$$$ Follow the Money $$$ Illegal Alien Mobs Take to Our Streets... Demanding US Citizens´ Rights http://www.alainsnewsletter.com/article.php?id=272 contributing editor to   - Alan

These so called Mexicans did not  exist till they TOOK the land of the Aztecs and Mayans by usurpation.  Hence, the land they occupied became theirs, by force.  Then the uSA took some of the Northern portion of that land from those usurping Mexicans in a war.

The Mexican War between the United States and Mexico began with a Mexican attack on American troops along the southern border of Texas on Apr. 25, 1846. Fighting ended when U.S. Gen. Winfield Scott occupied Mexico City on Sept. 14, 1847; a few months later a peace treaty was signed (Feb. 2, 1848) at Guadalupe Hidalgo. In addition to recognizing the U.S. annexation of Texas defeated Mexico ceded California and , New Mexico (including all the present-day states of the Southwest) to the United States.

If these Mexicans what to speak of heritage and honor, then they ought to honor their treaty.  They might argue that treaty was made by other people of other times of old.  Then, they would simply be defeating their purpose, as NOTHING has any merit including their alleged claims of old.  --  Tribble]

This weekend we saw something very disturbing. An illegal alien mob came out of the shadows by the hundreds of thousands and descended on Phoenix, Denver and Los Angeles.

Like an invading horde, they demanded US citizen rights, but without any citizen duties, responsibilities, loyalties. Has our beloved America become France?

Are riots in the streets and the burning of cars in Washington DC next?
 

The media estimates that almost one million illegal foreign migrants and their advocates militantly marched in the streets of America under the flag of Mexico. Their agenda is for our federal laws to be ignored, and their criminal trespass into these sovereign United States to be rewarded with unlimited benefits that include the rights of American citizenship! As these large mobs of foreigners marched proudly under the flag of a foreign country to demand the right to live and prosper in the United States, they claimed that the issue is immigration. But their own actions reveal what is in fact a determined effort to force Americans to accept large foreign colonies in our midst, and to pay handsomely for the privilege of doing so. We have both the right and the moral obligation to defend America, and “just say ‘No!’” Millions of law abiding US citizens understand what is at stake, and wonder what our response should be to sedition, intimidation and acts of defiance against our republic and our ordered liberty.  Providentially, the patriotic American response recommences this week...  The Minutemen.

The Minutemen say, as loyal Americans have always said, “Immigration, yes—colonization, no!” The Mexican government, Open Borders, MEChA, LULAC and other left-wing organizations are all demanding that the US violate our Constitution, compromise our national security and national sovereignty, and undermine the rule of law. Millions of illegal aliens and their handlers are shouting: "No nations, No borders” and “Our 'rights' trump the US, its Constitution, its citizens and its laws.” And they're becoming more vocal and activist every day. But their objective is not true citizenship; what they demand is absent any of the duties, responsibilities and loyalties incumbent to sustain America. Illegal aliens in America are here only because they are guilty of criminal violation of our federal laws, ‘jumping’ our borders and living in a shadowy underground economy. They are morally culpable for shoving aside those who adhere to the law and enter these United States in orderly and legal fashion. Since when do criminals and cheaters receive pride of place for the blessings of liberty, over those honestly, earnestly and faithfully seeking to become American citizens?

This is more than a wakeup call—it is an affront to requirements of responsible self-government.

How did this happen? Our government did not do its job and enforce the rule of law . Instead it has looked the other way as international criminal syndicates, drug cartels, foreign governments, and radical advocacy groups work to destroy the very foundations of the constitutional rights so many Americans have fought for and died to protect.

What will the politicians in Washington do now?Follow the rule of law and represent the 92 PERCENT OF AMERICANS WHO WANT the US BORDERS SECURED? Or will they make common cause with radical globalists, “free-trade” ideologues, and big business lobbyists seeking to exploit cheap foreign labor—even if it creates a new migrant class of indentured labor within our borders?

President Bush has called for a reasonable and civil debate over the issues of border security and immigration reform. But the American people understand there can be no responsible immigration reform UNTIL OUR BORDERS ARE SECURE. “Guest worker” amnesty programs ARE NOT a part of border security.

It is CRITICAL that you ACT TODAY! If we can FLOOD the offices of these Senators with TENS OF THOUSANDS of faxes, demanding that they REJECT any "guest worker" amnesty bill, we CAN stop the dangerous Specter-Kennedy sell-out dead in its tracks. But we need YOUR help. Send your blast faxes to EVERY SINGLE US Senator AT ONCE for just $19, RIGHT NOW:

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The crisis before us today is not surprising to the patriots of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps (MCDC). For more than three years, Chris Simcox and his volunteers, in hopes of protecting their Arizona communities, have been observing and reporting illegal aliens pouring across our southern border… now all America need do is look out the window, and witness in our streets the consequences of our government’s failure to enforce our laws.

One year ago, the Minutemen decided to go public and national, to do the job our government still refuses to do. A brave and dedicated group of 800 patriots mustered for duty in Tombstone, AZ to watch the border and assist the US Border Patrol by reporting illegal crossings—and prove that if we have the political will, our borders can be secured.

Now, under the leadership of Chris Simcox MCDC has grown to more than 6500 trained patriot volunteers. They have awakened the American citizenry, and moved the US Congress to pass HR 4437—sparking a national security and immigration debate that rages in the Senate and across the nation this week.

Now is NOT the time for our Minutemen to back down and allow advocates of anarchy to destroy the rule of law.

Our political leaders lack the backbone to enforce the law and are pushing a radical agenda that would eliminate enforcement of our borders and allow greater access to taxpayer-funded benefits for illegal aliens.

Law abiding American citizens must say that we WILL NOT tolerate an open, chaotic border any longer.  We will not be bullied into surrendering to foreigners our national security, our national sovereignty and our rights as US citizens.

The Minuteman Civil Defense Corps is on duty again throughout April protecting our borders from foreign invasion. They, as always, are respectful of the law and generous in their compassion for the exploited and indigent humanity flooding our frontier.

YOU can make a REAL DIFFERENCE. The politicians will talk; the liberal media and the “Hate America” crowd will complain about offending law breakers. The Minutemen will ACT in defense of America!

Sincerely,

Chris Simcox, President
Minuteman Civil Defense Corps
 

This story appeared in the Antelope Valley Press on Monday, March 27, 2006.
By BOB WILSON Valley Press Staff Writer

PALMDALE - When George Beane went to his neighborhood Burger King on Tuesday afternoon, he got four burgers his way, all right, but at a super-sized cost.

In fact, the charge to his debit card for two $1 Whopper Jrs. and two $1 Rodeo cheeseburgers at the drive-up window at the 2606 East Palmdale Blvd. restaurant was $4,334.33 instead of the $4.33 it should have been.

Because the debit card was linked to Beane's checking account at Bank of America, the electronic charge "went through and left us penniless," Beane's wife, Pat, said Friday.

Their mortgage payment was due at the time, and her fear was that they not only would have no money to pay new bills, but the checks sent for their old ones would bounce, she said.
"We were thinking, 'No, not now!' " of the overcharge, Pat Beane said.

Terri Woody, manager of the oldest Burger King in the Antelope Valley, said the mistake was made by one of her best and most long-term employees. The order was placed at the restaurant's drive-through, so the cashier on duty put the card and the amount to be charged into the electronic reader, Woody said.

"What happened was, the cashier in the box who takes the cards and slides them was interchanging a headset with another person, and she didn't think she put (the amount to be charged) in," so she entered the digits 433 a second time, the manager said.

The cashier "realized it when she went to hand the receipt to him and she said, 'Oh, my God,' and apologized, but it was too late because it had already gone through," she said.
"This cashier has been with me for 20 years, and she's never had a mistake before. She was so upset," Woody said. "I felt really bad, too, and ultimately we gave them the food for free for putting them in that position."

"I just wanted to make sure they get their money back," so Woody called Burger King district manager Scott Ralston. With Ralston's assistance, and calls to Burger King's corporate offices, the money was returned to the account Friday morning.

The fact the bank needed the full three days to reverse an electronic charge process that took only a split second left the couple with no money other than what they had in their pockets, Pat Beane said.

Bank officials said they would reverse the charge only if a representative of Burger King came forward and confirmed the error, Beane said. Even when the error was confirmed, the bank said the funds were on a three-day hold and nothing could be done to release them, she said.
Bank of America supervisor Joel Solorio said that in most instances no correction is made until the bank confirms the transaction and error.

"There are two parts to a purchase," Solorio said. The first is when a card is swiped through a machine and the funds are confirmed to be in the account; the second is when the transaction is confirmed at midnight "and three days later, the money comes out of the account."

During those three days, the money is held "in authorization" so the account holder will not believe the money is still available, Solorio said. If an error is reported and confirmed, the funds can be returned to the user's account after the three-day authorization period, he said.

The process is intended to prevent bank customers from spending money that no longer is available in their accounts and to give the bank time to confirm the facts of any transaction before completing a transfer of funds, Solorio said.

For those three days, "those were the most expensive value burgers in history," Pat Beane said.
 

$$$ Follow the Money $$$ Mother Nature Becomes Mother Hubbard (?Hubbert?) http://www.financialsense.com/editorials/zapata/2006/0306.html contributing editor to  - Viv

It all began in July of 2003. This event is unprecedented in scope and size and was brought about by two factors:

1) The demographic explosion.
2) The worldwide availability of modern technology.

Of course, I speak of the commodity market of the next 20-40 years. The event that has triggered the official beginning of this phenomenon occurred in the summer of 2004, when the price of crude oil penetrated a forty-year old top and broke above $ 45, and has been undeterred since that time.

The price of hard-assets—those things that are non-replaceable (commodities such as oil and natural gas, gold, silver, copper, etc.)—will continue in an upward direction for longer than we would ever believe possible. The price gain will be in multiples of ten times rather than in doubles, as we are used to from past commodity markets. Again: unprecedented.

Why is this going to happen?
(This is not “it might happen”, this is “it is going to happen”.)

We’ve already spoken of the demand. In the past seventy years the population of the Earth has exploded from one billion to six billion people. This is an unprecedented event. (I use the word again, because it applies.)

Modern technology has brought cell phones to people—hundreds of millions of people—where there is no telephone line for 500 miles. The Chinese and much of India are skipping the 20th century. They are jumping from the 19th to the 21st century in one bound. The same thing is true of satellite television. There are people who have generators for electricity, with dishes on their roofs, where there is no TV station, no cable, no electricity. Yet they still see the same images that you and I see every day. We have a case here of once anyone is exposed to advertising, they want it. Once you see it, you want it. Tell me that you would give up your automobile and never drive another car as long as you live. You will begin to understand why what I say here is going to happen:

Now, let’s discuss some of the things that have already happened.

In the last 12 months, China has rescinded the one-child-policy. There will be a renewed boom in the Chinese population.

China announced an 85,000 km six-lane super-highway nationwide system to be completed in thirty years. Many of the individual provinces are spending $ 600 million a year on what we would call state highways.

They have announced another 30-year-program where they will build 25 major atomic-powered electrical facilities.

They have announced the beginning of seven hydroelectric projects. They already have the Three-Gorges-Dam, the largest source of energy this side of the sun. When is the last time the United States, or Canada, built a major hydroelectric project? You can’t even remember.

They have just completed the Shanghai-Tibet railroad. An 11,000 km line runs from Shanghai to the highest elevation that track has ever been laid, on top of the Tibetan Plateau, in far south-western China. This railroad wanders where the rivers don’t go. It is similar to the Union Pacific railroad—in this country—in the late 1800s, that connected both coasts. But there is no ocean in Tibet. However, there are vast natural resources that are as yet undeveloped. The obvious purpose in the interim is to service all of the small agricultural projects. The reason for the terminus on the Tibetan Plateau is the ultimate development of the natural resources. They are looking far into the future. They are the only economy in the world that’s doing that.

Recently—in fact just yesterday—a big Chinese oil producing company announced a $ 2.7 billion purchase of a Nigerian field. It will require at least that much more money to develop it. (You noticed that they are buying oil rather than fighting over it.) The biggest oil deal in the world was cut by China almost three years ago and went totally unnoticed. I have discussed it on many occasions. It still seems to evade the media.

India has announced a new gas pipeline from Iran. This will also be part of the transportation system that brings the 115 million metric tons of natural gas per year from Iran to China. This deal was signed by China about a year ago.

The Chinese automobile manufacturing industry is in full swing. In the fall of 2007 Chinese imports will begin to this country. Then will be the full-blown effort of the biggest company in China. Minor imports have already been announced. They will make 2 million cars for internal consumption this year.

The aircraft manufacturing industry is just being born in China with the announcement of the first 737 size and type aircraft to be built inside the country; no outside parts. China announced that they will kick off 5800 new airline flights over the next year. Before 2010, they announced, they will need 20,000 new aircraft.

Let’s discuss some specifics

I want to precede these with this statement: if you disagree with this article, I suggest that you keep it. I will list here some intermediate price goals for several commodities. You won’t remember those. All you will remember are the ultimate numbers, which I put on the far right. (And you won’t believe those numbers.) But keep the article, and when the numbers on the left are achieved, you may begin to believe what is said here. Because this is what is going to happen, and it has already begun.

Here the numbers:
 

Remember, these numbers are from the guy who said;

Buy Oil @ 12, 24, & 46
Buy NG @ 2, 3, & 4
Buy Gold @ 280, 350, & 450
Buy Silver @ 4, 5, & 6
Buy Copper @ .95, 1.35, 1.50, & 1.80

Would rather believe somebody who has already been right or someone who failed to tell of the top in 1999-2000?? You choose.

The rise in these prices will soon be joined by the soft commodities.

The rise will be stunning!!

In US$ it could be astronomical, because US dollar weakness will exacerbate the problem

I urge you to listen to these words and profit. If you disregard them – you will pay the price…

L&K
ZAPATA GEORGE
956.765.3595
 

H U M O R The Gossip... http://www.alainsnewsletter.com/article.php?id=272 contributing editor to   - Dan

Mildred, the church gossip, and self-appointed monitor of the church's morals, kept sticking her nose into other people's business.

Several members did not approve of her extra curricular activities, but feared her enough to maintain their silence.

She made a mistake, however, when she accused George, a new member, of being an alcoholic after she saw his old pickup parked in front of the town's only bar one afternoon.

She emphatically told George and several others that everyone seeing it there would know what he was doing.

George, a man of few words, stared at her for a moment and just turned and walked away.

He didn't explain, defend, or deny!

He said nothing.

Later that evening, George quietly parked his pickup in front of Mildred's house ...walked home... and left it there all night.

You gotta love George
 

a r t i c l e   /   c o m m e n t a r y Illegal Immigrants Poem contributing editor to   - Dale

I cross ocean, poor and broke, Take bus, see employment folk.

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Nice man treat me good in there, Say I need to see welfare.

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Welfare say, "You come no more, We send cash right to your door."

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Welfare checks, they make you wealthy, Medicaid it keep you healthy!

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By and by, I got plenty money, Thanks to you, American dummy.

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Write to friends in motherland, Tell them 'come fast as you can.'

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They come in turbans and Ford trucks, I buy big house with welfare bucks

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They come here, we live together, More welfare checks, it gets better!

Fourteen families, they moving in, But neighbor's patience wearing thin.

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Finally, white guy moves away, Now I buy his house, and then I say, "Find more aliens for house to rent." And in the yard I put a tent.

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Send for family they just trash, But they, too, draw the welfare cash!

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Everything is very good, And soon we own the neighborhood. We have hobby it's called breeding, Welfare pay for baby feeding.

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Kids need dentist? Wife need pills? We get free! We got no bills! American crazy! He pay all year, To keep welfare running here.

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We think America darn good place! Too darn good for the white man race. If they no like us, they can scram, Got lots of room in Pakistan.

The only sure thing about the future is that there is no sure thing. Storing food for your family is one of the most prudent actions you can take. No one knows what can or will affect the functioning of society or food distribution. With stored food, you eliminate the worry.

The attention of the nation is focusing more intensely, each week, on families storing quantities of emergency food and water in their homes. Why?

Potential disruptions in the food supply can be caused by a number of factors:
(Note the best estimates of the necessary time period for self-reliance.)

    * Job loss/Unemployment
    * Economic downturn
    * Quarantines
    * Erratic Weather- droughts
    * Earthquakes, hurricanes and floods
    * Contamination of food supplies
    * Food storages
    * Transportation breakdown

HOW MUCH TO STORE

Is a one-year supply of food enough? What about a two-year supply?

If people are fortunate enough to find storable food that they can trust, and if they are fortunate enough to get it stored before it disappears or becomes illegal, and if they’re wise enough to get more than a 1-year supply, here is how that supply must be handled.

We must not touch any of that supply until every other alternative has been completely exhausted. When we can no longer grow food in our plowed up lawns, barter, spend cash or trade our cars and other possessions for food, then and only then, should they break open this supply.

You see when conditions have reached the point where the “food of last resort” has to be used, the survival clock starts ticking. If there is only a 2-year supply, that’s exactly how long the family has to come up with a miracle to solve the problem of survival.

What about putting in a little at a time starting with a few basic grains and building up your supply gradually? Not a good option—see why.

Let’s talk about “nickel and dimeing” a supply—putting in a little at a time starting with a few basic grains and building up gradually. Ten years ago that was an option. Not now. Whatever is missing in that supply needs to be filled in immediately. If the supply isn’t complete and nutritionally balanced, it is not a supply.

For example, let’s look at two families.

One family has a 1-year supply of all the “basic” grains. The other family has a 3-month supply of fruit, vegetables, dairy products, proteins, grains and cereals. In short a complete and balanced supply.

How long will each family survive?

    * The family with the grains will make it a few days before the beginning of dysentery, scurvy—the illnesses the pioneers experienced on the same diet.
    * The other family with the balanced supply will be fine for at least 3 months. Their only problem is poor judgment in quantity of supply.

The conclusion is that if a supply is not balanced and complete, it is virtually no supply at all. The council to store what we eat is absolute.

How much is enough? That’s up to every family. Is it better to have what you don’t need or need what you don’t have?
 

$$$ Follow the Money $$$ Illegal Alien Mobs Take to Our Streets... Demanding US Citizens´ Rights http://www.alainsnewsletter.com/article.php?id=272 contributing editor to   - Dan

Let us see if we have the facts correct.

Some gay activists (supporters of conduct that has been historically been ILLEGAL) hold a demonstration while some opposition people quietly hold up some signs and are arrested.  The gay activists are not bothered by the police.

Some baby killers (supporters of conduct that has been historically been ILLEGAL) hold a demonstration while some opposition people quietly hold up some signs and are arrested.  The baby killers are not bothered by the police.

Some people supporting the preservation of a babies life hold a demonstration and some baby killers actively disrupt the demonstration causing the supporters of a babies life are harassed by the police for permits and disrupting the public peace.

Then, admittedly ILLEGAL immigrants hold a nation wide demonstration (the size of the demonstration clearly indicates it was organized) and are not impeded or harassed by the police who know these people are ILLEGAL.  All the while numerous factions of government and private sectors are bending over backwards to find a way to permit these ILLEGALS to continue their ILLEGAL activities by declaring them legal.

