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And the First Iraq War Criminal Is…..an Anti-War Politician

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 18:19:11 -0000

Kucinich filed for Bush’s impeachment, but the first politician to face War Criminal charges, ironically, may be the witty, anti-war Mayor of London. England’s a mess, libertarian-wise, but maybe controversial David Icke’s campaign for Parliament will set things right. Musician Neil Young agrees on the need to put Bush in his place for fomenting a culture of Fear. Writer Gore Vidal says it’s too late, that Bush has already eviscerated our beloved Republic. Not only is the country of our Founders dead, but also a great saint has just passed away: I knew Kent Snyder - he even asked me to staff Congressman Paul on one of his early campaign visits to New Hampshire; and, so important to me, he was a yogi. Bless you Kent, and here's a eulogy from his boss, Candidate Ron Paul.

The impeachment of Bush can be justified on myriad grounds. One of the lousy statements he made was condemning certain countries as belonging to “an axis of evil”. North Korea is one of these nations, but it turns out anyone can travel there. The Founders were right, in that the only foreign policy that works is commerce, including commerce involving human travel. Book your flights!

Another impeachable offense was Bush’s unconstitutional spying on citizen’s property, including communications. And the Democrat Congress’ revamping of the FISA law is no improvement, as congressman Paul explains. One would think Obama would restore civil rights, but no – all he’ll do is empower some bureaucrat to stop any agency abuse of FISA. Our only chance is for Feingold to stop the revamp in the Senate – he even says bill passage could protect Bush from evidence that’s impeachable. Every government atrocity is usually an incremental step. The next step in domestic spying is that from satellites, ostensibly to be helpful in natural disasters. A whistleblower condemns the Democrat Congress' cave-in to Republican Administration pressure to revise FISA, including telecom immunity from lawsuits for violations.

One of the presidential candidates, McCain, is perceived to support a continuation of the NeoCon Imperialist policy. Perhaps it’s this warmongering that puts him behind Obama by double digits. McCain’s struggle gives an opening to the Libertarian candidate, former Congressman and prosecutor Bob Barr. One analyst suggests Barr could get independents to flock to his campaign using these 5 promises. Not bad on the issues, but I’d add solutions to oppositions.

For example, not only would I show the weaknesses in the Global Warming argument, but more importantly I’d show how property expansion and restitution reform would better protect flora and fauna (global warming may lessen as a risk, if the Dutch bogart pot smoking at their awesome coffee shops). And the problem with ending the Afghan occupation removes the criticism that Iraq was a distraction from going after Obama in his caves near the Pakistan border. A better way to leave Afghanistan would be an indirect end to the Drug War. Taking away the heroin profits from Afghan’s farmers would defund the terrorists, thus removing the reason for being in central Asia. Unfortunately, all Barr would do in this scenario is make life easier for prescription pot users. From those five recommendations I also like cutting corporate welfare, especially if couched in terms of paying for the cut in the gas tax. Maybe if enough corporate welfare were cut, we’d have enough money to really investigate these unexplained phenomenon flying in the sky, in this case with witnesses who are soldiers, and thus deemed more reliable and believeable.

One piece of corporate welfare that everyone can agree deserves abolition are farm subsidies. These Big Agri gifts subsidize the poisoning of the food supply, a crime becoming more awful in more places around Earth, particularly in the developing world, thanks to “killer seed” companies, and fertilizers. Desocializing farming may allow for more local, organic – and pesticide free – farming. Desocializing education, too, might allow vegan teachers to avoid being fired for violating the Top-Down rules of school bureaucracy. And more scrutiny of government water systems may free them from poisonous chemicals like fluoride, mercury and chlorine (warnings continue to proliferate on mercury in dental fillings). And no professional doctor will cure your cancer; all they’ll do is slow its growth with poisonous therapies. These Big Pharma parasites now want to infect little boys with their gardasil vaccine.

One issue that’s not mentioned above for Mr. Barr is the economy, whose Recession McCain blames on the economists for missing the housing collapse and mounting recession. We libertarians – informed by the Austrian School of Economics – have been well aware for decades that every Boom, especially the 20^th century ones aggravated by central banking, must precede an equally geometric Bust. It’s the nonlibertarian economists who are clueless – although even faux libertarian Greenspan now is admitting a Recession is growing. Friends of mine with any sense will move all of their investments – now – to EuroPacific Capitol or Adrian Day Investment. Both companies will put your money in non-dollar, dividend-paying stocks and metals worldwide. Make no mistake, we are headed to Recession, and perhaps even Depression, as bad as the 1930s. The only good thing about a McCain administration would be naming Phil Gramm as Treasury Secretary - although he'll probably fail to live up to my ideals, so I take that back. Bottom line is, if you want to have a clue on how bad things are, and how to save your assets, you have GOT to read this Barron's interview of Peter Schiff, of Europacific.

My investors at EuroPacific and Adrian Day can protect your assets because they understand something that confuses even Wall Street’s best – the role of central banking and fiat currency in ruining economies and helping the Elite oligopolize even more of markets in which they already have near monopoly control. Candidate Barr may touch on this issue, but really only Ron Paul can competently discuss this topic. This famous bond investor certainly has no clue.

And it turns out that foreigners’ departure from dollars into other currencies may be a cause of War. Indeed, Iran’s move to the Euro, not Iran’s nuclearization, may be the trigger for the next “peace action”. If the stock market falls, watch out Iran. If we do attack Iran, will any soldier stand up against our atrocities? Apparently not, since moral courage is in short supply in the military.

If the US illegally and immorally attacks another sovereign nation, we will face more terrorism just like 9/11, probably. And if such terrorism occurs in the form of a bioterror incident, chances exist that some poor sap will be blamed unfairly, just like this victim of the weird anthrax attacks that just won a lawsuit against the Justice Department. Recent laws allow any kind of undefined “condition” to allow the President to declare martial law, but the Senate just stopped a bill that could have tarnished any civil disobedient activist as a “homegrown” terrorist. Actually, if we faced Iranian reprisal, wouldn’t it already be justified by this disgusting murder of hundreds of civilians - the tragic missle attack on a giant jetliner that the US supposedly mistook for a tiny F-14? And regarding the September 2001 terrorism, the suspicions aren’t going away anytime soon, as this new movie trailor makes clear. And the BBC will run a major program on this undying controversy. Or maybe the fact that, since we sanctioned Iran, we've now been sending covert soldiers into Iran, is grounds for retaliation?

Governments’ endless attack on our freedoms makes our 2^nd Amendment right of armed defense all the more important. Thankfully, the Supreme Court on June 26, in overturning Washington, D.C.’s gun ban, affirmed the Founders’ belief that our gun rights rest in our individual defense rights, not just the responsibility to maintain a state militia. But the ruling isn’t very strong, as Reason’s Doherty explains lots of regulations on gun ownership can remain. Comedy Central’s Stephen Colbert nicely belittled conservatives’ disdain for the constitution in a story about the ruling helping detainees in Guantanomo; but Cato’s Boaz wonders why Colbert didn’t apply this good analysis to the liberals who ruled insanely in the gun case. Kinsella, though, is very disturbed by the Ruling, especially the use of the 14th Amendment to enforce Rights on the State level.

The Founders were right on armed defense, and they were right on War – that it’s only for extreme survival reasons, and that, otherwise, the only foreign policy worth supporting was commerce. So when an industrial job opens in a developing country, instead of condemning it as a “sweatshop,” we instead should see it merely as the bottom rung on a ladder that will lead to greater opportunity down the road. Actress Jennifer Love Hewitt believes this.

Recession breeds desperation, manifesting in this case in boosted membership in extreme circles. This fringe Catholic group focuses on the Protocols as evidence. It’s politically incorrect to talk about such inflammatory writings, and one does have to be aware of potential forgeries like the Protocols. But that never stopped the late comedian George Carlin from attacking all political correctness and sacred cows. (Such as the sacred cow of voting - is NOT VOTING the best decision we can make this November? This Onion story on Diebold's voting machine snafu is more truth than satire.)

