Japan, U.S. irradiating subject peoples

Above is the Fukushim I nuclear power plant before it exploded March 12, 2011, after an earthquake and Tsunami. We "anti-nuke" activists hate to say "I told you so." Build a nuclear power plant near an earthquake fault and right on an ocean prone to tsunami, and one of these days one or both is going to cause a terrible accident. Of course, there already have been a number of "meltdowns" without help from Mad Mother Nature. Below is one of the explosions at the plant; not necessarily a meltdown.


Nuclear power, of course, probably would not exist without massive government intervention: funding research, providing funding for construction of private and public power plants, forcing plants on unwilling populaces and, of course, forcing these populations to bear the full brent of accidents by limiting the financial liability of the private or government entities should there be an accident killing people and destroying their homes, livelihoods and businesses. (In this country it's called the Price Anderson Nuclear Industries Indemnity Act.)

And then this morning what floats into my email box? A brand new term: "Backscatter Van." Turns out the government has dozens of vans roaming around scanning civilians and their autos looking for weapons - or cute teenage girls now rendered naked, depending on their whims.

Of course, all those government employees going to work in downtown Washington are probably at highest risk of getting cancer from these vans as they get irradiated day after day, year after year.

The "long train of abuses and usurpations" mentioned in the U.S. Declaration of Independence seems to double every year!

The Spy Who Hated Wikileaks (video)

This story details what happened in this video. The former British spy chief being spied on illegally by camera as he complains about Wikileaks. Today's good laugh.

International Women's Day - Fighting for Our Freedom

Google's commentary above, and mine below.

Moore Counter-Protests Westboro Baptists...

Michael Moore brings a pink bus load of gays to counter protest the Bible nuts who protest in the most inappropriate places - funerals of gays and U.S. soldiers. With their attitude, I can't think of anyone to sic them on! Gandhi would not approve. (For some reason this doesn't seem to be on Moore's Youtube page.)

Obama Hypocrisy - Gaddafi bombs vs. bombs on Gaza

No, that's not Tripoli. It's Gaza, after the 2008-2009 Israeli bombing. While Obama is waxing all indignant about the monster Gaddafi bombing his own people, he continues to support Israel's even more dastardly attacks on the imprisoned people of Gaza for 23 days in 2008-2009, just before he took office. And he had his United Nations representative vote against the Goldstone Report, even though it blamed captive Palestinians as much as it did the Israeli bombers. Just like some people blamed Jews for rebelling against the Nazi Warsaw Ghetto incursion which led to the total destruction of the Ghetto.
See comparative photos of Gaza rockets/deaths vs. Israeli bombs/destruction here. (Thanks to Mark Levine for making same point here.)

But that's what oppressors do when their enslaved people rebel, isn't it? Nazis in Poland, Israel in Gaza, Gaddafi in Tripoli. (Funny how we were taught in the 1960s to learn the lessons of the Holocaust and draw analogies of fascistic behavior by the Nazis; at least until too many of us started pointing out that Israel's behavior towards the Palestinians was much like the years leading up to Nazi policies of total genocide of the Jews.)

Anyway, a reminder video of the devastation below. You can bet the Israel lobby/Neocons are just itching to get the U.S. to bomb another Arab/Muslim country, just to keep it in practice for the big war against Iran they continue to push the U.S. into - as long as China is willing to foot the bill, anyway.

A Gaza protest photo I took in 2009.

Update: Here's an interesting article from a pretty good leftie source (recommended by a libertarian source) alleging that the main rebel group, which met a few years back in the U.S., may be tools of U.S. imperialism supported because Gaddafi hasn't sufficiently knuckled under to U.S. interests -- even though he's been getting advice from arch-neocon Richard Perle. There's no doubt a bunch of Neocons are saying BOMB BOMB BOMB all over cable Tv.

Metro: check escalator brakes, not random bags

Looks like the Washington DC metro is going to keep randomly checking passenger bags. No one has objected enough to get arrested yet. A lot of people are probably just walking to the next metro since they evidently put a big sign outside the metro stops where they are searching. Found these funny posts on a message board used by frequent travelers:

...GHF: RT @Tracktwentynine: Attention Terrorists: #WMATA is checking bags at Archives. Consider walking to Gallery Place or L'Enfant Plaza. Federal Triangle also close.

...CP: I'd feel safer traveling the DC Metro if they could just keep the escalators from collapsing and making giant heaps of people. That really is a safety/security hazard, from the poor history of DC Metro escalator maintenance lately, not the "bogeyman in a bag."

See video below for the escalator accident. Glad I wasn't near the bottom with four 400 pound guys right behind me!! I'm going on the metro again tomorrow, third time since searches started. Will I get to be the first person arrested for asking too many questions or making too many snotty political comments? SELF-CONTROL, CAROL, self-control.

Gaddafi - just doing what ATF did in 1993

Libya's Colonel Gaddafi has to import poor mercenaries and promise them thousands of dollars for every Libyan they kill in order to try to keep control of his ever narrowing circle of influence.

