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Save Me From Drugs, Government!!! Ron Paul 2012 Debate Heroin. Ron Paul supports the legalization of marijuana, prostitution, even heroine.

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Breaking down a "scientific" article.

2011-05-05T08:48:00.002-05:00

When I was in college getting a Master degree in Psychology, it hit me one day that everything I am learning, I already knew; I was only learning fancy words for it.

This article I thought was full of changing those fancy new words for even newer fancier words with nothing new really to be learned, that and some propaganda thrown on top like a cherry on a pie.

My rebuttal will be in bold.

Scientist seeks to banish evil, boost empathy
http://af.reuters.com/article/southAfricaNews/idAFLDE7430U720110505?sp=true

* Psychopathology expert says idea of evil has done no good

* Sees empathy as world's most valuable but ignored resource

By Kate Kelland, Health and Science Correspondent

LONDON, May 5 (Reuters) - Simon Baron-Cohen has been battling with evil all his life.

As a scientist seeking to understand random acts of violence, from street brawls to psychopathic killings to genocide, he has puzzled for decades over what prompts such acts of human cruelty. And he's decided that evil is not good enough.

"I'm not satisfied with the term 'evil'," says the Cambridge University psychology and psychiatry professor, one of the world's top experts in autism and developmental psychopathology.

"We've inherited this word.. and we use it to express our abhorrence when people do awful things, usually acts of cruelty, but I don't think it's anything more than another word for doing something bad. And as a scientist that doesn't seem to me to be much of an explanation. So I've been looking for an alternative -- we need a new theory of human cruelty."

How about a psychopath that does bad things is EVIL? No, I can't sell a book with one page either. Better come up with some fluff...

Baron-Cohen, who is also director of the Autism Research Centre at Cambridge, has just written a book in which he calls for a kind of rebranding of evil to offer a more scientific explanation for why people kill and torture, or have such great difficulty understanding the feelings of others.

His proposal is that evil be understood as a lack of empathy -- a condition he argues can be measured and monitored and is susceptible to education and treatment.

NEW THEORY

Baron-Cohen defines empathy in two parts -- as the drive to identify another person's thoughts and feelings, and the drive to respond appropriately to those thoughts and feelings.

It is also, he says, one of the most valuable resources in our world -- one which is currently woefully underused.

"We all have degrees of empathy... but perhaps we are not using it to its full potential," he explained in an interview with Reuters after delivering a lecture in London.

He says erosion of empathy is an important global issue that affects the health of communities, be they small ones like families, or big ones like nations.

If we all used our ability to empathise more, and recognised its value, he says, conflicts such as the decades of tit-for-tat violence between Palestinians and Israelis could be resolved.

We sure got into this subject rather quickly. I don't even know where to begin but I agree, the Israelis should empathize with the Palestinians more, after all they came in and took their land and basically put them in segregation, but really, in a scientific article? Let's move on.

"If you think about conflict resolution at the moment, usually we are dependent on diplomatic channels, legal frameworks, or military methods. But all those things operate at a very abstract level and they don't seem to get us very far.

"Empathy is about two people -- two people meeting, getting to know each other and tuning in to what the other person is thinking and feeling."

As an example, Baron-Cohen cites the meeting of minds between Nelson Mandela and the then South African president F. W de Klerk, which helped end apartheid in the early 1990s.

"The progress that came out of just that one relationship -- well, arguably, it broke through where all other methods had failed, and at far less cost in terms of human life," he says.

PSYCHOPATHS HAVE "ZERO DEGREES OF EMPATHY"

While this statement is true, it is also true that a pure psychopath has no feelings of embarrassment, or any other strong emotions. It is not that they do not have empathy, it's that they have no hang-ups about anything they do. Obviously they must retain a feeling of enjoyment somehow for some of the abhorrent things some of them do. They must be getting some reward for their sick behavior.

A Jewish upbringing peppered with tales about the horrors of the Nazis' treatment of Jews and other minorities was early motivation for Baron-Cohen to seek to deconstruct human cruelty

He cites times when his father told him how the Nazis turned Jews into lampshades, or into bars of soap, and a tale about the mother of a family friend whose hands had been severed by Nazi scientists who switched them around and sewed them back on again so that her thumbs were on the outside.

If he sites these things, perhaps the author could cite it for us? I googled "sewed hands backwards" and only came up with this article. I'm gonna have to call BS on this entire paragraph until some citation is provided.

"Today, almost half a century after my father's revelations...my mind is still exercised by the same single objective: to understand human cruelty," he writes in his book.

I too am curious about such behavior as well as lack of ethics when writing fantastic statements and not including proof. Is it up to the reader to validate the claims made in this article? One could say that is is not very empathetic towards the reader to make them do such research on a topic that is supposedly so well researched in the first place.

In the book, entitled "Zero Degrees of Empathy" in Britain, and "The Science of Evil" in the United States, where it comes out in July, Baron-Cohen seeks to pick apart and define components of empathy -- including hormones, genes, environment, nurture, and early childhood experiences.

I'm going to guess.. High testosterone, alcoholic dad not present in upbringing and an abusive mother? I bet I'm in the ballpark.

Citing decades of scientific research, he says there are at least 10 regions of the brain which make up what he calls the "empathy circuit". When people hurt others, either systematically or fleetingly, parts of that circuit are malfunctioning.

Baron-Cohen also sets out an "empathy spectrum" ranging from zero to six degrees of empathy, and an "empathy quotient" test, whose score puts people on various points along that spectrum.

Drawing a classic bell curve on a graph, Baron-Cohen says that thankfully, the vast majority of humans are in the middle of the bell curve spectrum, with a few particularly attuned and highly empathetic people at the top end.

I would wager that if one is too "empathetic" they are probably a little neurotic. "Ohh that poor ant I stepped on, poor little bugger, Ohh no! I stepped on another one. I better lock myself inside the house so I dont do that anymore. Ohh there's a fly inside, come little fly, lets go outside with your friends..." I'm being a bit over the top, but I hope you gather my meaning

Psychopaths, narcissists, and people with borderline personality disorder sit at the bottom end of the scale -- these people have "zero degrees of empathy".

He is grouping AXIS I disorders with AXIS II disorders here, I just wanted to point that out. I'm not very surprised either, are you?

But rather than labelling them as evil, Baron-Cohen says they should be seen as sick, or "disabled", and we should seek to understand why they have such an empathy deficiency and help them replace it.

Baron-Cohen shies away from saying that psychopaths can be "cured" of extreme behaviour, but he argues strongly against locking them up and saying there is nothing society can do.

As long as the do no harm to others in any fashion, I agree, BUT what Mr. Cohen knows and fails to mention is that psychopaths are fully aware of the laws they are breaking and they do not care about any repercussion from that. I'm sure there are thousands of psychopaths that have self control and are working very successfully at sales and perhaps writing about behavioral phenomenon.