It's a shame that spouting the truth can ruin careers and reputation. I've thought about teaching, for example, but worry that teaching the facts, instead of the sophistry in textbooks, will get me fired. The great Lew Rockwell thought about teaching, too, but seeing this blog entry about fights in academia can understandably give one pause about undertaking the great risk of daring to want to educate kids with reality, instead of with government propoganda.

Kids need to know this stuff, because knowing harsh episodes in history is critical to avoid repetition in the future. And it’s getting easier to know history more accurately, as astronomy now has helped experts determine when exactly the Greeks used a wooden horse to sneak soldiers into Troy, thus assuring an end to the war over a kidnapped wife. So-called experts have dismissed the existence of Troy because Homer’s Illiad says the war was started not by men, but rather by gods, a fact which renders the story myth. Sitchin confirms that gods indeed were interfering in the Trojan War. But Laura has a completely different take on Troy. If this anti-aging conference has impact, some of us may be alive thousands of years from now, so Troy-like controversies can have a person “who was there,” to clarify confusion. Assuming many of us will be around in the year 2025, here’s what the National Intelligence Council says the world will be like. Or life truly could end soon, even before 2012, if Switzerland's atom smasher creates, well, a black hole.

I love heroic tales like Troy, and I like heroic movies like the ones Schwarzenegger made. One of the actors from his awesome “Predator” movie is now a libertarian candidate for Senator McConnell’s seat in Kentucky.

So, government and its big business backers continue to ruin our lives. (Are we surprised anymore - Mencken's favorite Nock said a more mature attitude about reality is necessary, and that what we're doing is Isaiah's Job.) But that’s no excuse not to get active to box in the Oligarchs, so we have more opportunities to be entrepreneurs in adding value, serving each other. To be better servers, let’s open our heart with a little shabd, this from Summer Solstice Ren Sabhai two years ago, and here's Grammy nominee Snatam with her mother, joined by guitarist GuruGanesha (who opened for the Allman Brothers in 1970), and my fellow libertarian yogi, Livtar Singh, is recognized as one of the best musicians and lyricists.* All of us, to prepare for the Aquarian Age, need to open up to the truth. Only attendees of Ganesha’s retreat on ancient mystery school lessons, though, will be able to tell if this conference presents a good opportunity to start grokking the truth. If you can't get to Miami, you can click from your own laptop this podcast from Guru Singh, the next Bob Dylan who's become one of the most popular yoga teachers in the world.

Happy Summer Solstice.

* If you enjoyed that performance and want more, click here to listen to the all-night concert from the 2006 Summer Solstice. Be patient if a particular musician doesn't float your boat; each group has about 20 minutes to sing their heart's out, so there's endless variety, from traditional Indian rag, to folk-like tunes with only guitar accompaniment. Oh what the heck, one more short one from the beautiful Bachan.

Media Ignores Bilderberg, but Let's Follow Shatner

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 23:44:06 -0000

Many elite world leaders belong to a group called "Bilderberg," yet when they had their annual meeting outside Washington, DC, this past weekend, not one Big Media source covered their agenda. A friend covered this Cabal with a YouTube video, and here's Alex Jones bullhorning the conspirators. One Big Media hack begged to differ about lack of media coverage (and today a neighboorhood flier did a story). With Elite disparagement of our Rights, such noncoverage by the Media just removes one more check on their Lust for Power, a lust which stems, according to this book review, on man's innate desire for power over others. (Did we become so avaricious by evolution, or intelligent design?) Anyhoo, hurting consolidationist plans, the Irish voted down the new EU treaty.

One agenda item at Bilderberg was a discussion of universal chipping. This threat and others were discussed at ACLU's panel on loss of privacy since 9/11, whose commission has received a fresh critique from David Ray Griffen, a stern condemnation from an Arizona politician, and a petition in Canada's parliament for a new investigation. Another elite control mechanism occurs with checkpoints, like the ones in DC to control crime. If DC wants security, repeal the gun ban. Checkpoints, including those run by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), as Cato's Jim Harper says, are about control, not security. After June 21, fliers will have to have ID. And if our grassroots doesn't stop Congress, they're about to give Spooks more powers to spy on us. But the Supreme Court just limited the Power to deny judicial rights to political prisoners they call enemy combatants. Even businesses, not just individuals, are losing Rights. One bill, to save the housing crisis, would register mortgage brokers' fingerprints in a national database.

A more expansive checkpoint lies in the theory of border control; despite fears of immigrants, however, open borders are really in our long-term interest. Instead we get marginal interferences in movement around earth, this time penalizing spouses. Why support Big Government when it comes to Immigrants? And when we penalize trade with developing countries, we jeopardize their lives, resulting in tragedies like this Sudanese plane crash. The Bush Administration's crimes against humanity are so pervasive, that Congressman Kucinich has filed for Impeachment, but Judiciary Chairman Conyers resists.

One agenda item for Elites that hasn't changed in centuries is the importance of dumbing the populace via centralized government education. So when School Choice or Charter School programs succeed, both must be dismantled, according to the Elites. But "we're doing it for the children," claims DC Delegate Norton, in threatening the Choice program. Even the Washington (com)Post calls the new Charter School barriers a "mean-spirited" policy. Folks who care about education innovation need to be at AERO's education conference June 26 in New York.

The nomination of Obama and McCain have got the Elite happy, since there's no difference between Democrats and Republicans. Someone whom the Elite's agenda will preclude from support is Libertarian Presidential candidate Bob Barr. Another candidate who won't get Elite support is Amit Singh, who's running in today's Virginia GOP primary, to earn the right to take on Jim Moran this November. Amit is a Ron Paul Republican, and thus is someone who wants small government not just domestically, but also overseas when it comes to Empire (update: Singh lost). Activists still have an opportunity at the GOP Convention, to participate in Ron Paul's "breakout" event. While Ron Paul's Campaign is over, more people than ever can now join his Campaign for Liberty.

Opposition to Elites' Empire goes back a long time. World War Two now even is losing its invicibility in terms of support (book author Buchanan responds to the rabid criticism). And now our Empire wants 58 more military bases in Iraq. These empires are possible only if the Gang in charge can raise more money than afforded via taxation and loans - that extra funding comes from central banking, as Fed Chairman Bernake confessed and as Rockwell explained at this past weekend's Future of Freedom Conference (speeches by Ron Paul and Justin Ramaindo were well received too). Instead of decentralizing the banking system, the Intl Monetary Fund (IMF), going in the opposite direction, wants a global currency; and some at the Fed itself want a global financial regulatory framework. To learn how to fix the economy and make a profit, read The Politically Incorrect Guide to Capitalism (or listen to this impressive interview with the author.) And all Fed-funded Imperial attacks - and torture of terrorist suspects - could come back to haunt the US with more catrastrophic blowback, according to this FBI agent. To avoid more terrorism against us, this group is trying to stop our pending Iran Invasion.

While I can be convinced that some government condemnation of private property can be justified, as long as 5th Amendment compensation is paid to the owner, such seizures nowadays go often to politically-connected land developers. So, Congress may be right to punish this confiscating behavior. Speaking of theft, it turns out that those polygomous Texas kids - stolen by Texas bureauthugs in a disgusting raid - weren't so abused after all - surprised?

