Major Murder Indictments Come Down For Baltimore Cops

Six officers have been charged in murder related indictments.  I listened to Bill Carol on the radio both before lunch and after lunch.  He was talking about that indictment of those six police officers in Baltimore - - and one charge was a reckless homicide charge.  Actually the term is “depraved heart homicide”.   Marilyn Mosebee has been on the job four months and there the DA is referred to as the State’s attorney.   This lady was reading off the scads of varying charges against the six officers charged.  Norman Goldman also says that Gray suffered a false arrest to begin with.   Apparently spring action pocket knives are not illegal to carry.    Right now the lady was reading off the “no basis for arrest” stipulations.  Marilyn Mosebee is African American and she’s 35 years old,  and her husband is a city councilman.  Some wanted her to recuse herself.  Personally I’m pleased to see a little action.    Apparently the DA didn’t believe Shawn Hannity’s verion of events, assuming he’s concocted one.  It’s rather obvious Freddy Gray was beaten up by the police before he ever got in the van, and then called twice for medical assistance and was denied that.  His neck rammed right into a big bolt or nut thing on the side of the van and Bill Carol wondered why such an object was even in the enclosure.  They call it a Paddy Wagon of course because the Irish used to be called Paddies because they were arrested for drunkenness and the name stuck.

Tomorrow is super sports day.  Apparently it’s the NFL draft picks.  But it’s also the day years in the making where Maryweather fights Mannie Pacheau, or however you spell it.  Their boxing styles are very different. The odds are two to one in Maryweather’s favor.  But those are the shortest odds he’s had in any fight in years- with others more like ten to one.  Six of eight of the Circ De Solee locations are showing the fight on the big screen.  The main vanue costs between fifteen hundred dollars and ten thousand (!) dollars for a ringside seat.  There are twelve rounds- not fifteen- - but still three minutes, of course.  It’s also Game 7 of the Clippers and SA Spurs, assuming KABC even televises that game.  Judy thought I wanted to stay home for a big game, but this one I didn’t even know about it.    I thought perhaps it had already been played.  I need to keep closer track.

Senator Bernie Sanders made his announcement to run for President live on the Thom Hartman show just a little after nine.  He says he will not run a negative campaign but will only cite issues over seventy percent of the voters, on average, already agree with him on.  Hartman is afraid the media will tear him apart and give him poor coverage and ask only biased, barbed questions.  Sanders is someone who can help us feel good about voting for a political candidate.  I voted for the Green party in 2012 just to throw my vote away because of President Obama's extreme stance on abortion in these "wrongful life" legal cases, where a baby was supposed to have died in an attempted abortion but didn't.   And Biblicly if you KNOW something to be a fact, you have to DEAL with it based on that knowledge one way or the other.   I agree with Sanders on doing something about Global Warming right NOW and not wait twenty years till it's too late.  The ice is breaking up in the Atlantic faster than ever.   And Sanders is solidly against the Trans Pacific Trade agreement.  I have also come to agree with Sanders that we need publicly funded campaigns, and probably a much shorter campaign season.  What we have now is pointless and absurd, running the campaign like it's October of 2016.   There is the inequity between the many who are poor verses the few who are rich.  We need to crack down on Wall Street crooks.  And Sanders bucked the media hysteria and voted against the Iraq War in 2002 or 2003 or whenever it was.  They say that Sanders is less knowledgable in foreign policy than he is on domestic.

The UN Secretary General stated Thursday that Saudi bombings of Yemen, which are assisted and coordinated by the US, “are having a devastating impact on humanitarian aid efforts and are in violation of the laws of war.”  While noting that fighters within Yemen are also committing war-crimes – ISIS, for example, has been able to establish a presence in the country thanks to the Saudi campaign – the UN has “been particularly critical of the Saudi air strikes”, for which the “United States is providing aerial refueling and intelligence” from within and outside the Saudi-Wahhabi dictatorship’s territory, as well as rescuing Saudi pilots: “U.S. military assets ha[ve] been used to rescue two Saudi pilots” – McClatchy.  (The US also evacuated its own government staff.)  While 8 countries, including India, China, and Russia, have carried out missions to rescue thousands of their civilian nationals, as well as foreign nationals and some Americans from the Yemen war zone, the Obama regime, recalling Bush’s treatment of hurricane Katrina refugees, refuses to evacuate any of the 3 to 4,000 US civilians trapped in Yemen, despite US-lawsuits calling on Obama to do so.  The UN said that “more than 1,200 people have been killed in the past six weeks of fighting and that 300,000 have fled their homes.”  Antiwar.com reports that US-backed Saudi aggression “has provided an opportunity for AQAP [al Qaeda] and ISIS to gain ground”, as the Houthis, a domestic Yemeni movement opposed to al Qaeda, had previously prevented the Saudi-supported groups from gaining a foothold.