Do the enforcers of the law and the law makers have a pattern?  Do they have an agenda?  Is there a message here?  Is that message that if you do illegal things you are protected?  Is that message that if you are of a chosen class you are protected?  --  Tribble]
 

The photos below are Mexica Movement photos of the March 25, 2006 historic event. Descriptions follow along with larger size.
Members and supporters of the Mexica Movement building the posters that would help educate our people as to the background behind all of this racism.
People volunteered to help carry our signs.	Fundraising was conducted to help with the costs of fighting the Minutemen and the SOS. Our people were great with their donations.
Mothers of members and supporters came out to march with our people.	Pride in taking part in the march was displayed everywhere.	One of the more negative parts of the march was when American flags were passed out to make sure the marchers were looked on as part of "America".
Our people arrived as much as four hours early to participate.	From this one corner we photographed our people coming in stream after stream of people.	We greeted our people with our signs to help them understand the racists behind the attacks on our people.
Discussions about our posters went on most of the day.	Here are two of the designers and makers of many of the posters.	Here a man stops to see the posters and to read on the history of the crimes of the Europeans on our continent.
Here we prepare for the march to begin. We put up our signs to remind our people that this is our continent.	Here we bring in the flag of the Mexica Movement.	Our people were anxious to begin the march
This was one of the many great signs that our people made.	People got our message and used it.	Finally, we all began to see that the march was in progress. Punctually at 10 A.M.
This great home made sign: TIERRA INDIGENA AMARLA, TRABAJARLA, LUCHARLA.	It was a great feeling to see our people really alive and united. We need to use this motivation, this heart to bring our continent alive with knowledge and actions that will liberate our people.
Great numbers of our people grew eventually to over half a million or more people. We should be allowed pride in our heritage by waving the flag that represents the majority Mexican descent people of the Spanish language speakers. Mexican and "Central American" people are one people, along with all Indigenous people of this continent. There were a lot of Salvadorean and Guatemalan flags there too. But the American flags dominated because of the "bad press" from the march against 187.
Our signs helped to counter the American flags. Our people expressed their agreement with our message.	"Esta es nuestra tierra y no nos vamos", Began the chant by members of the Mexica Movement.	The march went on for twelve blocks. Broadway was overflowing onto two parallel streets: Spring and Hills streets.
CONTINENTE ROBADO!	Our people understand!	STOLEN CONTNENT!
WE ARE NOT HISPANIC OR LATINO!	Unions, cultural groups, and individuals joined in the protest.	QUE BONITO: TIERRA Y LIBERTAD! on one of the signs.
Reminding our people of the tie to the Nazi mentality of the racists who are attacking our people.	Finally the march approaches the city hall area.	We set up again for the education of our people.
We pass out fliers to help educate our people on the true history of our people.	Here a father and his daughter read the materials of the Mexica Movement.	The posters are studied by people who come up to our tables.
Overall it was a success. Our people came out to protest the racism against our people.	The hundreds of thousands of people that passed by our booth understood the messages that we presented them.	We went on for hours after the march was over to continue the dialogue with our people.
An interview from KPFA of northern California interviews the Mexica Movement. Local vendidos were not interested in our history-point-of-view.	We were there until the last few dozens of our people left. All day long we passed out fliers to help educate our people. With time our people will awaken to the reality of our ownership of this whole continent.
We were educating all day long to the mostly young people who came up to our tables. At the end we gathered some of the members and supporters who were able to stay till the end for a portrait.
BELOW ARE PHOTOS FROM OTHER SOURCES. PHOTO CREDITS WILL BE GIVEN IN THE NEXT FEW DAYS.
This is a photo from the Los Angeles Times. This is just a small part of an estimated 500,000 to ONE MILLION marchers who were protesting against the racists trying to terrorize and criminalize our people.
This is just part of what happened on Friday March 24 with our kids walking out from the high schools. More of this happened on Monday. We are proud of our people. They are waking. Now, if only they really knew the whole truth.
	This photo is from the Riverside, California arrests after the Friday walkouts in that area. From the LA Times.
These photos are from the SOS website. These photos had no i.d. so they may be from another source. Looks like this is from one of the walkouts this week in Montebello.
These photos are from the SOS website. They seem to be very interested in what was going on at the Great March. The racists in general are not concerned with how many of us protest. FINAL NOTE: Racist Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R of California 4th district) of red-neck Orange County said that he didn't care how long people had been in "this country" illegally, if they were here illegally for 5 or 50 years that they should be deported. Fine! Europeans have been here illegally since 1492, START THE DEPORTATIONS NOW! First one to go should be this Nazi Rohrabacher! Sensenbrenner, Schwarzenegger, Rohrabacher, funny how they all have Germanic names! .....No, it's not funny at all!

“What if Jesus had a message that truly could save the world, but we’re prone to miss the point of it?”
 

Brian McLaren, one of TIME magazine's "25 Most Influential Evangelicals in America," is back, this time to lead readers on a journey that will prove to be as unsettling and groundshaking as it is thrilling and life-changing. Unafraid of controversy or the uncomfortable gray areas of life, McLaren's quest is to find the essential message of Jesus' life - even if it overturns our conventional ideas, priorities, and practices. What if? This question resounds through Brian McLaren’s latest book, The Secret Message of Jesus. With wild-eyed wonder, contagious hope, and a compassionate spirit, McLaren invites us to consider the hopeful possibilities of God’s kingdom – possibilities that may remain unrealized because of our failure to grasp Jesus’s message; possibilities that may have arisen by our comfortable acceptance of the status quo; possibilities that may exist because of our willing partnership with systemic powers of evil in government, politics, and religion.

The Message of the Kingdom

Why is it that people are interested in Jesus but repulsed by his spokespeople? What if his spokespeople are misrepresenting Jesus?

What if?

A revolutionary alternative to religion-as-usual exists in the “secret message” of Jesus. McLaren invites us “to see, seek, receive, and enter a new political and social and spiritual reality [Jesus] calls the kingdom (or empire) of God” (17).

Jesus’s basic message can be summarized: “Repent, for the kingdom of God has drawn near.” Jesus invites us to a whole new way of seeing, being, and doing centered upon God’s kingdom. McLaren paraphrases Jesus’s kingdom pronouncement:

    The radical revolutionary empire of God is here, advancing by reconciliation and peace, expanding by faith, hope, and love – beginning with the poorest, the weakest, the meekest, and the least. It’s time to change your thinking. Everything is about to change. It’s time for a new way of life. Believe me. Follow me. Believe this good news, so you can learn to live by it and be part of the revolution. (32-33)
 

'I don't know if she thought my mom had a bomb in her Depends or what'

An infuriated Denver woman has filed a complaint with the Transportation Security Administration after a security screener forced her 83-year-old mother to get out of her wheelchair and walk to a pre-flight screening area, despite doctor's orders not to stand and an orthopedic card saying she had a metal plate in her hip.

The incident at Denver International Airport occurred eight days ago when Sally Moon, her sister and a Frontier Airlines employee were transporting Bernice "Bea" Bogart to a special security screening area. Moon's sister, who did not have concourse clearance and the Frontier employee were left behind as Moon pushed her mother to the screening site.

Bogart, wheelchair bound since a 1999 fall that broke her hip and further disabled by breast cancer surgery in 1997 and a major stroke in 2004 that caused dementia, was under strict doctor's orders not to stand without assistance or her walker. She carried a special orthopedic card to alert airport security she had a metal plate in her hip.

Moon had been told by Frontier and TSA staff that screeners would not require Bogart to leave her chair for the security check, so she turned to put her mother's carry-on luggage through the x-ray device. When she turned back, she discovered her mother had been picked out for further screening and was out of her chair, "hobbling" through a glass-walled corridor.

"There were no grab bars," Moon told the Rocky Mountain News. "What I could see really was her fingers trying to hang onto a little ledge."

Moon says she instinctively reached out to assist her mother, fearing another fall and another broken hip.

"Don't touch her!" Moon says the screener warned.

Moon attempted to tell the young screener, a woman in her mid-to-late 20s, that her mother was under doctor's orders not to stand without her four-wheeled walker, but the screener shot back, "You'd better change your attitude. Or do you want me to make it so you don't fly today?"

Bogart, who is also hard of hearing, was allowed to sit briefly, but the screener soon instructed her to stand again and lift her arms, according to Moon. She then reportedly lifted Bogart's arms because the elderly woman couldn't, due to her earlier breast cancer surgery.

Moon says she was told to sit across the room "or else" when she continued to protest.

After the "prolonged search," the pair was cleared to continue to their gate and Moon put her "shocked" mother on the flight to Tennessee for a month's visit with Bogart's youngest daughter.

An angry Moon attempted to complain to Denver's TSA management, but was told to make her complaint to the national office. Supervisors would not tell her the name of the screener who had made boarding her mother so difficult.

"I don't know if she thought my mom had a bomb in her Depends or what," Moon said.

While Moon is still angry and cynical that TSA will do anything about her complaint, a Denver TSA spokeswoman said the agency expects a high degree of professionalism from screeners and Moon's complaint would be investigated. TSA's Office of Civil Rights will soon issue a response, she said.

"When we receive complaints, we take them very seriously, we investigate them and we address any personnel issues as appropriate," she said.

Bogart, now in Nashville, says she doesn't want to see anyone get in trouble.

"They were all kind except for that one girl. I thought she was a little harsh," she said. "She wouldn't let my daughter help me. And I have a hard time standing very long at a time at all."
 

Fellow professors and scientists applause and roar approval at elite's twisted and genocidal population control agenda

Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones/Prison Planet.com | April 3 2006

A top scientist gave a speech to the Texas Academy of Science last month in which he advocated the need to exterminate 90% of the population through the airborne ebola virus. Dr. Eric R. Pianka's chilling comments, and their enthusiastic reception again underscore the elite's agenda to enact horrifying measures of population control.

Pianka's speech was ordered to be kept off the record before it began as cameras were turned away and hundreds of students, scientists and professors sat in attendance.
 

Saying the public was not ready to hear the information presented, Pianka began by exclaiming, “We're no better than bacteria!”, as he jumped into a doomsday malthusian rant about overpopulation destroying the earth. Standing in front of a slide of human skulls, Pianka gleefully advocated airborne ebola as his preferred method of exterminating the necessary 90% of humans, choosing it over AIDS because of its faster kill period. Ebola victims suffer the most tortuous deaths imaginable as the virus kills by liquefying the internal organs. The body literally dissolves as the victim writhes in pain bleeding from every orifice. Pianka then cited the Peak Oil fraud as another reason to initiate global genocide. “And the fossil fuels are running out,” he said, “so I think we may have to cut back to two billion, which would be about one-third as many people.”

Later, the scientist welcomed the potential devastation of bird flu and spoke glowingly of China's enforced one child policy, before zestfully commenting, “We need to sterilize everybody on the Earth.”

At the end of Pianka's speech the audience erupted not to a chorus of boos and hisses but to a raucous reception of applause and cheers as audience members clammered to get close to the scientist to ask him follow up questions. Pianka was later presented with a distinguished scientist award by the Academy. Pianka is no crackpot. He has given lectures to prestigious universities worldwide.

One horrified observer was able to make notes on the speech and our gratitude goes to Forrest M. Mims for bringing this sickening display to the attention of the world.

Throughout history elites have invented justification for barbaric practices as a cover for their true agenda of absolute power and control over populations. Up until the 19th century, the transatlantic slave trade was justified by saying that the practice was biblical and therefore morally redeemable in nature, despite the fact that no such bible passage exists.

From 1932 until 1972, the Tuskegee Study Group (pictured below) deliberately infected poor black communities in Alabama with syphilis without their consent and withheld treatment as the diseased rampaged through the town killing families.
 

In 1951 the Israeli government used US government provided technology to irradiate 100,000 Jewish children in a mass atomic experiment with an entire generation of Sephardi youths used as guinea pigs. 6,000 died immediately after the experiments and the rest suffered for the rest of their lives with debilitating illnesses and cancer. Pianka's doomsday warning of the population bomb, for which Mims claims he presented no evidence whatsoever, is complete pseudo-science. Populations in developed countries are declining and only in third world countries is it expanding dramatically. Industrialization itself levels out population trends and even despite this world population models routinely show that the earth's population will level out at 9 billion in 2050 and slowly decline after that. "The population of the most developed countries will remain virtually unchanged at 1.2 billion until 2050," states a United Nations report. Conservation International's own study revealed that 46% of the earth's surface was an untouched wilderness, that is land areas not including sea. It is commonly accepted that the entire world population could all fit into the state of Texas and each have an acre of their own land.

Think about the magnitude of Pianka's statements. He wants to kill nine out of every ten members of your family and he wants to kill them in one of the most painful and agonizing ways imaginable.

If Pianka, or 'The Lizard Man' as he likes to be called, is so vehement in the necessity of culling the human population will he step forward to be the first one in line? Will he sacrifice his children for the so-called greater good of the planet? We somehow doubt it.

Will the students who so enthusiastically greeted his ideas go home and kill themselves for the cause if it is so righteous?

It was noted how Pianka presented his argument with the kind of glee that you would see in a demented serial killer before dispatching his victim. This is an attitude we have encountered again and again. To discuss killing 90% of the world's population via a horrific plague is sick enough within itself but you would at least expect its advocates to be serious and sober in their approach to the subject. The opposite seems to be the case, where the subject is aired in a context of lighthearted lip-smacking and hand-rubbing as if the individual was about to sink his teeth into a T-bone steak.

This window gives us a clear view of exactly why these deranged bastards encompass this ideology. They love death and their lives are motivated by dark influences very different to you or I.
 

Pianka's approval of how the Chinese police state effectively controlled their population tells us that this rhetoric is just the glue that holds together the true agenda of the elite. A staged bio-attack blamed on terrorists could be the perfect cover for enacting the program of population reduction and the usurpation of our remaining freedoms. In the 21st century the elite are concerned that from over 6 billion people might spring a new elite to challenge their stranglehold on the reigns of power. This is one reason for desire to cull the population down to a manageable level. Another is control over the behavior of the existing serfs and herding them like cattle into the slaughter house. As we have documented, members of the elite are quite open in their feverish lust to commit mass murder and ethnic cleansing. In the foreword to his biography If I Were An Animal, Prince Philip wrote, "In the event that I am reincarnated, I would like to return as a deadly virus, in order to contribute something to solve overpopulation."

National Security Memo 200, dated April 24, 1974, and titled "Implications of world wide population growth for U.S. security & overseas interests," says:

"Dr. Henry Kissinger proposed in his memorandum to the NSC that "depopulation should be the highest priority of U.S. foreign policy towards the Third World." He quoted reasons of national security, and because `(t)he U.S. economy will require large and increasing amounts of minerals from abroad, especially from less-developed countries ... Wherever a lessening of population can increase the prospects for such stability, population policy becomes relevant to resources, supplies and to the economic interests of U.S."

Kissinger prepared a depopulation manifesto for President Jimmy Carter called 'Global 2000' which detailed using food as a weapon to depopulate the third world.
 

One of the most chilling admissions of deadly intent came from the lips of the late Jacques Cousteau, the sainted environmental icon. In an interview with the UNESCO Courier for November 1991 the famed oceanographer said: "The damage people cause to the planet is a function of demographics — it is equal to the degree of development. One American burdens the earth much more than twenty Bangaladeshes. The damage is directly linked to consumption. Our society is turning toward more and needless consumption. It is a vicious circle that I compare to cancer...."  "This is a terrible thing to say. In order to stabilize world population, we must eliminate 350,000 people per day. It is a horrible thing to say, but it’s just as bad not to say it."

The Melbourne Age reported on recently uncovered documents detailing Nobel Peace Prize winning microbiologist Sir Macfarlane Burnet's plan to help the Australian government develop biological weapons for use against Indonesia and other "overpopulated" countries of South-East Asia.

Pianka's ideology is in the same league as Hitler, Pol Pot, and the rest of history's despots who advocated mass extermination and had the temerity to dress it up in a 'noble' Straussian facade. We demand that he be investigated for openly calling for mass murder and in the meantime we encourage everyone to click here and e mail Pianka, enabling him to receive your feedback about his wish that you and your entire family die.

a r t i c l e   /   c o m m e n t a r y America's Grand Finale http://www.tech.com.au:8080/flagship/servlet/story.servlet.ShowStory?categoryId=8&storyId=1701 contributing editor to   - Jeanne

... under the imperial Roman eagle

by Dorothy Anne Seese

There is no doubt that the rise and fall of the United States of America bears a close resemblance to the rise and fall of the Roman Empire, from its days as a representative republic to the final collapse in its own debauchery, too weak to fight even if inclined so to do.  The imperial eagle is the emblem used by both Rome and the United States, a bird of freedom and power, but also a bird of prey.  How fitting.

A television series I recently watched on Rome's technological advances, engineering excellence, and moral perversion made a direct comparison between the USA and Rome, something that surprised me just a little since it was shown on a rather popular educational channel. Rome's arches made possible engineering feats centuries ahead of their time. Roman roads still exist, in part, centuries after the fall of the empire. America's transcontinental railroads, automobiles and airlines, use of laser technology and nuclear capability have made possible a republic wealthier than any since Roman times, stronger than its neighbors around the world, and now more to be feared.  Sadly, the corruptive seeds inherent in the possession of power have made it a target for a fall equal to or greater than that of Rome.

While New York symbolizes the financial strength of the US, more fictional than real due to our enormous debt and interdependence on other nations, a precalculated condition brought about by the modern Visigoths who control international finance and demand cooperation from the US, Las Vegas symbolizes Pompeii, the riotous living capital of the Roman empire.  Millions of people, American as well as foreign tourists, flock there to indulge themselves in every vice and leave behind billions of dollars for the luxury of such an experience. The exotic hotel complexes, more lavish than anything Pompeii could have offered, showcase restaurants where dinner for two costs the revelers over $300.  And that's just dinner.  It isn't difficult to drop ten to twelve thousand dollars for a single weekend in Las Vegas.

Romans also lost their identity in the growth of the empire.  Roman citizenship became conveyed on any and all who would swear allegiance to, or contribute money to, the emperor's treasury.  Being a "Roman" came to mean being a non-slave or a non-barbarian (generally those who spoke Slavic or Germanic languages). By so diluting the identity of Romans as being what we today regard as Italians, the empire grew weaker as it grew larger, and each language group became minimally bilingual ... Latin for business, the native language for all other purposes.  This cultural dilution was encouraged by the Roman emperor and his court for the purpose of gaining finances to protect their extensive borders, but every time they succeeded in gaining money, they lost power and became bankrupt.  When they could not pay their huge standing army, it deserted.  In the US, we're cutting and have cut our military strength, yet our military is still efficient if allowed to be so.  It's being used up, decimated in fact, by useless foreign wars in places where we are accomplishing nothing.  Not even Rome began a campaign with nothing more in mind than to lose!

However, not all is lost in our wars-for-nothing, other than the lives of soldiers who are as expendable as Roman soldiers or worse, the gladiators who died in the arenas of public entertainment.   The US has a multinational military/industrial complex that benefits financially, at the expense of the American taxpayer, from supplying the military and gaining large contracts for "rebuilding" devastated areas, at best a ridiculous notion from an imperial standpoint.  But, this is a different age and has been since the Marshall Plan.  The presence of US troops is a hollow shadow of the protection once offered, and our armies are expendable if they accomplish a presence that allows the construction contracts to proceed.  That isn't capitalism, it is tyranny and tyranny at its worst, disguised as capitalism.  Huge monopolies form an elite that has allied itself with the global governance elite of bankers and financiers at the expense of human lives and the destruction of the Republic.

Romans, in the period of the Republic, were quite religious folks, dedicated to several deities borrowed from Babylon by way of Greece.  While this is no endorsement of their pagan deities, at least the people did have some higher authorities, capricious as they were, to please.  In America, founded by devout Christians seeking religious freedom from the Anglican church (those Mayflower folks), churches were built, universities and theological seminaries built to teach the essentials of the Christian faith, doctrine and practice.  Whatever criticisms we might have of their intolerance for other practitioners of the Christian faith, this nation was most certainly colonized by those who were devout believers in the Christ, the Bible, and the simple Christian life.

The founders who organized, fought and won the American Revolution had respect for if not total belief in the Holy Scriptures. The idea that the vast universe just "big banged" itself into existence would have been called heresy or worse.  The intricacies of design obvious in all things, and the interdependence of climate, crops, pollenization, growth cycles and times of restoration were sufficient to satisfy most colonists that man is not an accident but a direct creation of a personal God who demands accountability from His creation.  While cigars were tolerated, homosexuality was absolutely forbidden by law and punishable by that law.

