General Update

First of all, I apologize that I have lost touch with everyone. My brother and I are in Charlotte where we have VERY limited access to the internet. Therefore, I have not been able to do much at all for the club. With that said, I am working on a deal with the print shop at App. It may or may not work out. Anyway, I hope everyone will have a little extra time to work on some essays for the publication. If we cannot make a deal but still have content, then we will just print it ourselves so that we have something to give students at the club expo.

Peace,
Tim

Peace and Love to the C4L Group

I hope that everybody is having a Merry Christmas and a happy holidays!

Bongs for science

This is your brain on drugs
Some Harvard potheads made a bong to be used with individuals in an MRI machine, complete with erlenmeyer flask chamber, everyday headshop parts, a mask to inhale it through, and even an exhaust system to keep the stink outside.
They intend on doing some imaging to figure out what effects that nicotine and mj have on your brain, specifically looking at addiction.
Pretty cool, maybe they'll once and for all prove that mj doesn't get one addicted in any significant physical way, and we'll have some more infoammunition to get some reasonable legislation through.
Anyway, that's it

Edit:
Hell yea, I just made the blog wider. Now pictures will post a little more easily. Let me know if what I did causes any glitches or anything. Peace

Yippee

Congrats to everyone on another completed semester, or graduation if that applies to you! WOOOOOOO! I'M DONE!

Use this time you have now over break to get your brain working on creative ways to educate people or directly affect change in our system. I'm getting back into the graphics/web design game now that I'm graduated, and hopefully will be able to use some of my time to create more promotional material. If you guys have any ideas for things like shirts, fliers, stickers, magnets, billboards, magazine ads, whatever, let me know. I'd like to roll ideas over with y'all. All the time, I'm realizing that one of our big problems is just getting through to people in the first place.

We've got to create a campaign of sorts using a marketing scheme like Obama's Change™ (but with substance) because that's all people have the attention span for nowadays (or that's what they think, anyway, they just ignore anything political or intellectual for the most part). Just a word or phrase that's simple, actually catches people attention, and very succinctly states our purpose/ideals in some way. But at least upon first glance, looks like it comes from the consumerist bullshit mindset.

I've gotten frustrated a lot lately with people that just aren't very receptive to the situation because they're just not open to the idea that things aren't OK. There's a little barrier there that's been created through lifetimes of social indoctrination, probably by conventional mass media (advertising) for the greater part, and that barrier requires our attention. It comes back to the, "why are people not interested in politics, the news, economy, etc.?" question. I think about that all the time, but I can remember a time when I had that mindset, as well. It wasn't based on much of anything but apathy and lack of understanding of the importance of staying educated on world events. After all, I think we all know that there are people out there preying on the willful ignorance of our people, as sad as it is to say.
Anyway, we can't change the way people are, because their training has been going on for a long time, but we can learn to circumvent the barrier by playing by the same rules as those who have done so much to indoctrinate the average citizen with the nationalism and false belief in the system simply as the way it is.

What will be our marketing campaign? We all know: Melts in your mouth, not in your hands (bullshit, by the way), Just Do It, You're in Good Hands, We Love to See You Smile, So easy a caveman can do it, Can you hear me now?, and Be All That You Can Be.
Let's be all the we can be (not in the aaaaaarmy) and get the people justifiably pissed about the admitted war crimes, false monetary system, outright lies from our elected officials and lack of transparency in so many important areas, socialization of losses and privatization of gains, inequality, lack of liberty, destruction of the constitution, blatant misuse of power and so many other things that are plaguing us and importantly, CAN BE FIXED.

We've just got to get their attention. We definitely don't have that. It seems like American Idol, The Office, Batman, Gucci, and fast food have that pretty much locked down. What's the difference? Advertising.

Anyway, we're giving the Afghans guns again. Didn't we learn from last time we trained and armed the Taliban?

Just something random:
I wish I knew about Humanism before. It's a mentality or worldview that just makes tons of sense to me, and is compatible with many other beliefs.

ah!

Bush admin creates loophole in $750Bil bailout that protects executive salaries
I shouldn't even be reading the news, let alone spending my time here posting, so I won't say anything, but you guys have to look at that article.
Also, this is Absolutely insane

Just added:
More socialization of losses for the rich. Of course

Somebody is Sleeping in Gitmo Tonight

G.W. gets a pair of shoes chucked at his head.

Edit:
Now the whole Arab world is rallying behind this man.
"Saddam Hussein's former lawyer Khalil al-Dulaimi said he was forming a team to defend Zaidi and that around 200 lawyers, including Americans, had offered their services for free."

Oh boy

You fuck with us, you go down

First, read this

Then, read this

BofA is saying,
"I care not what puppet is placed on
the throne of England to rule the Empire, ...
The man that controls Britain's money
supply controls the British Empire.
And I control the money supply."
Baron Nathan Mayer Rothschild

Check the video out, this guy is not very articulate, but some of the things he says are interesting.

Edit: This is interesting, too, I found it while reading about the Rothschild family.

"If these International Jewish Financiers should once again succeed in plunging the nations into a world war, the result will not be the bolshevisation of the world, and therefore a victory of jewry. But the destruction of the jewish race in europe"
---Adolf Hitler in a speech to the Reichstag after the Ewige Jude Jan 30, 1939

Hitler was a bigger threat to the banking establishment or NWO as we see it now than maybe anything else has been yet. Not that we should be taking lessons from his tactics. He kinda had the wrong idea, didn't he? Just like the White Nationalists, he allowed fear and sweeping, senseless hate to drive his actions.

I don't have time for any original material...

...so I'll just post a bunch of links to news I read today. There was a bunch of stuff to read. I know some of you may have seen this already, b/c it's mostly from RawStory, but, my bad.
The Fed approves Chinese bank CCB to open office in US--- one of the comments at the end of that article was something like "here come our overlords," and what's funny is that I had read an article earlier today about wealthy Chinese coming to the US to purchase high end homes that have dropped in price due to the housing scheme. They have always done trips to the US and purchased real estate, but the incidence has gone up significantly. Right now, trips are being organized by groups of wealthy Chinese as often as every two weeks. These developments are rather... intriguing.
Watchdogs demand bailout transparency--- We should write letters like this to congress and to our other reps. Maybe Patrick or Andrew M would know more about this. I am less educated on our governmental system than some of you folks might be, fo sho.
Illinois Governor suspends business with BofA--- Now state gov't is getting on the bailout bonanza, forcing BofA to do business with, or give loans to, a unionized company. This is getting interesting
Blackwater guards in Iraq launch grenade into girls school, killing several, and are now charged with manslaughter--- Now this is nuts, in what circumstances would it seem prudent to launch a GRENADE into a GIRL'S SCHOOL? Is anyone else afraid that there were actually no "bad guys" near the building? These guys are a bunch of trigger happy, racist assholes getting paid to smoke some Ay-rabs. More not-cool stuff from Blackwater. Shower electrocutions from faulty wiring in barracks, countless noncombatant kills. These maniacs need to either go home, and a lot of them to prison, or face the fate of these clowns. (That is the kind of random article for which I love Harper's magazine)
What? The? Fuck? GM apologizes for "disappointing," "betraying" us then goes on to explain that this is because of "lackluster design" and that jobs are at risk. Wow. I think we need to remember that if GM closes, these semi-skilled workers that used to construct GM's car will be highly sought after in the inception of the new and improved auto manufacturing industry in our country. This is what we call the free market. It doesn't seem like anyone knows what that really means anymore. Boo Hoo, and this from one of the auto execs that just a week ago said he'd be willing to take a buck a year as salary.
Thanks, a lot Rick. It's interesting when you use your FUCKING BRAIN and discover that this guy makes only just more than 10% of his money through simple salary. The other $13 million dollars a year he takes in through stock awards, option awards, increases in pension value, and all other compensation.
Ford CEO Alan Mulally, of company number 2 of the big three, is also oh so humbly offering his services as Chaotic Economy Orchestrator for only a dollar. He, however, makes off even better that Wagoner of GM. Last year, Mulally raked in a cool $39.1 million in compensation in '07.
You can't get a hold of Chrysler's CEO compensation numbers because the company is privately held. However, I think you can assume with a level of certainty that his compensation is similar to our other two generous friends.
It really does piss me off when these arrogant punks treat me like I'm stupid. I'm not stupid, fellas. The media is saying we'll have an answer about this whole auto bailout thing soon, so I guess we'll see.

