I report on how consciousness and community are transcending god and state, locally in Washington, DC, and globally, where ever I see progress - or backsliding, including on the feminist front! "Imagine there's no countries, and no religion, too." Most active 2007-17. See my public Facebook/CarolMoore1776 for daily posts.
Mahmoud Abass hands request for Palestinian statehood to United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. While states applying to world governments for participation is not exactly libertarian decentralist, it's still a world consciousness raising effort regarding the 63 years of occupation of the Palestinians and the US/Israel complicity in keeping these people veritable prisoners in two concentration camps, the eastern section of which keeps shrinking as the Israelis keep stealing more land.It would be interesting to study all the impediments, internal and external, that kept this from happening 50 years ago! Here's part one of three parts of Abbas' speech.
Patriarchy has thrown those who seek a nonviolent and peaceful world a bone - International Peace Day. Here's one of my videos opining on the general topic, blogged as I listen to puppet Obama blah blah blah at the United Nations...
The last time I saw the World Trade Center, driving in on the bus to New York City in the 1990s, I thought "those buildings are doomed." I remembered when terrorists tried to blow up one of the towers in 1993 and remembered reading that some terrorists wanted to bring the buildings down. It was just a matter of time.
Above is a photo of what I dreamed on June 30, 2001. A square tower of smoke over the horizon. As I write in my biography, I was convinced it was a premonition of nuclear war. . Around 5:30 am on June 30, 2001 I awoke abruptly from a frightening dream. It was sufficiently scary that I wrote in my diary that night: "dreamed looked out window and saw huge tower of brown smoke--realized it was a nuke bomb (no flash) and saw the shock wave coming towards me..." It wasn't until two weeks after the September 11, 2001 attacks that I realized that the strange squar-ish smoke tower I saw was a World Trade Center tower and the shock wave was the emotional and political shock that resulted from the attack.
The day of the attack I was sitting at my desk, the second day of a new temporary legal secretary job, and suddenly I had the unusual desire to listen to the radio that was sitting in the corner. I turned it on and heard of the first of four terrible acts which gave the state an excuse to go to war, consolidate its power, and turn us all into potential terrorists in their little black books. I left soon after the second tower was hit because I didn't want to get stuck downtown in case they stopped running the trains.
Last Tuesday night, ten years later, I dreamed a scary dream of a bad thing happening downtown. Two days later the news blared that "intelligence" said just such a thing might happen. Hopefully, it's just government and media hype to keep us scared. Probably certain "foreign friends" trying to play nice - even if they have to make up their intelligence - as they keep pushing us to fight yet another war for their security.
Justin Raimondo has an interesting article: 9/11 and the Bizarro Effect. He writes: What if you had information that foreign government officials, utilizing their resources in the United States, were plotting to drag America into a ruinous war, using their connections with key American lawmakers and the media to get members of Congress and the public on board – what would you do? ...In a secret trial in which not even the judge was allowed to look at the evidence, FBI translator and human rights blogger Shamai Leibowitz, an Israeli-American lawyer, was sentenced to 20 months in prison for the “crime” of exposing Israel’s extensive efforts to influence American policymakers to support a strike against Iran...Yes, the US routinely spies on everyone, including its ostensible allies, but this case ought to set off alarm bells: clearly our spooks are very concerned about what the Israelis are up to in this country, and have been for quite some time. Add to this the vindictive nature of Leibowitz’s prosecution, and it’s not stretching the truth to say the government is clearly panicked Israel’s covert activities in the US could become public knowledge...What apparently triggered the FBI monitoring and investigation of Antiwar.com, including myself, was our extensive coverage of Israeli covert activities in the US, particularly a number of my columns on the subject...
Yup, cover Israeli spying, and tell people about U.S. spying on Israel spying, and you must be a terrorist! Government needs enemies to pump up its power, and here we are. I still haven't gotten around to arranging and recording this song and making the music video, but for a second times, here are the words:
They said I love you - song lyrics
It was on a bright September day When any kind of harm seemed far away When suddenly came horror from the sky With little time to think or wonder why Three thousand souls were taken.
But those who truly knew the end was near, And called outside to those they held so dear, Did they speak of hatred and revenge And did they say America avenge, No, they said I love you.
But love was just the last thing on the minds of those who saw an opportunity to find, A way to kill and loot and sack, To scream of evil and attack, And show they’re above you.
And then they carried out their wicked plans, With weapons that are cruelest among mans, Two countries lay in ruins, and still they try To spread their dirty wars with dirty lies And they think they’ve fooled you.
