Possible Article

So, this is an attempt to actualize Cory's good suggestion that we post our article ideas to avoid repetition. I'm thinking of writing something about Obama's inaugural address/rhetoric in general...perhaps compared to the Gorgias. Hopefully no one had a similar idea, but let me know if you did.

Also, I was curious to know if anyone sees Dr. Ryan on a regular basis? I remember that he mentioned at the panel about the significance of the Middle East envoy appointments. Does anyone know what he thinks of Mitchell and Holbrooke? I'd be really interested.

...and on a lighter note: check out the image of Bush/Obama on the Young Americans for Liberty blog from last week, I think it's posted under January 24th. It'll make you look twice. :)

Media Council and other stuff

All who are interested in being on the Media Council: let's meet between now and the regular club meeting. I'm just going to throw this out: Media Council meeting tomorrow night (Friday) at 7 in the Library somewhere. Anyone who can't do that just let me know, and I'll change it.

EVERYONE START WRITING/DESIGNING YOUR PIECES. Our print deadline is FEBRUARY 16, so let's make the SUBMISSION DEADLINE FEB. 13.

Flier for the Publication Sponsorship

I am unable to post the flier that i was talking about at the meeting tonight. This blog does not allow the post of any files other than pictures and videos and I don't to ruin the format of the flier by changing the format. I'll send the document to our gmail account and if you can e- mail it to everyone on the mailing list.

Andrew B

2 U.S. Airstrikes Offer a Concrete Sign of Obama'S Pakistan Policy

I hope this changes...

Link

US Money Supply

Glenn Beck said in an interview with Ron Paul that he talked to Steve Moore at the Wall Street Journal who reported that the US Money Supply had increased 70 percent since October. This is staggering, astounding, horrific (can anyone think of more adjectives?). Do they (the government) know what this will do to the dollar? My God!

Sartre on history and responsibility...

Came across this reading a collection of essays and interviews by Jean-Paul Sartre (Jean-Paul Sartre: Between Existentialism and Marxism). This specific quote comes from an interview given by Sartre to Madeline Chapsal in 1959 published under the title The Purposes of Writing.

I quote this passage - at least - out of motivation from observation. Though the respective epochs in comparison differ, our relationship with history remains unchanging:

Do you believe that one fashions one's epoch?

When you reach the age of 54, you can be excused from speaking in the past tense. But it doesn't matter how old you are, it always remains true that History makes man and man makes History.

Would you say that we are responsible for it?

Yes, both responsible and complicit. The whole of French society is responsible for the Algerian War, and for the way it is being conducted (torture, internment camps, etc.) - the whole of the society, including the men and women who have never stopped protesting against it. We are inextricably involved: the slightest discussion between the left-wing groups who were gradually assassinating each other had the effect of encouraging torture, or a putsch. All these soft and well-meaning gentlemen we have become - we have all had to interiorize the war. The result is that we are solidary with it, plunged ever more deeply in violence. This, among other things, is what I was trying to convey in Les Sequestres. The dying Frantz, the executioner, he is us, he is myself.

My point is not to entice discussion over the specific nature of differences of each epoch, rather point out a theme of similarity.

This is for both Andrews

We need to meet and talk about how we're going to get this publication off the ground. We should meet sometime before the meeting on Monday, so that we have something to present the group with.

Activist groups raided

hey maybe one day the app state campaign for liberty will be important enough for the state to raid and seize all of our documents without a warrant, or even any accusations of guilt!!!

Here's to wishful thinking

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Activist_organizations_file_suit_against_FBI_0114.html

The History of Money

I saw this interview last night after the movie and I thought it was really good and appropriate. Hope you all enjoy as well.

The Colbert ReportMon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c

Niall Ferguson

Colbert at Christmas
Colbert Christmas DVD

Green Screen
Bill O'Reilly Interview

Cheers All Around!