However, just as Rome tired of its deities and began to ignore them, Americans of the late 19th and 20th centuries tired of God's absolute rules, considered them restrictive and regressive, and thus began to chip away at the foundational Christian principles of our founders' government.  The Supreme Court was used/misused to end prayer in schools, approve of abortion as a woman's "constitutional right" and is now faced with whether it shall redefine marriage to include any union.  Even Rome, with its rampant homosexuality and pedophilia, never attempted to redefine marriage!  While marriages were often matters of money and convenience, they were always between man and woman.  In that regard, the Romans were just one baby step ahead of the United States and its redefinition of marriage.

Christianity thrived in the Roman empire, so much so that Nero found it convenient to pin his little bonfire on this "new sect" of religionists and use Christian captives as human torches to light his patio parties.

In America, we are not far from having our Bibles banned as "hate literature."  Why?  Because it condemns fornication, adultery, pornography and homosexuality. To condemn such can be construed as "hating" or "propagating hatred" of those involved, which happens to be a growing segment of Americans or persons living in this country.  The supposed 80% of Americans who declare they are "Christian" is either a totally skewed figure or the pollsters selected their samples from the American midwest and the South. If 80% of our people were Bible-believing, obedient Christians, this nation would have had a revolt at the first Supreme Court decision in 1962 removing prayer from the schools.  Only weak, careless, pew-warming churchgoers who attend for the sake of appearances would have allowed such an attack on the practices of our nation since it was a British colony to prevail.

Instead, our church are figuring out how to "get with the program" and bring in more people for more money, more offerings in the plate. Rather than serving the poor, they build grandiose buildings to "honor" God, but they are honoring the god of mammon, not the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, not the Great "I AM."

Thus, the United States, with the Imperial Eagle at the forefront, marches straight into the abyss with Rome and its predecessors that have been left in the dust by history.  Babylon, or the "spirit of Babylon" jumps from one empire to another seamlessly, with its greedy commerce, false religion and corrupt politics.

Just as it was with Rome, is with the United States, so shall it be with the One World Government, the final age of human government that will incur the final judgment on man's inability to govern himself or live apart from the evil nature within him.

I have loved my country.  My government lost my respect in 1965 and thereafter, a-whoring after other nations for the sake of a few unscrupulous millionaires claiming "free trade" in the stead of what should have been called treason.  America's resources were great, they have been wrongfully exploited and much of our land is owned by those outside the United States, non-citizens, whose interests are to take and not give, to ruin what we built before non-citizens were permitted to own property in the United States.

Many patriots want to take back the United States, thinking that we need only fight the present government. That is limited thinking.  Patriots would have mercenaries from all over the world, courtesy of the United Nations, ready to kill any American who rises up against this unjust and debauched system.

There is but One with whom these wealthy profligates have to deal, and He will deal both justly and swiftly. Those who fear Him have nothing else to fear, not even the demise of America as we knew it.  After all, this life and the lifespans of nations are purely mortal, and the greatness of God's Kingdom is eternal.

Revelation 11:18  And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.  (KJV)
 

Official version of events a conspiracy theory, says drills were cover for  attacks Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones/Prison Planet.com | April 4 2006 The former head of the Star Wars missile defense program under Presidents Ford and Carter has gone public to say that the official version of 9/11 is a conspiracy theory and his main suspect for the architect of the attack is Vice President Dick Cheney. Dr. Robert M. Bowman, Lt. Col., USAF, ret. flew 101 combat missions in Vietnam. He is the recipient of the Eisenhower Medal, the George F. Kennan Peace Prize, the President’s Medal of Veterans for Peace, the Society of Military Engineers Gold Medal (twice), six Air Medals, and dozens of other awards and honors. His Ph.D. is in Aeronautics and Nuclear Engineering from Caltech. He chaired 8 major international conferences, and is one of the country’s foremost experts on National Security.

Bowman worked secretly for the US government on the Star Wars project and was the first to coin the very term in a 1977 secret memo. After Bowman realized that the program was only ever intended to be used as an aggressive and not defensive tool, as part of a plan to initiate a nuclear war with the Soviets, he left the program and campaigned against it.

In an interview with The Alex Jones Show aired nationally on the GCN Radio Network, Bowman (pictured below) stated that at the bare minimum if Osama bin Laden and Al-Qaeda were involved in 9/11 then the government stood down and allowed the attacks to happen. He said it is plausible that the entire chain of military command were unaware of what was taking place and were used as tools by the people pulling the strings behind the attack.
 

Bowman outlined how the drills on the morning of 9/11 that simulated planes crashing into buildings on the east coast were used as a cover to dupe unwitting air defense personnel into not responding quickly enough to stop the attack. "The exercises that went on that morning simulating the exact kind of thing that was happening so confused the people in the FAA and NORAD....that they didn't they didn't know what was real and what was part of the exercise," said Bowman "I think the people who planned and carried out those exercises, they're the ones that should be the object of investigation." Asked if he could name a prime suspect who was the likely architect behind the attacks, Bowman stated, "If I had to narrow it down to one person....I think my prime suspect would be Dick Cheney."

Bowman said that privately his military fighter pilot peers and colleagues did not disagree with his sentiments about the real story behind 9/11.

Bowman agreed that the US was in danger of slipping into a dictatorship and stated, "I think there's been nothing closer to fascism than what we've seen lately from this government."

Bowman slammed the Patriot Act as having, "Done more to destroy the rights of Americans than all of our enemies combined."
 

Bowman trashed the 9/11 Commission as a politically motivated cover-up with abounding conflicts of interest, charging, "The 9/11 Commission omitted anything that might be the least bit suspicious or embarrassing or in any way detract from the official conspiracy so it was a total whitewash." "There needs to be a true investigation, not the kind of sham investigations we have had with the 9/11 comission and all the rest of that junk," said Bowman. Asked if the perpetrators of 9/11 were preparing to stage another false-flag attack to reinvigorate their agenda Bowman agreed that, "I can see that and I hope they can't pull it off, I hope they are prevented from pulling it off but I know darn good and well they'd like to have another one." A mainstay of the attack pieces against Charlie Sheen have been that he is not credible enough to speak on the topic of 9/11. These charges are ridiculed by the fact that Sheen is an expert on 9/11 who spends hours a day meticulously researching the topic, something that the attack dogs have failed to do, aiming their comments solely at Sheen's personal life and ignoring his invitation to challenge him on the facts.

In addition, from the very start we have put forth eminently credible individuals only for them to be ignored by the establishment media. Physics Professors, former White House advisors and CIA analysts, the father of Reaganomics, German Defense Ministers and Bush's former Secretary of the Treasury, have all gone public on 9/11 but have been uniformly ignored by the majority of the establishment press.

Will Robert Bowman also be blackballed as the mainstream continue to misrepresent the 9/11 truth movement as an occupation of the fringe minority?

Bowman is currently running for Congress in Florida's 15th District.
 

Can you Say Red Herring*** Have you learned how to holler **I surrender** in Spanish? Bush and Congress have -  they pronounce it  "GUEST WORKER" http://www.newswithviews.com/Wooldridge/frosty138.htm contributing editor to   - Loretta

Here are the laws already on the books and NOT BEING ENFORCED!!!!!!!
US CODE: TITLE 8 > CHAPTER 12 > SUBCHAPTER II > Part VIII

“If u dont like that s**t, get the f**k outa here. Go back to europe where there are no mexicans. this is our land and u white devils took it from us and the indians... ya baby we takin ova..... first l.a… now Denver, then the rest of the east coast sucker.... hahaha,” eloquently chortled an illegal Mexican into my inbox.

This writer fails to understand that red, brown, yellow, black and white Americans make up the United States. More than 150 countries represent Americans.

Unfortunately, in the face of this illegal Mexican invasion, most Americans maintain ‘political correctness’ in the name of ‘silent-assertion’, which, as Mark Twain said, “Is the shabbiest of all lies.” Naively, Americans don’t understand the implications of Mexico’s methodical colonization of the United States.

Once Mexicans gain majorities in our cities and voting blocks, they care nothing for political correctness, civil rights or the U.S. Constitution. Another reader wrote, “I look into my crystal ball and see into the future, the year 2036, exactly 200 years after Travis, Bowie, Crockett and my great, great, great grandfather James George and 176 others died defending the Alamo. I see my descendents’ children in school, facing discrimination, violence, disease, drugs and an untenable learning environment. My descendants have been taxed out of their property and their wealth distributed amongst the teeming masses. The Texas legislator has been taken over by a radical Hispanic group and has just voted to secede Texas from the Union and join New Mexico , Arizona, and the southern half of California in becoming a part of the southwest that has been returned to the Nation of Altzan. Our federal officials in Congress are gutless and we have no Lincoln-type in the White House. My descendants curse me and question why I and their other ancestors let this happen to them. The tears will not stop flowing for what has been lost.”

When it comes to collateral damage from this invasion, a Fullerton, California reader wrote, “I wanted to give you my story of how Orange County has gone to hell with the massive illegal alien Mexican population. This week, I’m moving out of CA up to Washington State because it’s better than living in fear after having been robbed three times in the past three months. I lived minutes away from Fullerton College in an apartment I paid for with an exceptional job I landed outside of high school working on the web. I lived in a decent neighborhood that in a year turned to hell.

“A half dozen illegals moved into a one bedroom above me. Gang signs started appearing on street signs and I started getting watched coming home from work with a laptop over my shoulder driving a nice car. That car got stolen.

“In our courts, 90 percent of the cases and people in court are illegals driving without licenses and without insurance. It’s insane and they hit and run on Americans all the time. My heart cries for America.”

Americans bow their heads to collateral damage in every sector of our country:

Collateral damage includes our schools suffering horrific overcrowding, violence, language chaos and failure rates unimagined 15 years ago.

Collateral damage includes our national language suffers from Bill Clinton’s executive order #13166 forcing taxpayers to pay for documents to be given in immigrants’ languages at a cost of billions to our citizens annually. Collateral damage from Clinton’s bill means illegal and even legal immigrants may never assimilate.

Collateral damage means our working poor stand in unemployment lines while illegals work their jobs at slave wages—and, off the books--so no taxes are collected. Thus, the rest of us pay for illegals’ kids in our schools while they use free lunch programs and medical care.

Collateral damage includes thousands of hit and run accidents that Americans pay for daily in death and carnage on our highways. For example, in Greeley, Colorado last year, 270 hit and run accidents were reported in a town with less than 100,000 people. Three Coloradans suffered death by illegal aliens last year. How many in your state?

Collateral damage includes 16,000 new cases of tuberculosis injected into America in the bodies of unscreened illegal aliens in the past five years. Another 7,000 cases of leprosy-carrying illegals crossed into America in the past three years. Tens of thousands of cases of hepatitis, Chagas and other diseases arrived in the bodies of illegal aliens. We and our children are at risk.

Collateral damage includes over 500,000 illegal aliens in our state and federal prisons costing us $1.6 billion annually. What horrible crimes did they commit on our citizens to warrant felony convictions? Over 11,000 MS-13 gang members currently operate in the USA as they distribute $128 billion annually in drugs and commit horrific crimes.

Collateral damage includes 100,000 illegal aliens and their advocates marching in the streets of Chicago on March 10, 2006, demanding their rights. As non- citizens, they have no rights for breaking into America like common house burglars.

Collateral damage includes a 65 percent flunk out/drop out rate in Denver Public Schools last year with 30,000 illegals and 40 different languages. One in five teachers quit every five month cycle of the study and 30 percent of Denver teachers are quitting at the end of this year because the classroom have become so violent, uneducable and hopeless. Over 2.1 million illegal alien kids in our American classrooms create substandard education for our children.

Collateral damage includes hundreds of Mexican TV and radio stations broadcasting across America in Spanish. These stations make sure no immigrants, whether legal or illegal, assimilate into the American way of life. But rather, fracture this country into enclaves and, given enough time--creating uninvested, disloyal, non-citizens with different agendas that possess nothing in common with the American way of life.

Collateral damage includes growing ‘racism’ by Mexicans against Americans as shown by the vicious quote at the beginning of this piece—and more violently realized in Los Angeles, Houston and anywhere they gain greater numbers. When the rate of immigration exceeds the rate of assimilation, it stands as a recipe for the destruction of any civilization.

Collateral damage includes the massive fraud perpetrated on our society by those who hire illegal aliens, non payment of income taxes, use of free lunches for their children, free medical care that we pay for, document fraud, stolen identities, mortgage fraud, two-tiered level of law enforcement—with one tier for illegals—a striking absence of law enforcement. Americans are getting killed, wrecked, robbed and raped in the process of this lawless invasion.

Accelerating collateral damage: the impending guest worker program along with legal immigration adds 60 to 70 million Mexicans and others into the USA within 10 years. If you think gridlock, air pollution, crowded schools, cost of living, lowered quality of life and other problems are bad now—you ain’t seen nothin’ yet!

Corruption is a mechanism by which Third World countries operate. As it pours into America, it’s known as ‘Third World Momentum’. Like a cancer, it metastasizes into every sector and level of government until this foreign cancer destroys the ability of our nation to function. Law abiding Americans become victims in every realm of their lives.

If you keep sitting, waiting, watching and hoping our Congress and President Bush will do something, you are sadly mistaken. It’s time to pressure state governments to act. Alabama Republican Scott Beason of Gardendale introduced a bill to criminally prosecute employers who hire illegal aliens. Republican David Schultheis of Colorado and Democrat Andrew Romanoff craft a similar bill in the Rocky Mountain State. Radio talk show host, Peter Boyles, of 630 KHOW in Denver, suggested employers of illegal aliens suffer a $20,000.00 fine the first time and a month in jail the second time they get caught hiring illegals.

Since Bush is in violation of his oath of office for five years running and in violation of Article 4 Section IV of the U.S. Constitution, it’s up to states to defend themselves. If they don’t, the collateral damage to our states, communities, families and individual lives accelerates with the added three million illegal aliens crossing our borders annually. This is a matter of life and death for our nation.
 

The Flat Earth Report Suicide Jumper http://home.att.net/~songs2/Jumper.jpg contributing editor to   - Dale

You may not want to send this to anyone.  It's pretty morbid, and it might be fake.  It is not for the faint of heart.  It is a picture of the demise of a suicide jumper taken shortly after he landed. It shows him with his insides now on the outside. You will see the look of horror on the faces of the bystanders. The faces of the bystanders are why I believe this is real......
go here to see the image
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if that site does not work, the image is cached here
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Can you Say Red Herring*** "Not only did we take half their country, but we took the half with the paved roads" http://michellemalkin.com/archives/2006_03.htm contributing editor to   - Dale

THE AMERICAN FLAG COMES SECOND
By Michelle Malkin   ·   March 29, 2006 01:15 AM

You will not see this heart-stopping photo on the front page of the NY Times or on the lead story of the major news networks. You should (hat tip: Mika and F/R):
 

03/28 : Student protest Whittier area students from Pioneer, California and Whittier high schools walked out of classes to protest the proposed federal immigration bill March 27, 2006. The protestors put up the Mexican flag over the American flag flying upside down at Montebello High. (Leo Jarzomb/Staff photo)

More:
 

Meanwhile: Mexico Cheers Passage of Immigration Bill Like I said: Welcome to reconquista. I predict this stunt will be the nail in the coffin of any guest-worker/amnesty plan on the table in Washington. The image of the American flag subsumed by another and turned upside down on American soil is already spreading on Internet forums and via e-mail. The battle for borders and immigration laws that actually mean something, however, hasn't even begun.

 
 

Update 3/29 1030am EST.  New photo from the Dallas pro-illegal immigration student rally via the Dallas Morning News: Michelle Marquez (left), a student at Lamar Middle School in Irving, was criticized for having a U.S. flag during an immigration protest at Kiest Park in Dallas.  "My heart is with the Mexican and Mexico but I'm standing on Amreican ground and I'm Mexican-American"

Mickey Kaus: "Skipping school to block freeways and flying the U.S. flag upside down under the Mexican flag...Those anti-anti-immigrant student protesters in L.A. know how to win over a majority of ordinary voters!"

Update: My new column this week, "Racism gets a whitewash," is up. Conclusion:

Apologists are quick to argue that Latino supremacists are just a small fringe faction of the pro-illegal immigration movement (never mind that their ranks include former and current Hispanic politicians from L.A. mayor Antonio Villaraigosa to former California Democratic gubernatorial candidate Cruz Bustamante).

But you'll never hear or read such forgiving caveats in the mainstream press's hostile coverage of the pro-immigration enforcement members of the Minutemen Project—who are universally smeared as racists. For what? For peacefully demanding that our government enforce its laws and secure its borders.

Yes, borders. Last time I checked a map of North America, they still do exist.

Unless we give in and let the bullies and their appeasers whitewash those out of existence, too.

The lead section of the gospel's first page begins "The secret account of the revelation that Yahshua spoke in conversation with Judas Iscariot during a week, 3 days before he celebrated Passover".

By Guy Gugliotta and Alan Cooperman, Washington Post Staff Writers
 

The National Geographic Society released yesterday the first modern translation of the ancient Gospel of Judas, which depicts the most reviled villain in Christian history as a devoted follower who was simply doing Jesus's bidding when he betrayed him. The text's existence has been known since it was denounced as heresy by the bishop of Lyon in A.D. 180, but its contents had remained an almost total mystery. Unlike the four gospels of the New Testament, it describes conversations between Jesus and Judas Iscariot during the week before Passover in which Jesus tells Judas "secrets no other person has ever seen." The other apostles pray to a lesser God, Jesus says, and he reveals to Judas the "mysteries of the kingdom" of the true God. He asks Judas to help him return to the kingdom, but to do so, Judas must help him abandon his mortal flesh: "You will sacrifice the man that clothes me," Jesus tells Judas, and acknowledges that Judas "will be cursed by the other generations."

Researchers stand at caves in the area north and east of El Minya, Egypt,  near where the manuscript containing the "Gospel of Judas" was found. AFP/Getty Images

Scholars said the 26-page document was written on 13 sheets of papyrus leaf in ancient Egyptian, or Coptic, and was bound as a book known as a codex. It is one of dozens of sacred texts from the Christian Gnostics, who believed that salvation came through secret knowledge conveyed by Jesus.

Its anonymous author was "obviously a Christian person very sympathetic to a Gnostic point of view," said Coptic scholar Marvin Meyer, of Orange, Calif.'s Chapman University. The codex was written in the 2nd century, when various groups of Christians circulated what they called gospels -- "good news" -- purportedly written by most of the disciples and several other followers of Jesus, among them Mary Magdalene.

Most were outlawed during a centuries-long battle to determine which sacred texts would make up the canon of Christian orthodoxy known today as the New Testament.

National Geographic, which funded much of the research, said it authenticated the codex through radiocarbon dating, ink analysis and study of the script. And despite the document's murky history, no scholar has suggested it is a forgery, a problem that has dogged several recent finds, most notably the bone box, or ossuary, purported to have contained the remains of Jesus's brother James.

As an authentic ancient Gnostic text, the Gospel of Judas is certain to spark a surge of interest by both theologians and the faithful, but scholars said it is unclear whether it will prompt a reevaluation of the traitor denounced by Matthew for betraying Jesus for "30 pieces of silver."

"At one level, the Gospels already see the betrayal as a mysterious part of God's plan," said the Rev. Donald Senior, president of the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago. He predicted the new text would produce "a short-term sensation" but that after Christians read it, "the impact on the lives of ordinary believers will be minimal."

The ancient manuscript, a 3rd- or 4th-century translation of a 2nd-century original, probably written in Greek, was unearthed by looters near El Minya, Egypt, in the 1970s. It came to the attention of scholars in 1983 when an Egyptian antiquities dealer tried to sell it to American researchers for $3 million.

After the document passed through several hands and venues, including 16 years deteriorating in a safe deposit box in Hicksville, N.Y., National Geographic reached an agreement in 2004 to help finance its authentication and translation in return for publication rights.

