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		<title>Extreme Weather In Your Area? It&#8217;s A Backlash From Recent HAARP Activities</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:38:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Dean A. Garner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is your local weather forecaster predicting extreme anomalous weather in your area? In many parts of the country, yes. In Sarasota, Florida, for example, the past week has seen mild temperatures, bright and sunny skies, and some unusual cloud formations. Today, though, the call is for torrential rains, minor flooding, high winds and maybe a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Is your local weather forecaster predicting extreme anomalous weather in your area? In many parts of the country, yes. In Sarasota, Florida, for example, the past week has seen mild temperatures, bright and sunny skies, and some unusual cloud formations. Today, though, the call is for torrential rains, minor flooding, high winds and maybe a tornado or two. The National Weather Service calls this a &#8220;transition from winter to spring.&#8221;</p>
<p>Is that right?</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s what I call it: a backlash from recent HAARP events.</p>
<p>Amateur weather trackers all over the world are seeing this anomalous behavior in our planet&#8217;s weather patterns, and agree that these recent changes in local weather, wherever &#8220;local&#8221; may be, are definitely strange and unusual for our planet. And they eerily coincide with the recent HAARP and HAARP-like &#8220;experiments&#8221; in various parts of the the US and in other parts of the world (Norway, Russia, China, Puerto Rico).</p>
<p>With HAARP activities, there will always be more to follow. . . .</p>
<h4>ABOUT THE AUTHOR: William Dean A. Garner is a <em>New York Times</em> bestselling ghostwriter and editor of many fiction and nonfiction books. A former biophysicist, US Army Airborne Ranger, and Corporate Mercenary, Garner did 211 overseas missions over a nine-year period, escorting clients out of hostile territories so they could have a voice of peace, freedom and democracy. He writes and speaks about the dangers of <em>The First Sphere of Influence</em>, a global cartel controlled by the family Rothschild.</h4>
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		<title>The 2010 Census: Most Of It Is Illegal</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:38:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Dean A. Garner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What are you legally obliged to tell US government Census takers?
The number of people who reside in your home. Period.
The Census Bureau legally can&#8217;t even ask you your name.
The Constitution protects us citizens from abuse, although The First Sphere of Influence seeks to strip it all away from us.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What are you <em>legally</em> obliged to tell US government Census takers?</p>
<p>The number of people who reside in your home. Period.</p>
<p>The Census Bureau legally can&#8217;t even ask you your name.</p>
<p><em>The Constitution</em> protects us citizens from abuse, although The First Sphere of Influence seeks to strip it all away from us.</p>
<p>Please listen to further valuable intel on the legality of the 2010 Census from Mr. Jerry Day, a television and video producer in Los Angeles:</p>
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<h4>ABOUT THE AUTHOR: William Dean A. Garner is a <em>New York Times</em> bestselling ghostwriter and editor of many fiction and nonfiction books. A former biophysicist, US Army Airborne Ranger, and Corporate Mercenary, Garner did 211 overseas missions over a nine-year period, escorting clients out of hostile territories so they could have a voice of peace, freedom and democracy. He writes and speaks about the dangers of <em>The First Sphere of Influence</em>, a global cartel controlled by the family Rothschild.</h4>
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		<title>Thermopower Waves: A New Form Of Electrical Power</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:23:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stuff We&#8217;re Familiar With
Bend or deform a particular type of crystal and it generates electricity. Pull off a sticky piece of masking tape and it generates electricity, accompanied by a beautiful blue-light lightning effect. Walk with socks over a carpet on a dry day and you&#8217;ll build up enough electric charge to throw off a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h3><span style="color: #333399;">Stuff We&#8217;re Familiar With</span></h3>
<p>Bend or deform a particular type of crystal and it generates electricity. Pull off a sticky piece of masking tape and it generates electricity, accompanied by a beautiful blue-light lightning effect. Walk with socks over a carpet on a dry day and you&#8217;ll build up enough electric charge to throw off a 30,000-volt arc and shock the dog. [Hey, my DNA coded me to be a cat lover.] We&#8217;re somewhat familiar with all these electrical phenomena.</p>
<p>Now, please consider something entirely novel. Something that has never seen the light of day. Or night. A concept so new that there&#8217;s only one scientific paper that describes it: <em>Chemically Driven Carbon-Nanotube-Guided Thermopower Waves</em> (<em>Nature Materials</em>, March 2010).</p>
<p>But first a little background. . . .</p>
<h3><span style="color: #333399;">Nanotechnology: A Novel Science</span></h3>
<p>In 1991, carbon nanotubes were first described, thus giving rise to the new field of nanotechnology, even though the concept of this nascent discipline had been written on paper for decades. In theory. Given the unusual nature of nanotechnology, the field was wide open to research of all color and texture. Scientists from a dozen different disciplines converged on the field and began studying all aspects of it in earnest. US government research grants soared into the billions. The famed Defense Advance Research Projects Agency (DARPA) created a whole new department to handle the thousands of new research projects in nanotechnology.</p>
<p>Within two decades, nanotechnology has produced significant advances&#8211;no, quantum leaps!&#8211;in the dozens of fields and areas: automotive, appliances, electronics and computers, food and beverage, houshold goods, health and fitness, medical, scientific, and traditional technology.</p>
<h3><span style="color: #333399;">An Accidental Discovery of Otherworldly Proportions</span></h3>
<p>Dr. Michael Strano of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) grew up watching all the Hollywood sci-fi hits: <em>Star Wars</em>, <em>Battlestar Gallactica</em>, <em>Star Trek</em>, etc. At an early age, he was hooked on the notion that science fiction, through hard work and endless study, soon produced science fact, which meant he could first dream it, then create something entirely new to the world. By the time he had graduated with his PhD in Chemical Engineering, he was primed to enter the new field of nanotechnology, and eagerly jumped into the fray with all senses wide open.</p>
<p>Dr. Strano took a postdoctoral position with the man who discovered the &#8220;buckeyball,&#8221; or buckminsterfullerene molecule, Nobel Laureate Dr. Richard Smalley, at Rice University, where he absorbed every known fact about the field over a two-year period, then struck out on his own. By 2007, he had an associate professor position at MIT and took off like a rocket: established a niche in the field, and attracted first-rate and energetic graduate students and postdoctoral researchers to his new lab.</p>
<p>He and colleagues&#8217; recent discovery of <em>thermopower waves</em> was phenomenal yet, like most great scientific discoveries, accidental: Strano and his team were examining chemical reactions near a carbon nanotube, and they wanted to know how much heat was being generated. They &#8220;hypothesized that the reaction would go much faster if it were near a good heat conductor like a carbon nanotube, which are known to conduct heat very well along their length. They&#8217;re about 100 times better at conducting heat along their length than our best metallic conductors,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>Typical crystals we encounter every day can conduct heat in all directions because of the three-dimensional configuration of the crystal lattice. Carbon nanotubes, though, have a unique directionality to their lattice, which conducts heat and electricity down the length of the tube with amazing fidelity. Unlike polymers and crystals, e.g. normal sodium chloride or table salt, carbon nanotubes focus the propagation of a heat wave in only a single direction, i.e. down its length.</p>
<p>What Dr. Strano and his team gleaned from the results of that experiment would create not only a new form of generating electric power, but also a new field of study that would require developing a whole set of brand-new theories and ideas about a phenomenon that no one had ever seen or heard of in the history of science. They originally placed sensitive microelectrodes at either end of the carbon nanotubes to measure the velocity of the thermopower wave, and quickly discovered that the electrical signal they measured was many times greater that they would have expected.</p>
<p>And therein lies the discovery: a new form of electrical power generation, something produced by <em>thermopower wave energy</em> which was, in itself, just as new a phenomenon.</p>
<p>In discoveries like this, how does one approach such a novel concept? Where do you even think to start? How do you begin to understand and comprehend something that has never been seen, let alone explained in full? And how do you introduce it to the world and convince all of us that it&#8217;s important to study and support?</p>
<h3><span style="color: #333399;">Thermopower Waves, Quantum Confinement, and the Wild, Wild Nanoscale World</span></h3>
<p>These and other questions I posed to Dr. Strano during a recent interview, a very lively and passionate discussion of his work and its future impact. For the purpose of this article, I focused on his work on <em>thermopower waves</em>, with some references to other work. In a future article, I will introduce Dr. Strano&#8217;s other interests, all of which are equally fascinating and downright mindblowing.</p>
<p>The propagation of heat down a multiwalled carbon nanotube produces considerable heat (via light) and electricity. When Dr. Strano and his team wanted to measure the amount of heat being generated by the reaction, they connected two electrodes to either end of the carbon nanotube system and then heated up one end of the tubes. To their shock, the team recorded a surge in voltage, meaning the reaction generated not only sizable heat along the length of the carbon nanotube, but also a wave of electricity that was many times larger in magnitude than theoretically expected. In fact, the voltage seen in this experiment &#8220;was large enough to power some devices,&#8221; said Dr. Strano.</p>
<p>As I said before, discoveries happen in a variety of ways, but most are through accidents, even though researchers may have been looking at a similar phenomenon. In this case, they were trying to measure heat and they came up with a novel form of electric-power generation via what they termed a thermopower wave. Moreover, they were able to see the wave reaction with a special high-speed camera that captured 90,000 frames per second. [See video below.]</p>
<p>Okay, so what, and why should all this matter to me, you say?</p>
<p>You have to understand some new concepts here first: matter behaves quite differently at the nanoscale, i.e. the level of just a few atoms, or billionths of a meter, in diameter. Electrons are confined to very small spaces at the quantum level and so exhibit highly unusual behavior. When electrons are limited to a very small space, it&#8217;s referred to as <em>quantum confinement</em>.</p>
<p>&#8220;This field of quantum confinement can take a material we&#8217;re familiar with and grant it new properties,&#8221; said Dr. Strano. &#8220;We&#8217;re used to thinking of carbon as the graphite in our pencils or the carbon in our charcoal briquets, but if you take that same carbon and you pattern it into a cylinder, you can make a semiconductor . . . and it&#8217;s because you&#8217;ve confined electrons [<em>quantum confinement</em>] that you make a new electronic material.&#8221;</p>
<p>In typical solids, electrons normally are confined to the orbitals around their respective atoms. They whirl around the nucleus of an atom and don&#8217;t move too far outside those boundaries around that particular atom. In novel nanoscale materials like carbon nanotubes, though, electrons are free to move among a great length of atoms along a nanotube, much more than they would than if they were, say, confined to the crystal lattice of a length of highly electrically conducting copper wire.</p>
<p>The length of travel of an electron or a phonon (heat conductor) in this way, without scattering, is termed <em>ballistic conduction length</em> (BCL). In our own beloved copper wire, which carries all the electrical signals to our homes, the BCL is about 40 nanometers (0.000000040 meters; 4/100,000 the width of a human hair). In carbon nanotubes, the BCL is tens of thousands of times longer, a clear advantage that produces much more electrical power and heat than all of our best electrical conductors. In carbon nanotubes, electrons and phonons do not scatter much at all; they are well focused to propagate their energy down the length of the tube.</p>
<h3><strong><span style="color: #333399;">Applying the New Technology</span></strong></h3>
<p>To envision how a nanotube array might be configured to be of practical use, consider this: at the nano scale, materials behave in a very different way. We wish to retain these novel properties, so we simply &#8220;scale up&#8221; the nanotube materials much like we would if we were building a large battery out of Legos. Imagine that each Lego block confines a very small number of electrons in a quantum confinement system. Now add more and more Legos until you come up with a large structure like a car battery, but with each Lego still retaining its unusual quantum properties. This process is calledscaling up the novel nanotube system, so it can be of some practical use to us in the macroscopic, or real, world.</p>
<p>Before a practical scaling up can be accomplished, though, much fundamental work must be done. So, what&#8217;s next for the team?</p>
<p>The first step will be to encapsulate the carbon nanotube with a light-reflecting insulator so the heat and light are both retained along the length of the nanotube. Dr. Strano said, &#8220;We can make thermally reflective surfaces that encapsulate around the entire device. Our efficiency is pretty small right now, in the one percent range. At the moment, our system is behaving very much like an old incandescent light bulb. But we don&#8217;t want that loss of energy. We want all that light to go back into the system as heat to drive electrons.&#8221;</p>
<p>For all this energy generation to be useful, say, in a battery, you need to create a system that can have a lot of electrons flowing past a point per unit time. The <em>power density</em> of this system is the metric that will determine how much electrical energy will be available to a battery to power something like a cell phone or even an electric car. For traditional lithium-powered batteries, the weight of the battery itself is large compared to its power density, and have a power density that&#8217;s about 10 times <em>less</em> than that of carbon nanotubes.</p>
<p>Carbon nanotubes have an enormous power density and thus would make a very lightweight battery, even when scaled up to the size of a typical car battery. Of course, a carbon nanotube battery that would power an electric car would be much smaller and have a much higher power density by default.</p>
<p>Dr. Strano: &#8220;My strategy is to think about the real-world impact that will come from this research, maybe not immediately, but eventually. For example, most batteries are made of heavy transition metals, things like lithium, cadmium, or lead. These metals are toxic to humans and they&#8217;re bad for the environment and they&#8217;re complicated to recycle. Our <em>thermopower wave generators</em> are all carbon, and so the combustion breakdown products will be water and carbon dioxide, which are safe for the environment. The same is not true for a lead-cell battery, say, because if you incinerate it you get toxic lead products. Lead stays lead. Plus, the world has a finite amount of lead and lithium. On the other hand, you could grow all the carbon nanotubes you wanted, say, from ethanol.&#8221;</p>
<h3><span style="color: #333399;">Future Work</span></h3>
<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re going to be doing three things: fundamental research in how these thermopower waves propagate, and using fuels like methanol and ethanol, things that can be bio-derived. The second thing is fleshing out the theory of how these waves propagate, because what I&#8217;m really interested in is working out now the limits of these waves: what&#8217;s the power density, what&#8217;s the absolute efficiency, and what can we expect from the properties of these waves. And the third thing is solving the engineering challenges that will make these thermopower wave generators practical devices, like reflecting the light back into the device. Even if we don&#8217;t do the first two, we have the technology to make devices that will be useful, like handheld batteries of short duration where you need a lot of power in a short time.</p>
<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s also this concept I&#8217;ve been working on, the thermopower wave fuel cell. Most fuel cells are made from solid fuels, but we would use a liquid fuel pulsed into the reaction at certain times to keep it going, kind of like a fuel-injection system in your car. This is the way to get this thermopower wave system to power something long term, say, for a car or other vehicle.&#8221;</p>
<p>As with all great ideas, the possibilities are limitless. . . .</p>
<h3><span style="color: #333399;">An Out-of-This-World Reaction Captured On Video</span></h3>
<p>The video below shows a thermopower wave generated at one end of a large collection of carbon nanotubes. The reaction takes about 100 milliseconds, or one-tenth of a second, to complete. The heat lost in this system is primarily lost as radiated light via emission of photons.</p>
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<h4><span style="color: #666699;">ABOUT THE AUTHOR: William Dean A. Garner is a </span><em><span style="color: #666699;">New York Times </span></em><span style="color: #666699;">bestselling ghostwriter and editor of many fiction and nonfiction books. A former biophysicist, US Army Airborne Ranger, and Corporate Mercenary, Garner did 211 overseas missions over a nine-year period, escorting clients out of hostile territories so they could have a voice of peace, freedom and democracy. He writes and speaks about the dangers of </span><em><span style="color: #666699;">The First Sphere of Influence</span></em><span style="color: #666699;">, a global cartel controlled by the family Rothschild.</span></h4>
<h4><span style="color: #666699;">ACKNOWLEDGEMENT: We kindly thank Dr. Michael Strano of MIT for sharing his expertise and for commenting on a draft of this article, and MIT for granting permission to post the video.</span></h4>
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		<title>Pay It Forward: Philanthropy and Cooperative Behavior Are Highly Contagious And Necessary</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Last week at a private function, my wife reminded a roomful of donors about a great movie, <em>Pay It Forward</em>, and how the theme of selfless giving to strangers can change people&#8217;s lives for the better. In the movie, a young boy is given a social studies assignment: come up with a plan to change the world. Random acts of kindness filled every corner of this movie, even in the end when the young boy died.</p>
<p>As a society that&#8217;s been forced into chaos and socialism, bordering on fascism, we have moved away from any semblance of the age-old close-knit community that now exists only in books and the utopian minds of 12 year olds. Are we becoming more and more selfish?</p>
<blockquote><p><span style="color: #333399;">&#8220;Observational studies suggest that behaviors, knowledge, and emotions spread between people with personal social ties.&#8221;</span></p></blockquote>
<p>So when I read academic papers that support what we already know, that random acts of kindness can bring positive change to people&#8217;s lives, it gives me further hope for humanity. One particular paper,<em> Cooperative Behavior Cascades in Human Social Networks</em>, by Dr. James H. Fowler and Dr. Nicholas A. Christakis, describes controlled experiments in which subjects had the opportunity to give away a portion or all of their money to strangers, or keep it for themselves.</p>
<p>The experimenters used a standard <em>public-goods game</em>, an experimental model employed in behavioral economics (among other disciplines of human behavior), in which subjects are given equal amounts of money and are allowed to keep the whole or part of the amount, or put some or all of it into a public pot for distribution to the entire community.</p>
<p>So, were people inherently selfish?</p>
<p>Surprisingly not, especially when people <em>witnessed</em> other participants give away their money. The recipients of that money were more likely to give away money of their own, an effect that seemed to extend out to <em>three degrees of separation</em> from the original participant who donated his or her money.</p>
<p>An example: A gives to B who gives to C who gives to D who gives to E who gives to F. If C witnessed A giving to B, C would therefore be more likely to give, an effect that would extend a total of three additional participants, out to F, even if F did not witness C&#8217;s philanthropy.</p>
<p>In the laboratory setting, this was the limit of extended giving: three degrees of separation, or three successive people.</p>
<p>The authors stated:</p>
<blockquote><p><span style="color: #ff6600;">&#8220;The flow of good and desirable properties like ideas, love and kindness is required for human social networks to endure, and, in turn, networks are required for such properties to spread.&#8221;</span></p></blockquote>
<p>&#8220;Observational studies suggest that behaviors, knowledge, and emotions spread between people with personal social ties. Of course, people can be influenced by strangers too – for example, in catching a germ, following a worn path on a field, imitating a smile, adopting a fashion, or responding to road rage. In this experiment, relationships were anonymous and contact was not sustained. Nevertheless, there was real interaction, and people observed each others’ behavior in the setting of a game that they cared about. A consistent explanation for both the experimental investigations and the observational studies is that people mimic the behavior they observe, and that this can cause behaviors to spread from person to person to person. If anything, it seems likely that people who are willing to copy strangers’ behavior may be even more likely to copy similar behavior in friends in real world settings.&#8221;</p>