I can't wait until the tazer episode.

Kop-busters.

Just a follow up...

Thinking along the lines described a few posts down, I want to quote a passage from Ron Paul's book The Revolution: A Manifesto that I feel describes in his terms a certain point I was trying to shed some light on.

I'm inspired by all these political conversations that I have (or don't have) that just serve to alienate myself from the individual or individuals I'm speaking with based on the assumptions that there are just certain aspects of government, along with personally established viewpoints about them, that cannot be changed. The passage is as follows:

"Once government does become involved in something, intellectual and institutional inertia tends to keep it there for good. People lose their political imagination. It becomes impossible to conceive of dealing with the matter in any other way. Repealing the new bureaucracy becomes unthinkable. Mythology about how terrible things were in the old days becomes the conventional wisdom. Meanwhile, the bureaucracy itself, with a vested interest in maintaining itself and increasing its funding, employs all the resources it can to ensuring that it gets a bigger budgest next year, regardless of its performance. In fact, the worse it does, the more funding it is likely to get--exactly the opposite of what happens in the private sector, in which those who successfully meet the needs of their fellow men are rewarded with profits, and those who poorly anticipate consumer demand are punished with losses" (74).

http://darkdownhere.com/?p=255 ....this site is pretty cool and this clip is very interesting...possible libertarian media representative???

Peter Schiff is censored by the CNN at the end of this interview...and no wonder, listen to what he is about to say. http://www.breakthematrix.com/Economy/Peter-Schiff-gets-cut-off-on-CNN
Unbelievable, the media and the government are desperately trying to cover the truth about our failed economy with media blackouts and endless propaganda.

http://www.breakthematrix.com/2008-Elections/Ron-Paul-if-we-only-had-listened

Accepting Responsibility

[ This post was originally intended to be nothing more than a reply to post "It Has Begun," but ultimately I felt that these ideas deserved some objective attention; a chance in the infinitely populated world of thought. The action of the poster in posting the post that this argument was originally a response to is precisely proof of the argument itself, and it is because it is proof of this argument that the argument I attempt to make is, I believe, relevant.

It is my hope here that the ideas that I present, those that I am accountable for foster in the very least an uncertain but positive purpose for others. In some sense this particular mode of sharing thought enables full, unrestricted participation and response-ability (for obvious reasons, here we should not focus our explicit attention on the sense that doesn't. However, I do not wish to do any injustice to any and all individuals by disregarding a sense of interaction and response-ability that is arguably necessary to the (non)being of each and every individual, which is apparently lacking in this particular form of communication).

In the light that this form of "discussion" enables a certain sense of an unrestricted ability to respond, I invite you to respond with your own account not necessarily of the accounts described and borne within this text specifically, but of any other account as it relates to liberty and freedom for both the individual and the group. I believe that through discussion (as positive interaction) we can, as ourselves, as individuals, and as a whole, formulate a working ideology of progressive, and positive change for ourselves, for individuals, and for a whole. In this instance I do not mean to presuppose change as necessary, but rather hope to invite and encourage the possibility of active and engaging definition of change itself.

Please excuse (and therefore be forewarned) any aspect of my writing that serves to mystify rather than clarify. In some sense, my analytical tendency always poses the threat of presenting seemingly pointless digressions. But as long as one can establish from these “thoughts-as-they-are” some meaningful relation of ideas, then a positive purpose is served (even if the relation that is made is itself perceived as negative).

If anything, respond. The very heart of this particular smattering of thought beats through the processed breath of an atmosphere that is formed by the ability to respond. I am that which breathes. There is no issue without response. Responsibility – conscious recognition and interpretation of response-ability – determines the issue, not the opposite.

Without further digression, my response to the article posted is as follows: ]





Shit. Soon we'll be housing the (our) oppressors - a modern-day Quartering Act - as if we hadn't been already.

Currently, as victims of the search for unattainable satisfaction, as objects of the distancing of (un)satisfaction so as to avoid its acknowledgment, at least 130 nations have come to bear an imposed military presence that is manifest of this unattainable satisfaction. At present, billions of dollars (and most importantly life and freedom) are being spent by a government, obviously disconnected from those it governs, towards a [personally defined] means to an end that has proved itself, what appears to be, so far unattainable.

The common conception of government held by the “general public” is no doubt comfortably resting somewhere in the realms of magical, removed. Almost an enigma, government is perceived as necessary in some certain sense, but without the need or room for the habitual, natural analysis and consideration of its end and function by those that are supposedly meant to give it meaning and purpose.

In some sense it is understandable how the citizens of a governing "body" that legislates militaristic command and action at its own discretion, in a nation that supposedly stands for and represents the very opposite, would not be aware of, and therefore, not feel responsible for this annihilation of liberty of those "others" who inhabit a nation with borders that exist outside the realm of their own, the others whose borders come to signify and mark the location of the unapproved, and in an important sense unacknowledged, action of individuals under the guise of “government” as being a fact to all others as illusory. In some way its okay to say here that there’s no permission without asking and that the government did not, in fact, ask. But the government shouldn’t have to ask. There should be no question of asking. Not in the sense that “government” dominates individuals and is the arbiter in all matters, but on the contrary, in the sense that government (albeit possibly only ideally) is the product that, because it works both for, and on behalf of the citizens which define it, is directly representative of each and all those individuals that are affected by its definition.

This of course draws a discussion about the role and purpose of the citizen in interaction with his government (ultimately himself in a sense). In remembering the structure of the constitutional republic after which we have originally intended our country to be modeled, the interaction described above necessitates a sense in which the individual citizen is responsible for himself, his fellow citizens, and his government.

Naturally, the citizens who posit and understand what is their government as some uninterpretable but necessary fact concede that they have no effect on their government, but only that government has an effect on them. Government becomes representation alienated. In this case it is the citizen that does give government its power, but it is not through manipulation (in a positive sense that it denotes an understanding of, for the protection of freedom and liberty and progress towards those ends) that the power is given, but rather through submission.

This inescapable individual responsibility of the citizen who is a necessary part of a nation that is in its foundation the supposition that it was directly modeled on (and still is accountable for) aspects of a representative government that exists and functions under the interpretation of representation, not as an alienation, but a unification, certainly implies also in all citizens (thus, in each citizen) a type of responsibility for the mode of his government’s action.

What I mean is that, simply and ultimately, this responsibility on the subjective level requires active participation. Through interaction a “temporary ethics” can be derived, generally agreed upon, usually unique to a particular epoch (do the ethics define the epoch, or does the epoch define the ethics?), but never a concrete, determinate (if you will) ethics that is either always or instantly universally applicable. Again, here I do not wish to digress into, or instigate a discussion on the nature of ethics beyond which the term directly (and admittedly, vaguely) applies to this particular discussion.