But those whose deaths were the excuse, For all the murder and abuse Did they speak of hatred and revenge And did they say America avenge, No, they said I love you. No, they said I love you. No, they said I love you.
Yep, that August 23 earthquake in Virginia gave me a good scare in DC, even though it was the second strongest I felt. The first being in California in 1987 - and I left town 6 weeks later. And now we have big scary hurricane Irene charging up the coast to rip out the air conditioners and the window frames and backdoor - the house needs remodeling anyway. What next, the Beatles reunite and we have the Apocalypse of Love? A girl can dream.... UPDATE with PHOTOS: Phew, survived yet another brush with death and destruction. Yet given the ignorance of males and the females who enable it, the short term blasts and burps of the planet and the cosmos, and the inevitable entropy (run down) of our sun, let's enjoy life while we may!
These two videos illustrate some manly things men can do without beating up women and children and other men and killing people, especially in that organized slaughter called war. Thanks to the male who sent them to me.
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For a great rendition of the Greatest Show on Legs, click here.
Yet another protest I didn't make. But glad to see they did it. One hates to see an apolitical ophathmologist go bad, but that's what happened with Bashar al-Assad, son of a dictator, surrounded by the dictator's long-time cronies who have profited mightily off their supremacy. Syria is one more Middle East nation the British set up for failure by putting a dictator from one minority tribal group in charge of a bunch of groups that didn't want to be ruled by that group. (See "Friday of Tribes" protest below.) Kudos to the Syrian people for not going straight to civil war. Someone please let Bashar go back to practising medicine. There are lots of prisons that need good doctors.
Thursday August 4th I was standing by the window, doing the dishes, thinking about the dogs and housework and sewing and working on my current civil liberties-related Wikipedia article when suddenly I felt a wave of manic energy hit me and my mind started racing: I have to organize a meeting. I have to call people up. I have to start getting back into the world!
My first thought: there must have been a big solar flare from a sunspot! Yup, a double solar flare, the biggest one since 2003, hit the earth on Thursday. Yoo Ha! Better get my ass moving so the revolution doesn't pass me by! See my woefully outdated article Sunspot Cycles and Activist Strategy. See Secession.net - let's see how long it takes for me to update it now! -
Evidently a bunch of rioters in London felt that solar flare too. And there was an even bigger one August 9th.
It's summer time, and the blogging is intermittent...
But I did notice that the New York Times had an interesting opinion piece on current secession movements in America called "Splitsville." Of course the statist author writes: " The men who wrote the Constitution feared secession, and didn’t allow states to leave the collective fold."
Not explicitly. More importantly, we celebrate the Fourth of July and the Declaration of Independence which says it is the right of the people to alter or abolish government, and that includes secession. Even the centralists who wrote the Constitution (whose date of ratification is barely noticed) had to add the 10th Amendment explicitly says: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
But nitpicking over constitutional law is really irrelevant when the constitution proves itself daily to be a failed experiment, one which lets special financial, corporate, labor union, welfare constituent, military and governmental interests write our laws to their advantage, destroying the economy and impoverishing those who do not receive its largess, so that many who would prefer to work are forced into the welfare constituency. Government collapse is just a matter of time, as recent debt limit quarrels illustrate. GREECE WE'RE HOT ON YOUR TAIL.
Of course, that certainty may make secessionists a little too lackadaisical - it does me!
Funny The Onion video on the topic of government waste of money below.
Whoopie Goldberg really socks it to the fundamentalist Christians who came up with the Traditional Marriage pledge signed on to by GOP-Prez candidates Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum. Until it was deleted from the pledge, this absurd statement was included: "Slavery had a disastrous impact on African-American families, yet sadly a child born into slavery in 1860 was more likely to be raised by his mother and father in a two-parent household than was an African-American baby born after the election of the USA’s first African-American President.”
Whoopie did not mention that the family easily could be broken up by just selling off family members - since they were after all SLAVES! - that's pretty obvious to aware people. The authors and signers evidently are not very aware people. Just a bunch of White Christians itching for Jesus to come back and kill everyone who hasn't converted, including Jews in Israel so that it can become the Christian nation it was meant to be. YUK!!
I forgot how addicted I was to making protest videos til I started on the last two events I attended, in late May and July 4th. I ended up with five! All at Youtube.com/CarolMoore. AIPAC protest wise (see earlier post), it was great to see mainstream peace groups support protests against Israel lobby groups, as I've been promoting for years, having organized a half dozen such protests 2005-2007. (I missed a similar, smaller protest by them last year.) It was nice to let others do the work and just show up up with my camera - and "don't tread on me" flag.
