Dog Days

"These are the times that try dog's souls."








Anyone who has been working outside in the heat this month knows that the dog days are real. Physical burnout and mental stagnation are the symptoms. The only cure is cooler weather and even then I'm not sure cooler heads will prevail.

I know the sun has turned me into a well done fried pie since every time I turn on the news I feel I must be hallucinating because there is Mad Michelle Bachmann and Sick Rick Perry, two horsepersons of the zionist apocalypse, spewing words that are unquestionably  insane. They're "from the lord" and shout  "by god we'll bomb the world to prove it." It's a bad trip, I know, I just can't seem to come down.



Several of us were sitting around outside at an older couple's home the other day when the lady began one of her stories. It was about how a few springs back she had watched a couple of bluebirds build a nest, have babies and saw them grow until it was time for them to take out on their on. The first two little ones flew but the third hit the ground where a snake immediately pounced and ate it. The lady was mad, grabbed a hoe and killed the snake, cut open its belly and took out the dead bird and buried it. She finished the story with "the snake was evil" which set off her 83 year old husband on a rant about how animals can't be evil. They only do what instinct tells them to do to survive. The conversation turned to that it appears that evil only comes from  the consciousness of man. Seems obvious to me.

The old man surprised me with his next few questions. "Why are we here anyway." "Isn't being human one of the weirdest things in the universe." "Is this all some sort of joke." I didn't have the answers.

When dog days come around we tend to get a little crazy but we've been wearing the safe suits (family insider grin). The infectious lies of the Bachmann's and the Perry's and the Obama's and all their handlers and masters are not being breathed in and passed along. Pretty soon our resistance will be strong enough that we won't need the suits at all.

Who said "every dog will have its day?" Ours is coming soon.
That I'm positive of .....










Jimi Hendrix - Curtis Knight & the Squires (aka the Lovelights)
1965

We're trying to save lives here

We finished up with a three day 7 family yard sale yesterday which was more than just a business venture, it was a large social gathering, a party, and good time was had by all.

With some exceptions, yard sales are a microcosm of a materialistic society gone mad. A large percentage of what was sold were things that should never have been bought to begin with. We accumulate and hoard until the walls are bursting at the seams and we scream enough is enough and hope to recoup maybe 10 cents on the dollar of what we originally spent.

Some of the sales were feel good moments. A old man with a granddaughter about to give birth pulled out every dollar he had and said "give me all the baby clothes this will buy." He was given over 80 pieces of like new clothing for $20 bucks and left with a smile knowing this kid would be well covered for a long while without  the family having to set foot in Walmart. These sales are actually a blessing for some who can't even afford Walmart or the Dollar Store and we saw a great number of these folks. It's the rural south and poverty is growing.

What's the deal with women and shoes? Over 60 pairs were sold, none over $1. One lady bought her elderly mother 15 pairs, many unused, and said this will make her very happy and will probably last her the rest of her days. I heard a few 'aahs' from those around.

The big ticket items, $100 and up, didn't sell at all. Everything from guns to guitars were taken back home. A nice set of congas I had got the most attention of all. Every kid and many of the adults visiting took a turn at banging the drums but no buyer.The highest price paid for anything was $50 for a solid oak locally made entertainment center that cost $600 new but only held a 27 inch TV. The new 52 inch big screen bought by the owner made that heavy duty piece of furniture 'obsolete.' 

When you have about ten to twenty people sitting around at any given time, the conversion will take a turn to politics. Dems, repubs, teachers, preachers, farmers, retirees, young and old alike have their opinions and like to get them in. We heard it all. Everything from the hype of sharia law is gonna' get us, defending and attacking Obama, the declining economy, when is someone going to take out the bought politicians and even praise of Rick Perry as who they said should be our next president. There was a lot of talk about illegal immigration even as it seemed that every Mexican family from 20 miles around came in to buy a lot of stuff. No one refused to take their money. No one talked about the deeper issues of  who really benefits. No one denied that most are good workers.

Also, no one wanted to debate the criminal wars, the foreign policy domination of Israel and how we need to bring all the troops home. Too touchy a subject for most.


There was some encouraging talk. A good friend of my grandson who is also a senior in high school was there and I asked him if the military reciters showed up on the first day of school to prey on them. He said no but they would soon and that as of now none of his friends are considering joining. I said "great" and since I'm crude I repeated my standard rant about the reciters. "There's only two words you need to say to them ... get f***ed."

He said that the military guys have been pounding the pavement saying that it takes young men like them to finish the job and that they got bin Laden and would get the rest too. This gave me the opportunity to get in the points that the 'killing' of bin Laden was a fake and it was all lies all the time.

Then came a good surprise. He said that a lot of people believe that 9/11 was done by our government. Of course that gave me the chance to get in a quick narrative of the major discrepancies in the official story including the exploding towers and building 7, Israel and the Mossad and the traitors in our government and media and the trillions of dollars spent on the wars blamed on 9/11 so that only a miniscule few could profit. He listened. I think he may be getting it. I told him to tell his friends.

At that point someone said "Maybe you shouldn't be telling him these things." My reply ...

"We're trying to save lives here." 

Kids will talk about these things when adults often will not. Since when are teenagers trapped in a politically correct bubble like so many of their parents are? The propaganda may be hard to overcome but I'm somewhat encouraged. The truth is about all we've got left.

going down down down

Way back in 1966 Allen Toussaint teamed up with  Lee Dorsey and released  Working in the Coal Mine that became an all time favorite. Yeah, we were rock and roll fans but a good R&B tune never failed to shake us up and sing along. A local band played the song for years at the Friday night dances and we never tired of it. Even in the midst of the Vietnam war it was a time of awakening and of high hopes for the future but I think there was a nagging in the back of our minds that we all may end up a coal miner of sorts but with cleaner faces and hands. We did.

For the masses with a mindset of work and debt is the American way, we daily climbed in the rail car and rode down the coal hole tempering the tediousness with thoughts of faster cars, bigger houses and TVs and a never ending supply of  Budweisers. Yes sir, the rail car was a fairly smooth ride until one day on the trip down the cavern we came to a fork with big signs blocking both ways saying "Closed." One said this vein has been mined out and the other indicated that more profits for the owners have been found by utilizing cheaper labor in foreign lands that have no unions or workers rights. The ride back to the daylight found only cloudy skies. The media said "don't worry," it's just a transition because we're a service oriented country now and we'll let others do the dirty work that we didn't want to do anyway.