The Elite certainly are profiting from the inflation, including higher oil prices. Is Congressman Feeney right with these Top Ten Changes for Affordable Energy? Obama's plan, on the other hand, is a global oil profits tax - typical. There's even evidence that lots of oil remains untapped - unleashing more exploration could reduce gas prices. For the truth on high oil prices and Recession, always read Ron Paul. The globalists would like to cap and trade carbon emissions to stop "global warming," but perhaps we should instead protect the economy and learn to adapt? Legalizing hemp could ease oil demand and address global warming. The globe's warming is marginal and involves more than carbon pollution. Punishing polluters, though, remains important, regardless of the veracity of global warming. How we stop pollution, then, is the real debate: Statists wants coercive solutions, libertarians have better ideas based on property rights, so more land is sustainably owned, and restitution in judicial proceedings - to "make polluters pay" for their encroachment on property.

Natural remedies like hemp are a big threat to Big Businesses like pharmaceutical companies. Big Pharma has once again gotten Sens. Kennedy and Durbin, and Reps Dingell and Waxman - the enemies of natural healing in Congress every year, according to the following link - to introduce legislation that would jeopardize the supply of supplements. On the other hand, consumers have good news with a little more acknowledgement of the dangers of mercury in dental fillings, but grassroots in New York is needed to water down its vaccine mandate. Charlie Sheen's refusal to vaccinate his kids will educate a portion of the audience to wake up about the lack of safety of so much of what Big Pharma is pushing. Grassroots also is needed to protect the weight loss supplement from Big Pharma attack. And before a Trilateral agreement with Canada brings nutrient regulation to the US, Canada's threat must be smothered. Natural healing isn't the only thing under attack in Canada, as this publisher is learning in a persecution of THOUGHT crime. Staying outside our borders, let's hope Ireland strikes back at consolidation by rejecting the EU Treaty, which, apparently, would allow cruel attacks on civil dissidents.

It will be nice to free the world of the Elite's interference, so we can pursue life's opportunities in a way as full as William Shatner appears to do (or as Jim Fedako does with his camping around the continent, despite government obstacles). Another expansive opportunity for a wider array of communication lies in FM's expansion, but the Internet's promise may be snuffed out. (Check out this amazing new internet offering - radio from Pandora's genome project). At Pandora you start stations based on your favorite groups, such as, for me, Rush, whose libertarian drummer has this awesome website.

And in a more open world, we could encourage studies in more exotic countries, like at this libertarian university in, of all places, Guatemala. And this week brings the annual PorcFest in New Hampshire, for those wanting to gain majority power in a state and secede from the Union. Or we can watch Europe's soccer championship. Or go to the movies to watch the new Indiana Jones flick, which includes stuff about all these ancient, mysterious crystal skulls. Maybe Shatner's so adventurous because he knows the world will end in 2012? (If that info doesn't freak you out, perhaps you're ready for more ancient mysteries! Beware though, of persecution if you get too involved against the Elite). By 2012 perhaps this libertarian candidate, appearing Tuesday night on the Letterman show (here's a review of the interview), will have gotten Congress to disclose what the government knows about Captain Kirk's ET friends. In a few years any of us will be able to meet such friends in private space stations; ours isn't our grandfather's space program anymore.

Amidst Spring and Recession, we're all Neural Buddhists now

Thu, 15 May 2008 20:16:50 -0000

We're almost halfway through 2008's Spring, and it's been a wet one here in Washington, DC, the center of the Piscean Vortex  (read Novak's tell-all about sordid power politics). Not as wet as in Myanmar (Burma), where Statism - the philosophy of the Piscean Age - has oppressed and now killed hundreds of thousands. Powermongers have had their two thousand years during the Piscean Age, starting with the monstrous Romans and finishing with the traiterous elite who have oligopolized power in every single country of Earth.

As we enter the Aquarian Age, America is the country of the future, if we can get past the avaricious oligopolists.   The elite are the same whom the Annunaki annoited as priests after the Deluge. It's not like we haven't known better since then. Merchants in Lagash got some property rights (agami) back in 2300 BC, and the 2900 BC Vedas said "liberty is the ideal". Even Yahweh warned the Israelites in "First Samuels" (around 1500 BC) that their insane desire for a king would lead only to taxation and impressment of their children into the bureaucracy and army. Despite knowing about freedom since our dawn, we've elected to be sheep and let the Powermongers pass laws to "give us a better life". But "the more of these laws that are passed, the poorer we become," said Taoist founder Lao-Tsu in 6th century BC. Will we ever learn?

Four years from now the Aquarian Age starts (although the cusp between it and the preceeding age commenced in 1992), and chances exist that our Recession will be a Depression by then, unless the Fed's inflation staves off bankruptcies in exchange for higher prices. But we are headed to more recession, led by continued housing collapsing. Just since Greenspan's Fed tenure, the dollar has lost half its value, and Bush has added more debt than all administrations combined. When inflation debauches the currency, prices rise: "Health care, education, housing, energy - everything measured in dollars that the Asians can't produce and Wal-Mart can't put on its shelves, is soaring." Fox interviewed Congressman, Doctor and GOP Presidential Candidate Paul for an answer.

Cutting government spending and deregulation have staved off the depression some expected after the awful President Nixon decoupled money from solid backing from gold, but no more:

"China used to export deflation, as the economists put it. Now, with prices rising in the Middle Kingdom, it has no choice - it must export inflation. With inventories at 30-year lows - there are no price cuts coming from there either. Wages are rising. Raw material prices are soaring. Food is out of control...If the credit cycle has turned, as we think it has, lending rates will go up with inflation. And the cost of money...along with the cost of other essential components...will drive up prices for nearly everything."

Can government be shrunk enough to stave off Depression? To find out what government needs to be cut, we need insiders to squeal when there's fraud, waste or abuse. This past week I attended D.C. events as part of Whistleblowers Week; as that article shows, one activist wants bureaucrats to expose the truth - of even the 9/11 inside job - as part of their Will, so their attorney can let their survivors know the truth that's too scary to disclose while the employee lives. One of the most inspiring speakers was Adam Kokesh, an Iraq War veteran now advocating for its end. Speaking of ending our Imperialist nationbuilding, Senator Hagel had attained attention for opposing Bush on Iraq, but his book has gone nowhere while Ron Paul's "Revolution: a Manifesto" has become the world's bestseller.

I was at Whistleblowers Week to interest the Semmelweis Society in my government affairs services. Semmelweis represents brilliant doctors fired for causing trouble for their hospitals. Hospitals, as any health reformer knows, are the last bastion of price insensitivity. Consumer-directed health care reformers hope a nation of Health Savings Account holders can end this by forcing providers to divulge their prices. When doctors expose problems in hospitals, the administrators use a heavy-handed process called "peer review" to fire the doctor, then they enter that doctor's name in a taxpayer-funded database that ruins job prospects for doctors as they hunt for new employment in other states.

The database that haunts peer reviewed docs reminds me of the database of prescriptions that haunts doctors who prescribe medicine for patients in pain. If the Drug Enforcement Administration sees on NASPER that you're a large prescriber of opioid narcotics (which are legal only if used for medicine, not to abuse), then the DEA will coerce any patients who are vulnerable to lie about the doctor, accusing him or her of being a drug kingpin, of running a "pill mill". So, no pain patients are getting sufficient opioid medicine, and thus we have a pain undertreatment epidemic. Government Databases need to be repealed. Instead, the FBI plans to expand its extraction of DNA from humans (to be put in another leakable database).

The War on Drugs ruins the lives not only of pain doctors and their patients, but also regular people going through their normal young adult period of fun, as this poor girl found out. Instead of repealing the Controlled Substances Act in his judiciary committee, this slick opportunist Senator wants to get media attention for going after official bad boys in professional sports.

The Drug War is just one aspect of a worsening Police Terror state. Few folks know but animal abuse protestors who hurt the profit of an animal-related enterprise can be fined and jailed under a new terrorist statute - do you think murderers and rapists should be released from jail to incarcerate this mother? More subtle terrorism comes from Big Agra, whose major food companies are exploiting worsening food prices and shortages by infecting more crops and animals with their GMOs and hormones. Big Pharma is trying to monopolize nutrients that are free in nature. A lifetime of pollution via fluoride and aluminum  is killing sleep and inviting disease. (Why can't Big Medica focus on productive ventures, like this robot fixing a prostate?)