*One set of video and one of photos of the big May 22 protest vs. the Israel lobby AIPAC national conference in Washington DC.
*One of the amusing introduction to Professors Walt and Mearsheimers' discussion of the Israel lobby at the May 21 Move Over AIPAC conference - plus a link to the full youtube talk which was excellent.
*One short video called "Jews in Conflict" which contrasts the humanitarian views of fundamentalist, liberal and leftist Jews to the hatred spewed by a right wing Israel supporter, as well as smug AIPAC delegates parading by.
Below is my collage of dramatic photos/video of the 42nd annual July 4th White House Smoke In. The cops harassed alleged smokers at first, but organizers and the crowd made it clear that they'd defend their first amendment rights. Plus lots of dramatic personal testimony. I got up and made my pitch for radical political decentralization and secession as the way to free the weed.
July 4th - trying to motivate myself to go to the July 4th Smoke In at the White House, wearing all my maryjane apparel. Not to mention to start providing examples here of the every exploding long train of abuses. Or you can just read Antiwar.com everyday!
Below my second most popular Youtube Video - Rowdy Citizens Lawbreaking at the local park on the 4th of July! Hope they'll be out there again tonight - yoo ha! There were just a few down there the last couple years.
I think I'll start listing some of those that impede on my consciousness and outrage me, as I scan my emails and the net; starting with the greatest outrage - war. Today we must memorialize its victims, including the soldiers who die in it. This is my video of the World War II memorial in Washington, DC. My father and three uncles all served and miraculously all survived. I wasn't so lucky an American in my last life, and was bombed by the Nazis as I hid out on a Dutch barge - if past life regressions are to be believed, anyway. Another reason (besides terror of The Bomb? and feminist disgust with patriarchal institutions) I'm so anti-war?
Gee, did I really think the evolution of consciousness to a higher plane had been achieved with the apology by a few males to all females below? As daily depredations by patriarchal states and their leaders assaulted me over the last 3.5 weeks, I often thought I should blog this and I should blog that. I even started a "Blog-It" folder that is quite filled up right now! Yup, just more incidents and laws and regulations to add to the "long train of abuses and usurpations" listed in rebellious Americans' 1776 Declaration of Independence.
But I did manage to get off my slowly dissolving butt this weekend. (I've joined a free "lifestyle management" to lose 1/3 of my weight and it's working! So I can live longer and bedevil patriarchy yet another 20 years, of course.)
I did rise from the comfort of my continuing vacation from activism and force myself to go to the MOVE OVER AIPAC coalition conference Saturday and its large Sunday protest outside of the AIPAC (rabidly pro-Israel lobby) annual conference. After encouraging left and liberal groups for years to take the issue more seriously, I had to pay my respects to them when they finally started doing it. (OK, so they did protests the last couple years which I missed; but they didn't have a conference with Professors and authors Walt and Mearsheimer those times.)
I met all sorts of people fed up with this special interest lobby -- and others of the hundreds of different powerful special interest lobbies. They have yet to unite into a movement that will break the power of the interests in the only way possible: dissolution of the large states that support them, local organization through direct, super-majority representation, or even some variation on libertarian contractual alternatives. See Secession.net. Some photos of both events below.
Professors Walt and Mearsheimer speak to the big crowd. Courting more controversy...
About 400 protesters showed Sunday. The biggest AIPAC protest since 2002 when AIPAC's conference was held while Israel was destroying the Jenin concentration camp and 2000 protesters closed down Connecticut Avenue.
A sign reminding people of Israel's murder of 34 Americans in the 1967 USS Liberty incident, next to a sign reminding people of the continuing Free Gaza movement, which includes Americans working to break Israel's blockade of and starvation of Arabs in the Gaza strip.
Obama, a sell out for power and prestige. (See the Wall Street Journal article "Jewish Donors Warn Obama on Israel." A future Jimmy Carter? Nah, he's a Leo who likes all that prestige.
Guess what sexy babe is in front of the counter protesters' sign with her "Don't tread on me" flag and her "right of the people to alter or abolish government" t-shirt. (No, the sign does NOT say "Support Terrorism, Support Israel", though it should!) The counter-protesters were so frustrated. Their bull horn was no match for the drummers who sat right down beside them and chanted appropriate slogans for much of the protest.