What an incredible evening. Is anyone else still coming off the adrenaline? I'm so happy...I'm intoxicated with pleasure. With such an astonishing response I feel like we could tear down the walls this very night. :)

Another slide down the rabbit hole

This article almost made my head explode. Everyone should read this. It's a long article, but it's worth it.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7529

Ron Paul

Viva, Viva Palestina

So I am getting more and more upset as this conflict goes on. I'm not sure that this is going to end any time soon either. Check out what the expected winner of next month's election in Israel, Binyamin Netanyahu, said about this issue. He is more radical than Olmert, which is a scary thought. At least Olmert has been holding talks with Syria about returning the Golan heights, which were taken by Israel in the 1973 October war.

I was working all day to organize a panel discussion on the conflict, but it looks like that just isn't happening. Most professors seemed reluctant to speak, some said that they were just too busy despite their vested interest in the subject. One guy said that he spoke at a similar event at his old school and said some things against Israel. He was fired because the President of the university was a zionist, so he doesn't do public lectures anymore. The person that really irked me was a Jewish professor that told me that she didn't want to participate because the panel might be anti-Israel. I said that if she acted like that then the panel was bound to be pro-Palestinian, and she practically kicked me out of her office.

In other news, Bernake is actually asking for more money. Somebody needs to shut that fool up before he steals ALL of the money in the treasury (or not in the treasury). Also, Obama is working to get approval for his $700 billion bailout, which in all fairness is going to be more geared toward tax breaks than anything else, but still isn't going to fix the situation. The fed cut the interest rate to 0-.25% which is astounding. "In a speech in London Tuesday morning, Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke defended the Fed's series of rate cuts since September 2007, saying that inflation was no longer a major concern." No longer a maor concern?! Maybe to his rich ass.

I don't know what to say, you all know the situation. This fed cut is a huge indicator that they are out of options to stall the collapse.

AFTF Handout for tomorrow

Here's the flyer. Print, Cut, Pass Out, Repeat.

As usual click on the image above for a larger version. Try to get the word out big time.
See you at the meeting, hopefully.

Dragonfly Theatre event on facebook

I posted the movie as an event on facebook, so everybody rsvp and invite your friends.

I also started a facebook group for our club. Join that as well and use it as a tool to reach more people.

Free, Free Palestine

These are some pictures and videos that I took at the Let Gaza Live march on Washington yesterday. And yes, that is Ralph Nader in the first picture.

Let's talk about the Israeli conflict

Rockets fired in self defense become construed as aggression? First
remember that this all began when Israel fired upon supposed Hamas
members as they attempted to dig a tunnel allegedly for the purpose of
moving humanitarian aid across the border with Israel. But whether or
not you accept the story as it's documented, this assumes that Hamas
actually thought their puny rockets could be used to wage war on a
country with the world's largest air force, a very strong and willing
military in general, and that is largely self-supporting. All this when
Gaza cannot even supply itself with enough of life's basic necessities.
I can't imagine they might have thought that for even a second. (Since
the time of the last ceasefire, Israeli death toll = ~15 mostly
soldiers       Palestinian death toll = 500+ of which one quarter or more are
civilians and these numbers leave out the injured) In fact, though, they
have been provoked to their wits end, and decided to do anything they
possibly can to make an impact. (Of course, I do not condone the
actions of Hamas, indeed they are guilty of crimes as well. I am simply
making the distinction that Israel is killing and injuring on a much
larger and unneccessary scale.) Now the largely peaceful inhabitants of
this prison-state created by Israel are being systematically destroyed,
and not just "militants." Why is it that Israel is free to proliferate
nuclear weapons with no UN inspections or even honesty about what
they're doing (a priviledge they share with the US, of course), block
humanitarian aid efforts (a violation of international laws of war),
and attack an utterly defenseless "country" as they are and not receive
any international backlash?

My support for Israel (if I had any)
stops at this barbaric violence. If they had engaged in some reasonable
talks long ago, this entire situation might have been avoided. There is
no reason to blindly and unflinchingly support a country that is
committing atrocities even if, ESPECIALLY IF, their people have been
the victims (Holocaust) in the past.