He threatens civil war, just like statists left and right threaten it in this country if they can't get their way. Gaddafi wants to keep his family and his tribes' control over Libya. Demopublicans want to keep it over America. Don't get too uppity, or you know what will happen to you. Definitely, don't talk about having your own little nation with your own wacky rules and if you do, don't have a legally licensed gun dealer operating out of your home or office.

Monday, February 28 marks 18 years since the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms attacked the Branch Davidian home and church outside of Waco, just because they needed a "target" to practice their new "National Response Plan" bringing teams from several cities together. The ATF agents fired from helicopters killing two and fired at the group's leader David Koresh as he tried to take the search warrant at the front door, mortally wounding his father-in-law. (Of course, said search warrant was never produced, allegedly being "all shot up" in the truck.)

Is that really that much different than what Gaddafi is doing now? Terrorizing the nation.

More than anything it was the massacre of the Davidians on April 19, 1993 that convinced voters to elect Republicans to take over Congress in 1995. Just like G.W. Bush's murderous and wasteful wars on Afghanistan and Iraq convinced them to elect Democrats in 2006. Just like Obama's continuation of those wars, his massive bank bail out and massive new health care bureaucracy terrorized millions into voting Republicans to power in the House and many state houses in 2010. How long will the cycle continue before Americans revolt against a massive welfare-warfare state? How far will we be driven into poverty and slavery? Time will tell...

Photo and text from Treasury Department Report of 1993.

More Iraq War lies via "Curveball"

Since much of my 50s was consumed dealing with a war based on lies, II'm happy that the Iraqi code-named "curve ball" finally has told the truth: Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi, codenamed Curveball by German and American intelligence officials who dealt with his claims, has told the Guardian that he fabricated tales of mobile bioweapons trucks and clandestine factories in an attempt to bring down the Saddam Hussein regime, from which he had fled in 1995. "Maybe I was right, maybe I was not right," he said. "They gave me this chance. I had the chance to fabricate something to topple the regime. I and my sons are proud of that and we are proud that we were the reason to give Iraq the margin of democracy."

At least I had some fun and learned some lessons during yet another round of years of peace activism. I feel sorry for those who lost their lives, loved ones, homes, communities, health, sanity, etc. because of George Bush (avenging alleged plots versus his father) and his neoconservative friends' (protecting military industrial complex profits and Israeli land grabs) drive to kill Saddam and conquer Iraq. The same bunch of bastards are hoping to elect a president in 2012 in case they can't finally strong arm Obama into bombing Iran into submission - or the stone age. Someday soon the United States may have a Tunisian-Egyptian-style revolution against those bastards, be they Democrats or Republicans in office. Not a "revolution" of a bunch of government bureaucrats rioting for their bennies, a real people's revolution against our own slavery - secession from and dissolution of our special interest controlled union.

A related issue, since both articles have been sitting in tabs on my browser for a couple days - unequal distribution of wealth. Warmongers who got rich off the Iraq war are just one of the more offensive of thousands of politically connected special interest groups that used their connections to get fat government contracts - or to suppress competition and increase their own profits. Just like in the days of Kings and Lords and peasants we like to think we've escaped. In a free and competitive market unhampered by cronyism and mercantilism, far fewer corporations and individuals would become so absurdly rich, and their competitors would take it away more quickly from those which failed to compete. See this BBC article Wealth gap widens between super rich and rest. But don't buy any lines that it's some how good for all of us!

Space storm coming - revolutionary storms continue

Sunspots are temporary black spots on the Sun caused by intense magnetic activity that appear as dark spots. Sunspots expand and contract as they move around the Sun. Most solar flares and coronal mass ejections originate in magnetically active regions around sunspots.

And it is these that throw out particles that increase negative ionization levels on earth - leading to human excitability. At left, see how rapidly the number climbed in the first seven weeks of 2011? And the energy from a real big solar flare is hitting us now - so expect things to keep hopping in North African and the Middle East. (And hope the electromagnetic pulses don't fry the electrical grids!)

Of course, you don't need sunspot energy to get mad and organize and march - ask the Tea Party people who marched in really big numbers in 2009 and elected Republican budget cutters in 2010. Unfortunately, except for a few hard core tea partiers, the Republicans have no intention of making significant budget cuts, starting with cutting the military 75% and means testing social security.

States are harder pressed because they often have a smaller tax base and more politicians who caved into the public employee unions. Some were given them truly excessive pay, perks and pensions. So suddenly we're having big rallies against such cuts by public employees. (And of course it's not necessarily the most excessively paid who get the biggest cuts.)

As a libertarian I'm for the right to organize unions, strike and demand collective bargaining; and the right to fire strikers and refuse to engage in any bargaining at all. Of course, the smarter thing is to have a lot more worker owned cooperatives, including schools - without those layers of lazy and/or trouble-making administrators mandated by various levels of government.