"I try to keep an open mind. I would never want to say a person is beyond help," he explains. "Empathy is a skill like any other human skill -- and if you get a chance to practise, you can get better at it." (Editing by Mark Trevelyan)

END OF ARTICLE

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April 27 2011 Tuscaloosa Alabama Tornado Damage Aerials

2011-04-29T08:04:00.003-05:00

April 27 2011 Tuscaloosa Alabama Tornado Damage Aerials

Tuscaloosa tornado damage, shot by Bill Castle of ABC 33/40 in Birmingham.

This is part 1 of 4 uploaded so far. More can be seen at the abc3340 youtube page. I have posted links below to more footage, and their page has even more.

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Birmingham AL Aerials

Pratt City Aerials

Tornadoes whipped up by wind, not climate

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Royal Wedding Exposed

2011-04-26T12:01:00.002-05:00

Royal Wedding Exposed

Royal Wedding Exposed

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DHS Launches New Alert System Designed to Terrorize Public

2011-04-21T11:59:00.005-05:00

DHS Launches New Alert System Designed to Terrorize Public

Kurt Nimmo & Alex Jones
Infowars.com
April 21, 2011

In order to keep the phony war on manufactured terrorism in your face 24-7, the government has trashed its old and absurd color-coded system in favor of a new and more obnoxious system.

“The terrorist threat facing our country has evolved significantly over the past ten years,” said Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, regardless of the fact that there has not been a staged terror attack since cave Muslims did or didn’t slam airliners into skyscrapers and presumably the most defended building on earth.

As part of the propaganda effort, Napolitano and the DHS claim attacks have been either disrupted or uncovered in the past few years, including a cartoonish attempt by a supposed al-Qaeda affiliate in Yemen to detonate toner cartridges packed with explosives aboard U.S.-bound cargo planes.

Most of the “uncovered” terror plots were designed by the FBI and involved clueless and often mentally deficient patsies. As for the laughable toner terror plot, it turns out there were no UPS or DHL cargo flights from Yemen within a 48 hour period prior to the supposed terror attack. The government claimed CIA operative Anwar al-Awlaki was behind the bombings. Mr. al-Awlaki was at one time a preferred dinner guest at the Pentagon.

Moreover, a number of the supposed hijackers listed their addresses on drivers licenses and car registrations as the Naval Air Station in Pensacola, Florida, and others received instruction at the Air War College in Montgomery, Alabama, and at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas. Of course, this puzzling information was long ago excised from the official 9/11 fairy tale and the Pentagon admission that Atta and crew were under its wing has been memory holed.

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How Stupid Does The Media Think We Are?

2011-04-06T07:56:00.016-05:00

We've been hearing about an upswing in violence in Afghanistan aimed at Americans lately. The media is blaming this on some redneck pastor in Florida burning the Koran.

Oddly, there are no reports, that I can find, of violence directed at Americans for this reason in any other country except Afghanistan. It would appear that the Media has forgotten that just last week, reports were everywhere about a (hopefully small) contingency of US soldiers taking pictures of civilians they had killed as if it were a prized deer.

One must ask weather the media is trying to white wash this story, or are they simply trying to get the populace to forget it even happened in the first place. I'm sure that images like these (below) of soldiers posing with dead civilians are much more infuriating to the people of Afghanistan than is some redneck in Florida burning a book.

Common sense tells me that the media is covering up the real reason behind the anger. Again, I must mention that the only people that seem to be angry enough about this to kill, are Afghans. It would seem that the entire Muslim world would be mad about this; even the guys at the gas station that sell me gas and know my name, and smile and ask how I'm doing when I come in. They sure don't seem to have ill feelings towards me. What could be the media's motivation for this obvious deception? Perhaps to further radicalize the western views of Islam?

Our media needs to stop omitting the truth when they tell their tales. It almost seems like they are explaining issues to us like a parent would to their five year old; hiding the scary truth so we don't have bad dreams. That has the opposite effect on me, it gives me bad dreams. I think I would sleep better at night if I felt I could truly trust our media. If you trust the media, please comment and tell me how that is possible.

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Breaking down Obama's Libya Speech

2011-03-29T08:09:00.005-05:00

Breaking down Obama's Libya Speech

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North Alabama Monitoring Site Showing Alert levels of Radiation

2011-03-28T08:07:00.007-05:00

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North Alabama Monitoring Site Showing Alert levels of Radiation

I took this screen cap from:
http://radiationnetwork.com/

This image is showing alert levels for the Huntsville Area. It has been bouncing around from 130 to 160 this morning. I looked at some Huntsville news pages and found no mention of what this might mean.

According to radiationnetwork.com, the alert level is 100 Counts per Minute or higher. I will continue to monitor the levels and post my findings. Right now it is at 154 Counts per Minute

UPDATE 9:07 CDT: After peaking near 160 it appeared to stop reporting. Readings were "0" for a while and now the site is reporting levels at or near what seems to be within a normal range. I suppose this will be explained as equipment malfunction.

UPDATE: Apparently this could have been an actual alert. This is from radiationnetwork.com "Update: 3/28/11, 6:05 A.M. Something triggered a Radiation Alert this morning at a Monitoring Station in northern Alabama. We are trying to track down the reason behind it."

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Senator Chris Coons "Old Constitution"?

2011-03-23T15:03:00.002-05:00

I never got around to posting this one here...

A while back I was watching the debate between Christine O'Donnell and Chris Coons. He was asked a question about whatever the hell it was and he asked if they were referring to the "OLD CONSTITUTION" or the Constitution of 1964, or whatever, I'm paraphrasing here a bit, but there is only one constitution and I think this is a new talking point to get the sheep to forget that exact thing. I wouldn't be surprised to hear a lot more about the "old constitution" DO NOT BE FOOLED!!!

Here is the exact quote found on: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2010/10/christine-odonnell-chris-coons-debate.html

"I’m interested if we can explore further your suggestion that the Constitution would be your guide. Because I'm interested in hearing whether it's the Constitution as passed by the founders, the Constitution of 1920, 1930, the Constitution of 1975, the Constitution of today."

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Obama Fiddles While Fukushima Burns

2011-03-16T12:24:00.005-05:00

Obama Fiddles While Fukushima Burns

Obama Plays While Japan begs for Help

Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones
Infowars.com
March 16, 2011

History tells us that Nero fiddled while Rome burned, but Barack Obama is providing the famous emperor with some serious competition when it comes to going AWOL while America and the world face crises the likes of which haven’t been experienced in decades.

Even as the situation at the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant continues to worsen by the hour, and as radiation surges across the Pacific towards the U.S. west coast while Americans panic buy supplies of potassium iodide, President Obama seems remarkably sanguine about the whole affair.

While protests and civil wars rage in Libya and Bahrain, Obama is keeping himself busy by videotaping his NCAA tournament picks, hitting the golf course for the 61st time in his presidency, and partying with lawmakers during a Chicago Bulls vs. Charlotte Bobcats game.

While Japan begs the United States for help to rescue the dire situation at Fukushima, Obama seems more concerned about dressing up nicely to please the media elite at the annual Gridiron Dinner.

Even as the planet faces the threat of a “new Chernobyl on steroids,” Obama has chosen to prioritize a speech about “Women’s History Month,” a White House get-together on “bullying” and a meeting with the Chicago Blackhawks instead of offering any kind of leadership.

