Saturday, July 07, 2007

[dog days] summer in the city


Loving Spoonful's summer in the city

Back of my neck getting awfully gritty

Choking heat - really not so pretty

Can't seem to reach the forest it's a pity

So tonight a different scene

Forget the girl I know it's mean

Curse the blistering day it's been

Never mind the supper

Sipping cuppa after cuppa . . .


Forecast - just won't bring the heat down

All the car and truck fumes - ain't nowt but to sit down

Cool change - a dream that just can't be found

Doesn't seem to be a shadow on the baked ground

Toss and turn the whole night through

Dreams of winter things to do

Turn the lights down - mosquitoes too

Waiting for the first snow

Only have to lie low . . .



[blogfocus saturday] post hiatus blues

After quite some hiatus, Blogfocus has returned and some of the newer readers might not know the format. You soon will.

1] Sometimes a blog can hardly be called a blog in the sense which we know it. Sueblimely runs a "help" blog which can lead you to help hints, templates and anything you need to know about the mechanics of blogging. Plus she does my own trick and introduces new blogs. A useful site to stop by. For example:

A couple of sites appealed to my perhaps slightly offbeat sense of humor this week.

· Halliburton's One-Size-Fits-All Climate Change Solution

· Winners of the "I Look Like My Dog" Contest

2] Also in the help and advice category is Simply Social, with Caroline Biggs. More than useful if you're a woman with conservative leanings:

"Simply Social is great, it has taken me to events that I would never have gone to on my own and many which I would not have even heard about! I have had a great deal of fun and in addition I have made new friends. I am happy to recommend Simply Social to any woman who likes to go out and have a bit of fun". [Yvonne]

3] Staying with the Carolines for now, Caroline Hunt is not just a honey, she's the 56th best Conservative blogger on the internet:

Anyone who follows movie news will have seen the various reports coming out of Germany about Tom Cruises next role. He plays Col. Claus von Stauffenberg and it's going to be awful. Sorry but it just is. Hollywood does assassination of Hitler with the director of X-Men. It's just not going to work.

4] David Johnson is wandering the ether on the other side of the pond and now he's wandering the park:

It's been several years since the last time I watched the fireworks. Mostly because It's been several years since the last time I felt patriotic, or that America deserved to celebrate anything. Here in town, going to see the city works meant going to a park and laying down a blanket or setting up lawn chairs amidst a sea of strangers, over top soil soaked with old beer and last week's event.

5] I'd like to count Oddiya as one of our own Blogpowerers and many of you out there are not yet fully aware of the blogpower we have in our midst:

It is estimated that the mountain pine beetle has destroyed 40% of British Columbia's lodgepole pine since 1993. University researchers have now found evidence that the beetle is adapting to spruce as well.

6] The hillside is a great place to observe from and why go any further than another of our own Blogpowerers - MJW?

I saw something rather unpleasant on Saturday afternoon and it wasn’t just a scrappy game of rugby; on the way back from Twickenham, my fiancé and I broke our journey home in Croydon, to do a little bit of shopping. Walking across North End, which is basically the main pedestrian shopping district, going in to Debenhams, we walked past a group of black youths, males in their late teens, who appeared trying to get two bull terriers to fight each other.

Read the rest yourself.

7] Pink Acorn is not a bad name for a site and here she is in action:

Today I visited Second Life (SL), a virtual reality site. Like I need any more reality. I have been reading the "Sicily Scene" blog and the author was nominated for a BlogPower Award. Another blogger set up a room in SL to have the awards presentation. Once you register you can choose your wardrobe, among other things. So any-hoo, the first thing I do is change my clothes because, to me, I look like a slut. The choices I had weren't much better, but hey, it must have been good for someone as this guy walked up and asked if he could kiss me. I said , "NO", I must ask Uncle Guido first.

8] Bringing up the rear this evening is Phishez Rule's Sanity Optional and this blog is already attracting quite some attention:

So I got tagged by Ingsoc. There's this completely new and unheard of meme going around where you list eight random things about you. What? You've already heard of it. Damn. Here they are

1. I have size 10 feet. 9 and 1/2 in dancing shoes.

2. I always put my left shoe on first.

3. I once thought I could be a professional writer. This is not as close as I'll get.

4. I like old cemeteries. They feel so peaceful.

Next Focus will feature The Lone Voice. See you Wednesday.

