Commentary On The Passing Parade

1) from thinkprogress.org: 'Congressman Calls For New Birther Investigation, Questions 'The President's Validity' - Scott Keyes - June 17

Stan Stanfield · Top Commenter · Stanford University  ]June 17]

I can't believe that a lot of the people posting here really believe what they are saying. Fact: It is not a question of whether Obama was born in Hawaii or not, or is simply a U.S. 'citizen' or not. If he is not a "natural born" citizen, he is ineligible for the office - and that particular federal office only. The Framers of the Constitution didn't want anybody who would have dual loyalties or allegiances being the Commander in Chief of the new nation's military forces. That means NO DUAL CITIZENSHIP, as with a parent (and traditionally, in particular a father) who is not a U.S. citizen. Obama was ineligible from the git-go. Who are you trying to kid with your obfuscations? Let's have a rational discussion on this issue, or stop with the nonsense, people. This is too important a matter to be treated so lightly. We're talking about the Constitution and the rule of law here. Not some political game.

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2) from obamareleaseyhourrecords.blogspot.com - 'Breaking; Congressman Jeff Duncan Calls For Investigation into Obama identity Fraud' - - Scott Keyes, @ Think Progress  (orig. title 'Congressman Calls For New Birther Investigation, Questions 'The President's Validity') - June 17

kibitzer 3· less than 1 minute ago

I made a mistake and turned left and followed this story back to its origin at ThinkProgress, where they converse with each other with 'lnfo' like 'Of COURSE he's a citizen...those stupid birthers...' Citizen? Citizen? Who's talking about a simple 'citizen'?? Not those who know that Obama was ineligible from the git-go, with a non-U.S. citizen father. All this time later, and the lefties are still trying to obfuscate this issue by talking about The Usurper's 'citizenship' via his mother... 

I'm disheartened at the level of intelligence of the average citizen in this country. How did we ever make it this far, without the Controllers taking us over sooner??? 

James Madison & George Washington, et al: I feel your pain.

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3) from tea party command center: 'Glenn Beck: Shocking Video - THIS is Who We Are Helping in Syria?!  SHARE WITHE EVERYONE!' Ralph E. Wall Sr. Admin - June 18

Comment by Stan Stanfield just now  [June 18]

Adolfo, you and other Tea Partiers simply have to stop with the nonsense about calling for either Cruz or Rubio to run for either Pres or VP. Neither of them is constitutionally eligible: they are not 'natural born' citizens.  PLEASE, Tea Partiers, get your heads around this one.  The Constitution forbids a DUAL CITIZENSHIP status of its Pres (or then also VP by Amendment), i.e., not born of U.S. citizen parents - PLURAL.  

No wonder we're in such trouble in this country, if even hardcore conservatives don't understand the Constitution.  This matter should have been dealt with in 2008.  Left undealt with, it has festered and festered until we are nearly to civil war in this country, because the so-called Minutemen didn't act in time.  It's not too late to take our country back from the hardcore socialists currently in charge.  But it's getting damn close.  So we don't have time for nonsense in our own ranks.  YOU, Good Citizen, have been co-opted; either unwittingly.  Or wittingly, and are a plant in deep disguise.  

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4) from opednews.com: 'Perspectives On The surveillance Scandal -- An Analysis' - Lawrence Davidson - June 17

my comment (June 18):

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Thank you, Lawrence... An excellent thumbnail analysis. Just so are we sleepwalking into disaster, with the end of all democratic principles high on that agenda. in the overarching name of 'security'.  I like what Benjamin Franklin said about that, too...  Submitted on Wednesday, Jun 19, 2013 at 12:23:47 AM

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Fixing The World

Watching the first of the 3 'Fixing the World' videos (great project, HopeGirl & FTW team; well done), I was inspired to post here ideas I have had for a long time about a New Age (really: the New Earth) Theme Park in the vicinity of the spiritual community & ecovillage, The Findhorn Foundation and Community, in the north of Scotland.  The idea never caught fire amongst the few people that I ran the idea by many years ago up there, primarily because of the three main important factors for a home or a business: location, location, and location.  One key fellow said that it was "too far north; you should think for a Hawaii site for such a project."  I happened to disagree, for a number of reasons:

* It had value in being positioned near a 'New Age spiritual community,' where the Park goers could visit to see 'the New Age' in action: people motivated to do things/live their daily lives by the idea/mentality that Work is Love in Action ('reflecting Spirit into Matter'), not for the money, and two, to see a real-life ecovillage, and the factors that make a human settlement such an enterprise.