<p>Dr. Christakis added: &#8221;Our work over the past few years, examining the function of human social networks and their genetic origins, has led us to conclude that there is a deep and fundamental connection between social networks and goodness. The flow of good and desirable properties like ideas, love and kindness is required for human social networks to endure, and, in turn, networks are required for such properties to spread. Humans form social networks because the benefits of a connected life outweigh the costs.&#8221;</p>
<p>In short, philanthropy is highly contagious, even more so when a kind act of giving selflessly is witnessed by others, and it is absolutely necessary for the continuing evolution of a strong and benevolent human society. . . .</p>
<h4>ABOUT THE AUTHOR: William Dean A. Garner is a New York Times bestselling ghostwriter and editor of many fiction and nonfiction books. A former biophysicist, US Army Airborne Ranger, and Corporate Mercenary, Garner did 211 overseas missions over a nine-year period, escorting clients out of hostile territories so they could have a voice of peace, freedom and democracy. He writes and speaks about the dangers of The First Sphere of Influence, a global cartel headed by the family Rothschild.</h4>
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		<title>Paul Warburg: The Father of the Mother of All Debt</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 02:07:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This year marks the 100-year anniversary of the meeting of half a dozen well-placed Americans at the resort clubhouse on Jekyll Island, Georgia, where these connivers and traitors, led by Paul Warburg, conjured up in great detail what would later become the US Federal Reserve Act.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This year marks the 100-year anniversary of the meeting of half a dozen well-placed Americans at the resort clubhouse on Jekyll Island, Georgia, where these connivers and traitors, led by Paul Warburg, conjured up in great detail what would later become the US Federal Reserve Act.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re like 99.9999% of most Americans, you have no clue what I&#8217;m talking about. Here&#8217;s a zippy history lesson: the US Federal Reserve Act of 1913 enacted the illegal Federal Reserve Bank, which is still a PRIVATE central bank that illegally prints and controls the US&#8217;s currency and credit.</p>
<p>Did you read me?</p>
<p>I say again: the US Federal Reserve Act of 1913 enacted the illegal Federal Reserve Bank, which is still a PRIVATE central bank that illegally prints and controls the US&#8217;s currency and credit.</p>
<p>At that time, We the People of the United States had virtually ZERO debt, i.e. no aggregate personal debt due to the individual or personal income tax. Our government did have an outstanding debt of approximately $2.9B, however, due to our having been under the Rothschild rule via the Second Bank of the United States, which was brought down by President Andrew Jackson. President Jackson&#8217;s policies, though, did not eliminate our debt altogether, and the US was forced to make payments on it over the next few decades.</p>
<p>Today, in 2010, we are in debt to the tune of trillions of dollars.</p>
<p>&#8220;OMG, how!?&#8221; you ask.</p>
<p>The Federal Reserve Bank, which is an illegal PRIVATE bank, prints, issues and controls our paper currency, called <em>fiat currency</em> because it is NOT backed by any gold or silver reserve. As an aside, the Federal Reserve is NOT a reserve bank. It has no reserves to back the fiat currency it issues.</p>
<p>Anyway, where was I?</p>
<p>Oh, the Federal Reserve prints money out of thin air. And rag cotton, with some cool inks and various 3-D embossed stamps. Nicely done, Fed. This money is loaned to our own government at INTEREST. Did you get that? At interest to our own government. Who pays this interest, plus billions more? We the People pay it in the form of the INDIVIDUAL (Personal) INCOME TAX each year. Our personal income taxes go to the Federal Reserve Bank each year.</p>
<p>Who owns the US Federal Reserve Bank?</p>
<p>The evil family Rothschilds, currently headed by Baron David de Rothschild.</p>
<p>In honor of how Kurt Vonnegut used to refer to his former son-in-law, Geraldo Rivera, or Jerry Rivers, I shall refer to the Baron as <em>Señor Dave Da RedShield</em>.</p>
<p>So, when you&#8217;re looking for the right man to blame, strike first at Dave. And please do not aim high like everyone always does. Go for the testicles. Oops, forget that; Dave has no balls. Go for heart. It&#8217;s the lifeless black mass in the center of his sunken chest.</p>
<p>But please don&#8217;t forget to honor the man who got us into this mess in the first place, with his monumental plan to create the Federal Reserve System of the United States.</p>
<p>Paul Warburg is the father of the mother of all debt.</p>
<p>Thank you Paul.</p>
<p>Thank you, Dave.</p>
<p>Love,</p>
<p>Dean</p>
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<h4>ABOUT THE AUTHOR: William Dean A. Garner is a New York Times bestselling ghostwriter and editor of many fiction and nonfiction books. A former biophysicist, US Army Airborne Ranger, and Corporate Mercenary, Garner did 211 overseas missions over a nine-year period, escorting clients out of hostile territories so they could have a voice of peace, freedom and democracy. He writes and speaks about the dangers of The First Sphere of Influence, a global cartel headed by the family Rothschild.</h4>
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		<title>The Last Hours of Traitor Alexander Hamilton</title>
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The following correspondence between Dr. David Hosack and Mr. William Coleman, editor of Hamilton&#8217;s broadsheet, the New York Evening Post (now New York Post) details the last hours of traitor Alexander Hamilton, who was mortally wounded in a duel with Colonel Aaron Burr on July 11, 1804.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>04 March 2010</p>
<p>Dear Friends,</p>
<p>The following correspondence between Dr. David Hosack and Mr. William Coleman, editor of Hamilton&#8217;s broadsheet, the <em>New York Evening Post</em> (now <em>New York Post</em>) details the last hours of traitor Alexander Hamilton, who was mortally wounded in a duel with Colonel Aaron Burr on July 11, 1804.</p>
<p>This is the way all traitors should die: painfully, and harboring great regret. . . .</p>
<p>I have copied this letter verbatim from the papers of Colonel Aaron Burr, so please excuse the long paragraphs. Early-19th-Century physicians were pleonastic and windy.</p>
<p>As always, I am</p>
<p>Your obedient servant,</p>
<p>William Dean A. Garner</p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><strong><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
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<p id="id04556"><span style="color: #333399;">August 17, 1804.</span></p>
<h5 id="id04557"><span style="color: #333399;">DEAR SIR,</span></h5>
<p id="id04558"><span style="color: #333399;">To comply with your request is a painful task; but I will repress my feelings while I endeavour to furnish you with an enumeration of such particulars relative to the melancholy end of our beloved friend Hamilton as dwell most forcibly on my recollection.</span></p>
<p id="id04559"><span style="color: #333399;">When called to him upon his receiving the fatal wound, I found him half sitting on the ground, supported in the arms of Mr. Pendleton. His countenance of death I shall never forget. He had at that instant just strength to say, &#8220;This is a mortal wound, doctor;&#8221; when he sunk away, and became to all appearance lifeless. I immediately stripped up his clothes, and soon, alas! ascertained that the direction of the ball must have been through some vital part.</span></p>
<p id="id04560"><span style="color: #333399;">His pulses were not to be felt, his respiration was entirely suspended, and, upon laying my hand on his heart and perceiving no motion there, I considered him as irrecoverably gone. I, however, observed to Mr. Pendleton, that the only chance for his reviving was immediately to get him upon the water. We therefore lifted him up, and carried him out of the wood to the margin of the bank, where the bargemen aided us in conveying him into the boat, which immediately put off. During all this time I could not discover the least symptom of returning life. I now rubbed his face, lips, and temples with spirits of hartshorn, applied it to his neck and breast, and to the wrists and palms of his hands, and endeavoured to pour some into his mouth. When we had got, as I should judge, about fifty yards from the shore, some imperfect efforts to breathe were for the first time manifest; in a few minutes he sighed, and became sensible to the impression of the hartshorn or the fresh air of the water. He breathed; his eyes, hardly opened, wandered, without fixing upon any object; to our great joy, he at length spoke. &#8220;My vision is indistinct,&#8221; were his first words. His pulse became more perceptible, his respiration more regular, his sight returned. I then examined the wound to know if there was any dangerous discharge of blood; upon slightly pressing his side it gave him pain, on which I desisted. Soon after recovering his sight, he happened to cast his eye upon the case of pistols, and observing the one that he had had in his hand lying on the outside, he said, &#8220;Take care of that pistol; it is undischarged, and still cocked; it may go off and do harm. Pendleton knows&#8221; (attempting to turn his head towards him) &#8220;that I did not intend to fire at him.&#8221; &#8220;Yes,&#8221; said Mr. Pendleton, understanding his wish, &#8220;I have already made Dr. Hosack acquainted with your determination as to that.&#8221; He then closed his eyes and remained calm, without any disposition to speak; nor did he say much afterward, except in reply to my questions. He asked me once or twice how I found his pulse; and he informed me that his lower extremities had lost all feeling, manifesting to me that he entertained no hopes that he should long survive. I changed the posture of his limbs, but to no purpose; they had entirely lost their sensibility. Perceiving that we approached the shore, he said, &#8220;Let Mrs. Hamilton be immediately sent for; let the event be gradually broken to her, but give her hopes.&#8221; Looking up we saw his friend, Mr. Bayard, standing on the wharf in great agitation. He had been told by his servant that General Hamilton, Mr. Pendleton, and myself had crossed the river in a boat together, and too well he conjectured the fatal errand, and foreboded the dreadful result. Perceiving, as we came nearer, that Mr. Pendleton and myself only sat up in the stern sheets, he clasped his hands together in the most violent apprehension; but when I called to him to have a cot prepared, and he at the same moment saw his poor friend lying in the bottom of the boat, he threw up his eyes and burst into a flood of tears and lamentation. Hamilton alone appeared tranquil and composed. We then conveyed him as tenderly as possible up to the house. The distresses of this amiable family were such that, till the first shock was abated, they were scarcely able to summon fortitude enough to yield sufficient assistance to their dying friend.</span></p>
<p id="id04561"><span style="color: #333399;">Upon our reaching the house he became more languid, occasioned probably by the agitation of his removal from the boat. I gave him a little weak wine and water. When he recovered his feelings, he complained of pain in his back; we immediately undressed him, laid him in bed, and darkened the room. I then gave him a large anodyne, which I frequently repeated. During the first day he took upward of an ounce of laudanum; and tepid anodyne fomentations were also applied to those parts nearest the seat of his pain. Yet were his sufferings during the whole of the day almost intolerable.</span></p>
<p id="id04562"><span style="color: #333399;">I had not the shadow of a hope of his recovery; and Dr. Post, whom I requested might be sent for immediately on our reaching Mr. Bayard&#8217;s house, united with me in this opinion. General Rey, the French consul, also had the goodness to invite the surgeons of the French frigates in our harbour, as they had had much experience in gunshot wounds, to render their assistance. They immediately came; but, to prevent his being disturbed, I stated to them his situation, described the nature of his wound, and the direction of the ball, with all the symptoms that could enable them to form an opinion as to the event. One of the gentlemen then accompanied me to the bedside. The result was a confirmation of the opinion that had already been expressed by Dr. Post and myself.</span></p>
<p id="id04563"><span style="color: #333399;">During the night he had some imperfect sleep, but the succeeding morning his symptoms were aggravated, attended, however, with a diminution of pain. His mind retained all its usual strength and composure. The great source of his anxiety seemed to be in his sympathy with his half-distracted—wife and children. He spoke to me frequently of them—&#8221;My beloved wife and children&#8221; were always his expressions. But his fortitude triumphed over his situation, dreadful as it was; once, indeed, at the sight of his children, brought to the bedside together, seven in number, his utterance forsook him; he opened his eyes, gave them one look, and closed them again till they were taken away. As a proof of his extraordinary composure of mind, let me add, that he alone could calm the frantic grief of their mother. </span><em><span style="color: #333399;">&#8220;Remember, my Eliza, you are a Christian,&#8221;</span></em><span style="color: #333399;"> were the expressions with which he frequently, with a firm voice, but, in a pathetic and impressive manner, addressed her. His words, and the tone in which they were uttered, will never be effaced from my memory. About two o&#8217;clock, as the public well know, he expired—</span></p>
<p id="id04564"><span style="color: #333399;">&#8220;Incorrupta fides—nudaque veritas<br />
Quando ullum invenient parem?<br />
Multis ille quidem flebilis occidit.&#8221;</span></p>
<p id="id04565"><span style="color: #333399;">Your friend and humble servant,</span></p>
<h5 id="id04566"><span style="color: #333399;">DAVID HOSACK</span></h5>
<h4>ABOUT THE AUTHOR: William Dean A. Garner is a <em>New York Times </em>bestselling ghostwriter and editor of many fiction and nonfiction books. A former biophysicist, US Army Airborne Ranger, and Corporate Mercenary, Garner did 211 overseas missions over a nine-year period, escorting clients out of hostile territories so they could have a voice of peace, freedom and democracy. He writes and speaks about the dangers of <em>The First Sphere of Influence</em>, a global cartel controlled by the family Rothschild.</h4>
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		<title>If Only Our Personal Income Tax Dollars Were NOT Going to the Rothschilds</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[If only our personal income tax dollars were NOT going to the Rothschilds.
That is the lament.
If they were not, we Americans would be have about $2.36T more in our pockets each year. That comes to about $10,000 or so for each taxpaying citizen.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If only our personal income tax dollars were NOT going to the Rothschilds.</p>
<p>That is the lament.</p>
<p>If they were not, we Americans would be have about $2.36T more in our pockets each year. That comes to about $10,000 or so for each taxpaying citizen.</p>
<p>Now consider this: even IF the Federal government did NOT receive this $2.36T each year from us as personal income tax payments, that same corrupt and misguided government would still be able to fund every single program on its yearly agenda.</p>
<p>Every single program.</p>
<p>Our tax dollars are NOT necessary for this corrupt and misguided government to run on a daily basis.</p>
<p>Our hard-earned personal income tax dollars go into a deep-pocket slush fund owned by the evil family Rothschild.</p>
<p>One can only wonder what they do with all that money each year.</p>
<p>I know what I would do with it.</p>
<p>How about you?</p>
<p>How about one little idea: we could provide first-rate healthcare for every single American each year. For life.</p>
<p>And that&#8217;s just the beginning.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t get me started on this. I love math and statistics. . . .</p>
<h4>ABOUT THE AUTHOR: William Dean A. Garner is a <em>New York Times </em>bestselling ghostwriter and editor of many fiction and nonfiction books. A former biophysicist, US Army Airborne Ranger, and Corporate Mercenary, Garner did 211 overseas missions over a nine-year period, escorting clients out of hostile territories so they could have a voice of peace, freedom and democracy. He writes and speaks about the dangers of <em>The First Sphere of Influence</em>, a global cartel controlled by the family Rothschild.</h4>
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		<title>Siesta Key Storm: An Original Painting by William Dean A. Garner</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Dean A. Garner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, my wife told me to take a day off, so being the good husband I am, I did. She asked me to paint something new just for her, something stormy and beautiful, with whitecaps on the ocean.
When I had finished, Siesta Key Storm wasn&#8217;t exactly what she was thinking about, but it was acceptable. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yesterday, my wife told me to take a day off, so being the good husband I am, I did. She asked me to paint something new just for her, something stormy and beautiful, with whitecaps on the ocean.</p>
<p>When I had finished, <em><strong>Siesta Key Storm</strong></em> wasn&#8217;t exactly what she was thinking about, but it was acceptable. The whitecaps were lacking, but then again I&#8217;m slow to absorb some things. My hope is that, by the time we&#8217;re both gone from this beautiful earth, I will have gotten it right and painted exactly what she had in mind. And if I hadn&#8217;t gotten it right by that time, at least the journey with her was wonderful. . . .</p>
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		<title>Earthquake Attack On US By China and Russia</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:14:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Both China and Russia have the Tesla-conceived instrument similar to the US&#8217;s: High-frequency, Active-Auroral Research Project (HAARP) antenna array. The First Sphere of Influence (TFSI), i.e. Rothschild family and the Brzezinski Cartel, which controls the United States and most other nations on this planet, also controls HAARP, and has been using it as a weapon [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Both China and Russia have the Tesla-conceived instrument similar to the US&#8217;s: High-frequency, Active-Auroral Research Project (HAARP) antenna array. The First Sphere of Influence (TFSI), i.e. Rothschild family and the Brzezinski Cartel, which controls the United States and most other nations on this planet, also controls HAARP, and has been using it as a weapon of mass destruction against Japan and China, and has threatened Russia with catastrophe.</p>
<p>Russia and China WILL attack the United States in at least one <em>retaliatory</em> strike, using a HAARP-like instrument, something that results in a massive earthquake in an earthquake zone, most likely along the US&#8217;s Pacific coast.</p>
<p>Since this is entirely orchestrated by TFSI, absolutely nothing can stop the coming calamity. Nothing can stop it. Nothing. Are you reading me clearly? Nothing can stop it.</p>
<p>When nothing can stop the machinations of a rogue government or cell, it&#8217;s time to take action.</p>
<p>In the coming months, I will outline what I mean by action. And if I should be murdered by TFSI, I have ensured that my voice will be heard. In the least, someone smarter than I will listen and carry on what so many of us Jeffersonian Patriots have continued to do: fight the evil Rothschilds.</p>
<p>While I cannot predict exactly when the earthquake(s) will occur, my best guess is within 90 days, as stated in a previous article. And I shall not discount the distinct possibility, if not high probability, that the attack could also come from one of the US&#8217;s own HAARP transmitters. After all, the Rothschilds own ALL HAARP-like transmitters on the planet and could easily use any one of them in a false-flag operation.</p>
<p>We live in interesting times, indeed, much of it brought on by high-technology like the Internet. We are a smaller planet because of the Internet and Worldwide Web, and we Jeffersonian Patriots appreciate these valuable tools.</p>
<p>Our hearts go out to those who will lose their lives in this false-flag <em>retaliatory</em> strike.</p>
<p>How is it yet another false-flag operation? It has been designed by TFSI to divide the good people of this beautiful planet of ours, so TFSI spawn can further implement their new laws and regulations, all designed to enslave us good people. Recall The Patriot Act, the establishment of Department of Homeland Security and the Transportation Security Administration, the attempt to force-feed Americans <em>healthcare reform</em>. These four measures alone strip American of significant Constitutional rights, and more are on the way.</p>
<p>My words are fantastic, yes, but my message is simple: we are in the middle of a 230-year war against an insidious disease, and that disease&#8211;the Rothschilds&#8211;must be eradicated at all costs.</p>
<p><em>All</em> costs.</p>
<p>What will be <em>your</em> contribution to the war effort?</p>
<h4>ABOUT THE AUTHOR: William Dean A. Garner is a <em>New York Times </em>bestselling ghostwriter and editor of many fiction and nonfiction books. A former biophysicist, US Army Airborne Ranger, and Corporate Mercenary, Garner did 211 overseas missions over a nine-year period, escorting clients out of hostile territories so they could have a voice of peace, freedom and democracy. He writes and speaks about the dangers of <em>The First Sphere of Influence</em>, a global cartel controlled by the family Rothschild.</h4>
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		<title>High-Frequency, Active-Auroral Research Project (HAARP): The US&#8217;s New Weapon of Mass Destruction</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:58:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll keep this one short, because the otherworldly content will leave you breathless. . . .