[dancing] tripping the light fantastic

Quite frankly, I detest dancing.

Let me make that a bit clearer. I love dance - good dance is wonderful to behold and the way those men and women can move, especially on ice, is breathtaking. Torville and Dean were two of my favourites.

I'd love to be able to step onto the dance floor , stride up to the loveliest woman and then transport her around the room on light feet, never once stepping on her toes. I almost did this in Second Life. Alas, that is the virtual world.

Looking through history, it was never a question, pre-war, so I believe. One supposedly learnt to dance. One learnt to foxtrot and tango to tolerable levels [today that's moved on to the Salsa] and the waltz was a piece of cake. The days of dancing lessons really died out towards the end of my youth and though I was taught the moves, they were never later utilized.

Where the average girl will start gyrating the hips to the strains of the latest song, we just tap our feet and nod in time, then go out and kick a football round or bounce a basketball and slam-dunk it. For the average girl, on the other hand, dancing is in the soul, in the physionomy - she's done it since two years of age. She knows all the moves. She feels the dance inside her.

Therein lies the problem.

There are so few guys for whom dancing is more than piston-pumping arms and feet two-square on the floor, drink in hand. For them, clubbing is just the scene, the girls, the atmosphere, the beat, the rhythm. A proportion realize it's much more and adore it.

I honestly think there should be a medal awarded to any mother who gently guides her young son into dance so that by the time he needs it, he's a natural.

Scene

Our hotel in Tenerife some years back. My girl is an accomplished dancer in the "knows-all-the-moves" tradition. Everything, right down to the moonlight, has been custom-ordered for the evening. A flamenco show of great skill gives way to the guests pouring onto the terrace looking out over the sea and what are we going to do?

I feel trapped. Hers, I know full-well, is club dancing and at home, she puts on some music and immediately breaks into dance. Mine is the move-swiftly-on-the-feet-and-hope-for-the-best variety. I haven't danced for years.

I hate it.

You see, years earlier a particularly obnoxious woman, not even my own partner, laughed at my two left feet and at the time I'd wanted to say:

"Yeah, well can you spin a rugby ball vertically over ten metres and land it two metres in front of your fly half or glide through the pack over the gain line? Can you tackle a man four stone heavier and bring him down? Can you score a basket 7 times out of 10?"

We only do well at those things we practise and we only practise that which we love and we only love that which we do well. That which we know we're not adept at - we shy away from.

I'd shied away until this night. Some woman thinks I'm a klutz? OK - that's the end for me. Never mind that I once went to a dance party and danced with almost every girl there. I'm a klutz with two left feet and my current partner this night shows this in her eyes.

So the horror begins and I do what I can. She's doing all these fabulous moves and I'm meant to stand a metre and a half away in this stupid modern manner and do mine. Except I don't have any moves, so I have to make some up but we're not dancing together - she's for her and I'm what I can be.

I hate it.

Then comes a slow number and I'm back in business. With physical contact again I can guide her a little, use the body, I feel lighter on the feet, she suggests this with her body and we try it, I suggest that. It almost works and she's intoxicating me.

I love it.

Back to the fast number and hell begins again and I'm sick of it. I steer her to the side and go and get some drinks. An old, wizened and yet debonaire twinkle-toed Spaniard moves up and compliments the two of us on our dancing.

Yes? Truly? A small smile breaks out on the Higham visage because we'd been watching his partner and him earlier and they were mighty good for that age.

Back with my partner I tell her what he'd said and she laughs sardonically. So we go through with it until the wee hours and then the walk on the shore and the moonlight and the rest of the night I'm on safe ground with.

Next day I look back on the night with relief that the situation was somehow recovered afterwards with the aid of the moon and the shore but as for that horrid modern metre-and-a-half distant, chemistry killing so-called "dancing" - I secretly resolve never to dance again.

And I never have since that night.