The individual who experiences a wanting, a longing even, for participation without responsibility in a system that in itself depends on both is sure to achieve at best a false sense of participation. This false participation cannot ever satisfy simply because it is false. It never serves to demystify that which it is participant of. Rather, it is a crucial part of the mystification itself. It serves only to ensure the inevitable presence of the mystical. False participation will not cease to haunt the individual who lives it. He is reminded of it in his every day actions. Even those aspects of life that are least influenced by this mystified government always remind him of it. It is necessary in one sense to his particular mode of “participation” in that it defines the ways in which he can participate but constantly reminding him through this participation that he really cannot participate. Any possible upsurge of questioning is stifled in false participation. For questioning requires a sturdy foundation on which to question: responsibility. This foundation of questioning in responsibility requires that before the questioning of any empirical knowledge can begin, one must accept the pretences on which empirical knowledge can be questioned.

The acceptance of responsibility is the crux of an individual who exists amongst a world of social interaction (which is what makes “government” is necessary). This is simply because that individual becomes accountable. His views, his choices, they define him. He recognizes this fact in others. The responsible individual, or citizen, does not experience government as mystification the way that one who lives under the premise of false participation inevitably does. The individual who accepts responsibility feels a sense in which his participation means everything precisely because he is consciously participating. Participating in the sense that he attempts to consider all aspects of an act, posited or factual, past, present, or future and its relationships to freedom. All actions ultimately have inexhaustible implications. What is significant of responsibility is not the quantity of effects considered, but the facticity of consideration above all else.

False participation is not distinguished from genuine participation based simply on a certain level of empirical knowledge of government. In fact, as has been established above, empirical knowledge cannot be considered in absence of some type of participation. Government knowledge and socio-political awareness are ultimately notions derived from subjective interpretation of empirical knowledge. As there must occur an instance in everyone’s life where at least some (if not all) objects of consciousness are at some point “mystified,” or made “unclear,” in ways not by any means unfamiliar to the apparent “mystification” of government in public conception. That is, generally speaking, the majority of the population has a conception and perception of “government” that is more mystified than solidified. In a sense, everything needs solid ground upon which to build; a point of evolution, an end towards which one can project action. From conceptualizing government as mystical, all thought of or about that government is also in some sense mystical. It possess a mystical quality simply because it never fails to remind of the mystery. As established above, any act of false participation is consumed by the mystery, thus can never elude it. But that is not entirely true. One can choose how they will participate. False participation does not deny all forms of reflection.

Falling closer back to Earth, this mystification of government by the false participant - the constant recognition through daily action and interaction of alienation from a necessary “structure” that contains and enforces “law” that governs, and also that the structure necessarily alienates; a realization of irrelevance for government that results in irrelevance for self – are precisely the terms in which the individual can find motivation and accept responsibility, become a participant, become accountable. It is precisely from this standpoint that one can recognize a situation in which one is, in terms of freedom, importantly related to government. This realized situation forever gives birth to choice. Through scrutinizing the positing of this alternative situation the individual is sometimes given a glimpse responsibility – not meaning that one is irresponsible for failing to reach that particular end, rather that one at all times has a choice to act in accordance with that particular goal as an end. At any given instant the possibility of facticity of that particular goal’s achievement at some point in the future is in a way meaningless. It is the choice of action in the present that reflects the particular end, regardless of the achievement of that end. This does not intend to ignore the undeniable positivities that result from achievement, especially, and certainly, when that achievement is reached by a responsible project. But achievement, no matter what kind is ultimately always unsatisfactory. However, taking responsibility for the approach to (un)satisfaction can be arguably stated as achieving the closest state to “true” satisfaction.

Assuming responsibility can be considered a task that is both “easy” and “hard” depending on the perspective of which it is assumed. However, it is certainly clear how false participation can be observed as the “easier” approach of the two. This is because the false participant can still exist alongside the responsible, must exist alongside the responsible by virtue of participation – that is the common denominator here – so in an external sense does not feel, at least in terms of government, any more limited than the responsible individual in the ability to respond. However, from the perspective of the responsible individual there exists an apparent limit to the ability in which the false participant truly responds. But the responsible one can never impose that trait on another individual. That would be against its very nature. An individual has to choose, in this case, and if not in all cases, responsibility. And with responsibility comes realization of choice, or responsible choice. But again freedom, participation, and accountability are not qualities that once adopted or represented in action are established indefinitely, they must constantly be reaffirmed. And that is ultimate responsibility.

So to reiterate, in some way it is understandable the instance of “self-governed government” springing forth from the very same identity that was originally supposed as an example for freedom and liberty and representative government in its purest sense. It is these particular values – freedom, liberty, and government by the people, for the people – on which this country was founded almost 300 years ago. We seem to forget that this association can be made only with the conception of our country as it was in its infancy. To describe the country as it is today in the same light and manner one does when conceptualizing it as it originally were is a distinct act of false participation. It’s evidently quite arguable based on empirical fact that our country has deviated significantly in ideology and practice from that of our country’s founders. We’ve trained ourselves, just as much as we have been trained, to not genuinely participate. To become both temporarily and permanently satisfied with pseudo-participation within a matrix. We must accept responsibility. We are human beings. Likewise, so are all those who keep government “alive” through thinking it, being it, participating in it. We make it. Why do we as human beings seem disposed in some way to thickening the fogs of mystery for ourselves?

The negative presence of our military is lived directly by millions of individuals each day. Still one rarely, it seems, ever attempts to see from the perspective of those other civilians, other citizens. They pose no threat to us, the way our government wants us to believe, those citizens of other nations but of our same status as human. But false participation accounts for their lack of consideration by the very community they are a part of. It’s of no direct concern to any one of us.

Not until we’ve got those who are determined to enforce a certain concept freedom, distinguishable as such simply because it was in the past, enforcing on those of its own country who are supposed to be free! We can and must acknowledge, without also bearing a shame that is discouraging to action, the inherent selfishness implied in not recognizing the freedoms of others become jeopardized by an entity that we are associated with until that entity (that is in some sense ours) poses the very same threat to our own freedom. We can realize now a situation in which freedom is equivalent in its meaning for all humans. We can as a people reconcile the necessity of this freedom and the eternal importance of establishing it as fact for all individuals.

We must act now. If at this moment we recognize such limitations on responsibility, one can also imagine the limits a total military state could impose. Though, what if it takes a scenario such as the one forewarned in the news article? Are we consumed by materialism, 21st century distractions, or by mystification, alienation, and fear? Materialism is in effect an excuse for false participation. Involvement and consideration don’t imply abandoning a convenience, even in a material sense. In fact, involvement ultimately creates a sense of convenience. There is absolutely no reason to have faith in the individual who acts under the pretenses of false participation, just as there is no reason to have faith in one who is at this moment responsible. That is the nature of the definition of responsibility.

It’s not a question of teaching responsibility directly, of being able to change the outlook or perspective of the individual. Only the individual can change himself. Those responsible can adopt the task of creating situations for those who participate falsely that serve to demystify concepts such as government and freedom through enabling the ability of response. The effort must necessarily be grassroots, all the way down to the single root that is the individual. Humans must encourage responsibility in every, and all other human.

Without adoption of responsibility we will continue as people, as humans, to be stomped on, crushed, annihilated, by those other humans who live falsely in power with the guise of language and its resulting concepts, such as “government.” We will be denied all forms of response. We will be denied. Our individual cessation is of no concern to its cause, for that cause in its very nature denies responsibility for any of its ends.

Please respond.

On our Treasury Secretary Designate

Timothy Geithner, Barack Obama's Treasury Secretary designate, drew my attention at first with his current position as President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. That's scary from the starting line, because this guy has headed up for about 5 years what is possibly the most important branch of the Fed cartel. Not cool, Tim.
This fellow, living in CNN/Money's 11th best place to live in the US started his life in finance with Kissinger and Associates, then moved on to the Treasury Dept. From there he joined the Council on Foreign Relations economics division and then worked with the IMF on a policy reforming committee. He is also a trustee of the Economics Club of New York,a private club of international top executives and government officials that hosts events regarding policy and issues relating to economics. Check out the website above to see a list of recent speakers. It's a fascinating list, I'd say. You can watch videos of select sections of these people talks on YouTube. He also worked to push through the rescue and sale of Bear Stearns and has played a role in decisions regarding the bail outs and other issues related to our current "financial crisis."
He also serves on the board of directors of the Bank of International Settlements, which is basically the bank for the world's central banks. This group's culture of secrecy has caused many to doubt their intentions. We should be looking at them, too.
Timothy Geithner does not seem to be on our side, here.