I remember a long time ago on a nice Sunday just like today my girl and I expanded our consciousness, filled up the gas tank and took a ride into Kentucky. A few wrong turns east and we ended up on gravel roads through some beautiful hills that seemed to never end. Lost but happy we rambled on into the coal mining area of Appalachia where there was little but shacks and tin trailers and lost American dreams. Close to dark we finally found a small town, a $6 motel and discovered we were over 150 miles from home. Lying in that shabby motel bed we pondered why by geographical and parental fate we were lucky not to have been born in this place where the only jobs were underground. We had factory jobs, above ground, air conditioned even. Our luck would never end we said, it would only get better. Little did we know.

I hear a lot of talk about getting Americans back to work. The godfather Herman Cain rolled into town the other day to try and drum up votes for his 'vision' of a presidential takeover. Jobs jobs jobs he cries without any details on the hows while humming "I've got dem ole Islamic blues again." You might think someone whose ancestors were cotton pickin' slaves would go a little easier on the racist rhetoric but I suppose he enjoys the reverse role playing.  Turning on the radio just after an interview with Herm, I heard the hacks flipping coins for whether they would support him or Michele Bachmann. It was so funny I forget to laugh.

Good jobs are going to the women these days it is said. They're getting the better education, are aggressive and for many of the 'smart' ones this idea of raising kids is passé. Trading the slavery of motherhood for the slavery of corporatehood seems like a good deal. Many of the modern movies tell us so.

Come to think of it, maybe we deserve Ms. Bachmann as our next pres. Equal opportunity to be top dog and serve the bankers, Israel and the war machine is a concept whose time may have come.
  


Getting back to our title tune, we often find that good songs somehow degenerate over time. When "Working in the Coal Mine" was recorded by Harry Connick, Jr. we may have thought that was as low as it could go. But no, for a few coins it was leased to Walmart and the lyrics changed to  "Working on the rollbacks, prices going down down."   Mining for that last dollar is what they do.

No offense to Lee Dorsey but my favorite version is from Devo. Maybe because de-evolution is really what is going down.

Reoccurring Questions

A common theme that keeps coming up among those of us who are lacking in money and health insurance is what we can do to maintain our health at the lowest cost. A balanced and as organic as possible diet, exercise, proper breathing techniques, some sunshine and a good attitude are my first choices. I like the frequent addition of raw garlic, onions and chili peppers as supplements and a few standby common inexpensive herbs for fairly minor health issues that may arise.

There are many potentially valuable nutritional supplements in the natural and health food stores and online but a look at the prices often means they're out of the question.

So in a world of ever declining cash flow and a medical and pharmaceutical industry that will steal both your money and your health, is there anything really anything cheap that the po' folks can add to their arsenal? Maybe something so inexpensive and effective that the 'health care' industry feels that their income and control could be jeopardized? Nutrients that the FDA will demonize to protect their turf? Actually there are many.

A good friend, ex-nurse and therapist who has sold many expensive supplements over the years but in a failing economy found no one buying embarked on research to find something so cheap, readily available and yet effective with a long history of alleged success that it should be in every home. He thinks he found it ... food grade hydrogen peroxide. After a year of taking it and even giving it to his dog, he thinks it's the real deal.

This is not a promotion. It's more about asking questions. He's bringing me some the next time he comes down from his mountain so I'll give it a try myself. If you're interested there's more info here and an 85 page pdf  The Truth About Food Grade Hydrogen Peroxide which gives a lot of background and details on its use which are many besides human consumption. If anyone has any experience with this nutrient or has any more relevant information, please let me know.

My friend has been selling food grade hydrogen peroxide for several months by word of mouth and through ads in some free newspapers but not much volume at all and with a slim profit margin because it's so cheap. He has been bugging me to set him up a website for sales. He doesn't have a computer and actually lives off the grid.  I've been very hesitant. The FDA is strong arming those who make claims as to anything with health benefits unless it's from big pharma so having my IP address connected to a web site with claims could be iffy.

I had him read Mike Adams  FDA unleashes end game scheme to outlaw virtually all dietary supplements formulated after 1994 to get a glimpse of what may be coming up and although hydrogen peroxide has been around for a long time and may not apply, there's still that issue of making claims. I could set up a sales site without any claims at all or providing links but whether it would work would remain to be seen.

Anyway, I find the potential of food grade hydrogen peroxide to be interesting and with careful handling and dosage may be something to think about. It won't break the bank to try. I'll follow up later if I think it's beneficial.

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I just heard a bit on cable news that if the debt ceiling is not raised the government is thinking about selling assets.  We all knew this was coming. The international banking cabal wants it all and at fire sale prices.

I have some issues with Ron Paul but he did say the other day that in order to free up some money all we had to do is quit paying interest payments to the Federal Reserve. Maybe we should do that instead of selling gold reserves, if we have any, or anything else of value that 'we the people' actually own. The Fed wouldn't like that and may get desperate and have its boys blow something up to prove a point but instead of threatening to cut off social security I'll go with the idea of cutting off the Fed.

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A comment from an anonymous poster on the last thread is worth repeating .....

The five fundamental steps to monetary independence:

(1) Outlaw usury.

(2) Outlaw currency speculation.

(3) Outlaw private ownership of banks.

(4) Declare all of the odious debt incurred under the old system to be null and void.

(5) Exercise caution when dealing with foreign countries that are still under the control of the Rothschild gang and implement appropriate countermeasures when necessary to thwart any attempted economic sabotage.

Since 'we the people' have no allies on these points in government at this time, I don't know how we would accomplish this but at least we can plant the seed of thought.

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Same old story. A kid goes to jail for protesting the criminal 'elite.' Bankers and their minions go on vacation.

Son Of David Gilmour (Pink Floyd Legend) Sentenced To 16 Months In Prison

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Murdochalypse - News Corpse

New words for our vocabulary.

"That is what we do - we go out and destroy other people's lives."