[virtual world] ventures into the real

The police are rightly worried:

"Our environmental scanning tells us that even with some of the cloning of human beings - not necessarily in Australia but in those countries that are going to allow it - you could have potentially a cloned part-person, part-robot," Australian Federal Police (AFP) Commissioner Mick Keelty said. "You could (also) have technology acting at the direction of a human being, but the human being being distanced considerably from the actual crime scene."

Mr Keelty said scams had sprung up in online virtual worlds such as Second Life, where people can spend real money via credit cards to buy products such as virtual real estate and gifts. "Policing that is going to be quite difficult," he said.

There is a point, it seems to me, where the clear hijacking and brazen usage of the security forces by the cabal groomed political leadership to remove citizens' rights must be tempered by the need to circumvent genuine crims. I feel much sympathy for the security services today, especially the ordinary officer doing his or her duty.

[rachida dati] les planchers pour les récidivistes

Think it's completely the right way to go:

Rachida Dati était attendue, elle fut observée, au Sénat, où elle présentait hier le projet de loi antirécidive. Pour la première fois, la fille du maçon marocain, élevée dans une famille de douze enfants, garde des Sceaux depuis près de deux mois, affrontait l'arène parlementaire.

Face à une opposition rompue à la polémique, Rachida Dati, épaulée par Roger Karoutchi, secrétaire d'État chargé des Relations avec le Parlement, excellent connaisseur du Sénat, dont il fut longtemps membre, pratique la méthode diplomatique : ton serein, argumentation délayée dans le but de convaincre plutôt que d'écraser l'adversaire.

Female of Moroccan extraction introduces the recidivist act and undercuts the predictable polemique in the coutious and measured manner of its introduction. Politics at its best in my eyes.

Friday, July 06, 2007

[blastocysts] and the dunblane massacre

One was named Sophie North

Occasionally top bloggers produce a tour de force. This is one of those occasions.

[for the girls] that's all

[from small creeks] mighty rivers become

Well, that's a relief! It seems that at least two Americans recognize that the U.S. of A. is going to be without the wooden implement on the right, up the topographical feature in the main photo, unless they wake up very, very soon.

[lesson 3] new order

Moving from the negative to the positive, what are the next steps?

1] Wresting control of government out of the hands of the cabals by focussing on the preselection procedures of all parties, especially the big two:

a] opening of all party memberships on a nominal fee covering admin and paperwork to any interested person, subject to criminal and psychological checks;

b] automatically yearly rotated party hierarchy positions into other income bands;

c] automatic declaration of all interests, subject to public scrutiny;

d] open recruiting drives in all major centres constituting an agreed proportion of the party budget;

e] automatic free local airtime of two minutes for any shortlisted preselection candidate;

f] listing of all aspiring candidates, with contact info in local papers and on an internet site which is advertised around the city;

g] right to set up soapboxes at any public venue and if garnering a quota of petition names, the local party must consider that name.

2] All home nations to have their own legislatures, including England, resolving the West Lothian Question:

a. Westminster becomes the English parliament;

b. British Advisory and Defence Council [responsible for Defence and international dipomacy] situated on either the Isle of Man or Jersey.

3] [In England]:

a. Mono-cameral legislature elected under proportional representation, the Queen's Premier Minister being the acknowledged leader of the party with the highest proportion;

b. House of Lords one third hereditary, one third appointed, one third elected, fulfilling its full role as the house of review;

c. Bill returned for the third time is null and void.

4]

a. DTI having a progressively reduced regulatory role but an increased advisory and promotional role, using tax incentives and free economic zones for those sectors it wishes to promote;

b. This doesn't advocate free trade but fair trade for a nation's traditionally accepted manufacturing strengths which will still enjoy progressively reducing tarrif protection linked to overall product and profit margins;

c. Business-friendly DTI stacked with businessmen and women, of declared interests, who constitute its advisory council whilst the executive functions are still run by the Minister;

d. Tax incentives and fast tracking for start up businesses and for financial institutions who will provide reduced rate loans to both start ups and short term businesses;

e. Incentives for major business to allocate start up funds for aspiring talent from secondary and tertiary institutions.