Help end the fractional reserve banking system, which shifts wealth from the deserving masses to a few bankers at the top. This is the single greatest barrier to peace that our world faces. We can defeat it, and the snowballing of vast reform for liberty that will follow will be the next step towards a truly advanced human race. I think we too often consider ourselves mature and civilized, failing to realize the fact that technological and intellectual growth will never cease, and has only truly begun taking flight in the last few hundred years. We have solved some problems, but have created others that stand in the way to total freedom and prosperity.

Astounding

Citigroup buys a tollroad operation in SPAIN for $10 Billion.
This is the money WE PROVIDED THEM WITH! OUR TAX DOLLARS!

Cheney indictments dropped. That took all of, what, a few days. Politicians have lots of bargaining power with one another. You drop the charges here, I'll drop the charges there.

Silly Palin, you were supposed to give those to charity.

Yes, $1 a year, salary, but what about all those stocks, sir?

The news is full of stuff to piss you off today.
These are all RawStory from today... If you don't get some of your news there, you should be.

Bernanke Bucks for Tomorrow

Click on the image below for a larger image that will look better when printed!

Front:



Backs:
“The inability of the Colonists to get power to issue their own money permanently out of the hands of George III and the international bankers was the prime reason for the revolutionary war.”

-Benjamin Franklin


“One thing to realize about our fractional reserve banking system is that, like a child’s game of musical chairs, as long as the music is playing, there are no losers.”

-Andrew Gause, Monetary Historian


Why does the US government choose to borrow money from private banks at interest when congress has the constitutional authority to create all the interest-free money it needs, itself?
Why create money as debt?
How can a money system dependent on perpetually accelerating growth be used to build a sustainable economy?


“All of the perplexities, confusion, and distress in America arises, not from the defects of the Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation.”

-John Adams, founding father of the American Constitution

“Whoever controls the volume of money in our country is absolute master of all industry and commerce… and when you realize that the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate.”
-James A. Garfield, assassinated POTUS


I might make some more later...
Any quotes that you like in particular?

STAMP! STAMP! STAMP!

On the CampaignForLiberty site there's some video of Dr. Paul speaking at the Fed protest in Houston, TX, and a Texas Straight Talk he did regarding monetary policy.

Wikiquote: Federal Reserve
Wikiquote: Banking

These are good lists of quotes that you might want to read over. Sometimes it's easy to see and have an understanding of the details of a situation while being somewhat unable to phrase the big picture.

Here's an idea I had...

"§ 333. Mutilation of national bank obligations.

Whoever mutilates, cuts, defaces, disfigures, or perforates, or unites or cements together, or does any other thing to any bank bill, draft, note, or other evidence of debt issued by any national banking association, or Federal Reserve bank, or the Federal Reserve System, with intent to render such bank bill, draft, note, or other evidence of debt unfit to be reissued, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than six months, or both."

It's all about intent. This is why Where's George works. (it's pretty cool, too, by the way) However, for them it's a lot more easy to prove that they are not intending on making the bill unfit for issue because the whole point is to keep them circulating and track it. In the case of my idea, well, it gets a little interesting. My intention is not to make the bill itself unfit for issuance but to reform the entire monetary system. I think this puts me on the right side of the cell bars, right? Let me know if anyone disagrees, don't want to be breaking the rules.

I'm thinking either just a simple stamp with a cfl.org link or something similar. Maybe a quote, if one is short, and good enough.
I'll put a couple designs together, and get a couple dozen made, and we can all stamp through our wallets whenever we get new bills. Woo!

See you at the meeting later, folks!

It has begun

Read this: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/30/AR2008113002217.html?hpid=topnews

What kind of monstrous scenario are they preparing for?

Beware of false-flag terror. Beware of standing armies. This might not end well.

Transcript for political speech

This is my idea for what to say in the speech I'll (hopefully) be giving next week:

I am just a man, ruled by tyrant-kings who’ve taken everything. Money is taken from my paycheck to fund the corrupt and incompetent government in Washington, D.C. I pay for their waste and greed, their corporate hand-outs, and their wars. I pay for the bombs and bullets that take the lives of men, women, and children in distant lands. I pay for that corrupt government to imprison its own citizens for choosing how to live their own lives, for exercising their sacred right to liberty. I pay for all of this, and so do you. No more, I tell you.

I could not believe the form of tyranny, what it could take from me. I live in fear. I fear that I will not be able to afford to sustain myself. My standard of living has declined dramatically and continues to do so. I fear that I will be forced into government service, whether that be a draft or “community service” slavery. I fear the spies, the agents provocateurs, and the machines. I fear the police state that even now tightens its grip around a once free people. I fear that “change” will blind the people to their chains and allow the government to strip them of their last remaining rights. I fear the economic collapse¬¬--that it will create political instability on a scale never seen in this country. I fear that lives will be lost as the empire comes home. I fear this, and so do you. No more, I tell you.

I dream of falling lights and burning books. I dream of fighting wars with myself and with you and with all of us. I dream of slaving slaves and dying in chains. They want our souls. There is hope. There is life beyond this. You must find it. I must find it. I let myself forget what it means to be an American. So did you. No more, I tell you.

I spit in the face of tyranny. What can it take from me? For I believe in liberty; let freedom ring. Even if the bell must toll for me, let it be. I am free. While I live I will always be free. I stand here today, an activist, an insurgent, a revolutionary patriot. I am American not because I was born in America. I am American because I claim the blessings of liberty and the rule of law. It is time for all of us to resist the government in Washington. It is time for us to tell them that they have overstepped their bounds. It is time for us to defend the Constitution from the vultures that pick away at it. It is time for us to tell them: no more wars of aggression, no more corporate bailouts at the people’s expense, no more executive orders, no more lies, no more meddling in the affairs of the world, no more worthless paper money, no more spending without restraint, no more debt for us and our children, no more market manipulations, no more of this, no more I tell you.

It is time for us to tell the government that any law that is repugnant to the Constitution is null and void. It is time to remind them that “we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.” It is time to let the government know that we retain our right to alter or abolish this government for the people and by the people.

“This is a continuation of a revolution. It is a peaceful revolution. It’s up to you to spread this message around this country. This is an American cause. It’s the cause of freedom. There’s something going on in this country, and it’s big. Spread the message. Thank You.”

Hey New People

Welcome to the blog. Sorry I didn't send the invites out last night, I got caught up after the meeting. Lets get consolidate some sources for people that don't know much about the subject matter. I'll just put two obvious ones down and the rest can come from comments.

Teach Peace database of documentaries! There are lots of them here!
From Freedom to Fascism -- This is the movie we're showing in the dragonfly. If you haven't seen it yet check it out.
IOUSA
Zeitgeist: Addendum
Money Masters
Money as Debt
Story of Stuff
Who Killed the Electric Car?

Anyone reading anything lately?

Here are a couple collections of videos on survivalist topics that I'd think y'all would be interested in.

These guys are perfect models of disaster preparedness, and I think that regardless of your financial situation, everyone should follow these guidelines to some degree or another, because I think we all fear that the proverbial excrement is headed quickly towards the fan. Man, that's a weird statement, when has anyone ever seen someone throw poop at a fan? I doubt that it has ever happened, and definitely don't want to be around when/if it does. I'd probably prefer total economic collapse to someone throwing poop at my fan, honestly.