Terry Garcia, National Geographic's executive vice president for mission programs, said at a news conference that the society had contributed "more than $1 million" to the project so far. The organization released two books yesterday: an annotated translation and the story of how the text came to light. The gospel will also generate a magazine cover article, a television documentary, an exhibit and its own Web site.

The arrangement between National Geographic and the Switzerland-based Maecenas Foundation for Ancient Art, the manuscript's current owner, raised long-standing questions about how such transactions may effectively legitimize illegal traffic in antiquities.

"The Swiss who bought it couldn't sell it for a profit because of laws that say you can't sell illegal antiquities," said Claremont Graduate University theologian James M. Robinson, the Coptic scholar first approached to purchase the gospel 26 years ago. "Instead of selling the papyrus, they decided to market the contents." The foundation said it intends to donate the codex to the Coptic Museum in Cairo once it is fully restored.

Ted Waitt, founder of computer-maker Gateway Inc., donated approximately $1 million to underwrite National Geographic's efforts. National Geographic, in turn, passed this money on to Mario Jean Roberty, a Swiss lawyer who heads the Maecenas Foundation.

Roberty said in an interview that he purchased the codex in February 2001 from a Swiss antiquities dealer, Frieda Nussberger-Tchacos, for $1.5 million plus half of all future proceeds from the document.

He said he also put more than $1 million into the initial restoration of the manuscript, underwriting the efforts of Coptic scholar Rodolphe Kasser and others for five years to piece together more than 1,000 papyrus fragments before National Geographic got involved. "I'm still on the nervous side economically," Roberty said. "I have to take in another $2.3 million before I break even."

So far, the biggest financial beneficiary appears to be Nussberger-Tchacos, who paid about $300,000 for the codex, according to National Geographic, which is poised to generate substantial revenue from its publications. Garcia said Maecenas would receive "some compensation" from book sales.

"They have to earn back their money, and they're trying to sell their books on all sides," Robinson said of National Geographic. "That's why they're publishing it around Easter and before the release of 'The Da Vinci Code,' " he added, referring to the film version of the popular book.

But Hershel Shanks, editor of Biblical Archaeology Review, said that because of National Geographic, "at least the text seems to be becoming available, and that's good. The price is that they've had to be part of a scheme to increase its value."

Besides the Gospel of Judas, the codex includes three other texts. Two were known to scholars from the Nag Hammadi Library, a trove of Gnostic manuscripts found in Egypt in 1945. The third, provisionally titled the Book of Allogenes, or the "stranger," is badly fragmented, members of the translation team said.

Biblical scholars said the Gospel of Judas differs from the four New Testament Gospels in at least two important ways. First, it portrays Judas not as the betrayer of Jesus but as the most favored of his disciples, the only one who truly understood Jesus.

Some scholars suggested that view -- if it had been accepted -- might have lessened anti-Semitism over the centuries. "The story of the betrayal of Jesus by Judas gave a moral and religious rationale to anti-Jewish sentiment, and that's what made it persistent and vicious," said Princeton University professor Elaine Pagels.

Second, the Gospel of Judas offers a new creation story, depicting the evil world as the product of a bloodthirsty, foolish lower deity, rather than the higher, true God. This duality "is why this gospel could never be accepted by orthodox Christianity," said Bart D. Ehrman, chairman of religious studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Scholars disagreed on whether the gospel sheds any new light on the historical Jesus and Judas Iscariot. Senior, the Catholic priest, said he saw "no evidence that it has a legitimate historical basis" and thought it probably was written by Gnostics who retrospectively attributed their own beliefs to Judas.

But Craig Evans, a professor at Acadia Divinity College in Nova Scotia, said the New Testament also may hint at the new text's central theme -- that Jesus instructed Judas in private to betray him.

In the Book of John, Evans noted, Jesus tells Judas at the Last Supper, "Do quickly what you are going to do," and none of the other disciples know what he means. Maybe the Gospel of Judas "points us in a direction where we can understand Judas's relationship to Jesus a little better," he said.

The Gospel of Judas, however, ends abruptly, drawing no conclusions about the consequences of betrayal: The arresting party "approached Judas and said to him, 'What are you doing here? You are Jesus' disciple.' Judas answered them as they wished. And he received some money and handed him over to them."
 

Dorothy A. Seese, February 27, 2006

The magnitude of panic engulfing most of today's world would have seemed far less credible than an invasion by space aliens forty-some years ago.

Who could have imagined a world in which the prospect of the Pale Horse riding, with death close behind, would encompass the entire globe? Or that hundreds of thousands of birds and animals would be slaughtered because of strange virii or bacilli that cause sickness and death? Bird flu and mad cow mania have taken hold of the worst of human fears, that of death (which is inevitable) and are running amok at the first sneeze from a pet parrot or canary, or a chicken with a hacking cough. Somehow, the AIDS epidemic keeps multiplying its victims, but no one wants to control or monitor their sex lives ... sin without consequences or life without pain and death are fantasies in which this peculiar world has come to believe. But it refuses to believe in the Creator God and chooses to elaborate on the theme of man having evolved (male and female) out of the primordial slime. (I'd like to know Who these folks believe created this slime?)

In the 1960's we were well aware of the possibility of mankind annihilating itself through use of the atomic, hydrogen or other esoteric bombs, a great conflagration but hopefully limited. Yet we knew about a no-win war and the fear of losing control over the scope of the devastation seems to have kept every nation in a state of hesitancy to let go with the worst of the worst. Thus, where man fears his own creations in atomic weaponry, he backs off in panic at the thought of a worldwide pestilence that will annihilate most of the humans on earth and leave the planet a giant body dump.

About 1981, AIDS entered the world scene and made its presence known by killing off celebrities whose demise could no longer be attributed to some other cause. AIDS itself became the "cause celebre" because mankind, of course, still wants sin without consequences. So great sums of taxpayer dollars, mostly American, have been spent on trying to eliminate this devastating disease that now preys on the children of heterosexual couples, one or both of which have contracted the disease through affaires d'amour with infected partners.

The erasure of national borders in a worldwide saga of globalist elite control is playing out, in America with its administration unwilling to close the borders, in Europe with the European Union and the Euro currency. How does one make an Italian or a Frenchman just a "European?" By media and governmental controls, reinforced by kangaroo courts that serve the elitists who place them in a position of such power. Yet external controls never changed a human heart ... nor will they ever. "Citizen of the world" is no identity at all save for the few who wish to take on such a nonidentity as part of their role-playing while they go about singing, writing, or doing whatever they do. In a sense, Ernest Hemingway was a "citizen of the world" because he traveled around it, seeking something and writing novels based on his observations, but he died in America, an American who took his own life. Such is the effect of pulling up one's own roots in search of something to replace the God who IS.

Selling out American control over American ports of entry, allowing foreigners to own huge blocs of stock in American (or formerly American) companies, permitting foreigners to control huge companies that bear familiar American names, and trafficking with our enemies on the diplomatic level while shooting at them on the ground is perfectly normal in 2006 and has been for a couple of decades now. All in good sportsmanship, you know. It's just freedom of expression.

And a frustrated group of American patriots speak out against the evils of this nation and others around the globe, but nothing changes. All governments of every species or label (monarchy, oligarchy, etc.) say one thing and do quite another, so that friends among the elite are detached from the people of the nations to which they legally belong (for passport purposes). Thus, chaos reigns on the planet while the global elite bicker a bit about how to divide the earth's population amongst themselves for purposes of rulership.

Quite a scheme, unthinkable in the 1960's by the public, but put in motion in 1776 by the "manifesto" drawn and published for global control and attributed to Adam Weishaupt. Yes, the shadow figures called by some "the Illuminati" really do exist; some are in high office, most are not. The world banking, drug, and commercial cartels are directed by "Illuminati" with global resources. They are the movers and shakers of nations and the masses of people, the ones who direct, up to a point, who lives and who dies.

So where is my God in all this mess? Watching carefully the scenarios that were written millennia ago play out on the world stage until the day that He reenters this space-time world and executes final judgment on the generations, living and deceased, who have allied themselves with the satanic globalist forces. No globalist can be a Christian, the worldviews and mindsets are mutually exclusive. One cannot give full allegiance to Creator God, the God of the Bible, and to the leaders of the New World Order by any name.

Thus those who feel progress and tolerance have been furthered by rejecting God, by espousing globalism, by allying themselves with the godless State that is itself sitting in the place of God, have wreaked havoc upon earth, creating needless wars that kill and maim, cloning laboratory freaks, creating new virii to kill and vaccines to protect the few, have earned themselves a justified place in eternal Hell. Such is justice in the sight of God, to whom all sin is repugnant and who sent His Son to pay for the redemption of His elect from before the foundation of the world.

Man is not inherently good. Some folks demonstrate more empathy than others for their fellow man, but in the sight of God not one is good. The exponential growth of "sin industries" such as the sex slave trade, child pornography, adult pornography, scientific horrors that create an abnormal world (from genetically modified foods the body cannot assimilate to cloned disasters that mock creation), and the total breakdown of all God-ordained institutions such as marriage and the home, children with two parents (one male, one female) have demonstrated just how "good" man is. God, through the prophet Jeremiah, had this to say, and the daily news broadcasts bear it out:

Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

We humans scarcely know that of which we are capable until the occasion arises, and then we surprise ourselves, for better or worse, depending on whose we are: The Lord's or the devil's.

Any righteousness we have in the sight of God is not of ourselves nor of our fleshly birth, but of a spiritual rebirth that transforms us and imputes to us the righteousness of Christ the Lord. The gospel of grace is really quite easy to understand at the core level: Christ died for our sins and was raised from the dead for our justification in God's sight. In receiving Christ, there is a spiritual transaction that is a genuine mystery: we are translated from the kingdom of darkness to God's kingdom of light, and evidence of this is given in the "fruit" we bear ... our obedience, our conduct, our worldview, our love and our service to our Lord. For this, we are children of light and have done only what it is our duty to do, we earn no "Brownie points" for doing what Christians are recreated in Christ to do. From the look of things, there are far more churchians who profess to be Christians than there are recreated, rebirthed Christians whose inner self longs for that kingdom and despises this evil world.

The fact is, we were approaching a better world in America than we have now. The forces of evil caught the church asleep at the pulpit and in the pews. The globalists have taken our freedoms and dared us to defy the authorities and preach Christ regardless of the consequences. Fear has caused many to stumble and go with the flow, dead fish floating downstream with the rest of the flotsam and jetsam of humanity. There was a desire to do that which is disallowed by the Christian faith, and the churchians agreed with the world that there should be room for everyone, that God, being pure Love, can send no soul to Hell, and that willful sin shall have no eternal punishment. That false "gospel" is trash and it's accepted in some of the largest church groups in America, along with fragments from New Age philosophy and Zen, fraternity with unbelievers, and refusal to live the Christian life as it is spelled out in the New Covenant.

No wonder, no wonder at all, that such a rebellious people have brought upon themselves that which was unthinkable as late as the early to mid-1960's. "Tolerance" included everything but a tolerance for the God of the Bible ... and shall in due time reap what it has sown.

The Bible pattern is that the faithful are always a remnant, a rather small remnant after the Flood of Noah's Day, and that remnant of the Elect shall inherit the Kingdom of God, while this world perishes by fire.

That isn't unthinkable at all. It is the highest form of justice, to cleanse the earth of sin and its evil offspring, symbolized by the Four Horsemen who have been riding since sin entered this space-time world. It seems the speed of their ride has accelerated, with vast tsunami disasters, the reign of fear, the spread of disease, and an earth that quakes while the patterns of climate and the harvests of dust increase the level of fear around the globe. What the elite globalists shall inherit, along with eternal spiritual death, is a half-dead earth filled with weak and unproductive people living in the precursor to Hell.

The wages of sin is death, a spiritual law that no liberal Supreme Court or vile international court can reverse or control. Spiritual law is beyond their reach. Where, then, is your Refuge? That should be obvious.
 

"If we want freedom, there should be an armed rebellion every 20 years. What country can maintain it's liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance. Let them take arms. Let signify a few lives from time to time in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is, its natural manure."  -Thomas Jefferson
 

duh Christianity contributing editor to   - Dale

A man was being tailgated by a stressed out woman on a busy boulevard. Suddenly, the light turned yellow, just in front of him.

He did the right thing, stopping at the crosswalk, even though he could have beaten the red light by accelerating through the intersection.

The tailgating woman was furious and honked her horn, screaming in frustration as she missed her chance to get through the intersection, dropping her cell phone and makeup.

As she was still in mid-rant, she heard a tap on her window and looked up into the face of a very serious police officer.

The officer ordered her to exit her car with her hands up.

He took her to the police station where she was searched, finger printed, photographed, and placed in a holding cell.

After a couple of hours, a policeman approached the cell and opened the door.

She was escorted back to the booking desk where the arresting officer was waiting with her personal effects.

He said, "I'm very sorry for this mistake. You see, I pulled up behind your car while you were blowing your horn, flipping off the guy in front of you, and cussing a blue streak at him.

"I noticed the ' Choose Life' license plate holder, the ' What Would Jesus Do'  bumper sticker, the ' Follow Me to Sunday- School' bumper sticker, and the chrome-plated Christian fish emblem on the trunk.

Naturally, I assumed you had stolen the car."
 

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - A Malaysian man said he nearly fainted when he recieved a $218 trillion phone bill and was ordered to pay up within 10 days or face prosecution, a newspaper reported Monday.

Yahaya Wahab said he disconnected his late father's phone line in January after he died and settled the $23 bill, the New Straits Times reported.

But Telekom Malaysia later sent him a $218 trillion bill for recent telephone calls along with orders to settle within 10 days or face legal proceedings, the newspaper reported.

It wasn't clear whether the bill was a mistake, or if Yahaya's father's phone line was used illegally after after his death.

"If the company wants to seek legal action as mentioned in the letter, I'm ready to face it," the paper quoted Yahaya as saying. "In fact, I can't wait to face it," he said.

Yahaya, from northern Kedah state, received a notice from the company's debt-collection agency in early April, the paper said. Yahaya said he nearly fainted when he saw the new bill.

Government-linked Telekom Malaysia Bhd. is the country's largest telecommunications company.

A company official, who declined to be identified as she was not authorized to speak to the media, said Telekom Malaysia was aware of Yahaya's case and would address it. She did not provide further details.
 

"In defense of the world Order, U.S. soldiers would have to kill and die. ... We are not going to achieve a New World Order without paying for it in blood, as well as in words and money."  -- Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., in Back to the Womb, July/August 1993 issue of Foreign Affairs
 

"There is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it."  — President Woodrow Wilson
 

I N S I G H T Aging Gracefully contributing editor to   - Mark & Glenda

You know how it goes.  You look at others your own age and thinking, "Surely I can't look that old?"

Well ...

I was sitting in the waiting room for my first appointment with a new dentist. I noticed his diploma, which bore his full name.  Suddenly, I remembered a tall, handsome, dark-haired boy with the same name had been in my high school class some 40-odd years ago.

Could he be the same guy that I had a secret crush on, way back then??  Upon seeing him, however, I quickly discarded any such thought this balding, gray-haired man with the deeply lined face was way too old to have been my classmate. hmmm,... or could he???

After he examined my teeth, I asked him if he had attended Morgan park high school. "Yes. yes, I did. I'm a mustang," he gleamed with pride.

"When did you graduate?" I asked. He answered, "In 1959. Why do you ask?" "You were in my class!" I exclaimed.

He looked at me closely. Then, that ugly, old, wrinkled son-of-a-bitch asked me, "What did you teach?"
 

If we teach our children by example, then we have only ourselves to blame.
 
 

Many are cognizant of a warning to NOT take the "mark of the beast" (Revelation 13 and Exodus 13:1-16).  But, regardless of whether you believe the Scripture, the warning is prudent for all people.  Well, maybe not all people, after all there are people who truly want to be on a leash and told when to pee and dump and breath.  But, for those with any sense of independence, should heed the warning, even from a secular perspective.

This "mark of the beast" may take any of several PHYSICAL forms, but the real mark is in your thoughts and deeds.  Without first making the choice to obey the beast you will NOT  have thought and deed of the beast, after which you will take any physical mark.  The physical mark becomes a badge, which is evidence of the real mark you already have (in your thoughts and deeds).  The physical mark may be in more than one form.  Some of those forms can be a credit card, a "so so security" card, a barcode, an RFID, a tattoo or such.  In all these forms one thing is common and necessary, it is not of itself the mark, but rather that it is a key to the database.  The database is what has been collected on you for many many many years.  Little by little, data has been collected on you.  You have somehow been letting a little information be collected on you by the water company, the telephone company, the post office, the boss, the insurance company, the tax criminals, the loyalty cards for the grocery stores (and now many other stores), and many other entities.  Each has purportedly collected only the info they need for dealing with you, and any other info you chose to give.  Now of days, all the databases of all those different entities are selling and giving your info to companies like Google, Acxiom and several others.  Even though the gubment is barred from collecting this info, it takes a flanking move to get this info from those companies who do collect it.

Now, with ever less seed info, you can be discovered and once discovered, all the info in the databases is available to all those who are willing to pay for it or declare by law to take.

It is evident that you must have a badge (mark) to access the database. Since you can not prevent the database from being amassed, you might have a little influence regarding VOLUNTEERING for the badge.

The device, in whatever form, as a rule, contains no data about you.  It usually is just a serial number which is yet another piece of information attached to you.  With that serial number and authorization (not you) a person can access the database about you.  Usually (but not always), the results of the access are limited to the needs of the person accessing the database, such as a store clerk usually only getting a "go" or "no go" for allowing you to make a purchase based upon whether you have funds enough in your account to cover the purchase.  Then there is the gubment guy, maybe a cop, who can get lots of info on you.  Assuming the data in the database is correct, then the results of the search are probably good.  But, what about when the database is flawed or deliberately altered?

If you doubt this, you can test it with the easiest of methods by going to Google and/or the online telephone directories and enter your name or telephone number, even your address.  You will get more info on yourself than what you entered, and even an aerial photograph of your home.

An example of this database is in this ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) skit.
http://www.aclu.org/pizza/index.html?orgid=EA071904&MX=1414&H=1

It is an audio and video presentation, and the video is worth seeing.  For only the audio of this skit, you can get it here (http://www.tellme1st.net/rockyview/common/ACLU pizza order ampl.mp3).

Make no mistake, a physical mark will be used ever increasingly with the databases to allow you to do buy, sell, vote, drive, work, or to deny you.  If you want to receive the benefits offered by the system, then you will choose to "think" and "do" what the system demands of you.  Then you will pay to get a card (ID), chip (RFID), or whatever badge of servitude the system implements.  The method has been insidious and will continue to be insidious.  Take a look at the grocery store loyalty cards.  You are not forced to get one, but if you do not you will pay the higher jacked-up prices, but with the card you can get the same lower price as the regular price last week.  You choose to get the card to get the alleged savings.  There will be a national sales tax, presumably to replace the employment tax, but it will not replace it.  The sales tax will be graduated for each person to pay a varied rate of tax.  The only way a clerk will know the rate to charge you the tax is if you present a card, chip, tattoo or such.  The database will offer your tax rate.  At first, you will not be forced to get this card, but without it you will have to pay a very high rate of tax.  Only with the card or chip will the clerk know the lower rate to charge you.  To save bucks you will choose to have the card.  You already do for the grocery store.

In 2005, Congress has passed legislation mandated that by May 2008, all people shall have a national ID.  How convenient this one device (card or chip) could be used to access the database for permitting you to drive, to vote, to buy, to sell.  A key to an empty room is not much good, but a key to a room full of things could be a treasure trove.
 
 

The Flat Earth Report Research Associate contributing editor to   - Viv

A woman named Emily renewing her driver's license at the Transport office was asked by the clerk to state her occupation. She hesitated, uncertain how to classify herself. "What I mean is," explained the clerk, "do you have a job, or are you just a .?  "Of course I have a job," snapped Emily. "I'm a Mum."  "We don't list 'Mum' as an occupation...... 'housewife' covers it," said the  clerk emphatically.