Below are videos about one great activist, Ray McGovern, a retired CIA analyst turned peace activist. Unlike this burned out activist, he just kept going the last few years. He was arrested for turning his back on Hillary Clinton, per the video below. And then roughed up by police per the photo of his injuries here. Keep up the great work, Ray! Maybe he'll be ready to join the radical political decentralist movement once it really gets going. Secede and survive!

Natl Football League supports right to abolish government

Yup, not only did they have a bunch of Americans recite it in their Superbowl 2011 video below, but they left in the most important phrase: "it is the right of the people to alter or abolish (government)". See other of my blog entries on that topic here.

Atlas Shrugged - one part at a time

I read Atlas Shrugged in 1964, doubtless before many of you were born. And here it is 46 years later and I have to haul my ass to compulsory jury duty and worry about getting a compulsory search of my bags on metro. Ayn Rand may have been an egomaniacal hoaky sexually weird obsessed-with-individuality-to-a-fault worshipper of Mammon, but she got one thing right - frack the state. Meanwhile the movie is being made, one part at a time. Looks like it's pretty good... but maybe a little long. Like the book??

Valentines Day Diversity in Love

In case my last bracing love letter to freedom lovers below was not enough of a Valentines Day message, here's a video with a cat and dog in love. The diversity of love between species, sexes, races, ethnicities, religions and even ideologies can be a wonderful thing. Celebrate it!

Resist Intimidation by Imperialist Special Interests

Anyone who cares about peace and freedom must be aware of the nefarious role of special interests in distorting the economy, limiting our civil liberties and driving us to war. Any one - activist or observer - who cared about peace and freedom during the 2001-2003 lead up to the United States invasion and occupation of Iraq will remember how those opposing the war were attacked from without as supporting terrorists bent on destroying the United States and its allies. Not a very nice reward for organizing and/or attending five or six peace protests every week, year after year. Some war lovers still attack us - even though the war has been proved to have been based on lies and has cost hundreds of thousands of lives and over a trillion dollars and still counting.

However, many of us also were attacked from within the peace movement, at least anyone who spoke up for the rights of Palestinians or even mentioned the role of pro-Israel special interest groups in beating the war drums for over two and half years. Maybe a few of you even said something in a meeting or on a mailing list about these issues, for example about the vicious 2002 Israeli bombardment of the Jenin refugee camp. Or maybe you commented on articles circulating about the Project for a New American Century or the “men from Jinsa” or the nutty Christian Zionists. (You know, the ones who want the U.S. to start Armageddon so Jesus will return and, as the “Book of Revelation” states, kill all of those - even Jews - who don’t convert to Christianity.) And if you did say or post such things, some of you - whether Jewish or gentile - doubtless were met with instant accusations of antisemitism from one or two “peaceniks.” As we all know, politically motivated false charges of bigotry taint the credibility of those who make real charges of bigotry.

In my local peace group, which had many outspoken people, one five foot six inch “progressive” Israel defender would attack me especially for criticizing Israel. He’d never attack the 6 foot plus burly guys who posted more controversial articles and opinions. I wonder why.

It was worse on the Libertarians 4 Peace and Maryland libertarian email list where conservative quasi-libertarians would “debate” (or more frequently insult) antiwar libertarians and the "free speech" moderators let them for far too long. When insults did not silence libertarians, one five foot six inch self-proclaimed Zionist from Maryland turned to gross sexual insults and even barely concealed death threats mentioning his large gun collection - mostly against me. Again, why not against the libertarian males, including from the DC area, who posted more controversial things on the subject?

In June 2003, three months after the invasion of Iraq, I was still being attacked by these two sexist Zionists. Then I made a mistake which some Israel supporters keep trying to make my fatal mistake. I angrily responded to a news story about Republican Senator Lugar suggesting the U.S. send troops to Israel to "root out terrorists" and fight Hamas in Gaza. Between the constant harassment and the criminal suggestion that American troops should be sent to kill and be killed in Israel, I lost it for the 8 minutes it took to rant in exaggerated and thoughtless language about insights from the many news and opinion pieces I’d read about the Israel lobby’s pushing the U.S. to war.

Those who wish to see all critics of Israel silenced (if not dead and buried) have had some fun in the last six months circulating this email in various places that I will not dignify (or in one case embarrass) by mentioning. I won't even go into how sexist these guys are! So I decided it was time for a lengthier point by point commentary on that post. You can read the Lugar story, my email and my detailed response here. Most of these points are supported by the 106 articles at the libertarian “Iraq war and Israel” yahoogroup. Being forced to think about that horrific 2001-2003 period makes me realize that this whole topic deserves it’s own article at a certain popular site I frequent.

Like many other libertarian and progressive secessionists, I think we need secession from special interest controlled big government. But there are many special interests - corporations, labor unions, government bureaucrats, the military-industrial-media complex, campaign managers and staffers for political candidates, employees of organizations that feed on minorities fears of hate groups, and of course, foreign lobbies, be they Israeli/Zionist, Arab oil barons, Cubans in Florida, Taiwanese, Chinese state capitalists, etc.