It's time for libertarians to join the progressives already pooling their funds with local organic farmers, to get their food from voluntary coops.  The widest variety of idealists for your community can be found at the Ron Paul meetup groups.  Libertarians can be just as environmental as progressives; indeed, our focus on restitution and property rights can do a better job than government coercion in protecting nature. Indeed, it's Ron Paul who has the best bill to protect natural medicine. Ayn Rand's virtue of selfishness indeed can have selfless results - witness the car company making money by selling a car running on zero emission electric cars. For those environmentalists who really are eugenicists, convinced humans are taking too much land, here's a reminder: overpopulation is not a problem, as long as markets are allowed to grow. Private solutions help not only endangered species like the black rhino, but also they're sufficient to fund monuments, like this one for Crazy Horse. Why do folks think no solution is possible without taxpayer theft and coercion?

If you start hanging around progressives or fundamentalists, or start to adopt behaviors or lifestyles outside the mainstream - beware! The State is making life hell for families on the fringe - witness this new case in Texas.

Now for those afraid libertarianism would breed anarchy, even for those libertarians who would prefer an end to Government, there still would be Rules, even if flying was freed from the FDA and TSA. This is almost the society that Virginia wanted in our Revolutionary period.  One of the most lawless branches of government has been the judiciary, but have the new conservative judges restored Rule of Law to the judicial branch? I'm sure this will be discussed June 12 at the annual American Constitutional Society conference. If Karl Rove has his way, the NeoCon conservatives will be doomed to minority party status forever.

For disgruntled conservatives, or progressives who understand markets are critical, check out the May 22 Libertarian Party Convention: here's Reason's Dave Weigel with an update on the candidates for the nomination. My favorite is scientist Mary Ruwart, whose classic "Healing Our World" I used when teaching civics to seniors at this school in India. Or go to Vegas July 10 for the wide-ranging FreedomFest.

Speaking of India, our Imperialism has isolated the US. We need to befriend foreigners, with the only way that's proven over time to bring such peace: commerce. Commerce is needed also to stave off Recession. Opening our borders to trade also can stave off Repression, if we include people in the border traffic. Protectionists and Xenophobes make me sick, especially when I read the endless train of heart-breaking stories about Big Government persecution at the border, ruining the lives of immigrants.

New immigrants with which Earthlings may have to deal by the time of 2012's arrival are extraterrestrials, in which Catholics now are allowed to believe. Friends of mine are trying to get candidate and Senator Clinton to blow the whistle on what the government knows about UFOs. Apparently a Rockefeller almost had her husband convinced to Disclose. This seems to be a trend, as the UK has just opened its files. The most recently returned shuttle astronauts say ETs have to exist.

Back to the title of today's blog entry, it seems like the Vernal Equinox just happened, but Summer Solstice is just around the corner. Those wanting to raise their consciousness and get healthy - and deal with personal issues - should register now for the annual, intense Yoga Festival in New Mexico's mountainous desert. Even conservatives should get into yoga, as David Brooks at the New York Times seems to be doing with this risky concession that meditation research is proving God, if not the Bible, and so "We're All Neural Buddhists Now".

Happy Tax Freedom Day !

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 21:45:09 -0000

Yesterday, actually, April 23rd, was this year's Tax Freedom Day, the day the Tax Foundation estimated individuals completed paying average taxes to federal, state and local governments. More than food, clothing and shelter combined! Speaking of the IRS, Chris Edwards at Cato found how certain harmless financial transactions you undertake can expose you to money laundering charges. And if you don't pay taxes, even though the IRS claims they're "voluntary," you'll be jailed, as actor Wesley Snipes is about to find out. Tax protesting has an honorable history, going back to the Whiskey Rebellion that some folks' hero George Washington viciously put down.

Yes, we're paying more in taxes than in food, and those food prices are exploding! Further, hyperfocus on deriving power from anything but oil is aggravating the new problem of food inflation. High food prices and food shortages, interestingly, are one of the many results of central banking and fiat currency (which was castigated by Tom Paine, who otherwise wrote in the 1830s about America's using charity to adequately care for the poor).

Congressional control of food prices and supply won't work any better than Congress' pending bailout of home borrowers. And you heard it hear first: farmer unions are going to Congress to force the CFTC to stop commodity speculators, to keep the Wall Street credit crisis from spreading to rural America, due to "lack of regulation and oversight". People still believe this? Apparently they do, even ones schooled in Austrian economics, such as Mr. Skeptic Michael Shermer, the pro-evolution guy so many libertarians love - but a certain libertarian finds in Mr. Shermer's book a lot of mistaken Statist ideas.

Skeptics like Shermer dismiss ancient, natural remedies that work. It's a shame that Big Medica's (sic) schools are questioning the legitimacy of naturapath degrees. Big Pharma, not just Big Medica, sees natural living as a competitor to its chemical/invasive solutions. One can't blame them for backing fluoride in the water (since the sicker we get, the more profit they make - just observe Monsanto's GMO effect on the food supply), but it's nice to see this Canadian town rejecting such chemicals in their drinking water. (Here's a map showing worldwide groundwater contamination). The danger of professional medicine is endless, as chemotherapy for cancer now has been found to damage the brain. Fortunately, Natural Solutions Foundation and related groups are drafting new proposals to ensure consumer access to health freedom, and have gotten the FTC to agree to consider banning untruthful vaccine ads.

With the deepening and widening recession, we still have a Perpetual War on Terrorism potentially spreading to Iran, and worsening Police State abuse of dissidents, even political activism. So, activists, are you ready to attend ACLU's annual "lobby" day on June 8? Whether it's domestic spying, dissident persecution or protecting your Rights, this is the time to act! The media sure won't lobby for you, since they've sat on the story of Bush's approval of torture. Amnesty Intl and other activists are suing to get the CIA to divulge how large their rendition program is, and here's a movie to expose what we really do in our Iraqi prisons. And dissidents continue to be persecuted, in this case effecting those merely desiring a proper investigation of the 9/11 terrorism (which the Libertarian Party now has added as a plank). Nonviolent citizens - and longer sentences - are making US prisons more crowded than any others worldwide.

Speaking of spying, FBI Director Mueller testified before House Judiciary on his desire to spy on all internet use. The judiciary, Murray Rothbard said, wasn't as independent as the Constitution envisioned. With its approval of searches and seizures during otherwise illegal police actions, the court continues its sycophantic behavior. One great reform idea from Reason is to expose District Attorneys to lawsuits, since the criminal justice system is becoming increasingly abusive of its citizens. And instead of the Mark of the Beast (national ID), congrats to this state government organization for calling for the repeal and rejection of REAL ID.

One person Justice is abusing is a client, Siobhan Reynolds of the Pain Relief Network, who is suffering personal attack as she properly and bravely defends a victimized pain doctor. With this in mind it's nice to see David Boaz' reminder that defending Liberties SHOULD equate with strong "law and order" policies and court decisions.

One of the grossest Government violations recently is its invasion of the Texas polygamous property, despite, according to Cato's Tim Lynch, "not one child complaining about mistreatment". CEI's Hans Bader says child welfare laws encourage "child snatching". Libertarian Party presidential candidate Mary Ruwart is getting criticism for claiming child sex laws aren't as effective as their proponents claim. How disgusting that some laws become so sacrosanct that a prudent risk-benefit discussion is prohibited!