Violence Is As American As Cherry Pie

“Ring of Fire” featured that new Senator Cotton from Arkansas and Mike kept calling him a “little freak” and like all the rest, seems to have no military in his background.  Yet he writes that letter to Iran almost trying to get us into a major war.  But gone are the days when freshmen senators kept their mouths shut and just listened to their elders.  Cotton is the darling of the defense industry “Such as Lockheed and Bowing”.    There is no guessing anymore and hasn’t been for a long time about saying and doing things because there is money in it.   Also, gone are the days when people questioned whether something was moral or not.  It used to be said “The ends justify the means” but not only are the means wrong, the “ends” thereof are also very wrong.   Thom Hartman was talking more about Baltimore.  This is the worst full scale rioting since the death of Martin Luther King in April of 1968.  But while King was still alive in mid March he is reported as saying “Race rioting is the language of the unheard”.   Thom Hartman stated that violence and killing- - from the cop's point of view- - has gotten worse since "Police have been getting trained in Israel", talk about a convolution of issues.  I thought they learned racism from us, but now it seems we are learning our racism and being trigger happy to shoot a suspect on the slightest whim - - from Israel.  I find this new development alltogether disconcerting.  Thom wonders why the peaceful protests were never covered by the media but let some flame throwers in there setting CVS pharmacies ablaze- and the FOX media is out there asking these barbed accusatory questions.  Clearly this rioting was a case of explosion generated by decades of neglect and the loss of jobs.  Hartmann stated that revolutions are not generated when things are at their worst but rather “When there is a vast gulf between expectations of the way things ought to be- - and reality”.   People took offense to the frequent use of the word “Thugs”.  I thought a thug was a strong-arm henchman that beat you up in a back alley as a retribution for some offense.   I’m not sure if “thuggish” is the proper word to refer opportunistic looters as.  Obviously people have moral barriers that once let down, create in their minds opportunities to get things they otherwise couldn’t afford.   With others it’s a bit more cinnister than that.  Torching buildings is “something they’ve always wanted to do somewhere in their subconscious.  Now an opportunity to yield to the darker impulses in their nature is afforded them.  It troubles me that some people will look at the screaming headlines and pictures on their television and go “That’s the way I knew Black people always were anyhow, and this only proves it”.   But in reality ANYTIME is the right time to deal with race and economic issues like this.  But I would only say that “Now is as good a time as any other”.

 I have Norman Goldman on right now.  Baltimore is in flames and last night a CVS drugstore was torched and there is the accusation that law enforcement “gave them space and let them do it”.  The female as well as African American mayor of Baltimore made this strange statement.  We all want answers, Shawn, but I want them to be answers to honest questions.  What Shawn wants is not a probing of problems that need to get solved but rather he's like a propaganda commercial where he's pitching a product and someone asks "How well does this product clean?" and naturally you have some glairing example to illustrate your point.  But you aren't in a search for Truth but rather in search of some propaganda slogan (once you think of it) that can be used in the next campaign against this lady mayor or for that matter any democrat running for any office because the watch word of people like Shawn is "they're all alike" and any issue is any excuse to lapse into any other issues that are in your lexicon of "Rants" that you go into.  So they may rant about race for a while than laps into ranting about Iran for a while longer, and then start ranting about health care without pausing to take a breath.  I got a notice from Social Security which was belated beyond belief.  It’s a response to the forms I filled out late last December.  Now they want me to fill more forms out.  And I’m not sure what all this is getting me.  I’ve never been to the hospital.

This is Wednesday after breakfast on April 29, 2015.   Chris Le Boy was the only one of the crew who was hit by his mother as a child.  He says that mother who slapped her son pulling him out of the riot in Baltimore would be derelect in her duty had she NOT acted.   People are still hung up on the fact that Chris Jenner is a Republican, as if to be a trans sexual you now have to be a democrat.  On the Stephanie show they are saying “The reason why he wants continued use of male pronouns for now is because he wants to have an “unveiling” of his (her) female name and new look.  Perhaps.  Jenner still dates women.  Two of the best arguments for maintaining the institution of marriage as it is, is that not even in the Greek culture with its repent homosexuality, did anyone propose that these same sex relationships get married.  In fact from what I heard it was acceptable to have relations with a gay teenager but when that young person was old enough to get married then you had to back off.  The best argument is the line “You’re not seeking to join the institution of marriage; you’re seeking to fundamentally change the institution of marriage”.   Marriage has always had some kind of a religious or anthropological connotation.   This has been true for thousands of years and people respected that.  A weaker but still accurate argument is that people won’t respect the institution of marriage if gays are in it because the thing will now be seen as a joke that people can just join or leave any time they want.  It’s less that they want to “show their commitment” but rather they just want to rub straight people’s nose in it.  That’s how I see it anyhow.  But if I’m honest I’d add the same thing could happen in a heterosexual sex.  Let’s say that me and Laura are having sex and everybody who sees it condemns it.  So me and Laura decided “We’re going to get even with all of you.  We’re going to get married- - and according to some of those justices, pastor Mark YOU have to marry us”.  That would be rubbing their nose in it.  Because now this same dirty profane act of heterosexual sex is something we can do now with impugnity- - and YOU have to do the thing you dread most, you have to honor our continued “filthy sexual act”.   Of course the truth is that you wouldn’t WANT someone marrying you who didn’t agree with it.  Who needs that kind of pressure when you can bypass all the hassle and have a civil marriage?  What got me on that topic?  Why did the mother want the son to “Take that damn hood off” as if “hoodies” per se mean you’re a rioter or something.  It’s a question of (Black, for instance) culture- and also a question of “what discipline works with your child”.  (Selah)  Remember all the times that Granny would take off Jethro’s hat and begin swatting him with it.

We have said that a genuine witch - casting spells - - are of Crestorian origen.  They are at emnity with Alcyonne.  What spells are is a type of - - "sandboxed" or sequestered Universe within a universe.  Since Alcyonne employs the circle- - they employ the circle too, to envoke kind of a protective circle.  We said in one of our sayings back in 2009 "Circles are posessive things.  Violate them at your own peril.  Therefore certain "things" are done within the circle that - - - would seemingly create - - a combination of a fifth dimensional and karmic type situation.  That is- - it's endeavoring to do a "fifth dimensional transfer" and don't ask for the physics behind that or you'll think I'm a candidate for the looney bin.  In terms of Voodu of course there is enphasis on obtaining an object - - posession of the subject.  I am not really familiar with voodu.  We have a couple of of other cosmic tidbits for you.  Jackie De Shannon is a Leonorian, and so is Jane Fonda, the latest name you can add to this list.  And that "Indiana Wants Me" song- - is of Renuah origen.   Neither of these two groups has a planetary and star location known to me.  Maybe one of these days I'll find it out.  From what I learned today- - All of the members of the Partridge Family TV cast are still Renuah- - and will die Renuah.  I've told you in the past sometime you're one thing before you die and another thing afterward, but in this case you are what you will continue to be.