To end, in June of 2003 after the U.S. just had launched a horrible war it certainly looked to millions of Americans like the pro-Israel lobby led all the other pro-war special interests. Today, the special interests are fighting among themselves, though they may yet unite for another war, against Iran or maybe even China. There is no doubt special interests will always fight for control of the government, the people, their lives and their money. Americans who want to be free, including secessionists, cannot be intimidated by harassment and threats from any special interest group that is pressing its advantage at any particular time or on any particular issue. Nor can we be intimidated by special interest group hacks, flaks, flunkies and supporters, especially those looking for someone to hate and crucify to make their own sad lives of slavery to the special interests seem meaningful. We cannot be intimidated if we are to remain a free people.

And don't forget that once in a while THE PEOPLE are a powerful special interest! Ask Tunisia's Ben Ali and Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak - for starters.

Paul Supporters BOOOOOO Cheney/Rumsfeld

As the Boston Globe put it: "- Why somebody at CPAC thought it was a good idea to schedule Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld immediately after Rand Paul we may never know." (In case you don't know, Paul supporters tend to be extremely anti-interventionist and anti-neocon. What other Senator has called for cutting off all foreign aid - including to Egypt and Israel.) Yoo Ha!

House votes down (part of) Patriot Act!!

Geez, those new Republicans must have been hearing a lot about it from those who voted them in. Politico says: The bill would have extended the FBI’s authority to use wiretaps on surveillance targets and to allow surveillance of “lone wolf” criminals who aren’t working with terrorist groups, provisions set to expire later this month.

Expect a lot of threatening arm twisting and demagogy the next few days to change the vote.

Let's get busy all you Democrats who agree! Call you representative and tell him to abolish the whole damned thing. Stop kissing the Democrats asses because they gave you a crappy health care bill that is going down in flames constitutionally.

Below are a couple of Jewish activist I know who I photographed in 2001 outside the Israeli Embassy expressing their views on WHO the terrorists are whose "assets" should be frozen (or cut off) under the Patriot and other "terrorism" Acts.

Arab American Rap for Egyptian Freedom

#Jan25 Egypt - Omar Offendum, The Narcicyst, Freeway, Ayah, Amir Sulaiman (Prod. by Sami Matar)From: Adventmp | February 07, 2011 | 17,014 views

Inspired by the resilience of Egyptian people during their recent uprising, several notable musicians from North America have teamed up to release a song of solidarity and empowerment. The track is fittingly titled "#Jan25" as a reference to both the date the protests officially began in Egypt, and its prominence as a trending topic on Twitter. Produced by Sami Matar, a Palestinian-American composer from Southern California, and featuring the likes of Freeway, The Narcicyst, Omar Offendum, HBO Def Poet Amir Sulaiman, and Canadian R&B vocalist Ayah - this track serves as a testament to the revolution's effect on the hearts and minds of today's youth, and the spirit of resistance it has come to symbolize for oppressed people worldwide.

George Mubarak Obama - enough said

80 billion divided by 80 million.... counting corruption

Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak has used his position over thirty years to accumulate 80 billion dollars - give or take 30 billion. Divided by Egypt's 80 million people, that's $1,000 for each Egyptian, in a country where the average annual income is $3,330. [Update: CNN says if it's over $55 odd billion, that makes him the richest man on the planet!]

Then there are his sons who are billionaires. There's probably another 20 government officials who've made 10 billion. Another 50 who've made 5 billion. Another 100 who've made $1 billion. Another 1000 who've made 100 million. Another 10,000 who've made $100,000. Add it all up and it's a massive rip off.

But it's not like we've got anything like that in THIS country. Despite what those conspiracy theorists would say about the revolving door between government and all the businesses it contracts with or regulates. NO! Not this country. ha Ha HA

Keep it up, Egyptians! Get busy, Americans!! Secede from Mubarak Obama's America...

A love song to a handsome doggie boy...

Actually, it was a human male who glommed on to me and won my heart who originally inspired it, but he just couldn't stay away from closet visits to the gay bars, so that was the end of that little infatuation... Of course, my roommate's old dog Maxwell (1994-2009), being "in tact," also would try to hump any dog male or female who came into sight. But at least he did it in front me so I knew what kind of naughty boy he was. (Poor old guy, last time he tried it on some twenty pound young male at the vets office, the little punk took Maxwell's 70 lbs down by the ear and he was laying there screaming his head off.) Enough gossip... Enjoy!

Sunspot energy hits most oppressed first

Robert Fisk writes in the Independent of the latest expose of leaked Palestine Authority papers from Al Jazeera, "The Palestine Papers," which are even more damaging than recent ones from Wikileaks:

The Palestine Papers are as damning as the Balfour Declaration. The Palestinian "Authority" – one has to put this word in quotation marks – was prepared, and is prepared to give up the "right of return" of perhaps seven million refugees to what is now Israel for a "state" that may be only 10 per cent (at most) of British mandate Palestine....It is not possible any more, for the people of the Arab world to lie to each other. The lies are finished. The words of their leaders – which are, unfortunately, our own words – have finished. It is we who have led them into this demise. It is we who have told them these lies. And we cannot recreate them any more.