I forgot all about her story until one day I found myself in the same situation, this time at our local police station. The Clerk was obviously a  career woman, poised, efficient, and possessed of a high sounding title like, "Official Interrogator" or "Town Registrar."

"What is your occupation?" she probed. What made me say it, I do not know... The words simply popped out.  "I'm a Research Associate in the field of Child Development and Human Relations." The clerk paused, pen frozen in midair, and looked up as though she had not  heard right.

I repeated the title slowly, emphasizing the most significant words. Then I stared with wonder as my pronouncement was written in bold, black ink  on the official questionnaire!  "Might I ask," said the clerk with new interest, "just what you do in your field?"  Coolly, without any trace of fluster in my voice, I heard myself reply,

"I have a continuing programme of research, (what mother doesn't), in the laboratory and in the field, (normally I would have said indoors and out). I'm working for my Masters, (the whole bloody family), and already have four  credits, (all daughters). Of course, the job is one of the most demanding in  the humanities, (any mother care to disagree.?) and  I often work 14 hours a  day, (24 is more like it). But the job is more challenging than most  run-of-the-mill careers and the rewards are more of a satisfaction rather  than just money."

There was an increasing note of respect in the girl's voice as she completed  the form, stood up, and personally ushered me to the door.  When I got home, buoyed up by my glamorous new career, I was greeted by my lab assistants -- ages 10, 7, and 3. Upstairs, I could hear our new experimental model, (a 6 month old baby), in the child-development   programme, testing out a new vocal pattern.  I felt I had triumphed over bureaucracy! And I had gone on the official records as someone more distinguished and indispensable to mankind than "just another Mum."

Motherhood.....what a glorious career! Especially when there's a title   on the door.

Does this make grandmothers "Senior Research Associates in the field of Child Development and Human Relations" , and great grandmothers "Executive Senior Research Associates"??? I think so!!! I also think it makes Aunts "Associate Research Assistants".

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a r t i c l e   /   c o m m e n t a r y Why We Give In http://etherzone.com/2006/stang041406.shtml contributing editor to   - Dan

It Starts in School
By: Alan Stang

The latest demonstration of why we are losing the battle for civilization comes to us from Sweden. A piece in the Brussels (Belgium) Journal says that almost 90% of all robberies in Sweden are committed by gangs, not individuals. The gangs are Muslim products of Swedish hospitality, admitted to the country in fulfillment of a bizarre, multicultural fantasy.

Here are some of the things the perpetrators say: "When we are in the city and robbing we are waging a war, waging a war against the Swedes. Power for me means that the Swedes shall look at me, lie down on the ground and kiss my feet." The boys laugh when they explain, "there is a thrilling sensation in your body when you’re robbing, you feel satisfied and happy, it feels as if you’ve succeeded, it simply feels good. It’s so easy to rob Swedes, so easy. We rob every single day, as often as we want to, whenever we want to. The Swedes don’t do anything; they just give us the stuff. They’re so wimpy."

The immigrant Muslims regard the Swedes as stupid and cowardly, because that is what they are. Robbery is bad enough. Rape in Sweden has quadrupled in just a few years. Rape of Swedish children under 15 happens six times as often as it did. And other violent crime is much worse.

The Brussels Journal says this: "Instability is spreading to most urban and suburban areas. Resident aliens from Algeria, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia dominate the group of rape suspects. Lawyer Ann Christine Hjelm found that 85 per cent of the convicted rapists were born on foreign soil or from foreign parents. The phenomenon is not restricted to Sweden. The number of rapes committed by Muslim immigrants in Western nations is so extremely high that it is difficult to view these rapes as merely random acts of individuals."

The treatment of women in Muslim countries is literally insane. Among its symptoms is the horror of female genital mutilation. And Muslims do not recover their sanity in the West. What the Brussels Journal is saying obliquely is that the raping – often gang raping – perpetrated by Muslim skunks is the implementation of a policy deliberately designed to humiliate the target population. I don’t need to tell you what a normal man does about rape. But the Swedes are so utterly corrupt they endure it. They punish anyone who dares to complain, which can only encourage such atrocities.

Malmö in Sweden, will become the first Scandinavian city with a Muslim majority in ten years or so. It has nine times as many reported robberies per capita as Copenhagen, Denmark. What would you think Swedish politicians are worried about? The Journal says the main issue in this year’s Swedish national election campaign is the question of who can do the best job of demonizing Denmark for "xenophobia" and a "brutal" debate about Muslim immigration.

So, in their own way, Swedes are at least as insane as the Muslims who are robbing and raping them. Coincidentally, the phenomenon in which captives adopt the opinions of their captors is known as the Stockholm Syndrome. I can’t find a parallel to it anywhere in history. Can you? It is a mental aberration.

Sweden in particular and Europe in general may already have oozed beyond the tipping point, beyond what the physicists call critical mass, too late to stop the process of surrender. Europeans do not have enough children to replace themselves. What did they expect would happen? They have immured themselves in conception-to-coffin Socialism. Because of all this, Islam is conquering bloodlessly what it could not win in 732 in France and at the gates of Vienna in 1683.

And we suffer from the same thing here. Sweden is just the latest example that came across my desk. We are just not as far down the tubes as Europe and Canada. Where does this unnatural aberration come from? Without knowing anything about it, the reasonable person could suspect that it doesn’t happen by itself. And it doesn’t. It is the product of a brilliant plan to destroy the West, concocted and tested and refined for many years and brilliantly implemented.

It is obviously a species of psychosis, in which the perception of reality itself is distorted, in which the victim believes, passionately believes, that he and his own family, culture and country are inferior, reprehensible, responsible for every problem mankind suffers from asthma to zits. The victim wants to be punished. Again, I cannot find even a distant parallel to the present insanity anywhere in history. One is reminded of the book and movie, Manchurian Candidate, which has become a colloquialism in our language.

Another name for it is brainwashing, a term devised by journalist Edward Hunter. Read Brainwashing and Brainwashing in Red China, and be astounded by the similarity between what Hunter describes and what is happening now. If you have trouble finding them, simply call the American Opinion Bookstore of North Hollywood, (800) 470-8783 and tell Lady Patricia I suggested you call. In those books you will learn how children can even be made to denounce their own parents.

Of course you are talking about Communism. In previous pieces I have proved that the Muslim way is to jump aboard a horse and chop off heads. Remember, Muslim history shows from the beginning that the millions of Muslims who do not chop off heads are irreverent backsliders who do not adhere to the grand tradition of the Prophet. The aberration is obviously in part a collaboration between Communism – which is not and never was dead – and Islam. The recent demonstrations across the country by criminal aliens were totally Communist, coordinated by the red gang called A.N.S.W.E.R. among other such groups.

Antonio Gramsci, founder of the Italian Communist Party, formulated the long-range strategy while in jail. It is known as the "long march through the institutions" of the target, a reference to the original Long March conducted by Mao Tse-tung in China. In this latest version, instead of capturing the target nation by military action, as the Reds did in Russia and China, and then perverting the institutions, they do so by capturing the institutions and then using them to impose the dictatorship.

The conspirators at the top clearly are doing everything they can to recruit, protect, encourage and finance the two armies that are destroying us: the criminal aliens and the Muslim crazies. It is not as bad here yet as Sweden – as far as I know, there is not as much robbery and rape – but it is close. In at least one respect, maybe it is worse. Some Supreme Court justices say foreign law applies here. But no other country on earth has immigration law as suicidal as ours. Why don’t those Supreme Court justices apply foreign immigration law here? An American version of Mexican law would be fine.

None of this could be happening without brainwashing in the government schools. It could happen only with that brainwashing in place. By now I don’t need to list the horrors in the schools. You already know about them. Today’s schools routinely teach sodomy, Islam, monkey science and Communism, and kick Christianity to the curb like road kill. To refresh your knowledge, see Charlotte Iserbyt’s The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America, where you will learn about the subversive plan from the mouths of the conspirators themselves.

Ask yourself what you would think if most of every day for twelve years – starting at age six and even earlier – you were told in as many ways as possible that you, your family, your culture and your country were no good and deserve to be punished. When people show up to punish you, wouldn’t you acquiesce? Wouldn’t you, maybe without saying so, agree that all those things should be destroyed? How could you think anything else, if that is all you have been told?

Our traditional enemies, the English, used to say that the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton. On those playing fields, upper class English boys learned love of country, loyalty to queen, the superiority of their culture and what was required to preserve it. The battle of America is being lost in the nation’s government (public) schools, where the Founding Fathers, Free Enterprise and the "white man" are derided. How else could it happen that everyone is encouraged to feel good about himself except the white, American man?

Again let me suggest that there can be no solution to the nation’s many problems – from illegal invasion to the drugging of America – until enough children are saved from the Communist government schools where these problems start. If you don’t save your children, it won’t matter what else you do. Everything else would be fooling yourself.

Take your kiddos out today and school them yourself. Live on one income. It can be done. The rewards will more than overcome the sacrifice, and you will savor the uncommon joy of winning a major victory over the conspiracy for world government the first day you do it.

"Published originally at EtherZone.com : republication allowed with this notice and hyperlink intact."
 

H U M O R Bimbo's Cookbook http://etherzone.com/2006/stang041406.shtml contributing editor to   - Dan

MONDAY: It's fun to cook for Tom. Today I made angel food cake. The recipe said beat 12 eggs separately. The neighbors were nice enough to loan me some extra bowls.

TUESDAY: Tom wanted fruit salad for supper.The recipe said serve without dressing. So I didn't dress. What a surprise when Tom brought a friend home for supper.

WEDNESDAY: A good day for rice. The recipe said wash thoroughly before steaming the rice. It seemed kind of silly but I took a bath anyway. I can't say it improved the rice any.

THURSDAY: Today Tom asked for salad again. I tried a new recipe. It said prepare ingredients, lay on a bed of lettuce one hour before serving. Tom asked me why I was rolling around in the garden.

FRIDAY: I found an easy recipe for cookies. It said put the ingredients in a bowl and beat it. There must have been something wrong with this recipe. When I got back, everything was the same as when I left.

SATURDAY: Tom did the shopping today and brought home a chicken. He asked me to dress it for Sunday (oh boy). For some reason Tom keeps counting to ten.

SUNDAY: Tom's folks came to dinner. I wanted to serve roast but all I had was hamburger. Suddenly I had a flash of genius. I put the hamburger in the oven and set the controls for roast. It still came out hamburger, much to my disappointment.

GOOD NIGHT DEAR DIARY. This has been a very exciting week. I am eager for tomorrow to come so I can try out a new recipe on Tom. If I can talk Tom into buying a bigger oven, I would like to surprise him with chocolate moose.
 

a r t i c l e   /   c o m m e n t a r y 2005, A Scary Year For Genetically Engineered Crops http://www.newswithviews.com/Smith/jeffrey11.htm contributing editor to   - Viv

By Jeffrey Smith
 Genetically modified(GM) crops were introduced 10 years ago, but 2005 saw plenty of evidence that the technology was introduced long before the science was ready. Here are some of last year’s highlights, so to speak.

At a conference in October, a leading scientist from the Russian Academy of Sciences reported that more than half (55.6%) of the offspring of rats fed GM soy died within three weeks. By contrast, only 9% of rats died whose mothers were fed non-GM soy. The study is preliminary, but the American Academy of Environmental Medicine asked the NIH to immediately repeat it.[1]

In June, a German court ordered Monsanto to make a study public, in which rats fed GM corn developed kidney inflammation, altered blood cell counts and organ lesions. These and other changes suggested possible allergies, infections, toxins, anemia or blood pressure problems. The rats were fed corn genetically engineered to produce a pesticide called Bt-toxin. A French expert who reviews GM safety assessments for the government says that these and other studies indicate that Bt crops create reactions similar to chemical pesticides. Monsanto, however, was able to convince regulators to overlook the findings using arguments that were widely criticized as unscientific.[2]

In November, a 10-year, $2 million GM pea project in Australia was abandoned when the peas were found to create immune responses in mice. The results, which indicate that the peas might create serious allergic reactions in people, were discovered only after scientists employed advanced tests that have never been used for evaluating GM food. If those peas had been studied in the normal way, they could have been approved. The findings suggest that undetected problems may be common in GM crops on the market.[3]

Medical reports from India say that farm workers handling Monsanto’s GM cotton developed moderate to serious allergic reactions, forcing some to the hospital. There were also reports that numerous animals died after eating the Bt cottonseed.[4]

The Indian government confirmed that Bt cotton’s disastrous yields cost millions. One state even kicked out Monsanto, after they refused to compensate farmers’ losses. Tragically, hundreds of debt-ridden cotton farmers committed suicide.[5]

Monsanto was fined by the US Justice Department for bribing up to 140 Indonesian officials over several years, trying to get Bt cotton approved.[6] But widespread crop failure had left farmers in ruins there too, so even the bribes didn’t work.[7]

A three-year UK study showed that GM crops damage biodiversity and threaten birds and bees.[8] Another study surprised scientists when GM crops cross pollinated with a distant relative.[9] And some Indian farmers found that after planting GM cotton, their fields became sterile and could not support subsequent crops.[10]

According to USDA statistics, much more Roundup herbicide is used due to Monsanto’s Roundup Ready GM plants. Roundup was found to be far more toxic to humans and animals than previously thought.[11] Furthermore, its over use has resulted in the proliferation of herbicide-tolerant weeds in the US.[12]

Contamination was also a big issue.

In March, the US government revealed that an unapproved GM corn variety by Syngenta had been sold for four years. By late December, Japan had rejected 14 contaminated corn shipments.[13]Illegal GM papaya showed up in Thailand.[14]Illegal GM varieties were about to be identified in Turkey, but the research project was mysteriously canceled.[15]According to a UK study, even when GM crops are grown in special government-supervised field trials for just a single year, unharvested seeds continue to grow and re-seed fifteen years later.[16]And farmer Percy Schmeiser, whose contamination by GM canola made it to the Canadian Supreme Court, has again discovered windblown GM seeds from passing trucks.[17]

Vermont’s proposed Farmer Protection Act, which passed the senate last April by 26-1, offered a different solution. It placed the financial responsibility on the biotech seed company. This allowed contaminated farmers to recover their losses while shielding GM farmers that had planted their crops in accordance with the seed company’s directions. Biotech proponents who lobby around the world to make sure their companies don’t pay for damage created by their products, flocked to Vermont’s state house. Sure enough, on the first day of the 2006 session, a close house vote struck down the bill in a New Year’s gift to industry. A conference committee of senators and representatives may yet take this up and reinstate strict liability for seed producers.

Unwilling to accept GM contamination at all, Switzerland passed a 5-year moratorium on planting GM crops. Likewise, 4500 European jurisdictions, and regions and countries in Africa, South America and Australia have passed bills or resolutions for GM free zones. By contrast, the US biotech industry rushed legislation through 14 states so far, preventing local governments from creating such zones.

Perhaps in the distant future scientists will be able to safely and predictably manipulate and control genes in plants. But for now, feeding the products of this infant science to millions and releasing them into the environment is foolish and dangerous. In the meantime, pregnant women and children in particular, may want to avoid eating GM foods.

Most of these 2005 stories are elaborated in Jeffrey Smith’s free monthly column, Spilling the Beans, available at www.responsibletechnology.org
 

1, See Jeffrey Smith, Most Offspring Died When Mother Rats Ate Genetically Engineered Soy
2, See Jeffrey Smith, Genetically Modified Corn Study Reveals Health Damage and Cover-up
3, See Jeffrey Smith, Genetically Modified Peas Caused Dangerous Immune Response in Mice
4,Bt cotton causing allergic reaction in MP; webindia123.com, cattle dead, Bhopal, Nov 23 2005
5, See Jeffrey Smith, Un-Spinning the Spin Masters on Genetically Engineered Food, Spilling the Beans, January 2006
6,Monsanto fined $1.5m for bribery, BBC News, Jan 7, 2005
7,Pests Attack Genetically Modified Cotton, Jakarta Post (Indonesia) 29 June 2001,
8, See Jeffrey Smith, Genetically Engineered Crops Damage Wildlife, Spilling the Beans, March 2005
9, Paul Brown, Weed discovery brings calls for GM ban, The Guardian, July 26, 2005
10, Abdul Qayum & Kiran Sakkhari. Did Bt Cotton Save Farmers in Warangal? A season long impact study of Bt Cotton - Kharif 2002 in Warangal District of Andhra Pradesh . AP Coalition in Defence of Diversity & Deccan Development Society, Hyderabad, 2003.
11, Sophie Richard and others, Differential Effects of Glyphosate and Roundup on Human Placental Cells and Aromatase, Environmental Health Perspectives Volume 113, Number 6, June 2005
12, See for example, Investigation Confirms Case Of Glyphosate-Resistant Palmer Pigweed In Georgia, Sept. 13, 2005
13,Japan finds 14th US corn cargo tainted with Bt-10, KTIC 840 Rural Radio
14, Illegal GE papaya in Thailand has antibiotic resistant genes, Greenpeace press release, June 30, 2005
15, Michael Kuser, Tests reveal presence of GM tomatoes in Turkey, Turkish Daily News, 26 May 2005
16, Geoffrey Lean, GM crop 'ruins fields for 15 years', The Independent, 09 October 2005
17, Sean Pratt, Roundup Ready Canola back in Schmeiser's field. The Western Producer, October 26, 2005
 
 

I am from the gubment, & am here to help you - NOT It's Dangerous to be Right when the Government is Wrong contributing editor to   - Tribble

"It's dangerous to be right when the government is wrong." Voltaire

Patriot's Day (sometimes spelled Patriots' Day or without the apostrophe) is a civic holiday in the U.S. states of Massachusetts and Maine, and a public school holiday in Wisconsin. Traditionally it was observed on April 19, in honor of Lexington and Concord, the first battles of the American Revolutionary War, fought on that date in 1775. Since 1969, however, the holiday has been observed on the third Monday in April, providing a three-day long weekend.

The Boston Marathon is run on this day every year. Also, the Boston Red Sox have played a home game on this date every year since 1960, typically starting at 11:00 AM. Many schools, elementary through high school, take the entire week off as "April vacation."

This is told to lead into the rest of this article.  With the passing this year of April 19, 2006, there were numerous talk shows and print articles which reminded us of a few events of that anniversary.  Here are other events that are related but not exactly to that day.

Gordon Kahl/Gene Matthews  June 3, 1983
Partly because this incident happened prior to the internet and its many news outlets of today, the assassination of and outspoken citizen and the local Sheriff, by the feds who surrounded the house, had received little widespread notoriety.  But these assassinations did make noise in the gubment circles and the patriot circles.  Now of days many have probably heard nothing about the matter.
http://www.taoslandandfilm.com/CHRONOLOGY.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Kahl
After a tip was received from the youngest daughter of the owner of the home where Mr. Kahl was hiding Smithville, Arkansas, another shootout ensued on June 3, 1983 in which Kahl and Sheriff Gene Matthews were killed.

There is significant dispute concerning the order of events, in that various witnesses have come forward to dispute the "official version" put forth by the US Marshalls. Among the dissent is the Medina chief of police at the time, Darrell Graf. He stated "The feds would set up a roadblock, and Kahl would get out of his car with his weapon. . . and Kahl would be dead. I wanted no part of this! Kahl was not a bank robber or violent criminal but had only a minor problem with the government. I could imagine this 5'7", 160 pound, 63-year-old farmer lying dead on the road, with all these heroes celebrating their victory - then they go back to their jobs far from Medina, leaving local law enforcement to bear the brunt of a farmer killing. I almost threw up!"

Ruby Ridge and the Randy Weaver family  August 1992
Who?  What?  At least that is the view from the NWO media outlets.  Sadly, even Patriot type outlets and groups hardly mention the cold blooded murder of the mother and son in this family.
http://www.stormfront.org/ruby.htm
http://www.ruby-ridge.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_Ridge
http://www.constitution.org/ruby/ruby.htm

Branch Davidians of Waco, Texas  April 19, 1993
Almost none of the NWO media outlets reminded you of this atrocity by the gubment against the citizenry.  There were some Patriot type talk shows and print media which reminded of us this brutality.
http://www.firearmsandliberty.com/waco.massacre.html

Oklahoma City  April 19, 1995
Numerous NWO media outlets reminded you of this alleged atrocity against the gubment.

