this to be the case. In my own experience in scholarship, public policy, and journalism, I have learned that everyone from professors to high school dropouts has difficulty with facts and analyses that do not fit with what they already believe. The notion that "we are not afraid to follow the truth wherever it may lead" is an extremely romantic and idealistic notion. I have seldom experienced open minds even in academic discourse or in the highest levels of government. Among the public at large, the ability to follow the truth wherever it may lead is almost non-existent."

For the rest of the article: Click Here.

Charlie Sheen - Letter to Obama (6 min)

2009-09-10T12:55:00.000-07:00

Agenda 21 - 10 min

2009-09-08T16:03:00.001-07:00

I thought this was great.

2009-09-03T13:37:00.000-07:00

Congressman gets schooled :-)

2009-08-24T11:06:00.000-07:00