CAROL MOORE REPORT

Across the Universe

2009-06-26T11:27:00.002-04:00

Something cosmic as we contemplate the deaths of stars... human and cosmic... Three versions of John Lennon's song "Across the Universe."

Video: Another Righteous Israeli vs. Occupation

2009-06-23T13:01:00.001-04:00

My comment on the video, which basically asks Obama to kick Israel's butt til it leaves the occupied territories: Excellent. Righteous Jews in Israel give us hope. Just like righteous Americans like me are fed up with US support for Israel (and the war contractors), including through attacking Iraq, Afghanistan and eventually Iran. Many of us are working to dissolve the U.S. and its empire through secession. Righteous Israelis should create a radical decentralist secessionist movement too.

Making fun of the reptilian brain...

2009-06-22T20:08:00.004-04:00

George Carlin wrote in Complaints and Grievances, 2001: I realized some time ago that I'm not separate from nature just because I have a primate brain - an upper brain - because underneath the primate brain, there's a mammalian brain, and beneath the mammalian brain, there's a reptilian brain; and it's those two lower brains that made the upper brain possible in the first place. Here's the way it works: The primate brain says, "Give peace a chance." The mammalian brain says, "Give peace a chance, but first let's kill this motherfucker." And the reptilian brain says, "Let's just kill the motherfucker, go to the peace rally and get laid."

While it's often amusing to watch authoritarians like Ahmadinejad and Hugo Chavez stand up to U.S. imperialism, it's even more amusing to watch their subjects stand up to and make fun of them - like in video below. For much as they believe they are motivated by spiritual or politically progressive higher brain, in fact they are little reptiles using violence to grab and hold their territory and subjects.

(Yeah, I'm on twitter, just barely.)

Iran protesters and rising sunspots

2009-06-16T13:00:00.008-04:00

Sunspots give off solar flares that increase negative ionization on earth--and increased negative ionization during sunspot maximum periods increases human excitablity and activity. A cycle averages 11.5 years, though it can be shorter or longer. Right now we are coming out of the bottom of the last cycle (which peaked in 2000-2001). More details here.

While people will rebel when things are bad enough, no matter what the sunspots are doing, a revolution starting at the beginning of a cycle will probably be a big one, even if things calm down for a few more months. (And that includes that little secessionist movement that is getting going.)

But angry Iranians don't seem to be in the mood for calming down. The Iran government has clamped down on media so it's hard to tell what is and isn't true. But two stories bolstering those who say the election was stolen are here in Forbes and here. That a disgruntled government official leaked results showing Mousavi won is reported in the New York Times and the British Telegraph. Articles about uncertainties include in the Washington Post and Salon.com. Needless to say Iranian challenger Mousavi and his supporters want a brand new election where they will actually have election observers at every polling place!

The Mullahs are promising to count some votes - but that's not enough. Those who want war against Iran hope they can both prove that Ahmadinejad cheated AND see him remain president - one more excuse for a military attack on Iran. Those who love freedom and democracy want to see the truth come out, whatever it is. But by now the election results have no credibility so a new election with observers (not to mention the right for ANYONE to run instead only those approved by the Mullahs) is really the only answer.

In any case, an Israeli and/or U.S. attack on Iran under the pretext of protecting (the colonialist apartheid state of) Israel, will only lead to massive genocidal murder of Iranians and probably escalate to world nuclear war.

Iran101.blogspot.com is one of many sites with lots of photos and videos. Their logo shows a popular picture. (Not to encourage American anti-capitalist black blockers to get a hard on looking at stuff burning in the streets!)

Righteous Israelis Praise Obama's Speech

2009-06-12T11:59:00.001-04:00

Haters vs. Obama Speech in Cairo- In vino veritas?

2009-06-11T12:03:00.007-04:00

People are preoccupied with hate, after an elderly white supremacist psychopath shot an African-American guard at the Holocaust museum in Washington, D.C. However, the same people denouncing this action excused the racist insults and even a death threat hurled at Barack Obama by Jewish Americans and Israelis in Jerusalem on June 3, the day before his June 4th speech to the Muslim world in Cairo. See this Jerusalem Post article and this Jewish Telegraphic Agency article, linking to another apologia here. Evidently some drunks are allowed to speil hate and be excused as drunks. IMHO these drunks were just as objectionable as the Texas drunks Sacha Baron Cohen as Borat encouraged to sing "Throw the Jew Down the Well" in his 2007 movie.