The Sphere of Corrupt Globalism

The title is a quote from a News of the World editor in the immediate aftermath of 9/11. Taken out of that context and it could be used to sum up  the psychopaths that control or attempt to control every aspect of our lives and the world. It's what they do.


We know this intuitively. There's no mystery.




Takin' some notes ...

The US budget seems as though it has been put together, based on the whims of a thousand drunken sailors--there is something for everybody in there.

To save America from these Bozos, we have to let their "Amerika" fall away. We cannot preserve a militaristic, parasitic economic system, which perpetuates the absolute unfairness of penalizing the poor and the "Middle Class," in order to further the enrichment of the rich. Their pirate politics of plundering the Nation, have destroyed our "way of life," even though the claim is that our many wars are being fought against people who have done us no wrong, in order to protect us.

It is high time we got our house into order. It is time to find-out if there really is "Life after capitalism."   Peter Chamberlin   

Videos of cops beating and tasering handcuffed 'suspects' are common but how many catch one cop saying to another ...

Let's f... him up."

Leon Panetta has told so many lies and been involved in so many lying schemes in his career that he can't keep them straight. More to come. His handlers will stay close to correct his 'missteps.'  Leon has about 7,000 aerial drones to get those last 10 to 20 Al Qaeda types he says are left hanging around. Then we win and bring everyone home. Right Leon? 


Israel becomes one of the first to recognize South Sudan. They smell the money. Cheap manufacturing slave labor, oil, gold, uranium.  Beat the Chinese and Europeans to the punch. Be the first in line for the theft. 


Obama puts Social Security 'on the table.'  Was there any doubt?  The sacred defense budget won't go anywhere but up. Same with the free money and perks for Israel. "Eat your peas" and shut up.
 

Industrial hemp farming in California? Will Jerry Brown sign on to this or bow down to the feds and hemp's big corporate competitors as Schwarzenegger did in vetoing similar bills? 

Most people I know are concerned about how they're going to pay the electric bill every month and if they're going to have a job tomorrow but we should take some consolation in the fact that our congress folks are fighting for our right to buy a 25 cent Chinese light bulb from the dollar store.  Yep, they always have our best interests in mind. After all, they are the best and the 'brightest.'

Fertile Ground

J. Lee Douglas, a member of the Middle Tennessee chapter of ACT! For America revels in his ignorance.  Photo by  Samuel M. Simpkins / The Tennessean


I don't know whether to be amused or sickened by many of the responses to a Sunday article in the Tennessean ...  Anti-Islam group finds fertile ground in Nashville.



 article excerpts ...

ACT! for America sums up its mission in four words: “They must be stopped.”

The “they” in question are Muslims, who ACT! for America’s leaders insist are involved in a stealthy jihad to destroy the United States from the inside out, replacing the Constitution with the Islamic legal code known as Shariah.

It has become a potent political force in Nashville, home to the largest ACT chapter in the nation.{more}

The author really knows how to rile up the rednecks. Too bad he tainted an otherwise good report with a mention of the jewish social engineering organization SPLC and the 9/11 'terrorist' attacks without referring to who actually was behind them. Over 350 comments and counting. That's more than even the best sports story gets and football is a religion in these parts.

If there is a more uninformed and mind controlled area in this country than ours, someone needs to point it out. If it is typical, well, we're in big trouble. In my opinion even most of those who try and counteract the bigotry are missing the larger picture. 

I made a quick comment under the screen name kennycannon. It could have been better but of course I'm insane and delusional as someone pointed out so I suppose it doesn't matter what I wrote.

Divide and conquer. As long as we are fighting among ourselves the real enemies within, treasonous politicians, criminal bankers and war mongering profiteers laugh and spit in our faces. The faux left/right paradigm depends on it.

In the last decade we've spent over $4 trillion in the bogus 'war on terror,' bailed out Wall St. criminals, killed over a million Muslims and lost a great number of our own kids so a few could count more money. Debt we can never repay and now both sides of the aisle talk about how Social Security is the problem. Our country goes down the drain and yet the manufactured threat of Muslims gets more comments and evokes more emotions than all the actual problems combined.

A foreign lobby group, AIPAC, and a foreign apartheid country, Israel, dictates our foreign policy in the Middle East through their bought and blackmailed lackeys in Congress and the executive branch but to point that out one gets called anti-semitic. Christian zionists and neocons and uncritical thinkers work together to make sure the neverending wars monetarily and morally bankrupt us.

The myth of 'Muslims did 9/11' continues to be the rallying cry for those who can't see past the lies. It was a 'false flag' folks and most of you were duped into believing it and still do because you are afraid to look into the evidence. You don't want to know and what you don't want to know is destroying us.

Look for the truth or love the lies. It's your choice. 

Fertile ground for ignorance seems to always end up sprouting support for Muslims in boxes. Most of the deceived who gladly promote the wars and bigotry  call themselves Christians and most of the Christians who don't never speak up about it. Sad.

Reasonable Doubt

The show's main attraction is over. Only the psycho sideshow of the media remain. Roll up the big top ... Cayce Anthony is not guilty of murder.

This very effective diversion  nears an end and the country waits for the next.




The rule of law requires that in any criminal case the burden of proof beyond any reasonable doubt is the responsibility of the prosecution. That's our constitutional right. Our rights were set in stone for a reason. It gives the innocent a chance in an open honest court to not be unfairly convicted. Sometimes it allows the guilty to walk. The process will never be perfect. 

The Cacye/Caylee case seems to be a perfect example of a peer review that came to a logical conclusion in the absence of hard proof.  Innuendo and conjecture is not evidence. To paraphrase Johnnie Cochran, "if it's not beyond reasonable doubt, you must let her out." So they did.

Lawyers are often portrayed as snakes and yeah, some do leave a slime trail. It's only when we personally know them or need a fighter on our side that we think otherwise. Sometimes they are necessary evils in this strange world.  It's all about winning and the winners smile and celebrate.

As tragic as the death of this little girl is, Orange County said today they have 11 other child death cases they have to deal with. We'll never hear about them. Those stories and trials won't have good monetary and social engineering value, they won't be sexy enough.