A Brotherhood of Incompetency

Most people have some fear of losing their jobs if they fail to measure up.  Certainly crop pickers get paid for piece work.  In the old days your salary depended on what you produced.  If you’re a secretary and are slow or make mistakes you are fired.  Athletics is a highly competitive persuit as are dancers (they’d done murder dramas on that) and actors constantly try to outshine each other.  If you’re a musician your band will kick you out if you don’t measure up.  But there are certain “brotherhood” professions where the adage goes “Once you’re in you have job security for life.  You practically have to burn the place down in order to get fired.  You know the professions.  They are law enforcement- - - school teachers - - attorneys - - doctors - - and for the most part congressmen.  These professions close ranks when one of them gets into trouble and protects him.  St Paul would say of them that “The best of them partakes of the sin and incompetency of the worst of them because he basically identifies with him”.  And then there is a thing called White privilege.  This may sound strange but White people don’t go around all day thinking about the fact that they’re White and have White Privilege.  They know if they get pulled over by an officer he’ll be polite and deferential to him, and call you “Sir”.   What struck me today was when someone pointed out that there is never a day when transsexuals don’t think about the fact that they’re transsexuals.  There is an obvious remedy for this condition, but it is BEFORE you go and have the surgery.  So transsexuals are like Blacks.  Not a day goes by that a Black doesn’t think about the fact he’s black.  At least according to some people.  He carries this blackness with him all day long and he can’t wash it off to get rid of it.  They say that if you’re a White you can carry guns and show them off- - to a Presidential campaign stop.  I’ve heard this so much there must be merit to it.  How does the secret service reconciled to that?   That is, if they know that at any moment any one of these gun nuts could haul off and shoot the President and they have to trust and “take it on faith” that they won’t.  If you’re White you can carry and brandish your guns around and the Feds won’t do a thing, almost as if they are afraid you’ll vote them out in the next election or something.  But if you’re Black and protesting the death of one of your own (seemingly a more solid basis of protesting) then even if you are not armed, you have to fear getting beaten up and maces and tazed and whatever.  You and I don’t think about this because to us it’s “perfectly normal”.  But a foreigner or a space alien would see things entirely differently.  This is not a new topic but I thought you people just needed reminding.

I keep hearing from various sources that President Obama will not serve out his full term.  For some reason I believe that.  If he’s the coward I think he is- - if he had a chance to bail out and resign when the pressure (of the economic crash or whatever) got really bad, I think that Obama would take it, and offer some complete bullshit justification for it.  There was a blog last night and a video that says that the Statue of Liberty represents the Whore of Babylon, and is actually the Roman goddess “Libertus”.  This goddess is the equivalent to Isis in Egypt or else Ishtar of Babylon.  The guy that designed the statue of liberty was a Mason and what he really was into designing were pagan statues.  Of course all the usual scriptures were quoted revealing the “detail of scriptural prophecy” that the United States really is named in the Bible.  I would look for something trippy to happen- - in early June, or at least to begin happening.  It’s so strange that we are now running the Presidential campaign of 2016 this month (April 2015) rather than fall a year and a half from now.  I would be inclined to dismiss such videos completely except for one thing.  Back in 2007 we progressives were confident that there would be a major change of rulership in 2008.  We were looking for a democratic White House to go with the democratic congress we already had.  We all believed our darkest days were behind us never to come again.   Even in 2009 we were calling the past decade nearly from 2000 to 2008 as “the lost decade” as something that would never come again.  Little did we know that FATE had other plans for us, darling.   The tea party had its genesis at the end of August of 2008 the day Sarah Palin was picked as Vice President.  Things politically have never been the same since.  So how were the seeds of the worst, most virulent form of conservatism ever- - hatched right on top of Obama’s acceptance speech?   It’s our greatest victory eclipsed by our greatest FEAR.  The irony of that is a little much.  I only say this because it's an indicator the 2016 Presidential elections may be completely irrelevant to any of the desires we progressives may have.

Shawn Hannity was going into one of his rants about these police civil rights violations of suspects and how nobody knows “the truth” but him.  (As soon as he can make it up)  So I switched to Bill Carol on KFI who spent the majority of the hour talking about Kurt Cobain.  Despite the endless number of documentaries about Kurt nobody knows the real Kurt.  So this guy decides to start fresh and go into Kurt’s own words and song lyrics and “his art” and I don’t know if that’s sketches or what?  It’s almost like that movie ‘Boyhood” where his growing up was well documented.   It would seem there are more movies of him as a kid growing up than there are of me.  Of course we tended to “put on an act” and be humorous and act like happy go lucky clowns- - even when the relation off camera was anything but that.  It was kind of a mutual conspiracy.  Some people’s “Art” is changed by death.  Stewart used to have really dark hued art when he was on this side of the veil- - but after death his hues brightened and he got more into geometric mind bending art.  Of course with Kurt I had my own “Domascus road” enlightenment back in 1994.  I knew that Kurt was no longer “dark” and “moody” and that in fact he had his lighter moments and a sense of humor.  Comitting suicide was the best karmic move he ever made because he left all that darkness behind.  His daughter was only twenty months old when he died, and she said she shook hands and “already knew the producer of this project better than she knew her own father” and that the daughter (Francis?) didn’t dealve into her own father’s works all that much.  There was a line on Days of our Lives today I was just thinking about as regards to John Lennon.  And that is Lennon’s slogan has always been “It’s what I am right now that counts”.  I have always honored that.  In fact I think there is an almost mutual conspiracy here- - to portray Lennon as even tempered and calm.  That’s the “face” he shows me.  However in one thing I never put in print was a few weeks ago when he was reunited with Cynthia, his first wife.  I was privy to that interaction and it was pretty stormy, emotionally.  But I decided (perhaps due to my Will Horton experience on DL) not to go down that road, perhaps because at that moment I feared I was losing my own sanity.  I sent an interrogative out as to what Jim Morrison thinks of the use of a song of his in a Charles Manson promotion.  Actually Jim doesn’t mind; in fact he thinks it’s “cool”.   Unfortunately I can’t agree.  People who knew Manson personally were mystified and terrified by him and think was a first rate psycho, if they even survived the experience.  Anyhow this Kurt Cobain movie is out in the big screen theaters right now.  I’d like to scratch together my last two gold dabloons and go and see the thing myself.  Will Horton made a mistake in telling Clyde Weston that not only would he interview him but “I’m going to do it with or without your consent”.  To a guy like Weston this is clearly a threat.  Will is like a Boy Wonder Jimmy Olsen who gets himself into a jam and needs to be bailed out.  Kristin has removed all pretence and revealed herself to Teresa.  Meanwhile Brady and Melanie are tied up together in the same room.  I think they are still expecting Superman to bust in and rescue them.  