There are others of equally notable renown, but this brings us to one which should tell you who the REAL culprits are behind probably all of these travesties, and the others.
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/OK/ok.html

Sons of the Gestapo  October 9, 1995
This was an alleged group of whom no one had previously heard and have not heard of them since.  While those others received some notoriety for months and years, this incident barely lasted a couple days.  Remember the pristine note attached to the tracks of the derailed train?  Of course you do not, you were not paying attention.  To refresh you memory or bring you up to speed, the note read

"Who is policing the ATF, FBI, state troopers, county sheriff's and local police?  What federal law enforcement agency investigates each and every choke hold killing committed by a police officer?  each and every beating of a drunk wether (sic) or not a passerby videotapes it?  ... each and every killing at Ruby Ridge?  The Gestapo accounts to no one.  This is not Nazi Germany.  All these people had rights.  It is time for an independent Federal agency to police the law enforcement agencies and other government employees."

Who really did these things and many others?  What is their motivation?  The REALLY BIG question is who is behind them?

Some of the articles post here in The Rocky View have led you towards the answers.  As the adage goes, you can lead a horse to water, but you can not make him drink.

While The Rocky View has written on this matter previously and can be found in online back issues at
http://www.tellme1st/rockyview/200402/200402index.html#15
http://www.tellme1st/rockyview/200507/issue.html#14
http://www.tellme1st/rockyview/200510/issue.html#14

here are some additional links to some available stories.

http://www.azcentral.com/specials/special21/articles/1009sabotage09.html  Fatal Amtrak sabotage in state still unsolved
http://www.cnn.com/US/9510/amtrak/10-10/  Sabotage suspected in 'terrorist' derailment
http://www.tucsonweekly.com/tw/11-16-95/curr1.htm  Militias Are On The Rise In Arizona
http://www.feastofhateandfear.com/archives/gestapo.html  The Sons of the Gestapo vs The Sons of the Abwehr
http://www.emergency.com/azdrail.htm  Domestic Terrorism Strikes AMTRAK
 

a r t i c l e   /   c o m m e n t a r y No National Sales Tax.  Tax is NEVER fair, tax is a burden contributing editor to   - Tribble

It is so easy to say "No new taxes", but with each passing season, there is more push to implement a national flat tax and/or a national sales tax.  Surely you have heard or read things about them.  Sometimes, the promotion will hint at replacing the income tax (hah), as that is supposed to really grab you.

There is much sweet sounding rhetoric of how a sales tax will be more fair.  Tax is NEVER fair, tax is a burden.  Even if it were true that a sales tax would be "fair", it could only have a chance to be so IF the income tax were killed.  Otherwise, adding the sales tax and keeping the income tax is merely adding a burden, not replacing one.  But, the truth is a sales tax is still a tax and you merely pay it at a different time.

Think about it, why do the powers-that-be have to sell you on your own bondage?  Why do they go to such extremes to encourage you to accept it, even to have you ask for it?

There is no good reason to add more tax, especially a new type of tax.  Surely, you already know the funds collected by the gubment is largely NOT used for your benefit.  So why allow them to take more.

Abolish a tax - YES.  Make a new tax - NO, NO, NO.  Increase a tax - NO, NO, NO.
 

a r t i c l e   /   c o m m e n t a r y Churches Should Decide whether they want to be tax exempt or involved in politics http://www.earnedmedia.org/fidelis0421.htm contributing editor to   - Dan

"if religious groups want to continue to speak out, then the hand of government is going to exact a penalty"

[For the longest time, you have been being told that churches are controlled by the state.  Yet, you believe there is some separation of church and state.  Regardless of what the founders established, the fact has been for a time that almost all churches and preachers are incorporated and licensed.  THEY ARE CONTROLLED BY THE STATE.  Not by Democrats or Republicans, not by conservative or liberals, not by feds or local, but by all of them.  And those churches must preach the party line of their masters.

Matthew 6:24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

Luke 16:13 No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

WASHINGTON, April 21 /Christian Wire Service/ -- Fidelis, a national Catholic based advocacy group, called on Howard Dean, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, to explain himself after telling the Christian Science Monitor Wednesday that "The religious community has to decide whether they want to be tax exempt or involved in politics."

Fidelis President Joseph Cella responded: "Howard Dean's statement makes it clear that he wants to muzzle America's churches and religious groups from professing what they believe on important issues facing our society. When it comes to debates over public policy and issues, Dean should be welcoming the voice of America's churches, not attempting to silence them. Instead Dean has shown utter disregard for people of faith by threatening the historical and treasured role of religious groups and churches in American public life."

"Under Howard Dean's rules, pastors, priests, and rabbis wouldn't have been able to mobilize people of faith to join the civil rights marches in Selma and Montgomery," said Cella.

Dean's statement is the latest in a series of comments directed toward conservative Christians. Just last year, Dean told the San Francisco Chronicle, "they are not very friendly....they all behave the same, and they all look the same."

Cella continued: "Dean's blatant hostility toward any church or religious group calls into serious question his supposed outreach to values voters following the 2004 elections. In essence, Dean is saying that if religious groups want to continue to speak out, then the hand of government is going to exact a penalty. Comments such as these continue to place Howard Dean and the Democratic Party in jeopardy of further alienating religious voters."

Fidelis is a Catholic-based advocacy organization working with people of faith across the country to defend and promote the sanctity of life, traditional marriage, and the right to religious liberty by electing pro-life, pro-family and pro-religious liberty candidates, supporting the confirmation of judges, and promoting and defending laws consistent with the Founding principles of the United States.
 

I N S I G H T Crabby Old Women contributing editor to   - Dan

This is for all who have ever had anyone in a nursing home or  older parents. Enjoy this lovely poem. This is so true, think as you read...think as you interact....remember we will all be old one  day.....

When an old lady died in the geriatric ward of a small hospital  near Dundee, Scotland, it was believed that she had nothing left of any value.

Later, when the nurses were going through her meager possessions, they found this poem.  Its quality and content so impressed the staff that copies were made and distributed to every nurse in the hospital.

One nurse took her copy to Ireland. The old lady's sole bequest to posterity has since appeared in the Christmas edition of the News Magazine of the North Ireland Association for Mental Health.

A slide presentation has also been made based on her simple, but eloquent poem. And this little old Scottish lady, with nothing left to give to the world, is now the author of this "anonymous" poem winging across the Internet:

Crabby Old Woman

What do you see, nurses?  What do you see?
What are you thinking, When you're looking at me?

A crabby old woman, Not very wise,
Uncertain of habit, With faraway eyes.

Who dribbles her food, And makes no reply,
When you say in a loud voice, "I do wish you'd try!"

Who seems not to notice, The things that you do,
And forever is losing, A stocking or shoe

Who, resisting or not Let's you do as you will,
With  bathing and feeding, The long day to fill?

Is that what you're thinking?  Is that what you see?
Then open your eyes, nurse,  You're not looking at me

I'll tell you who I am, As I sit here so still,
As I do at your bidding, As I eat at your will.

I'm a small child of ten, With a father and mother,
Brothers and sisters,  Who love one another.

A young girl of sixteen, With wings on her feet,
 Dreaming that soon now,  A lover she'll meet.

A bride soon at twenty, My heart gives a leap,
Remembering the vows, That I promised to keep.

At twenty-five now, I have young of my own,
Who need me to guide, And a secure happy home.
 

A woman of thirty, My young now grown fast,
Bound to each other, With ties that should last.

At forty, my young sons, Have grown and are gone,
But my man's beside me, To see I don't mourn.

 At fifty once more,  Babies play round my knee,
 Again we know children,  My loved one and  me

Dark days are upon me, My husband is dead,
I look at the future, I shudder with dread.

For my young are all rearing, Young of their own,
And I think of the years, And the love that I've known.

I'm now an old woman, And nature is cruel,
Tis jest to make old age, Look like a fool.

The body, it crumbles, Grace and vigor depart,
There is now a stone,  Where I once had a heart.

 But inside this old carcass, A young girl still dwells,
And now and again, My battered heart swells.

 I remember the joys,  I remember the pain,
 And I'm loving and living,  Life over again.

I think of the years, all too few, gone too fast,
And accept the stark fact, That nothing can last.

So open your eyes, people, Open and see,
Not a crabby old woman, Look closer - see ME!!
 

H U M O R Have You ever been this Tired? contributing editor to   - Pat

$$$ Follow the Money $$$ Fight Animal ID http://libertyark.net http://www.farmandranchfreedom.org/ contributing editor to   - Loretta & Jeanne

Below is a press release announcing a new national coalition to fight  NAIS.  It is the Liberty Ark Coalition  http://libertyark.net.  Please visit the website and sign up to support the effort, either as an  organization, or as an individual.  Then forward this press release to  your lists, and try to get it published in your local press.  Thanks.

Press Release - April 20, 2006

Contact: Karin Bergener, 330-298-0065  - mailto:Bergener@config.com

Liberty Ark Coalition Forms to Fight Animal ID

FREEDOM, OHIO - A broad-based coalition has been formed to oppose the  National Animal Identification System (NAIS) as it is presently proposed.  "We're calling the project The Liberty Ark Coalition," says Karin  Bergener, an Ohio attorney who helped form the coalition.  "We hope the  Liberty Ark will save our animals, and our farms from unnecessary  government intrusion."

The USDA sponsored program would require every premises which houses even  a single chicken, duck, turkey, cow, pig, goat, horse, or any other animal  considered to be livestock, to be registered in a government database, and  assigned a seven-digit number and GPS coordinates - by 2007.  The premises  owner would be required to pay a fee for the privilege.

The next phase would require every animal to be tagged with a radio  frequency identification device (RFID) by 2008, also paid for by the  owner.  Finally, by 2009, the movement of any animal from the registered  premises would have to be reported within 24 hours.  The program would be  enforced with fines for non-compliance, which could reach $1000 per day.

"The program is designed to track the source of a sick animal," says  Meritt Lamb, a Tennessee magazine editor who also helped form the  coalition.  "But it will do nothing to prevent diseased animals from  entering the food supply chain, nor will it address the problem of  identifying imported meat products that enter the food supply chain."  Lamb is typical of thousands of small land owners who keep a few chickens,  an occasional steer or pig or goat for their own use, who will be severely  impacted by the USDA program.

"This program will devastate county fairs, and 4H and Future Farmers of  America projects, through which children learn how to care for, and show,  their animals," says Randy Givens, a retired army colonel and coalition  founder who resides in Texas.  "It will kill the rodeo circuit.  These  programs have been successful for generations; the NAIS will wipe them out  because it is simply not worth the effort, or cost, to register, tag, and  report every animal that moves to a show or a county fair, or to a rodeo."

Judith McGeary, an environmental law attorney in Texas, and founder of the  Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance (http://www.farmandranchfreedom.org/),  says "We believe the Liberty Ark Coalition will bring together thousands  of small organizations and individuals who, together, will have enough  influence to convince legislators to stop this program, at least long  enough to interject a little sanity. But it will take everyone, working  together."

The Liberty Ark Coalition website is  http://libertyark.net.
 

Tragedy of unprecedented proportions was narrowly avoided when fearless bread warriors heroically arrested more than thirty-thousand "loaves of bread". It comes as no surprise the nefarious "loaves" were hiding in a compound called the "French Meadow Bakery" in Minneapolis. The full story is here: http://www.kstp.com/article/stories/S13349.html?cat=1

While the French have long been America haters and supporters of the "blame America first" cults, this blatant attempt to terrorize patriotic Americans with a dangerous chemical called "spelt" is sending shivers down the very spine of American Democracy.

The leader of this French death cult, Steve Shapiro, insults all real Americans with his disgraceful apologetics and excuses: "Spelt is an ancient grain. People with wheat allergies can tolerate spelt". Yeah, if by "tolerate" you mean a horrible, wretched death. And what exactly is in those croissants?

The federal bread police should be highly commended for thier actions, especially when you realize the "bread" outnumbered the police by more than a thousand to one.

The "loaves" are being held without bail and as enemy combatants are not entitled to any legal protections or by the Geneva Convention. Insiders inform me America's toughest sheriff, Joe Arpiao, of Phoenix, Arizona, is procuring the "loaves" for use in his Phoenix area gulags. He is reported as saying the "loaves" are a perfect compliment to the green bologna he usually serves.
 

By AMEL EMRIC, Associated Press, Last updated: 12:12 a.m., Thursday, April 20, 2006

VISOKO, Bosnia-Herzegovina -- Researchers on Wednesday unearthed geometrically cut stone slabs that they said could form part of the sloping surface of what they believe is an ancient pyramid lying beneath a huge hill.

Archaeologists and other experts began digging at this central Bosnian town last week to explore the team leader's theory that the 2,120-foot hill covers a step pyramid, which would be the first ever found in Europe.

"These are the first uncovered walls of the pyramid," Semir Osmanagic, a Bosnian archaeologist who studied the pyramids of Latin America for 15 years, said of the stonework found Wednesday.

"We can see the surface is perfectly flat. This is the crucial material proof that we are talking pyramids," he said.

Osmanagic believes the structure will prove to be 722 feet high, or a third taller than Egypt's Great Pyramid of Giza.

The huge stone blocks discovered Wednesday appeared to be cut in cubes and polished.

"It is so obvious that the top of the blocks, the surface is man-made," Osmanagic said.

Earlier research on the hill, known as Visocica, found that it has 45-degree slopes pointing toward the cardinal points and a flat top. Under layers of dirt, workers discovered a paved entrance plateau, entrances to tunnels and large stone blocks.

Satellite photographs and thermal imaging revealed two other, smaller pyramid-shaped hills in the Visoko Valley.

Last week's excavations began with a team of rescue workers from a nearby coal mine being sent into a tunnel believed to be part of an underground network connecting the three pyramid-shaped hills.

They were followed by archeologists, geologists and other experts who emerged from the tunnel later to declare that it was certainly man-made.

The work at Visoko, about 20 miles northwest of Sarajevo, will continue for about six months. Two experts from Egypt are due to join the team in mid-May.

"It will be a very exciting archaeological spring and summer," Osmanagic said.
 
 

Right Right Way Wyoming Sheriffs Put Federal Officers On Choke Chains http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a387ec3ea6413.htm contributing editor to   - Jeanne

County sheriffs in Wyoming are insisting that all federal law enforcement officers and personnel from federal regulatory agencies must clear all their activities in a Wyoming county with the Sheriff's Office. Speaking at a press conference following the recent US District Court decision (case No 2:96-cv-099-J) Bighorn County Sheriff Dave Mattis stated that all federal officials are forbidden to enter his county without his prior approval.

"If a sheriff doesn't want the Feds in his county he has the constitutional power and right to keep them out or ask them to leave or retain them in custody." The court decision came about after Mattis & other members of the Wyoming Sheriffs' Association brought a suit against both the BATF and the IRS in the Wyoming federal court district seeking restoration of the protections enshrined in the United States Constitution and the Wyoming Constitution. The District Court ruled in favor of the sheriffs, stating that, "Wyoming is a sovereign state and the duly elected sheriff of a county is the highest law enforcement official within a county and has law enforcement powers exceeding that of any other state or federal official."

The Wyoming sheriffs are demanding access to all BATF files to verify that the agency is not violating provisions of Wyoming law that prohibit the registration of firearms or the keeping of a registry of firearm owners. The sheriffs are also demanding that federal agencies immediately cease the seizure of private property and the impoundment of private bank accounts without regard to due process in state courts.

Sheriff Mattis stated:

"I am reacting to the actions of federal employees who have attempted to deprive citizens of my county of their privacy, their liberty, and their property without regard to constitutional safeguards. I hope that more sheriffs all across America will join us in protecting their citizens from the illegal activities of the IRS, EPA, BATF, FBI, or any other federal agency that is operating outside the confines of constitutional law. Employees of the IRS and the EPA are no longer welcome in Bighorn County unless they intend to operate in conformance to constitutional law."

Case Notes:
Case: Castaneda v. USA
Filed: 10th May 1996
Closed: 29th April 1997
Case No: 2:1996cv00099 Wyoming District Court, Casper
Nature of Suit: Civil Rights
 

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain** U.S. to Create a Bird Flu Virus Mutation http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20050324-030452-8400r.htm contributing editor to   - Craig

Atlanta, GA, Mar. 24 (UPI) -- The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has begun a series of experiments to see how likely the bird flu virus could result in a human pandemic.

 The six-month series of experiments seeks to simulate the mixing and matching of genes from the H5N1 avian flu virus that has plagued Asia and a common human flu virus that public-health experts fear could turn avian flu into a pandemic, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.

CDC scientists inside an ultra-secure laboratory have started swapping the genes of the H5N1 avian virus with the genes of an H3N2 virus, the strain behind most recent human flu outbreaks.

The goal is to substitute the eight genes of each virus, one by one, with the eight genes from the other virus to see which of more than 250 possible combinations create flu viruses that could spread easily among humans.

The work responds to fears by global public health experts that the bird flu virus could mutate to form one that could spawn a global outbreak of the disease.
 

D O    N O T drink the Kool-Aid* Meeting Doctor Doom http://www.sas.org/tcs/weeklyIssues_2006/2006-04-07/feature1p/index.html contributing editor to   - Craig

Recently citizen scientist Forrest Mims told me about a speech he heard at the Texas Academy of Science during which the speaker, a world-renowned ecologist, advocated for the extermination of 90 percent of the human species in a most horrible and painful manner. Apparently at the speaker's direction, the speech was not video taped by the Academy and so Forrest's may be the only record of what was said. Forrest's account of what he witnessed chilled my soul. Astonishingly, Forrest reports that many of the Academy members present gave the speaker a standing ovation. To date, the Academy has not moved to sanction the speaker or distance itself from the speaker's remarks.

If the professional community has lost its sense of moral outrage when one if their own openly calls for the slow and painful extermination of over 5 billion human beings, then it falls upon the amateur community to be the conscience of science.

Forrest, who is a member of the Texas Academy and chairs its Environmental Science Section, told me he would be unable to describe the speech in The Citizen Scientist because he has protested the speech to the Academy and he serves as Editor of The Citizen Scientist. Therefore, to preclude a possible conflict of interest, I have directed Forrest to describe what he observed and his reactions in this special feature, for which I have served as editor and which is being released a week ahead of our normal publication schedule. Comments may be sent to Backscatter.

Shawn Carlson, Ph.D.,
MacArthur Fellow,
Founder and Executive Director,
Society for Amateur Scientists

Special Editorial: Dealing with Doctor Doom
Shawn Carlson, Ph.D.

Meeting Doctor Doom

Forrest M. Mims III
Copyright 2006 by Forrest M. Mims III.

  There is always something special about science meetings. The 109th meeting of the Texas Academy of Science at Lamar University in Beaumont on 3-5 March 2006 was especially exciting for me, because a student and his professor presented the results of a DNA study I suggested to them last year. How fulfilling to see the baldcypress ( Taxodium distichum ) leaves we collected last summer and my tree ring photographs transformed into a first class scientific presentation that's nearly ready to submit to a scientific journal (Brian Iken and Dr. Deanna McCullough, "Bald Cypress of the Texas Hill Country: Taxonomically Unique?" 109th Meeting of the Texas Academy of Science Program and Abstracts [ PDF ], Poster P59, p. 84, 2006).

But there was a gravely disturbing side to that otherwise scientifically significant meeting, for I watched in amazement as a few hundred members of the Texas Academy of Science rose to their feet and gave a standing ovation to a speech that enthusiastically advocated the elimination of 90 percent of Earth's population by airborne Ebola. The speech was given by Dr. Eric R. Pianka (Fig. 1), the University of Texas evolutionary ecologist and lizard expert who the Academy named the 2006 Distinguished Texas Scientist.