* Also, that part of Scotland has a lot going for it, for family vacationers: golfing; dolphin watching in the adjacent Moray Firth; the so-called Whisky Trail (the area being the home of many Scotch whisky distilleries); hill climbing (many Munros in the area to bag for the really enterprising hillwalker); and of course, world-famed Nessie of Loch Ness nearby.  I also envisioned, for the family: hot air balloon rides (it's a very picturesque area, with the sea/Firth, heather-covered mountains, colorful fields/pastoral countryside alongside city life); water skiing (in a part of the Firth away from the dolphin watching); pony trekking; and so forth.

* And as for the 'far north' factor: the Park could be enclosed in the dead of winter.  No problem, these technologicaly-advanced days (plus there are a couple of major ski resorts in the general area for that season's further enjoyment anyway).  And

* As well, there is a ready-made airport right there; with the former NATO base of Kinloss AFB having closed, and the base only used now for housing soldiers returning from duty in Europe.  (All of which will change shortly as well.)

Anyway; to the Park itself, as a theme For Our Times: I envisioned such as:

* racing and/or bumper cars powered by water, or other free energy devices;

* electro-gravitic vehicle rides (not too far up in the air, for the kiddies; with trained pilots);

* an at-least two-story slide for kids built on the DNA double-helix template, with demos at the 'incarnation' landing level about genes and chromosomes, and the whole thing about how our life works on this human, and its microscopic, level.  And speaking of demos on how things work:

* A demo on how one can make a frog egg turn rather into a salamander by shining light on it (in a certain, insightful way);

* And another one on how a vortex storm/field can 'gelatinize'/dissociate the space-time of our (illusory) reality to the point where a straw can be embedded like an arrow in a (seemingly) solid object.  And so forth, in the intriguing 'new science' field;

* Past Life Readers and Therapists for consultations;

* a full-size Permaculture farm, complete with guided tours and info, about how things work together; and speaking of things working together:

* Other demos on the eco-biology of the planet, and how it all works in harmony and unison, if allowed to;

* Speakers on interesting subjects;

* New Age entertainers;

...anyway: You get the idea.

And the money for it?

In those early days of my brainstorming, I envisioned that a) we would use a local currency scrip, that the Theme Parkgoers could also use in the Foundation's excellent book & craft & whole foods store and the nearby fishing village of Findhorn (some great pubs, and little shops) and the further nearby town of Forres; and b) the financing for the Park itself would come from a combination of spiritual community/New Age investors and Ethical Investment Bank support on the one hand, and support from the Scottish Tourist Board on the other.  (There was precedent for this idea: the STB helped the Foundation finish off its beautiful and architecturally-distinct performing arts venue - the Universal Hall - because it is a performing arts site for the Scottish public in general; where all manner of events are held, from plays to classical and rock concerts to lectures to you-name-it.)  And now?  

I see this sort of thing as possibly springing up all over the world, each with its own flavor and 'inspiration', as we - to say, Humanity - move out of the era of money - more properly, of interest-bearing money (and its training-wheels companion, fractional-reserve banking) - and into a more holistic way of sharing goods and services with one another, as citizens (really, spiritual beings having a human experience; prior to Ascension to a higher dimension, of consciousness) imbued with the spirit of One Planet - One Humanity - One Destiny.

For I am, and many of us are, here to build the New World.  Not put band-aids on the Old one.

Which has reached its use-by date, now.  And the world will now hunger for more of the Change.  Not more of the same old, same old, that has afflicted suffering Humanity for long enough a period of space-time.