If Chas Bono had a penis she’d still be a girl, but she’d make lots more money and conquer the world.   Just to quote a song lyric.  Now Bruce Jenner is doing the trans-sexual thing and of course I think this is the ultimate manifestation of a sever mental issue.  There are people who cut themselves out of some neurosis.  Jenner’s is the ultimate manifestation of that.  So is Jenner going to try and get on the Wheaties box as a woman?  I checked Drive radio again.  Last Friday they referred me to some white page with some code that didn’t work.  They are referring their audio to I Tunes.  They were playing “Crystal” by Fleetwood Mac off their 1975 album, followed by “Crystal Ball” by Styx because they were doing rock A to Z.  This morning they were in the L’s with LA Woman.  On Breakfast with the Beatles, there was a dearth of Paul Mc Cartney songs and a surplus of John Lennon songs.  They played “Night and Day” that old Sinatra song that Ringo does, on the “Sentimental Journey” album from 1970.   Supposedly “The Beatles” were mad at Paul for putting out an album in April of 1970 but Ringo’s album came out at the same time.  I remember.   The last two songs were by Badfinger, supposedly because it was Pete Ham’s birthday, or maybe death day.  They aren’t having the Rude Pundit on this morning.  I wonder what the deal is.  Last night it was America’s Funniest Home Videos and then “Once Upon a Time” I guess, or something.  I was out of the building a lot.  But I was feeling tired and went to bed early.  This morning I got a long short from Rocky and then a butt from Richard Moore.  I don’t think Chris Christie is going to run.  That’s too much of an uphill battle to get all of that blubber over the hump.   This is Monday April 27, 2015.

The Myth that we are "Drowning in Debt"

There are certain myths which I guess, if you did a man on the street interview about you would find the average American amazingly ignorant of.  For instance most people don’t know that the federal deficit on only just over a third of what it was the final year of the Bush administration.  And if you asked them about the value of the American dollar they’d say it’s going down all the time with respect to other currencies.  Nothing, of course, could be further from the truth.  The American dollar has risen steadily in value against other international currencies.  This gives American bonds and other debt instruments- - more of a “real yield” than they’d ever have in this country and creates a strong incentive for other foreign powers to finance us.  The average person may remember one agency lowered our bond rating once from triple A to double A plus or something, and panicked.  It was just weeks after this however that the value of debt instruments in this country rose.  Since more people were buying these debt instruments, the interest rates on them was cut further.  If you are a foreign power, once again, the increasing value of the dollar would increase the “Real” yields on these instruments.   I’ve at times wondered about how they compute these calculations saying the average American citizen owes over a hundred thousand or maybe it’s 65,000 on the national debt.  Is it on the taxes that you actually owe or your “legal share” or is it just the whole National Debt sliced and diced up into equal pieces.  Believe it or not, if this is the case the rich would really “Owe” more on that debt than the working class would.  But we as a people are programmed to panic.  We’ve been told that debt “monetization” would either bankrupt us or send us into out of control Wymar Republic style inflation spiral. (referring to post WW I Germany) Clearly even Glen Beck can see that this did not happen.  The average American citizen should know that when the stock market crashed in 1929 it was not in any way based on “debt”.   Judy is obsessed with “debt” - - other people’s debt, that is - - not her own, assuming she has any.  We need to get over this debt phobia.  After all public debt is really money we owe to ourselves and represents private savings, which ironically is a good thing.  Now private debt- - debt to “the man” be it a landlord or a banker, has no such silver lining and private debt far exceeds public debt in this country.  I bet you didn’t know that, either.

Mitt Romney is the first guy to jump out of the clown car.  We wondered in that “who will bite the bullet” conference in Utah, whether Jeb Bush or Mittens would get out of the race, and it turned out to be Mitt, and I believe it’s for the best, at least for the health of the Republican party.  Of course “God told Mitt he would be President” when he was a teenager, so Mittens is giving God the slip on this one.  Romney says in a phone call the reason why he withdrew is NOT because he didn’t think he could win, because he’s convinced that he could and can.   He says “It’s time for one of the other nominees who is just getting started- to emerge as the Presidential nominee.  Is that Scott Walker?  But it’s kind of a racket with these politicians.  Because nowadays being a candidate isn’t nine months of rail trips and staying at bad hotels and crapy food.  No, no.   How you get luxury suites in the finest hotels and raise a whole boatload of money that you get to keep even if you decide not to run.  Sarah Palin knows all about this political posturing. 