The media whores and their bobble head lawyer expert opinion talkers were made slobbering fools. Poor actors in their houses of ill repute.  The defense team had a press conference and attorney Cheney Mason blasted out at "the disgusting  lawyers, the incompetent talking heads who get on television and talk about cases they don't know a damn thing about." Go to around 1:06 in this video for his full statement. It's good theater. 


It's been reported that Orange County spent over $1 million on this case.  Roger Clemens goes on trial tomorrow for lying to Congress just in time for a new ratings sweep. This is where our 'justice' money goes.


Meanwhile a great number of criminals walk the street or hide in their homes without a dime of our taxpayer money being spent to investigate them. The 9/11 perps, the liars and murders who took us to war, the criminal bankers who are in the process of stealing everything we have are still on a free ride. So are their media enablers.

We're waiting on those trials of treason and 1st degree murder and war crimes and we expect the honest execution of the rule of law. We'll watch and be pulling for the prosecution and for them to prove beyond a responsible doubt.  We may even have a festival on the courthouse steps when they read the guilty verdicts and it's our time to celebrate. No doubt.

Dysfunctional

art by Eric Fortune










I would like to draw your attention over to Noor's place and an article by Michael Parenti, Hidden Holocaust USA.

The information and narrative it contains should be required reading and open for discussion in every school, church, town hall meeting and dinner table in America. I'm sure that everyone will have points to add to the dialog. I will add that the dysfunction in America is largely by design. Excessive and corrupt profits by the few lie at the root of the problems. Distractions and diversion by the corrupt media keep our attention focused away from the deep seated dysfunctions. Solutions are held at bay by bought and blackmailed politicians who do not have the best interests of the country in their hearts. 

Half of this year is gone and so far we have been inundated by a concentrated deluge of natural and man made disasters. There will be more to come and we must not be distracted from the hidden and the in your face holocausts perpetuated upon us by those who only smell profits and power in dysfunction.

Collectively we can make the difference.

It is not that we don’t love our country, but that we do.

We love not just an abstraction called “the USA’ but the people who live in it.

And we believe that the pride of a nation should not be used to hide the social and economic disorder that is its shame.

World Order Ritual - U2 in Nashville

The Claw

Ernest Gellner ... 

"The way in which you restrain people from doing a wide variety of things, not compatible with the social order of which they are members, is that you subject them to ritual. The process is simple: you make them dance round a totem pole until they are wild with excitement and become jellies in the hysteria of collective frenzy; you enhance their emotional state by any device, by all the locally available audio-visual aids, drugs, dance, music and so on; and once they are really high, you stamp upon their minds the type of concept or notion to which they subsequently become enslaved. Next morning, the savage wakes up with a bad hangover and a deeply internalized concept."

The Ritual

Our local news has bombarded us with the U2 concert at Vanderbilt Stadium and of course had to give us the repetitive meme of their 'causes.' 

Causes that only give about 1% of the millions taken in to those they propose to help while paying $8 million in salaries for executives and employees of U2's ONE campaign to monitor the disbursement of the mere $185,000 the foundation donated to good causes in the past year. Oh, but ONE “does advocacy work, not charity work.” Advocacy now days is a sort of Orwellian term for scam  and reports are that many U2 fans fell in line and signed up with the group "ONE" at the Vandy show.

Some folks had a protest this past week in Glastonbury calling for the band to pay their taxes just like those who buy their concert tickets and albums are forced to. Don't they know that those in league with the elite  have ways to avoid many of the taxes?  'Saint Bono'  regularly meets with political leaders to lobby on behalf of developing nations but wants the working class to foot the bill. The Edge claims the band just wants to be 'tax-efficient.' 

I'll let those more well versed in symbolism interpret U2's visuals but the 'Claw' stage setting certainly brings to mind the death grip of debt and the police state currently around our throats. A more mundane interpretation is that the space theme was played for humor and for a grander sense of universal connection and responsibility. 'Responsibility' reinforced in ritual as  "a deeply internalized concept" maybe?

Perhaps I'm making more of this than it is but I found it interesting that the show incorporated what a few consider to be a ritualistic and highly propagandized event, the Gabby Giffords shooting. 

The song Space Oddity was sprinkled throughout the show, most memorably after Bono acknowledged Gabrielle Giffords, the Arizona congresswoman who lived through an assassination attempt, then asked the audience to imagine “her husband looking down on us.” A grinning, floating Cmdr. Mark Kelly in his spaceship appeared onscreen, intoning “tell my wife I love her very much, she knows.”

Secular rituals are a regular occurrence. The 4th of July rituals with the symbology of fireworks and the flag are upon us to reinforce the concepts of America the great as well as America the warfare state. 

 

Soon we will inundated with a fairly new kind of ritual. The 10th anniversary of 9/11 presents the opportunity for the powers that be to further ingrain the deeply internalized concept of the official story of the mega-ritual of September 11, 2001.   

 

Many of us will reject these country wide 9/11 presentations,  just as we reject the rituals of pop culture that U2 so massively portrays.

Suggestiveness

A young girl crossing an Israeli military checkpoint in the West Bank.

Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness."

-Nathanial Hawthorne

The numbers below can't really be verified. I'm guessing they are low. They still suggest ...

The total cost to America of its wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, plus the related military operations in Pakistan, is set to exceed $4 trillion – more than three times the sum so far authorized by Congress in the decade since the 9/11 attacks

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Would anyone dare suggest that Rick Perry is a traitor and a puppet for Israel? "Yes we can!"

“Wow! Not even a whiff of a notion of the Presidency, and his lips are already lotioned to kiss ass.”

Puppet talk ...

“As an American citizen and governor of one of its largest states, I write to applaud your recent efforts to warn and discourage those who have supported or plan to support a flotilla intended to interfere with Israel's maritime blockade of the Gaza Strip,” Perry wrote in a June 28 letter.

“More importantly, I write to encourage you to aggressively pursue all available legal remedies to enjoin and prevent these illegal actions, and to prosecute any who may elect to engage in them in spite of your preemptive efforts,”

Rick Perry or Michele Bachmann?  Decisions, decisions ...  