A continuing government atrocity is the discrimination against people newly arrived in the US. Instead of more government interference at the borders, let's support Ricardo Valenzuala's MexAmerica border free trade zone (although I'm not for the North American Union Government, which Bush just advocated.) I discourage managed trade, and support free trade. We shouldn't be closing borders or blowing up countries; we should be trading and traveling! I love offshoring, including of medical services, in this case with South Carolina insurers bypassing their hospitals for Singapore clinics. I only hope entrepreneurs join my client's Santa Clara sanctuary - an organic farm/holstic health clinic in Panama's mountains. Entrepreneurship, worldwide, is the dream of humanity. Last month I had the privilege to help out with a company's booth at a trade show for international construction. Imagine the possibilities if more people gave up their addiction to Big Government, how new small businesses could open anywhere on Earth, regardless of the fiction of borders and governments.

Folks afraid of immigrants also are afraid of lost jobs. But Cato's Dan Griswold reminds us that manufacturing actually is higher now than previously - just look at all the things we make. Europacific Capitol's Peter Schiff downplays this manufacturing list, saying the bulk of future productive capacity lies overseas, which is where everyone should be transferring their assets. CLICK SHIFF'S LINK TO PROTECT YOUR OWN ASSETS!

For the rabid NeoCons barking for War on Iran, here's yet another poll patiently explaining to you mongers that Moslems and Arabs have no problem with Americans; their problem is with our policies. Earlier this year I volunteered at the booth of the American Conservative Defense Alliance, which supports a constitutional foreign policy. It was sad at this conference how many conservatives have hopelessly wed to NeoCon Imperialism and nationbuilding.

But not all Elites are Neocons, and some elites from the military world oppose Imperialism, and even want radical reform of the government. Former Canadian Defense Minister Paul Hellyer wants openness in government: DISCLOSURE of unexplained phenomenon information thus far covered up. I saw him speak this past weekend at Stephen Bassett's annual XConference. Also speaking at that conference was Apollo Astronaut Edgar Mitchell, who was so overwhelmed by the "oneness" of space that the following year in 1972 he founded the Institute for Noetic Sciences, to explore the limits of consciousness.

So what can folks do to bring Tax Freedom Day to an earlier point in the calendar? One goal is to protect the internet as a communication vehicle, since Statists find it hard to suppress liberating info on the Net - Comcast has pledged to keep the Net open, perhaps cynically to stave off Net Neutrality. Another goal is to create a better "mainstream" media, which you can help do by joining BreakTheMatrix, the alternative news media organ run by fundraiser Trevor Lyman to give people better information, including that which will make us less susceptible to the sophistry of the annoited Elite.

Breaking the Matrix is a radical idea, and Nock said radicalism is the true creed of the libertarian. He said this in the 1920s while differentiating the term with "liberal". Another radical, from the 1930s, was William Chamberlin, who wrote this classic about the similarity among the "isms". So let's rise above the isms and take back not just our country, but also our world, so we can all live and let live.

San Fran's newspaper exposes Elite Control Scheme

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 21:26:41 -0000

Both Parties are controlled by the same international elites, and in this new, Aquarian Age, we have to meditate, read worthwhile history (like the Mencken book alluded to below), and make our own informed choices. And today, the San Francisco Chronicle has exposed the NeoCon Elite's scheme to use fear and control to centralize power. Have you ever read anything as Orwellian as this?

"Beginning in 1999, the government has entered into a series of single-bid contracts with Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg, Brown and Root (KBR) to build detention camps at undisclosed locations within the United States. The government has also contracted with several companies to build thousands of railcars, some reportedly equipped with shackles, ostensibly to transport detainees."

And for what reason are concentration camps needed in each state of the Union?

Sect. 1042 of the 2007 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), "Use of the Armed Forces in Major Public Emergencies," gives the executive the power to invoke martial law. For the first time in more than a century, the president is now authorized to use the military in response to "a natural disaster, a disease outbreak, a terrorist attack or any other condition in which the President determines that domestic violence has occurred to the extent that state officials cannot maintain public order."
The Military Commissions Act of 2006, rammed through Congress just before the 2006 midterm elections, allows for the indefinite imprisonment of anyone who donates money to a charity that turns up on a list of "terrorist" organizations, or who speaks out against the government's policies. The law calls for secret trials for citizens and noncitizens alike.
Also in 2007, the White House quietly issued National Security Presidential Directive 51 (NSPD-51), to ensure "continuity of government" in the event of what the document vaguely calls a "catastrophic emergency." Should the president determine that such an emergency has occurred, he and he alone is empowered to do whatever he deems necessary to ensure "continuity of government." This could include everything from canceling elections to suspending the Constitution to launching a nuclear attack. Congress has yet to hold a single hearing on NSPD-51.

And to fill those camps with dissidents, er, I mean, terrorists:

U.S. Rep. Jane Harman, D-Venice (Los Angeles County) has come up with a new way to expand the domestic "war on terror." Her Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007, which passed the House by the lopsided vote, would set up a commission to "examine and report upon the facts and causes" of so-called violent radicalism and extremist ideology, then make legislative recommendations on combatting it.
A clue as to where Harman's commission might be aiming is the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, a law that labels those who "engage in sit-ins, civil disobedience, trespass, or any other crime in the name of animal rights" as terrorists. Other groups in the crosshairs could be anti-abortion protesters, anti-tax agitators, immigration activists, environmentalists, peace demonstrators, Second Amendment rights supporters ... the list goes on and on. According to author Naomi Wolf, the National Counterterrorism Center holds the names of roughly 775,000 "terror suspects" with the number increasing by 20,000 per month.

The San Francisco Chronicle is a mainstream media company, so no one can call this conspiracy theory.

There will be more and more dissidents subject to these Police State laws as dissidents are created by Elite funding of both sides of advocacy fights. Take the immigration battle: both sides are controlled. Immigration shouldn't be an issue - our Constitution grants no Power for the federal govt to interfere in human movement in or out of the border. All the Founders wanted was a system of Naturalization by which immigrants could become citizens, and otherwise Free Trade to make sure no foreigner wanted to kill us and to ensure a growing economy to employ all the newcomers.

Another Elite favorite is the Drug War, against which even former cops are advocating through a group called LEAP. Yesterday I blogged about a client's lawsuit to overturn the whole war. Speaking of Enforcement, here's what H.L. Mencken, American's great social critic from the 1920s, said. Can't wait to read his just-found book, "Notes on Democracy".

And when the Elite face criticism, they do a minimal amount of good things, and make sure their Elite media friends broadcast about those actions. The World Trade Organization, for example, is colluding with Big Pharma and Big Agra to have the United Nation's Codex group outlaw natural food and nutrients, as blogged previously. But WTO also does help consumers gain access to more goods and services. Does the latter, then, justify extra-national government, of which the WTO is an example?

Another international body facilitates Elite control of developing countries. The World Bank funds giant infrastructure projects that, since they do not arise from the private sector, lack long term sustainability, and at the same time crowd out investment that otherwise would fund loans to middle class retailers. Congressman Paul says as much in a recent Banking Committee hearing.

The Elite want their "frankenfoods," and they're isolating Europe's intransigence with appeals about the hunger of the world.

Elites now are being blamed by a SE Asian country for using Avian Flu as a BioTerrorist weapon, and as a Big Pharma tool to sell vaccines.

But the Elites can't handle threats to their War against Terrorism: no acquittals are allowed in Gitmo, which should be ceded back to Cuba, just as trade restrictions with Cuba should be lifited with Castro's departure. And for those taken in by Michael Moore's "Sicko," that Castro's healthcare system was admirable, think again.

Not only are acquittals prohibited for the poor prisoners at Guantanomo, but also dissent in the Media is verboten, as Chez found out at CNN, for his Huffington blogging.

Finally, I can't believe the Elites are interfering in children playtime with legos.