Now the caller is talking about “Eco-cide”, which is a new term just coined by the caller.  It could well be that we should stop ALL petrol drilling.  But at least let’s skip the trans-Canadian pipeline.   From the point of view of the earth, it would be if someone were pummeling you with their fists one after the other and the question is, “Do you want me to slow down or do you want me to stop”?  World Population was considered a major problem in 1968 and not to rain on your parade but if it was a major problem in 1968, what do you think it is now with the world's population nearly double what it was then?  It's just one of those facts people don't like to think about.  But some solutions present themselves.  Giving women of the world more power and away from things like Sheria Law which I imagine forbids taking birth control- - would go a long way towards women themselves choosing to have fewer children.  Switching from planes to trains in high population corridors is also logical.  Not to go Lisa Simpson on you, but if we were to wean outselves off of meats- - we would see an amazing drop in our energy needs since we invest an awful lot of land and energy both feeding not people- - but animals for those people to eat.  Taking up bike riding wouldn't be a bad idea either, and many are doing that.  I do not favor ripping our your grass lawns and putting in a rock garden.  Rocks conduct heat and would drive up your air conditioning bills something fierce.  An increase of ergonomic archetecture would help, too- - -  contouring the building for factors such as heat absorbson and choosing roofing substances and blending in with the land and not a glass "box", like a lot of our high rises are. 

Attempts to normalize relation with Cuba have hit a major snag as of today when the White House press secretary announced that we would NOT close Guantanamo Bay prison as a prerequisite to normalization of relations with Cuba.  I always thought it was primarily the Cubans who were pushing for this normalization rather than the United States.  Therefore the only question is ‘How badly do the Cubans want it?”  They are in economic dire straits, and we are here to offer help, but we don’t want it to be a case of biting the hand that’s feeding you.  We of course have our Naval Base on Guantanamo Bay, and we won’t be closing that down. 

Thom Hartman wants the facts well reviewed when it comes to Afghanistan.  As you will remember after 9 – 11 Afghanistan came to us and offered to deliver up Bin Laden to a third party state to be tried on whatever charges we had plausible evidence for.  And George Bush said, “No- - we’d rather bomb the hell out of the whole area”.   Apparently President Bush had surpressed the spending figures (that exceed the DNP of Afghanistan) on strengthening their military and police and still it’s been a disaster.  The American people can’t even know how much we have spent- - down a rat hole.  Meanwhile our goal in Iraq among other things- - perhaps Thee major goal- - was to destroy – not Saddam Hussein- - both the Bathist party government, because fifty percent of the Iraqi economy was “socialized” meaning the government controlled half of the economy.  There is no need of a fortune teller to tell you that if half the economy is wiped out- - and all of the infrastructure- - the country of Iraq as a whole will become a basket case.  Of course we disbanded the Republican Army, and I mean the one in the country of Iraq - - not in Iowa.  Thom Hartman continues to say that the term “Homeland” has racial implications as though it’s all in favor of a mother land, and a mother race, and that somehow there is an “American race” all the “good people” can identify with.  It’s a term that came out of Zionism, that strangely was picked up by the German people.  I think we need to make a new movie on the whole life of George Bush- - and it should run four or five hours with a break.  Even at that squeezing all the truly damning stuff about George W Bush will be a real challenge.  What’s Michael Moore been doing these days, anyhow?

Ralph Reid, long term Christian evangelist- - warns Republicans that they shouldn’t be so dominated by the wishes of the Koch Brothers as to lose sight of the social and cultural issues such as abortion and keeping marriages heterosexual.  In this he and I are in agreement.  But then again anything from my point of view, that instills fear and trepidation among the Republican ranks, I am all for.  I would run as a social conservative if I were president on matters of conscience alone.  I would be for freedom of expression of religion – ALL religion, and I would work against these assisted suicide laws- - and seek to get the federal courts completely OUT of the gay marriage question and leave that decision entirely in the hands of the states, and ditto for the abortion issue.  The people have expressed their voice rather emphatically in that they are against the widespread polliferation of gay marriages.  But apparently the Koch Brothers don’t really care about these “Larry Elder” type issues- - in other words, what used to be moral issues.

 Right now it’s a trip down memory lane with Democracy Now and the Black Panther Party.  Of course initially and perhaps for much of its carrier, it was an anti police brutality and abuse party.  Members of the Black Panther party would take advantage of California’s open gun carry laws back then to point guns at the police while they were arresting a subject, to insure that there was no misbehavior on the part of the cops.  The leader of the Chicago Black Panthers was shot in his bed while he slept in late 1969, and of course J Edger Hoover wanted to wipe the party out.  This has never been a secret.  I personally remember that issue with the free Mississippi delegation at the democratic convention and how Johnson – and probably Dick Daily - - maneuvered for the all white deligation to get sole power and many SNCC members were disillusioned.  Apparently it was right after this that Stokley Carmichal did the “Black Power” salute for the first time.

Based on astrological considerations, I have deemed it ill advised to say anything about either the Super Bowl or some of the other items I had it in mind to talk about today.  This computer is in precarious shape and it takes it forever to "warm up" and get up to speed.   My family situation is a big unknown these days and I won't speculate here.  Hopefully all of my dental work is behind me.  We had a residents council meeting around here today, and some of the things discussed, I'm puzzled as to just what the problem is. 