You don&#8217;t know me from the next stranger, so I&#8217;ll give you a little background, just the relevant stuff: I did research for 15 years as a biophysicist, so my background was in biological sciences, physics and engineering. As a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ll keep this one short, because the otherworldly content will leave you breathless. . . .</p>
<p>You don&#8217;t know me from the next stranger, so I&#8217;ll give you a little background, just the relevant stuff: I did research for 15 years as a biophysicist, so my background was in biological sciences, physics and engineering. As a young student, I loved reading about the man who blew Einstein out of the water: Nikola Tesla. This brilliant man was gobbled up by moneyed men, chewed to pieces, then spat out in ruins, his otherworldly research left in the hands of unscrupulous human beings.</p>
<p>Isn&#8217;t that the way it always is? The most brilliant man on the planet, broke as could be so he sought the help and sponsorship of the wealthy, only to be destroyed before reaching his prime.</p>
<p>Lucky for us, though, Nicola Tesla left behind clues to his genius, and now those clues live on in the form of small books, articles and pamphlets, published by obscure little presses. If you do an online search for &#8220;Nikola Tesla,&#8221; you&#8217;ll be rewarded with hundreds of gems. If you&#8217;re not into physics or you&#8217;re not the curious type, please ignore this explanation. You should, however, take notice on one little issue that Tesla discussed: Tesla provided the theory behind the US&#8217;s current weapon of mass destruction: the high-frequency, active-auroral research project (HAARP).</p>
<p>HAARP antennas are located in several different known places, and probably several more that are not well, if at all, known. If I were in charge HAARP, I&#8217;d build a hundred of these facilities all over the world, and not tell a soul about any of them.</p>
<blockquote><p><span style="color: #ff0000;">Send enough energy into the ionosphere and you&#8217;ll excite a sufficient volume of charged air. The propagated energy will cause an earthquake.</span></p></blockquote>
<p>The principles of physics that underlie HAARP are generally not too complex. In short, it generates long-range microwaves that heat up the ionosphere directly above the antenna array. As the ionosphere heats up, it excites charges particles at about 45 miles above the earth. The resulting electromagnetic signal descends back to earth at another location on the planet, and can be used to cause very intense, very-low-frequency vibrations in the earth. The overall result? Send enough energy into the ionosphere and you&#8217;ll excite a sufficient volume of charged air. The propagated energy will cause an earthquake.</p>
<p>Yes, I said an earthquake. How much power does it take to artificially cause an earthquake, using HAARP? Some say about a billion watts directly from the HAARP antenna array on the ground.</p>
<blockquote><p><span style="color: #000080;">The Chinese have a HAARP-like instrument. So do the Russians, and both are now talking about retaliatory strikes against the US, so you should now expect some severe seismic activity in US states and provinces over the next 90 days.</span></p></blockquote>
<p>Dunno about you, but now I&#8217;m worried, because there&#8217;re already several HAARP-like antenna arrays in different parts of the globe, and they&#8217;re in the hands of some not-so-nice people who have already been testing their new weapons in various places. The Chinese have a HAARP-like instrument. So do the Russians, and both are now talking about retaliatory strikes against the US, so you should now expect some severe seismic activity in US states and provinces over the next 90 days. If you&#8217;re not sure what to look for, just glance up at the sky and watch out for strange, longitudinal cloud formations that closely resemble long sausages. Colors like blues and reds also will accompany some formations.</p>
<p>So how do you know if that earthquake were generated by HAARP or a HAARP-like instrument? Interestingly, it takes hours to heat up the ionosphere, which means that in the day preceding a HAARP attack, the atmosphere directly above the target area undergoes several changes that can be seen with the naked eye, as mentioned above: significant color changes in the sky, from red to blue to all variations in between; red-hot and white-hot balls of plasma in the sky, and they resemble a ball of fire. No kidding: a ball of fire in the sky. Also, instrumentation that can measure changes in the earth&#8217;s magnetic field and the electric field will see significant and wildly fluctuating changes in both the magnetic field and electric field in the vicinity of the target.</p>
<p>So far, Haitians reported wildly changing colors in the sky the day before the devastating earthquake. Same, too, for the earthquakes in China and Japan recently.</p>
<p>The following video explains a bit more about HAARP. As with all other intel I post on That&#8217;s Just Plum Dumb, I encourage you to do your own research.</p>
<p>Now please excuse me while I go microwave some popcorn and go outside and watch the sky go wacky-wild in blues and reds and all-in-betweens, because I posted this damning article about HAARP and it pissed someone off. . . .</p>
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<h4>ABOUT THE AUTHOR: William Dean A. Garner is a <em>New York Times </em>bestselling ghostwriter and editor of many fiction and nonfiction books. A former biophysicist, US Army Airborne Ranger, and Corporate Mercenary, Garner did 211 overseas missions over a nine-year period, escorting clients out of hostile territories so they could have a voice of peace, freedom and democracy. He writes and speaks about the dangers of <em>The First Sphere of Influence</em>, a global cartel controlled by the family Rothschild.</h4>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Normally I don&#8217;t watch The Today Show, but today was, well, an exception, because the content was excellent. Host Matt Lauer didn&#8217;t know how to handle Harry Markopolos&#8217;s final statement, though: &#8220;Don&#8217;t trust your government.&#8221;
Mr. Markopolos is the man responsible for analyzing Bernie Madoff&#8217;s too-good-to-be-true investment scheme and then serving it up on a silver [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Normally I don&#8217;t watch <em>The Today Show</em>, but today was, well, an exception, because the content was excellent. Host Matt Lauer didn&#8217;t know how to handle Harry Markopolos&#8217;s final statement, though: &#8220;Don&#8217;t trust your government.&#8221;</p>
<p>Mr. Markopolos is the man responsible for analyzing Bernie Madoff&#8217;s too-good-to-be-true investment scheme and then serving it up on a silver platter to the SEC. He was rebuffed by the US government for 10 years. One wonders who at the SEC, among other agencies, knew full well about Madoff&#8217;s money-making rip-off and directed the SEC to ignore Mr. Markopolos.</p>
<p>If you have little time now and really want only the dirty, nasty, stinky, rotten, accurate truth, skip to the end of the video for Mr. Markopolos&#8217;s great advice.</p>
<p>Another Harry Markopolos gem: &#8220;If you don&#8217;t understand the strategy, don&#8217;t invest in it.&#8221;</p>
<p><em>Duh</em>.</p>
<p>Oops, forgot something here: somewhere during the interview, Mr. Markopolos confessed that he bought a pistol and seriously considered killing Bernie Madoff. . . .</p>
<p>Mr. Harry Markopolos: a Jeffersonian Patriot.</p>
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<h4>ABOUT THE AUTHOR: William Dean A. Garner is a <em>New York Times </em>bestselling ghostwriter and editor of many fiction and nonfiction books. A former biophysicist, US Army Airborne Ranger, and Corporate Mercenary, Garner did 211 overseas missions over a nine-year period, escorting clients out of hostile territories so they could have a voice of peace, freedom and democracy. He writes and speaks about the dangers of <em>The First Sphere of Influence</em>, a global cartel controlled by the family Rothschild.</h4>
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		<title>The Great American Cowboy: A Fast-Coming Awakening</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:53:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thank you kindly to a thoughtful observer who took the time to ring me and share his thoughts about the evils of the Rothschilds. He wrote: &#8220;Once economic downturn hits and people go hungry, the American cowboy will wake up.&#8221;
What an excellent point: the American cowboy will wake up.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thank you kindly to a thoughtful observer who took the time to ring me and share his thoughts about the evils of the Rothschilds. He wrote: &#8220;Once economic downturn hits and people go hungry, the American cowboy will wake up.&#8221;</p>
<p>What an excellent point: <em>the American cowboy will wake up.</em></p>
<p>Dunno about you, but the toughest men I&#8217;ve ever been around were American cowboys, each cleverly disguised as a US Army Airborne Ranger.</p>
<p>Even though the evil Rothschilds worship demons, they will be crying to God for help when those Great American Cowboys awaken, wipe down their guns, sharpen their knives, saddle up high, and head on down the road for another day&#8217;s work.</p>
<p>You know what they say, too: <em>Once a Ranger, Always a Ranger. . . .</em></p>
<h4>ABOUT THE AUTHOR: William Dean A. Garner is a <em>New York Times </em>bestselling ghostwriter and editor of many fiction and nonfiction books. A former biophysicist, US Army Airborne Ranger, and Corporate Mercenary, Garner did 211 overseas missions over a nine-year period, escorting clients out of hostile territories so they could have a voice of peace, freedom and democracy. He writes and speaks about the dangers of <em>The First Sphere of Influence</em>, a global cartel controlled by the family Rothschild.</h4>
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		<title>The Evil Rothschilds: Imagine A World Without Them</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:21:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Take a moment to reflect on some of the world events of the past 230 years, events that included revolutions, wars, pitched battles, the formation of central banks in more than 150 countries, the illegal taxation of hard-working people all over the planet. A list from each country would fill volumes of books.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Take a moment to reflect on some of the world events of the past 230 years, events that included revolutions, wars, pitched battles, the formation of central banks in more than 150 countries, the illegal taxation of hard-working people all over the planet. A list from each country would fill volumes of books.</p>
<p>Armed with this new information, now please imagine at least a few of the consequences and secondary effects resulting from the evils listed above. Those, too, would fill a thousand 400-page books. What are some of those repercussions? Wars produced millions of dead, dying and injured men and women, not to mention the collateral casualties and material damage. Central banks delivered immediate debt to all nations, the money being funneled to the family Rothschild. Illegal taxation brought forth significant loss of income to all those taxpayers in each country.</p>
<p>And within each category above, there also are tertiary and quaternary effects that, like the ever-increasing branching of a tree, curl and twist and move well beyond the trunk, growing smaller, yes, but more numerous and convoluted.</p>
<p>The overall effects of the intrigues of the evil family Rothschild have wrought such destruction of our beautiful planet for more than 230 years. In every industry. To every corner of the globe. Within every aspect of life.</p>
<p>When faced with such a cunning cancer, a skillful surgeon looks at it from all angles, studies it macroscopically to see its extent and volume and composition, then nanoscopically to further examine its anatomy and physiology at the cellular and molecular level. She then studies her options for removal of the cancerous beast, and sets out on a journey of discovery into the relative unknown, carefully cutting and slicing and burning away the unwelcome demon. Slowly and meticulously, with the slow and methodical movement of an Old Master at his easel, she peels back the demonic calculus, artfully separating it from the host tissues. Time slows to a crawl as she fills Biohazard containers with the wicked parasitic mass.</p>
<p>With the focus of a thousand points of light, she finally removes the final bloody cancerous tissue and, with the flair of a Grand Maestro, fine baton in hand, flicks it into the flame where it sizzles momentarily, then turns to ash and falls like black dust to the floor below. . . .</p>
<p>This is how I imagine the demise of the Rothschilds, their descending into the very hell they created, never to rise again.</p>
<p>Fantasy is one thing, reality another.</p>
<p>But let&#8217;s think for a moment, shall well? Think of a world with no Rothschilds about. What would it look like to you? No wars. No revolutions. No central banks. No personal income taxes. No [fill in the blank].</p>
<p>I&#8217;m not so naive to think none of these events would ever occur again. To the contrary. Thing is, all of these hellish events of the past 230 years have been brought on by the evil Rothschilds, so it&#8217;s not a giant step to conclude that Rothschild-influenced wars, revolutions, central banks and taxation would cease.</p>
<p>Nor is it a leap of faith to conclude that the world would be much better off without this horrid family of passive-aggressive, psychopathic, inbred, effeminate males and all their spawn.</p>
<p>Of course, I know some of you would dearly miss Château Mouton Rothschild and Château Lafite.</p>
<p>May I suggest the Yalumba Barossa Shiraz + Viognier 2006?</p>
<h4>ABOUT THE AUTHOR: William Dean A. Garner is a <em>New York Times </em>bestselling ghostwriter and editor of many fiction and nonfiction books. A former biophysicist, US Army Airborne Ranger, and Corporate Mercenary, Garner did 211 overseas missions over a nine-year period, escorting clients out of hostile territories so they could have a voice of peace, freedom and democracy. He writes and speaks about the dangers of <em>The First Sphere of Influence</em>, a global cartel controlled by the family Rothschild.</h4>
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		<title>The Tragic Death Of Dawn Brancheau: Profits Over Safety</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 15:05:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Dean A. Garner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Put a human in a cage and you get an atavism, some throwback to 10,000 BC. Keep him in that cage and shape his behavior via mind control and you have an obedient robot. Until the day you don&#8217;t. . . .
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Put a human in a cage and you get an atavism, some throwback to 10,000 BC. Keep him in that cage and shape his behavior via mind control and you have an obedient robot. Until the day you don&#8217;t. . . .</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve spent more than 3,000 hours underwater with sharks of all tooth and stripe. When I started graduate school, way back in the early &#8217;80s, I did research in biophysics, studying how sharks detect electric fields around their prey. Being the lousy scientist I was, I never published my work, although did get a first Master&#8217;s degree out of it. Hey, I wasn&#8217;t about publishing; I was about gaining knowledge and having a jolly adventurous time.</p>
<p>Point is, I&#8217;ve studied animals behavior all my life, and feel one with many animals. This does not mean I could stop a charging bull elephant. It just means I understand the behaviors of many creatures, large and small, and know how to act around them, know their pre-attack postures and sounds, and know what to do to avoid attack. Don&#8217;t go in the water is a good way to avoid attack by sharks, by the way.</p>
<p>The tragic death of Dawn Brancheau glaringly illustrates Big Corporation&#8217;s psychopathic craving of profits over safety. We see it in every major industry. There simply are no exceptions.</p>
<p>While Ms. Brancheau had stated in previous interviews the inherent dangers of working with killer whales, she never once felt that she would be attacked and killed by one.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve only seen a few killer whales, and they were all in captivity. Their enormous size, especially inside those small enclosures, conjured up thoughts of prison inmates, living in their six-foot by eight-foot house for years on end, and following the day in, day routine of getting up at six am, chow at seven, work until four or five pm, chow at six, personal time until lights out. Over and over and over.</p>
<p>For those with truly low intelligence, the routine isn&#8217;t bad. It&#8217;s a comfort for many, in fact, being told what to do, when and how. And being fed three times a day, on time, the same meal, day in, day out.</p>
<p>Routine.</p>
<p>For more-intelligent creatures, though, routine can be deadly. And couple boring and barely-stimulating routine with a tight enclosure with very limited freedom of movement, and you have a recipe for disaster.</p>
<p>Keeping orcas in captivity is just such a disaster, and Big Corporation knows this. They gamble with the lives of their doe-eyed trainers whose lifelong obsession is to swim and play with God&#8217;s big, beautiful killer whales. They pay them reasonably well, allow them plenty of playtime with their charges, and put them on display for the public to enjoy. All the while knowing fully well that they were just rolling the dice each time they placed a beautiful, unsuspecting human in a small tank with a killer whale, emphasis on KILLER.</p>
<p>Killer whales, or orcas, are known to migrate thousands of miles a year, hunting both fish and marine mammals year round. Their range is vast and wide in the wild, and is reduced somewhat when placed in captivity. So why confine these majestic beasts to what would be, in the wild, the equivalent of a tide pool to them?</p>
<p>Wild animals are just that: wild. It takes thousands of years to domesticate an animal species, and even then there will often be blood spilled because of residual wild genes that code for, well, <em>feral</em> behavior. Behaviors that include ripping into flesh, biting the neck and head, clawing and scratching, etc. Our cat Mayo still smacks and nips at me when she&#8217;s pissy. Imagine if she were 400 pounds of tooth and claw. I&#8217;d be ribbons.</p>
<p>Recall the stunning Las Vegas act of Siegfried and Roy when, on a typical Friday even performance, Roy Horn was attacked by one of the pair&#8217;s white tigers, which bit deep into Mr. Horn&#8217;s neck and caused massive loss of blood, not to mention partial paralysis, loss of speech for some time, among other problems.</p>
<p>Shouldn&#8217;t we have the sense to recognize that feral animals belong in the wild, and we humans no longer are a welcome part of that society . . . unless we&#8217;re on the menu?</p>
<p>As long as Big Corporation is raking in the profits, tragedies like the death of Dawn Brancheau will continue. . . .</p>
<h4>ABOUT THE AUTHOR: William Dean A. Garner is a <em>New York Times </em>bestselling ghostwriter and editor of many fiction and nonfiction books. A former biophysicist, US Army Airborne Ranger, and Corporate Mercenary, Garner did 211 overseas missions over a nine-year period, escorting clients out of hostile territories so they could have a voice of peace, freedom and democracy. He writes and speaks about the dangers of <em>The First Sphere of Influence</em>, a global cartel controlled by the family Rothschild.</h4>
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		<title>Our Big Fat Beautiful World With Only ONE Government, Huh? They Can&#8217;t Even Get It Right On A Teeny-Tiny Scale</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:05:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The greatest destruction of humanity has been done in the last 100 years. No, I wasn&#8217;t there for the first million years of our existence, but I&#8217;ve connected enough of the dots to know in my own way that my observations are accurate and true. Interestingly, too, the greatest murderous rampage has been done by [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The greatest destruction of humanity has been done in the last 100 years. No, I wasn&#8217;t there for the first million years of our existence, but I&#8217;ve connected enough of the dots to know in my own way that my observations are accurate and true. Interestingly, too, the greatest murderous rampage has been done by one family of inhuman creatures, the Rothschilds. . . .</p>
<p>This family of cunning, deceiving and deceptive, and psychopathic and passive-aggressive  creatures has utterly failed to produce one single stable government on this planet. Not a single one.</p>
<p>They have control over most of the nations on this beautiful planet of ours, with the goal of enslaving all humans under a slave state with one ruler, or maybe a small cabal of minions of the Rothschilds. Let&#8217;s see if I get this right: the evil Rothschilds think that we humans will just roll over and give in to their demands and orders and unjust laws, huh?</p>
<p>While I do see a planet of frightened followers, I do not see those followers cowering in such paralyzing fear . . . and ultimately doing nothing in their defense.</p>
<blockquote><p><span style="color: #3366ff;">I cannot predict how all this plays out, but I do know that life finds a way to be free.</span></p></blockquote>
<p>I cannot predict how all this plays out, but I do know that life finds a way to be free. That&#8217;s the essence of life, my friends. It always seeks out and discovers an escape from bonds, however strong and impenetrable they may be. It finds a way out into the sun, the fresh air, the majestic sky, and down some untrodden path to freedom.</p>
<p>Yes, life finds a way. This much I do know. And I also know that the Rothschilds underestimate this fact of nature. When you despise life so, how can you possible respect it and its chemistry?</p>
<p>So, this leads me back to the subtitle of this article: <em>They Can&#8217;t Even Get It Right On A Teeny-Tiny Scale</em>.</p>
<blockquote><p><span style="color: #ff6600;">Our Founding Fathers, the true Patriots, those loyal to the United States and not to Great Britain, were confident that they could establish a good, solid and stable government under the rule of a US President and his cabinet and a Congress.</span></p></blockquote>
<p>If you read the writings of our Founding Fathers, the true Patriots, those loyal to the United States and not to Great Britain, were confident that they could establish a good, solid and stable government under the rule of a US President and his cabinet and a Congress. While there was always disagreement and bickering, there also was always at least one man who stood up and said the <em>right thing</em>, something everyone understood, respected and then accepted as gospel. Or law. Our Fathers knew that they had to control the Nation&#8217;s money supply, and that if the Rothschilds ever got their slimy hands on it, all would be lost and our wonderful country would be turned into a slave nation. They knew this because of what they themselves had witnessed in France and Great Britain, both countries then under Rothschild control. Many of our Founding Fathers lived in Great Britain and Europe for years at a time, and were engaged at levels above the common folk.</p>
<p>The Rothschilds think they can enslave each nation, abolish those nations&#8217; constitutions, suspend the rights of the people, take over governments, and force people to pay them day in, day out and to be their slaves for the lifetimes of those under them?</p>
<p>Tell me you&#8217;re kidding, Rothschilds. Please. This is one action that will NEVER happen, try as you may to make it so. You guys can&#8217;t even control a single nation and her people right now. How do you expect to bring all nations under your rule and control us all at once? Fear? Repression? Oppression? Murder? Rape? Mayhem? Destruction and seizure of property?</p>
<blockquote><p><span style="color: #008080;">The Rothschilds think they can enslave each nation, abolish those nations&#8217; constitutions, suspend the rights of the people, take over governments, and force people to pay them day in, day out and to be their slaves for the lifetimes of those under them?</span></p></blockquote>
<p>While I do not know all the details of history over the past 230 years, I do have a keen eye and that eye is able to examine the RESULTS of the ill deeds by the Rothschilds. Those results are stunning and egregious. They also tell me that those in charge have no clue what they&#8217;re doing. Oh, they&#8217;re controlling the money supply okay. Yes, they&#8217;re controlling the banks and the media okay. And they&#8217;re conducting false-flag operations like the Guld of Tonkin incident, 9/11 attacks, Oklahoma bombing, etc. and thus from those ashes are creating departments like Homeland Security and the Transportation Security Administration. Yes, they&#8217;re controlling and oppressing and rolling right over us okay.</p>
<p>And they&#8217;re also getting it all wrong, because they&#8217;re reading us commoners all wrong. And they&#8217;re acting as a 12 year old would, doing what they are programmed to do. But those 12 year olds don&#8217;t know the world yet. They haven&#8217;t lived to know it, to know about life. The Rothschilds are in the twilight of their adolescent years, getting it all wrong all over and in such colorful ways. There&#8217;s something certain about 12 year olds: they either grow up or they die. Those who grow up take different paths, some good, some neutral, some bad.</p>
<blockquote><p><span style="color: #ff0000;">Mother Nature and Evolution find a way to weed out the bad, and I&#8217;ve seen this over the decades everywhere I&#8217;ve lived and worked and played.</span></p></blockquote>
<p>Mother Nature and Evolution find a way to weed out the bad, and I&#8217;ve seen this over the decades everywhere I&#8217;ve lived and worked and played. Everywhere. That&#8217;s how I know that the RESULTS suggest to me that the Rothschilds will fail and will go down in blood. Too bad these no-spined squishes never got into a fist-fight before, never learned the art of real combat, because when The People come for them, they&#8217;ll only be able to throw cash and coin at the rampaging mob, begging for mercy, for leniency, screaming to be spared because they&#8217;re more clever than we are, and we need them.</p>
<p>In the end, I see the Rothschild dynasty [<em>die</em>, with emphasis on <em>nasty</em>, thank you.] going the way of the Dodo bird and existing only on a page or two of Wikipedia, a few books and pamphlets, and in the molecules of those various animate and inanimate things that assimilate their bare-bones atoms.</p>
<p>I almost wanted to end the story back at the last paragraph, but hubris took hold and dragged me back into time, to the days when we had to tackle Fermi questions, figure out the size of the black hole that could compress Earth. Now I&#8217;m all worked up, so I calculated the approximate number of atoms in all the Rothschilds: 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. That&#8217;s a 1 followed by 32 zeros. If you write it out qualitatively, it&#8217;s 10,000 billion billion billion.</p>
<p>Sounds like a lot of atoms, yes? The Rothschild Atoms combined might be enough to fill 15 average-sized swimming pools in California . . . or a small, two-million-gallon swamp in Louisiana . . . or form dung heap about 50 feet high and 60 feet in diameter.</p>
<p>Like Dr. Ian Malcolm said in <em>Jurassic Park</em>: &#8220;That&#8217;s one big pile of shit.&#8221;</p>
<h4>ABOUT THE AUTHOR: William Dean A. Garner is a <em>New York Times </em>bestselling ghostwriter and editor of many fiction and nonfiction books. A former biophysicist, US Army Airborne Ranger, and Corporate Mercenary, Garner did 211 overseas missions over a nine-year period, escorting clients out of hostile territories so they could have a voice of peace, freedom and democracy. He writes and speaks about the dangers of <em>The First Sphere of Influence</em>, a global cartel controlled by the family Rothschild.</h4>
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		<title>The Rothschild-Brzezinski Alignment: Does Fighting It Really Matter?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gotta give these guys plenty of credit: for more than 230 years, the Rothschild family of inbreds has ruled much of, if not all, the world. What&#8217;s it really mean &#8220;to rule the world&#8221;?