2012: Depression & Oppression

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 21:43:25 -0000

Four years from the Mayans' end time, 2012, let's hear Art Bell's interview of Graham Hancock, an ancient mysteries investigator. Apparently our solar system will pass the galactic center in that year's winter solstice (December 21), exposing the Sun to extreme energy; the Sun, in turn, will reflect some of that energy towards Earth, changing our polarity, and much more, perhaps. That, or nothing happens. Or maybe we shouldn't care, at least this month, as March Madness brings us our annual college basketball tournament fun.

Plus, the fourth and final Battlestar Gallactica series is about to begin! (Speaking of outer space, here's Exopolitics' Alfred Webre interviewing Stephen Greer about the UN Conference on Disclosure - will ETs be part of our life in a few years? apparently so, specifically in 2013).

According to Yogi Bhajan, people are supposed to raise their consciousness via kundalini yoga or some similar spiritual discipline, to survive the 2012 transition and prosper in the Aquarian Age. Christians can start on this journey by learning about their spiritual sage, St Francis of Assisi, as former Soviet Premier Gorbachev has done. Back to space, yesterday Arthur C. Clarke, the great SF writer who helped develop space communications and travel, passed away - he saw religion as evidence of humanity's infancy.

Narayan the Face Reader said the Powermongers would amass as much control as possible as the Piscean Age comes to an end (in 2012). And that they would fight like hell, like cornered tigers, to protect their gains. One aspect of control comes from buying off the intelligentsia; indeed, this interview shows how taxpayer funded research tends to brainwash scientists into an innovation-threatening conformity. And with this enforced conformity, some congresscritter now is proposing funding FDA salesmen visiting doctors to give "unbiased" info, to counter the "biased" info of Big Pharma reps.

And the scientists are ganging up on simple, effective drugs, like opioids for pain (such as Oxycontin); but Reason's Jacob Sullum writes that Prohibition has no basis in science. Whether it's scientists behaving like nazis, or Drug Warriors ravaging the lives of pain patients, government is getting out of control. But when reformers try to uncover government abuses with FOIA requests, there is less sunshine on govt now than ever.

It's not like the Powermongers are amassing power just now, as 2012 approaches. Since time's beginning the Governing Class has abused the majority, often with the approval of the Sheep-like masses. Ike warned us against this Military-Industrial Complex, perhaps because he knew that WWII was not as necessary as the conforming majority insists? Of course, if you discuss the crime FDR committed in withholding foreknowledge of Pearl Harbor from his Hawaiian military officers, or if you study the problems in the 9/11 Investigation, as Obama's Rev Wright did (and as this Japanese politician is doing), you get attacked as a bigot by the NeoCon Axis. [And speaking of Japanese, it turns out that next door in Korea, that country had a classical liberal worth praising back in the 1700s.]

On the 5th anniversary of the West's immoral and counterproductive preemptive attack on the sovereign nation of Iraq, the usually great George Mason economist, Walter Williams, falls into a jingoistic, nationalistic frenzy with respect to fear of "IslamoTerrorism". How pathetic. As Rose Wilder Lane wrote in her 1943 classic, "Discovery of Freedom," the safest place to be for a dissident, during the Dark Ages Millenium from 500 AD until 1500 AD, was in the Islamic Empire, from Spain to Central Asia's Samarkand. Yesterday 200 peaceful anti-Iraq War dissidents were arrested, when protesting in front of the IRS. (And Oklahoma, a conservative state, may jail these CONSERVATIVE activists, for, well, activism).

The best defense against terrorists or criminals is commerce, to build wealth which decreases the demand for redress of greivances. The second best defense is being armed with a gun; but Alex Jones disagrees with libertarians who seem confident that the Supreme Court has the necessary 5 votes to overturn D.C.'s gun ban.

To protect your assets as the New (information/gnossis) Age starts, Investment Biker author Jim Rogers discusses investing in "things," while abolishing the Fed Reserve, which Robert Novak castigates here for entering new territory with its unauthorized bailout of an investment bank. For those laughing at gold's sudden minor reduction, dont' be fooled! (But Gary North does suggest an exit strategy for gold). And here's the Times urging caution before joining Rogers in buying up commodities.

To save the environment, which apparently is going to hell as 2012 arrives, from Big Business polluters, the solutions touted by Big Environment usually fail - witness ethanol. Now, the Prius Car does just as poorly. As I often recommend, property rights and restitution are the environment's best friends, as Mary Ruwart ("Healing Our World" author) can explain. McCain's worldwide "cap-and-trade" system is a govt effort, and thus is doomed to failure.

One of the most shocking revelations of our supposed modern world is that more humans suffer as slaves than ever before. Will they be free by 2012? Only with free trade, in my opinion (which is a prerequisite to building a middle class, which is a prerequisite to building a broader array of small businesses, which will need to pay labor, thus cutting slavery). If we accepted Mencken's definition of slave, we'd have even more than the referenced report.

Let's forget about the Powermongers' march to 2012 for a month, though, as we watch 20 year olds try to win basketball games.

Free from Govt, which Doesn't want you Free

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 21:33:22 -0000

Enlightened people realize Government is a creature of the powerful, and thus do what they can to box it in (as our Founders tried with the Constitution). Government, however, demands to be fed, on behalf of its powerful controllers who use govt to consolidate oligopolic control. So when the Central Banks around the world facilitate Takeovers disguised as bailouts, let us be honest about what's really happening. We may seek freedom from Government, but the beast is hungry to feed on us. Reason's collected nice criticism of the Bear Stearns bailout.

Quick advice: with economic implosion, it's not too late to diversify your assets into EuroPacific Capitol, whose owner Peter Schiff argues here against Wall Street's Arthur Laffer. Schiff is a protege of "investment biker" Jim Rogers, a contrarian commodities bull who just said we "should abolish the Fed!" And this Video at the recent Austrian Scholars Conference got rave reviews.

Many entrepreneurs - some geniuses and others billionaires - did fine without govt schooling. Sufficient internet research enlightens one about the dangerous nature of government schooling. So perhaps more and more parents will free their kids, allowing them to self-design a superior education experience. We also need to free the kids from forced drugging from vaccines - here's the FTC petition to protect us from false vaccine advertising.

While setting kids free from govt education makes sense, why can't progressives understand that freedom to choose healthy lifestyles must include all other health freedoms, in order to have a better health system? After opposing govt interference in natural supplements, for example, the Organic Consumers Assoc makes the opposite recommendation for overall health reform: ceding health care to the govt (universal health care). For systems to improve, they must be freed from all govt subsidies and interference. I have a medical savings account with catastophic insurance, and I eat an alkaline diet and do kundalini yoga every morning - that's one secret of healthy living. If we repealed the FDA and USDA, repealed state benefit mandates, repealed state prohibitions on out-of-state insurance purchasing, and forced price disclosure on the part of hospitals and doctors, the health system would become more innovative and cheaper as well.

Part of health freedom is the right to medicine when in pain, but when the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing last Wednesday on addiction, they ignored the crisis in pain management, as testified by a client, the Pain Relief Network.

The Whole Foods chain has done more than any entity in cleaning up peoples' diets and environmental behavior. Markets work: even today, Pepsi announced it would replace its poisonous high fructose corn syrup with cane sugar. As a yogi I hate chemicals in food, but as a libertarian I fear ceding power to government to do something about it. Private property rights - for waterways - would do so much also to save the environment, particularly in terms of over-fertilization or govt subsidies for energy alternatives like ethanol or electricity.

Government is government, whether it's killing foreigners in unnecessary wars or smothering incentives with regulations and welfare. And yet not only do people seem to have no problem with a govt takeover of healthcare, but also they still seem unconcerned about the growing Police State:

Pity America's poor civil libertarians. In recent weeks, the papers have been full of stories about the warehousing of information on Americans by the National Security Agency, the interception of financial information by the CIA, the stripping of authority from a civilian intelligence oversight board by the White House, and the compilation of suspicious activity reports from banks by the Treasury Department. On Thursday, Justice Department Inspector General Glenn Fine released a report documenting continuing misuse of Patriot Act powers by the FBI. And to judge from the reaction in the country, nobody cares.