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Hillary Clinton Wants WWII style Propaganda

2011-03-03T19:30:00.010-06:00

Hillary Clinton Wants WWII style Propaganda:

It seems our Secretary of state has some very "rebublicrat" views. Obviously she is no different from obamabushclintonbush. But we all should know, by now, that these people are puppets. Some of you brush this off, but do not fear to learn the truth. The truth will awaken you, once you choose to learn it.

There is almost no difference between left or right wing politicians. There are a few that stand out, and are different, but the media tries to make them look like imbeciles. They take small talking points, of which you do not understand because you have not studied history and banking, and make these people look crazy, when in fact they are the only honest politicians. Honest = Crazy!

She does not want regular Americans getting their news from various sources so we may filter it, and distinguish truth from lies. She seems to want pure government propaganda! Watch the video...

Let it be known that if you continue to follow the words of your main stream media team, weather it be fox, nbc, cnn, abc or the other one that nobody follows (cbs, remember them), then when it all comes down, you can pat yourself on the back as being part of the problem to begin with.

I think that God has given us access, like never before in history, to figure out what is really going on. Think about it, in a mouse click we can read news from any country in the world. Most people just go to gossip sites, and I believe that those people, however upstanding in life they are, will have to answer for that. If you are not searching for truth, please comment and tell me why!!!

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Palm Trees in Wisconsin! Fox news caught again

2011-03-03T15:09:00.004-06:00

Again, fox news is caught in what can only be considered a lie. Here, on Bill O'reilly's show, we have palm trees in Wisconsin. Big tall palm trees. Is this global warming? When you watch the video, keep an eye on the skyline of the street. It is lined with beautiful Palm trees that one might find in Daytona Beach Or L.A.

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Alex Jones On The View talking about Charlie Sheen

2011-03-01T10:49:00.001-06:00

Alex Jones On The View talking about Charlie Sheen

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Inside Job - Oscar winner acceptance speech

2011-02-28T08:47:00.004-06:00

Inside Job is a 2010 documentary film about the financial crisis of 2007-2010 directed by Charles H. Ferguson. The film was screened at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2010. The film won the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature in 2011.

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Ray McGovern Bloodied and Arrested at Clinton Speech

2011-02-17T15:29:00.005-06:00

Ray McGovern Bloodied and Arrested at Clinton Speech

Partnership for Civil Justice

As Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gave her speech at George Washington University yesterday condemning governments that arrest protestors and do not allow free expression, 71-year-old Ray McGovern was grabbed from the audience in plain view of her by police and an unidentified official in plain clothes, brutalized and left bleeding in jail. She never paused speaking. When Secretary Clinton began her speech, Mr. McGovern remained standing silently in the audience and turned his back. Mr. McGovern, a veteran Army officer who also worked as a CIA analyst for 27 years, was wearing a Veterans for Peace t-shirt.

Blind-sided by security officers who pounced upon him, Mr. McGovern remarked, as he was hauled out the door, “So this is America?” Mr. McGovern is covered with bruises, lacerations and contusions inflicted in the assault.

Mr. McGovern is being represented by the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund (PCJF). “It is the ultimate definition of lip service that Secretary of State Clinton would be trumpeting the U.S. government’s supposed concerns for free speech rights and this man would be simultaneously brutalized and arrested for engaging in a peaceful act of dissent at her speech,” stated attorney Mara Verheyden-Hilliard of the PCJF.

Mr. McGovern now works for Tell the Word, a publishing arm of the ecumenical Church of the Saviour in the Adams Morgan neighborhood of Washington, D.C.

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Busted:Fox News CPAC Ron Paul Video Deception

2011-02-16T11:30:00.002-06:00

Fox News Caught In Shocking Dirty Tricks Stunt Against Ron Paul

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
February 16, 2011

In a shocking act of mass public deception, Fox News attempted to skew Ron Paul’s 2011 CPAC straw poll win by representing it with footage from the previous year’s CPAC event, at which Mitt Romney supporters had loudly booed the result, another example of the continuing dirty tricks campaign being waged against Paul by the establishment media.

Congressman Paul replicated his 2010 victory over Mitt Romney by defeating the former Governor of Massachusetts for a second consecutive year at the annual CPAC conference.

However, before anchor Bill Hemmer introduced a segment concerning the story, Fox News played a clip of the 2010 announcement of the poll results, during which Mitt Romney supporters had loudly booed Ron Paul’s victory, passing off last year’s footage as representative of this year’s event.

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Obama Agenda To Bankrupt Power Plants Triggers Blackouts

2011-02-03T12:06:00.003-06:00

Obama Agenda To Bankrupt Power Plants Triggers Blackouts

Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
February 3, 2011

The rolling blackouts now being implemented in Texas and across the country as record cold weather grips the United States are a direct consequence of the Obama administration’s agenda to lay siege to the coal industry, launch a takeover of infrastructure under the contrived global warming scam, and help usher in the post-industrial collapse of America.

Planned power outages conducted by utility companies have caused outrage amongst officials at four major hospitals in Texas, at Parkland, Baylor, Methodist and Presbyterian Dallas.

“Because of the sensitive life-saving equipment, hospitals are considered “critical care facilities,” and supposed to be exempt from rolling blackouts, Reports CBS 11.

“That’s exactly what Presbyterian Dallas was led to believe. “We were of the understanding that hospitals and other critical-care providers were not supposed to be affected by planned outages,” said hospital spokesman Stephen O’Brien.”

As well as hospitals, nursing homes, fire stations, police stations, other emergency response facilities have also been hit with outages as demand soars due to freezing temperatures. Many places in Texas now rely on Mexico to supply their power.

“Mexico’s state electricity company on Wednesday started supplying electricity to the US state of Texas, where demand shot up amid unusually cold temperatures and caused power outages,” reports AFP.

Hospitals are supposed to be exempt from the blackouts which hit yesterday, with power company Oncor attributing the outages to a “mistake,” but there were no such mistakes when it came to supplying power to Cowboys Stadium. The government has ensured that the blackouts will not affect Super Bowl venues, a decision that has left residents furious.

Street lights and traffic lights have also been hit by the outages, causing traffic build-ups and other hazards more typically associated with a decrepit underdeveloped country, and not with the supposed leading light of the prosperous first world.

The inability of power companies to meet demand is almost exclusively a consequence of the Obama administration’s publicly stated goal to bankrupt the coal industry and in turn ram through the de-industrialization of America under the guise of the phony global warming mantra.

Even as China and Mexico are allowed to build dozens of new power plants every year, the United States is barely permitted to construct a handful, as the Environmental Protection Agency takes control of refineries and power plants under the completely fraudulent pretext of preventing global warming even as the country experiences some of the coldest weather seen for decades.

Texas has been the epicenter in a battle over the Obama administration’s drive to have the EPA regulate greenhouse gas emissions. Texas is the only state that has refused to implement a permit process.

“Austin said it would not establish such a scheme for greenhouse gas emissions because the US Environmental Protection Agency had no authority to regulate them as of January 2,” reported the Financial Times.