Do the Jews not realize that the Gaza flotilla is a publicity action, and all their threats, hoaxes, sabotage, etc, are just increasing the publicity?  Their problem would go away if they just politely allowed the boats to dock and efficiently and quietly aided the unloading of the cargo.

  Greek suggestions ...

Fort Calhoun Nuclear Station

Now who was it suggested nuclear plants in flood plains? Is it getting a little late for regrettables?

 The Faces of Humanity

One has the face of a chicken and is sweating,
And one the face of a dancing queen
Alone at midnight;
Nourish her
If you can.
One has the face of
A middle aged professor terrified
Of losing his job
If he says the wrong thing
And who has lately
Begun to realize he has something alien
Living in his soul.

The smiling, perspiring face of the
Apache helicopter pilot just after pressing
A button that sent
A missile
Into a crowded market—
The same Apache helicopter pilot who heard about
God at a base revival meeting
From a general who stood in a
Yellow spotlight
And told them that
God
Hated Muslims.  (more - Richard Edmondson}

Some Big Questions

Good title.

Nice symbolism.

Why would USA Today be so kind to give this upcoming comic a favorable review?



















Why did it take so long for some in Congress to stand up to an administration for violating the constitutional mandate that it must be the one to declare war?  Libya is bad enough but what about Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan and Yemen? An army of Obama administration lawyers make lame excuses as to why the Libyan scam is not a war because American involvement fell short of full-blown hostilities.  Perhaps we should just ask a child whose home and family has been full-blown to bits what is a war? A low ball figure of $9.5 million per day in Libya doesn't constitute a war? Just what is the dollar figure for saying, yes this is war? Not to mention the human cost.

The CIA has officially announced that Ayman al-Zawahr is their new man to head Al Qaeda.  The asset Anwar al-Awlaki didn't make the cut but is waiting in the wings for when he's needed to fill the top spot. How long are we going to keep talking about this fake terrorist group? Probably as long as the American people will fall for it.

Destroying mosques and homes  and wells so that Israeli 'settlers' can steal some more land in the occupied territories doesn't raise an eyebrow in the lame stream media. Not that very many in the US even care. The Weiner resignation and  the trial of white girl Casey Anthony are so much more important.

A bonanza for a few means something altogether different for most of the rest.

Not everyone thinks the "winners" in the alternative news media are all they are cracked up to be. I'll drink to that.

Michelle Obama goes to Beverly Hills to insist that Hollywood do more for the war efforts. What's next, Sasha and Malia encouraging kindergartners to pledge allegiance to the bomb?

Are we heading to our own nuclear disaster? Just how many wake up calls do we need?   Can you see the forest through the trees yet? 

We have a long history of treason by the American bankers {original here}. It's still going on but no one seems to be getting arrested for it. Big money trumps the law almost every time.
 

So much for a few big questions. Without big answers that carry weight, we are just spinning around and getting dizzy. But getting dizzy may be the prelude to clarity. It's what we hope for.

Calling all angels
We're trying
We're hoping
We're loving
We're hurting
We're crying
We're calling
'Cause we're not sure
How this goes

Broken Wings

The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people

Died some, pro patria,*
walked eye-deep in hell
believing in old men's lies, then unbelieving
came home, home to a lie,
home to many deceits,
home to old lies and new infamy;
usury age-old and age-thick
and liars in public places.

Ezra Pound

Claimstakers

From the 1988 LP ... another late great Nashville band 

Broken Wings

This high in the stratosphere

The earth is hazy blue

The sky looks like an emerald

From inside my silver tube

My work is almost surgical

I fight a sterile war

I never see my enemy

Just a target down below

To just punch in positions

Is my method of attack

They never see their murderer

Like I shot 'em in the back

16 miles before we reach the enemy

15 miles everybody check in

14 miles enter pictures from the satellite

13 miles do coordinates fit

12 more miles we're encountering fire

11 more miles I think about home

10 more miles this is something I believe in

9 more miles I see engine smoke

8 more miles there's fire in the cockpit

7 more miles our oxygen quits

6 more miles our radio breaks down

5 more miles our pilot's been hit

4 more miles abandoning target

3 more miles too late to engage

2 more miles we empty our payload

1 more mile over any ole place

As a boy

I dreamed of the day that I would fly

I see airplanes like needles scratch the sky

Now I sit like a prison's over me

Now the eagle can fly with broken wings

Outside the air is freezing

But in my room it's warm

The nurse says Europe's burning

And there's talk of winter storms

I try to watch the weatherman

And his pictures on the screen

Taken from a satellite

Like the kind I used to read

He says the wind chill factor

Tonight is twenty-one

But still my blood runs colder

When I think of what I've done

16 days have I done the right thing

15 days how will I know

14 days now I'm hearin' voices

13 days comin' from below

12 days I couldn't help what happened

11 more days anybody can see

10 more days I'd do anything

9 more days to make 'en fall on me

8 more days before I reach insanity

7 more days the doctor wants proof

6 more days he says it's just trauma

5 more days everybody goes through

4 more days before my nervous breakdown

3 more days there's a letter from home

2 more days everybody's proud son

1 more day we just thought you should know

Music: Steve Boyd

Lyrics: J. Sherraden

Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music. 
Ezra Pound

The prospect of a 30 years war is not one to arouse mirth and hilarity even in a flighty, chicken headed and irresponsible people such as the United States of Americans.


You are in it, and Lord knows, who is a goin’ to git you out. The late Lord Rothermere, whose culture was nothin’, as you might say, to write home about, finally decided that the English public was wholly unteachable. I don’t know whether you can learn ANYTHING from history, I don’t know whether you are even yet in the state of mind where you want to learn any thing from history or from any other source whatsoever.


A way to get yourselves OUT, might be discoverable, it might be more discoverable if you first had
the faint inkling of a curiosity as to how you got yourselves IN.


The Honor of the United States of America is NOT concerned with becoming an arsenal.
The men who wintered at Valley Forge did not suffer those months of intense cold and hunger with
the design, or in the hope that Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Virginia, the union of the colonies would one
day be able to stir up wars between other countries in order to sell them munitions.