YouChooseASide's collection of videos, who is a bit of a ranter and tries to get people to understand the situation we're presented with, but also locks down a few important topics.
Ryan has exhaustive videos on many different survival/camping topics (fire starting, knots, bug out bags) and does reviews on several products, including the Glock handgun and M15 gas mask. I haven't seen the majority of the videos yet, but I'll probably watch them all.

I'm serious, fellas, get on the ball with this stuff. The "I don't have enough money" argument is the one I hear the most, but let's be honest, would you rather drink beer (or other intoxicating hobbies, ahem), go to concerts, buy video games and cable tv, or would you rather be able to eat and survive when times get tough? Just whittle away some of that truly unproductive spending or earn some more money in a creative way (please stay legal, you don't want to be in prison when things get bad, you'll be screwed, and we need you intelligent folks out here!). I'm not saying don't enjoy your life, just don't be wasteful in a trying time.
You can buy these long-lasting, easy to prepare (low energy & resource inputs) foods little by little every time you go to the grocery store. Honestly, what is $25 a week? You can achieve this, and absolutely can't rely on anyone else to help you, your friends will be more interested in self preservation than helping you. They will feel bad for you, but they will turn you away, possibly at gun point.

Learn about caching, both food and other items, and do it!
The food is on the shelves now, but it won't always be, you can bet on that. Comfort and availability of goods has lulled people into believing that life is easy and will be forever, but our economy and government are incredibly unstable and heading towards massive decline. Martin of the videos above believes christmas-time or the period immediately following it will be when we really see it all go down. Who knows, but it is undoubtedly a responsible decision right now to prepare yourself mentally and physically for what is likely to come.

I've felt redundant a lot here, but what I'm saying is important. More to come

Wake Up! Educate Yourself! Take Action!,

Some alarmist guy

Fed Notes for Protest

This is last minute, so I won't waste time talkin. Hopefully someone of ya can print a bunch of these and prepare them before we leave. After all, protest isn't till tomorrow morning.




Ideas for alternate backs??

Boom Shakalaka!

Marijuana good for memory, sort of.

That is all

Edit:
Actually, no, that's not all.
This video is scary. I haven't finished it, though.

New Poster

Let me know if this one goes to far/needs changes.

This one is also in LANDSCAPE.

Dick Cheney Indicted

This disturbs me...

I was reading an article from RawStory.com about a surge in hate crimes since the election. I have been reading a lot of articles about this lately, even in our university newspaper, and this article laid some crazy down for me.

However, the real weird stuff comes in when I decide to visit a website mentioned in the article, StormFront, a community dedicated to discuss issues and actions
related to white supremacy. Their views are downright fucking scary.

From a post in the site that was created because of the massive surge of viewers to the site after the election which is dedicated to explaining the concepts of white nationalism and its justifications:
""We must secure the existence of our people and a future for White children." We want a few areas on the Earth (and states in the US) that are reserved for Whites, and Whites only, where we can leave in peace apart from the horrors of the third world. Our children deserve that and we owe it to them. This is the basic principle of "White Nationalism" (WN)."
"If Blacks or Mexicans become a majority, then they will not be able to maintain the White man's social, cultural and economic systems because they do not have to minds needed to do so. Most Whites in the United States know what happens when too many Blacks get together in a community, city or country - they "pull themselves down". So, as the United States and Europe are flooded with Browns and Blacks, eventually the quality of life in these once great lands will become like that of the third world regardless of the social/economic/political system."

"Think these accusations against Jews are far fetched? How about these little tid bits:

1. The United States, at a cost several trillions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of lives, went to war with Iraq for Israel, not for weapons or oil, but solely for the Jews. What?
2. The Federal Reserve central bank, which controls and issues all the money in the United States, is a privately owned corporation (no joke) to which all Americans and their government are heavily in debt because they have to pay interest on all the money in circulation - money that was created out of nothing at all by this corporation. Where is the relation here?
3. The United States and Europe are being flooded with tens of millions of third worlders who are having a lot of kids. Soon, White people will soon lose control of the countries their ancestors founded. Many Whites think this is OK as long as the immigrants work. Really? Are the immigrants going to vote? Are they going to intermarry Whites?Have any of these "facts" related in any way to Jews vying to control the world?
4. No where are these important issues seriously discussed in the mainstream media."

Man, you guys seriously need to look at this site. Maybe strangely, as you can see, these people are enlightened to the inherent slavery within our economic/political system, but see it in a much different way. It's disturbing to think that the revolution will include these armed halfwits running in the streets crying to Jesus and killing blacks and Jews. What the fuck has gotten into some people. There are so many arguments for the ignorant garbage these people spit. They are incapable of seeing deeply into and understanding any complex problem and so see only obvious and shallow "facts" that are based on just about no real data and are far from the realm of reality.

I can't do much more on this one, but if you're not afraid of tainting your IP address with a visit to the site, check that shit out. They look to be organizing for some sort of action, talking about getting armed, hand out fliers, run for local office. At least I'm seeing these people talking about boycotting the system of credit and big oil, bankers and support the constitution. It's too bad they're otherwise misguided - way misguided.

Before a blunt I take out fronts, the I start to front matter 'fact I be on a manhunt
You couldn't catch me in the streets without a ton of reefer,
that's like Malcolm X catchin' the jungle feva

Nas, why did you do it?
You know you got the mad phat phluid when ya rhyme,
hey yo, its halftime

IOUSA

This is the bite-sized version of the real movie that was mentioned in the meeting. I want to watch the full length one some time if anybody is down.

IOUSA

Raw Story ain't perfect, but at least they're saying this stuff

I hate to push down the pertinent posts about our membership drive and the Fed protest, but I read a great article about this financial situation that is good reading material/fodder for talking points for the protest, etc.
More on Naomi Klein, I'm getting her book Shock Doctrine for sure.

InBev completes purchase of Anheuser-Busch... Shit. I wonder what the total US and World market share is of this new monster company. Another article says it's now one of the 5 largest consumer goods companies in the world. Yowza. "The new company will have sales of about 36 billion dollars a year, offering consumers about 300 brands, including Anheuser's Budweiser and Bud Light, and InBev's Stella Artois and Beck's."
Good thing I don't drink any of that anyway... Please boycott big brewers, people. These guys really stifle creativity and diversity, and even if you don't care about beer, when you do drink it, at least make it something good. It's usually only a buck or two more.
Maybe my next photoshop job will be a Bud box... hmmm, back to you on that one.

Where you can put posters

You can put posters on the public boards in these places:

University Post Office
D.D. Dougherty
Old Belk Library
Smith-Wright Hall
Raley Hall
Edwin Duncan Hall
Rankin Hall
Holmes Convocation Center
Welborn Hall
I.G. Greer Hall
Sanford Hall
L.S. Dougherty
CAP Building
Quinn Center
Owens Field House
Broyhill Music Center
Student Union (3 copies-give to information desk)
Belk Library
Kiosk (Sanford Mall)
Kiosh (Duck Pond Field)
Residence Life-JET Bldg. (50 copies-must be pre-approved by Res Life)

I know this might suck, but we should follow the rules.

POSTER

This is a redesign of one of the posters. Print it out in LANDSCAPE, and scale it to fit.

UPDATE: I re-uploaded the poster because THE ORIGINAL HAS A TYPO. "Imperialism" is misspelled.