So, start coming up with your own ideas, of how to reflect the Change into our daily lives.  Knowing, too, that

the sky is no longer the limit.

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My Birthday Message To America

1) from godfatherpolitics.com: 'Democrat Unknowingly Revealed Scope Of Obama's Spying Database' - Dave Jolly - June 14 

(Rep. Maxine Waters caught on camera saying a couple of things that she probably shouldn't have, and which the Democrat Party honchos and Obama administration mob surely wish she hadn't)

kibitzer3 • a few seconds ago   [June 15]

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Thanks, Dave, for telling it like it is - and for publicizing this sort of thing. The American people really need to wake up to the fact that their country is being stolen right from under their noses. This is not about Democrats or Republicans. It's about a free country, with various political points of view, vs. a particularly virulent form of socialism, where no options are allowed to the [control of the] almighty state. And do they really want to live with that knowledge? With all the eyes of our forebears here, who sacrificed so much for a free country to thrive and to withstand its various danger points, all on this generation of Americans, watching to see how we handle The Big One?? And if we go out, let alone with either a bang or a whimper??? Or if we stand tall for human freedom, unbowed by obeisance to our erstwhile Masters.

Time will tell. But there's little of that left.

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2) from obamaballotchallenge.com: 'DC Federal Judge Lamberth Gives Leave of Court to File Docs for Faux "Obama" Social Security Number Case' - posted by George M. - June 15

Good on all the people who are keeping this issue alive.

America is being served by their diligence.

Stan, 7 hours ago

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3) from 2012: What's the 'Real' Truth?:' !!! A MUST LISTEN/WATCH: Fighting for Workers - BERNIE SANDERS…Oh, what would we do without Bernie!  Like so many, he is totally ignored, but he continues anyway to try to get the word out.' -J (June 15)

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June 16, 2013 at 4:13 am

Bernie can really tell it like it is. There is a huge amount of corporate cronyism going on in this country, as the corporate world does its best to drive the standard of living down in this country, by undercutting U.S. wage rates (by hiring foreign workers, legal or otherwise), in order to cut costs and increase profits, so that, at a minimum, a 20:80 society is created (as some of their Business Management books have termed it in the past); whereby 20% of the people will be handsomely paid for their services – and loyalty – to The System, and 80% are simply ‘useless eaters,’ to be kept as quiet and as under control as the surveillance state can manage. It is a magnificently corrupt enterprise, and needs to be stopped in its tracks. And if I believed in just rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic, I would wade in there and have my crack at these scrofulous con artists as well.

As it happens, my belief system is that the whole enterprise has run its course – the play is over – and we are going to move out from under the shadow of this atrocious monster that humanity has paid homage to for so long – in part due to our own actions, for thinking that this 3D realm is the only reality. So we have ourselves to blame for our predicament, as well. So there’s plenty of blame to go around.

And then let’s move on. We’ve got work to do. A far, far better work than we have ever been involved in before.

But in the meantime, I can’t help gritting my teeth sometimes, and feeling, Grrrrrrr………….

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Just In Time

I thought the Judicial Watch's 'Verdict' article, in its June issue that I have referenced before in these pages, on the shenanigans going on in Massachusetts regarding voter registration was bad enough.1  But another article on the same sort of issue, in the inside pages of the issue, takes the cake.

First, to back up a bit.  I refused to vote in the 2012 elections when - newly back in the States after many years living abroad - I discovered that my state, of California, was not requiring tough enough measures for 'voter integrity'.  I could have been anybody living at my address - citizen, non-citizen, illegal alien; whatever - and there was no photo requirement proving that I was who I was saying that I was.  It was all just names on pieces of paper - and  at that, my name was not on one set of the voter rolls that were being used as we came in the door of the polling place, but was on another one.  What??!  What's with more than one set of names/registration rolls???...Disgusted, I turned around and, after announcing to the lead lady running the operation why I was doing what I was doing, left.