5]

a. Removal of all fees from tertiary students and entry predicated only on mark quotas by examination and coursework in the final year of school, open to any resident of seven years or longer;

b. Openly declared business recruiting allowed;

c. Fixed term positions for professors and lecturers, renewable by public forum in the same manner as elected positions in government;

6]

a. Trade sanctions [as distinct from military solutions] the sole means of coercion internationally, pressure on the UN to support such moves and provide financial incentives to any country operating this way;

b. Progressive multilateral disarmament [anti-ballistic treaties and the like] automatically renewable under UN auspices [not unlike auditing] in a progressive form [not unlike the situation in the late 80s/90s;

c. Countries which won't play ball sanctioned out of existence and trade cut off - the sole effective method.

7]

a. Financial incentives from the bolstered UN [which is currently serving many evil purposes] to countries demonstrating stable peace both within their borders and with neighbours;

b. Massive allocation of UN resources for water desalination and extraction projects worldwide;

c. Rotating HQ of the UN in the country of the Secretary-General's nation;

d. Secretary-General to serve 10 years.

Thursday, July 05, 2007

[caption comp] bottle of bubbly for best

[europe] do you love it

Should we leave the EU?
Yes
No
pollcode.com free polls

Some weeks back, I was playing about with the template and used this poll to help . Then I completely forgot to remove the poll from the template.

Result? Lots of people found it, thought it was for real and have voted. Have a look at the results!

[lesson 2] how to lose your readership

"The truth which makes men free is for the most part the truth men prefer not to hear" [Herbert Agar, Time for Greatness, 1942]
Further to my answer to
The Cityunslicker, I don't know where to start with this business of ascribing the "purpose" behind the seemingly suicidal policy of the financial elite and the military-industrial complex.

I agree with him that it would be economically illogical for them to undercut their own financial base but I think to create a western collapse is another matter - there are great profits to be made on a falling market.

Today my friend, who reveres most things western, was almost mocking:

"Oh and how in your country, with its democratic tradition, could a government get away with these things? They'd be voted out of office."

Me: "How? Look at the U.S. - Clinton and Thompson are both ex-CFR. Kerry and Bush were both from the same club."

"But in your society, the people have the power."

"Really? Read any website from my sidebar and see how much power the people have."

"But if they brought in unpopular legisalation, they'd be voted out."

"Hardly anyone knows about it. We call it "salami tactics", from a sitcom called Yes Prime Minister. "Slice by slice". The Blair government criminalized 3000 new aspects of human behaviour and only a few are known about, let alone debated." [Source: Tom Paine]

I can see the problem here.

People are seeking rational answers to the almost hard-driven government mania for acquiring powers over the people - the new Statism. I see no difficulty in understanding it at all because of the hundreds of pages I have in various places, ranging from the financiers through to the psychological and education communities.

How to get it to you and even if I could - would you read it? This is a blog, after all, where people have attention spans for about four witty paragraphs and that's it. The only way I can see to do it is just take fragments from all over the place and throw them together below.

Not to convince, naturally but just to get an idea of the sort of thing we're dealing with, which I'm quite sure the average person is not yet aware of. So here are some random excerpts lifted from various documents, focussing on the Power referred to by Senator Jenner:

# They are intelligent, well educated, and active in their local churches.

# These are NOT nice people and they use and manipulate others viciously. They cut their eye teeth on status, power, and money.

# A top western financier would secretly meet with an Eastern or Russian "adversary" during those years [Cold War], and have a good laugh at how the "sheep" were being deluded.

# The random factor in all of this is how the average citizen reacts. It can't be predicted, although the leadership will often invent different scenarios, and try to decide how they will act if the ordinary citizens react in an unexpected manner.

# Open royalty that is currently seen now, and "hidden royalty"…

# ...a lot of the current U.S. leadership will be in Europe when the change occurs, and many have homes there. They will be "changing nationalities" overnight, as it were.

# The Kennedy family were punished because they tried to disobey them. They were free thinkers, and too hard to "control".