“Twelve other states are mounting a legal challenge to the federal government’s authority but they, unlike Texas, are implementing the new measures while the dispute makes its way through the courts.”

Local environmental officials in Texas were again involved in a fight with the EPA after the, “Texas Commission on Environmental Quality last week approved an air permit for the $3.2 billion Las Brisas Energy Center despite a formal EPA request that the commission delay issuing the permit until EPA’s concerns about the plant’s emissions impacts are fully addressed.”

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Citizen Spy Networks

2011-01-27T11:29:00.004-06:00

Shocker: Citizen Spy Networks to be Given Immunity

Citizen Spy Networks
Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
January 27, 2011

New York Republican Peter King has introduced a bill that would protect the army of citizen spies Homeland Security hopes to recruit under Janet Napolitano’s “See Something, Say Something” snoop campaign from lawsuits brought by innocent people wrongly accused of being terrorists or extremists.

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Abercrombie Admits Failure

2011-01-26T13:29:00.010-06:00

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Abercrombie Birth Certificate

Abercrombie Admits Failure To Discover Obama Birth Certificate

Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
January 26, 2011

Veteran reporter Mike Evans has described in a radio interview how Hawaii Governor and close friend Neil Abercrombie was shocked at his failure to discover Obama’s birth certificate after using his power to search hospital records, an outcome that could seriously impact President Obama’s re-election campaign.

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Censored Jesse Ventura

2011-01-05T13:59:00.004-06:00

Censored Jesse Ventura

Censored Jesse Ventura Show On FEMA Camps Survives On You Tube

We urge you to watch the videos below because they might not be around for much longer. Jesse Ventura’s Conspiracy Theory show about the police state and FEMA camps, which TruTV never aired because of constant government harassment and pressure, has already been memory-holed and is now under threat of being removed from You Tube as well.

The show covers the takeover plan and what they don’t want you to see – how martial law is being implemented in America. Get these videos now and share them before they disappear forever.

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D.C. Compromise Tax Bill: Is it worth it? With Sammy the Dog

2010-12-16T10:29:00.002-06:00

D.C. Compromise Tax Bill: Is it worth it? With Sammy the Dog

D.C. Compromise Bills: is it worth it. You're damned if you do and Damned if you don't. Hot Garbage Episode with Sammy the Dog. I made a grammatical error in my little rant here. See if you can find it! LoL That happens when you're not using a teleprompter. :) I feel stupid, and contagious!

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Martial Law UK

2010-12-15T13:37:00.005-06:00

Martial Law UK

Police mull banning all UK protests

Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson referred to the level of violence in recent student protests against the rise in tuition fees, saying that he does not rule out banning all future student protests across the country, the daily Independent reported.

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Who Exactly are the Wealthiest Americans

2010-12-07T09:12:00.000-06:00

The Bush cuts are supposedly for the "wealthiest Americans" or what the news tells calls "Anyone making more than $250,000 a year. Is someone that makes 250k among the wealthiest Americans? We'll go over the numbers for ya, with graphs!

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Lindsey Graham wants to stay in Afghanistan forever!

2010-12-06T14:54:00.001-06:00

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Ventura Show FEMA

2010-12-03T13:39:00.003-06:00

Ventura Show FEMA
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UPDATE: “Police State” episode of hit Ventura show covering FEMA camps pulled from air:

UPDATE FROM ALEX JONES AND GOV. JESSE VENTURA ON SECRETIVE “POLICE STATE” CANCELLATION

UPDATED FRI, DEC. 3 11:25 AM CST — This is an update on the now-confirmed bizarre cancellation of the “Police State” FEMA camp episode from TruTV’s schedule, which is we now know is due to background pressure.

Alex Jones, a consultant to the show who appears in “Police State”, noticed three weeks ago that the episode was scheduled to air before the then-newest episode on Fridays at 10 PM EST / 9 PM CST. Alex knew that encore episodes were consistently replayed over-and-over prior to brand new Friday premiere episodes, so red flags went up when it did not re-air like all the others. Now that more inconsistencies have been documented, Alex made some phone calls to get to the bottom of the matter.

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Proposed Mortgage Interest Deduction Elimination

2010-12-02T20:38:00.001-06:00

There's talk in the Executive branch about phasing out the handy mortgage interest deduction. What's next?

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Where are all the inventions in this great society?

2010-12-02T11:03:00.001-06:00

I have often wondered why there haven't been any real "inventions" to take hold and come into production to better the world in which we live. We need new inventions, and we need them 20 years ago.

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Google Blacklists PrisonPlanet.com

2010-11-30T11:41:00.005-06:00

Google Blacklists Prison Planet.com

You Tube freezes Alex Jones Channel as web censorship accelerates in frightening early salvo of move towards tiered Internet system that favors large corporations while strangling independent voices

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Tuesday, November 30, 2010

In a damning new lurch towards web censorship, Google’s news aggregator has blacklisted Prison Planet and Infowars despite the fact that both websites are internationally known and now attract more traffic than many mainstream media websites, while Google-owned You Tube has frozen the Alex Jones Channel based on a spurious complaint about showing Wikileaks footage that has been carried on hundreds of other You Tube channels for months.

Read More:
http://www.prisonplanet.com/google-blacklists-prison-planet-com.html

Check out my videos The only reason I posted this article in the first place, is to get more traffic :)

Iraq War veteran Charles Whittington banned from College

2010-11-23T07:52:00.002-06:00

From: http://www.geekdo.com/thread/587478/iraq-war-vet-banned-from-college-campus

A 24-year-old veteran attending the Community College of Baltimore County-Catonsville was encouraged by an English professor to write an essay about his experiences in Iraq. The essay was published in the campus newspaper. He wrote about war being a drug and killing becoming addictive. After the essay was published in the campus newspaper, the student was banned from campus pending a psychological evaluation. A college spokeswoman brought up the massacre at Virginia Tech.

More on this: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-county/bs-md-veteran-suspension-20101121,0,4190864.story

Charles Rangel Guilty of House Ethics Violations

2010-11-19T15:42:00.001-06:00

Charlie Rangel has been found guilty and he will probably keep his job. If this happened to you, you, would not be so lucky? I have to say that the people who voted for him, are low on lots of things, IQ must be one of them. I'll just leave it that that. They wont even see this video.

Calling out "Drinkingwithbob" on his view of TSA and freedom

2010-11-16T21:02:00.001-06:00

After lengthy analysis, I have formed the conclusion that Drinkingwithbob is at best a ill-informed NEOCON, but I fear that his viral presence on youtube is because he is a distracting plant. Bob might get some solidute knowing that I had a couple Truckstopp Honey Ale's from the Back Fourty Brewing Company based out of Alabama. Maybe not. Go to ironhorsehelmets.com for your best deal in motorcycle helmets that we are forced to wear!

Two Trillian Dollars, Lost or Stolen?

2010-11-05T08:55:00.002-05:00

So here's a short video I made about it...

The next few months are gonna be a rough...

2009-01-30T08:23:00.002-06:00

The next few months are gonna be a rough intro to what's coming. Those of you dont don't really like to watch the videos I post; please watch this first video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNS8IY_Td14

Greg and people like him used to be called "crazy" for telling people like you that there would be a new world order.