I want the vote in my country to mean something.  What do we have to do, dip every voter's thumb in purple ink as they enter the premises???...best yet: Have a voter photo ID card, which it takes rigorous eligibility/identity requirements to obtain.

Anyway.  Here was the Obama administration's Department of Justice playing footsie with "left-wing groups' in this business, of voter fraud/integrity/eligibility, in Massachusetts.  And then came the story in Arizona.

In an article headed 'JW Active in Arizona Voter ID Law Supreme Court Showdown', the Verdict newsletter reported on such shenanigans going on in that state - a state that has an even more 'special interest' in voter integrity than many, for being on the front lines of the illegal alien issue.  It turns out that the voters of Arizona passed a proposition in 2004 by a comfortable majority vote that required voters to show proof of citizenship to register, as well as having ID to prove that they were who they said they were when pitching up for the vote.  And they were taken to court for it; and the Circuit Court involved ruled against the proposition, saying that its provisions violated certain provisions of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993.

What are those provisions that it violated?  Let's cut to the chase, and point out the provisions that it, in point of fact, upheld.  As the JW amicus curiae brief on the case, recently before the SCOTUS, noted:

"The NVRA also does not provide that it is the exclusive authority on eligibility verification or that, as the Ninth Circuit contended, 'Arizona's only role was to make [the Federal] [F]orm available to applicants and to 'accept and use' it for the registration of voters.' [Emphasis added]  The language of the statute not only does not prohibit additional documentation requirements, it permits states to 'require...such identifying information...as is necessary to enable the appropriate State election official to assess the eligibility of the applicant...'  Besides express authorization for a state to 'develop and use' a form compliant with the statute's criteria, the NVRA also provides that 'each State shall establish procedures to register to vote in elections for Federal office...''  

The article goes on:

"Judicial Watch further argues that, 'The Ninth Circuit also failed to give any weight to the stated goal of the NVRA to "protect" and "enhance the participation of eligible citizens as voters in elections for Federal office" as guiding purposes of the statutes.  Under no sensible reading of the statute is the goal of election integrity advanced by allowing non-citizens to vote.' (Emphasis added.]"

To which I respond:

D'uh.

Two things here.  One: What is the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on about, in declaring that Arizona's Proposition 200 violated the NVRA??  It turns out that it was just following the lead of the Obama administration (and the previous one, also dictatorially-minded).  Continuing from the article:

"The country has a real problem with election fraud.  Independent research published by the non-partisan Pew Charitable Trust in February 2012 indicated that, at that time, approximately 24 million active voter registrations throughout the United States - or one out of every eight registrations - were either no longer valid or are significantly inaccurate.

"And the situation has gotten no better under the Obama administration, which not only refuses to enforce provisions of the [NVRA] requiring states to keep clean voter registration lists but attacks states that try to impose any voter integrity measures." (my emphasis)

That's one thing: voter registration lists.  So far, so bad.  Politics as usual???...but it gets worse.

Another thing is this business of the courts under the Obama administration trying to make the States just administrative units to the federal government.  To one and all, I affirm:

This is a federal republic.  Not a centralized republic.  Except as usage has begun to make it so. Which erroneous and deceitful and dangerous usage needs to be shot down, before it gains any more fraction under this centralizing-crazy socialist administration than it already has.  For we are not just talking about 'politics as usual' between the Democrats and the Republicans.  We are talking about a takeover of the American constitutional Republic by socialists - the overthrow of the very rule of law, in moving from the rule of law to the rule of men.

"'We hope the Supreme Court sees the wisdom in these arguments,' said Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton.  'There is no coherent reason for refusing to allow states to check voter identification other than a desire to circumvent the law and let non-citizens determine the results of American elections...'"

As Michelle Obama has argued, in solidarity with the litany of the Left: such eligibility-checking requirements amount to voter "suppression".2  Whereas in reality they amount to simple common sense.  Something that Leftists seem 'constitutionally' to lack.

But only 'seem' to.  For, they know precisely what they are doing.