# ...covertly supply guns and funds to BOTH sides to keep the conflict fueled. They are very duplicitous people.

# The government will call in its bonds and loans, and credit card debts will be called in. There will be massive bankruptcies nationwide. Europe will stabilize first and then Germany, France and England will have the strongest economies, and will institute, through the UN, an international currency. Japan will also pull out, although their economy will be weakened.

# The good news is that if a person is debt-free, owes nothing to the government or credit debt, and can live self sufficiently, they may do better than others. I would invest in gold, not stocks, if I had the income.

# They are still there, manipulating people, running banks, and channeling their dirty money to Brussels, Switzerland, and Cairo, Egypt.

# These people are very, very militaristic.

# [symbolism] The Phoenix, especially red on black, or the reverse - Butterflies and rainbow signs - A tiara - Star of David called "the great seal of Solomon" - "The Fifth Element" movie was based on the elements - a head with a computer inside …

# ...paedophiles, they abuse children and teach them, under duress, to become perpetrators themselves from earliest infancy. This alone means they should be stopped. They run the porn industry, along with other groups such as the Mafia drug smuggling, gun running, and human slavery…

# …if a lawyer is super rich, with no real identity, beware…

# …any press about them is the equivalent of a gnat to be swatted. Arrogant people make mistakes, and they are becoming more blatant and open in recent years…

# …creating new life or resuscitating from death is a major preoccupation…

# …use abuse to create obedient top-down hierarchies of control…

# Stopping pornography and child prostitution and drug smuggling and gun running would take a huge chunk out of their profits - the financial base would be severely dented…

# They place importance on bloodlines and trace their ancestry back to ancient times…

# …plurality of linguality is valued…

# They hate trees and forests for some reason…

# …they hate Israel with a passion …

# My younger sister remembers being tied up on a stone altar at the age of 3, with a gag in her mouth, and being raped.

# …[herself] stuck with pins and needles, being burned, hung by my feet - sometimes to crosses, spun, dropped off a table as an infant, near drowning…

# My church was very close locally, so they would take me out of class to be taken to the choir director's home to practice "choir" during schooltime…

# None of their techniques to erase memory was satisfactory. I think that's why there are so many survivors who are remembering.

# I think it is used as an incredible fund-raising ability to bring in large amounts of money underground with child pornography in international markets where it is highly sought after.

# …Point Magoo Naval Base where they had dolphin tanks in research, and there were places at Edwards Air Force Base and all sorts of different locations…

# Walter Bowart has a blurb in his book that says the big secrets are protected by their incredulity. And certainly I believe that those who strategized this were very well aware that when all of us started talking about these things that just like in Nazi Germany - people still today believe that a lot of those horrors didn't happen…

# "Don't these old money power groups have enough money already?" What is motivating them to perpetuate these atrocities? A: What I saw from the inside sitting in a group of these men, they more or less look at this as a game of their intellect - like a group of powerful men sitting in a room thinking up strategies of what benefits they might be able to have…

# Valerie Wolf and her survivor clients who were so courageous and stepped forward and opened the door on the mind control…

# It is my understanding now that A Most Dangerous Game was devised to condition military personnel in survival and combat maneuvers. Yet it was used on me and others known to me as a means of further conditioning the mind to the realization there was "no place to hide"…

# William Birnbauer, Melbourne Age, April 18, 2004: Dr Leeks is already being investigated by the board following claims that he allowed children to be punished with electric shock treatment and pain-inducing injections while in charge of a psychiatric hospital unit in NZ in the 1970s. The complaints include allegations of assault by staff, the use of electroconvulsive therapy and pain-inducing injections on children as well as sexual assault. From 1982 to 1984 he lived in Canada, and returned to Melbourne in 1984 to establish a private practice in Cheltenham

# Ewen Cameron, the founder of the World Psychiatric Association, funded through MKULTRA and Human Ecology Foundation by the Canadian military and the CIA, did LSD and other hallucinogen research and was successfully sued - he had already died and the CIA settled out of court with eight of his patients. One of his papers, published in the American Journal of Psychiatry is on Psychic Driving…

# Why aren't more people concerned about [this]? A: Because they simply can't, won't believe that this is happening.The evidence is there, but in my opinion, the average person does NOT want to know, and even when confronted with it, will look the other way. We as human beings want to believe the BEST of our race, not the worst.