Consider these thoughts:
-Every economic depression and recession has been orchestrated by the Rothschilds . . .
-Every major war since the late 1770s [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Gotta give these guys plenty of credit: for more than 230 years, the Rothschild family of inbreds has ruled much of, if not all, the world. What&#8217;s it really mean &#8220;to rule the world&#8221;?</p>
<p>Consider these thoughts:<br />
-Every economic depression and recession has been orchestrated by the Rothschilds . . .<br />
-Every major war since the late 1770s has been engineered by the Rothschilds . . .<br />
-Tens of millions of good people, decent human beings, have been murdered by the Rothschilds . . .<br />
-Democratic countries that were once on good footing both at home and abroad have been economically destroyed and partially rebuilt&#8211;with serious debt load&#8211;by the Rothschilds . . .<br />
-At least four US presidents have been assassinated for either not toeing the line of the Rothschilds or for defying them and their wishes . . .<br />
-The US, once a proud and free nation, albeit for only a few decades, has been reduced to the country with the highest debt on the planet, most, if not all, of which goes to the Rothschilds . . .<br />
-All worldwide central banks, which control the flow of taxes from and debt of each nation, are owned by the Rothschilds. . . .</p>
<blockquote><p><span style="color: #ff0000;">I condemn the Rothschilds for crimes against humanity.</span></p></blockquote>
<p>The list is endless if you consider all the millions of little transactions the Rothschilds conduct each and every day, each one a fraudulent rip-off of some country, state, government, corporation, bank or individual.</p>
<p>I condemn the Rothschilds for crimes against humanity.</p>
<p>Okay, sounds good, but now what?</p>
<p>Honestly? I&#8217;m at a total loss for how to proceed. I&#8217;m not just a babe in the woods, in the dark, in the rain, in the freezing cold. I&#8217;m not just a novice and a dilettante, I&#8217;m a complete and utter fool even for mentioning such things. I&#8217;m so far over my head in this no-win game that I don&#8217;t even rank, don&#8217;t even register as a dot on anyone&#8217;s radar. I&#8217;m an absolute nobody and a nothing.</p>
<p>Yet, I still press on, thinking that I will keep doing good research on the Rothschilds, keep asking people for help in generating more results, and continue to add dots to the impossibly large and expansive constellation of so-far-unknown ill deeds done by the Rothschilds, and, yes, to keep on connecting some of those dots with the hope and prayer that some young person will come to my rescue, someone far smarter and greater than I, someone who will actually DO something with all these data. I fantasize that that young soul rescues all of us from the insidious clutches of the most evil family on this planet. Of course, I could be completely ignorant here, discounting the probability that a race of reptilian aliens is the root cause of all this, and the Rothschilds simply answer to them. It&#8217;s silly and far fetched, but I consider it. At least for folly.</p>
<p>So I ask myself, does fighting really matter?</p>
<blockquote><p><span style="color: #333399;">I fantasize that that young soul rescues all of us from the insidious clutches of the most evil family on this planet.</span></p></blockquote>
<p>When you look at a small part of this whole situation, a small moment in time, you&#8217;ll discover that little gets done by people like me. There&#8217;s just too much to do, too much to uncover, too much to act on for one man and a small band of like-minded people to take on. If you then pull back and examine our work over years and maybe decades, you begin to see a striking detail that was not previously seen up close: word about the Rothschilds is spreading more and more each year, each decade, each century.</p>
<p>More and more people are being forced under the thumb of Communism, Socialism, Fascism, and they&#8217;re <em>resisting</em>. Maybe not by much, but they&#8217;re resisting, nonetheless. And they&#8217;re talking about it. On the worldwide web in discussion groups, on websites in articles and stories, on Facebook and MySpace in personal pages, in emails and text messages and instant chats. Life is finding a way to be free. That&#8217;s the phenomenon I see happening slowly but definitely here. And I feel it taking root, something that hasn&#8217;t happened in the past, with good people holding fast at the ground level and supporting those above them.</p>
<p>People are starting to talk, yes. And they&#8217;re starting to question very harshly the motives of the Rothschilds and their minions. With time, more and more people will question and then demand answers from politicians and other leaders, and when those demands are not met, there will be blood. . . .</p>
<blockquote><p><span style="color: #008000;">With time, more and more people will question and then demand answers from politicians and other leaders, and when those demands are not met, there will be blood. . . .</span></p></blockquote>
<p>Does fighting really matter to me? Yes. I know I&#8217;m as insignificant as they come. I&#8217;m a nobody ghostwriter and editor of other people&#8217;s books. I have no following of friends or colleagues or family or anyone, really. And I&#8217;m scared. Hell, I&#8217;m always scared. I&#8217;m scared of everything. All the time. That&#8217;s my chemistry. But I&#8217;m never afraid to DO things. Never. I&#8217;m a Jeffersonian Patriot; I know no other way than to fight.</p>
<p>So, yes, fighting does matter to me. Fighting the Brzezinskis and the Rothschilds with all I have, which isn&#8217;t much, trust me. I do believe that my teeny, little insignificant mark I leave in this arena will be seen by someone in the future, and they&#8217;ll take up the fight and they&#8217;ll be better and smarter and stronger.</p>
<p>Yes, it&#8217;s all worth it to me, to continue my fight and my research. I only hope that someone like YOU will stop and take a listen, maybe even an interest in this subject, and maybe even pass it on to someone else.</p>
<p>Is it worth dying for?</p>
<p>Absofuckinlutely.</p>
<p>But as the great Bo Jackson said, &#8220;I can take a lick, but I&#8217;d rather <em>give</em> one. . . .&#8221;</p>
<h4>ABOUT THE AUTHOR: William Dean A. Garner is a <em>New York Times </em>bestselling ghostwriter and editor of many fiction and nonfiction books. A former biophysicist, US Army Airborne Ranger, and Corporate Mercenary, Garner did 211 overseas missions over a nine-year period, escorting clients out of hostile territories so they could have a voice of peace, freedom and democracy. He writes and speaks about the dangers of <em>The First Sphere of Influence</em>, a global cartel controlled by the family Rothschild.</h4>
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		<title>Google is Overrated and Inaccurate. Need A Lesser Evil? Try Clusty.com</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:26:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Dean A. Garner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For all its billions of dollars, a huge campus of &#8220;research and development,&#8221; thousands of smarty employees from UC Berkeley and Stanford, blah, blah, blah, Google is highly overrated as a search tool. Worst of all, it&#8217;s inaccurate when it comes to obscure and unusual searches. I commented previously about Google PageRank, which is worse [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For all its billions of dollars, a huge campus of &#8220;research and development,&#8221; thousands of smarty employees from UC Berkeley and Stanford, blah, blah, blah, Google is highly overrated as a search tool. Worst of all, it&#8217;s inaccurate when it comes to obscure and unusual searches. I commented previously about <a href="http://thatsjustplumdumb.com/index.php/2010/02/google-pagerank-elitist-and-biased-and-therefore-inaccurate/">Google PageRank</a>, which is worse than a junior-high popularity contest, so I felt it only fair to round out my general critique of Google with a comment about its search engine.</p>
<p>When it comes to finding <em>common</em> items, names, places, themes, books, etc., any decent search engine will do fine, simply because there&#8217;s enough information, plenty of websites out there in the WWWsphere to satisfy anyone&#8217;s need. Which means, Google can do simple searches just as well as anyone else. The limiting factor is organization, and Clusty.com handles it much better than Google. Clusty takes each search and &#8220;clusters&#8221; like items into, well, clusters that are then listed off the to left of the search results. The highest number of web pages within each cluster is listed at the top, with lower numbers in descending order.</p>
<p>Google clusters, too, but it predefines what the clusters are, and you have to choose the link <em>Web: Show Options</em> at the top left of the search results. Who the heck would know to do that? Google&#8217;s smarties aren&#8217;t all that smart, you ask me; in fact, they&#8217;re user-unfriendly, probably because they&#8217;re all misfit geeks and nerds who have no idea how to properly interact in the real world where you and I happily reside and work and play and, uh, do online searches. Personally, I&#8217;d suggest to Google to hire some normal people. Like me, for instance. I&#8217;d revamp their whole look, make it accessible enough for a 12 year old, and even change that stupid logo. Oh, and the name, too. When Google entered the market ten years back, I said, &#8220;Oh, shit, that awful peanut butter and jelly combo is back to give us more diarrhea.&#8221;</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s see, where was I in all this less-than-objective reporting? [Don't blame me, I'm having fun being highly subjective, while also offering some good, accurate intel.]</p>
<p>Clusty automatically clusters for you, and again it does so by combining all <em>like</em> categories. It doesn&#8217;t automatically group these items into specific, already-defined groups: images, videos, news, blogs, updates, etc. This is okay for some, but it still doesn&#8217;t provide accurate groupings. Clusty.com allows the search results to determine the cluster categories. Example: do a search for <em>Amelia Earhart </em>and you get: Biography (33), Photos (25), etc. The numbers in parentheses represent the number of web pages or items in each category.</p>
<p>Google automatically displays the photos of Amelia Earhart which is a great idea, but again the results from &#8220;popular&#8221; sites, not necessarily ones that are relevant to your search.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m heavily biased toward Clusty.com, because it offers more relevant search results for searches I&#8217;ve done over the past several years. I have used Google, too, to compare over the years, which has brought me to this subject of today&#8217;s article.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, both search engines suffer much by NOT listing all the possible search results. For example, Google will state that it found 348 results out of 4,534,238 total results. Cool. Now where are the other 4,533,890 results? Ask me and I&#8217;ll tell you that Google is advertising falsely. Bait and switch.</p>
<p>When I look at the very last possible page of results for Amelia Earhart, it only goes up to page 799, although it states at the top of the search that there were about 2,620,000 other results available. Again, where the heck are they and why don&#8217;t I have access to them? I could grow a larger brain and click on the teeny little link under all the results to see more. The statement reads like this:</p>
<p>&#8220;In order to show you the most relevant results, we have omitted some entries very similar to the 799 already displayed.<br />
If you like, you can <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=amelia+earhart&amp;hl=en&amp;client=safari&amp;rls=en&amp;filter=0&amp;tbo=1">repeat the search with the omitted results included</a>.&#8221;</p>
<p>When I click on <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=amelia+earhart&amp;hl=en&amp;client=safari&amp;rls=en&amp;filter=0&amp;tbo=1">repeat the search with the omitted results included</a>, I see only an additional 10 results that had been previously omitted. Where are the remainder, Google? Again, ask me and I&#8217;ll learn ya something here: Google doesn&#8217;t list them because it doesn&#8217;t dig that deeply into all the possible results across the worldwide web. Yet it will have us believe it does.</p>
<p>All this said, I&#8217;m with Clusty.com, and I still will do side-by-side comparisons with Google to see how the latter evolves. I&#8217;m hopeful that, for all its billions of dollars, a huge campus of &#8220;research and development,&#8221; thousands of smarty employees from UC Berkeley and Stanford, blah, blah, blah, Google will someday actually live up to its overinflated reputation.</p>
<p>Ahhh, I feel much better now that I got my Google-bash on. Goodnight and thank you.</p>
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		<title>Mika &#8220;Bubbles&#8221; Brzezinski: Home Address and Telephone Number</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:25:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Dean A. Garner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mika &#8220;Bubbles&#8221; Brzezinski
19 GARD AV #1
BRONXVILLE, NY 10708
(914) 337-0511


Mika &#8220;Bubbles&#8221; Brzezinski
97 KENSINGTON RD
BRONXVILLE, NY 10708
(914) 337-0511




Mika &#8220;Bubbles&#8221; Brzezinski
1 PARK AVENUE TE
BRONXVILLE, NY 10708
(914) 337-0511
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		<title>Dr. Zbigniew and Emilie Brzezinski: Home Address and Telephone Number</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:12:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Dean A. Garner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Zbigniew and Emilie Brzezinski
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		<title>Tranquil Impressionism: Is This Artform Representative Enough Of Nature And The Familiar To Build A Following?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 22:26:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Dean A. Garner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In December, 2005, I painted the first in a lengthy series of artworks I later termed tranquil impressionism. The term, which I coined in 2008, refers to a very liberal and sometimes fantastic visual impression of the natural world and is not meant in any way to be a purely faithful or photoreal representation of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In December, 2005, I painted the first in a lengthy series of artworks I later termed <em>tranquil impressionism</em>. The term, which I coined in 2008, refers to a very liberal and sometimes fantastic visual impression of the natural world and is not meant in any way to be a purely faithful or photoreal representation of nature. It is, at times, meant to be whimsical and breezy and wishful. . . .</p>
<p>Classically, impressionism was designed to be an artist&#8217;s personal opinion of objects in a natural world, and was wide open to enlightened interpretation. Of course, there always is the possibility that said artist was optically myopic and so saw the world as a series of colorful smudges and swirls when he wasn&#8217;t wearing spectacles or a monocle. While it seems far fetched, I do not discount this possibility.</p>
<p>The <em>tranquil</em> component is one I used to describe the emotional feeling one perceives when viewing and absorbing such impressionistic artwork. Thus, <em>tranquil impressionism</em> is a slightly abstract style of painting that creates a deeply peaceful, arousing and thoughtful emotion in the mind of the beholder, using natural colors, tones, shapes and patterns, all modeled loosely after Mother Nature herself.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve always known that what a person loves and prefers in life is a metric of her neurochemical and neuroanatomical makeup. Thus, patterns of behavior provide glimpses into the mind of a human being, what kind of person she is, what she likes and dislikes, her level of intelligence, etc. In 200 years, we will all know this apparent hypothesis to be absolute fact, but for now I simply say I know and understand it to be accurate and true, based on my direct observations of the world over several decades. In short, in 200 years perhaps, we will be able to look inside a person&#8217;s brain, discern all the connections and chemistry, and predict exactly what this person likes, loves, prefers, etc. After all, we are little more than a sophisticated, biologically based computer whose motor runs on sugar. Oh, and just add water.</p>
<blockquote><p><span style="color: #ff6600;">I&#8217;ve always known that what a person loves and prefers in life is a metric of her neurochemical and neuroanatomical makeup.</span></p></blockquote>
<p>When a person has a love for New Age music, soft colors, yoga each morning, and chooses to live in the mountains, well away from civilization, we can use all these traits and interests to form a profile of this person. Other like-minded people can be grouped into this same category, too, thus bringing together like people of like interests and forming deep friendships based on their extreme similarities. We sense these similar interests and traits in others and, on a subconscious level, migrate toward them chemically and magnetically.</p>
<p>Where was I going with all this?</p>
<p>Over the past four years since conjuring up that first tranquil impressionistic painting, I have done a hundred other paintings. People seeing dozens of them side by side for the first time remark that the artwork could have been painted by 20 different artists of the same genre. Perhaps this is explained by my <em>multiple personalities</em>, or simply my ability to put myself into vastly different mindsets and neural zones. Others have immediately exclaimed, &#8220;The colors!&#8221; or &#8220;Wow!&#8221; or &#8220;I love it even though I don&#8217;t know what it is!&#8221;</p>
<p>Observing the initial reactions of viewers to the <em>tranquil impressionism</em> paintings has revealed that people, at first blush, do have a visceral reaction to them. With a little time, they then try to make sense of the artwork, searching in their past for some familiar image they saw in nature. Or somewhere. They try to place my work in the limited categories they have formed over the years. When they cannot, they stop and get frustrated, then move on to find something more familiar.</p>
<blockquote><p><span style="color: #008080;">People seeing dozens of them side by side for the first time remark that the artwork could have been painted by 20 different artists of the same genre.</span></p></blockquote>
<p>What happens when a viewer of my artwork cannot find some personal foundation for them on which to stand firmly and safely? They get frustrated, say thank you, and move on. I&#8217;ve asked many people what they liked initially, and all say a variety of things: love the colors, the whole composition is soothing, the combination of color and movement makes them stare at it for long periods.</p>
<p>Okay, but are these reasons enough to build a following of this new genre?</p>
<p>The answer lies in people&#8217;s initial gut reactions to seeing the artwork. They&#8217;re like a child again, exploring and discovering and analyzing. Then within ten seconds, the evil grownup emerges and takes over, spoiling all the fun, tossing about all the presents, and demanding to get the hell outta there and go home. I&#8217;ve seen it countless times at gallery shows, the homes of friends, and other venues. The pattern is striking, too, and definitely quite frustrating for me to observe. I almost want to stop the midstream metamorphosis of child to grownup and shake them back to their childhood, so I can have a meaningful dialogue with that child about what she was thinking, feeling, sensing when viewing the artwork.</p>
<p>When you see me shake people like rag dolls, you&#8217;ll know the reason.</p>
<p>How would one describe these paintings on a more quantitative basis? For one, there&#8217;s little randomness about them, although to some people they seem to have a lot of white (random, non-chaotic) noise. One can discern definite patterns in the movements of the brush strokes, with some paintings having characteristic patterns that repeat over and over within the same painting. Some strictly swirls to the left, then the right. Others with brush strokes to the right in straight lines on the under layers, then up and down on the top layers. There are also many different styles among all the paintings, encouraging some people to comment that the paintings appear to have been done by 20 different artists. I contend that each painting reflects a mood at the moment of creation, something that was influencing my thoughts and creating a unique representation of my so-called real world, or my twisted interpretation of it at the time. The more I have explored different styles, the more I have created paintings that I and others consider truly beautiful and unique, although those same people also tell me they don&#8217;t know how to describe or categorize them. I&#8217;m fine with this. For now.</p>
<p>Nature is a series of non-random images, styles and patterns that has forced the evolution of our various sensory modalities to conform to it in strict fashion, so we can see and discern it, make some sense of it that is meaningful to us humans so we can evolve into something without a tail and maybe develop that opposable thumb. This means, in a nutshell, that Mother Nature is the dictator of what we see, smell, taste, feel and hear, and therefore has built us from the ground up to perceive her in the most accurate way possible, sometimes with little room for anomalies. Or mutations</p>
<p>If we extend this argument to creating art, we see a definite pattern of conformity by most artists to nature&#8217;s principles, laws and mandates. Artists try hard to faithfully reproduce nature, with some of us occasionally straying from the norm and creating out-of-the-box renditions of what we feel nature is to us, or how we feel it should be displayed and represented in an ideal or fantastic world.</p>
<blockquote><p><span style="color: #000080;">Nature is a series of non-random images, styles and patterns that has forced the evolution of our various sensory modalities to conform to it in strict fashion, so we can see and discern it, make some sense of it that is meaningful to us humans so we can evolve into something without a tail and maybe develop that opposable thumb.</span></p></blockquote>
<p>Personally, I love to view the <em>National Geographic</em>-style image of the world: highly artistic in composition, colorful, creative, mood- and thought-provoking, moving. Oh, and completely realistic on all levels. I also love the slightly blurry and fuzzy effects I sometimes see in nature photography, trying to convey the thrill of motion and movements of water, people, animals, clouds, etc. And I love the intentionally blurry paintings of Monet and Renoir, which extend my visual palate well beyond the photoreal interpretation of scenes I&#8217;m used to seeing <em>in situ</em>. To me, the latter is the most creative form of representing an image of nature. Ever. Why? Because it means an evolved higher humanoid form dreamed up something fantastic and dared to express it as art.</p>
<p>All this said, is it possible to build a following of faithful viewers and buyers of <em>tranquil impressionism</em>? I say a resounding yes, because I&#8217;ve already witnessed the initial reactions of people to my artwork, when those people allow the child inside them to connect with the real world at that moment and control their responses to the art. It&#8217;s only when people &#8220;wake up&#8221; from their adolescent reverie do they engage their conscious mind, which then turns the whole scene into a train wreck.</p>
<p>So what to do about all this hullabaloo?</p>
<p>I&#8217;m patient.</p>
<p>I also believe that it will take time, maybe even considerable time, to find a following. It also will take more time for the art world, for all its snobs and elitists, to adopt<em> tranquil impressionism</em> as a full-on member of the world of art.</p>
<p>When I examine my artwork, I imagine a very quirky child who lives in a universe of bright colors, textures, sounds, patterns and styles, and who is, thanks in no small part to Mother Nature, overconfident enough to think he can conjure up his representation, his personal opinion, of that universe, maybe something others will love as much as he does. . . .</p>
<p>Hey, we&#8217;re all entitled to our wild dreams, and I&#8217;m all about dreaming big and wild and otherworldly.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;re four paintings from late 2009, when I began experimenting deeper with image depth. Each of these paintings has up to a hundred individual layers of paint, using at least one particular swirl or swish or stroke of some kind. I wonder what 2010 will bring.</p>
<p>More important, perhaps, I wonder if the minds of beholders see enough of nature and the familiar to embrace my work. Is it possible to introduce something entirely different, something no one&#8217;s actually seen before, and have people appreciate and enjoy it?</p>
<p>Too many questions.</p>