And why.3

And I, for one American citizen, won't have it.

And I hope that reason prevails.  Before this confrontation comes to a greater clash than one just of political opinions.


Where I Stand:

Let there be no doubts, or mistakes.

I stand with The People.  In their roles as responsible individuals; responsible for their own soul's development.  Not bowed down as servants to and of the almighty state.

Get that behind me.

And Me.  And Me.  And Me.

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footnotes:

1 front page story headed 'JW Sues DOJ for Records on Controversial Voter Registration Effort in Massachusetts; Corrupt Community Organizer ACORN Group Implicated in Scheme':

"...In March, the DOJ's Office of Inspector General issued a report raising questions about inappropriate coordination and conduct on this election integrity issue by the DOJ's Civil Rights Division and outside left-wing groups..."


2 Especially among the poor, they say.  Oh?  The poor don't need ID to do many things in the daily life  of the national world that we all inhabit???....give me a break, Michelle.  And please, don't ever try to take me for a fool again.  Or the rest of us with any degree of common sense.


3 As with all the other totalitarian, revolutionary measures that have been going down with this administration.  Enough ammo for the DHS to fight an all-out war for twenty years.  The conditioning of the American people, through travel checkpoints, for a police-state, people-controlling mentality.  The unconstitutional, brazenly dictatorial declaration of Obama's war with the Libyan state; and the coverup regarding the Benghazi scandal.  The nation's unconstitutional, envelope-pushing surveillance of the AP and Fox News reporters, and of all of us.
     A police state, desirous of as many illegal-alien votes as it can muster, before The People wake up fully to the wolf, not just at the door.  But amongst them.
     Breathing, now, right down their necks.

  

Wars And Rumors Thereof

Such nonsense...

1) A letter to my gung-ho, fervent-patriot nephew - June 14:

Hi Nephew

Thanks for this - the Birthday greetings, the reminder that it is Flag Day (I had forgotten today was that day), and the rundown on your Tea Party activities.

You are doing fine work with the Tea Party thing.  Keep them honest - it's all about getting back to limited government and personal responsibility, with an awareness of the spiritual purpose of America for the world - to be an ensign to the nations for government, not only of, by, and for The People, but under God; not about shooting up the global neighborhood, blindly following the Neocons into their battles.  Keep your discernment about you; that's all I ask.  As your caring

Uncle Duane    

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2) Later; from 2012: What's the 'Real' Truth?: 'US 'Military Support' in Syria Will Lead to Full-Scale War, Critics Warn' - June 14; orig. on Common Dreams, June 14

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June 15, 2013 at 1:12 am

A no-fly zone is an act of war by the party instituting it.

Period.

It’s not as if we Americans don’t understand what we’re getting into. So, where is the UNDERSTANDING around this whole thing?? And the action to stop sort-of sleepwalking into disaster???

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3) It begins: Major demand to impeach Obama   (from Tea Party Command Center)

• Posted by National Director, Dee on June 14, 2013 at 2:52pm in Congress 

Watergate investigator Bob Woodward of the Washington Post compares Barack Obama to Richard Nixon. Members of Congress say it’s about time to consider it. Rock legend Ted Nugent says Obama’s constitutional violations make him eligible. And even Code Pink co-founder Medea Benjamin has called for Obama’s impeachment.

The document is addressed to members of Congress, who have the responsibility to make sure government officials don’t go outside the bounds of the U.S. Constitution and to bring appropriate retribution when they do.

The petition cites a number of scandals in just the last few weeks and months.

read more:

http://www.wnd.com/2013/06/demand-obamas-impeachment-now/

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4) from 2012/'Real' again: 'PressTV: US preparing Syria no-fly zone' - June 14

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June 15, 2013 at 1:55 am

It’s Wag the Dog time…

Champing At The Bit

l am champing at the bit.  Let me in there, Coach.  I may have let The Side down in the past, in little things.  But everyone deserves a second chance.  And a third.  And a fourth... that's the nature of the thing: Have at 'it', until you get 'it' right.