Phew... It's hard creating hyperinflation

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Here's the flier I made to give to students at App over the next week to promote the Campaign for Liberty and the Fed protest this weekend. Thanks to Patrick for help on this, too!!
It's not really so much club promotion, but the email is there. We could write (or print) something on the backs regarding the club (but my eyeballs are about to fall out so I'm not designing the back).
I printed on a Mac using Preview. Just set your program at "Size to Fit" or similar and print. I haven't tried B&W printing, just color, but I bet it looks about as good, since the color is subdued anyway.
Try cutting the edges off and separating the bills with a razor blade cutting over something like cardboard or a spread out newspaper (has to be sorta thick though), it's way faster than scissors, won't take too long. Print out as many as possible! I'm sure at least a few of ya have money on the AppCard you need to use! I can get up with some people to do this and hand them out at like 1 oclock for about a couple hours. I figure lunchish is a good time to get people around the Sanford Mall area, etc!

On a final note, let me know what we should put on the left side of it for handing out at the actual protest! I'd think a campaignforliberty.com reference would be a good start, as well as maybe leaving "Protest the Fed." What do you think?

Hell yea, I'm excited about it all, and now I'm goin to sleep

Holy Moly...

Anyone else see martial law on its way?
Any time Bush says something, you can be sure to receive the opposite. According to National Security Presidential Directive 51 and seemingly several other documents, Bush can without much trouble (please read the directive), supercede all branches of government and institute martial law. Either way, I see this contrived world financial "crisis" as one possible explanation for the declaration of marshal law. And where has this ~1.3 trillion dollars the Fed is giving away on our behalf without congressional approval gone? Maybe that's for some contracted labor in the war on terror or funding for the next (Iran, Venezuela, our own soil).
That, or another 9/11-style false flag attack. I really hope these things don't add up the way I see them. But I'm not optimistic.
Imagine that, George W. Bush and company (I wouldn't normally link to Alex Jones type shit, but I've begun to take him more seriously, at least keeping an open mind) for the foreseeable future. I don't think so. I'm standin' up.
Get yourselves informed for the protests coming up this weekend. Your knowledge is the most important thing you can arm yourselves with.
Skim Economics in One Lesson if you've got some time.
This article makes some really intense statements: Japanese government official opines on how to lay the groundwork, "no currency but the dollar can be used as a key currency" and of course a list must be drawn up to avoid the collapse of several key banks that would "imperil the global financial system". I wonder if JP Morgan/Chase (gotta make sure the Morgans and Rockefellers are taken care of) and Wells Fargo will make the list! I wonder what sweeping reductions of our civil liberties were talked about? Obama, my ass, he isn't even at these talks, as if it doesn't matter whether or not the president-elect attends events that aim in part to totally reframe global trade and finance. His reason for not going? That he doesn't want to project any indication of having assumed presidential power or influence before being sworn in. This is a spot of etiquette that becomes unimportant in situations like the one we find ourselves in. Simple explanation: it is not intended for Obama to be sworn in, and even he himself knows it. Sound a little out of left field? I hope I'm proven wrong.
I really liked these comments by random folks regarding the auto industry bailout extravaganza.
It don't get better than this.

In The Know: Should The Government Stop Dumping Money Into A Giant Hole?

Peace

Scooby Doo Wop Wow

Bush warns against protetionism
Of course he does. It is the JOB of the US to suck the resources away from any other resource rich country in the world and use them to maintain our unequal balance of wealth and well being. Fuckin' ridiculous. If I was representing another country in these trade talks, I would smack that asshole.
I think Gordon Brown put it best (but probably not in regards to the US) "There are a lot of countries with their own interests and their own policy directions at the moment that will have to change." Yea, just not your own, right?
I'm negative

10 Ways Dick Cheney Can Kill you.

It got a bit cut off, right click and choose view image to see the whole thing.

The DOW and Depression

Check out this page. Note how swings in the market are tied directly to the state of the economy. The huge gains and losses and intra day swings are signs that the economy is basically UNSOUND. Just look at the tables. The information is stunning.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_daily_changes_in_the_Dow_Jones_Industrial_Average

WAKE UP!!!

What is Sovereignty?

Jake turned me on to this article this morning. There is so much to say about this, but I don't have the time to type it all out. This is just so fucked up. 15-20 countries since 2004! Violation of sovereignty, acts of terror, acts of WAR!!! WITHOUT CONSENT OR APPROVAL! I mean honestly this is insane! Apparently they waited until they had a story to distract the American public (Obama-Bush meeting) to unload all of the fucked up shit going on in the news.

"If God is just, I tremble for my country."
-Thomas Jefferson

You thought 700 Billion dollars was bad!

I went to rawstory today and a headline caught my eye...."Fed Defies Transparency Aim in Refusal to Disclose"......The Federal Reserve is giving out even more money!!!....the total is now over 2 trillion dollars....the Fed has given out even bigger rescue packages than the 700 billion dollar bailout that congress approved....congress didnt approve these new "rescue packages"....so a banking cartel is now deciding on it's own accord that it can give our money to whoever the hell it wants....and guess what.....they say the don't even have to tell us where that money is going!...so this banking cartel with no allegiance to the american people is doing whatever it wants without any of the "transparency" that was promised.......where's the outrage??......well apparently it's a much bigger deal that the Bush's are going to be hosting the Obama's at the whitehouse....cuz instead of talking about how we are being robbed, not one but four news networks i turned on this morning were covering the meeting of the former and future president.....who fucking cares????.....this is a perfect example of why we need to kill the beast we call the federal reserve and how the corporate media is good for nothing but brainwashing!

Fed won't disclose who they're giving money to

Isn't our gov't supposed to be transparent?
If they're hiding things, can't we assume wrongdoing?
More to come...

John McCain Eats Babies

Ron Paul and Alex Jones

These two fellows have an interesting conversation about the implications of an Obama Presidency.

Hooray!!!

The Obamatons soundly defeated the McCainiacs to take control of the Republicrat Party in Washington, D.C. Thank God the Bush years are soon to be behind us. Now all we need to do is spend ourselves out of this debt sinkhole that spontaneously erupted (seriously, where did all that debt come from?). Not to worry, with trillions of dollars of new spending coming down the pipe, we're sure to dig all the way to China (which, conveniently, holds so many of our dollars anyway).

I do feel bad for McCain. He tried so hard, but alas, he failed to convince the people that Neo-conservatism was different from Neo-conservatism. Maybe next time he'll get an even hotter babe to convince the people to look the other way...you know...at her.

Then there's President-Elect Obama. Hope™ and Change™ clearly sounded better to the zombie public than Country First™, and who knew that the media wouldn't even question what the fuck he meant by those vapid labels.

The Democrats won control of Congress, which means we'll continue to see accountability and responsibility like they promised us in '06.

So sit back and relax, America. You have been through a lot of crap these last eight years. Now all our worries and grievances can die as Julius Caesar gives us those grain handouts he promised. Oh, and the Republic--c'mon, man, that's been dead for ages.

Just Another Tuesday

Apparently shit is going down all over the country. Read up on it. Bradblog is following real closely. I just opened Rawstory and the page was covered in voting machines going down and "shenanigans" and whatnot.

Oprah's Vote Wasn't Counted

Hopefully the virus of electronic voting machines becomes more public now that Oprah experienced her own vote not being counted. This is happening all over the country already. Just look on the side for those stories. I wonder if anybody will notice this time...

A quickie

Man, they shouldn't hold any classes that require computers to work. I tend to read the news
Shell makin' bank
Hey, so is BP!

Wow, maybe the banks should use oil instead of dollars. They'd never run out of money.