US Senate Approves Keystone XL Pipeline

Well now the other shoe has dropped.  The US Senate today made the three fifths hurtle on votes and voted cloture for the Keystone XL Pipeline bill.  The democrats tried to offer a number of amendments and each and every one was voted down by the republicans.  We said ‘Well we’ll build it but since it’s going over US land, shouldn’t the United States be guaranteed a portion of the oil?  The Republicans said NO.   Well, shouldn’t the pipeline be built with US Steel to bolster more jobs in this country, since the Republicans like to talk about jobs?  Again the answer was NO.  Well shouldn’t Canada pay into some special emergency fund in case the pipeline ruptures?  As far as I know the Canadians have saddled ALL of the liability in case of an oil spill on Americans for clean up expences and damages.   From start to finish the Republicans got everything they wanted.   Just keep in mind the oil price is dropping, and East Coast oil, when it comes on line (first) will drive the price of oil down further.   Lisa Marcauski and Mitch Mc Connell were the spokesmen for the Republicans.  Shuck Schumer and two women spoke for the democrats.  It’s true that on technical grounds the Nebraska supreme court by a negative plurality of one vote (the vote was 3 for the pipeline and 4 against) – another strange example of Al Gore math - - the Nebraska supreme court gave thumbs up.  I’ve heard there were now new permit renewal questions in South Dakota.   But as you know - - this administrations resistence to the Pipeline has been at best minimal.  All of the relevant departments gave this Pipeline a thumbs up as having minimal risk to the environment, something absurd on its face.  They are still cleaning up from a Pipeline spill in Kalamazoo, Michigan.   This bill is clearly cronisum at its worse.  It waves every environmental regulation and “fast tracks” all permits.  As Barbra Boxer says, it is favoritism that no United States legislative body has every extended a foreign corporation.  Even if you favor domestic energy development to combat the OPEC cartel, this is not the way to go.  Every year Solar power and electric cars are growing by leaps and bounds.  There is an increasingly unlikely chance that crude oil prices ever again will see the levels seen in 2012 when everybody was so hot to approve this Keystone Pipeline.  As such this pipeline STILL may never be build due to the utter economic infeasibility of the project.  It’s the Koch Brothers and a few Canadian businessmen making a sweet heart deal to get this oil to China, as if the pollution there weren’t bad enough already.  The Republicans are saying ‘How come China doesn’t have to abide by pollution limitations now?”   This would have been a good opportunity to prove the Republicans were interested in being “fair” and putting limitations on ALL countries.   But this Republican congress has never had either fairness or “Common Sense” at the top of their agenda.  And it’s not a foregone conclusion that the President will veto this bill.  President Obama has been far from being “a man of his word” on just about anything.  And if the President vetoes this bill, the Republicans will just haul off and tack the Pipeline on to some other piece of energy legislation, a move I think should be illegal, but it’s just a political reality.

As one looks to the future one sees an era I believe with a multi tiered internet where if you have a lot of money you can get faster service than others who don't have money.  In terms of one man one vote - - nothing will be done on Electoral College reform because is 2000 ever happens again, the Republicans will profit by it again as the democrats are four and zero as far as being on the receiving end of the electoral shaft.  But nothing will be done.  Also by saying that money is "political speech" you have de-humanized human beings and are basically saying that a rich person's oppinion is worth a million times as much as a poor persons.  This is anti democratic and contrary to what Thomas Paine, or Thomas Jefferson or any of our founding fathers envisioned.   One area where I believe we should take action but won't is the nation's rail system.  Rail is a whole lot more energy efficient than are planes and use a whole lot less fuel.  If you over-book a railroad it's a simple matter of adding on more cars.  You don't have trains stacked up circling the city waiting to land.  Trains don't crash is there is upper air storm turbulance.  You can actually see more of America first hand from a train than you'll ever see from an air plane.  Trains are less vulnerable than planes for sure as far as being hijacked because they have to stay on the same track till their destination.  You wouldn't need as much pre boarding hanging around with a railroad.  But still railroads are uniquely villified by the right wing.  Judy says that "trains are the most inefficient mode of transportation possible".   She says busses are better than trains and of course individual cars are the best of all.  Judy and I suspect other right wingers are too, suspicious of "urban corridors" which they fear will happen and middle America will be depopulated.  Of course that's where all of the red state voters are.  In terms of the Tea Party and all- - the Red States are over-represented in the US Senate and also by way of inference, in the electoral college where our next President will be chosen.  I see nothing in our future capable of combating all these reactionary forces arrayed against us.  The right wing is anti democratic, as we've noted.  They are systematically robbing minorities of the Vote every day.  If they could these Billionaires would bypass the democratic process completely.  Someone once called in to a liberal talk show and said "The United States is not Fasciest because we still have democracy, and the leaders can be voted out at any time".  It's just a matter of time I believe, when this no longer will be true.  I think I know these people well enough to know they'll find a way to do it somehow.  Many church pastors say "I can be voted out at any time" and the ones who say this end up becoming the most Despotic ones ad somehow like Vladimir Putin, they put in measures that weaken and weaken the democratic vote, untill they have destroyed it.

You know ‘Matthew Harrison Brady’  said in “Inheret the Wind”,  when Spencer Tracy brought up the Biblical story of the talking ass.  “I believe in a god who can make a human being and who can also make an ass and make both do what he chooses.   This is like the soap opera.  Today was “Day Tripper” day.  I hate day trippers.  These are people who you are sure are going to do one thing and end up doing completely the opposite, usually after you have made some sort of investment in them.   That tipster who told Nicole about Serina being not at all what she seemed - - - sounded completely credible.  If he had gone on talking about “being off his meds” or “getting back to his little blue bird” or all the Marie Curie bit- - - Nicole would have known.  But when he comes to the door to substantiate his charges - - - Nicole has this worst possible nightmare of going to the exact WRONG file on a computer base where this co worker is off in loonie land.  Nicole is left holding the bag, and it may well cost her relation with Daniel.   We got the idea that Chad was going to break up with Jordan- - and they were as good as “a thing of the past” already when Chad and Stephano talked about how there was no future in the relation.  But then despite everything Jordan did to drive him away, Chad protests his undying love and goes on an Obama style “apology tour”.    But some may say to me “Well people are unpredictable and maybe you have trouble dealing with that reality”.   I will consider that point.  But authors can make characters do whatev er they want to, which is fine for a cartoon, but less amusing when the plot is supposed to represent reality.  But take the story of the passion of Christ and how the crowd turned on a dime against Jesus in four days.  It is very unlikely that they would do so but it “Tells a good story” so you have to accept that it happened and not to question anything.   Certain soap opera developments in the plot are clearly determined by things other than sheer logic or “natural progression of events”.  Samantha and EJ Di Mira were on the road to getting back together and then all of a sudden both of the parents as well as Johnny, Alley and Sydney are out of the script- - on the most flimsy of likelihood.   It’s what Annie Wilks calls “Cheating with characters” and we know that certain people - “Just don’t like people who cheat”.  They are “dirty birdies” and dire things begin happening.