I will hit the ground running.  And not away from the issues facing us.  But smack into the heart of things.  Which entails substituting Love for Hate; and so forth, in The Changeover, from the human drama to the real thing - the reality beyond the matrix that we have been embedded in.  For long enough, now.

I may bluster a bit, and fume and fret, about the socialist takeover going on in the country.1  But I recognize it as just the other side of the coin that was being spent by the other side, when they were in power.  The fascists.  The Cabal.  The Illuminati.  The Neocons; the Zionists; the -

the works.

The whole ball of wax.2

Because it's just the same nest of vipers at the top of the pyramid of power.

Who have reached their Use-By date.

Used, to give us facets, fractals, sparks, points of view of The Whole something to sharpen our swords against.

The many hologrammatic swords of Truth.

Readying, now, to cut through all the crap of The Drama.

And reveal the beauty of the 'scene' on the other side.

Truth, Beauty - Plato was right:

They do exist on another level.  Whole, and Pure.

Our Human versions of which have been just a pale reflection.

But in a striving for the purity of the Thing-in-Itself. As a distant memory, reverberating gently in the background of our incarceration in incarnation.

Now about to become

the Thing in Itself.

So, let me in there, Coach.

I'm ready.

And, fortuitously

just when It is too.

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1 Liberals seem to think that the federal government can do anything it wants - and should, to spend money on causes dear to their hearts.  (This is a federal republic, gang; and for good reason.  The same way that it is a constitutional republic: for good reason.  Which we have now found out about, in spades, in our time and place - our time at bat.  And what a terrible job of it we're doing...)  Republicans - I won't call them conservatives.  Conservatives, the true obverse of the liberals, and so not part of the problem, know better, have more sense - Republicans, then, seem to think, by and large - the so-called 'Establishment' Republicans - that since the federal government is going to spend 'the people's' money anyway, it might as well spend it on causes dear to their hearts; like defense boondoggles, and subsidies for their kinds of businesses (so-called 'middle class welfare'), and 'bailing out the banks,' and so forth.
     A pox on both their houses.


2 Beginning, now, to melt in the light of the New Day dawning, for all of humanity.
     The time, as I say, of The Great Changeover.


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P.S. And synchronistically enough, I just came across, this late afternoon, in my daily 'read' in the local park, an article that ties in 'beautifully' with this whole subject area.  First, to back up a bit.  

Recently I found myself wondering where this mentality came from that is so prevalent in life that says that one has to, or should, be willing to share with others.  'Come on - don't be so stingy'??  After all, the Ice Age could easily, via the evolutionary working-out of the effects of the 'law' of the survival of the fittest, have left the human pool with an innate tendency to be selfish - to look out for number one, and the devil take the hindmost.  And then I thought:

Oh.

Of course.

Because even further back in our background, under the surface, the veneer of human life:

We Are All One.

Came from the same Source.

And now - I thought, when that 'realization' hit me - I can have a little more patience with such people as 'the liberals'; who normally drive me so up the wall, with their incessantly bleeding hearts, so willing and ready to spend other people's money for them.  They are not just into a mentality of covetousness.

But -

There needs to be a caveat in here.  To say: to beware of 'the militant tendency' - of the mentality of Theft acquired in the purloining of other people's money, especially for personal gain.  And I think here specifically of the 'issue' of the likes of J.P. Morgan, raised in my reading this afternoon.

The article - in the current issue of The Judicial Watch's monthly hard-copy newsletter 'Verdict' (in its 'Corruption Chronicles' section) - is entitled 'JW Exposes Connection Between Corporate Cronyism and Obama's Food Stamps Army'.  It is worth quoting from at length; but I'll keep this report on it short.  The gist:

The Food Stamps program is a scam; a boondoggle, for corporate interests.          

This extremely costly, and growing exponentially, program - which the Obama administration has managed to keep financially under wraps, so that Congress isn't aware of where the money is going; even if they wanted to be1 - isn't redistribution of wealth to the poor.

This is massive redistribution of wealth to the very rich.