See the Angry Arab and the Kabob blogs for lots more news and commentary from Arabs in America.

There's no doubt that these latest disgusting revelations have dramatized how much Arab leaders have lied about supporting Palestinians - and their own people - while selling out to the United States and Israel. (Who must accept partial blame if the result is not more democracy but a new set of dictators, this time religious.) The years of government corruption (bribery, looting tax monies, stifling free markets to benefit small cliques and ever growing bureaucracies, repression against those who complain) and the resulting poverty and anger of Arabs was just waiting for a good boost from a rising sunspot cycle to make revolutions happen.

Since the height of the cycle is still another year to sixteen months away, get ready to hear about lots of revolutions all over the Middle East in the next few years. (See the Palestinian students sitting in on the Palestine Authority here.) It looks like the revolutions of 1989 all over again. They may also follow in other nations of frustrated peoples, especially China, Iran, Iraq, not to mention lots more secessionist movements, including in the Forcefully United States of America.

Below is the latest sunspot cycle prediction from the U.S. Government (predicting it's own dissolution, eventually?). Yes, my Sunspot Cycles and Activist Strategy article needs more updating!

Keith mocked Rick, but now he's gone too...

I loved watching MSNBC when George W. Bush was president because big sexy Keith Olbermann did such a great job of ridiculing Bush and his horrific and senseless wars. As I flipped around to which ever cable news station had the least annoying (or even most edifying) story on, I would land sometimes on Rick Sanchez. He was a little goofy, not terribly incisive, but likable. Of course, after Obama was elected and Olbermann turned into a roaring statist fawning over Obama's quasi-socialist/facistic policies, I got pretty disgusted and pretty much stopped watching.

So I missed him excoriating Rich Sanchez in video below. And I missed him excoriating warmonger Senator Joe - "get your lying ass out the door" - Lieberman, the rant that some say was the final blow to his MSNBC career. (Link to MSNBC video.) Not to mention I missed his last show two days later. (News video below.)

Of course, Fox News didn't fire Juan Williams for saying he was scared of Arabs in Muslim gear on airplanes, but then he said it to Sean Hannity who promotes bigotry towards Arabs and Muslims. As I'm sure others have noted, I doubt Juan would be happy if anyone said the same thing about being afraid of black males who come towards them on the street. I wonder what would happen if a female news caster said she was scared every time she saw a male walking towards her on a dark street. Would political correctness go too far?! (Get out the mace, gals!)

The Joy of Living

As portrayed by a couple of happy dogs in snow.

Glaspie-Saddam Cable Wiki-Leaked

Well, this is the biggest one for me so far. Proof positive in writing that "confirmed decades of suspicion that Glaspie had, in the meeting, given Saddam Hussein the impression that the United States was giving him the green light for the invasion," as Antiwar.Com puts it. The Actual Cable from Glaspie is here. See also Professor Stephen Walt's analysis. The only mainstream press I found so far was Israel's Haaretz which wishes Obama would give them the green light to bomb the hell out of Iran. Just in case you don't know what all the fuss is about, Dietz writes:

...when Saddam suggests that he might act unilaterally if the talks [i.e., invade Kuwait] didn’t show any progress – indeed Glaspie informs Saddam that “we took no position on these Arab affairs.”

The revelation would be damning to the George H.W. Bush Administration and are doubly shameful when one considers that, just a week after Glaspie’s reassurances the US embarked on a policy of hostility and sanctions that continues to this day, has cost over a million lives and still has 50,000 US troops inside Iraq.

...It is not, then, some mythical enemy that these documents were classified to keep in the dark, but the American public itself, which would never accept these despicable policies were they aware of them. From both Bush Administrations to the Clinton and Obama Administrations, the policy was designed to deceive the American public, and the bipartisan outrage against WikiLeaks is the natural reaction to having been caught out in their lies. The jig is up, and the calls for censorship, prosecution, even execution reflects the level of embarrassment one might be expected to feel at the revelation to the American public that these administrations carried out a decades-long campaign of mass murder against the Iraqi people entirely on the basis of diplomatic ambiguity by one ambassador over 20 years ago.
This cartoon is by Brazilian Carlos Latuff. The cake will have an 8 on it in March, 20011.

"Fighting for my freedom" - music video

A song about women who survive and thrive despite cowardly males who pick on them because they don't have the balls to take on other men - or because they like to pick on everyone. A sad psychopatholgy.

Yes, King would have understood your *Racist* wars

I kept hearing rumors of some War Department claim about Dr. Martin Luther King, and the link to the press release just drifted into my email box. The quoted official says:

“I believe that if Dr. King were alive today, he would recognize that we live in a complicated world, and that our nation's military should not and cannot lay down its arms and leave the American people vulnerable to terrorist attack...”

The claim is the United States is like the "Good Samaritan" who helps others in need - like the people of Iraq and Afghanistan!! The brown people of Iraq and Afghanistan who the United States has been killing at will for almost 10 years, that is. The people the United States government thinks are sitting on "our oil" while they "threaten our ally" Israel.