After the speech, the Mossad's trigger finger must be getting very itchy; but they want to wrap the assassination in a terror attack that can be blamed on someone else, so they have to bide their time. I'm sure these drunken fellows will cheer.

The most interesting quotes from Obama's speech below. Obviously what matters is what Obama does, and except for his refusing to send helicopters to Israel he hasn't done much yet.

FROM BARACK OBAMA CAIRO SPEECH, JUNE 6, 2009
Around the world, the Jewish people were persecuted for centuries, and anti-Semitism in Europe culminated in an unprecedented Holocaust. Tomorrow, I will visit Buchenwald, which was part of a network of camps where Jews were enslaved, tortured, shot and gassed to death by the Third Reich. Six million Jews were killed – more than the entire Jewish population of Israel today. Denying that fact is baseless, ignorant, and hateful. Threatening Israel with destruction – or repeating vile stereotypes about Jews – is deeply wrong, and only serves to evoke in the minds of Israelis this most painful of memories while preventing the peace that the people of this region deserve.

On the other hand, it is also undeniable that the Palestinian people – Muslims and Christians – have suffered in pursuit of a homeland. For more than sixty years they have endured the pain of dislocation. Many wait in refugee camps in the West Bank, Gaza, and neighboring lands for a life of peace and security that they have never been able to lead. They endure the daily humiliations – large and small – that come with occupation. So let there be no doubt: the situation for the Palestinian people is intolerable. America will not turn our backs on the legitimate Palestinian aspiration for dignity, opportunity, and a state of their own.

For decades, there has been a stalemate: two peoples with legitimate aspirations, each with a painful history that makes compromise elusive. It is easy to point fingers – for Palestinians to point to the displacement brought by Israel's founding, and for Israelis to point to the constant hostility and attacks throughout its history from within its borders as well as beyond. But if we see this conflict only from one side or the other, then we will be blind to the truth: the only resolution is for the aspirations of both sides to be met through two states, where Israelis and Palestinians each live in peace and security.

Tiananman, Waco and Freedom Lovers

2009-06-04T15:06:00.007-04:00

Me protesting in June 1989 at the Chinese Embassy in front of the same symbol students put up during the Tiananmen Square protests which ended in mass slaughter by the state. (Four years later the US government would massacre 82 civilians at Waco and similarly cover up the motives for and savagery of their attack.)

And here's a photo of the new Chinese embassy, whose construction I wrote about when they were building it back in 2006 - and running off any Americans who tried to take photos. (It's about ten stories deep beneath street level - great for a nuclear bomb shelter or generators for spy equipment.) Plus another later rant on a similar topic here.
Of course, as a libertarian I'd be comfortable with a 100 million Chinese moving here, preferably to a continent filled with independent communities making their own immigration policies. Just make sure you leave your communists, state capitalists and weapons of mass destruction back there. True freedom lovers are always welcome.

Tea Party Protest Photos

2009-05-30T15:35:00.006-04:00

I found some fun photos from the April Chicago demonstration I thought I'd share. While a majority of these people are truly freedom oriented, too many are just knee-jerk puppets of Rush, Newt and other neocon mind manipulators, and soon enough of the next hypocritical warmongering Republican presidential candidate. In the future, the good ones may waste their time working on reformist measures, loosing fights against special interests, like attempts to amend the constitution ala Randy Barnett's Federalism Amendment.

How many will be open to going straight for dissolution of the empire - preferably through peaceful secession of cities, counties, regions and smaller states? Time will tell. And if I got off my dead butt and did some writing or organizing I could do my part to influence activists to do the latter.

Photos from FoundingBloggers.com. Showing their photos doesn't mean I agree with everything they may put on their blogs, oh future nitpickers.

The Most Important Image Ever Taken

2009-05-28T10:46:00.004-04:00

Of millions of galaxies millions of light years away. Heavy duty. Still would like to see a 1000 of the 3000 stars we can see from earth without a telescope.