Whether you intend to be slaves, lifelong slaves, hereditary slaves to machinery and whether you
propose to sell your children and your grand children into long lasting slavery to usurers and to machinery.
I mean you will have to make up your MINDS. YOU can not live on cold iron, you can not live on
airplane spare parts, YOU can not live well without LAWS which even the officials obey.


Gold is a coward. Gold is not the backbone of nations. It is their ruin. A coward, at the first breath of
danger gold flows AWAY, gold flows OUT of the country.


 and every gun was a golden egg, for the Bankers in New York.


The war you ought to be fightin’ is NOT five thousand miles OUTSIDE Boston. Or five thousand miles outside New York, or even outside San Francisco. It is INTERNAL


You can then clear out the crap that journalists BELIEVE along with their fake news, along what the
advertisers LET the OWNERS (so called), let the editors PUBLISH. There is a second layer of crap that
newspapermen believe to be real. BUT it is not grounded on a real knowledge of ANYTHING.
They have NOT gone into the documents. They have not read the real history. They chase one
butterfly after another.
NOW the facts are NOT wholly hidden. There are fifty authors whom you could read, Brooks Adams,
among ’em. You could read the works of the men who fought for the making of the Republic, John Adams,
Jefferson, Van Buren, hidden or kept in shadow by punk propaganda.


What are you fighting for? Fighting for the starvation of Europe? Fighting to spread famine in Asia?
Fighting for vain boast proved false? Fighting for the Sassoonery? Are you fighting for the National
Heritage? For the heritage of wisdom, the heritage of Washington, and of Monroe, of John Adams and
Lincoln?
I’ll say you are not.
You are fighting AGAINST what all these men stood for. And it will take more brains than I got, to
get you out of it prettily.


The Bolshevik anti-morale comes out of the Talmud, which is the dirtiest teaching that any race ever
codified. The Talmud is the one and only be getter of the Bolshevik system.
And if there ARE any Christians in the United State of America, they would do well to consider
Renan’s warning. They would do well to consider the difference between the Greek and the Hebrew parts
of the Bible.
They would do well to look objectively at the record of Hebrew barbarism, and at the nature of
Christ’s revolt, as recorded in the Gospels.
I ask you WHY WAS CHRIST crucified? He was crucified for trying to BUST a racket.


Fake economists are one form of the journalist bacillus. Put out in front to lie, and rising on the
wings or tin toes of ambition, permitted (on the leash and chain system) to get out in front and holler.
Quoted from one press to another, NOT because they ever print anything useful, or tell the truth, or
approach it. They are either men who KNOW NOT, or men who say not, and who put up a word screen, or
esCHEW certain issues; who do NOT make revelations. And whose interest even when quoted
internationally is NOT due to the INTRINSIC meaning of what they actually say. Their blather IS
symptomatic, and is studied and quoted as a symptom of the diseases


The American has the head, evidently of a chicken, he is incapable of political revery.
The existence of a secret and IRRESPONSIBLE government does not worry him. It has been there at
least since 1863 and he takes it as a matter of course. It gets worse daily and hourly.
All the means of intercommunication pass into the hands of the secret and largely Semitic control; and
the American dreams of Thoreau and says, “who am I to interfere in such muchness?”


That question can be put scientifically, just as well as puttin’ it in a hortatory form, or asking what is
nice, or what ought a decent man do. No man will do anything WORTH doin’ till some sense of
“OUGHT” enters his system. Profit motive is silly, in the sense that it ultimately kills the good life; makes
the mare go, yass, makes the mare go, money makes the mare go. And then somebody wakes up crazy.
And that takes JUST long enough, so nobody notices what is going on. Suddenly wake up and find
American abundance has been chucked out of the window.


ALL purchasing power does NOT come from labor. All real wealth comes from natural resources
PLUS labor. The shyster wants to hog natural resources, and sweat the hide of labor. That is the cause of
unpleasantness. There is no wangle or dirty wheeze that the shyster won’t think up and use to get a
monopoly, to violate the just price, to keep labor sweatin’. And the shyster is pizin’. He is the sworn
blasphemer, false swearin’ and cheatin’ FOE to all labor, past, present, and labor to come. And you better
discover this. You better kick him out of your hemisphere. You better invent some bug poison that will
eliminate him from your system.


One kind of shyster succeeds another: shyster penetrates ANY organization, church or state for the
sake of livin’ on the Purchasing Power that DON’t come from labor. Shyster joins EVERY new movement
so as to be there when it gets big and to be at the exploitin’ position. Gangster shysters, medieval orders of
chivalry rose to combat the gangster, to combat universal brutality and injustice in range of the individual
knight. Or the body of chivalry rose to an idea. With these two forces, i.e., gangsterism AND chivalry, the
feudal system developed. As law it was a RESPONSIBLE system. The DUTIES of the overlord were
enormous. They required DISTRIBUTION of wealth. Naturally this annoyed greedy overlords, and weak
overlords, and the shyster entered the system. Ready to sweat out taxes, to sweat the hide off of labor, and
to collect money interest. In fact the shyster is always a rent collector. And the worm ate into the fruit.


You are in black darkness and confusion. You have been hugger-muggared, and carom-shotted into a war,
and you know NOTHING about it. You know NOTHING about the forces that caused it, or you know next
to nothing.


You can keep the ole Constitution. Mostly sailors and landlubbers no longer care, but as a technicality
(if no more than that) I am tellin’ you. Lots of folks want to bust it, so as to fish in the troubled waters, lots
of folks want to keep it rusty and inefficient, so’z it won’t interfere with their various rackets.


You are at war to conceal the fact that a lot of purchasing power, a lot of capital comes from a hoax.
Damn the hoax. But don’t go out and die for just bein’ idiots. Or for your tolerance of being run and ruled
over by dumheads who are pushed on by shysters.


And the program of this ENEMY is known, and the action of governments in the hands of the
ENEMY SHOW the nature of the AIM of the enemy. Their aim is not to win war, but to make peace
impossible. These bombings of towns are NOT military, they are done to rouse hate, to be causes of hate.


There is NO freedom without economic freedom. Freedom that does not include freedom from debt is
plain bunkumb.  Debt is the prelude to slavery. And you are now, I ’spose, arrived at the intermezzo. America WAS promises. America today is largely, shall we say, promissory notes that simply can NOT be honored. 