I don't really know what that means.
Peace

The Endless Cycle of Bullshit That Works: ACORN, Voter Fraud, and The Myth of Democracy

So this started out a long time ago. I was going to talk about ACORN, which I'm sure most of you have heard about by now, but I got lost reading every time I tried. For those who don't know, ACORN is a community organizing group. "ACORN's priorities have included: better housing and wages for the poor, more community development investment from banks and governments, and better public schools. ACORN pursues these goals through demonstration, negotiation, legislation, and voter participation." Among many other things, they also do voter registration drives for the Democratic party and are setting records in new registrations for this election. The issue from the Republican perspective is best explained in this article. Basically:
-The group's voter-registration fraud is rampant, and authorities plan a nationwide sweep of ACORN offices to collect records.
-There have been 218,749 newly registered Democrats in North Carolina since January — more than five times the 38,337 new Republicans, state records show.
-Obama paid ACORN, which has endorsed him for president, $800,000 to register new voters, payments his campaign failed to accurately report.
-Obama worked as executive director of ACORN's voter-registration arm, Project Vote, in 1992.

The answer to these accusations were explained simply in a press release from ACORN. I can't just point a few things out because it is all relevant. This completely debunks the concept that they are committing voter fraud at all, if not just the fact that they are required by law to turn in every registration form they receive. Colbert calls it fantasy land.



This is nothing new, what else can we expect from the Republican Party? Today an an article appeared that was somewhat disturbing. G.W. has decided to pursue the issue in Ohio and ordered the Department of Justice to investigate. This article also outlines the problem with electronic voting machines. As we already know, Diebold is quite the suspicious bearer of electronic voting machine contracts in Ohio (if you have never seen this, give it a look).





Voters are being suppressed in the increased screening involved with these investigations. This article in the New York Times explains how.

"Some states allow such [challenged] voters to cast provisional ballots. But they are often not counted because they require added verification.

States have been trying to follow the Help America Vote Act of 2002 and remove the names of voters who should no longer be listed; but for every voter added to the rolls in the past two months in some states, election officials have removed two, a review of the records shows.

Under federal law, election officials are supposed to use the Social Security database to check a registration application only as a last resort, if no record of the applicant is found on state databases, like those for driver’s licenses or identification cards.

The requirement exists because using the federal database is less reliable than the state lists, and is more likely to incorrectly flag applications as invalid. Many state officials seem to be using the Social Security lists first."

So how can we possibly think that we live in a democratic system when the election is determined by who is better at stealing it? This is no democracy. We live in an aristocracy. There are even more examples of the election being stolen below. What we have here in a nutshell is a community organization under attack by the Republican Party for following the law, while the Republicans heighten the issue by launching investigations that disenfranchises more voters than it catches. Though there is no evidence that this type of voter fraud occurs, as shown by the argument against the Indiana voter I.D. law, the Republican echo chamber maintains this as an issue. They are removing tons of new voters who have minor inconsistancies on their registration. On top of that, they are challenging the people whose homes have been foreclosed as shown in an entry below. They also do this to scare people in to voting for them by focusing on ACORN's loose affiliation with Barack Obama (same thing as the Bill Ayers deal, which speaking of, check out what Palin said).

How do you win an election? Just remove the difference from the competition.

Berry Berry sneaky sir....

Flyer Sends Dems to the Ballots on the WRONG DAY!
Vote Flipping on touch screen voting machines!
Here's CNN's "Voter Problems" section that they created to raise awareness of anything shady.

Zombies Like Brains! We Like Obama!

I think you can see me standing by the u-haul. I don't know it's kind of dark.

Welcome, new members

Glad to see you all made it.
I figure that to use this information sharing tool the most effectively, we could start off by each throwing out things that we're interested in. This way we'll know what to keep an eye out for so that we can all use each other to grow.

For instance, I am particularly interested in/angry about the existence of the world's centralized banking systems that act as unnecessary middle men between the resources of the earth and the people, the global corporatocracy that has a stranglehold on world government through which it controls and limits product/technology/societal growth, and the many varied institutions that contribute to the dumbing down of the population of our country (and others) to the extent that people no longer know anything about the problems that we face, let alone do anything real (voting is not real) about it.

Otherwise, just throw up whatever you want, there's no real format or specific topics that we stick to, which I'm sure you'll find out by checking out the past stuff. Also, check out the links on the right side, and of course the Pandatron

I feel awesome about this, fellas, let's keep up the energy.

La Dee Da

Yea, these guys need the money

Investment Tips

So I noticed this article today about the rise in gun sales in the last year. Sales have risen 8-10% at a time when people are spending less on everything else. The Washington Post cites the reason as Obama's threat to gun ownership and his proposed block of certain types of firearms, but I remember an article that I can't find that said gun sales went up 50% in Austin, Texas mainly because people are afraid that the wrong person is going to win the Presidency. It's crazy how militant some people are becoming over this election. I was in Asheville last night dressed as a zombie protesting Sarah Palin, and as the people were filing out of her speech, they were yelling at us way more than we were yelling at them. Honestly I didn't know it was a protest until I got there, and I have never been yelled at, called a faggot, and flicked off so much in my life.

*note*
Apparently the Washington Post makes you sign up to look at their articles now... I can't stand it. Also I've been working on a long entry that keeps getting deleted... Blogger is killing me lately.

ah!

I can't even put my feet back on the floor after seeing this!
Something funny, all thieves deserve to be shat on

Sorry, maybe I'll add some more stuff if I feel motivated...

God Fucking Dammit!

I absolutely hate these pieces of shit
WHY DOES THIS KEEP HAPPENING, and all we do (can do) is sit here and type about it on the internet?
I don't even know what else to say.

Free energy with magnetic polarity?

I wish I could fully understand all of this, but I've just found a new thing to obsess over. Gotta get a physics book or two.
The idea is to use asymmetric magnets to harness free energy.
Just read the article. It's long, but it's awesome, and it's a must read!
Interesting (not really) that the DoE is suppressing this tech.
We've had industry and government burying important technology for a long time, mass transport (rail), electric car, etc.
Also, that link for the physics book takes you to a free and easy to understand physics book in PDF format. I've liked what I've read so far, which, in the months I've known about it, has sadly been not much.

After talking about free energy, this next one might seem less valuable, but check out this potential for near 100% efficient photovoltaic panels!!! Researchers at Ohio State University have accidentally found a way to collect much more of the sun's energy with advanced material selection and combinations. Another one that I'm afraid will be swept away before people here about it or much goes into its development. I wish I was a physicist/engineer, looks like school's not out forever after all...
Think patriotic thoughts

Republican admission of plan to deny voting rights to those foreclosed upon

"We will have a list of foreclosed homes and will make sure people aren't voting from those addresses."

- James Carabelli, who declined to comment to CNN
This move would affect mostly African American voters, which are at the same time the most likely to have received sub prime loans and to vote for Democratic candidate Barack Obama.

The Republicans sure know how to run a shady election.
How are we supposed to claim democracy when our elections are rigged?
There goes one part of the American "dream"
Wake up!

NWO

"We need a new global financial order" President Barroso of the European Commission, speaking with President bush and Nicolas Sarkozy at Camp David.

Here's another article regarding the summit that the three discussed to rework the global financial system "for the 21st century," as Sarkozy stated many times.

Ron Paul Speaks Truth (aka; Ron Paul acts as normal)

Sickness unto Debt; Article on Slate

Fundamentals of Non Violent Protest Part I

Campaign Preparation:

Step 1: Self-Education and Grouping
- RESEARCH/study groups, workshops, conferences

Step 2: Where to focus efforts?
- Find weak points in opponent's armor
- Point out the nonsense, use science, statistics, news, scandals, lies, etc not to simply make them look "bad," but WRONG, as they are.

Step 3: Set short range goals
- Long range goals are obvious and easily set, but short range goals are often not so easy.
- Must be:
-Achievable
-Measurable
-Have timetable
-Significant to long range goals!