Carol's Aura - circa 1993

2009-05-20T11:31:00.006-04:00

Scanning an old photo scrap book I came across this "aura" photo taken in the spring of 1993 aT some new age festival. I believe it was a period when I was not actively involved with any local political groups (though I remember I was in some libertarian political dust up on line). Thus my aura is, as described below, relatively mellow, green and yellow. It's probably like that now, too. I'd like to see how RED it gets when I'm in some political battle. OI!!

Will Obama Follow JINSA's Lead on Iran, media?

2009-05-16T13:33:00.004-04:00

The notorious pro-Israel think tank Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA) which helped bring about the Iraq war and promotes war on Iran has published an article by a retired US army officer named Ralph Peters called Wishful Thinking and Indecisive Wars which calls on the US government to be willing to act as badly as the "enemy" (Islamic extremism) about whom he states: "The greatest advantage our opponents enjoy is an uncompromising strength of will, their readiness to “pay any price and bear any burden” to hurt and humble us."

He first recommends we fight them by instituting a military draft, by ending our namby pamby attitudes about massive daily troop losses and by expunging the "war is not the answer" philosophy and other Gandhian nonsense.

He reminds us we have the power to win any war, that the ruling class must regain its Judeo-Christian religious fervor, that we must worry about China's growing military - never forgetting that religion-driven Islamists are still the worst enemy. Ominously he writes: "The greatest advantage our opponents enjoy is an uncompromising strength of will, their readiness to 'pay any price and bear any burden' to hurt and humble us." (And of course and Israeli attack on Iran would turn into just such a war.)

He then takes on the "Killers without guns," the "hostile third party in the fight": the media. He charges "video cameras and biased reporting guaranteed that Hezbollah would survive the 2006 war with Israel and, as of this writing, they appear to have saved Hamas from destruction in Gaza."

Mr. Peters has a solution for the US military which JINSA probably heartily endorses:

"Although it seems unthinkable now, future wars may require censorship, news blackouts and, ultimately, military attacks on the partisan media. Perceiving themselves as superior beings, journalists have positioned themselves as protected-species combatants. But freedom of the press stops when its abuse kills our soldiers and strengthens our enemies. Such a view arouses disdain today, but a media establishment that has forgotten any sense of sober patriotism may find that it has become tomorrow’s conventional wisdom."

Where JINSA leads, will Barack Obama follow?? His infuriating recent reversals on torture photos and Military Commissions at Guantanamo must make one wonder.
This Latuff cartoon is mild compared to what Peters and JINSA recommend.

Video: We went to see the Beatles - 1964

2009-05-07T14:52:00.004-04:00

The story of my seeing the Beatles twice in 1964, with photos and memorabilia and evocative background riff. (I'm not as brave as all the other videographers who use copyrighted works to back up their video efforts!) Enjoy!

Code Pink Protests Inside AIPAC Conference

2009-05-04T22:09:00.007-04:00

I remember the bad old days when I was called an anti-Semite by some "peace activists" merely for helping organize protests at the annual AIPAC conference. Now a days mainstream groups like Code Pink not only protest outside - but go inside and unfurl banners in the middle of Israeli speeches. Photo and some of their press release which read in part:

During Israeli Pres. Shimon Peres’ speech today at the annual AIPAC (American Israeli Political Action Committee) policy conference at the Washington Convention Center, CODEPINK members raised banners saying “Want Peace? End the Occupation," “What About Gaza?," and “No Money for War Crimes."

As the six activists were forcibly dragged away from the stage, they shouted similar phrases including "Tikun olam (Heal the world) for Gaza, too!", all meant to draw attention to widespread opposition to AIPAC's policies lobbied to Congress that include unconditional support and financing for Israel’s militaristic policies including the recent devastating invasion of Gaza, building of illegal settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, the separation wall, refusal to negotiate with the Palestinians’ democratically elected representatives, and threats to attack Iran.