Reason's Sanchez slams wiretapping here. If someone thinks security is better than liberty, he probably also worries not at all about the "law of unintended consequences." Very few understand, for example, that the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act can result in non-animal protesters being labeled, fined and jailed as "terrorists".

As Big Brother prepares to crack down on U.S. dissidents, it will be harder for individuals to defend themselves if the Supreme Court decides, based on tomorrow's oral arguments, that the Appeals Court was wrong to overturn Washington, D.C.'s gun ban. If this ban doesn't violate our 2nd Amendment Right to Defend ourselves from criminals or govthugs, what does? Without defense, we'll be treated as this suspect was, in rendition flights for torture in anonymous dungeons.

In addition to having force as a way to assert constitutional rights, juries need to nullify laws if prosecutors or judges try to imprison citizens with unconstitutional laws. But trying to assert this jury right is next to impossible, as you can see with this awful peer pressure here.

Dissidents overseas suffer in the worst way. Pity the Dalai Llama's Buddhist monks, being oppressed by China's government; or the Iraqi translators, denied entry into the U.S. because they're needed to "build democracy in Iraq". But wait, here's a Senatorial candidate seeking an end to U.S. embargo against Cuba. Will voting for this candidate matter? Emma Goldman says if doing so made any difference, "voting would be illegal." Next up for imperial brutality is Iran, with Air Force General Fallon no longer around to stop the march. But this March 19, anyone can march in front of the IRS, to protest War.

To help yourself assert your Freedom, imagine how you'd react if personally meeting Ayn Rand. And going further into history, NBA legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar blogs how my hero, Thomas Jefferson, was a hypocrite for excluding his slaves from his opposition to slavery - in the words of that time's DeVinci: a freed slave named Benjamin Banneker. But history is full of foul imperialists too; John Adams was not among them.

World Turning Upside Down - McGovern now for Liberty

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 21:32:12 -0000

Prominent libertarian Lew Rockwell voted in 1972 for McGovern over Nixon, a decision that brings ridicule from modern conservatives. It turns out that today's McGovern is no big regulating liberal. Here he opposes heavy-handed mortgage regulations in response to the worsening Recession. The world is turning upside down.

Resucitating McGovern's reputation pleases me, since an early political book I read growing up was Hunter Thompson's, "Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail," about the McGovern campaign. It's nice when progressives become pro-market, and it's nice when conservatives find tolerance in alternative lifestyles.

Regulations are a "shell game," a collusion between Big Business and Big Government. Big Agra, in the form of Monsanto, for example, consistently schemes with their bureaucrat friends at FDA and USDA to avoid disclosure to consumers that their "recombined" version of a natural hormone in milk, is not safe. Don't drink the water either, if you don't want the known poison fluoride. Another threat to health, according to the FDA, is tamiflu, the purported antidote to the flu, especially a possible avian flu pandemic - and Bush's bioterrorism plan includes forced tamiflu drugging. Don't build that immigration wall at the border - with this kind of coming Police State we need to escape!

Shell Game actually is a new novel in which NeoCons detonate an A-Bomb in America, to blame Iran and justify an expansion of Empire. In a radio interview to boost sales, the author stunned the host with new evidence about the tragic 9/11 Coverup.

As the majority of Americans who doubt the veracity of the 9/11 Commission Report grows to an even higher percentage, we can expect the FBI to testify, like it did yesterday, that "in the future" we'll obey the law when spying on Americans without warrants, but that up until now we haven't been able to, "for national security" reasons. Could they be spying on dissidents, progressives and libertarians? Nah, "It Can't Happen Here!"

To stem independent thinking, the State long has seen government schooling as key. California courts just ruled as criminal the schooling at home of children. Mises' Tom Woods warned about this result, in quoting a 19th century Big School activist. Woods, by the way, recommends a great reminder of our Constitution, politically-incorrect style.

Meanwhile, the immigration controllers and healthcare/development do-gooders are making havoc for this Ghanaian doctor in Maryland. Hey activists, nationalists and medical protectionists: humans have a right to go where they please on Earth! If Africans want their entrepreneurs to stay, they need to limit their governments' rapaciousness, as Alvaro Llosa wrote similarly for Latin American development. And when poor foreigners try to trade, as the Palestinians try to do in this example, to pull themselves out of misery, they are blocked by Imperial puppets. Another way Elites torture the world's poor is via its Drug War, which among many problems, denies opioid medicine to relieve pain. Now these internationalists want to deny the ancient coca leaf for South Americans. A client, Pain Relief Network, just lost a court case to protect access to pain medicine, but this gardening supplier is now free - after a decade in prison for selling the wrong kind of lightbulbs.

To cure this mess, to right the reversed world, a book has been released, "The Revolution: a Manifesto". Leading the needed revolution will be attendees of this weekend's "Organized Resistance" conference. With American's mood at its lowest point since 2002, if now's not the time for change, when is?

Maybe McGovern can lead the new libertarian revolution.

Open Govt good, but not for UFO disclosure

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 21:30:32 -0000

It's wonderful when I see stories that combine the 3 aspects of the Aquarian Age - liberty, liberation and truth. Liberty is needed to allow individuals the space to create; liberation is needed to go beyond traditional boundaries; and truth is needed to overcome the ignorance propogated by the Elite. UFOs and ancient astronaut theories are true, but when this Cato anti-trust scholar continued his 30 years investigation on the government's coverup, he was fired. Talk about fear.

Lawyers will "fire" prospective jurors if they intend to "nullify" laws, not just rule on guilt or innocence. But it's nice to see these HBO writers call for dissident nullification for nonviolent drug crimes. And not only must we nullify unconstitutional laws, but also we must resist centralized justice in general - as Arizona tries to do by prosecuting this federal agent in State court versus Federal court. Given how criminal our border agents are, it's not surprising a state wants to reign them in. And given what a failure our Domestic Spy State has become, it's sad that more individuals aren't advocating against it.

Of course governments in states aren't any better than a national government. State barriers to entry by out-of-state insurance is one of the reasons for the high cost of insurance. Some reformers want to fix this by creating a national charter for insurance. I say properly interpret the Commerce Clause, and thus prohibit states from interfering with the commerce of insurance - but the latter may never happen.

Progressives have their heart in the right place, but they are irreversibly brainwashed when it comes to solving problems. If the solution doesn't involve coercion via the State, a progressive has no idea how to clean the environment. (And trying to explain the "Aquairian Liberty" solution - property rights and restitution - falls on deaf ears). That's too bad, since Ron Paul shows at this small, healthy farms event that libertarian policy is the environmentalist' best friend. But when land is seized by the government, on behalf of some environmental interest, that interest may find the land being used by a competing interest: socializing property creates a war over how the land is used.

But libertarians and conservatives are too sanguine on the safety of GMOs or the danger of ecoterrorism. All we natural consumers want is disclosure when food is unnaturally modified. If genetically-modified food is safe, disclosure won't hurt its marketing. Meanwhile, it's great that these folks are encouraging Big Food to refuse to buy GMO sugar beets. And while ecoterrorism can threaten property and life, laws already exist against such harms. And broadening the definition of terrorism just feeds the Police State, curbing dissident activism and casting a pall of fear on the People. By the way, Big Food's contaminating of the food supply is so complete, that this chart shows how almost impossible it is to avoid poisons like MSG. And it's becoming harder for Big Pharma to escape liability for the lie of vaccine safety.