Here's why we're in this situation, too many people fall for what's explained here:

Got Kids? They WILL BE DRAFTED! Even your girls.

Rahm Emanuel On Civilian Defense

BTW, he is Obama's cheif of staff and did not serve in our countries military, but he DID serve in The Israeli Military.

I would like to thank everyone that remained stuck in the "vote for the lesser of two evils crowd" for ruining our country. I guess they were right when they mocked Generation X as a bunch of complacent individuals.

I believe Joel Olsteen is a fraud.

2008-12-09T10:59:00.008-06:00

I never heard of this fruit loop until I stumbled upon him on Larry King last night. I was planning on turning off the TV to go to sleep after having a little snack but when I heard what he was spewing, I couldn’t believe it.

I am no expert on Christianity, but I know the basic tenants, one being that Jesus was born the son of god and died so that our sins may be forgiven. Not once throughout the entire 45 minute was this mentioned, I don’t recall Jesus being mentioned whatsoever. There was no discussion of the gospel and the closest Mr. Olsteen got to scripture whatsoever was a couple passing mentions of Abraham wandering round with lots of money. So, no real New Testament scripture was discussed. This sort of threw a red flag. Why only discuss Abraham? It seemed if anything that Mr. Olsteen is a rabbi not a Christian preacher.

He has a mega church (six-flags over anything but Jesus type thing) in Texas with a congregation of tens of thousands. He fills an arena every week. These misguided sheep amaze me. Can these particular followers of Christ (as Christians tend to be) really believe that what he is preaching is Christianity?

Of topics discussed last night it seemed Mr. Olsteen was placed on Larry King’s show to convince the American brain dead public to do nothing, about anything. The current economic situation was explained by Olsteen as something one must not even concern them selves with. The whole thing will just work itself out; Christians need not bother concerning themselves with it as it’s not of concern. (Nothing to see here, please move along)

The red flag for me was instantaneously thrown as I could tell he was not going to mention the gospel throughout his interview. And when they directed questions to his wife, well, she’s not even worth discussing so I’ll skip that part.

So unlike Mr. Olsteen, Let me offer some versus:

John 10:11-18 (King James Version)
11 I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.
12 But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep.
13 The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep.
14 I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine.
15 As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.
16 And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.
17 Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.
18 No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.

Matthew 7:15:

Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.

Here's Olsteen dodging the gospel:

Once again!

I wouldn't have a problem with this guy if he'd change his job title to "self help seminar nit-wit". Claiming to be preaching Christianity to a national audience without mentioning the gospel, salvation through Jesus Christ, and just about every core christian belief is just a tad offensive.

Until next time,
G

Keep up with the Joneses or you might be a terrorist.

2008-11-20T10:41:00.003-06:00

It’s been a while since I put anything on here so I thought I’d give my loyal readership something to ponder. By the way, I figure Sarah won’t get “Spiro Agnew’d”, so there goes that idea. (loyal readers will know what I am talking about) Today, I offer an opinion that I have pondered a few times in the past.

Here in the good old USA, we live in a free country. We have more freedoms than any other country in the world. How many times have you heard that during your life? Now I will add to that idea with this: In the United States, all citizens are free to enjoy all the liberties afforded to you by the constitution, as long as you are and act like everybody else. You’re as free as you want to be as long as you are the same!

If you look a bit different than most people, you’re basically still the same, so I’m not talking about that. You’ve seen that young confused American with tattoos and blue hair and 47 earrings of which only 3 are in his/her ears. Is that person different? I would say, probably not. They more than likely still watch popular television programs, drive a similar car, work in similar places and eat similar food as the rest of us. They are the same; it’s just a different wrapper on the outside. Now let’s look at the truly different people. How about the Amish? They’re surely different, but they’ve been around for a while so we typically leave them alone as far as I can tell. They’ve even been glorified in movies.

Mormons are a bit different, but they have had to change their ways considerably since their start. I won’t pretend to know much about them, but I do know that when a few of them go back to what seems to be their roots, they are now a “cult of weirdoes” and their children get taken away from them. Is it for the government to decide how people live their life in the freest country in the world? I may not like what they do, but who’s place is it to tell them how to live?

What about Randy Weaver? He decided to move to Idaho and home school his kids. He might have had a bit of a different perspective on things that the typical American, but again, who’s place is it to tell him how to live? His wife and son got killed by the government because they were different. Did he deserve this fate in the land of the free?

What about Waco, those people were different too. I guess they needed to die for that.

There’s also the “speak ‘merican or git” crowd. I can understand the need for most people to speak the same language, but should it be required in the freest country in the world? I grew up in Miami, knew very little Spanish, but I managed to make it. I don’t give a damn if someone learns English or not. If they don’t, it’s their business. Most immigrants, that are planning to stay around, do learn English.

In my view, anyone should be aloud to be as weird / different as they want, as long as they aren’t interfering with others that are living their life in the manner they choose. It’s my plan to continue to live in the typical American life, but I do this of my own accord due to the influences throughout my life. I don’t feel like being too different so I’ll stay the same. We should be free to be exactly like our neighbor, or extremely different from them. Unfortunately, that doesn’t seem to be the reality when one becomes too different.

Will Sarah Palin get “Spiro Agnew’ed”?

2008-09-23T11:53:00.012-05:00

Will Sarah Palin get “Spiro Agnew’ed”?

If McCain wins, will Palin Get “Spiro Agnew’ed”? It’s possible and I’ll now explain why. First off, the rise of both Palin and Agnew are very similar. Agnew was in politics for only 6 years until he gained the Vice Presidency, starting as a county executive in Maryland. According to wikipedia, Nixon wanted Agnew out for political reasons. He would resign the Vice Presidency because of issues stemming from corruption charges in Maryland. Nixon was planning to insert John Connaly as Vice President under provisions of the 25th amendment but Connaly refused and Ford was appointed. Oddly, John Connaly was a democrat while the Nixon/Agnew ticket was republican.

I find it odd that Agnew was given the Vice Presidency nomination in the first place. Surely these corruption charges would have been known before the nomination. As it turns out, the motivation behind the nod was that Agnew would attract southerners, something Nixon had trouble doing.

Let us fast forward. Palin is now famous for her incredibly fast rise in politics, although not as quick as Agnew. She’s also got some serious corruption charges, but that’s okay, she’s doing a great job attracting Hillary girls, and other brilliant American voters. She looks good with a rifle in her hand and she hunts and fishes. How could that do anything buy propel McCain in the polls?

Now you’re asking why I think she’ll get “Spiro Agnew’ed”. It’s almost like a déjà vu, except I was too young to remember the earlier scenario. As most thinking persons are aware, Palin isn’t really qualified and McCain has one hell of a buddy that would no way in hell help him win the presidency. This is Joe Lieberman the former democrat now independent. If McCain wins the election, I’d expect the corruption charges in Alaska to esculate to such a degree that Palin is forced to resign and McCain can then appoint Lieberman. I hope I’m wrong (about McCain even winning). I endorse Chuck Baldwin.