If only a fraction of any of this had any truth to it, three descriptions spring to mind:

1] at the least - irresponsible, in those who supposedly govern us;

2] elements of the fiendish and cold;

3] simply mad.

The question of whether it's as mad as the kill-militias which now roam Iraq in and around the American army, as mad as the Janjaweed of Sudan, of Pol Pot or of the Algerian Islamic Satanist militias - that's a moot point. Does "cold and clinical" make them any better than "gleaming-eyed" and "frenzied"?

You understand I'm not referring to George W. or Cheney or Blair or any of the "open faces" here. I'm referring to the secretive faceless men.

Two can play at that game.

[dreamliner] boeing makes its big green play

So the dreamliner has been rolled out:

Richard Aboulafia, chief analyst with the Teal Group Corporation, said the Dreamliner was poised to revolutionise air travel if its projected rates of fuel-efficiency proved accurate.

"If you look at it from an airline standpoint: you don't have a choice," Aboulafia told Agence France-Presse.

"If you don't have a 787-class aircraft and your competitor does, he can under-price you and out-profit you.

It's not so much the commendable greenness [which is always welcome], it is the way they have so quickly jumped onto the official line about climate change and the need to reduce operating costs, as well as scoop the market.

Still, it's set the cat among the pigeons with Airbus and almost straight after their latest monster-in-the-sky.

Wednesday, July 04, 2007

[ten quotes] who owns them

You probably know the quote. Whose is it? :)

1] You will recognize, my boy, the first sign of old age: it is when you go out in to the streets of London and realise for the first time how young the policemen look.

2] Nothing really wrong with him--only anno domini, but that's the most fatal complaint of all, in the end.

3] I refute it thus. [kicking a stone to disprove non-existence of matter]

4] Four legs good, two legs bad.

5] Water, water everywhere and all the boards did shrink …

6] I can resist eveything except temptation.

7] To betray, you must first belong.

8] I can't tell a lie, Pa. You know I can't tell a lie. I did cut it with my hatchet. [apocryphal]

9] But my dearest Agathon, it is truth you cannot contradict. You can without any difficulty contradict Socrates.

10] People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.


For fellow slowcoaches

SH, JH, SJ, GO, SC, OW, KP, GW, S, AL


Answers here ...

[sewage] an icelandic solution

The Vesturland District Court has found a truck driver guilty of off-road driving and emptying a septic tank into a hole in the ground in Snaefellsnes National Park in west Iceland.

The man was assigned the task of transporting the tank, where it was supposed to be emptied into the sewage system.

According to RÚV national radio, the employee couldn’t be bothered to drive to Ólafsvík and opted instead to empty the contents of the tank into a hole in a nearby lava field.

Where do you empty your own sewage these days? You usually:

1] Lift the tank onto the back of the lorry and take it to the river;

2] Pour it into the street drain;

3] Put it in a big hole in my back yard;

4] Use my new Zoeller Duplex;

5] Some other variant.

Important issue, as I say. [He chuckles] Just love that "guilty of off-road driving".

[johnston] thank goodness

At last.

[july 4th] time to plan your future

The situation, this July 4th

1] The U.S. dollar is fiat money, i.e. it is only paper backed by a government decree or eight;

2] The controller of finance in the U.S. is the Fed - not a government body but 12 banks controlled from New York under the influence of the House of Morgan [and other offshoots and colleagues]:

1828 - Mayer Amschel Rothschild: "Allow me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who writes the laws."

1923 - Sir Josiah Stamp, president of the Bank of England: "Banking was conceived in iniquity and was born in sin. The bankers own the earth; take it away from them but leave them the power to create deposits, and with a flick of a pen they will create enough deposits to buy it back again."

2] The Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America is not a new idea:

October 28, 1939 - John Foster Dulles [later U.S. Secretary of State] proposes that America lead the transition to a new order of less independent, semi-sovereign states bound together by a league or federal union.