<p>Methinks it&#8217;s time to just let things happen &#8220;naturally.&#8221; After all, the Universe works in ways that I cannot as yet predict, so I&#8217;m going to surrender to it and see where all this goes. . . .</p>
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		<title>Google PageRank: Elitist And Biased And, Therefore, Inaccurate</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 13:34:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;re a young screenwriter who wishes to break into the market, but you have no previous credits, no agent, no one to vouch for you and your brilliant script. The ancient Hollywood model keeps you in your place, while allowing those who are perhaps more fortunate but possess lesser-quality scripts to climb out of obscurity [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You&#8217;re a young screenwriter who wishes to break into the market, but you have no previous credits, no agent, no one to vouch for you and your brilliant script. The ancient Hollywood model keeps you in your place, while allowing those who are perhaps more fortunate but possess lesser-quality scripts to climb out of obscurity and into the limelight. You&#8217;re a maverick who doesn&#8217;t tolerate the internecene sniping that marks Hollywood for what it is: elitist.</p>
<p>In the end, you produce your own script, show it to friends and friends of friends, get a break at Sundance, then, with nothing short of sweet irony, land a $5M deal with a Hollywood distributor.</p>
<p>Yes, you bucked the system, doing what you felt was right and fair, i.e. getting your script out there and onto the big screen, but did you change anything about the system itself?</p>
<p>No.</p>
<p>You were an anomaly, and Hollywood ignored your insignificant radar dot and branded you one of those outliers that come along every ten years. Not worth changing the system for you and that huge freak wave you created and rode in on.</p>
<p>Or is it?</p>
<p>There&#8217;re hundreds, if not thousands, of ways to define what is good, what is success, what is worthy of our time, our eyes, our minds. Researchers of the past have insisted that, if &#8220;important&#8221; people take notice of you and your work, then you must be worthy of everyone else, too.</p>
<p>What crap.</p>
<p>The beliefs of a few have now been allowed to define what stands for important and good and worthy, while ignoring or discarding altogether highly relevant information that could prove useful to us if we only had access to it. Google is supremely guilty of this strategy, using the ill-defined models of what some researchers call &#8220;giants,&#8221; i.e. those other researchers who took ideas from other &#8220;giants&#8221; and further developed their own hypotheses, which in turn served as a starting point for subsequent researchers&#8217; work.</p>
<p>My biggest argument against Google&#8217;s PageRank system is that it is highly elitist and biased, based on links with so-called &#8220;important&#8221; pages.</p>
<p>How does one decide what&#8217;s important? When in doubt, as were Sergei Brin and Larry Page, Google&#8217;s founders, draw up a matrix and let it decide for you. Brin and Page employed a square transition matrix, which ranked all possible &#8220;important&#8221; pages to each other. The more an intelligent surfer clicked on &#8220;important&#8221; links, the higher the rank for that page and hence for those pages that linked to it or were referred to it by other &#8220;important&#8221; pages. The math is more complicated than I suggest here, but the result is the same: inaccurate and irrelevant information.</p>
<p>Again, how does Google decide what&#8217;s &#8220;important&#8221;?</p>
<p>Simple: &#8220;A Web page is important if it is pointed to by other important pages.&#8221;</p>
<p>What about those obscure mavericks that lie at the margins of the worldwide web? Like our screenwriter above, these outliers do not play the Hollywood game, don&#8217;t know anyone &#8220;important,&#8221; they make up their own rules, and ultimately find their way into the mainstream by virtue of generating their own success, popularity and following.</p>
<blockquote><p><span style="color: #333399;">What passes for &#8220;important&#8221; to Google is irrelevant to me, much like trying to shop for superior cabinetware at Lowe&#8217;s or HomeDepot, which carry only the &#8220;popular&#8221; and &#8220;important&#8221; brands that America wants and needs.</span></p></blockquote>
<p>PageRank ignores truly excellent websites and pages that provide information and intel that is far superior to that found in the mainstream. So how to find these obscure sites? I liken it to doing basic research: ask a question, develop a working hypothesis, test it by going out in the field and playing around, getting dirty, gathering information and data, make sense of those data, refine your hypothesis, test and test some more. For doing research on the web, it&#8217;s much the same, except it entails looking up keywords and following their trails to far-off points on the web.</p>
<p>For example, I might be interested in looking for all relevant information and intel on a  United States banknote that was given to Peru in the late 1870s. Where to start? Google might have you type in the whole phrase, to start, then see what that generates. It gave me nonsensical information. I then refined it to &#8220;Peru debt to U.S.&#8221; and got information about Peru&#8217;s debt for conservation agreements with the U.S., but nothing about that bank note that was issued to Peru more than 100 years ago. You&#8217;d think this would be easy, since there&#8217;re millions of websites and millions more pages out there on all subjects.</p>
<p>With more refining, more searching, I still find nothing useful. Google has failed me, yes? Well, my work is only as good as my keywords, so I try different combinations, discover a few more interesting facts about Peru&#8217;s debt to the US, and then add some of those additional details.</p>
<p>The end result?</p>
<p>All the information and intel I find is buried deep in the most obscure websites and pages possible. They&#8217;re not the least bit &#8220;important&#8221; to Google, they have a zero PageRank, and would never have been found had I not spent considerable time researching this topic. Yet, Google would have me believe that those initial sites and pages it did generate on my behalf were &#8220;important&#8221; to me and my research.</p>
<p>Google PageRank is highly elitist and biased and, therefore, inaccurate. What&#8217;s perhaps worst of all is that this deeply flawed rank system perpetuates bad information and intel. Just because something is popular doesn&#8217;t necessarily mean it&#8217;s accurate.</p>
<p>What passes for &#8220;important&#8221; to Google is irrelevant to me, much like trying to shop for superior cabinetware at Lowe&#8217;s or HomeDepot, which carry only the &#8220;popular&#8221; and &#8220;important&#8221; brands that America wants and needs.</p>
<p>How to get around Google&#8217;s elitism and bias? Be willing to dig deeply into your subject, using many different combinations of keywords and phrases.</p>
<p>Of course, when in doubt, or when you&#8217;re just fed up with Google&#8217;s elitist and biased PageRank system, why not just ask a <em>reference librarian</em>?</p>
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		<title>Rothschild&#8217;s Man in the United States, Alexander Hamilton, On The First Bank Of The United States</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following passages are taken directly from Alexander Hamilton&#8217;s letters and notes, which were compiled and published in Alexander Hamilton&#8217;s Works, published in 1850. After some passages, I offer explanations of previous paragraphs, hopefully, to shed further light on Hamilton&#8217;s machinations. My words are in black; Hamilton&#8217;s in navy blue.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The following passages are taken directly from Alexander Hamilton&#8217;s letters and notes, which were compiled and published in Alexander Hamilton&#8217;s Works, published in 1850. After some passages, I offer explanations of previous paragraphs, hopefully, to shed further light on Hamilton&#8217;s machinations. My words are in black; Hamilton&#8217;s in navy blue.</p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">&#8220;Paper credit never was long supported in any country, on a national scale, where it was not founded on a joint basis of public and private credit. An attempt to establish it on public credit alone, in France, under the auspices of Mr. Law, had nearly ruined the kingdom. We have seen the effects of it in America; and every successive experiment, proves the futility of the attempt. </span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">&#8220;Our new money is depreciating almost as fast as the old; though it has, in some States, as real funds as paper money ever had. The reason is, that the moneyed men have not an immediate interest to uphold its credit. They may even, in many ways, find it their interest to undermine it. The only certain manner to obtain a permanent paper credit, is to engage, the moneyed interest immediately in it, by making them contribute the whole, or part of the Stock, and giving them the whole, or part of the profits.</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="color: #ff0000;">&#8220;The only certain manner to obtain a permanent paper credit is to engage the moneyed interest immediately in it by making them contribute the whole, or part of the Stock, and giving them the whole, or part of the profits.&#8221;</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">&#8220;The invention of Banks, on the modern principle, originated in Venice. There the public, and a Company of moneyed men, are mutually concerned. The Bank of England unites public authority and faith with private credit: and hence we see, what a vast fabric of paper credit is raised on a visionary basis. Had it not been for this, England would never have found sufficient funds to carry on her wars: but, with the help of this, she has done, and is doing, wonders. The Bank of Amsterdam is on a similar foundation.&#8221;</span></p>
<p>Mayer Amschel Rothschild had his hands all over Alexander Hamilton long before Hamilton proposed the scheme of creating a central bank in the nascent United States to Congress. He had first gotten his marching orders from Rothschild, cleverly disguised the orders as his own device, then sent passionate missives to some of his colleagues, in particular, James Duane, who also was opposed to the independence of the United States and wished to see it reunite with Great Britain. Hamilton wrote further:</p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">&#8220;And why can we not have an American Bank? Are our moneyed men less enlightened to their own interest, or less enterprising in the pursuit? I believe the fault is in Government, which does not exert itself to engage them in such a scheme. It is true, the individuals in America are not very rich; but this would not prevent their instituting a Bank; it would only prevent its being done with such ample funds as in other countries. Have they not sufficient confidence in the Government, and in the issue of the cause? </span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">&#8220;Let the Government endeavor to inspire that confidence, by adopting the measures I have recommended, or others equivalent to them. Let it exert itself to procure a solid Confederation; to establish a good plan of executive administration; to form a permanent military force; to obtain, at all events, a foreign loan. If these things were in a train of vigorous execution, it would give a new spring to our affairs; Government would recover its respectability, and individuals would renounce their diffidence.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;"><span style="color: #000000;">Forever pursuing foreign loans, Hamilton almost immediate dropped the United States into a terrible debt. . . .</span></span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="color: #000080;"><span style="color: #008000;">Forever pursuing foreign loans, Hamilton almost immediate dropped the United States into a terrible debt. . . .</span></span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">&#8220;The object I should propose to myself, in the first instance, from a Bank, would be an auxiliary mode of supplies; for which purpose, contracts should be made, between Government and the Bank, on terms liberal and advantageous to the latter. Everything should be done, in the first instance, to encourage the Bank. After it gets well established, it will take care of itself; and Government may make the best terms it can, for itself.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">This &#8220;Bank&#8221; that Hamilton proposed was a private institution that was to be sheltered by the US government.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">&#8220;The first step to establishing the Bank, will be to engage a number of moneyed men of influence to relish the project, and make it a business. The subscribers to that lately established, are the fittest persons that can be found; and their plan may be interwoven. The outlines of my plan would be, to open subscriptions in all the States for the Stock, which we will suppose to be one million of pounds. Real property of every kind, as well as specie, should be deemed good Stock; but at least a fourth part of the subscription should be in specie, or plate.</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="color: #333399;">This &#8220;Bank&#8221; that Hamilton proposed was a private institution that was to be sheltered by the US government.</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">&#8220;There should be one great Company, in three divisions: in Virginia, Philadelphia, and at Boston; or two at Philadelphia and Boston. The Bank should have a right to issue Bank notes, bearing two per cent interest, for the whole of their stock; but not to exceed it. These notes may be payable every three months, or oftener: and the faith of government must be pledged for the support of the Bank. It must therefore have a right, from time to time, to inspect its operations, and must appoint inspectors for the purpose.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">Benjamin Franklin had already designed and built a system of currency that kept the colonies in good fiscal standing, but Hamilton immediately and vigorously drove the US into debt with the Bank&#8217;s issuing notes at 2% interest, paid annually in gold and silver.</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="color: #ff0000;">Benjamin Franklin had already designed and built a system of currency that kept the colonies in good fiscal standing, but Hamilton immediately and vigorously drove the US into debt with the Bank&#8217;s issuing notes at 2% interest, paid annually in gold and silver.</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">&#8220;The advantages of the Bank may consist in this: in the profits of the contracts made with Government, which should bear interest to be annually paid in specie; in the loan of money at interest, say six per cent; in purchasing lives by annuities, as practised in England, etc. The benefit resulting to the Company, is evident from the consideration, that they may employ, in circulation, a great deal more money than they have specie in Stock, on the credit of the real property which they will have in other use. </span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">&#8220;This money will be employed, either in fulfilling their contracts with the public, by which also they will gain a profit ; or in loans at an advantageous interest, or in annuities. The Bank may be allowed to purchase plate and bullion, and coin money ; allowing Government a part of the profit. I make the Bank notes bear interest, to obtain a readier currency, and to induce the holders to prefer them to specie, to prevent too great a run upon the Bank, at any time, beyond its ability to pay.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">The Rothschilds were all too familiar with the process of runs on European banks during times of strife, something that was made keenly aware to Hamilton, who was instructed to encourage people to value the paper currency more than gold or silver bullion, thus preventing a run on Hamilton&#8217;s central banks.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">&#8220;If Government can obtain a foreign loan, it should lend to the Bank, on easy terms, to extend its influence, and facilitate a compliance with its engagements. If Government could engage the States to raise a sum of money in specie, to be deposited in Bank in the same manner, it would be of the greatest consequence. If Government could prevail on the enthusiasm of the people, to make a contribution in plate for the same purpose, it would be a master-stroke. </span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">&#8220;Things of this kind sometimes succeed in popular contests; and, if undertaken with address, I should not despair of its success: but I should not be sanguine. The Bank may be instituted for a term of years by way of trial; and the particular privilege of coining money, be for a term still shorter. A temporary transfer of it to a particular Company, can have no inconvenience, as the Government are in no condition to improve this resource; nor could it, in our circumstances, be an object to them; though, with the industry of a knot of individuals, it might be a valuable one to them.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">Hamilton suggested that states raise money in the form of gold or silver bullion, which was to be deposited in the central banks. He also stated his desire to encourage people to deposit their holdings in bullion in the Banks, rather than mere paper money. Hamilton believed more in gold and silver bullion than in his own currency.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">&#8220;A Bank of this kind, even in its commencement, would answer the most valuable purposes to Government and to the proprietors : in its progress, the advantages will exceed calculation. It will promote commerce, by furnishing a more extensive medium, which we greatly want, in our circumstances. I mean a more extensive valuable medium. We have an enormous nominal one at this time, but it is only a name. In the present unsettled state of things in this country, we can hardly draw inferences from what has happened in others; otherwise I should be certain of the success of this scheme: but I think it has enough in its favor to be worthy of trial. I have only skimmed the surface of the different subjects I have introduced.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">Should the plans recommended come into contemplation, in earnest, and you desire my further thoughts, I will endeavor to give them more form and particularity. I am persuaded a solid Confederation, a permanent army, a reasonable prospect of subsisting it, would give us treble consideration in Europe, and produce a peace this winter. If a Convention is called, the minds of all the States, and the people, ought to be prepared to receive its determinations by sensible and popular writings, which should conform to the views of Congress.There are epochs in human affairs when novelty even is useful. </span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">&#8220;If a general opinion prevails that the old way is bad, whether true or false, and this obstructs or relaxes the operations of the public service, a change is necessary, if it be but for the sake of change. This is exactly the case now. &#8216;Tis a universal sentiment, that our present system is a bad one, and that things do not go right on this account. The measure of a Convention would revive the hopes of the people, and give a new direction to their passions, which may be improved in carrying points of substantial utility. The eastern States have already pointed out this mode to Congress: they ought to take the hint and anticipate the others.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">&#8220;And, in future, my dear sir, two things let me recommend, as fundamental rules for the conduct of Congress: to attach the army to them by every motive; to maintain an air of authority (not domineering) in all their measures with the States. The manner in which a thing is done, has more influence than is commonly imagined. Men are governed by opinion: this opinion is as much influenced by appearances as by realities. If a Government appears to be confident of its own powers, it is the surest way to inspire the same confidence in others. If it is diffident, it may be certain there will be a still greater diffidence in others; and that its authority will not only be distrusted, controverted, but contemned.</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="color: #993300;">In the end, Hamilton turned out not only to be a traitor to this country, but also a weak-spined man: Aaron Burr shot him in the abdomen in their private duel on July 11, 1804 outside Weehawken, New Jersey. In letters to his wife shortly before the duel, Hamilton suggested he could not take a human life. Interestingly, too, Hamilton&#8217;s son, Philip,  also had died in a duel with a man who had no compunction about using his weapon</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">&#8220;I wish, too, Congress would always consider, that a kindness consists as much in the manner as in the thing. The best things done hesitatingly, and with an ill grace, lose their effect, and produce disgust rather than satisfaction or gratitude. In what Congress have at any time done for the army, they have commonly been too late. They have seemed to yield to importunity, rather than to sentiments of justice or to a regard to the accommodation of their troops. An attention to this idea, is of more importance than it may be thought. I, who have seen all the workings and progress of the present discontents, am convinced, that a want of this has not been among the most inconsiderable causes. </span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">&#8220;You will perceive, my dear sir, this letter is hastily written, and with a confidential freedom: not as to a member of Congress, whose feelings may be sore at the prevailing clamors; but as to a friend, who is in a situation to remedy public disorders; who wishes for nothing so much as truth; and who is desirous of information, even from those less capable of judging than himself. I have not even time to correct and copy; and only enough to add, that I am, very truly and affectionately, dear sir,</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">Your most obedient servant,</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">A. HAMILTON.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">In the end, Hamilton turned out not only to be a traitor to this country, but also a weak-spined man: Aaron Burr shot him in the abdomen in their private duel on July 11, 1804 outside Weehawken, New Jersey. In letters to his wife shortly before the duel, Hamilton suggested he could not take a human life. </span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">Like the no-spined squishes who followed him&#8211;namely Zbigniew Brzezinski and his sons, plus all the Rothschild bankers and their spawn&#8211;Hamilton had no problem betraying his fellow Americans by undermining any law, whether moral or legal, that stood in his path. </span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">Spineless characters like Hamilton, the Brzezinskis and the Rothschilds are too weak, too scared and too effeminate to actually engage the enemy up close and personal in mortal combat, so they employ jackals to do their black work.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">Not surprisingly, too, Hamilton&#8217;s son, Philip,  also died in a duel with a man who had no compunction about actually using his weapon. Spineless character ran deeply in the Hamilton brood. . . .</span></p>
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		<title>Alexander Hamilton On Freedom and Taxes</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:08:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Dean A. Garner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;It has been a constant remark, that free countries have ever paid the heaviest taxes. The obedience of a free people to general laws, however hard they bear, is ever more perfect than that of slaves to the arbitrary will of a prince.&#8221; –Alexander Hamilton, in The Works of Alexander Hamilton, edited by John C. Hamilton (1850)
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		<title>Alexander Hamilton On Power and Money</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 23:54:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;That power which holds the purse-strings absolutely, must rule.&#8221; –Alexander Hamilton, in The Works of Alexander Hamilton, edited by John C. Hamilton (1850)
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;That power which holds the purse-strings absolutely, must rule.&#8221; –Alexander Hamilton, in <em>The Works of Alexander Hamilton</em>, edited by John C. Hamilton (1850)</p>
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		<title>10 Facts All Americans Must Know Now</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 18:23:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Dean A. Garner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[1. The United States individual (personal) income taxes go directly to the Bank of England, City of London, which is wholly owned and controlled by the family Rothschild.