Here’s the 25th amendment section that states how he can legally do it:

Section 2. Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, the President shall nominate a Vice President who shall take office upon confirmation by a majority vote of both Houses of Congress.

Is this the start of something big?

2008-08-12T13:50:00.008-05:00

Here’s something that’s none of our business but everyone should be educating themselves on. This situation could very well lead to WW-III or as Zbigniew Brzezinski would call WW-IV. (He called the cold war WW-III).

Our media is reporting that Russia just got a wild hair up their ass and attacked Georgia (not our Georgia, dummy) for no reason; on the eve of the Olympics no less! I though that to be fishy so I decided to look into it further. There is a good way to get other sources of news, and that of course is independent media which is widely available through the Internet. Here’s a website that has TV channels from around the world.
http://wwitv.com/portal.htm

Have a look around that page for other views.

Here’s how I understand the situation going on in Russia. Georgia was part of Russia (USSR) as it has been off an on as far back as you can look in history. South Ossetia has been part of both and all together as one country. After the fall of the USSR, Georgia held on to South Ossetia. Recently South Ossetia declared by something like 98% to gain independence. Georgia struck South Ossetia to regain control of their capitol on the 7th of August 2008. Since South Ossetia and Ossetia (north of it, but in Russia) are the same ethnicity, Russia came in to help or for “peacekeeping”. Refugees are flooding into Russia as this conflict goes continues.

Next, is the part our media discusses (Russia attacking for no reason they stated) and weather or not we should intervene in this situation. I don’t think there is any reason to intervene even though there are pipelines owned by B.P. in the area. What is it about B.P. and sensitive politics anyway? Incidentally I came home during lunch today to find the media (CNN) discussing these pipelines.

This is a regional conflict that needs to be handled by the countries involved. Taking sides in this conflict would be unwise as the conflict would only grow. Georgia’s president seems to be counting on cooperation from NATO even though as of today Russia claims they have accomplished their goal (whatever that really was I yet don’t know) and are backing out. Mikheil Saakashvili (Georgia’s president) today stated that Georgia will never surrender, whatever that means.

The best case scenario I could see, would be to watch this one from the sidelines and aid no side whatsoever. After all, wouldn’t it be hypocritical to denounce one country entering another country to engage in hostilities weather or not it was “preemptive”. Also, history shows that western countries interfering with eastern European countries, leads to massive global problems.

The worst case scenario would be something like NATO or the E.U. or USA and Israel siding with Georgia. I don’t see any possibility of a western country siding with Russia. I do, however see countries like Iran, India and China taking sides with Russia because of the strong economic ties these countries share. If this was to happen and it won’t happen unless Georgia is supported, it will lead to WW-III. I guess those awaiting the Rapture will be cheering acceleration of this situation.

If you want another take on this situation, check out my friend Ry*n's blog.

UPDATE: 12 Year Old Amanda Kokoeva Caught in Crossfire, tells her tale on FOX Noise along with her Aunt. Fox cuts to break when the truth gets out:

The thought process of the American voter is scary.

2008-07-24T09:30:00.005-05:00

Must see video of absolute dumbasses...
Take a few minutes to entertain yourself with these vids....

In this first video, we have typical beach goers explaining why they are voting for whoever it is they like.

MUST SEE TO BELIEVE how willfully ignorant these people really are
(are you one of them?)

By popular demand, here is a follow up video.
Ron Paul voters asked the same questions Of course, they knew all of the policies

...and now What is this "CHANGE" we've been hearing about

So, you see, basically, if you voted for anyone other than paul, you're right in line with these friggin morons that are helping to ruin our country with their willful ignorance. Maybe it's time to wake the hell up? Maybe? a little?

Do a little research on the other candidates running for office and consider their platforms. McCain and Obama are candidates that to me, offer little "change" and seem to be more concerned with corporate policies than such pesky ideas of following the constitution and ensuring our liberty. Once you are able to get out of this left/right democrat/republican paradigm, you will see they they are nearly the same with only superficial differences in agendas. I've heard the phrase these two parties are "two wings on the same bird". I agree with this.

I'll most likely be writing in my candidate if there's that option on the Alabama ballot.

Vote the bastards out, all of them!

2008-06-18T10:07:00.003-05:00

Vote the bastards out, all of them!

When I first reached voting age, I found myself voting against any and all incumbents. At the time I didn’t have the ability to express the motivation for doing so, but recent elections have made the issue clear.

We live in a shameful time of popularity and name recognition. It is plainly obvious just being at the checkout of the local mega corporation “corner” pharmacy, CVS, Rite Aid, whatever. You see the same names on all the rag gossip magazines time after time. I never really understood how these magazines make money. I never met anyone that would admit to having purchased one. I digress, but for a reason; name recognition is killing our country.

When elections are near; one of the most popular mind numbing tricks the candidates and media use on the public is their opponents “elect-ability”. That’s propaganda for name recognition/popularity. This issue supersedes real issues such as the candidates’ stances on issues of importance. Right now we have a choice between two people who offer no real difference between each other.

Here’s a video comparing Hillary, McCain and Obama or “McHillBama”. To Ron Paul, it’s only two minutes, so check it out to see what I am talking about.

Back to the subject, We need to vote the bastards out. How long have your state's senators been rotting away our constitution up there in D.C.? I’m guessing you can’t remember when they weren’t there. Here in Alabama, the “Junior” senator has been in place for 11 years. While that pales in comparison to some being senators and congress(wo)men for more than 20 years it’s a bit too long in my opinion.

Rarely, a bill is introduced to congress to establish term limits, the bills never pass.

Why should we vote the bastards out? Many reasons come to mind, and I’m sure you can think of many yourself. These senators and congressmen really seem to lose the grasp with their constituents the longer they stay in D.C. Just look at the case of Blair Gadsby out in Arizona hunger striking to meet with McCain. McCain will not agree to meet with him. This hunger strike is taking place right out front of McCain’s Arizona office, so it’s not really out of his way.

There’s no doubt in my mind that career politicians develop something other than a sense of obligation to the Unites States and the people they represent. Looking at the laws passed in the past hundred years, one would have to agree that corporations seem to have taken control of our representative government. I can’t think of one law that was passed on the federal level that actually benefits the idea of individual Liberty.

If we kept a fresh group of people in Washington, corruption would decline immensely, In fact, the mere attempt of establishing a lobbyist/representative relationship based on corruption would be much more obvious to the public. As the system stands now, the pressure on a newly elected representative by established members to vote in a certain manner must be intimidating. Are ya with me? Maybe I’m rambling, but if everyone were new, every 4 years the cycle would produce a fresh group and honesty would prevail. Sure; there’d be a lot more former members of congress participating in their very lucrative retirement program, but maybe they’d even change that program to be more realistic.

Serving the American people should be done out of a willingness to give your efforts back to the country, not a sense of greed to steal from your countrymen.