“The brutal invasion of Gaza was a breaking point for me and many American Jews,” said CODEPINK co-founder Medea Benjamin, who recently led a 60-person delegation to Gaza. “I was appalled by the devastation and the suffering I saw, particularly among the children. As a mother, I feel compelled to speak out against Israel’s bombing of civilians and the ongoing siege that is so devastating to the lives of Gaza’s 1.5 million people—most of whom are under 18.”

While AIPAC claims to represent the U.S. Jewish community, its wholesale support of the Israel government goes against the majority opinions of the Jewish Americans. According to a recent survey by the Jewish lobby group J Street, 76 percent of American Jews support a two-state solution, 69 percent support negotiating with a Fatah-Hamas unity government, and 59 percent felt the Gaza invasion did not improve Israel’s security.
UPDATE:
Code Pink gets national media and photo of their banner here. Video of protest below.

Ron Paul on Secession

2009-05-01T00:33:00.004-04:00

Ron Paul lays it on the line in a very libertarian way:
*Governor Perry was restating a principle long held - right to secession.
*After the civil war no one believes in that right but it's still a legitimate issue because all the states before the civil war believed they had a right to secede, including in New England.
*Liberals say it is treasonous. (Hey, Ron, find the ones who supported it when Bush won in 200 and 2004!)
*It's an American tradition - that’s how we came into being; 13 colonies seceded.
*The U.S. strongly supported republics seceding from Soviet Republic.
*If the right to secession had been admitted the federal government would have been restrained in it's growth over the years.
*Secession is voluntary; a free society means we can resolve the secession issue voluntarily.
*Wilson drove us into WWI so every country could have self-determination; Paul believes it is an American principle and we should discuss it here.
*We’ve been preached that republic is “indivisible” - but they don’t talk about who wrote the pledge - Francis Bellamy, an avowed socialist, in 1892.
*When the feds can’t deliver and the dollar collapses, then the independence of the states will come back and it won’t be unAmerican to decide what has to be done.

Prepare to be Overwhelmed by Secession

2009-04-16T17:28:00.003-04:00

From my blog at Vermont Commons - points made at my web page Secession.Net

Today there are hundreds of news stories about Texas governor Rick Perry twice talking about the possibility that Texans will get so fed up with the federal government they will secede. Imagine how many stories there would be if it was 30 states and 50 big cities ready to secede. As a long time proponent of secession, my mind is already boggling. Even little Vermont might end up with its own smaller secession movements. Yet, right now a TV commentator is predicting violent anarchy and mass murder.

How do we keep the genuine desire for human freedom and self-determination from devolving into violent anarchy and mass murder? Only through clear, simple and workable principles that will quickly be absorbed and embraced by the vast majority of secessionists, even those who lust to take up guns and go to war! (Think Tom Paine's Common Sense!)
To repeat principles enunciated in this blog before:

* Nonviolent Strategies and Institutions: After racism, the greatest fear unionists promote is that secessionists will violently provoke “legitimate” central government violence that may harm innocent citizens. I recommend a thorough study of nonviolent action analyst Gene Sharp's 198 methods of nonviolent action and a very public commitment to practicing them. Creating institutions committed to using conflict resolution and nonviolent enforcement of laws and contracts should be an equally important goal. Read Gandhi on nonviolent police and armies. The urge by some to “prove their manhood” through revolutionary violence must be opposed firmly.

* Bills of Rights: We must ensure all secessionist political alternatives publicize widely their written guarantees for individuals of freedom of association; of movement in and out of political entities; of equal political rights of members to participate in community decision-making and have access to public information; of procedural rights of members and of visitors to trial – to due process, counsel, appeal, and to no cruel and unusual means of interrogation or punishment.

* Consensus-Oriented (or Super-Majority) Direct Democracy: Representative, majority rule decision-making, in small organizations and even more so in large ones and in government, leads inevitably to defacto minority rule by wealthy and/or well-organized elites and special interests who know who to elect, who to pressure, who to pay, to get their way. All the attempted and proposed tweaks couldn't fix the basic majoritarian/representative structural flaw, even if they could be enacted, which they cannot under current systems. Many libertarians dream of a society regulated by contract, but even such a society inevitably will encounter unexpected situations requiring democratic decision-making. And then there are the people who just love making decisions by committees, councils, congresses and parliaments. Learning and practicing direct, consensus-oriented democracy in our organizing will prepare us for creating them in our new political communities.