Some scientific developments could be used for positive developments, or else horribly negative ones.  They can now read brain waves so well from various parts of certain lobes- - - they can tell what you INTEND to do before you DO it.  Certain things show up in diagrams and certain portions of the brain light up when certain types of activity occur such as - - contemplating motor activity before you move a muscle.  It seems they have already made some use of this in prosthetic devices.  DNA research is good if it means restoring a cell to what God intended.  But humans are not content with that.  Now we may hold a valuable tool in crime fighting mankind has prayed for since the dawn of time.  Hopefully they'll at least give "fair warning" as to what we, the criminal element now face".   So thought crimes could soon become a reality.  It could be argued that "It was so slow back in the old days when we had to wait for arsonists to actually set a fire before we arrested them".   Clearly it could be used in questioning suspects and making certain deals with them, wondering if they would be true to their word.   Would the person, for instance, jump bail?   But a despot could clearly make malignent use of this tool to have protestors thrown in jail before their movement ever got off the ground.  

Koch Brothers Have Candidates down to "The Final Four"

Today is Thomas Payne's birthday and he wrote on the subject of inherent human rights, and how people have to be fair minded and respect the rights of others in order even to have civil dialog.  And if your nature is to be a Tyrant then you can't be reasoned with.  And he spoke highly of atheists who aren't swayed by scriptural arguments from the Bible because the Bible was written by violent men.   Thom Hartman also talked about the Boston tea party and how that was the overthrowing of oligarks, who wanted to throw local tea vendors out of business.   There was a "free market" price of tea, but the British East India company sought to undercut that and drive all the local vendors out of business.  This is what convinced Thomas Jefferson to support the American Revolution because in 1772 Jefferson had written a pamflet on "Being a good British citizen".   Of course Thomas Payne's writings and humanist philosophy sort of fell out of favor once we actually won our independence, and this is sad, because we need more thinkers like Thomas Payne, whose birthday we celebrate today.

Right now I have the John Mc Cain pentagon hearings on the ravages of funding cut back due to the 2011 sequestration deal - - on the defense department.   They've had one military expert after another testifying about how their branch of the military will be irreperably harmed by a continued drying up of funds, and I am inclined to agree with them.  The sequester at this point isn't good for anybody- including the military.  There was a breakthrough in “deflate gate” yesterday when some kind of a ball boy took the whole thing of footballs to be used in the game, into the locker room where he was “alone and uninterrupted” for period of ninety seconds, which isn’t long to deflate eleven balls.  Yesterday was Auschuitz liberation day when the Russian army liberated this major concentration camp.  

The Republican Primary this election is being held in Palm Springs, California.  Norman Goldman states that four Republicans have made it into the “Final Four” that were deemed worthy to be interviewed by the Koch Brothers in Palm Springs over this past weekend.  Marco Rubio was their number one choice, and Scott Walker was the one whom Norman Goldman most thinks will make it as the eventual nominee.  Norman says that Rand Paul is too sly to be trusted and he’s more dangerous than he looks.  Norman isn’t worried about Ted Cruise, though, the only guy who made it ere from Iowa.  “People hear Ted Cruz and they’ll know he’s nuts, so he doesn’t bother me.”   I had already formed the conclusion that Marco Rubio was the odds on favorite.  Stephanie Miller and Chris Le Boy were accused of falsely stating that Scott Walker was a union buster who went after people’s pensions.  That’s just what he did.  He may have garnered votes by pitting some union workers against other union workers – gambling correctly that people are pretty dumb.  There is no doubt in my mind that if Scott Walker had his way he would eliminate all unions and all pension funds.  Like Dr Levy he has no conception of someone keeping their word on a matter.  Sean Hannity’s only criticism of Scott Walker “a man with a lot of potential” is that he’s not furvent (hysterical) enough, and needs to hone his demagogic skills to whip those right wing crowds into a fevered frenzy.   But it is the “Final Four” held two months early.  The Republican selection for standard barrer will be one of these four.

Today is the deadline that ISIS set for executing that captured Jordanian pilot- - at “sunset in Iraq”, which has come and gone.  Of course ISIS wants Jordan to release one of the most dangerous attempted suicide bombers of all time.  This woman is unhappy her bombs didn’t go off and she would have taken sixty people with her to the next life has she been successful.  And the Jordanians are hoping to make it a two per one deal because they’d like that other Japanese journalist guy released by ISIS at the same time.   ISIS shouldn’t be able to get away with keeping the western media on pins and needles all the time, deathly afraid of what they’re going to do next.   Too bad there isn't some way we could just extermanate all of them at once - - like in the old days when you could wipe out a whole city with one Atomic Bomb.   I think our foreign policy planners need to think long and hard about what will work and "get the job done" and what measures are completely futile.   The Tom Bodet clone says “We’ll leave the right wing on for you”.   And “We give you more Bengazi at the same price”.   Of course I’m on the 2^nd floor of the west wing.  That’s common knowledge.

That ringed planet is two hundred times the size of Saturn, which would make a hell of a scene in the night sky with minimal optical aids around here.  Maybe the whole planet is a hoax as part of a frizbee commercial for the super bowl.   “Go Daddy” is pulling an add involving a lost puppie where the lady only wants him found so she can sell him.  Apparently that ad didn’t market test well.  The atmosphere on Mars is exceedingly thin.   It’s probably more than one percent but designing a drone helicopter to fly around and scout out places form the Mars rover to investigate and putter around in- - - this drone would be an engineering feat with a really high speed motor and only runs for two and a half minutes at a shot.  I guess it spends the rest of the time charging up the solar batteries, from reduced power of the Sun on Mars.   Some have a question about how “We don’t see things in the sky transversing space at the speed of light”.  When you look at the heavens through Hubble or anywhere else- - all of the galaxies and such appear content to stay pretty much put.  You don’t see fleets of galaxies streaking across the sky at speeds approaching light.  We are talking about transverse travel- - which would be picked up more easily than something just receding into the background, which occurs in a universally expending universe.  Such an expanding universe- - scientists would say- - would not be limited by the speed of light.   Not to overly complicate my point- - I am talking about objects in the heavens traveling transverse to other objects- - and perhaps suddenly appearing and disappearing altogether, - - as they crossed the event horizon.    (See other material)