2. The United States Federal Reserve Bank is NOT a U.S. government institution.
3. The Federal Reserve is a PRIVATE bank, which is wholly owned and controlled by the family [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>1. The United States individual (personal) income taxes go directly to the Bank of England, City of London, which is wholly owned and controlled by the family Rothschild.</p>
<p>2. The United States Federal Reserve Bank is NOT a U.S. government institution.</p>
<p>3. The Federal Reserve is a PRIVATE bank, which is wholly owned and controlled by the family Rothschild.</p>
<p>4. The Federal Reserve was established in 1913 illegally, when the Rothschild&#8217;s lieutenant, U.S. Senator Nelson Aldrich, forced through a Congressional bill that mandated it.</p>
<p>5. The family Rothschild is directly responsible for starting all major, and many minor, wars over the past 230 years.</p>
<p>6. The family Rothschild is directly responsible for every recession and depression in the United States over the past 210 years.</p>
<p>7. The family Rothschild (The First Sphere of Influence) controls all major banking throughout the entire world, and has the power to bankrupt entire countries.</p>
<p>8. Thomas Jefferson fought vehemently against Alexander Hamilton to ensure that the newly created United States would NOT fall under the control of the Rothschilds. Jefferson said that the Rothschilds were a greater threat to our country than any standing army.</p>
<p>9. Andrew Jackson also fought to thwart all the efforts of the Rothschilds, and was able to do so during his term. When his term was up, the Rothschilds installed their own U.S. president and then, in a retaliatory measure, plunged America into its first depression.</p>
<p>10. The Rothschilds have assassinated four U.S. presidents, who refused to toe the Rothschild line, and are thought to have murdered others, although the evidence for the latter is as yet inconclusive.</p>
<p>11. BONUS FACT #1: the Rothschilds are wholly responsible for the deaths and murders and assassinations of tens of millions of human beings worldwide.</p>
<p>12. BONUS FACT #2: The Rothschild henchmen are Zbigniew Brzezinski and his sons. Forget Kissinger; he&#8217;s an idiot.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">*****END OF COMMUNICATION*****</p>
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		<title>The Fall of Japan&#8217;s Economy: The First Sphere of Influence&#8217;s Grand Plan</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 13:49:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Dean A. Garner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thousands of speculators are weighing in on Japan automaker Toyota&#8217;s woes these past two weeks:
-Poor quality control (duh; needs no reference)
-The difficulty of &#8220;maintaining top-notch quality in a hasty expansion&#8221; (Reuters)
-Kelly Blue Book has devalued some Toyota vehicles by as much as 4% (Investors.com)
-Toyota President Akio Toyoda said that the carmaker had been through the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thousands of speculators are weighing in on Japan automaker Toyota&#8217;s woes these past two weeks:<br />
-Poor quality control (<em>duh</em>; needs no reference)<br />
-The difficulty of &#8220;maintaining top-notch quality in a hasty expansion&#8221; (<a href="http://in.reuters.com/article/businessNews/idINIndia-45771120100128">Reuters</a><span style="color: #000000;">)</span><br />
-Kelly Blue Book has devalued some Toyota vehicles by as much as 4% (<a href="http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=520549">Investors.com</a>)<br />
-Toyota President Akio Toyoda said that the carmaker had been through the three stages described by Jim Collins, author of How the Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In: <em>Hubris born of success; undisciplined pursuit of more; and denial of risk</em>. (<a href="http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/engineering/article7017880.ece">London Times</a>).</p>
<blockquote><p><span style="color: #000080;">My hypothesis about a future Japan is that they will somehow be allowed, if not ordered by TFSI, to ramp up their offensive rearming and wage war against any foreign nation, an act that is now restricted by Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution.</span></p></blockquote>
<p>While some of the mass-media commentary are, in context, accurate, they do not address the startling fact that this machination is all part of the grand plan of the The First Sphere of Influence (TFSI), which, among many other worldwide actions, seeks to destroy Japan&#8217;s economy . . . then force the Japanese government to take out massive, high-interest loans from TFSI so the failed nation can <em>recover</em>.</p>
<p>During the <em>recovery</em> period, Japan will be further in TFSI&#8217;s deep grasp, having to bow to inexorable pressure on all levels. Thus, Japan becomes another full-fledged pawn of The First Sphere of Influence.</p>
<p>My hypothesis about a future Japan is that they will somehow be allowed, if not ordered by TFSI, to ramp up their offensive rearming and wage war against any foreign nation, an act that is now restricted by Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution. Article 9 will be abolished by TFSI, or rewritten in a way that legally allows them to engage in combat against other countries. TFSI will use Japan as an offensive martial pawn against China and/or North Korea. Again, my hypothesis.</p>
<p>Where else are we seeing this phenomenon? One egregious example: Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The First Sphere of Influence crushed Dubai in one fell swoop last year, causing a massive panic in the Arab world, and driving off most investors in Dubai&#8217;s various construction projects. Even as early as May, 2009, when I visited Dubai and saw the idle construction work, it was readily apparent to me that something large and dark and sinister was at play there. It was a ghost town, and TFSI was, and still is, responsible for the loss of life. The bitter irony, from our point of view, is that Dubai then hired Rothschild family members as consultants to get them back on track. From the point of view of the Rothschilds, it was a planned move, no irony in sight.</p>
<p>Ah, forgot one little item: the mass media are wholly owned and operated by The First Sphere of Influence.</p>
<p>And that brings me to a future topic, i.e. how do We the People get good, solid, accurate information about world, national and local events? I&#8217;ll answer that one soon. Please check back. . . .</p>
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		<title>What Is A Jeffersonian Patriot? Repeat After Me: Peace. Freedom. Democracy.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:22:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Dean A. Garner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thomas Jefferson loved to share his thoughts and ideas, so he wrote long letters to friends and colleagues, and kept a series of diaries that now invite us to visit his brilliant world, even though he is long gone. Each time I read an entry from his diaries, I feel him standing over me, reciting [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thomas Jefferson loved to share his thoughts and ideas, so he wrote long letters to friends and colleagues, and kept a series of diaries that now invite us to visit his brilliant world, even though he is long gone. Each time I read an entry from his diaries, I feel him standing over me, reciting it to me. And I no longer feel small, alone and frightened by the coming battle.</p>
<p>When I did my last <em>security</em> mission, this one in 2007, I was sure that I wouldn&#8217;t make it back home. So sure that I did something I&#8217;d never done before: left a &#8220;death letter&#8221; to anyone who found it. It was addressed to <em>Dear Reader,</em> not some family member or friend or colleague. Just the person who discovered it and took the time to read it. As I wrote it, tears filled my eyes and I cried the whole time, knowing this would be the end of all I had done in life, all I had worked for over almost 30 years as an adult. And when I&#8217;d signed it, the tears ceased and I felt a new resolve.</p>
<p>During that last mission, everything that could go <em>wrong</em> <em>did</em> go <em>wrong</em>. It wasn&#8217;t that I wasn&#8217;t in my best shape or frame of mind. I <em>was</em> in that zone. I felt incredibly alive and strong and fast. And it was at that very time that the Universe decided to challenge me like never before, throwing one bad guy and nasty incident at me after another. It was like a violent video game, running away from one butthead I&#8217;d just dispatched, only to find another and another. It seemed never to end, all this violence.</p>
<p>In the end, though, I had only run into two people who wanted my client dead. Two. Those two, in my shot mind, had morphed into 30. I swear I used up all my clips of ammo on those 30 guys. I swear. And I shot and killed every one of them.</p>
<p>All <em>two</em> of them. . . .</p>
<p>When it was over and my client was safely ensconced in a safe haven, I limped back home and fell into a deep sleep that seemed to last years. It was only a couple of days, though. Spent, I went to my computer to see what had gone on in the world while I was, uh, away: not much happened in the world while I was out searching for peace, freedom and democracy. After a twelve-pack of Beck&#8217;s&#8211;or was it Heineken?&#8211;I was alive again and ready to face the world. That&#8217;s when I saw the death letter, resting comfortably in front of my computer monitor, Dear Reader emblazoned across the front in bold hand-scratched black marker.</p>
<p>In it, I&#8217;d said the most outrageous things, stuff like: if I had to do it all over again, I would&#8217;ve started killing bad guys the moment I left high school. Or this gem: That night I was aboard that guy&#8217;s boat, looking at all the memorabilia he&#8217;d safely tucked away over a lifetime, I was deeply saddened that there were no pictures of him with anyone. Not a single picture in the entire place. Beautiful yacht, yes. But empty and cold, lacking in any humanness. I also said crap like, if I ever meet the woman of my dreams, she&#8217;ll be a few years older and wiser, and more than I ever wished for. Dumb stuff.</p>
<p>As I read more of President Jefferson&#8217;s thoughts and ideas and beliefs, I am struck by how he, too, struggled day to day with life&#8217;s vicissitudes, yet somehow managed to come out on the other end, all the wiser. He had to deal with men who were more comfortable with the status quo, i.e. toeing the line of King George and his handler, Mayer Amschel Rothschild. It must&#8217;ve been difficult to persuade these weak men to adopt the idea of Peace, Freedom and Democracy, esp. in the face of incredible odds.</p>
<p>Weak men are in abundance nowadays. So too were they in the 1770s. Ironically, perhaps, they&#8217;re the ones who normally prevail, as people like President Jefferson take to the front lines and get shot, stabbed and massacred long before the weak-dicks ever see the fires of combat. It&#8217;s true that we do indeed leave our heroes on the battlefield, although many weak-dick survivors would have you believe otherwise.</p>
<p>People ask me what a Jeffersonian Patriot is. Simple: someone who espouses and fights for Peace, Freedom and Democracy.</p>
<p>Period.</p>
<p>Any questions?</p>
<p>Oh, I have one for you: given I continually put my ass on the line as a Jeffersonian Patriot, what are YOU willing to do, to gain back this beautiful country of ours? Huh, huh? Are YOU willing to fight to the death, whether it is YOUR death? I am and I have. Repeatedly. Are YOU? If not, then please go away. If so, I need your support in the coming months and years. . . .</p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:56:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, I gave in and actually watched a CNBC webstrip of an interview with two Indianapolis Colts, John Gill and Daniel Travanti Muir. When Gill was shown a photograph of Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, Gill was hesitant at first, then said, &#8220;I wanna say Ben Bernanke?&#8221;
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Okay, I gave in and actually watched a CNBC webstrip of an interview with two Indianapolis Colts, John Gill and Daniel Travanti Muir. When Gill was shown a photograph of Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, Gill was hesitant at first, then said, &#8220;I wanna say Ben Bernanke?&#8221;</p>
<p>When the interviewer then asked Mr. Muir, the big man was deep into checking out a home video on his cam, but politely turned his head every so slightly to look at the photograph and said, confidently, &#8220;He looks like a crook.&#8221; He then repaired to the cam again.</p>
<p>The announcer parroted: &#8220;He looks like a crook? Why?&#8221;</p>
<p>Mr. Muir pulled his head away from his cam and continued, a little more confidence this time, like he was on to something big: &#8220;He just got that look about him, man, like, he just out to take everything you own.&#8221;</p>
<p>Man, that&#8217;s chemistry for you: bacteria know a predator when they detect one, dogs know evil when they sniff it or lick it, and we humans know, too, when evil is lurking in our midst.</p>
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		<title>Dr. Condoleezza Rice Tells Sarasota: &#8220;Thomas Jefferson Is Overrated As A Founding Father . . . My Favorite Is Alexander Hamilton.&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:37:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Dean A. Garner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[More than 1,700 people filled Sarasota&#8217;s Van Wezel Performing Arts Center this morning (Monday, 08 February 10) to hear Dr. Condoleezza Rice speak about various foreign-policy issues she feels should be important to us in Sarasota. Early on, she related her personal respect for traitor Alexander Hamilton, saying, &#8220;Thomas Jefferson is overrated as a founding [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>More than 1,700 people filled Sarasota&#8217;s Van Wezel Performing Arts Center this morning (Monday, 08 February 10) to hear Dr. Condoleezza Rice speak about various foreign-policy issues she feels should be important to us in Sarasota. Early on, she related her personal respect for traitor Alexander Hamilton, saying, &#8220;Thomas Jefferson is <em>overrated</em> as a founding father . . . my favorite is Alexander Hamilton.&#8221;</p>
<p>This elitist black woman was telling a group that was 99% white, well educated, conservative, and lovers of Thomas Jefferson that their idol is&#8211;how did she present it?&#8211;<em>overrated</em>.</p>
<p>As you doubtless know, Alexander Hamilton was a lieutenant of the Rothschilds, and was instrumental in establishing The First Bank of the United States, chartered on February 25, 1791. The Rothschilds insisted that it receive a lengthy charter, so Hamilton forced through &#8220;measures&#8221; (personally, I feel that these measures were more <em>coercion</em> and <em>threats</em> to our real Founding Fathers) that gave the bank a 20-year charter, thus enslaving the people of the United States under its first official debt.</p>
<p>Before the bank existed, Benjamin Franklin et al. had in place a means of printing the colonies&#8217; own money, much to the ire of German banker Mayer Amschel Rothschild, who ordered Hamilton into action. As Secretary of the Treasury, Traitor Hamilton was able to effect precisely what Rothschild commanded, which was to force the newly created United States finally to render unto Caesar. Rothschild fancied himself a modern-day Caesar who took whatever he wanted from whoever he wanted, and Mayer Amschel Caesar was very eager to regain his just blood money, something he clearly failed to do during the American Revolution.</p>
<p>Dr. Rice then told the audience of the world&#8217;s seemingly greatest threat, China, but then went onto to explain that China wouldn&#8217;t dare start a war with the US, because it has too much to lose. The fact is, China is also tightly controlled by The First Sphere of Influence, so her point is completely irrelevant. What she did add, though, was that the true threats to our nation&#8217;s security were &#8220;failed states&#8221; and &#8220;failing nations.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Afghanistan is our biggest threat today,&#8221; she said. &#8220;It&#8217;s a failed state.&#8221; She went to characterize the country as filled with &#8220;dangerous peaks and nothing else but dust.&#8221;</p>
<blockquote><p><span style="color: #003366;">This elitist black woman was telling a group that was 99% white, well educated, conservative, and lovers of Thomas Jefferson that their idol is&#8211;how did she present it?&#8211;</span><em><span style="color: #003366;">overrated</span></em><span style="color: #003366;">.</span></p></blockquote>
<p>Hmmm. I&#8217;ve been to Afghanistan 12 times and have run my boots up into the beautiful mountains and down into the lowest fertile valleys. Yes, there is lots of dust, if you spend all your time in the capital city of Kabul. And that&#8217;s because it&#8217;s a dirt town with dirt roads and mostly dirt thoroughfares, and a population of four million men (some women, but I never saw one) who stir up all that dust every single day. When you walk through Kabul, you notice two things: a city of men and a city of dust. Maybe this was what Dr. Rice was referring to. Lady Rice may have set foot in some secure area of Kabul, yes, but the lady hasn&#8217;t ventured far beyond the safety of her hotel room, surrounded by special-operations forces bodyguards.</p>
<p>In truth, Afghanistan has existed for more than 2,000 years, fought off nearly every invader, massacred elements of the world&#8217;s greatest armies&#8217;, including Great Britain, the former Soviet Union, and the United States. So let&#8217;s not label Afghanistan a &#8220;failed state,&#8221; Dr. Rice. To do so gives prospective invaders a license to occupy the country and inflict their own policies on a largely failed and impotent <em>central government </em>that is not recognized by the outlying villages, which have their own stable system of government.</p>
<p>I could argue how Afghanistan is not a &#8220;failed state,&#8221; as Dr. Rice put it, but I&#8217;d like to move on. . . .</p>
<p>&#8220;Al Qaeda is still a major threat,&#8221; she said.</p>
<p>Al Qaeda is a product of our own Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Yes, still.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m still trying to fathom how Dr. Rice and people like her keep toeing the line for The First Sphere of Influence, even though they know that word to the contrary is getting out. And its diffusion into worldwide ears is accelerating, too.</p>
<p>For those of you who haven&#8217;t heard: al Qaeda is a creation of CIA. The leader of al Qaeda, a bandit known as Tim Osman, has been on the CIA&#8217;s payroll for more than a dozen years. If you wish to see a tear sheet from the CIA, showing Osman&#8217;s affiliation with the agency, please email me via the CONTACT US page. Oh, if you&#8217;re wondering who Tim Osman is, please consider this: it&#8217;s the CIA&#8217;s code name for <em>Osama bin Laden</em>.</p>
<p>While Dr. Rice didn&#8217;t necessarily foment trouble, her soft-spoken tone and demeanor clearly projected her agenda: toe the line for The First Sphere of Influence and ensure that the good people of Sarasota were fed the same shit as other civic-minded groups across this country were slurping up. Voraciously, too.</p>
<p>We the People are eager for the truth. Thing is, People, you&#8217;re not going to get it from a lieutenant of the Brzezinski Cartel, which is the geopolitical henchman of the Rothschild family. Period.</p>
<p>During Dr. Rice&#8217;s presentation, she had the audacity to mention our beloved US military and how &#8220;they are fighting for our freedom.&#8221; She failed to mention that we are fighting THEM, i.e. The First Sphere of Influence, for our freedom and our very lives, and we will be doing so until we prevail. Ya gotta admit, though: the girl has balls and she bought them from, and had them installed by, the same shop that did Obama&#8217;s.</p>
<p>Forgive me for leaving out the best part of her presentation: Dr. Rice looked absatutely killer in that power-plum pantsuit and five-inch stiletto kicks.</p>
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		<title>The New American Revolution: So, Uh, Yeah, Okay, When Do We Start?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:47:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Dean A. Garner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Each day I now ask five people, if not more, the following two questions:
1. Did you know that your personal income taxes go directly to the Bank of England, which is owned by the family Rothschild?
2. Is the US Federal Reserve Bank, The Fed, a US government institution?
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Each day I now ask five people, if not more, the following two questions:<br />
1. Did you know that your personal income taxes go directly to the Bank of England, which is owned by the family Rothschild?<br />
2. Is the US Federal Reserve Bank, The Fed, a US government institution?</p>
<p>Out of the 100-plus people I&#8217;ve asked so far, only one person knew the correct answers. One. My guess is that when I ask another thousand, there will still be that one lone dude, Paul. What crushed me is how he answered the questions&#8211;with a heavy heart, as if knowing there was absolutely nothing he could do about it.</p>
<p>So this brings me to the topic, The New American Revolution. So, uh, yeah, okay, when do we start?</p>
<blockquote><p><span style="color: #ff0000;">The good news is that The First Sphere of Influence is a living, breathing entity. And that means only one thing to me . . . We can kill it.</span></p></blockquote>
<p>How much new information and intel do you need to drive you beyond that tipping point, beyond which you stand up and do something? Will The First Sphere of Influence have to tax you more, like they are with the new carbon taxing scheme? Will they have to strip you of more Constitutional freedom and rights, as they have with the passage and increasing implementation of The Patriot Act and all the subsequent Executive Orders? Will they have to install CCTV video cams in your neighborhood, thus dissolving more and more of your privacy?</p>
<p>Right now, my friend, you&#8217;re being slowly boiled alive by The First Sphere of Influence. They&#8217;ve tried to boil us over the years, but we&#8217;ve fought back successfully. They made a huge push into our lives after WW II, as we were still licking our wounds and were too dizzy to notice, when they established the Central Intelligence Agency, United Nations, International Monetary Fund, etc. Interestingly, they do this a lot: start a war, make oodles of cash, then stop it right in the middle of a good part so we&#8217;re stunned, creating the perfect diversion for their introduction of these new organizations, laws, and future world leaders. History has repeated itself quite nicely and accurately over the past several hundred years, and has largely gone unnoticed by the populous.</p>
<p>Until now.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve said this before, and it bears repeating: the advent of modern and sophisticated communications technology, coupled with the rise in selfishness among generations following the wild-west &#8217;60s, and the subsequent removal by The First Sphere of Influence of our civil rights is helping us commoners spread the word about The First Sphere of Influence. They feel it, too. Witness the events of the past ten years and you&#8217;ll feel it, too. False-flag operations like 9/11 ushered in a slew of new laws and restrictions that weren&#8217;t even voted on by our benevolent Congress. It happened in the UK, too, slamming through of new arcane rights restrictions, none of which were subject to a vote by their Parliament. Not one.</p>
<p>Over the past ten years, unlike ever before, we&#8217;ve seen the systematic dismantling of our constitutional republic&#8217;s structure, outpaced by the anabolism of a new global corporate structure that has largely taken over our once-proud government. Slowly, The First Sphere of Influence has invaded our government and, like a slowly metastasizing cancer, each of our bodies.</p>
<p>The good news is that The First Sphere of Influence is a living, breathing entity. And that means only one thing to me . . . We can kill it.</p>
<p>So, when do we start?</p>
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		<title>Spray-On Liquid Glass: Goodbye to Ajax and Windex?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 23:39:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Dean A. Garner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ajax and Windex, plus hundreds of other cleaning products, are doomed. That should save each American family about $400 each year. Woo-hoo!