This isn't socialism, boys and girls.  Bad as that is:  

This is fascism.  Human control personified.

And now you know why the Republican Establishment hasn't done anything about, and has even helped suppress movement regarding, Obama's ineligibility for the office.

They're happy for him to be in there.  He's perfect cover, for their machinations, and those of their deep-cover backers, at the taxpayers' expense.

And they've got him by the balls.2

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So the answer is simple.  It's made up of two parts.

1. Perhaps the Ice Age had more to do with the human tendency to 'look out strictly for number one' than I just idly surmised.  It is, obviously, a very deep tendency; tied up with the survival instinct as it is.  And it's supported by

2. the likes of 'the J.P. Morgan Effect'; as summarized, again ' beautifully', in the example noted in the first footnote.  The example of 'perverse incentives'.  Turn it around - make it so that someone makes the money that they save the program - and that money will change pockets very fast.

It's the profit motive, stupid.

Which is why it is not part of The New.  

Because it not only 'brings out the best in us'.

But the worst.  

And we have other work to do, now, than continuing in the duality of the play.

Rather, in the dismantling of the 'old', that no longer 'fits with the program' - and, indeed, actively blocks it.  And the creation of The New.

Which is a cooperative venture.   All of humanity in this, together.  Since

We 

Are

One. 

Coming back together

as

One.

And thus, looking out for

number One.

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footnotes:

1 "Little wonder…that [the three companies behind the EBT card industry] appear to be perfectly content with the exploding food stamp rolls - and wholly unconcerned about rampant fraud and abuse.  As the [Government Accountability Institute] study observed, 'The more persons enrolled in the program, the more money the EBT industry makes.'  That may also help explain why, when the state of Florida initiated an eight-month program to detect and prevent fraud among its three million EBT card users, J.P. Morgan saw fit to assign just one employee to the program…"   

    The fox and the henhouse come to mind…


2 Plus the little fact of his homosexual activity.  Google Larry Sinclair for starters on that 'front'.
     Not that there is anything 'wrong' essentially with homosexuality.  It's what can be made of it, by people who want to make something of it.  Or not.  And just dangle it there...
     And then you get into the area of the likes of Reggie Love.  And 'Bathhouse Barry'.  And that whole ball of wax; ready to melt in the light of exposure.  Which would bring down as well the activity of George Dubya in this area, in retribution.  And could presumably lead all the way to the criminal activity of the whole of the Bush Family.  And - tit for tat - the Clintons.  And.  And...
     All will be revealed, in the end, anyway.  That end is just being prolonged, by such game playing.  Oneupmanship.  Which includes members of Congress.  And the  judiciary.  And...
     Time to face it, folks.  The game is over.  The play is finished; even before a 'normal' wrapping-up of a Third Act.  It's time to put away our childish things; and get on with the 'act' of maturing.
     Which includes the recognizing of Who we are, essentially.
     And Why we are here.
     And What Time it is.        

More On 'The Madison Effect'

There is another good example of 'the (James) Madison Effect' for a people to live long under a regimen of self-governance, or to be ridden and driven by smooth-talking thugs, in the same issue of NEXUS Magazine that I have referred to in my last couple of blogs.  That is in an article titled 'The Looming Shale Gas Fracking Disaster', by F. William Engdahl, wherein he details, with impeccable facts and commentary, the scam going on in this area, all unbeknownst to the average American, who believes what the MSM tells him about all manner of things.  For why not?  Why would anyone lie about anything???  Read on, sucker…

"At a time when much of the world is looking with a mix of envy and excitement at the recent boom in the USA in unconventional gas from shale rock…the US shale boom is revealing itself to have been a gigantic hyped confidence bubble that is already beginning to deflate…

"If we're to believe the current media reports out of Washington and the US oil and gas industry, the United States is about to become the 'new Saudi Arabia'.  We are told that she is suddenly and miraculously on the track to energy self-sufficiency…"

'We are told…'  Ah.  There's the rub.  