Step by Step actions from least drastic to outright revolutionary
- Investigation
- Negotiation
- Public forum
- Picketing/leafletting
- Demonstration/rally/march
- Limited strike
- Boycott
- Limited noncooperation
- Massive illegal action
- General strike
- Establish parallel gov't

This is just some base-level stuff to think about, more to come. School work has to happen, even if it doesn't seem to come first...
Be well, and be aware

Martial Law Threats Part of Bailout Push

Check out Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA) talking about how our decision makers that ended up passing the bail out bill were threatened with martial law if the bill didn't go through...
Another article about it

Also, Patrick just told me about and I looked up a page for this:
FEDERAL RESERVE PROTEST IN CHARLOTTE, NC!!!!
NOVEMBER 22, 2008 SATURDAY 8 a.m. (thanks for edit dude)
FEDERAL RESERVE BUILDING
530 Trade St.
Charlotte, NC 28202

Y'all mawfuckaz know I'm gonna be there.
There are conflicting messages about the possible date, but this meetup.com page says the info I posted above, so I'm going with that for now. Will edit if necessary.
I'll make a post on nonviolent protest fundamentals later, I've been looking into it some.


** Update: by filabusta **
It is definitely going to be on the 22nd.
“On the night of November 22, 1910, a group of newspaper reporters stood disconsolately in the railway station at Hoboken, New Jersey. They had just watched a delegation of the nation’s leading financiers leave the station on a secret mission. It would be years before they discovered what that mission was, and even then they would not understand that the history of the United States underwent a drastic change after that night in Hoboken.”
From Secrets of the Federal Reserve, by Eustace Mullins.

I saw this on Pandatron

Woa


Um, sorry

1st Brigade Combat Team and Martial Law

Please read this article guys...
Are we about to see the shit hit the fan?

“If the American People ever allow private banks to control the issue of currency ... the corporations that will grow up around them will deprive them of their property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.” — Thomas Jefferson, U.S. President."

“I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the civilized world - no longer a Government by free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men.”
-President Woodrow Wilson

Why is this happening? I think we all know.
I'll post again when I can.

Just My Kind of Thing

Holy shit dude... I can't wait for the PS4. I wonder what sort of games they could make with something like that.

I just wish they would talk about the Fucking issues....

Back on our feet

So I've been wanting to write in this for a while now, but for some reason every time I never actually end up posting what I write. So it goes without saying that this blog has been lacking lately, but I would like to try to start again. Matt and I agree that we really liked it when this was in full swing, so lets try to get it back that way. Just a quick post from the computer lab for me today.

The guys who made Zeitgeist have come out with a second installment called "Zeitgeist: Addendum". Check it out if you have two hours of free time. Even if you disagree with the movie, it still makes you think. And if you haven't seen the first one it is definitely worth your time.

Another documentary I watched recently that I've been telling absolutely every body about is called "The Revolution Will Not be Televised". These two Irish film makers went to Venezuela to make a film about Hugo Chavez, and while they are there, there is a coup on the Chavez government organized by the CIA. The film makers capture everything and it is crazy. Just check it out, you won't regret it.

Watch this video

I'm sure you've all been paying attention to the financial crisis and our government's various responses to it. I'm in class, so no real time to write about it, but listen to Bush in this video. "Congress must act!" "It matters little what path a bill takes to become law, what matters is that it becomes law"
"Wa wa wa, I have to get what I want, let's run our country's people into the ground"
I'm pissed

About the election

If you follow the election at all, peep this site called perspctv. It monitors blogs and tweets that discuss the candidates in real time. Plus it contains graphs measuring how much news coverage each candidate gets compared to the other. I'm still not voting, but this site is fucking tite.

"nah...don't vote" - Lupe Fiasco

Raw Story wrote a rundown of a few VP options for Obama, personally I don't give a shit, because no choice could redeem his mad sellout, but I present the article because it has an intro explanation into the very sellout that I mentioned before. To get to the level of politician on the national scale you have to compromise yourself consistently, which sucks, but that's what our electoral system inspires. Anyway, Obama sold out, in my eyes, when he voted in favor of the new FISA bill that granted telecoms immunity for their crimes of supplying private information to the government. Fucking crimes, straight up everyone knows they're criminals, but nobody can do shit because of this bill. Thanks for being a leader Obama... I'm tired of the lesser of two evils is still a choice, fuck that. That's some shit. Another Lupe quote from that night, "We're gonna overthrow the motherfucker." I'm not voting this year, politicians are all (yeah all) full of shit. I'm in favor of democracy, but the "act" in itself won't bring us democracy. A little girl doesn't actually use tea in her imaginary tea party (democracy being the tea in America's democracy). Bush should be impeached, not just impeached, but actually removed from power.

The Solar Revolution

This is AMAZING. I knew that they were developing this kind of technology, but I didn't know how far away we were from completion. Now, hopefully with a President Obama, we can change the American infrastructure to ease off of non-renewable resources. They were understating the importance of this find when they said, "this is a major discovery with enormous implications for the future prosperity of humankind." It's good to be able to play on the internet like I used to. I've been catching up on my Colbert and Stewart, and definitely my world news. Some more good news, Karl Rove is being held for contempt of Congress for not showing up to a hearing on the Partisanship of the Justice Department. I hope he rots in jail. China is great, and I'll be back extremely soon so we can all catch up over a few beers. Take care everybody.

Hearings on the Imperial Presidency of George Bush

Sounds like fun.

NOT "tasteless and offensive..."

But hysterical. I'm calling it the terrorist fist bump from now on. No more knuckle bumps for me.
I do think this is one of the best New Yorker covers I've seen, though. Not subtle at all, but I still don't see why the Obama team doesn't understand the premise behind it. Well, I know it must be understood but that they're afraid some average American might for some reason put down their People and Entertainment Weekly to stumble upon a piece of enlightened work like the New Yorker and not pick up on its sarcasm.
Something I figured you folks would dig was this article on futuristic materials.
More cool technology here and here

Aight, that's about it for me for now
Cory

Kinda funny, and yes, Wikileaks is back.

Just thought this was funny.
Also, I was happy to look at Wikileaks a minute ago and see that it was indeed back. I guess this is old news since Patrick's post was from quite a bit ago. Now that it's back and pretty again, I can scan it for real.
I hope we can get this blog rolling again. I haven't been keeping up with the news like I used to because it's just so ridiculous. I'm afraid for the future of our country and the world these days. I'm afraid that with all the environmental issues we face, coupled with a culture of willful ignorance, distraction, and disconnection from reality, that it's going to be too late before people realize that the world we live in and the ways of live we lead are ensuring our destruction. (that sentence needs editing)
On top of it, our brand of government based on the empowerment of the corporation and the marginalization and economic enslavement of the majority of the citizens has led to masses of people living check to check, in debt with no end in sight, and with a misguided patriotic duty to consume. The American dream is indeed a dream, but I'm afraid that waking up is going to leave a lot of people grumpy and confused about how to live.
Even with new leadership and a drastic change in leadership, we're going to need to make some serious headway in energy consumption and independence, as well as efficiency in general with regards to our resource management (material, mineral, water, energy, waste).
What are you guys going to do? (I have interesting answers)
Do you see the problems as being as large as I see them?
Do you consider yourself to be well-informed about environmental issues and their connections to politics and the economy? (Mostly, but I must learn more every day)
What is going to happen? (hmmm)
Will our generation be witness to the end of suburbia and the "American dream?" (I hope so)

Enjoying summer? (YES)

I just might just...
Cory

Fighting Back

I don't know if you guys are buzzing about this back in the States because I still can't see the blog. The news is starting to look good for the political world. We have Mike Gravel the baller pushing for a new investigation in to 9/11, Kucinich pushing for impeachment,  Karl Rove possibly getting arrested and forced to testify, and a retired general accusing the Bush administration of war crimes. If you know anybody in New York tell them to go sign that petition. Oh and can anybody read this and tell me about it through Facebook or e-mail, I thought wikileaks was shut down. Ok well I have to write a paper about China's environmental problem that I might post if I actually like it. Peace.