Nanopool GmbH, based in Schwalbach, Germany, is introducing a revolutionary nanotech product that will surely be a market-killer of these US-made household cleaning and coating products. Plastic, glass, ceramics, wood, textiles, metal and stone [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ajax and Windex, plus hundreds of other cleaning products, are doomed. That should save each American family about $400 each year. Woo-hoo!</p>
<p>Nanopool GmbH, based in Schwalbach, Germany, is introducing a revolutionary nanotech product that will surely be a market-killer of these US-made household cleaning and coating products. Plastic, glass, ceramics, wood, textiles, metal and stone all can now be coated with a specific &#8220;np-coating,&#8221; adjusted and formulated for each surface type.</p>
<blockquote><p><span style="color: #000080;">No more rust? Np-coated metals protects against corrosion, rust, abrasion, water damage, oil damage, electrolyis, and microbial intrusion.</span></p></blockquote>
<p>When graffiti is spray-painted onto normal concrete, sandstone or metal surfaces, its particles diffuse into the actual substrate and cling tightly to it, sometimes making it impossible to remove, even with strong abrasives and high-pressure water jets. With an np-coating, graffiti easily washes away, using only paint remover and the short application of a high-pressure water jet.</p>
<p>Your expensive silk dress can now receive an np-coating, making it 100% protected from harmful oils, soil and dirt, light abrasion, water damage, paints and other products that cause staining or discoloration. Np-coated textiles also protect against acids and bases, oxidation, UV radiation, electrical burns, etc. Pour of bottle of wine on your beautiful, np-coated sil dress and the wine runs off like rain from a window. Plus, np-coatings are very flexible, allowing your dress to, uh, <em>expand</em>, if necessary.</p>
<p>No more rust? Np-coated metals protects against corrosion, rust, abrasion, water damage, oil damage, electrolyis, and microbial intrusion.</p>
<p>For ceramics and glass, a simple once-a-year np-coating will protect against water damage, oil damage, abrasion, food stains, microbial attack, and provide a surface that&#8217;s very easy to clean: just use mild soap and water.</p>
<p>Works of art now can be coated with np-coatings that protect against graffiti, water and oil damage, microbial attack, etc.</p>
<p>Sterility is a major challenge for hospitals and research institutions. Np-coated materials are 100% protected from microbial intrusion and damage. The possibilities are limitless.</p>
<blockquote><p><span style="color: #ff0000;">One wonders, though, what happens to the breakdown products of the nanoscopic glass particles when they degrade after a year or so.</span></p></blockquote>
<p>Np-coatings are breathable, i.e. they act as semi-permeable membranes that allow oxygen and other gas molecules to diffuse across their 100-nanometer-thick layer. They can be sprayed on fruits and vegetables and protect them from the types of damages listed for other surfaces above.</p>
<p>One wonders, though, what happens to the breakdown products of the nanoscopic glass particles when they degrade after a year or so. Are they like asbestos, a glass fiber-like molecule that invades the lungs and punctures delicate tissues, causing cancer? When will we know the health and environmental effects of these np-coatings? As with other innovations of the past, well after the harm is done.</p>
<p>Ah, but let&#8217;s not lose sight of the pros of this revolutionary nanotech product!</p>
<p>Not only are all our surfaces protected from harm, they&#8217;re now easy to clean, using soap and water and, in some cases, mild cleaners. So maybe Ajax and Windex aren&#8217;t gone just yet. At least until the next cool nanotech product hits the market.</p>
<p>For more information, please visit: <a href="http://www.nanopool.eu/">nanopool.eu</a></p>
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		<title>High School Honors Student Mr. Alex Fuentes Railroaded by Principal</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:07:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[All it takes for evil to prevail is for good people to do nothing.
When I&#8217;ve seen a bully or bullies beating up on a defenseless person or persons, I&#8217;ve stepped in. Swiftly. Violently. And with excellent results. I flatly refuse to allow bullies to ride roughshod over anyone. Bullies, beware. . . .
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>All it takes for evil to prevail is for good people to do nothing.</p>
<p>When I&#8217;ve seen a bully or bullies beating up on a defenseless person or persons, I&#8217;ve stepped in. Swiftly. Violently. And with excellent results. I flatly refuse to allow bullies to ride roughshod over anyone. Bullies, beware. . . .</p>
<p>The following is a letter I sent to a Tampa, Florida high school principal who endorsed the dismissal of student Mr. Alex Fuentes from the national honor society (sorry, but it doesn&#8217;t deserve title caps). Mr. Fuentes publicly criticized his school, Wesley Chapel High School, on his Facebook page, drawing the ire of some of his teachers who voted to dismiss him from the national honor society.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m pleased to hear that Mr. Fuentes has since transferred to another high school.</p>
<p>While I also refuse to make every fight my own, some actions simply cannot go unpunished. . . .</p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">3 February 2010</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">Ms. Carin Nettles <br />
Principal <br />
Wesley Chapel High School <br />
30651 Wells Road <br />
Wesley Chapel, FL 33545</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">Dear Ms. Nettles,</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">Dismissing Mr. Alex Fuentes for voicing a First Amendment right, not to mention letting the world know what a crappy school you run, is abominable. You’ve become a Socialist, dear lady, a comrade of a truly despicable regime.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">Shame on you.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">And don’t you dare challenge me, telling me I’ve not been in your shoes or have no idea what I’m talking about. To the contrary, madam; I’ve schooled and taught and mentored young people all my life, even when I was a young prodigy. I’ve been a scientist (biophysics), US Army Airborne Ranger, corporate mercenary, and now a NY Times bestselling ghostwriter and editor of many fiction and nonfiction books.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">I’m pleased to see that Mr. Fuentes has moved on to another school. . . .</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">Here’s the bitter irony for people like you, those three faculty members who voted to dismiss Mr. Fuentes, and the board of the national honor society (lower caps for emphasis), Ms. Nettle: Alex Fuentes will surpass all your accomplishments in life and do much much better than you sheeple.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">By the way, did you know that all your personal income taxes go directly to the Bank of England in London? Right into the coffers of the family Rothschild.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">Serves you right, still a slave to the Rothschild empire. . . .</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">Cheers,</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">William Dean A. Garner</span></p>
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		<title>Frank Serpico Speaks. . . .</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 21:06:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Dean A. Garner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;You have to go up against the odds to do the right thing.&#8221;
&#8211;Frank Serpico
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;You have to go up against the odds to do the right thing.&#8221;<br />
&#8211;Frank Serpico</p>
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		<title>The First Sphere of Influence: Zbigniew Brzezinski and the Family Rothschild</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 02:43:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Dean A. Garner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Right now I&#8217;m sequestered in an unbelievably comfortable office: a 12-foot-wide custom desk made of sapele I designed and had made; the world&#8217;s most comfortable chair, something so ergonomic I could sleep in it; an Apple computer with two big flatscreen monitors; and photos of my wife. To me, this is an ideal work environment, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Right now I&#8217;m sequestered in an unbelievably comfortable office: a 12-foot-wide custom desk made of sapele I designed and had made; the world&#8217;s most comfortable chair, something so ergonomic I could sleep in it; an Apple computer with two big flatscreen monitors; and photos of my wife. To me, this is an ideal work environment, free of noise&#8211;unless I crank up Radiohead or Tristeza or Sonic&#8211;no clutter, no boss or overlord standing over me, no distractions from the everyday world that&#8217;s just outside the walls and doors of our home.</p>
<p>In my own manmade paradise, I should feel blissfully relaxed, happy, and fortunate. But I&#8217;m not. My mind&#8211;both conscious and subconscious&#8211;is racing at the speed of light, sending and receiving hundreds of messages and various inputs from every sector of my brain. I should be curled up with a good book at this hour, nearly 10 pm, but I&#8217;m in overdrive, wondering how I&#8217;m going to stop The First Sphere of Influence from carrying on.</p>
<p>Simple as that: stop evil from carrying on.</p>
<blockquote><p><span style="color: #b9a945;">Even now, without aid or backup or any chance of rescue if thugs come for me in my home, I am at peace, one with my surroundings.</span></p></blockquote>
<p>In those mad-minute days of security work, I was one with my surroundings, with the air, the warm rain, and the person or persons I was hired to escort and sometimes carry to freedom. I couldn&#8217;t see or tell where my hand ended and theirs started, when I grabbed them and dragged them on a forced run through a town or a jungle, fleeing the oppressors who somehow got word of my mission. My strong electric field, I reasoned, deflected the bullets that sometimes flew passed us, always high, thank goodness. Nature and I were one. I couldn&#8217;t lose on any level, because even though I had no human support team or backup or the chance of rescue if things went south, nature and all objects and trees and everything I could see was in fluid motion with me, guiding me, sheltering me, protecting me. Again, I was one with . . . everything. I blended in and disappeared, or so I thought. My clients, by virtue of their closeness to me, which was usually hand in hand or arm in arm, also were immune to the senses of our common enemies.</p>
<p>As I think back on those missions thousands of miles from the comfort of my office, then in Santa Barbara, California, paradoxically, I never felt more free, more at ease and peace.</p>
<p>Even now, without aid or backup or any chance of rescue if thugs come for me in my home, I am at peace, one with my surroundings. And with this notion, I do not feel alone. Good thing, too, because I&#8217;m going after the greatest threat on the planet, The First Sphere of Influence, which has murdered millions of humans over the past 230 years. This high level of spirituality is my motor. Some people believe in God; I don&#8217;t. Some believe in some pagan talisman; I don&#8217;t. Some don&#8217;t believe in anything at all; I do believe in something greater than I. That something is all of you, those kind souls who read these words that are difficult to swallow. Those decent folk who take the time to write me and tell me about themselves, what they think about the state of our country, and how much they appreciate what some of us are doing to fight tyranny. My spirituality comes from being one with everything, including each of you. I get my strength from knowing you are at least reading this and considering its gravity. I am comforted by your words of encouragement, MK, Fish Man, Javier, Alex, Brian, John, and hundreds of others&#8217; thoughts, ideas, beliefs.</p>
<p>From an impossibly small amount of mass we can get an impossibly large amount of energy. We built the atomic bomb on this notion, and tested it on atolls in the Pacific, wooden huts in the Nevada desert, and on cities in Japan.</p>
<p>What The First Sphere of Influence does not realize is that each of us is capable of unleashing untold power and energy and, when directed and focused just right, can level a city or a mountain.</p>
<blockquote><p><span style="color: #333399;">Dr. Brzezinski and Mssrs. Rothschild bank on our not being able to muster the courage, let alone numbers, to defeat them.</span></p></blockquote>
<p>Dr. Brzezinski and Mssrs. Rothschild bank on our not being able to muster the courage, let alone numbers, to defeat them. He laughs at insignificant people like me. Hey, I&#8217;m used to being looked at as a zero. Makes it easier to blend into thin air. The arrogance of fascists has played out in violence over the centuries, and that violence has been visited upon them. Like I&#8217;ve said before, fascism doesn&#8217;t last. Socialism doesn&#8217;t last. Communism doesn&#8217;t last. Life finds a way to be free. It&#8217;s soft-wired into the DNA and RNA of all living things. Try containing a mutant strain of bacteria and what happens? It mutates even further, thus rendering your antibiotic as useless as wet toilet paper. MRSA is a prime example. Ever tried to kill a wood-eating fungus under your house? You&#8217;ll always lose. If it doesn&#8217;t have dead trees to munch on and reduce to mush, then it goes for the wood frame that holds your house together. It spreads into the walls and floors, up into the roof and under the driveway, until it consumes all the cellulose on your property. Try oppressing a gang of rats that propagate each month and you get a bunch of pissed-off super-rats that invade your home silently and tear it to pieces from the inside out.</p>
<p>Life finds a way to escape the bonds of oppression and, when it does, comes back with a vengeance. It&#8217;s called the &#8220;rebound effect&#8221; and it&#8217;s kick-ass to watch.</p>
<blockquote><p><span style="color: #ff6600;">So how is it that the world&#8217;s most prolific con-artists, The First Sphere of Influence, don&#8217;t know about basic evolution on this planet?</span></p></blockquote>
<p>So how is it that the world&#8217;s most prolific con-artists, The First Sphere of Influence, don&#8217;t know about basic evolution on this planet? In their own arrogance, they don&#8217;t care. Why would they? They&#8217;ve ridden roughshod over billions of humans and other life forms for centuries, without significant resistance to stop them completely. When they have been thwarted, they regroup and come back at you from another direction and with a new set of tools. But they&#8217;ve yet to be stopped.</p>
<p>In my own arrogance, I think I can stop them. I go to bed at night, dreaming of a special nanovirus that someone gives me. Then someone else flies me over to ZB&#8217;s home in McLean, Virginia and to the Rothschild abodes in London and I spray them with this nanovirus that consumes them in minutes. All gone. Someone else then flies me back home and tucks me back into bed, even before my wife awakens.</p>
<p>And then I wake up from my killing reverie and say, &#8220;Okay, now what, Dean?&#8221;</p>
<p>Good question: <em>now what?</em></p>
<p>In the coming months, I&#8217;ll share with you that <em>what</em>. What I can do. What you can do.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m not in this alone, and I thank you for that. . . .</p>
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		<title>Americans&#8217; Response to The Brzezinski Letter: Overwhelming Support</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:48:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Dean A. Garner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thank you all for taking the time to visit That&#8217;s Just Plum Dumb and read The Brzezinski Letter. More than 12,000 patriotic Americans so far have read this. . . .
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thank you all for taking the time to visit That&#8217;s Just Plum Dumb and read <em>The Brzezinski Letter</em>. More than 12,000 patriotic Americans so far have read this. . . .</p>
<p>Yes, I actually sent it to him, along with the second Letter, both via email (zb@csis.org). This is his full-time office in Washington, DC. And, no, Dr. Brzezinski has not responded to either Letter.</p>
<p>The general rule for a response is, when the target (ZB) becomes sufficiently annoyed, worried, frightened or even desperate, he will reach out to the plaintiff (that would be I). In some cases, it&#8217;s been via the executioner who may kill the plaintiff in an &#8220;accident&#8221; or via outright assassination. In others, a simple visit by two FBI Special Agents. Or a simple phone call to a subordinate in town, who in turn doesn&#8217;t call the plaintiff, but rather makes threatening gestures to plaintiff&#8217;s wife, an innocent party. And still others: subordinates alert the plaintiff&#8217;s web-hosting company that plaintiff is making &#8220;antisemitic remarks&#8221; and thus must be shut down immediately and permanently.</p>
<p>As you can see, the response can be any number of colorful options, and I fully expect one or more of those sometime soon. Why? Because I&#8217;m now writing the next nonfiction book, which will feature <em>The New Declaration of Independence: A Break from The First Sphere of Influence</em>. In this book, I discuss the history of Thomas Jefferson&#8217;s original document, which was presented to the Congress on July 4, 1776, where it sat on a table over a weekend, fermenting and gathering momentum that, like the rotation of our own Mother Earth, continues to this very day.</p>
<p>In this book, I also give the rationale for breaking free of the Brzezinksi Cartel and the banking family Rothschild, citing a hundred references from primary sources that date back hundreds of years. For example, did you know that our own Federal Reserve is a private banking institution? Private. That means it&#8217;s about as &#8220;federal&#8221; as Federal Express, and it answers to The Bank of England and the Rothschild family. Did you know that 100% of our personal income taxes in the US ultimately go to The Bank of England and the Rothschild family?</p>
<p>In addition to breaking free from The First Sphere of Influence, I am calling for the abolishment of the Federal Reserve and the U.S. federal (personal) income tax, as well. My aim is to bring America back to its original state of a Democratic Republic, a government of the People, by the People, and for the People of the United States of America. Please check back for future updates and notices about the book. . . .</p>
<blockquote><p><span style="color: #3685c8;">The emails, too, have been overwhelming: more than 500 at last count. And not one single voice of dissent, opposition or negativity. Not one. That, in itself, is telling. . . .</span></p></blockquote>
<p>The emails, too, have been overwhelming: more than 500 at last count. And not one single voice of dissent, opposition or negativity. Not one. That, in itself, is telling: normally when some idiot like me strips down naked for the world to see and puts his head and balls on the chopping block, people come out of the woodwork to take potshots. Didn&#8217;t happen this time. Peace, Freedom and Democracy are on everyone&#8217;s minds, it seems, and the only words I&#8217;ve heard so far are those of kindness and support, and queries that run the gamut from &#8220;what can I do?&#8221; to &#8220;I&#8217;ll kill for you&#8221; and &#8220;You&#8217;re my new hero.&#8221;</p>
<p>My wife said that we&#8217;ve struck a nerve here and I know she&#8217;s right. She&#8217;s always right, because Alex always does the right thing. Always. We both believe that our country is in shambles and something must be done about it. I&#8217;ve told her that I&#8217;m sacrificing us for this great cause, and she fully agrees with me.</p>
<p>All it takes for evil to prevail is for good people to do nothing.</p>
<p>We are willing to do whatever it takes to get this word out, even if it means losing our lives to the murderous First Sphere of Influence.</p>
<p>Like Bo Jackson said, &#8220;I can take a lick, but I&#8217;d rather give one.&#8221;</p>
<p>Peace. Freedom. Democracy. Those are the foundation standards of <em>Jeffersonian Democracy</em>. I am not a Republican or Democrat, as the two parties are a sham, i.e. one and the same, although The First Sphere of Influence will have you believe otherwise. I am a <em>Jeffersonian Patriot</em>, someone now doing whatever it takes to ensure our freedoms are restored, maintained and preserved.</p>
<p><em><strong>Peace.</strong></em></p>
<p><em><strong>Freedom.</strong></em></p>
<p><em><strong>Democracy.</strong></em></p>
<p>Thank you,</p>
<p>William Dean A. Garner<br />
Sarasota, Florida</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve said this before: those who seek to control us under the damp, moldy cloak of fascism hide in plain sight. The arrogance of these men astounds me. No, that&#8217;s not true. It makes me smile, because I get to discover it and add yet another dot to my constellation of research on these fascists. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve said this before: those who seek to control us under the damp, moldy cloak of fascism hide in plain sight. The arrogance of these men astounds me. No, that&#8217;s not true. It makes me smile, because I get to discover it and add yet another dot to my constellation of research on these fascists. As a man who used to escort good people in hostile territories, I know the importance of security, and the best security is anonymity. I guess that&#8217;s why I&#8217;m smiling as I write this, celebrating having connected another few dots together. . . .</p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro', 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Quote in 1865, attributed to an editorial in the Rothschild-owned </span><span style="color: #323232;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><em>Hazard Circular &#8211; London Times</em> </span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;">(to the effect):</span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">&#8220;If this mischievous financial policy, which has its origin in the North American Republic during the late war in that country, should become indurated down to a fixture, then that Government will furnish its own money without cost. It will pay off debts and be without debt. It will have all the money necessary to carry on its commerce. It will become prosperous without precedent in the history of the world. The brains, and the wealth of all countries will go to North America. That country must be destroyed or it will destroy every monarchy on the globe.&#8221;</span></p>
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		<title>Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski: My Second Letter to You, Homes</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 19:15:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[25 January 2010    
Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski  Center for Strategic and International Studies  1800 K Street  Washington, DC   
Dear Dr. Brzezinski,
My open letter to you is spreading like wildfire across the Internet.