What are we not told (and need to dig a little to find out)?:1

"A more careful look at the actual performance of the shale revolution and its true costs is instructive.

"One reason why we hear so little about the declining fortunes of shale gas and oil is that the boom is so recent…Another reason is that there have grown up huge vested corporate interests from Wall Street to the oil industry that are trying everything possible to keep the shale revolution myth alive.

"Despite all their efforts, however, data coming to light, mostly for the review of industry professionals, is alarming…"

And so forth and so on, ad nauseam, in that vein… To wrap up a long but intriguing story (and as in 'intrigue'):  

"Veteran petroleum geologist Arthur Berman…reached sobering conclusions using existing well extraction data for major shale gas regions in the US since the boom started.  His findings point to a new Ponzi scheme…Shale gas is anything but the energy 'revolution' that will give US consumers or the world gas for 100 years, as President Obama was told…"2

"Where, then, did someone get the number to tell the US President that America has 100 years of gas supply?  Here is where lies, damned lies and statistics play a crucial role…That number comes from a deliberate blurring by someone of the fundamental difference between what in oil and gas is termed resources and what is  called reserves…" (emphases in the original)     

Ah: the details.  Where the devil resides…

I am reminded of 'the Fight of the Century' between 'Sonny' Liston and a brash, super-confident young newcomer named Cassius Clay, later to be called by his chosen, post-colonial name of Muhammad Ali (you will have heard at least of him).  At the time, Sonny Liston was all the talk and rage.  I can remember hearing, and reading, about him: he demolished his opponents in seconds.  Wiped them out in a torrent of colossal power.  Pulverized them, were the reports  (An earlier version of fracturing.)  Was The Hulk personified (and may have even been the inspiration for that later fictional character).3  By the time it came to the big showdown, Heavyweight Championship fight with 'Sting like a bee' Clay, Liston had been built into a gargantuan.  I remember one of the ringside radio announcers, when the gladiators made their entrances, commenting, almost curiously, about Liston and his listed measurements: "Actually, he's no bigger than Cassius."   What??!  But the bets were down, and the fight was, for all intents and purposes, on.  When Liston proved to have Clay feet as well.  And made a bundle on the Grand Deception, obviously.  But not as much as the hypsters behind the whole con job.  

It has been ever thus??  Caveat emptor, baby???

Nevertheless, it is now going to come to a screeching halt.  Because such behavior cannot pass Go, into Humanity's New Age of Ascension.  We have other business to be about, now. 

And it even overshadows the hype about shale gas as humanity's great new source of energy.  

Hey -  boyos.  You ain't seen nothin' yet.  Wait'll you get a load of what's coming up.   

          

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footnotes:

1 Since investigative journalism has almost - almost - gone the way of the Dodo bird.  And every time an honest journalist tries to research something, they are reined in, by the overriding power of the corporate world over the MSM, print and TV. 

     Good on Sharyl Attkisson (of CBS) for somehow bucking the tide, and demonstrating how it can, and should, be done.  Give that woman a Pulitzer.  And let's see more of the same.

2 Reference given earlier in the article:  ""In his January 2012 State of the Union address to US Congress, President Obama claimed that, largely owing to the shale gas revolution, 'We have a supply of natural gas that can last America nearly 100 years'." 

     Er…well.  Give or take a little.
     ("Therein [i.e., the true structural cost of shale gas production] lies the explanation for why a sophisticated oil industry in the US has desperately been producing full-throttle in a high-stakes game, laying the seeds of their own bankruptcy in the process.  They are racing to offload the increasingly unprofitable shale assets before the bubble finally bursts.  Wall Street financial backers are in on the Ponzi game with billions at stake, much as in the recent real estate securitisation fraud...")

3 You younguns think that Mike Tyson was mean, with ol' Holyfield's ears an' all?  Shoot.  You shoulda heard the hype on Sonny.  He ate nails fer breakfast, and spit'em out into 2 by 4s in neat little rows; bam-bam-bam; jist iak thet.  Heck, I can remember…well.  To move right along; at the carnival.