At some point in this blog I plan to say more on the subject of Romula cloaking technology.   Let's do it now- shortly before nine o clock in the morning.   People wonder why Romulan cloaking technology would give space craft the ability to accelerate almost effortlessly with none of the G effects on passengers you'd experiance in any other environment.   This is because the SPACE said passengers are accelerating through is not the SAME space where they are residing.  So it's almost as though THEY in their altered molicules- - aren't traveling at all.  As such their "weight" remains at zero regardless of how much or quickly they are accelerated.   Where the Star Trek show blew it was dragging the whole "space-time" thing into it.   This process of "warping" space has nothing to do with Time.   Another question you may have is "Is it the space that is warped or the molicules in matter itself that is being warped?    Basically it's a space "field" but the saying is also true that "It doesn't matter- - because the nature of the Space around an object is determined by the melicular make-up of that object".    Others may ask "Well you still fire rockets to accelerate and navigate and such don't you- - can't these flames be seen?"   You're absolutely right.  Therefore Romulans try and plan it so that they can "chart a course" much as our own NASA people do with sattelites- - with a minimum of rocket firings.   Another question you may have is "How can Romulans walk around in our space and still breathe?  Wouldn't they soon sufficate without their own air supply with them"   The thing is that gasses as such are exempt from Romulan space warping.  For the same reason you just don't sink into the ground because like with a swimming pool you are bowied up by these gases.    Some would then say "Well- - when you DO fire these rockets then- - - you are NOT traveling through warped space".   That is correct.     You are traveling through ordenary space.    We have spoken much of baryons.    The term "Baryon" for Romulans means something slightly different- - than the term on earth does refering to a large extent to nuclear particles of neutrons and protons.  These fundamental particles are said to be made up of "Hadrons" with Romulans.   What Romulans there say are "Hadrons" we refer to as Baryons.    

It's the "Tell the People What They Want To Hear" Game

Many people have complained about Movie scripts, probably from the dawn of time.  "American Sniper" is a scenario dreamed up by "Warped, frustrated old men" and it's been done many times in history.  Many say Shekesphere was under pressure to write the play "King Richard III" a certain way because "It's what the people wanted to hear and see".   And many have suspected Colonel Tom Parker of goosing up the movie "Jail House Rock" with a lot of barbed imuendos against the star of the movie with little "dog whistles in the script" designed to "get to him".   But this "Tell the people what they want to hear" game has gone far enough, because it's really "Tell the people what prejudices you want to convey without the recipient being even aware he is being "force fed" the knowledge.   So today we are turning our gun sights from Israel to America herself, and shining a light on the Truth.

Ross Caputi, a former marine who participated in the US’s second siege of Fallujah, writes that the reason the American Sniper book and film have been so successful is that they “tell us exactly what we want to hear”: that US America is “benevolent” and “righteous”.  That, he says, is why the book and film are so popular; their popularity speaks volumes about US society, and signals more danger ahead for the rest of the world.

The killings for which Chris Kyle is idolized, Caputi notes, were perpetrated during his participation in the second US siege of Fallujah, which Caputi, from firsthand knowledge, calls an “atrocity”.

Specifically of the siege, Caputi notes:

• “All military aged males were forced to stay within the city limits of Fallujah” [while women and children were warned to flee through the desert on foot]

• “…an estimated 50,000 civilians were trapped in [Fallujah] during this month long siege without water” [since the US had cut off water and electricity to the city]

• “…almost no effort was taken to make a distinction between civilian men and combatants. In fact, in many instances civilians and combatants were deliberately conflated.”

• “The US did not treat military action [against Fallujah] as a last resort. The peace negotiations with the leadership in Fallujah were canceled by the US.”

• “[The US] killed between 4,000 to 6,000 civilians, displaced 200,000, and may have created an epidemic of birth defects and cancers“

• “[The siege was] conducted with indiscriminate tactics and weapons, like the use of reconnaissance-by-fire, white phosphorous, and the bombing of residential neighborhoods. The main hospital was also treated as a military target.”

In modest conformity with international law originally flowing from the Nuremberg tribunal, he says that neither he or Kyle should receive any “praise or recognition” for their actions against Iraq.

Further, he notes that Clint Eastwood, director of the American Sniper movie, made many changes to Kyle’s accounts of what happened.  For one, Kyle, in his autobiography, recounts shooting a woman who was taking the legal action of throwing a grenade at invading forces.  Eastwood changes this so that the woman gives the grenade to her child to throw at the invaders.  “Did Clint Eastwood think that this is a more representative portrayal of the Iraqi resistance?” Caputi asks. “It’s not.”  (Caputi gives Eastwood the benefit of our lack of knowledge of his thought process; he could have asked if Eastwood did this to try to dehumanize Iraqi mothers or Iraqis in general, or whip up US American xenophobic hatred of foreigners, a not-so-difficult feat which Eastwood accomplished with flying colors.  See The Guardian’s “American Sniper: Anti-Muslim Threats Skyrocket in Wake of Film’s Release“; many who see the film “emerge from theatres desperate to communicate a kind of murderous desire.”)

The US invasion of Iraq, Caputi concludes, was “the imposition of a political and economic project against the will of the majority of Iraqis. … We had no right to invade a sovereign nation, occupy it against the will of the majority of its citizens, and patrol their streets.”

Caputi “holds an MA in Linguistics and … is working on an MA in English Studies at Fitchburg State University.”

Also see Professor of International Affairs Sophia A. McClennan’s piece, where she says the American Sniper movie is “a terrifying glimpse” of a “mind-set that couples delusion with violence”.

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