It probably seemed very eccentric that a man, any man should suspend playin’ tennis and trying to
understand the Confucian anthology, and after a long period of years return to America to protest against
ANYTHING, or to offer suggestions to his fellow citizens about anything whatsoever.


The war is PART of the age old struggle between the usurer and the rest of mankind: between the
usurer and peasant, the usurer and producer, and finally between the usurer and the merchant, between
usurocracy and the mercantilist system.
Goods are destroyed rather than exchanged against other WANTED goods, during war time. The ratio
of units of currency, money, to things people want to eat and to wear is altered, i.e., there are more dollars
in circulation in relation to goods, or pounds or other monetary units. Debts mount up. When they have
reached hitherto unprecendented size, the manipulators of currencies “return” to what they have called
“sound money.”


Wars in old time were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is DEBT. Usury
is an instrument for increasing debt, and for keeping the debtor in debt perpetually or at least for the
longest possible period.


Quite apart from military operation, from the results of military operations, from the possible results of any
military operations that may occur, the American people appear to have suffered crashing defeat, at the
hands of the financiers.
There is no understanding of history without some understanding of finance. And nine people, at least
nine people out of ten are ready to tell you proudly that they understand nothing about finance, and that
they do not understand economics. It has become the hallmark of the end of the bourgeois era to proclaim
ignorance of economics.
Yet you can not allocate the responsibility for an event, for a crime, for an accident, until you know
what has happened.


The world was to be enslaved according to plan. Slavery consists in having to do uninteresting work,
at another’s bidding


I suppose if I go on talking to you kids LONG enough I will get something into your heads. If I go on
poundin’ from day to day, every day and in every way, I will finally teach you kids why you got drug into
this war (if you survive it), and when you know that you will know more than your fathers did by the end
of the last one, that is, more than most of ’em ever discovered.

excerpts from “Ezra Pound Speaking”  RADIO SPEECHES OF WORLD WAR II 

It may be time to coin a new term: "Protocol Denial."

Whether a 'hoax' or not is beside the point. It's that the recipes in the cookbook of the Protocols, even though poison to the masses, are the force fed food of control and slavery.

As Henry Ford said: "The only statement I care to make about the PROTOCOLS is that they fit in with what is going on.  They have fitted the world situation up to this time. THEY FIT IT NOW."  


The Secret Ingredient - art by Kelly Hutchison
  


Our friend Richard Edmondson shares a new and provocative poem with us and says - It does occur to me, however, that it may be time to coin a new term: "Protocol Denial."

Another Jew Telling Us The Protocols Were a Hoax

Do not look here, there is nothing to see;
We already looked and have verified this much:
There are no dead civilians,
And at any rate they weren’t free,
So no manifestation of children
Or angels here about, scavenging debris,
Not here you’ll see, not there, nothing dangerous in the air
For them to breathe, and so of course we must conclude
That there is no wheel and the wheel has no spokes—
It’s like another Jew telling us the Protocols were a hoax.

Truth and falsehood feud and contend
For primacy over the ruined vessel of cerebration;
No blind pig’s dance could look as awkward,
No sigh to mark a long day’s end,
In this kind of weather, where the tornado clouds,
Like Jack the Ripper’s knife, plunge down and send
Us flying half a mile through the air, but don’t worry,
The economy’s good and the Dow’s up! So turn on
The TV! We’ll just wait here for Diebold to tally the votes;
It’s like another Jew telling us the Protocols were a hoax.

How does the ego become established in a body that has no soul?
The Elders of Zion—you know, the Herzl crowd
And the rest of those smart Bankers of Basel—after observing
Their own aureoles, consulted one another and devised a goal
Of constructing cattle grates for Gentiles. The grates
Would thwart the animals’ hooves; and thus of the rather droll
Sense of humor of their masters they would remain
Appreciatively forever mindful. But wait! No! It never happened!
The horror! The Shame! The anti-Semitism this stokes!
And so another Jew tells us the Protocols were a hoax.

An apothecary to the chief cohenim one day did aspire
To concoct a hoax quite grand—
A land without a people for a people without a land,
He called it, and despite its evil smell, the idea caught fire.
“That’s one of the best hoaxes I’ve ever come up with,” he thought,
“And we’ll ornament them with sludge and call them a liar
They who dare raise a voice in protest.” So stomach the
Chosen, ye Presidents, Parliaments, Bundestags, Diets—and
Obediently eyes averted as Gaza burned in strange smokes—
As another Jew affirmed confidently, “The Protocols were a hoax.”

We see that the earth on its axis spins
While in time, it is said, all things come to pass;
There are the hoaxters and the hoaxed, so let us differentiate,
Said the would-be messiah before he caught the trade winds
Back over the Volga River where he now spends eternity
Shoveling gefilte fish into bar Kochba’s open mouth. But
As every smart Jew knows, there’s money to be made off these
Stupid goyim, and so cheers! Chabad! Dabach! The debauchery
Of the sacred as the world flames in strange smokes—
While another Jew steps up, “The Protocols were a hoax!”

more commentary at the source

Dr. William J. Pierce was also provocative and if you are offended by the politically incorrect, do not watch this.

Need examples of the Protocols at work?  The blogroll to the right of this page exposes them daily.

Memorial Day and the Mythology of "Dying for Our Freedoms"

I'm just sick and tired of hearing this mantra of  service members who have paid the ultimate price for our freedom, etc. etc etc.  What freedom is that? Freedom for a few psychopathic bankers and war contractors and their paid off politicians to make trillions off of the lives of our youth and to put us as nation into debt that we can never repay. Stick a Chinese made flag on the graves and falsely think this is a tribute.

Soldiers do fight for one freedom. To try and save their fellow grunts to be free to go back home alive and intact. Sometimes that works, sometimes it doesn't.

How many times do we have to repeat the words of General Smedley Butler that "war is a racket?" You either get it or you don't. Most don't. Many are afraid of this truth, they don't want to know.