* Emphasizing voluntary nature of secessionist entities: Obviously, secessionists do not intend to wait for a super-majority of people in their communities or regions or states to decide they want to secede from the union. Most will be ready when they obtain a critical mass of 15 or 20%! Nevertheless, we must reassure the public that communities and new confederations will be created by voluntary alliances, not by driving off unwanted people and confiscating their property. We must assure non-secessionists that those who want to retain citizenship in the nation state, obey its laws and pay its taxes may do so, even if many or most of their neighbors secede.

Anything I forgot??

Bow, Obama, Bow!!

2009-04-10T10:33:00.002-04:00

Considering that more than a million U.S. Iraqis died as a result of the 2003 U.S. invasion, not to mention a million during the 13 years of U.S. promoted UN sanctions, an American leader should be bowing to a lot of Arabs! Happily neither Obama bowed to the Queen of the fallen British Empire. The Russia Today video shows Prince Phillip's obviously racist remark to Obama about the Chinese. What does he say about Obama behind his back??

Feminist Wednesday - One down, six to go...

2009-03-30T11:46:00.005-04:00

Just got added to a feminist blog list so thought I should hurry up and post something feminist - besides a link to my article WOMAN Vs. THE NATION STATE.

Found a Youtube video which doubtless is a twisted Irishman's mock on feminism, but I still like the concept of Feminist Wednesday. Followed by six more days of feminism until - one day at a time - patriarchy as a culture is expelled from human consciousness! Patriarchy will be taught in anthropology classes as a horrifically amusing past custom, like wearing cod pieces or chastity belts.

Bigglest Laugh of the Month - Sleeping Dog

2009-03-25T23:52:00.003-04:00

Even if you don't have a dog that runs in its sleep, you'll laugh. No dogs were purposely hurt in this video. Seven million happy customers served.

Update: And the dog talks too!!

Who am I? Where do I live? How do I save the economy?

2009-03-22T16:54:00.002-04:00

I thought I'd look through my copious photos and see which one suggested a blog entry first. This one did. One day our 15 year old dog decided he lived next door and kept trying to get up their steps and into their house. Thus this caption.

What did it remind me of? Prez Obama! He's only 47 but he doesn't know if he's a democrat or a socialist. If he should should raise taxes or print more money. If he's going to free the slaves or let the Israelis keep screwing the Palestinians. If he's Rahm Emanuels toy boy or vice versa. If Geitner should go or stay. He needs a good brisk read through a variety of free market books (not taking any talk of gold standards too seriously of course).

FREE THE SLAVES OF THE WORLD, BARACK! Stop trying to get into the wrong house where the oppressors live, come back home to liberty!!!

Chas Freeman on CNN - who'll stop war on Iran now?

2009-03-16T22:18:00.003-04:00

Back to reality...the reason a lot of people in the know supported Charles Freeman as chair of the National Intelligence Council, despite allegations of some questionable comments about Chinese dissidents, is he wouldn't allow the kind of nonsensical lies that excused the war on Iraq pass by him to excuse war on Iran. Which of course is why the Israel lobby had to get him out. They want Israel's good dog the US to do that job for them, just like it did Iraq, to stop Saddam from paying off the families of suicide bombers. Lots of bloggers and even major media are saying something similar. Here's Freeman's interview on CNN with the always fascinating Fareed Zakaria...

Meditation on the gloriousness of the female...

2009-03-13T10:24:00.002-04:00

After a few postings about the rotten state of the world, I like to put in some light and/or meditative fare. Here's today's entry, a meditation on the gloriousness of the female...

Protecting Zion Core of US History - BLEAAAAH

2009-02-25T13:59:00.009-05:00

The New Republic's editor Marty Peretz was so enraged by the nomination of appointment of outspoken critic of Israel and US empire building in general Charles W. Freeman, Jr. as chief of the National Intelligence Council Peretz wrote in his column:

But Freeman's real offense (and the president's if he were to appoint him) is that he has questioned the loyalty and patriotism of not only Zionists and other friends of Israel, the great swath of American Jews and their Christian countrymen, who believed that the protection of Zion is at the core of our religious and secular history, from the Pilgrim fathers through Harry Truman and John F. Kennedy. And how has he offended this tradition? By publishing and peddling the unabridged John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt book, The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, with panegyric and hysteria.