You know that little nation with hundreds of (unadmitted) nuclear weapons with which it (not very subtly) threatens the world - and inevitably the U.S. It will use them if anything or anyone threatens its stranglehold on too much of that stolen land. Like Iran's nuclear power program which Israel has noisily been sabotaging, threatening an "Iranian Chernobyl." See my Samson Option article. Hmmm, I doubt King would approve of Israel today!

RussiaToday has two Youtube segments on Martin Luther King against war today. (You see, Russia is still scared U.S. warmonger crazies will pre-emptively nuke it!)

"Die, bitch" shooting is Hate Crime against a Woman...

Since Reason magazine complains about the instant politicization of everything, I might as well give them something else to complain about.

"Die, bitch" was written on a form letter from Representative Giffords to the disturbed young man who shot her (or on a peice of paper in the same safe; reports differ). Friends say he was angry at her for not taking seriously a question he asked her at an event a few years back. If she'd been a man and dissed her, would he be so ticked off? Was he so angry this "bitch" dissed him, he nursed it until he tried to kill her?

While people are trying to figure out this mad man's political orientation they should remember that male dominant woman hating is not left or right, but psychopathological behavior.

Having been verbally attacked by so many males who don't like my uppity ways, I would not in the least be surprised if this was a "hate crime" against Gifford as a woman. As a libertarian I'm against legislating mandatory sentences if a crime is deemed a "hate crime," but I'm all for labeling a hate crime a hate crime if it is one.

Good video from Reason below on the typical "let's pass a law and raise taxes" reaction of politicians to the shooting.


Update: Good January 18th article on Feministing.com linking to other articles providing evidence and/or also making the point that hatred of women was part of Loughner's motivation for attacking Representative Giffords.

1-11-11 Let's Make Peace Number One

End the initiation of violence known as state control.

U.S. Will Counter Chinese Arms Buildup - with whose money??

U.S. Will Counter Chinese Arms Buildup-So says the New York Times. But who's paying for it, the Chinese or the Saudis?? Or a 75% income tax on Americans...

The Pentagon is stepping up investments in a range of weapons, jet fighters and technology in response to the Chinese military buildup in the Pacific, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said Saturday on the eve of his visit to Beijing. Despite billions of dollars in proposed Pentagon budget cuts that Mr. Gates announced this past week, he said that the Chinese development of its first radar-evading fighter jet, as well as an antiship ballistic missile that could hit American aircraft carriers, had persuaded him to make improvements in American weaponry a priority...Mr. Gates said he hoped his talks with Chinese leaders would reduce the need for more American weaponry in the Pacific. He also said that if Chinese leaders considered the United States a declining power because of the financial crisis, they were wrong. “I’ve watched this sort of cyclical view of American decline come around two or three times, perhaps most dramatically in the latter half of the 1970s,” Mr. Gates said. “And my general line for those both at home and around the world who think the U.S. is in decline is that history’s dustbins are filled with countries that underestimated the resilience of the United States.”

Update: I read Gates was in China and - Fox News alleged - they chided him in a humiliating fashion on military sales to Taiwan, for which they suspended military ties three years ago. And of course he had to take it because the Empire is flailing. More bombs, less taxes, that's the solution, Republicans. Ugh.

"Going Home" - spiritual folk rock video

Another of my videos at Youtube.com/CarolMooreSongs. Yup, when you die you rise up in the light and go home where the love never ends... til the guys in robes call you to a meeting and say, it's time to go back... And you really don't want to. But you do anyway and a month or so later you pop out of a womb somewhere on the planet and start all over again. Hopefully, a little smarter next time. Which reminds me I have to write my billion seller on all this so I'm sure to read it by the time I'm 15 years old (and probably male) and free me from whatever mind-fuck I end up in my next life!

US to Host Press Freedom Day - Screw Wikileaks...

Yes, it took me a month to report this one, but solstice celebrations are over and it's back to reality. Excerpted from Jason Dietz on Antiwar.com.

Faced with growing efforts to censor the release of embarrassing information by WikiLeaks and armed with at best a tenuous grasp of the concept of irony, US State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley today announced that the federal government has won the right to host “World Press Freedom Day” in May of 2011, and that the event will be held in Washington DC.

In his official statement Crowley said the move would prove the US commitment to “expand press freedom and the free flow of information in this digital age,” but comes at a time when the State Department is not only championing the attempt to silence the release of classified cables showing a variety of crimes by officials.

Indeed, it was just days ago that the State Department openly warned students at a major US university that if they intended to have any sort of future career they had better not read or discuss the WikiLeaks releases, and a spokesman warned that discussing the leaks would be a “bad move” for any US citizen...

1-1-11 - Peace is number one!

Geez, I finally figure out a good idea for a posting and it's a couple minutes after New Years Day ends. Oh, well. What I'll remember this day for is our belated tour of local Solstice decorations. A bunch of lights were still up and the dog got very excited by some of them!