Something curious occurred a minute before Pianka began speaking. An official of the Academy approached a video camera operator at the front of the auditorium and engaged him in animated conversation. The camera operator did not look pleased as he pointed the lens of the big camera to the ceiling and slowly walked away.

This curious incident came to mind a few minutes later when Professor Pianka began his speech by explaining that the general public is not yet ready to hear what he was about to tell us. Because of many years of experience as a writer and editor, Pianka's strange introduction and the TV camera incident raised a red flag in my mind. Suddenly I forgot that I was a member of the Texas Academy of Science and chairman of its Environmental Science Section. Instead, I grabbed a notepad so I could take on the role of science reporter.

One of Pianka's earliest points was a condemnation of anthropocentrism, or the idea that humankind occupies a privileged position in the Universe. He told a story about how a neighbor asked him what good the lizards are that he studies. He answered, “What good are you?”

Pianka hammered his point home by exclaiming, “We're no better than bacteria!”

Pianka then began laying out his concerns about how human overpopulation is ruining the Earth. He presented a doomsday scenario in which he claimed that the sharp increase in human population since the beginning of the industrial age is devastating the planet. He warned that quick steps must be taken to restore the planet before it's too late.

Saving the Earth with Ebola

Professor Pianka said the Earth as we know it will not survive without drastic measures. Then, and without presenting any data to justify this number, he asserted that the only feasible solution to saving the Earth is to reduce the population to 10 percent of the present number.

He then showed solutions for reducing the world's population in the form of a slide depicting the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. War and famine would not do, he explained. Instead, disease offered the most efficient and fastest way to kill the billions that must soon die if the population crisis is to be solved.

Pianka then displayed a slide showing rows of human skulls, one of which had red lights flashing from its eye sockets.

AIDS is not an efficient killer, he explained, because it is too slow. His favorite candidate for eliminating 90 percent of the world's population is airborne Ebola ( Ebola Reston ), because it is both highly lethal and it kills in days, instead of years. However, Professor Pianka did not mention that Ebola victims die a slow and torturous death as the virus initiates a cascade of biological calamities inside the victim that eventually liquefy the internal organs.

After praising the Ebola virus for its efficiency at killing, Pianka paused, leaned over the lectern, looked at us and carefully said, “We've got airborne 90 percent mortality in humans. Killing humans. Think about that.”

With his slide of human skulls towering on the screen behind him, Professor Pianka was deadly serious. The audience that had been applauding some of his statements now sat silent.

After a dramatic pause, Pianka returned to politics and environmentalism. But he revisited his call for mass death when he reflected on the oil situation.

“And the fossil fuels are running out,” he said, “so I think we may have to cut back to two billion, which would be about one-third as many people.” So the oil crisis alone may require eliminating two-third's of the world's population.

How soon must the mass dying begin if Earth is to be saved? Apparently fairly soon, for Pianka suggested he might be around when the killer disease goes to work. He was born in 1939, and his lengthy obituary appears on his web site.

When Pianka finished his remarks, the audience applauded. It wasn't merely a smattering of polite clapping that audiences diplomatically reserve for poor or boring speakers. It was a loud, vigorous and enthusiastic applause.

Questions for Dr. Doom

Then came the question and answer session, in which Professor Pianka stated that other diseases are also efficient killers.

The audience laughed when he said, “You know, the bird flu's good, too.” They laughed again when he proposed, with a discernable note of glee in his voice that, “We need to sterilize everybody on the Earth.”

After noting that the audience did not represent the general population, a questioner asked, "What kind of reception have you received as you have presented these ideas to other audiences that are not representative of us?"

Pianka replied, "I speak to the converted!"

Pianka responded to more questions by condemning politicians in general and Al Gore by name, because they do not address the population problem and "...because they deceive the public in every way they can to stay in power."

He spoke glowingly of the police state in China that enforces their one-child policy. He said, "Smarter people have fewer kids." He said those who don't have a conscience about the Earth will inherit the Earth, "...because those who care make fewer babies and those that didn't care made more babies." He said we will evolve as uncaring people, and "I think IQs are falling for the same reason, too."

With this, the questioning was over. Immediately almost every scientist, professor and college student present stood to their feet and vigorously applauded the man who had enthusiastically endorsed the elimination of 90 percent of the human population. Some even cheered. Dozens then mobbed the professor at the lectern to extend greetings and ask questions. It was necessary to wait a while before I could get close enough to take some photographs (Fig. 1).

I was assigned to judge a paper in a grad student competition after the speech. On the way, three professors dismissed Pianka as a crank. While waiting to enter the competition room, a group of a dozen Lamar University students expressed outrage over the Pianka speech.

Yet five hours later, the distinguished leaders of the Texas Academy of Science presented Pianka with a plaque in recognition of his being named 2006 Distinguished Texas Scientist. When the banquet hall filled with more than 400 people responded with enthusiastic applause, I walked out in protest.

Corresponding with Dr. Doom

Recently I exchanged a number of e-mails with Pianka. I pointed out to him that one might infer his death wish was really aimed at Africans, for Ebola is found only in Central Africa. He replied that Ebola does not discriminate, kills everyone and could spread to Europe and the the Americas by a single infected airplane passenger.

In his last e-mail, Pianka wrote that I completely fail to understand his arguments. So I did a check and found verification of my interpretation of his remarks on his own web site. In a student evaluation of a 2004 course he taught, one of Professor Pianka's students wrote, "Though I agree that convervation [sic] biology is of utmost importance to the world, I do not think that preaching that 90% of the human population should die of ebola [sic] is the most effective means of encouraging conservation awareness." (Go here and scroll down to just before the Fall 2005 evaluation section near the end.)

Yet the majority of his student reviews were favorable, with one even saying, “ I worship Dr. Pianka.”

The 45-minute lecture before the Texas Academy of Science converted a university biology senior into a Pianka disciple, who then published a blog that seriously supports Pianka's mass death wish.

Dangerous Times

Let me now remove my reporter's hat for a moment and tell you what I think. We live in dangerous times. The national security of many countries is at risk. Science has become tainted by highly publicized cases of misconduct and fraud.

Must now we worry that a Pianka-worshipping former student might someday become a professional biologist or physician with access to the most deadly strains of viruses and bacteria? I believe that airborne Ebola is unlikely to threaten the world outside of Central Africa. But scientists have regenerated the 1918 Spanish flu virus that killed 50 million people. There is concern that small pox might someday return. And what other terrible plagues are waiting out there in the natural world to cross the species barrier and to which scientists will one day have access?

Meanwhile, I still can't get out of my mind the pleasant spring day in Texas when a few hundred scientists of the Texas Academy of Science gave a standing ovation for a speaker who they heard advocate for the slow and torturous death of over five billion human beings.

Forrest M. Mims III is Chairman of the Environmental Science Section of the Texas Academy of Science, and the editor of The Citizen Scientist. He and his science are featured online at www.forrestmims.org and www.sunandsky.org. The views expressed herein are his own and do not represent the official views of the Texas Academy of Science or the Society for Amateur Scientists.
 

RED ALERT - MONETARY FLOOD!

Puru Saxena, 6 December 2005
Email: puru@purusaxena.com ,  Website: www.purusaxena.com

INFLATION - Previously, I talked at length about the definitions of inflation and deflation so I won't go into this subject in great detail. All you need to remember is that inflation is an increase in the quantity of money whereas deflation is a decrease in the quantity of money. And, despite what you hear on your local T.V. or radio show, we are living in highly inflationary times. How do I know? Easy - simply take a look at the rates of money supply growth over the past year -
 

Central banks around the world continue to print money like there is no tomorrow. And what option do they have? The "developed" world is now plagued with a ridiculous amount of debt. For example, the total American debt is roughly US$40 trillion whereas the size of its economy is around US$11 trillion. So, the debt to GDP ratio is over 350%! Similar imbalances can be seen in most advanced countries where households and governments are choking on debt. In the current scenario, the easiest way for nations to make this debt easier to handle is through inflation. You see, inflation makes debt less formidable as the money you owe today loses its value (purchasing power) over time. So, the hundred dollars you owe today don't "feel" like a hundred dollars when you repay your debt five or ten years later.

We can be rest assured that the central banks of this world will continue to inflate. After all, the same method has been tried (without success) several times before in history.

One of the earliest experiments with paper money was introduced in France by John Law in 1716. Back then, Law proposed the establishment of Banque Générale, a state-chartered bank with the power to issue unbacked paper currency (similar to modern-day central banking). Around the same time, he also established the Mississippi Company, an enterprise designed to develop the colony of Louisiana in North America.

The French instantly fell in love with the "brilliance" of Law and his paper money system. A paper money system backed by nothing, delivered an endless supply of money pushing asset-prices and the shares of Law's Mississippi Company to dizzy heights! Law was declared a national hero as the French celebrated their new found "wealth". Initially, Law's note-issuing bank was a spectacular success -- until it collapsed after a bank run in 1720, plunging France and Europe into a severe economic crisis! A loss of confidence in Law's paper money triggered the collapse as the public started swapping paper for tangibles such as gold.

More recently, Germany also adopted the inflationary route after the First World War. In a desperate attempt, Germany, decided to repay its war loans by printing money. This action had a catastrophic impact on the German economy as its currency eventually became worthless due to hyperinflation.

A similar approach was embraced by Latin America in the early 1980's. Once again, the end result was the same - economic chaos and plummeting currencies.

One thing is worth noting though - during these inflationary times in history, asset prices went through the roof when measured in the inflating country's local currency; even though the currency itself totally collapsed! For example, in Weimar's Germany, a loaf of bread cost 10 marks in 1921 and it rose to an unimaginable 200 billion marks just two years later!

So, if the modern-day central bankers continue with their inflationary efforts, it may well be that (despite record-high American deficits and debt) stocks continue to rise as long as the public remains confident about the paper money system. During inflationary times when money is abundant, valuations can be thrown out of the window (current situation). During such times, stocks don't necessarily rise due to any fundamental reason; the rising tidal wave of money lifts everything in its path! Looking around today - stocks are rising, bonds are soaring, oil is high, gold is shining and even real-estate remains suspended in the stratosphere! Obviously, the money printing efforts are paying off as all asset-classes continue to rise.

It is interesting to note, that whilst the central banks continue to inflate, they are doing whatever they can to hide the evidence. "How can that be?" you may ask. Well, for a start, the consumer price index (CPI) released by most nations is an absolute joke. In the majority of cases, the CPI does not include housing or energy costs and everything else, which is included, is seasonally adjusted to prevent the CPI from rising too quickly! Also, it is interesting to note that recently the Federal Reserve announced that starting March, M3 (the broad based money supply figure) will no longer be announced. And I ask myself, "Why has the Fed decided to stop releasing the money supply figure?" The answer is obvious - for people to accept inflation, it must remain concealed. Otherwise, the public might wake up and reject the confiscation of savings through inflation.

GOLD - For sure, you can hide inflation from the public by manipulating the official statistics but you can't fool the precious metals markets and you certainly can't fool gold. Sophisticated investors know that the yellow metal is real money with intrinsic value. It has been around longer than all the paper currencies put together! Gold is a store of value, which is free from debt. Physical bullion in your own possession cannot go bankrupt even though your cash deposits can vanish if your bank goes up in smoke.

As some of you know, I have been recommending gold as a long-term investment since 2001. Back then, most people thought I was crazy. Today, there are a lot more believers but they still jump in and out trying to trade the market. My advice - forget about the short-term movements, simply buy gold on the dips for the long haul.
 

$$$ Follow the Money $$$ We Need You to Save the Internet! http://www.tpmcafe.com/node/29086 http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/4/24/201526/948 http://www.savetheinternet.com/=faq contributing editor to   - Craig

by mcjoan

Sounds hyperbolic, no? It's not. The House Commerce Committee is likely to vote as early as Wednesday on legislation that would essentially hand over the keys to the Internet to the giant telcos, AT&T, Verizon, Time Warner, and Comcast.

It's hard to imagine that the Internet, that vast free-flowing world of entertainment, enlightenment, education, and interaction could be fettered, but under this legislation it very well could be. Internet service provision in the U.S. is covered by telecommunications law, and has operated under the idea of "network neutrality." In it's early years, telephone companies provided most Web service, and carried most of the traffic. Because of the nature of laws regulating phone service, Web traffic was handled just like phone traffic, each "call" being equal. That means every page you surf to on the Internet is served up just like any other, as far as your ISP is concerned. You can go from Amazon.com to Aunt Harriet's family history blog equally.

Here's what's at stake with this legislation.

The nation's largest telephone and cable companies -- including AT&T, Verizon, Comcast and Time Warner -- want to be Internet gatekeepers, deciding which Web sites go fast or slow and which won't load at all.

They want to tax content providers to guarantee speedy delivery of their data. They want to discriminate in favor of their own search engines, Internet phone services, and streaming video -- while slowing down or blocking their competitors. . . .

On the Internet, consumers are in ultimate control -- deciding between content, applications and services available anywhere, no matter who owns the network. There's no middleman. But without net neutrality, the Internet will look more like cable TV. Network owners will decide which channels, content and applications are available; consumers will have to choose from their menu.

The Internet has always been driven by innovation. Web sites and services succeeded or failed on their own merit. Without net neutrality, decisions now made collectively by millions of users will be made in corporate boardrooms. The choice we face now is whether people can choose the content and services they want, or whether the broadband barons will choose for them.

-- In 2004, North Carolina ISP Madison River blocked their DSL customers from using any rival Web-based phone service.

-- In 2005, Canada's telephone giant Telus blocked customers from visiting a Web site sympathetic to the Telecommunications Workers Union during a labor dispute.

-- Shaw, a big Canadian cable TV company, is charging an extra $10 a month to subscribers who want to use a competing Internet telephone service.

-- In April, Time Warner's AOL blocked all emails that mentioned www.dearaol.com -- an advocacy campaign opposing the company's pay-to-send e-mail scheme.

How do you think they're going to get to customers? Through a broadband pipe. Cable companies have them. We have them. Now what they would like to do is use my pipes free, but I ain't going to let them do that because we have spent this capital and we have to have a return on it. So there's going to have to be some mechanism for these people who use these pipes to pay for the portion they're using. Why should they be allowed to use my pipes?

The Internet can't be free in that sense, because we and the cable companies have made an investment and for a Google or Yahoo! (YHOO) or Vonage or anybody to expect to use these pipes [for] free is nuts!

You can find out much more about the legislation, how bloggers are reacting, and how various organizations are reacting at Save the Internet. Additionally, Matt Stoller at MyDD has been doing yeoman's work following this issue. You can see his quick run-down here.
 

What follows is an exchange in rebuttal to the article of April 23, 2006, entitled "No National Sales Tax.  Tax is NEVER fair, tax is a burden".

Date:  Wed, 26 Apr 2006 10:17:56 EDT
From:  Scott
To:  rockyview@tellme1st.net

Original article (Tribble):  There is much sweet sounding rhetoric of how a sales tax will be more fair.  Tax is NEVER fair, tax is a burden.

Scott:  This is bit one sided and you know it. I realize this is a sacred cow to you. People who are working / flying below the radar, so to speak, would naturally be unhappy at the prospect of paying more at the register. However, taxes are a neccessary evil. WITHOUT going into the where-the-taxes-go argument, I simply would like to make a point that sales tax, as opposed to income tax, only makes logical sense and is something I believe Jefferson would approve of.

Fair has nothing to do with it. Life isn't fair, get over it.

Sales tax places the "penalty" on consumption as opposed to production. It also gives the tax payor the power to decide how much tax he or she is willing to pay. Some say taxation of essential goods and sevices such as groceries, medicines, electricity, water, and gas would unfairly force taxation on the poor. That may or may not be true. Certain life enriching elements such as utilities could be exempted. Additionally, I believe it criminal to tax groceries and medications in any form, for anybody regardless of financial standing. Our fair state seems to have no conscience about it. Even going as far as to proclaim that... [sales tax on groceries] insures that in lean times the state gets theirs. That should change, but I disgress.

Sales taxes leave open tremendous opportunites to tell the government right away that it's actions are not approved of by sending the message loud and clear through revenues. When they start acting up, the consumer controls how much payday they get by buying new (tax included) or used (no revenue for the lawyers on the hills). I know this may sound a bit simplistic, but I don't believe it is utopian. Utopian would be believing we can go through life without paying ANY taxes.

My not so humble $.02.

Date:  Wed, 26 Apr 2006 20:19:23 EDT
From:  Scott
To:  rockyview@tellme1st.net

Tribble:  The article/comment was not born of "sacred cows".  But, you chose to ignore the most potent sperm for the article/comment, and that is "where-the-taxes-go".  If you will not discuss that all important issue, then there is no discussion, there is only your view.  I chose to write not so much from a view as from a fact such as "where-the-taxes-go".  Put another way, why replace an unlawful tax with a lawful tax when the purpose of the tax will be the same?  Duh.

Scott:  I do not disagree with you on where the taxes go. I was simply trying to make a point that taxes are neccesary and taxing consumption is vastly preferable than taxing hard work and productivety. I'm sorry you took my comments as a personal afront. No such was meant. However, while on the subject, somebody not paying income tax now, yet paying the "prices at the pump" would have every right to be concerned with a national sales tax, especially given what would be done with it. We tend to live on what we make. A sudden change in costs of living would naturally be a sacred cow. I would consider it to be for me, if I were not in my present state. If the FIT were to be replaced by national sales tax, flat rate mind you, it would be considered zero sum for me, sum gain for people in high tax brackets and sum negative (therefore sacred cow) for say illegal aliens.

I did not ignor the where the taxes go. It is more a matter of preaching to the choir. The unfortunate part, is we will never be able to counter the brain washing that has already taken place amung the masses. That is an utopian ideal, imo. So, while given the ever present choice of two evils, which is all the politicians are ever willing to give us, which would you choose? Abolishing the illegal tax is just not a realistic option because we cannot "make war on the beast." We have the internet and a few other microscopic media venues. They have the mass media outlets by which to mislead the public at large and most people are too stupid to see the truth or too busy to care.

Yes, my comments assume the income tax will be replaced. I qualified it as such. To simply add another tax is not in the equation amung sound thinking people. However, the threat of simply adding another tax could be far too tempting for the politicians. Therefore, not adove the very real likelihood they could/would do that very thing. Which, of course, adds proof positive evidence that they are not sound thinking people.

Tribble:  IF the purpose of the tax is legitimate, then I agree with you that a sales tax is better.  At least a little choice is afforded the masses, even if this means using a black market.  A black market will also send a message, as you mentioned.

Scott:  This was my only point. Jefferson would aprove of national sales tax as opposed to income tax. That would be after he called for armed revolution, the shock wore off, and he were presented with only the choice between the two.

Closing comment

It may have been short sighted of me to not show concern with the consequences of the sales tax, although I was aware of them.  It was simply seemed more important to emphasize that a replacement tax is nothing short of a scam to get the master players out from under the falling construct they had created.  Being that more and more people have learned and are learning that the income tax system is not legitimate or does not apply to them, the power elite is looking for a new way to collect that revenue.  Even if the new way was also not lawful or did not apply to the majority of people, the curve for revealing it would give the power elite many good years of profit.
 

By Bill Christensen

RFID microchips implanted in humans? Who would think of such a thing? Here are a few examples:

    * VeriChip RFID Tag Patient Implant Badges Now FDA Approved
    * U.S. Company Implants Chips in Workers
    * RFID Tags Proposed to Halt Blackmarket Cadaver Trade

You're not even safe from being 'chipped when you're dead.

But you'll be safe in Wisconsin, if State Representative Marlin Schneider, D-Wisconsin Rapids, gets his bill passed. A proposal moving through the Wisconsin Legislature would prohibit anyone from requiring people to have the tiny RFID chips embedded in them or doing so without their knowledge. Violators would face fines of up to $10,000.

Verichip Corporation, based in Florida, has federal approval to implant these rice grain-sized RFID chips in people. The procedure is very similar to getting a shot; typical sites for implantation are the back of the hand and the upper arm.