Let's see, American was built on liberty, not Zionism; only a few million right-wing Chrisitian nut jobs would destroy the US to protect Israel; Truman was bullied into supporting the creation of Israel and Kennedy may have been assassinated by the Mossad for trying to stop Israel from getting the nuclear bomb.

Let's hope real traitors to the American people like Peretz will STOP driving the American people into the ground with billions of spending on wars that only are good for Israel. On the other hand, a ruined economy is a great way to recruit millions of American (and/or immigrant) soldiers willing to go over and attack and occupy Iran for the safety of Israel.

And they wonder why the secession movement is building - including being joined by many Christian Zionists who - when push comes to shove - are willing to let Israel go scratch if it means their own kids have a future. Just in case Jesus doesn't come back in next two weeks, kill all the noncoverting Jews and establish his kingdom in Israel.

Update: On February 26, 2009 the Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair named Freeman chair of the National Intelligence Council sending this letter praising Freeman to congress. Looks like Obama's starting to show some gumption. More details here.
Update: Three weeks of unrelenting Israel Lobby attacks finally made Freeman decide to throw in the towel - despite the support of his prospective boss, Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair's given in a Senate Hearing under badgering from Israel firster - or spy? -Joe Lieberman. But Freeman used the opportunity to blast the Israel Lobby in the Wall Street Journal. Too bad he didn't quote Marty Peretz' disgusting comments above.
Bottom line: compared to the coming collapse of the economy and the need for cities and states to remove themselves from a defunct federal system, the Israel Lobby is a pimple on the puss pile of American government - assuming Israel doesn't use its Samson Option against Russia of course...

Holder's Trivial Example of Cowardice; Bamboozled

2009-02-22T11:30:00.006-05:00

In early February 2009 the Washington Post featured an article called Holder Seen as a Chance To Right Racial Wrongs: With First Black Attorney General Come Expectations That Justice System Can Change. His first statement on race does not make one optimistic.

I didn't have a problem with Attorney General Eric Holder calling Americans a nation of cowards - I just had a problem with his examples. Sure, adult blacks and whites should talk about race more at lunch and socialize more outside of work. And there is sometimes a reluctance or reticence to do so by members of both groups that one could call cowardice. This is less true of many of the younger generation, though their parents' fear of letting children go to school with or socialize with poorer, less educated blacks (or in fewer cases whites) can foment current and future cowardice in their own kids.

But there is a far more important issues of cowardice - the refusal to discuss the continued persecution of black males in the justice system. A persecution which Holder himself defacto has engaged in as a prosecutor.

DOJ statistics show as of 2001: ever imprisoned included black males (16.6%), Hispanic males (7.7%), white males (2.6%); black females (1.7%), Hispanic females (0.7%), white females (0.3%); sixty-four percent of state prison inmates belonged to racial or ethnic minorities; 6 in 10 persons in local jails in 2002 were racial or ethnic minorities. Not surprisingly federal prison population only was not summarized and a brief search found more avoidance of that statistic. I think we can assume the worst, since half of federal prisoners are there for drug crimes. For lots of details on blacks convicted of drug crimes see drugwarfacts.org.

Sure, Obama - and doubtless Holder - has alluded to this here and there. But this speech was the time to talk about it. If he doesn't soon, he himself will be guilty of the cowardice he bemoans. Holder must know:

* Drug laws were created originally to permit persecution of blacks and Latinos and still are defacto used for that purpose and drugs perceived to be more commonly used by people of color tend to earn greater sentences. See Race and the Drug War.

* A psychological study showed police (and average people) more likely to shoot a black thought to be armed.

* Chronic police shootings and executions of unarmed blacks, including a couple noteworthy ones already in 2009 in California and Georgia. (Will link to comprehensive list when I find one.)