But as to the important point - Let's have peace this year - Hear Me BARACK??????

Hollywood and the War Machine

As linked from LewRockwell.com. Video promo below. (Will post if figure out how to see whole video online.) From the written promo:

War is hell, but for Hollywood it has been a Godsend, providing the perfect dramatic setting against which courageous heroes win the hearts and minds of the movie going public. The Pentagon recognises the power of these celluloid dreams and encourages Hollywood to create heroic myths; to rewrite history to suit its own strategy and as a recruiting tool to provide a steady flow of willing young patriots for its wars.

What does Hollywood get out of this 'deal with the devil'? Access to billions of dollars worth of military kit, from helicopters to aircraft carriers, enabling filmmakers to make bigger and more spectacular battle scenes, which in turn generate more box office revenue. Providing they accept the Pentagon's advice, even toe the party line and show the US military in a positive light.

So is it a case of art imitating life, or a sinister force using art to influence life and death - and the public perception of both? "Empire" (television program) will examine Hollywood, the Pentagon, and war.

Jesus, DADT and "Christian" Exodus from Military

Here on Christmas eve, some thoughts from this former Christian. I fell from the faith in 1964 at age 16 under the influence of Ayn Rand, the Beatles and my own spring breeze-inspired mystical experience of the unity of all reality. My opinion of the true Christianity is that based on the Sermon on the Mount - not on the Revelation of John (which John still unknown) on the Isle of Patmos who wrote (or has been interpreted as having written) that Armageddon must start in the Middle East in order to hasten the End Time, the return of Christ, and the death and/or damnation of all Jews and gentiles who don't convert Christianity. Those who emphasize Revelation are really John-ists. And that is just what most Evangelical Christians are. John, not Jesus, is their Christ.

Evangelical Christians joined the military en masse during the presidency of evangelical George W. Bush, and were promoted to higher and higher positions in the military. A lot of them really were itching to go on a crusade against infidel Islamists - great way to start Armageddon, since Muslims surround Israel.

Has the end of "Don't Ask Don't Tell" in the military saved us from these people? According to Senator John McCain, conservative Christian ministers and others the recent declaration that homosexuals need not hide their sexual preferences any more means that many Christians may leave the military as soon as they can, or refuse to enlist in the first place.

Good riddance! That's one way to shrink our the U.S. Empire's military! And I bet the real Jesus, and all his manly disciples, would say the same thing! The U.S. is the new Rome, after all. But going broke a lot faster than the Roman Empire which last 500 years. The U.S. Empire is on the way down after only 65 years. I give it another five to ten.

Now if only we knew Jesus REAL birthday so Christians could celebrate it then, instead of co-opting the solstice holidays!

Bag Checks on DC Metro - OI! OI!

One can avoid getting groped by TSA agents by not flying, but it's harder to avoid using public transport in DC if you don't have a car, or don't want to drive everywhere. And now the DC metro has instigated random bag searches. Police will randomly select bags or packages to check for hazardous materials using ionization technology as well as K-9 units trained to detect explosive materials. Yeah, right. When I come sauntering in in my kefiyah carrying my Don't Bomb Iran bomb, they will NOT randomly choose me. Am researching how much you can opinionate to them while their equipment is sniffing my bags without getting arrested. So many consciousness raising things to say - so many snotty ones that probably will come out. OI!!!!

"Not all secessionists are bad" (New Republic)

From my blog at Vermont Commons site:

That according to the headline of a New Republic slideshow of good ones, including East Timor, Kosovo, South Sudan, Tibet and the United States (in 1776). This, of course, is a response to the "Secession Ball" marking the 150th anniversary of South Carolina. In publicizing and defending it, once again some southerners prove they don't get it - slavery was bad! They won't admit that in 1860 the south should have freed the slaves, given them just reparations and THEN seceded. And they won't admit today that slavery was a really big issue for most of the states, many of which called themselves the "slave states."

But are the neoliberals at The New Republic really that much better? (Let's not even start on their nefarious reasons for supporting several of those secessionist movements.)

Doubtless a certain percentage of attendees at or supporters of the Secession Ball, like liberals, neoliberals, conservatives and neoconservatives, reject the right of black neighborhoods, communities, cities or counties to secede from the white dominated federal and state governments that screw them at every turn. States that make sure that a large portion of black men are incarcerated or on parole or have criminal records for crimes for which whites are far less frequently prosecuted, not to mention incarcerated.

See this video about a Mom and Grandma in jail for 9 years! for trying to steal a purse when they were drug addicts. Absurd!

That is the black slavery of today that most of the political spectrum - except libertarians and anarchists - support.

So let's make sure we know who the real racists are - people who support federal and state drug laws, don't complain at all that they are overwhelmingly used to enslave African Americans (not to mention kill them freely claiming "he had a gun/it was an accident"). And most would send the military in to engage in free fire if African Americans decided it was time for large majority black communities to secede from the union. (The same for Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgenders who decided they'd had enough phony tolerance and tokenism from the straight world.)