My email to Rick of "Rick and Bubba"

2008-05-01T08:18:00.004-05:00

Rick and Bubba are radio morning show hosts that I have on when my alarm clock goes off so I wake up quickly and turn the alarm clock off. On a daily basis they spew religious rhetoric and pro war propaganda to their loyal and learned [not really] audience. Today, Rick was going on about the week or prayer, or day of prayer, whatever it was and was praising the troops for protecting us from the boogey man, I mean the terrorists. I decided to write Rick and ask him some questions. He probably won't read this, but at least it is written. So here it is...

Rick,

You seem to agree with Mr. Bush's foreign policy. As a former member of the Marine Corps (but really someone that reads a lot of foreign policy books but the marine corps part seems to garner more respect) I can tell you that anything we are doing right now is not protecting the United States. It is protecting globalists bankers and making them richer.

Let me offer you a few quick facts as to why we are where we are today.

1953 US and Great Brittan overthrows the democratically elected government of Iran and installs the shaw. He rules as a tyrant until 1979 when the Iranian revolution happened. Yeah they took some hostages, but how many people died in our engineering of the coup? We'll never know.

The reason for this was that BP wanted to get all the oil in Iran for free. Iran wanted to make a little money from it. HOW DARE THEM.

Now you're probably tired of reading this already but I must ask W.W.J.D.? You spew religious rhetoric constantly on the air yet you seem to be providing disinformation to your listeners. W.W.J.D.? Probably not that.

If I may suggest some further reading before you go on about how marvelous the troops are abroad protecting our Über elitist scumbags that run this country.

"Blowback" By Chalmers Johnson
"The Ten Thousand Day War" by Michael Maclear
"Armed Madhouse" by Greg Palast
"War Is A Racket" by Major General Smedley Butler
"Confessions of and Economic Hitman" by John Perkins
"The Secret History of the American" Empire by John Perkins

If reading is not your thing, you can watch "America Freedom to Fascism". It's for free on Google video.

To: You Global Warming Believing Dummies

2008-04-30T11:26:00.006-05:00

1. They say there's too much CO2 and we need to reduce it because it is bad for the earth.

2. The way they want to do this is a global tax.

3. CO2 is carbon dioxide that TREES and PLANTS breathe. What happens if you reduce CO2? The trees and plants can't breathe so they don't. Then they don't give us Oxygen and we die. Wake up! At least in the 1980's they're were screaming about Carbon MONOxide, which does make a little sense.

4. I think the globalists are just trying to see how stupid people really are.

CO2 = bad, my ass.

From wikipedia to the dummies:

Photosynthesis is the conversion of light energy into chemical energy by living organisms. The raw materials are carbon dioxide and water; the energy source is sunlight; and the end-products are oxygen and (energy rich) carbohydrates, for example sucrose, glucose and starch. This process is arguably the most important biochemical pathway,[1] since nearly all life on Earth either directly or indirectly depends on it.

Below is a video (absolutely un-related) of a Mexican parade that passes my house each year. Enjoy it!

For more video fun, stop by my yotube channel! :)
http://www.youtube.com/user/gregalabama?feature=mhum

The Hypothesis of the NASCAR Jacket

2008-04-08T13:29:00.008-05:00

This is an old blog that I posted on myspace a while ago. It has been placed here upon request. A little light hearted blog.

Please visit my Youtube page sometime today!

I've been noticing a lot of black people lately wearing NASCAR jackets and hats. I first noticed a year or two ago at the grocery store. This guy had a Jeff Gordon Dupont jacket on. So I commented something about him being a Gordo fan. He looked at me like I said something about wanting to kick his dog. I guess he wasn't a Gordon fan.

Yesterday we went to Ryan's house of gluttony aka steakhouse buffet. BIG MISTAKE, but I digress…

I noticed this little black baby with a NASCAR jacket on. I said to Beth, I says, "He's got him a little Mark Martin jacket on. I said loud enough that the parents being obviously Mark Martin fans would acknowledge my remark with a thumbs up or something. I got nothing. They didn't react in any order. This lead me to believe that the wearing of NASCAR hundred dollar jackets with product endorsements all over them by African-American is a very ironic fashion phenomenon. I became intrigued.

With Ryan's being, well, Ryan's, I had plenty of test subjects for testing my hypothesis. Quickly I noticed a man in what appeared to be in his mid twenties. He was wearing not only a Tony Stewart/Home Depot/Coca cola/ on and on, endorsement NASCAR official jacket, he was also wearing a #20 Tony Stewart / Home Depot beanie hat, aka skull cap.

If any guy was going to be a fan it was going to be this guy I thought. I see the guy walk over to the buffet, so I grab me an empty plate and head that way. As I'm slopping some nasty instant mashed potato crap onto my plate I asked this guy if he had any knowledge of who won the bud shootout last night.

Let me take a second to stop this story and let everyone reading know that last night TONY STEWART won the bud shootout.

This is a no brainier, If this guy was even a half assed # 20 / Tony Stewart / Home Depot / Coca Cola / NASCAR fan, he's going to give me some sort of "Ohh PASTA TONY ALL DA WAY!!" or some shit. This guy has all the regalia on, he is Tony's numero uno fan right?

He looked at me like I said "I like to fill my shoes with these here mashed potatoes and then squish them between my toes". Then he walked away, therefore qualifying my hypothesis. I do believe we now have a working theory.

There is a book I have read recently by Naomi Klein called "No Logo" which explains the principals behind "branding" and how to make a brand more important than a product. It sort of explains this hypotheses although NASCAR jackets are not the direct topic of the discussion within the book.

Truckers are Pissed

2008-04-01T09:34:00.005-05:00

Truckers are pissed.

Today begins a short strike of independent truckers. All the pretty trucks are usually the independent drivers. They take pride in their machines and work long and hard on the road to be able to drive their own truck. Let me digress for a bit…

In the 1920’s we had an agriculture depression that preceded the depression brought upon to us by the wall street bankers. In the 1920’s the bankers went to the farmers and convinced them to buy tractors with credit and they would be able to multiply their profits. Well, that didn’t happen. All the farmers bought tractors and produced vast quantities which made the price of these products drop, thus making the profit margin increase to the farmer minimal. He couldn’t pay for the tractor and thus his farm ultimately got bought by a larger corporation. Now we have these mega corporations doing most of our farming and the independent farmer is hard to find.

That’s a very quick summary, but you can probably find more information on this should you research it on your own.

Here’s my point for today. The truckers now are really being pinched. They can’t buy fuel at the same rate as the bigger companies out there. The drivers for the large corporations don’t really feel this pinch like the independent trucker does. The independent truckers has to purchase his own fuel and pay what adds up to a head hunters fee sometimes as much as 20% just for someone finding him a load to run across the country.

The deck is stacked against him at this time and I really don’t think the big guys mind. The independent drivers, facing these high fuel costs, are having a hard time competing with the large corporations that compete for their business. I would not be surprised to see a large buy out of most of the independent truckers in the next few years.

Another big issue facing the truckers of the United States is the “Security and Prosperity Partnership" aka North American Union. To check into this go to youtube and search “Lou Dobbs SPP”

Here is a video:

With Mexican truckers running loads across our country, the price an American independent driver will be able to command on a load will drop to such a level that he will simply not be able to maintain the style of life that he has earned. This is just another example of how the corporate controlled government that we have, seek only to increase their profit margin at the expense of every American.