* Driving while black. Barack Obama and Eric Holder both know that once they lose their secret service or other protection, once they are a lone black man driving down a dark road late at night, they are more subject to the whims of any angry or sadistic police officer than the average white person. They know that a cop could shoot them and probably get away with it, if he told a good enough sob story.

* Impediments on street sellers nationwide. All these black men coming out of prison have a hard time getting employment. One of the prime means of self-employment and bootstrapping out of poverty worldwide is opening up your own shop on the street. Washington, DC allows this with the payment of a relativley small sale tax advance; most cities don't allow it. Lots of black men have those businesses in DC (many of them obviously unlicensed). Something for ex-prisoners and their allies to rally around and Obama and Holder should bully pulpit.

But as long as we're just discussing, here's a couple topics:

* Spike Lee's movie Bamboozled. Just saw the very funny and thought provoking movie and Lee makes fun of everyone, layering stereotypes on stereotypes. Or does he?

* And as of the New York Post Shooting-the-Ape-of-Stimulus cartoon... If the cartoon had been an Israeli soldier drinking the blood of dead Palestinian children, would there be any debate at all? Of course not, since both the Ape and the Blood Drinker are well known ethnic stereotypes rendered as slurs. Only a total ignoramus wouldn't know that. Does the Post hire total ignoramuses?

* And while we are at it, let's compare and contrast all this to private, public and "artistic" violence against and hatred of women of all colors.

Discuss amongst yourselves.

To end: Eric and Barack - start discussing the real violence done to black men, violence which you yourselves continue to perpetrate in your current political offices and which you may be subjected to someday, officially or unofficially, in this still cowardly and racist society...

The People Want Peace - But the Leaders Want War

2009-02-15T18:32:00.009-05:00

That's a song I just put up as a short music video for this song contest, rewriting it slightly for the "create peace" theme, which just improved the final lyrics. Yes, I know my casio keyboard sounds corny and its limited range strains my voice. But hey, I'm a dilettante. Feel free to rate it after you listen!

By the way, the origin of the song? In the year 2000 a left wing "witch" who was a leader of the DC anti-globalization movement called me up one day to tell me I was a "peace nazi" for criticizing the black bloc for wanting to smash things and fight with cops. I knew how much she and her buddies had intimidated and bullied other pacifists who opposed this "war on the cops." And the song sprung full blown into my brain. I wrote a whole book on the topic called The Return of Street Fighting Man. One of these days I'll put it in paperback.

Update on Politically correct caveat: Speaking of promoting negative stereotypes - a topic explored in very next blog entry - I was waiting for someone to point out how negative the witch graphic is (even if it does look a lot like the face and soul of the individual female in question). Caught in the act! Let me dance around and see if I can find an excuse..."the witch made me do it"? "Oppressive personalities deserve to be ridiculed as long as the stereotype isn't too vicious. (And when was the last time a woman was burned as a witch?)" "So I'm a little bit of a hypocrite, my position as an oppressed female allows it." "Hell, it's funny!" I'll keep working on it...

Lincoln/Obama: Read State Sovereignty Resolutions

2009-02-12T08:48:00.010-05:00

Thinking about how to "celebrate" Lincoln's birthday - since I'm still squelching my urges to go down to the White House employees' busy lunch time entrance and yell rude-TRUE things like I used to do at Bush employees.... I'll send this message to Lincoln - and to Barack Hussein Obama and his Obamaphiles.

First, on Lincoln - you known that president who took two whole years to free the slaves, and then only the ones in states that had seceded. Anyway that Lincoln is probably back in his second or even third re-incarnation since he died in 1865 - 50% plus chance he's a woman and a person of color and/or Latino. Wonder if s/he's currently calling for freedom for the Palestinian captives, the subject of my Inauguration week video.