So blah blah blah on you liberal/conservatives, old and new, who proclaim you oppose all those racist secessionists (even Vermont hippies and entrepreneurs) and assure us your motivations for opposing any and all sorts of secession on American soil are ever so pure. (And have nothing to do with your big corporate-state paychecks and expected pensions.) But then, get Sarah Palin in there as president, and suddenly a lot of liberals will be back to talking secession, like they did under Bush after the 2000 and 2004 elections!

Veterans arrested at the White House

December 16th I missed another good one. Luckily these two videos were produced to show everyone what they said and what they did.

50,000 + years of celebrating solstice... yoo ha!

According to the Behavioral Modernity article on the sometimes pretty good wikipedia: One theory holds that behavioral modernity occurred as a sudden event some 50 kya (50,000 years ago), possibly as a result of a major genetic mutation or as a result of a biological reorganization of the brain that led to the emergence of modern human natural languages. Proponents of this theory refer to this event as the Great Leap Forward or the Upper Paleolithic Revolution. Thus my guesstimate of 50,000 years of solstice celebrations. Take that you recentist patriarchal religions! Repetition being so important to making your point, here's a couple of my relevant music videos.

Prisoners strike in Georgia - opposing racism nonviolently

With all the talk of racism in this country, and now with a black president, it remains disgusting how high a percentage of prisoners are black men, a large percentage victims of the war on drugs, nonviolent users or small time dealers. "Crimes" for which they are disproportionately arrested, prosecuted and imprisoned. In Georgia, where almost 30 percent of the population is African American, more than 60 percent of prisoners are; 12 percent of the state's population is in jail, on parole or being prosecuted! (Lots of work for government prosecutors, bureaucrats and unionized prison employees, of course!) Prisioners are now doing a nonviolent strike against unpaid work, poor food and medical attention, lack of education, etc. But the main stream media, which did manage to notice when blacks protested bus and restaurant segregation, just ignore mass segregation of African Americans in the prison system. One more reason for blacks especially to secede from the white male dominated union!

So many leaks, so little time!

As tempting as it may be to focus on a certain wikileaker's condom use/caddishness/rape allegations, it's hardly the most serious issue to wikileak's survival, since other wikileakers will carry on.

So let's not forget the real news is all the evil things the U.S. government has been up to in Iraq, Afghanist and worldwide. Try to focus. What really outraged you the most so far from the Contents of the United States diplomatic cables leak? Just looking at the list erases my memories of shock as things have dripped out; my mind is numb from all the information. Little of it terribly surprising and in the end I say - Yeah, dozens more reasons to get that nonviolent radical decentralist secession movement going. After the solstice holidays...

In fact the main issue still rattling around my mind is: Are denial of service attacks where you overload a server "terrorism" or just nonviolent protest like a sit-in." As opposed to true destructive hacking which obviously is usually a crime, but let's not start on issues of if it's to save lives, etc. Too early in the A.M. for such weighty nonviolence theory debates.

Imagine No Countries...

I missed blogging John Lennon's 70th birthday, but will remember the 30th anniversary, and trauma of, his death here by linking to his most immortal song. Also quoted in intro to this blog above. (Unfortunately I couldn't find the video on any of his official pages.)

New Book: "Why Liberty?" Libertarians Speak, including me

Libertarian Marc Guttman has had published a book of short libertarian autobiographies called Why Liberty: Personal Journeys Toward Peace & Freedom. The Amazon.com review reads: All across the world individuals have learned that only by interacting peacefully can we achieve a more harmonious, prosperous, healthy and tolerant society. To these ends millions have optimistically involved themselves in a global liberty movement. These libertarians, while seeing the promotion of individual rights a worthwhile goal in itself, also believe that a free society is a universally beneficial one. Consider the stories of the diverse contributors who share with you the reasons that they were convinced to embrace freedom and the idea that men and women should govern themselves. Fifty-five authors from fifteen countries collaborate in this venture. Included are philosophers and physicians, economists and judges, military officers and environmentalists, police officers and soccer moms, lawyers and small business owners. You can read about the paths to understanding of people like well-known journalist John Stossel or Susette Kelo who fought all the way to the Supreme Court to try to keep her home from being confiscated and delivered to a private business. From Africa, from behind what was the Iron Curtain, Europe, Asia and Africa, and North, Central and South America there are dozens of tales of why these diverse people came to similar conclusions: freedom is best for all.

My 10 page entry is called "Consciousness, Community and Liberty." You can learn just a few of the details of my fascinating life. And it's not over yet! (Knock wood.)

Bomb Shelters from the Bad Old Days

I have a draft of nuclear bomb/war related articles I've been procrastinating on finishing. And that was before North Korea started bombing South Korean islands and I read a recent article on China's growing military. (Still tiny compared to the U.S.'s - of course ours might collapse without their money!) Anyway, ran across this RussiaToday video about the bad old days when everyone worried about it all the time; as opposed to the bad current days when not enough people worry about some incident escalating into an all out nuclear exchange. At least President Obama is pushing the new Start nuclear treaty.