With the Depression aggravating economic pain, investors need to flee Wall Street and seek investors with a knowledge in Austrian economics. Google "Adrian Day" or "Peter Schiff," for example, to diversify your assets. As partial proof of the chicanery of the elite Wall Street types, look at this defensive maneuvering on their part, in this case to protect what are called "sovereign wealth" funds. It's not like central bankers haven't been debauching the currency in order to subsidize failing giants. Indeed, leaders as far back as 6th century Greek Solon have done so to help Big Business. Inflating currencies away is one reason why alternative money is so important, so it's sad to see E-Gold struggling with overbearing government attack.

The Elite are so disgusting that they're having Big Therapy exploit children to report on parents that fail to meet minimum behavioral requirements of Big Brother. And parents who homeschool their kids may be jailed now too. Not only might Therapy lead to jail, but also Big Medica kills so many people that advocates now are questioning whether universal coverage is a good thing - instead, more natural living via supplements, wholesome food and natural therapies is the key to health.

One of the great philosophers of the 20th century, Rothbard, provides the most comprehensive idea on the part of Aquarian consciousness dealing with liberty. Even if everyone becomes libertarian, it's still who counts the votes that matters - and in the most recent primary in Texas, the fraud continues.

People want the Truth

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 21:28:14 -0000

It's March 3rd and the Winter is turning into Spring - the weather's getting nicer. But Government remains bad and is getting worse. Thankfully, people are demanding the truth, and revised histories are turning up, putting to pasture the Elites' simplistic and false histories that have brainwashed us into acquiescence to their Powermongering.

I'm just back from cleansing in New Mexico. It isn't good enough to think a "balanced diet" and an occasional walk will maintain your health. We're so acidic that extraordinary measures - like Cleansing and yoga - need to be taken on a monthly basis. Government aggravates our non-alkaline blood with their control of the air (poisoning it with chemtrails, shown here in Las Vegas), water (poisoning it with chlorine), agriculture (depleting it with GMOs & pesticides, or allowing non-disclosed hazardous pollution), medicine (using regulation to bankrupt naturopaths, or letting their pain specialists rot in jail [while politicians like Senator McCain can get away with pain med abuse that would jail a regular person] and pharmaceuticals (using FDA to harass supplement companies, or lying about dangerous vaccines and requiring forced drugging, or pushing therapies that don't work like chemotherapy). Hippies and conservatives should be able to cooperate when it comes to freedom to live cleanly.

How govt got this awful could be described as a "silent coup". Liza Perrson writes how the GOP Government stealthily passed precedents transferring congressional Power to the "Unitary" executive branch - changes that will survive the November election. There's more and more evidence that Cheney et. al. had planned a "Pax Americana" well before 9/11. Of course, getting the cops to do the bidding of the elite is critical - here's a policeman encouraging citizens to snoop on all who "don't belong" and who might engage in "suspicious behavior". The ACLU says the FBI already has almost a million names on its Terror Watch list.

How we got here as a species requires new views of history. This Jewish writer's history of Stalin's purges reminds us that no ethnic group has resisted the temptation of savagery in pursuit of some idealism. And when the US reign of the Neocons comes to an end, will we be able to say, "don't blame us, we weren't part of the Empire"? More surprising Jewish history comes from this Tel Aviv professor - particularly his allusion to Koestler's "The 13th Tribe", about the mass conversion of the 8th century Khazars in the Caucusus, and how they became the European Ashkenazi.

No one's immune from the new history, even Stalin's friend FDR - in this case from John Flynn of the "Old Right".

These revised histories are a response to consumer demand for the truth, and it's refreshing to see skepticism from all sorts of people: witness this Oscar winner's doubts over government explanations regarding the Moon Landing and 9/11.

Back to Stalin, it appears his gulag is being reopened to detain immigrants in the European Union. And communists are making a comeback in our own Police State, in the form of liberal front groups, according to Makow, especially those with "human rights," "peace," "tolerance," or "diversity" in their names.

Another activist group are environmentalists: Now that the globe may be cooling instead of warming, will the enviros still try to push their same Big Government solutions? My former Cato colleague Pat Michaels concedes warming does exist, if marginally, and that humans can be partially blamed for it. But the more important question, I think, is how to make polluters pay.

Major communist fighter & erudie conservative William F. Buckley passed away last week. He gave gravitas to the movement, but he disgustingly purged any mavericks like Rand, Sobran, Welch, and Rothbard, whom history will remember much more than WFB - according to Rockwell.

For those that want to protest Big Government in D.C., or at the GOP Convention, Devvy Kidd discusses both options. If we shrink government, the People will gain more small business start up opportunities: this person says "why wait? quit your corporate job now!" Lysander Spooner said the goal of everyone should be to start a sole proprietorship, with affordable credit if needed, from a free banking system. Of course, if you form an unpopular opinion, your small business could be arbitrarily stolen by Big Brother, as happened to this poor Lebanese retailer in Detroit.

To learn more about real economics, the Mises Institute just found this 1960s classic by Ballve; it's like Hazlitt's Economics in One Lesson.

Being good to each other, & fighting for your Rights

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 21:25:32 -0000

We yogis are able to apply astrological symbolism to heavenly bodies, and use ancient numerology to interpret events. Wednesday is attached to the planet Mercury, the ancient "God" for business communication. So, it's on this day each week that it's good to have business meetings. And when you add the numbers of today's date, you get two 2's, and a 8,9 and 4. These have to do with, respectively, "getting along with others," "energizing for good works," "experiencing the enlightenment," and "serving as a lighthouse to the lost". So today's post will build off these themes.

Let the chemists sell their science, but don't stymie research on the effect of chemicals on the environment and in our bodies. Reason gives the other side on GMO crops, saying farmers like them. Turns out parental fears about pedophiles hunting their kids online, are without basis.

But what is not exaggerated are the real child predators from county social welfare agencies and their cronies in family courts - this Russian immigrant family lost their autistic son to incarceration, because the govt doesn't approve of non-drug therapy. The enforcement thugs are out of control: witness this poor, handcuffed woman being beaten by the cops. And now a study proves that more guns means less crime: to protect us from insane cops or mad criminals, we need our 2nd Amendment Right affirmed! But this Right may become meaningless if this law professor convinces world bureaucracy that we have no Human Right to Self-Defense. And my pain client is fighting back in Kansas, with a lawsuit and lots of media coverage: here's PRN's press conference.

Not only is the government protecting Big Chemica from Endocrine Disruptor studies (see above), but also the government in England wants to subject every rambunctious-behaving adolescent to spying by doctors and social workers, and being fed by them into a database. Isn't this the plot of Philip Dick's "Minority Report", made into a movie starring Tom Cruise, and haven't we read stories recently about database corruption (see previous blogs)?

The untrustworthy nature of government is so established that the European Union should face no argument in its new desire for a new 9/11 investigation.

While it's sad that the Supreme Court has rebuffed ACLU's effort to protect us from warrantless spying, ACLU's inconsistency and hyperfocus on "privacy" over property rights or contracts is dangerous to constitutional Rights.

With the new Energy law subjecting fuel alternatives to WTO elimination, do we still want to support "free trade" agreements that rely on a non-American governing body to interfere in our political decisions? And in the meat recall, all that will happen is more funding for USDA inspections, adding to the meat price that subsidized ethanol already has aggravated.

Regulations are never pro-consumer; rather, as Friedman said, they are pro-business, because they are advocated by larger businesses to bankrupt their smaller competitors. As Walmart and other retailers start offering general health care services, watch the American Medical Association (Big Medica) try to shut them down.

The dollar and economy are collapsing, and Hayek talked about the gold standard solution as far back as 1977.

Going even further into history, I'm anxious to see the Folger exhibit exploring the savage politics of the Shakespeare era. Having read Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle, the intrigue of mainstream history versus what researchers now are finding, makes this a more fascinating topic every year.

And as we started today's blog with ancient yoga, we end with ancient Greek astronomy, and the solving of the device found in the sunken shipwreck: it's a solstice, planet and star tracker from Hipparchus' 2nd Century.