Second, not much chance Obama's going to free the Palestinian captives:
* Obama made his chief of staff RahmEmanuel, the son of an Zionist Irgun terrorist who may have raped and murdered Arab women at Dier Yassin, and who himself has joked about being "central castings" idea of a terrorist. (Rahm wants to take the guns of anyone who happens to end up on the "no fly" list - or is put there by political enemies of Israel and oh, this country, whatever it is called?)
* Obama barely complained at all about Israel's murderous assault on Gaza
* Obama refused to admit Israel has hundreds of nuclear weapons when directly confronted by that great Arab truth teller Helen Thomas during his recent night time press conference (which I didn't bother to watch because I'm getting tired of his constant televised yapping; a regular yapping Bill Clinton - both are Leos like my yappy housemate).
* Obama's busy keeping the US in Iraq, Afghanistan and still threatening Iran, for the protection of Israel, of course, no matter how many trillions it costs US. He'll have to institute draft slavery to truly protect Israel, of course. * If Israel's leader interrupted Obama's speech and demanded he come to the phone like Bush did, would he?
* Obama hasn't sent a strong message to Israel to free the Palestinian captives because he wants the AIPAC-enslaved congress to push his socialist program for America - including Rahm Emanuel's great idea to refuse to let anyone on the government's no fly list to own a hand gun (no word on whether people will have the right to see their files on information that put them on that list.)
* But the good news is I keep getting messages on a Jewish libertarian list I lurk on that Obama wants to free the Arab victims of Israel - I mean destroy Israel, as they put it. (You can imagine what they say about me from time to time.)

Third, I think Obama's hatred of that government-created entity the corporation has made him hate free markets, just like Mr. Big Government Lincoln. (For free market purists, yes, I know corporations could be created by contract, with their liability only limited to those who contractually agreed to limit it with them, not by government as currently.)

Obama thinks 2 trillion dollars of government spending will help the economy - instead of leading to massive inflation and deeper depression. He thinks it is "ideological" to be for tax and spending cuts. He was fresh out of high school in 1978-80 when Jimmy Carter's inflation was out of control so probably has forgotten all about it. And that's when the national debt and spending was negligible compared to today! But experience is the great teacher...

By the way, you have heard that the "stimulating inflation/depression" bill includes demands doctors report every treatment they give patients so the government can monitor cost effectiveness and efficiency - plus possibly eventually make it illegal to prescribe expensive treatments for people deemed unworthy of it, even those paying themselves! Very Lincolnesque.

Well, nah nah, Mr. Lincoln and Mr. Obama, here's eight states whose representatives are starting to get uppity enough to pass various resolutions for state sovereignty, not all of which are exactly libertarian, may I add. At some point all those state employees who realize they'll never get their pensions unless their state secedes and keeps all federal proceeds will support secession too. At least til city employees push secessionism movements so they can get THEIR pensions. Ha ha ha. Then it will be the secessionist libertarians' job to make sure none of those blood suckers get their pensions at all. Ho ho ho.
Washington HJM 4009 - 2009-10 Claiming state sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment.
New Hampshire HCR 6 – as Introduced 2009 Session House Concurrent Resolution 6 - affirming States’ rights based on Jeffersonian principles.
Arizona A concurrent RESOLUTION claiming sovereignty under the tenth amendment to the constitution of the united states over certain powers, serving notice to the federal government to cease and desist certain mandates and providing that certain federal legislation be prohibited or repealed.
Montana 2009 Montana Legislature House Bill No. 246 A Bill for an Act Entitled: "An Act Exempting from Federal Regulation under the Commerce Clause of the Constitution of the United States a Firearm, a Firearm Accessory, or Ammunition Manufactured and Retained in Montana; Providing for the Duties of the Attorney General; and Providing an Applicability Date."
Michigan House Concurrent Resolution No. 4. A concurrent resolution to affirm Michigan’s sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States and to urge the federal government to halt its practice of imposing mandates upon the states for purposes not enumerated by the Constitution of the United States.
Missouri HR 212 Declares Missouri's sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment and urges the United States Congress to reject the passage of the federal Freedom of Choice Act which prohibits regulations on abortion
Oklahoma January 7, 2009 State legislator Charles Key Tenth Amendment Resolution
Hawaii Hawaiian Constitutional Convention

Well, the sunspot cycle is slowly rising out of its doldrums. The secession movement is getting ready to explode. And of course it will be the typical macho explosion of men with rocks and guns trying to prove their manhood. Can a few feminist pacifists stop them... time will tell. (Visit this site monthly for updates to the chart at left.)