Thus it will not become an election issue because technically no sovereignty is being ceded, i.e. it is not a constitutional issue;

4] The reality is the ceding of the powers of:

a. defense

b. the judiciary

c. education

d. social security

e. opening of all borders

f. creation of a free trade zone within NA shores

to a new body called the North American Advisory Council, who are not constitutionally defined. As they were proposed by the CFR and were accepted as an entity on March 23rd, 2005, in his meeting with the Canadian and Mexican leadership by George W. Bush, it is highly likely that the CFR will either control, heavily influence or ensure that fellow travellers constitute the governance of that body.

4] This is all due to begin early 2009, very subtly at first and at a time of increasing crisis ocver other issues. I have no clue what those issues are - housing? Fuel? Terrorism?

5] Hillary Clinton and Fred Thompson are or were both connected with the CFR, just as Blair and Brown were both Bilderbergers. [Do your own research]

6] Who are the CFR?

Feb. 23, 1954 - Senator William Jenner of Indiana says before the U.S. Senate: The important point to remember about this group is not its ideology but its organization. It is a dynamic, aggressive, elite corps, forcing its way through every opening, to make a breach for a collectivist one-party state. It operates secretly, silently, continuously to transform our Government without our suspecting the change is underway.

1975 - Retired Navy Admiral Chester Ward, former Judge Advocate General of the U.S. Navy and former CFR member, writes in a critique that the goal of the CFR is the "...submergence of U.S. sovereignty and national independence into an all powerful one-world government..."

1981 - Congressman Larry McDonald calls for comprehensive congressional investigation of the CFR and Trilateral Commission. Congress is urged to investigate these organizations.

1983 - Larry McDonald is killed along with 268 other passengers on Korean Air Lines (KAL) flight 007, shot down over Sakhalin Island in the Sea of Japan.

What should you do?

1] Get out of any credit arrangement within the next two years or any other mechanism where you are in thrall to a financial body;

2] Take legal advice on the status of your private property and ensure the title is secure in your name;

3] In the case of a mortgage, be prepared to have the balance called in by 2012, i.e. be prepared to concede the loss of your property when the 2nd Fed induced crash comes [1929 being the first];

4] Therefore have some fallback living facility somewhere, even if it's only a beach house with a garden.

Objections

1] I don't buy any of this alarmist c--p. Answer: Fine and good luck to you. On the other hand, there's very little wrong with urging people to own their own property outright, is there;

2] If everyone took this advice, there'd be a run on the banks and the collapse would occur anyway, only earlier. Answer: Yes but this is just a small blog and this advice applies only to a small readership.

Tuesday, July 03, 2007

[another cursed meme] and a birthday and a blog hiatus

Meme

I hate memes. I really hate them. But when a lady charges you with doing one, well you obey. Lady Macleod is the lady who laid it on me, sitting, sipping on her coffee:

1. Most favorite celebrity sighting

Without a doubt, the Queen when I was 5 years old and I ran from the crowd to join her open top car. The policeman wasn't too angry. Second was the Swiss President whose luncheon I gatecrashed to talk with him.

2. A little known fact

I've never visited South America or Greenland but nearly took the short hop across to the latter from Iceland.

3. Concert I am most likely to admit going to

JJCale but the best concert I ever went to was Roxy Music.

4. Life changing event

There've been so many. The latest was starting this blog. Sorry it's corny but it's so.

5. She didn't say what this one was - something to do with disguises I think.

My best disguise is this one now. Oops, forgot to change my profile and language again!

6. Best trip

Thailand with my honey, before we broke up. We went on safari and it was amazing, deep in the jungle, riding elephants. And things.

7. My favourite physical attribute

I suppose this means on me. It would have to be the Jean-Luc Picard hairstyle, without the smooth good looks or the dimple.

I tag three people only: L'Ombre, Blognor Regis, Winfred Mann .

Birthday

By the way, I think it might be Lady Ellee's birthday. Don't know, as she's playing coy but I think so. Happy Birthday and Mutley, get your act together, son. You're the Birthdays Officer.

Hiatus

No, not me but Lord Nazh. Hope it's not for long. We need him.