On the Issues of Our Time.

2008-03-27T12:59:00.002-05:00

I’ve never fancied myself as any type of a writer, but here we go anyway.

UPDATE: My friend Shana, liked the blog so much she told me to start this blogging page.

This is a little story of how I got to be "me", and it may also describe how you got to be "you".

When I was a boy, my first real political memory was the election of 1980. This was Reagan, Carter and an Independent named John Anderson. I got a quick run down of the platform of Reagan and Carter from my father, but he didn’t have much info to offer me on John Anderson. After explaining to me that Carter was a democrat and Reagan a republican and Anderson being and independent, I was a bit confused as to why we only have two real choices. I watched the returns that night rooting for Anderson. I remembered that he won one state, but looking now, I cannot find this proof, but he did get 7.6%.

I was nine years old during that election. When I was finally old enough to vote, I found myself voting for third party or independent candidates (Perot and Nader come to mind). I never really knew why, but I felt that the democrat/republican choice was total bullshit, really.

Then came September 11^th 2001; I was in Georgia and watched with horror the destruction of that day. I spent the next several days glued to the television watching every bit of coverage that came about. After a while I had been convinced that Muslims were evil doers and we need to go over there and kick some ass. Soon thereafter we found ourselves in Afghanistan kicking asses, then Iraq. Then "mission accomplished" was announced by the Bush administration and everyone felt very patriotic. Who didn’t have a US flag sticker on their car back then? "Chinese stickers took the place of ribbons on oak trees in your old town square". That is part of the lyrics to a song I would later write.

At this time, I was a typical American, I watched House, American Idol, 24, ESPN, and even "Wrastlin’". But something was still nagging me. I knew the two party system was bullshit, I knew Clinton spent the 90’s bombing the shit out of Iraq. I knew we always seem to be at war with third world countries, I knew oil must be involved in this case. I just didn’t really know. Then I saw a documentary that would change my life. It is by Aaron Russo (R.I.P.) and it is called "America Freedom to Fascism". You can watch it for free on Google Video.

After watching this, I started reading books on topics covering such things as Monetary Policy, Foreign Policy, Economics, War, and Corporations. I found that none of these books seem to contradict each other. To put it in a nutshell this is what I found. Our monetary system is illegally controlled by private bankers (the federal reserve) who are the same group of bankers that control the monies of the entire "free" world. Our corporations, incessantly abuse third world peoples to produce products as cheap as they can to sell to people in the "free" world who have lost their better paying jobs due to corporations shipping jobs overseas in order to save costs. Everyone seems to now work in the service industry in the USA. War is only for profit, and finally 911 was nothing but a lie.

What? Here’s a quick summary of that last statement. In 1956 we overthrew Dr. Mohammed Mossadegh during Operation Ajax and put in the Shaw (dictator). This was for Great Brittan’s oil company now called BP. See, Iran wanted to get paid for their oil and we didn’t want to pay her. That’s the tip of the iceberg as to our involvement in the middle east and you can surely read much more about it, but suffice to say that we have been over there raping the hell out of those lands and the people that live there get nothing from it. Countries like Saudi Arabia, that seem to like us are dictatorships on such a scale that Chris Matthews actually accused one of their crown princes on live television of being the "Taliban with a good PR program". Yes, we pay the rich Saudis handsomely for their letting us rape their peoples land.

Then there’s the whole cold war situation and our wonderful policy makers found a way to "give the Soviets their own Vietnam". This was Afghanistan. So our CIA trained Osama bin Ladin and we invented the Taliban, Mujahideen and Al Quida. All this is documented, you can look it up. After the soviets decited to quit, we left and Afghanistan remained in cival war. The warloards to the north wanted control and so did all the other factions we created there. All of whom were left with bitterness at our leaving them to such a mess.

During this same time we were funding Saddam Hussein in his war with Iran. We trained Saddam and helped him politically to become the man he was. We supplied him with all the weapons that we went to war with Iraq to find. When I say "we" I mean our wonderful policy makers. Did you know that right before we went to war with Iraq, Saddam made the fateful decision to start accepting Euros along with US dollars for payment of oil? Iraq does not accept Euros any longer for oil. Iran does now!!! As of 2005 Iran trades oil in Euros. Is it a bit ironic that all the war talk about Iran seems to have started about this same time?

It’s also a bit ironic that both of these countries didn’t have a privately owned central bank controlling the issuance of their money. A couple other countries in the same boat are Cuba, Venezuela and North Korea. Of course they are all in the "axis of evil". Have any of them ever actually done anything to us? Hugo Chavez had a freight ship sent to New Orleans loaded with goods to help out after Katrina; this ship was turned back by Bush. That didn’t make headline news.

I seem to be jumping around a bit so let me try to summarize quickly. It is my firm belief that our government had plenty of info about 911 and could have stopped it at any time. They let it occur in order to have a reason to go to war. Bush and Cheney refused to be interviewed separately by the 911 commission. That is almost proof enough for me. Come to think of it, how many lies has this current administration told us? A better question might be, "Have they ever told us the truth about anything?"

So now we have a political system that is controlled by massive global corporations and financial institutions and fueled by war. The same mega corporations that make a killing [sic] off war, are the same ones that lobby the government so hard that the line between the two has been erased. These corporations (banks included) also control the media and I’m talking control. I don’t have an exact number handy but you can look this up. Something like 95% off all media is controlled by less than 10 corporations. I’m talking radio, newspaper, TV, you name it. Kontrolled.

With the media obviously as compromised as our government, does anyone actually think they are going to give us anything but news that benefits their agenda? Anytime someone in the media has a minute of humanity and talks the truth, they are ousted. Ashleigh Banfield is one example of this; Dan Rather, another. The media marginalized Ron Paul to such a degree that even though he set all time fundraising records and then broke them, the dumb down American public didn’t vote for him, because the media said he could not win. Everybody I talked to would say to me "I really like his views but he can’t win". Where the FUCK did this attitude come from? Is this a new American Idealism? This sounds like giving up to me. So I must say that everyone who has this defeatist view of our political system, however warranted, needs to take their own reigns and cut loose from the reigns that the corporations hand down to us.

It is time to stop thinking our country is on auto pilot and that all these problems will go away. It is time to get involved and get learned on these issues. The media is not going to tell the truth to you. They are going to tell you their truth. Our forefathers risked their asses for us and we should not let their work be wasted by watching the television, and getting fat. Each and every one of us has, or should have, a duty to get informed about these issues, and become somewhat of a better citizen than Joe Six Pack. Our country is dumb down to such a degree at this current moment in history, that I fear we will accept anything that is handed to us. History shows that this mindset usually seems to lend itself to despotism, and I don’t want that. Won’t you wake up, and help others do the same?

Thanks

Greg+

Ps,

Despotism: 1. the rule of a despot; the exercise of absolute authority.
2. absolute power or control; tyranny.
3. an absolute or autocratic government.
4. a country ruled by a despot.