Wisconsin's former governor Tommy Thompson supported the idea of chip implantation for medical identification reasons; he even joined Verichip's board of directors. However, he hasn't gotten the chip himself.

If this bill passes, Wisconsin would be the first state to ban mandatory microchip implants.

The idea for this story was found here (via Slashdot).
 

D O    N O T drink the Kool-Aid* Your Jeans will Betray You http://www.spychips.com/ http://www.nocards.org/ contributing editor to   - Katherine

April 27, 2006

SPYCHIPPED LEVI'S BRAND JEANS HIT THE U.S. Levi Strauss Confirms RFID Test, Refuses to Disclose Location

It may be time to ditch your Dockers and lay off the Levi's, say privacy activists Katherine Albrecht and Liz McIntyre. New information confirms that Levi Strauss & Co. is violating a call for a moratorium on item-level RFID by spychipping its clothing. What's more, the company is refusing to disclose the location of its U.S. test.

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is a controversial technology that uses tiny microchips to track items from a distance. These RFID microchips have earned the nickname "spychips" because each contains a unique identification number, like a Social Security number for things, that can be read silently and invisibly by radio waves. Over 40 of the world's leading privacy and civil liberties organizations have called for a moratorium on chipping individual consumer items because the technology can be used to track people without their knowledge or consent.

Jeffrey Beckman, Director of Worldwide and U.S. Communications for Levi Strauss, confirmed his company's chipping program in an email exhange with McIntyre, saying "a retail customer is testing RFID at one location [in the U.S.]...on a few of our larger-volume core men's Levi's jeans styles." However, he refused to name the location.

"Out of respect for our customer's wishes, we are not going to discuss any specifics about their test," he said. Beckman also confirmed the company is tagging Levi Strauss clothing products, including Dockers brand pants, at two of its franchise locations in Mexico.

McIntyre was tipped off to the activity by a mention in an industry publication. The article indicated Levi Strauss was looking for additional RFID "test partners."

Albrecht believes the companies are keeping mum about the U.S. test location in order to prevent a consumer backlash. Clothing retailer Benetton was hit hard by a consumer boycott led by Albrecht in 2003 when the company announced plans to embed RFID tags in its Sisley line of women's clothing. The resulting consumer outcry forced the company to retreat from its plans and disclaim its intentions.

Levi Strauss can little afford similar problems with consumers. It is one of the world's largest brand-name apparel marketers with a presence in more than 110 countries, but has suffered through several years of declining sales as younger consumers gravitate to new brands. The company has also been hurt by Wal-Mart's decision to cut back on inventory in a bid to shore up its own declining sales.

While Levi Strauss reports that its current RFID trials use external RFID "hang tags" that can be clipped from the clothes and the focus is on inventory management, not customer tracking, the company isn't guaranteeing how it will use RFID in the future.

"Companies like Levi Strauss are painting their RFID trials as innocuous," observes Albrecht. "But this technology is extraordinarily dangerous. There is a reason why we have asked companies not to spychip clothing. Few things are more intimately connected with an individual than the clothes they wear."

"Once clothing manufacturers begin applying RFID to hang tags, the floodgates will open and we'll soon find these things sewn into the hem of our jeans," Albrecht adds. "The problem with RFID is that it is tracking technology, plain and simple."

Albrecht and McIntyre point out that tracking people through the things they wear and carry is more than mere speculation. In their book "Spychips: How Major Corporations and Government Plan to Track Your Every Move with RFID," they reveal sworn patent documents that describe ways to link the unique serial numbers on RFID-tagged items with the people who purchase them.

One of the most graphic examples is IBM's "Identification and Tracking of Persons Using RFID-Tagged Items." In that patent application, IBM inventors suggest tracking consumers for marketing and advertising purposes.

"That's enough to steam most consumers," says McIntyre."But IBM's proposal that the government track people through RFID tags on the things they wear and carry should send a cold chill down our spines."

IBM inventors detail how the government could use RFID tags to track people in public places like shopping malls, museums, libraries, sports arenas, elevators, and even restrooms.

"Make no mistake," McIntyre adds. "Today's RFID inventory tags could evolve into embedded homing beacons. Unchecked, this technology could become a Big Brother bonanza and a civil liberties nightmare."
 

Consumer privacy expert Katherine Albrecht was our special guest in Streamlink's Live Chat on Tuesday night for an in-depth Q & A. Below are excerpts; members can view the entire transcript.

kNightRider
What exactly is government doing to prevent privacy violations? Who is doing it?

Katherine Albrecht
The government is not doing anything at all to protect us from the RFID threat. On the contrary, they are falling all over themselves to promote the industry. We just watched an RFID labeling bill go down in flames here in my home state of New Hampshire. There have been over a dozen attempts to get labeling legislation passed around the country, and all of them have been killed by the lobbyists. I have gotten quite a political education in the last several weeks. None of it pretty.

Kickup
Katherine, how do the grocery store ID cards relate to RFID?

Katherine Albrecht
The grocery store cards played a crucial role in conditioning people to allowing marketers and retailers to track and monitor their purchases. I recently had a chat with a 15-year-old who said to me, "It's great you're fighting these cards, and I hope you win, but I just have one question. If you win and they get rid of the grocery card, how will the store know what you bought?" The problem is that many young people today can't remember a time when you didn't need a grocery card to get a decent price on your groceries. I bet few of us can remember a time before credit cards. And the next step is to issue us frequent shopper cards with RFID tags inside, that can be used to track us around the store.

Chupa
Katherine, how long do you think it will be before it is made law that the public get the chip?

Katherine Albrecht
Chupa: I don't think it will come about that way. I think it will be voluntary for the general public, with lots of "perks" attached. (Think of the grocery store "discount" cards -- no one forces you to sign up, but you'll pay a lot more for your groceries if you refuse to comply.) A carrot tends to work better than a stick. And all the better if their carrot is an illusion, like the supposed savings from the grocery cards. What I do believe, however, is that if we're not careful, people will start clamoring for that *other guy* over THERE to get chipped. Lately a lot of people who ought to know better say things to me like, "Well, I don't want to be chipped. But I know of one good use for the implant -- put in the sex offender, or the immigrant, or the felon, or the [fill in the blank]" That's really dangerous logic. To save from retyping it, here's a link to a blog entry I did on this -- with the Chinese proverb: "The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns you more than it burns him." spychips.com/blog/2006/03/be_careful_what_you_wish_for_y.html

Lorna Doodle
How do your peers at Harvard or in academia view your "end times" beliefs?

Katherine Albrecht
My religion is not something I wear on my sleeve. In fact, I ran CASPIAN (Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering) and did this work for years (since 1999) without it really coming up much. It's only been in recent months, especially with the publication of The Spychips Threat (the Christian version of Spychips) that I've become so open about my faith. Let me tackle some of the questions about that topic next...

Kristal61
Maybe this is just a piece of technology and not the Mark of the Beast.

Katherine Albrecht
Kristal: To someone who does not view the world through a lens of good and evil, your comment is absolutely logical and spot-on accurate. From where I sit, however, things do have a cast to them, and history has larger trends. Martin Luther King once said, "The arc of history bends towards justice." At first this sounded true, but the more I thought about it, the more it struck me that the arc of history actually bends towards tyranny , with occasional and periodic corrections that jerk it back on a track to justice. But what did occur to me is that one could write a novel in which the arc of history could be shown to bend towards the mark of the beast. The bar code was a necessary step, if you want to create a Mark type system (one of the reasons I am in agreement with the people who raised that alarm in the 1970's). By the way, did you guys know that the world's first computer was called "The Mark?" It's housed in the science center at Harvard -- I walk past it all the time. And did you know what it's first major act was? To enable the creation of the nuclear bomb. Amazing.

toony
Even if the Mark of the Beast turns out to be something else other than this technology, it's hard to argue that this technology will take humanity in a better direction.

Katherine Albrecht
I don't believe that RFID, in its present form, will be the mark of the beast. Here's an analogy: Let's say I board a train in San Diego, and let's say that the one place I don't want to wind up is Washington D.C. As the train takes off from the station, I have no idea where it's going. But as it makes stop after stop, I notice that we're definitely heading towards D.C. In fact, I can draw a trajectory on a map that shows that, IF WE KEEP GOING ON THE ROUTE WE'RE ON (ant this is the crucial part) we will eventually wind up in DC. It's kind of like that with the Mark. The bar code was like stopping in Oklahoma City. One stop closer, further confirmation of the route, but not the mark itself. That's how I see RFID.
 

Richard Alatorre, Los Angeles City Council. "They're afraid we're going to take over the governmental institutions and other institutions.  They're right.  We will take them over . . . We are here to stay."

Excelsior, the national newspaper of Mexico, "The American Southwest seems to be slowly returning to the jurisdiction of Mexico without firing a single shot."

Professor Jose Angel Gutierrez, University of Texas; "We have an aging white America.  They are not making babies.  They are dying.  The explosion is in our population ... I love it.  They are sh*tting in their pants with fear.  I love it."

Art Torres, Chairman of the California Democratic Party, "Remember 187--proposition to deny taxpayer funds for services to non-citizens—was the last gasp of white America in California."

Gloria Molina, Los Angeles County Supervisor, "We are politicizing every single one of these new citizens that are becoming citizens of this country . . . I gotta tell you that a lot of people are saying, 'I'm going to go out there and vote because I want to pay them back'."

Mario Obledo, California Coalition of Hispanic Organizations and California State Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare under Governor Jerry Brown, also awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Bill Clinton, "California is going to be a Hispanic state.  Anyone who doesn't like it should leave."

Jose Pescador Osuna, Mexican Consul General , "We are practicing 'La Reconquista' in California."

Professor Fernando Guerra, Loyola Marymount University; "We need to avoid a white backlash by using codes understood by Latinos . . . "
 
 

THE Federal Government will today finally manage to do what most Australians struggle to achieve – pay off the dreaded credit card. Treasurer Peter Costello has declared today “debt-free day” to mark the Government’s final payment on the commonwealth credit card. “As best as we can tell, tomorrow, the commonwealth of Australia will eliminate its net debt,” he told the Committee for Economic Development of Australia yesterday. “Tomorrow, April 21, 2006, will be Debt-Free Day. “In fact, from tomorrow, our Government will become a net saver, to save for some of the big challenges of the future,” Mr Costello said. However, Mr Costello warned that even though the national debt would be paid off, it was no time for a government spending spree.

Peter Costello

by Ted Twietmeyer, http://www.data4science.net

I came across this incredible little-publicized fact while doing some recent business research, and couldn't resist digging into just how they pulled this off in the our debt-based world economy. There is an answer to it, albeit a complex one with many twists, which is always the case with world economic success stories. We do know from past history, that all around the world any country who manages to pull off this virtual magician's trick has done so by jumping in bed with the world bank (IMF.) Many would call it "making a deal with the devil."

Former chief economist and senior VP for the world bank Joseph Stiglitz [1] resigned in shock when he read IMF internal documents. Stiglitz learned that the IMF will forgive a country's debt, but only if that country's leaders agree to allow the IMF blow out that country's economy, starve people to death if required and allow installation of an IMF puppet government. If they don't agree to the globalist takeover, they will suffer the same fate as Argentina did with chaos erupting in the streets. In many ways, this just a bigger and slightly more aggressive version of the plan venture capitalists use on small companies.

We do not know (and may never know) are what back-room deals may have been made with the IMF to give Australia the unheard of ability to have a positive trade in a deficit-based world. For now, this doesn't appear to be the case behind their economic recovery.

Let's explore some history of where Australia has been, and how it arrived at where it is now.

AUSTRALIA'S PLAN TO ECONOMIC FREEDOM IN 1999

In a bold speech about Australia striving for this goal, in 1999 MP Peter Costello delivered a speech on this matter. [2] He credited many factors to reach a debt-free status including no increases in corporate, petrol excise, income or wholesale sales tax for the fourth year in a row.

After Costello proclaimed Australia's great success in economic and other areas he then stated:

"...But we would fool ourselves to think our problems are now all over. Our region is still in trouble. The world economy is still weak. Next year [referring to the year 2000] the Government forecasts economic growth at 3 per cent -- this is faster than most of the major economies of the world -- but a little slower than the very high growth of 4 per cent this year. Our current account deficit -- widened by weak export prices and a strong consumer demand for imports -- is forecast at 5 per cent of GDP. This is a little better than this year. But it means we cannot afford to be complacent..."

He later concluded with "Our next Budget will begin the story of the 21st century. By then we should have a new tax system -- A New Tax System for the new century. A new tax system will fund and sustain our hopes and aspirations in health care, in education, in care for the old, and care for the young."

Translation of Costello's statement above - a HIGHER tax system since he states all the programs it will be funding. Now let's time travel to the present and see what miracle has happened. To begin with, income taxes in Australia are now second only to the United States [3]:

Table 1: Tax burden on Average Production Worker (APW) wages

Source: OECD Tax Database, Table 1.2. Average personal income tax and social security contributions on gross Exchanges rates Afternoon 29 August 2005 *APW is Average Production Worker Wages.

Table 1 above shows that while the average tax burden on Australian wages is high, it is not the highest in the world. That title is still held by the USA.

Indeed, now a new tax system is in place. People who live there are now heavily taxed on both income and purchases. Actual sales taxes vary depending on WHAT is being purchased. For example, there are value added taxes [6] which are excessive by any standards, which are typically 10% for most items which may be added to other taxes. One resident living in Perth about two years ago, told this author that his taxes on buying a heavy appliance was about 20%, and clothing about 14%. Heaven help anyone who's washing machine dies.

At the same time, they dismantled clothing, auto and wool tariffs. Taxes paid by the citizen helped to pick up that lost revenue. But there is even more to this story of prosperity the deeper you dig.

In the past few years a trade imbalance hit Australia with a trade deficit like that suffered by the USA, as illustrated by this chart issued just one year ago:

Today, surging exports to China have greatly reduced their deficit from 2.48 billion dollars(AU) in January down to just 427 million dollars(AU) in April 2006. [4] Australia is the world's largest exporter of coal and iron ore, both of which are used to make steel. What's curious about the above chart is the sinusoidal curve. We will explore the role that wheat has played in this chart. This is not something we see with America's exports, as it continues to plunge more negative every month as a result of using China as it's source of manufacturing. It's also clear that the US government is doing absolutely nothing to stop the monetary bleeding, as America's economy grows redder each day. Those that believe the party line about "how prosperous America is" obviously are not part of the unemployed millions out looking for a job, and finding no job that one can live on exists anymore.
 

But globalism IS at work in Australia, as boldly stated by bank economist John Edwards:
"Globalization does have winners and losers, but mostly we're a winner," says Edwards, chief economist with HSBC Bank Australia Ltd. in Sydney. "When farmers in Korea protest against globalization, or miners in Germany protest globalization, they're protesting against us." [5]

What do all the proud globalists always leave out of their boasting? That police-state style control always comes along for the ride. Globalists always state that such control is "for the good of the people." Perhaps this is what globalists make themselves believe. Edwards arrogantly looks down on the hard working masses of other countries by referring to "miners and farmers" in a negative light. These workers are among the hardest working people in society - not a stuffed shirt doodling on a desk in a plush carpeted office, who lives off the interest of debts incurred by those less fortunate. This is all textbook style globalism at it's finest - wealth built upon those less fortunate. The classic "the rich are getting richer, and the poor are becoming poorer."

WHAT REALLY HAPPENED TO BOOST THE BOTTOM LINE

Oddly enough it may have been a windfall from Iraq that pushed the export curve positive. An excerpt from an excellent corpwatch article written by Marc Moncrief states the following about the scandal-ridden "Oil for Food" program:

"But while U.S. French, Russian, and African politicians, businessmen and companies benefited from Saddam's profiteering, the program's worst corruptor was the Australian Wheat Board (AWB), the largest importer of food into Iraq under Oil-for-Food...Among the profiteers was the Australian Wheat Board, a former state-owned monopoly, which funneled $A290 million (U.S. $208,887,000) into Saddam's coffers even as the "Coalition of the Willing" was preparing for invasion."[7]

Marc states that "investigations have rocked the government." But everyone knows that in the end, nothing will really be done about it. What's done is done. The 290 million dollars was insignificant compared to the wheat sales that it guaranteed.

Marc also states, "Even as George Bush, Australian Prime Minister John Howard and British Prime Minister Tony Blair prepared their three peoples for war, AWB funneled $A290 million (U.S. $208,887,000) worth of bribes into Saddam Hussein's coffers. The graft, which continued until just months before the invasion, bought Australia access to the Iraqi wheat market and functioned to exclude the United States, Australia's most virile rival in the global wheat industry."

He continues,"...But while U.S. French, Russian, and African politicians, businessmen and companies benefited from Saddam's profiteering, the program's worst corruptor was the Australian Wheat Board (AWB), the largest importer of food INTO Iraq under Oil-for-Food." [Capitals added for emphasis.]

So it all comes together - Mr. Howard's Australian government privatized its former monopolistic wheat export agency in 1999, right at the same time MP Costello delivered his infamous prosperity speech described earlier. So what was the Howard government doing investing in Iraq to secure the wheat business, AFTER it was privatized several years before? Did they also bribe other countries to secure their business, too? We will never know about all the back room deals. Australia, Canada and United States are the biggest wheat producers on the planet. As a commodity, wheat is a staple much like oil and will always be in demand. Considering that Iraq is largely a desert, it's unlikely wheat to manufacture bread and other foods will be growing in Iraq anytime soon.

An important fact is visible here that can help America - you can outsource the manufacture of cars, trucks, computers, appliances and thousands of other household items to China. But you can't outsource FARMLAND and farms! Farmland with expansive, irrigated Plaines like we have in the mid-west are very scarce in China. A considerable part of that country's land is desert. Even thought the family farm is disappearing in America - this may be where our future really is. The biggest problem with farming today isn't about crop diseases, irrigation, planting or harvesting. The biggest problem is simply turning a decent profit for the American farmer to live on.

What the Australian government did when buying their way into the Iraq wheat market was to cut out the United States, which was a major market. So much for the US being a good Aussie ally. (The entire Australian wheat scam is too lengthy to cover here. See [7] for more details.)

In conclusion we know that as a minimum that iron ore, coal and wheat are in great demand. In fact, the largest wheat producing nation on the opposite side of the planet from the United States IS Australia. Considering skyrocketing oil costs, overseas shipping costs are now increasing on a daily basis. It would make sense for any country near Australia to buy these staple products from them. Unlike the United States, Australia has easy access to the Asian and Far East markets with products in great demand.

In this author's research, other articles were found written in Australia are warning that "UK style surveillance" is already coming to their land and New Zealand. Though Australian laws currently only permit watching video and not listening to audio, allowing audio is only a matter of time. Video is bad enough, as it allows computer tracking of vehicle license plates. With a police state will come relentless higher taxes to support it that will be proclaimed "It's for the good of the people." Now where have we heard that before? All police states require debt to keep the masses busy working like slaves, and synthetic terror to maintain fear.

Australians had better bask in the light of their prosperity all that they can, before globalism's real agenda snuffs it out. It's only a matter of time before the sinusoidal export curve swings negative again.

Ted Twietmeyer  www.data4science.net

REFERENCES

[1] Joseph Stiglitz, former World Bank Senior Vice President and Chief Economist.
http://www.rense.com/general19/eco.htm

[2] Minister of Parliament speech -
http://www.budget.gov.au/1999-00/speech/speech.html

[3] "Tax Comparisons - Australia and Selected Countries" http://www.aph.gov.au/library/Pubs/RN/2005-06/06rn18.pdf

[4] Surging exports to China -
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/04/03/bloomberg/sxoz.php

[5] Australia at the crossroads -
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0307/p01s03-wogi.html

[6] Value added tax:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value-added_tax

[7] Marc Moncrief is a journalist with The Age newspaper in Melbourne, Australia. His article is posted at
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=13453
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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