Listing of many of the ways males have screwed women over through the ages, apologies for it, and promises to do better. Now all these guys have to do is read my article WOMAN Vs. THE NATION STATE and get behind the movement to dissolve large patriarchal nation states and militaries and replace them with voluntarily organized communities, cities, etc. ala Secession.net.
Just a few items to remind us that the Federal Bureau of Investigation murdered 76 Branch Davidians - mostly women, children and elderly - on April 19, 1993. 51 days after AFT murdered six others.
Starting with the bottom line, which the government and media cover up to this day: ATF, FBI and Department of Justice people most responsible: And don't forget the Murderer in Chief who, according to a former advisor, was totally in charge of the operation. Clinton later angrily exclaimed: I was, frankly, surprised would be a mild word, to say that anyone that would suggest that the Attorney General should resign because some religious fanatics murdered themselves.The ATF crimes the FBI had to cover up by destroying evidence and killing witnesses: Photo shows bullet holes at front door where David Koresh and his father-in-law were shot as Koresh tried to cooperate and take a search warrant. Agents later claimed the warrant had gotten "all shot up in the truck." Koresh's father-in-law died a few days later. How the Davidians really felt during the 51 day siege: How the FBI made sure it destroyed the evidence and killed witnesses: How proud the FBI was of its work: Some of the victims memorialized in a 1997 quilt display on the Mall in Washington, D.C.: Just a sample of the constant Committee for Waco Justice activism 1994-2001:
The Supreme Court ruled in June, 2000 that the Davidian prisoners' 25 year sentences for possessing a gun in commission of a crime for which the jury found them innocent was unconstitutional. All were freed by 2007.George W. Bush did not free them early... Check out my book THE DAVIDIAN MASSACRE for more details.
"Carol Moore has done more research on Waco than anyone else. Her book pulls together many of the most shocking details of government abuses that a reader cannot find anywhere else." James Bovard, author of Lost Rights
"I am indebted to Carol Moore's well-documented work, The Davidian Massacre: Disturbing Questions About Waco Which Must Be Answered (1995)". Ambrose Evans-Prichard in notes in his The Secret Life of Bill Clinton.
Update 4/27/11: Listening to a representative of the Israel Project debate a Palestinian activist on RussiaToday, I had a real deja vu to Waco. The mighty power pretending to negotiate with the captive victims while it takes more and more land, sets up a tighter perimeter, drives the captives to irrational acts and then claims they are the culprits and the mighty power is just trying to help them.
Don't ask me why it's the 18th instead of the 15th. __________________________________________
Update: Greg Reagle of DC War Tax Resisters was interviewed by Adam Kokesh on his "Adam vs. the Man" April 18th Russia Today television show centering on tax day (at 22:50). Good show - watch it all!
As both Antiwar.com and RussiaToday below report, there's evidence NATO (US/Britain/France) are using depleted uranium bombs on Gaddafi tanks, spreading radioactive dust all over Libya, just like they have all over Bosnia, Serbia, Afghanistan and Iraq. This leaves a legacy of many seriously deformed children and a much higher level of deadly cancers in the short and long run. Shame on all of us for not fighting this ongoing nuclear catastrophe perpetrated by our own government.
Adam Kokesh, a Corporal in the United States Marine Corps Reserve, served in the Iraq War in 2004. He came back opposed to the war and became active in the peace movement. He also ran for Congress as a libertarian Republican in 2010.
I met him when we were both arrested at an April 2007 protest in a Senate office building - him deliberately (see photo), me unintentionally, after shooting my mouth off yelling "It is the right of the people to alter or abolish government." He gallantly gave me a short term loan of $50 so I wouldn't have to spend the night in jail! (See my blog item and video of protest and my arrest.)
Anyway, after starting his "Adam vs. the Man" radio show in 2010 he graduated on April 11th to having a half hour "Adam vs. the Man" television program on Russia Today, a show that lets all sorts of critics of U.S. imperialism spiel away. (See his web page of same name here.) Hey, if your own government discourages critics of itself or its favorite allon its government controlled media (Phil Donohue/Ashleigh Banfield/Rosie O'Donnell/Octavia Nasr/Rick Sanchez/Keith Olberman, where are you?), you have to look to some other government's controlled media to get another perspective!
Below is his second show in which he interviews a couple other veterans of similar perspective, shows a photo of and tells the story of his own defacto torture of a couple of detainees in Fallujah, and shows video of scary U.S. military operations during the Katrina disaster where shoot first and ask questions later was the rules of engagement. Keep up the good work, Adam!