Put away your typically
pro-Israel mindset for a minute to digest the facts. It's not fair to
assume that anyone's opinion is unfounded or blind, and I am not
assuming anything, but this personal attribute has been showing up
lately with an alarming frequency. It's just like GWB's ignorant
"patriot" tool (the average US citizen who doesn't realize his REAL
responsibility to his COUNTRY) that allows him to run our nation into
the ground.

Check out this link, and otherwise pursue the
evidence, and make a decision for yourself.

http://www.ronpaul.com/2009-01-04/israel-invades-gaza-ron-paul-responds/

Thanks
for reading, if you have. No matter what you do or what decisions you
make, the important thing is that you QUESTION. The enabling factors of
atrocities are the willful ignorance or blind acceptance of the actions
of the aggressors.



Yo Attereves, if you want to put an edited version of that in the paper, let me know and I'll work on it.
I'm going to send it in to the Democrat, as well.

That's it for me. I'm going to do something not depressing.

AFTF Flyer for Dissemination

So far I've posted mostly in restaurants and coffee shops, and a few random businesses. I'm going to try and hit campus buildings at the beginning of this week, and I've also shrunk the flyer to a handout size...I think people are more like to attend if they are engaged and invited personally...just thinking about where and when is opportune for a "handout campaign". Also, does anyone know if it's against Appalcart policy to hang flyers in the bus stops? I did a few, but I think they may have been taken down.
Any other ideas?

Haha

Just thought it was funny.

From Freedom to Fascism Poster?

So I was in mountain bagel this morning getting some breakfast, and I noticed a poster under the register for our showing of America: From Freedom to Fascism. I was wondering if whoever has taken the initiative to post these up around town would put the file up on the blog so we all can help. This is the first thing we are doing this year as a group, and I really want to see the theater filled, so don't forget to start getting word out about this. Also I figured that we can go ahead and set Monday the 12th as our first meeting of the new year. Sound good?

"Happy New Year" from Kathy Griffin

Watch this video. Every once in a while, something funny and not frightening is newsworthy.

Also read this 1941 speech from Texas Democrat, Wright Patman. It's probably nothing new to you, but motivational and inspirational, nonetheless.

The EPA has decided not to force coal plants to use pollution-abetting technology. Why? I think it's ridiculous that the EPA won't recognize that these people's business is to profit from destroying and polluting the communities surrounding their mining and generation projects. Among the intentional destructive behaviors such as mountaintop removal coal mining and the amounts of air pollution that are always produced by coal combustion, unanticipated consequences are also faced when something likea billion gallons of a byproduct of coal combustion are dumped into a city in TN's water supply when an earthen retaining wall gives way)
It's astounding that practices like this are used to produce 50% of the electricity that we consume in the US. Please remember who you are supporting when you use electricity, because the fact that you don't typically see or hear and therefore think about the consequences is the reason this is allowed to continue. Consider contributing to NC GreenPower for as little as $4 a month to support the producers of renewable energy. Anyway...

Here's a cool page with PDF downloads of MANY military field manuals, etc. Take a gander at those, especially the well done survival manuals, but be mindful that viewing some of the material on that site could be construed from outside in, well, interesting ways.

Also since many of you expressed interest, Xcolony is an informative if cheesily designed forum catering to the survivalist mindset.
SurvivalTopics.com is also a great place for information.
Both of those have sections dealing with food, water, shelter, health, morale/psychology, fire, first aid, and other important survival skills. Learn what you can, pick up supplies, and let's get out and use that.
I'll be doing a fair bit of camping, hiking, backpacking over the next few months to prepare for the trip I'm planning to hike the John Muir Trail in California this summer. So, if you're ever interested in doing something outside, let me know cuz I want to get out there.

Damn, I lost a link to a sweet article. Hopefully I'll find that soon

Peace