I'm not into bashing soldiers.Most were forced into it. My grandfather was in WWI, wounded in the head and gassed. Although not disabled, he received a $4 to $8 check each month for his troubles and for a farmer who often lived from crop to crop in the 20's and 30's, that money was often his only cash flow. He brought home a Luger that he took off a dead German, maybe a farmer like himself and I fondled that pistol hundreds of times as kid. War was cool back then in the imagination of a child.

My father saw the writing on the wall and joined the Army Air Force days after Pearl Harbor. He was placed in a radar outfit, had a couple of close calls with German bombs while in England but made it through unscathed.

Neither of these folks ever wanted to talk about their war experiences, my grandfather especially. He just said it was bad and refused to say anything else. Getting my father to relate his experience was also difficult. What he did say was usually about the 'good times' he had. Both went to their graves after a long life and as far as I know always believed the wars were just. They did not question their government and didn't want me to.

Vietnam was the turning point. We learned to question and were not afraid to do so. By age 14 I already knew something wasn't right. I could see in the faces and eyes of those returning. They were changed forever and not for the best. At age 17 my childhood friend Eric was killed exactly 3 months after setting foot in Vietnam. He got his name on a black wall many years later and that's it. I was pissed in 1969 and have been ever since.

Others I knew also died there or came back without a leg or without a heart. I've outlived many who returned and Vietnam killed them over here as surely as it killed them over there.

And yes, I'll say it. It needs to be said. They died in vain.

Our soldiers still die nearly every day. Still in vain. The myth of "it's for our freedoms" continues to this day and as with all false mythology, it needs to end.

I don't really know what to do about it. Just keep ranting and raving I suppose. Keep talking to our neighbors and friends about it even if they don't want to hear it, even if they are afraid of the truth. And especially try to discourage the kids from following in the footsteps of the deceived.

We can still have our war memorials and Memorial Day but perhaps the focus could be something different ... like Never Again.

Gil Scott-Heron

Gil Scott-Heron has died.  His phrase/poem/tune "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" is very well known and often used but the man behind it is not a household name. Say what you may about him but he had something to say. Too bad he never got to jam with Jimi Hendrix. That would have been something.


Gil's song about nuclear power plants and nuclear waste, "South Carolina," is still as relevant today as it was 32 years ago when he sang it.

What ever happened to the protests and the rage,
What ever happened to the voices of the sane,
What ever happened to the people who gave a damn.
Didn't they justify the dying in the jungle of Vietnam.


Listen to more Gil Scott-Heron at Wolfgang's Vault.

Gil did a lot of dope and alcohol.  He earned the right to sing honestly about it.

In Full Bloom

Basak Savcigil

The Sideshow Group Exhibition

What a month! Even the best fiction writers could not come up with the scenarios we have seen and maintain any kind of believability.  But this is America and truth is in short supply. Big lies, little lies, multiple lies ... we take them in stride and move on. I've been looking for some local folks who are as outraged as I am but can't seem to find them. Silence is the rule. If we don't talk about what is actually going on then the problems must not exist. We 'got' Bin Laden so we're making progress is the common theme.

Levene Wong    

It's springtime and the "Idiocracy" of America is in full bloom. We are the sideshow exhibits and those who have the power of life and death gawk at us in amused scorn at just how stupid and gullible we actually are. 

Not everyone is a gullible idiot of course but being a 'truther' minority means in this case we are always going to be discriminated against and made to look foolish by not conforming to the prevailing deceptions. Being put in a jar of formaldehyde and preserved as an example of what happens to those who don't love their slavery may not be that far off an image. 






My grandson had a sort of  rite of passage last night, the high school prom. In his case it was where you pay $100 to rent a tux, $20 for the girl's small corsage and they didn't even get to have a live band, just the same old music industry promoted pop and country music that they hear daily on the radio. He had fun but it's over quickly, unlike another rite of passage that seems to go on and on ... the military recruiter. These lying pricks are allowed in the schools and pound on a young kid's head how it will make them a man and gain 'experience' along with some vague monetary incentives. What should be a no-brainer "Just Say No" or "Go Fuck Yourself" response to the death merchant too often turns into a "Sure, why not, I can't get a job anyway and you did say killing a few 'Mooslums' is our patriotic duty."

Just this morning I heard of a young Nashville Marine who was killed in Afghanistan and the lead line in the story was that he was doing what he was born to do. What? He was born to die in a foreign land in an illegal immoral war for the profit of bankers and war contractors? Born to be a pawn, yep, every kid's dream.

In other 'big' local news, Geert Wilders came to Nashville to stir the hatred and every fear mongering crazed neocon quack and Christian zionist whack job came out of the woodwork to praise this outside agitator and possible CIA/Mossad asset. Three days after his speech at a 'church' and the media is still going on about him but nary a peep from the presstitutes about the May 15 Nakba Day or the fraud of the 'jewish' state of Israel, without which, along with a few other zionist 'events' such as 9/11, the Islamophobia narrative would not even be taking place.

But maybe there is some good news. The managing director of the International Monetary Fund and expected Socialist candidate for the French presidency in 2012, jewish Dominique Strauss-Kahn has been arrested in New York  in the sexual attack of a maid at a Midtown Manhattan hotel. A criminal organization, the IMF, being run by a sexual criminal ... who could have guessed?  Big money will probably get this creep off.  After all, raping entire nations is his job and he gets by with that.


In another bit of good news, Israel firster and would be traitor Mike Huckabee has said no to running for president. I suppose he realized that even in America there aren't enough Republican fools to get him elected or maybe he didn't want to be the designated loser this time around.

Although we like Ron Paul's anti-federal reserve, non-intervention, anti-war, bring the troops home stance and without him that message will not be heard at all in the upcoming presidential cycle, he was disappointing in the minutes after his announcement yesterday when he just had to use the words holocaust and Nazis in response to some question by a shill reporter. He also can't get past the rhetoric of 'blowback' and that Bin Laden and arabs did 9/11. Paul is blasted by the left, the right and the middle and if you're going down, why not go down swinging with everything you've got. I'm stubborn. 9/11 is a root cause of the fascist downfall of this country and if one cannot speak the truth about it at least concerning what we do know and call for the real criminals to be brought to justice, it's hard to give them full support. Paul is playing within the system and as we all know ... the system is a failure for most of us and it cannot be changed by playing by the rules of those who have rigged the game.