Yesterday, multitudes took to the streets in more than 40 Mexican cities - and in protests by Mexicans and their friends at consulates and embassies in Europe, North America and South America - to demand an end to the violence wrought by the US-imposed "war on drugs."...
A sea change has occurred in Mexican public opinion. The people have turned definitively against the use of the Mexican Army to combat against drug traffickers. The cry from every city square yesterday was for the Army to return to its barracks and go back to doing the job it was formed to do; protect Mexico from foreign invasion and provide human aid relief in case of natural disasters such as earthquakes and hurricanes. Since President Felipe Calderón unleashed the Armed Forces, four years ago, to combat drug trafficking organizations, the violence between it and the competing narco organizations has led to a daily body count, widespread human rights abuses against civilians, and more than 40,000 deaths... (Read more at link; video below.)
April 12th is the 150th anniversary of the first battle of the U.S. Civil War, the attack on Fort Sumter. Of course, this was a civil war mostly about states rights to impose slavery - plus several other lesser complaints about the federal government. Future secessionist efforts by states, regions, counties, cities will be about getting out from under the slavery imposed by an authoritarian central government that thinks it has the right to commandeer our monies and our lives to serve the ends of rich and/or well organized special interests, in and out of government. Now some secessionists DO have delusions that they will be able to impose their particular political, economic, religious, cultural or other views on the newly independent entities. And foolish or wicked people always will follow corrupt leaders - from ideologues to kleptocrats - who woo them with demagoguery or bribes. The price of liberty is eternal vigilance - and political processes which can insure such liberty survives.
See my relevant articles listed at Secession.net. And check out my recent Youtube talk on the subject as described at this blog entry. And see amusing video below.
Update - Other commentary of interest on today's anniversary: A CNN poll found that 67 percent of Americans support the North over the South in the Civil War. Meanwhile 53 percent think slavery was the main reason the south seceded and 42 percent do not.
Of course, how does one define main reason? Given variety of individual and state motives, amount of publicity given various issues, and political spin given to the whole war afterward, and especially by the victors, it's not a topic for scientific exactitude.
Lew Rockwell today makes the point that people are taught in school and via media that the ONLY reason for secession was slavery and the abolitionist Lincoln had to fight the war primarily to free the slaves. Rockwell provides various evidence that that interpretation is propaganda. So it's interesting that CNN asked the question and got various answers.
John Blake writing at CNN lists four reasons that "we're still fighting the Civil War" - i.e., parallels to that time: The disappearance of the political center; How much power should the federal government have? (Nullification, states' rights and secession are issues once again); Unleashing the dogs of war (Civil war lasted longer than expected, like Iraq and Afghanistan); The president as dictator (Obama seen as one, just as Lincoln was - and both usurped power).
He quotes an historian who writes people haven't come to a conclusion because they can't deal with the past of slavery. But I think perhaps the historian and John Blake can't deal with the fact that the federal government has made us all slaves.
It's nearly impossible for a non-Jew to become a legal Israeli resident. These Israeli protesters are going nuts because allegedly 200,000 Africans, Asians and others have "infiltrated" illegally. Hmmmm... what goes around comes around??
According to MSNBCresearchers at Michigan State University have built a prototype gasoline engine that requires no transmission, crankshaft, pistons, valves, fuel compression, cooling systems or fluids. Their so-called Wave Disk Generator could greatly improve the efficiency of gas-electric hybrid automobiles and potentially decrease auto emissions up to 90 percent when compared with conventional combustion engines. Watch the video.
Quick, before they come to a compromise, let me blog. While I hardly agree with the Republican namby pamby and politically motivated budget cuts, I agree less with Democrats refusal to cut much at all. The good news for those of us who want to see an end to the welfare/warfare state is the large nation state will destroy itself. The bad news is we'll suffer like everyone else. So we must be quick to provide good solutions and alternatives. Until I made a political or music video about that, here's this oldie but goodie...
Cycles researcher Ray Tomes has put up this interesting video showing evidence of the various cycles of war, related to 11 and 22 year sunspot cycles. See the War Cycles Wikipedia article for more info. (But don't believe everything you read on Wikipedia!)
Mahmoud Abass hands request for Palestinian statehood to United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. While states applying to world governments for participation is not exactly libertarian decentralist, it's still a world consciousness raising effort regarding the 63 years of occupation of the Palestinians and the US/Israel complicity in keeping these people veritable prisoners in two concentration camps, the eastern section of which keeps shrinking as the Israelis keep stealing more land. It would be interesting to study all the impediments, internal and external, that kept this from happening 50 years ago! Here's part one of three parts of Abbas' speech.