Perhaps we should talk sometime. You can educate me about the little details I’ve failed to uncover about you and your evil plans to convert the US into a one-world [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>25 January 2010    </p>
<p>Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski  Center for Strategic and International Studies  1800 K Street  Washington, DC   </p>
<p>Dear Dr. Brzezinski,</p>
<p>My open letter to you is spreading like wildfire across the Internet.</p>
<p>Perhaps we should talk sometime. You can educate me about the little details I’ve failed to uncover about you and your evil plans to convert the US into a one-world fascist state.</p>
<p>There will come a day of reckoning, my dear sir. . . .</p>
<p>Sincerely,</p>
<p>Dean</p>
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		<title>The U.S. Personal Income Tax: It Goes to The Family Rothschild</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 18:52:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Dean A. Garner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The more people like me speak out about this, the more will scratch their heads and go, &#8220;No way!&#8221; or &#8220;You&#8217;re an idiot, Garner!&#8221; or, worst of all, &#8220;You&#8217;re not an American!&#8221;
I&#8217;ve heard this crap before, and it always comes from ignorant souls who just don&#8217;t understand how the political and economic systems work in [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_1336" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 510px"><a rel="attachment wp-att-1336" href="http://thatsjustplumdumb.com/index.php/2010/01/the-u-s-personal-income-tax-it-goes-to-the-family-rothschild/webd_dees/"><img class="size-full wp-image-1336" title="webd_dees" src="http://thatsjustplumdumb.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/webd_dees.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="510" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">The Rothschild-Owned Federal Reserve Bank: &quot;I&#39;ve got you, my pretties!&quot;</p></div>
<p>The more people like me speak out about this, the more will scratch their heads and go, &#8220;No way!&#8221; or &#8220;You&#8217;re an idiot, Garner!&#8221; or, worst of all, &#8220;You&#8217;re not an American!&#8221;</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve heard this crap before, and it always comes from ignorant souls who just don&#8217;t understand how the political and economic systems work in the western world.</p>
<p>After more than 30 years of anecdotal research, connecting thousands of dots across an endless sky, a distinct pattern begins to emerge, something I&#8217;ll share a bit with you here. First, there&#8217;re other brave souls out there who also have researched this contentious topic, and have drawn similar conclusions. And we&#8217;ve all done so independently, which makes our conclusions all the more striking. I&#8217;ve said this before and it bears repeating: the evil family Rothschild, which controls what I term The First Sphere of Influence in the western world, hides in plain sight. They even flaunt their wealth and control and power over us with such arrogance and contempt that it cannot be ignored, even by like-minded people as they.</p>
<p>Where shall I start?</p>
<p>The U.S. income tax was a long sought-after tax the Rothschilds had attempted to bring on since the late 1770s, but it was strongly resisted by Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, James Madison and John Adams, among other less-known (to contemporary audiences) American Patriots. Traitor Alexander Hamilton, a bastard child born in the warm Caribbean, was our first Secretary of the Treasury, sent to the US by the Rothschilds to establish the first central bank. Hamilton had been groomed from the start by the Rothschilds, although few people actually knew of his true identity. Aaron Burr, Hamilton&#8217;s killer, knew of his background and often chided and bullied him over it, until Burr finally slapped Hamilton across the face with a leather glove, thus issuing the challenge that killed Hamilton.</p>
<p>While Thomas Jefferson vehemently fought against the creation of such a bank, George Washington believed that Hamilton knew what he was doing and thus must be correct. They bank was started . . . and suddenly plunged the nascent United States into debt.</p>
<p>When the central bank&#8217;s charter expired, it was not renewed, so the Rothschilds punished the &#8220;Colonies&#8221; by having the British attack the US again to commence the War of 1812. When the US &#8220;won&#8221; the war, once again expelling the RedCoats from our lands, the Rothschilds reveled in their own victory, having established yet another central bank that drained the US taxpayers of their Personal Income.</p>
<p>When this bank&#8217;s charter ran its course, the whole Rothschild-US President [Fill In The Blank] battle started again, with one side winning a victory over the other in the ensuing 70 years. Without dredging up reams of references from our beloved annals of history, please note that President Andrew Jackson was instrumental in fighting the Rothschilds, although they tried on numerous occasions to assassinate him.</p>
<p>It wasn&#8217;t until 1913 that Senator Nelson Aldrich and his fascist &#8220;American Rothschilds&#8221; managed to sneak through a bill, during the winter break of the House of Representatives, that imposed a formal personal income tax on all Americans.</p>
<p>Our notion that our personal income taxes go to paying for our country&#8217;s infrastructure, social services, military, etc. is inaccurate, to say the least. Our personal income taxes first are collected by the US Treasury via the Internal Revenue Service, which sends the funds to the Federal Reserve, which is NOT a federal bank of any sort. The privately owned Federal Reserve, which is owned by the Rothschilds and, to a smaller extent, other banking families, then sends our tax dollars to its own Bank of England, which is located in the sovereign area of London called The City of London.</p>
<p>Interestingly, The City of London has its own laws, security forces and military, completely independent of the rest of London and the entire United Kingdom. It is considered the most elite banking and economic center in the western world.</p>
<p>The Bank of England, again, owned by the Rothschilds, sends our tax dollars to other central banks, all privately owned, and located in Europe.</p>
<p>Why do we even pay this illegal personal income tax, when our own government can operate without it?</p>
<p>Because our government borrows heavily from the Rothschilds and must pay interest on these loans. Our personal income tax offsets these interest payments. All usurious, of course. And all illegal.</p>
<p>In the coming months, I&#8217;ll share more with you. I realize that this information is hard to take, given we&#8217;ve been raised on the notion that we live in a free and democratic society, and our hard-earned money goes toward our benevolent US government.</p>
<p>In effect, my fellow Americans, it is all a lie.</p>
<p>The good news is that these bare facts are now more visible than ever and, with sufficient time and effort, people like me will get this word out. We have already seen the power of the American people against the healthcare reform bills: a stunning backlash against the Brzezinski Cartel and The First Sphere of Influence.</p>
<p>Backlashes like we&#8217;re seeing now are just the beginning of a new American Revolution, one that we <em>actually</em> win. This time.</p>
<p>More to follow. . . .</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">[Thank you to Mr. David Dees for permission to use his beautiful and poignant illustration.]</p>
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		<title>Conversation Overheard On the VHF Guard (Emergency) Frequency 121.5 MHz, While Flying From Europe to Dubai</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 01:06:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Dean A. Garner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The conversation went like this:
Iranian Air Defense Radar: Unknown aircraft, you are in Iranian airspace. Identify yourself.
Aircraft: This is a United States aircraft. I am in Iraqi airspace.
Iranian Air Defense Radar: You are in Iranian airspace. If you do not depart our airspace, we will launch interceptor aircraft!
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The conversation went like this:</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">Iranian Air Defense Radar:</span></strong> <em>Unknown aircraft, you are in Iranian airspace. Identify yourself.</em></p>
<p><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong>Aircraft: </strong></span><em>This is a United States aircraft. I am in </em><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Iraqi</span><em> airspace.</em></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">Iranian Air Defense Radar:</span></strong> <em>You are in Iranian airspace. If you do not depart our airspace, we will launch interceptor aircraft!</em></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #0000ff;">Aircraft:</span></strong> <em>This is a United States Marine Corps F/A-18 fighter. Send &#8216;em up. I&#8217;ll wait. . . .</em></p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Iranian Air Defense Radar: </strong></span></p>
<p>[End of conversation.]</p>
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		<title>Jeffersonian Patriotism: A Chinese Take</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 09:25:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Dean A. Garner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
January 21, 2010
China teen seen as hero for killing local official
By GILLIAN WONG
Associated Press Writer
Instead, villagers in the northern town of Xiashuixi have made Li&#8217;s teenage killer something of a local hero. More than 20,000 people from the coal-mining area petitioned a court for a lenient sentence.
&#8220;I didn&#8217;t feel surprised at all when I [...]]]></description>
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<p>January 21, 2010</p>
<h2>China teen seen as hero for killing local official</h2>
<p>By GILLIAN WONG</p>
<p>Associated Press Writer</p>
<p>Instead, villagers in the northern town of Xiashuixi have made Li&#8217;s teenage killer something of a local hero. More than 20,000 people from the coal-mining area petitioned a court for a lenient sentence.</p>
<p>&#8220;I didn&#8217;t feel surprised at all when I heard Li Shiming was killed, because people wanted to kill him a long time ago,&#8221; said villager Xin Xiaomei, who says her husband was harassed for years by Li after the two men had a personal dispute. &#8220;I wanted to kill Li myself, but I was too weak.&#8221;</p>
<p>The murder trial has again cast a harsh light on abuses of power by communist cadres and the frustration many ordinary Chinese feel with a one-party system that sometimes allows officials to run their districts like personal fiefdoms.</p>
<p>China&#8217;s leaders have identified corruption as a threat to the country&#8217;s progress, but an opaque political system dominated by the ruling Communist Party — which brooks no dissent — and the lack of an independent judiciary contribute to the problem.</p>
<p>In the case of party secretary Li, the young man who confessed to the stabbing — 19-year-old Zhang Xuping — has been sentenced to death for the September 2008 killing, his mother and lawyer said Wednesday. The sentence was quietly handed down last week and an appeal was filed this week, they said.</p>
<p>Zhang Xuping was paid 1,000 yuan ($146) by another villager, 35-year-old farmer Zhang Huping, to commit the murder after Li allegedly harassed the farmer for years, local newspaper reports said. The elder Zhang was reportedly routinely detained on trumped up charges ever since he led a group of farmers to seek the help of provincial authorities after Li razed 28 acres of trees belonging to them without permission or compensation in 2003.</p>
<p>The teenager entered a school where Li was attending a meeting, found the official alone and stabbed him through the heart. Li staggered out of the building and into his luxury sports utility vehicle but died before he could make it to a hospital, reports said.</p>
<p>The case quickly turned into an outpouring of sympathy for the young killer — and expressions of hatred for Li.</p>
<p>Zhang&#8217;s trial, which was originally scheduled for August, had to be postponed to late November because thousands of people showed up outside the courthouse wanting to watch the proceedings, news reports said.</p>
<p>Nearly 21,000 people from the area around Xiashuixi petitioned the court for leniency for Zhang — to no avail.</p>
<p>In Xiashuixi, villagers contacted by the AP said that for years they had lived in fear of Li, who they say extorted money and used his influence to have those who resisted him detained or jailed.</p>
<p>Zhang Weixing, 58, said Li illegally seized his land of 3.3 acres and built houses on it three years ago, and he hired thugs to beat him, his wife and children when they tried to stop him.</p>
<p>&#8220;When we heard Li Shiming was dead, we felt happy because he did so many evil things and really made us villagers suffer,&#8221; said Zhang Weixing, who is unrelated to the family of the accused, by phone. &#8220;We all hated him.&#8221;</p>
<blockquote><p><span style="color: #ff0000;">In June, a Chinese woman who fatally stabbed a party official to fend off his demands for sex was freed by a court in a decision that was likely made to avoid a storm of criticism.</span></p></blockquote>
<p>During his trial, the defendant apologized to Li&#8217;s family, the state-owned Beijing Youth Daily newspaper said. But Li&#8217;s eldest son rejected the apology in court and said he hoped judges would sentence his father&#8217;s killer to &#8220;death by firing squad.&#8221;</p>
<p>Li&#8217;s death has dealt an immeasurable blow to the family, the son said, adding that his younger brother and sister were unable to focus on their studies and may stop going to school for the time being. Attempts to reach the Li family by phone were unsuccessful, and family members have not publicly addressed the allegations that he was corrupt.</p>
<p>Zhang&#8217;s case echoes two other instances of ordinary Chinese who became anti-heroes after killing people in positions of power.</p>
<p>In June, a Chinese woman who fatally stabbed a party official to fend off his demands for sex was freed by a court in a decision that was likely made to avoid a storm of criticism.</p>
<p>But in 2008, Yang Jia, a man who confessed to killing six Shanghai police officers in revenge for allegedly being tortured while interrogated about a possibly stolen bicycle was executed despite an outpouring of sympathy.</p>
<p>Unlike those cases, China&#8217;s state media after initially following Zhang&#8217;s case did not report his conviction nor his death sentence — a likely indication the government ordered a media blackout.</p>
<p>A Beijing-based lawyer and legal blogger, Liu Xiaoyuan, said the court should have taken public opinion into account given the large number of people who had spoken out in Zhang&#8217;s defense.</p>
<p>&#8220;If the village secretary had acted illegally and aroused the anger of the mass of villagers, then lenient punishment should have been considered by the court,&#8221; Liu said. &#8220;It has become the will of people. The death sentence is too heavy.&#8221;</p>
<p>The case reflects the desperation that China&#8217;s rural poor are driven to when bullied by their leaders, wrote Chinese social commentator Yan Changhai on his blog.</p>
<p>&#8220;Zhang Xuping is guilty. His biggest crime is that he dared to resist a bandit-like official, and refused to be obedient and to be a slave,&#8221; Yan wrote.</p>
<p>Yan blamed the murder on collusion between officials and local police and courts.</p>
<p>&#8220;If the authorities did not indulge Li Shiming&#8217;s evil deeds, if even one of his evil deeds was punished by law, he would have avoided death under Zhang Xuping&#8217;s knife,&#8221; he wrote.</p>
<p>___</p>
<p>Associated Press researchers Xi Yue and Yu Bing contributed to this report.</p>
<p><em>[About the photo: taken on Aug. 7, 2007, released by Zhang Xuping's family, 19-year-old Zhang Xuping pose for photos outside the Forbidden City in Beijing, China. Zhang became something of a local hero for killing Li Shiming, the hated party secretary of Xiashuixi village, in September 2008. Zhang was sentenced to death last Friday, Jan. 15, 2010, for murder, and an appeal was filed this week, his mother and lawyer said Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2010. (AP Photo/Zhang Xuping's family)]</em></p>
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		<title>Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski: Address, Phone, Email Contact Information</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 17:11:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Dean A. Garner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski
Center for Strategic and International Studies
1800 K Street, NW
Washington, DC 20006
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<h2><span style="color: #ff0000;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Center for Strategic and International Studies</span></span></h2>
<h2><span style="color: #ff0000;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">1800 K Street, NW</span></span></h2>
<h2><span style="color: #ff0000;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Washington, DC 20006</span></span></h2>
<h2><span style="color: #ff0000;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">office tel 202.833.2408</span></span></h2>
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		<title>The Re-Education of Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2010 20:25:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Dean A. Garner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day 2010    
Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski 
Center for Strategic and International Studies 
1800 K Street 
Washington, DC    
Dear Dr. Brzezinski,  
My name is William Dean A. Garner and I’m a NY Times bestselling ghostwriter and editor of many books. For example, I edited Dan Brown’s The DaVinci Code, among dozens of others. I’m also a former scientist [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day 2010    </p>
<p>Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski <br />
Center for Strategic and International Studies <br />
1800 K Street <br />
Washington, DC    </p>
<p>Dear Dr. Brzezinski,  </p>
<p>My name is William Dean A. Garner and I’m a <em>NY Times</em> bestselling ghostwriter and editor of many books. For example, I edited Dan Brown’s <em>The DaVinci Code</em>, among dozens of others. I’m also a former scientist (biophysics), US Army Airborne Ranger (C 1/75 Ranger Regiment), and corporate mercenary for international private military firms I designed and helped build. I did 211 overseas missions in extremely hostile territories over nine years, escorting important people so they could have a voice of peace, freedom and democracy, and a voice against fascism and dictatorial rule.   </p>
<p>Please know that I am building a great case against you and your cartel, something the world will hear, even if you murder me and my family.   </p>
<p>As a<em> Jeffersonian Patriot</em>, I am prepared to do whatever it takes to defend Thomas Jefferson’s great cause, which is the firm establishment and maintenance of Peace, Freedom and Democracy all over this planet.  </p>
<p>In my studies over the past 30 years, I have learned much about you and your actions. I also know you and your colleagues are getting desperate. </p>
<blockquote><p><span style="color: #ff0000;">I am building a great case against you and your cartel, something the world will hear, even if you murder me and my family. </span></p></blockquote>
<p>Witness the events over the past nine years: false-flag 9/11 attacks; illegal passing of The Patriot Act; establishment of the Department of Homeland Security, a modern-day Gestapo; establishment of the Transportation Security Administration; false-flag attack by the Detroit bomber, which led to the great push of installing of full-body scanners in airports and which will be introduced in all transportation hubs and ports, plus major centers of public foot traffic.  </p>
<p>I’ve studied evolutionary processes on this planet and, therefore, understand and have decoded your moves and actions to establish a socialist/fascist police state in the United States.  </p>
<p>I also know that fascist American Wall Street bankers have tried this before: in 1933 and 1934, Wall Street bankers attempted a fascist putsch and tried to overthrow President Franklin D. Roosevelt and also recruit a two-time winner of the Medal of Honor, MG Smedley Darlington Butler, to lead an army of 500,000 soldiers to march on the White House.</p>
<p>It was all a ruse, staged by The First Sphere of Influence, which needed Roosevelt as its presidential pawn. FDR went on to create what is thought of as the most prolific fascist presidency. [Until George W. Bush came into office.]</p>
<p>These Wall Street fascists knew unequivocally that they could <em>never</em> count on General Butler, a Jeffersonian Patriot of the highest order, who subsequently fell into their trap and alerted Congress and ratted out these fascist Wall Street bankers. The &#8220;putsch&#8221; was a failure, of course, something left off the American history books. It survived several good books, though, and lives in print today, along with the facts surrounding the ruse.  </p>
<blockquote><p><span style="color: #1e87e0;">In 1933 and 1934, Wall Street bankers attempted a fascist putsch and tried to overthrow President Franklin D. Roosevelt . . . It was all a ruse, staged by The First Sphere of Influence.</span></p></blockquote>
<p>The First Sphere of Influence, which consists of your cartel and the Rothschild banking empire, in the past has operated under a cloak of darkness, and that darkness is now being washed away with the advent of globalization. Ironically, too, the globalization you so crave for will be the detonator of your undoing: word is now spreading among the masses about your cartel. With a little time, enough people will know about you, and the right people–other Jeffersonian Patriots–will rise up against you. Our tools are becoming more prevalent and accessible: the Internet, the Worldwide Web, and the introduction of greater means of communications like Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, email, blogs, websites, etc. Your regime is no longer a black-bag operation that no one knows about, and people like me are now on you like stink on shit and will remain until the members of The First Sphere of Influence wither away.  </p>
<p>The Hollywood producer, Irv Thalberg, said on more than one occasion, to the effect: “Writers are the most important part of the filmmaking process, and we must never let them know this.” It was Thalberg’s way of controlling the wages and power of screenwriters during his short reign. When word escaped, screenwriters soon earned hundreds of thousands, if not millions of dollars, for scripts, often surpassing the earnings of actors and some producers.  </p>
<p>Likewise, you know that Americans are the most significant and valued part of the entire social and political process, with unlimited power, and you must never let us know it, lest we rise up and drag you and your cartel members back behind the wood pile and execute you. With fascism, one point is abundantly clear, dear sir: it has always fallen and its leaders have always died. Violently, I might add.  </p>
<p>Knowledge about you, your cartel and your handlers, the Rothschilds, is spreading and will continue to spread as people finally take note about your nefarious practices. I am personally holding private dinner parties to educate people about you and your cartel, to encourage them to join me in the fight against you and your fascist ways.  LIFE FINDS A WAY, Dr. Brzezinski.  </p>
<blockquote><p><span style="color: #008080;">Knowledge about you, your cartel and your handlers, the Rothschilds, is spreading and will continue to spread as people finally take note about your nefarious practices.</span></p></blockquote>
<p>Life wants to be free, and you and your cartel cannot contain it. The best you can do is follow my advice: learn about human behavior, neurochemistry, the sociobiology of living creatures. Learn these important subjects so you and your handlers can find ways to use your trillions of dollars and euros and pounds to establish Peace, Freedom and Democracy throughout the world. Your attempts to establish a small colony of slaves on this planet WILL fail.  </p>
<p>We’ve already seen that people cannot be contained for too long and that Communism and Socialism do NOT work. LIFE FINDS A WAY TO BE FREE. Your plan WILL fail.  </p>
<p>Dr. Brzezinski, all it takes for evil to prevail is for good people like me to do nothing. I feel that with proactive people like me around, evil like you and your cartel will be reduced to your basic atomic components and recycled by the very processes you seek to control or destroy.   </p>
<p>In your next life, I see you as a . . . dung beetle. . . .  </p>
<p>Sincerely,  </p>
<p>William Dean A. Garner  </p>
<p>P.S. To start your re-education, please contact me here: start.here@ghostwriter-editor.biz</p>
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		<title>Fareed Zakaria: A Brzezinski Protege, Hiding in Plain Sight</title>
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		<dc:creator>William Dean A. Garner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week, on January 11, Fareed Zakaria spoke at a Town Hall 2010 session, sponsored by the Ringling College Library Association in Sarasota, Florida. Most thought it was a fair and balanced talk, even though Zakaria bashed Fox News repeatedly, naming names.
Others, though, weren&#8217;t so impressed.
Let&#8217;s look at Zakaria&#8217;s background: Yale grad, Harvard political [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Earlier this week, on January 11, Fareed Zakaria spoke at a Town Hall 2010 session, sponsored by the Ringling College Library Association in Sarasota, Florida. Most thought it was a fair and balanced talk, even though Zakaria bashed Fox News repeatedly, naming names.</p>
<p>Others, though, weren&#8217;t so impressed.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s look at Zakaria&#8217;s background: Yale grad, Harvard political science PhD, member of Brzezinski&#8217;s two primary grooming houses for proteges: Trilateral Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations. In short, Zakaria was shaped by the Brzezinski Cartel to be a subtle voice of fascism. Again, the two mean the same to me: NOT Jeffersonian Democracy, so they can be defined any way and I, like Thomas Jefferson, wouldn&#8217;t give a hoot.</p>
<blockquote><p>Imagine the CEO of Apple Computers, Steve Jobs, addressing the shareholders of Apple stock: &#8220;We must stop trying to be number one in the world, and must work toward a more cooperative approach with other companies.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Zakaria hides in plain sight: he proudly lists his credentials to include the association with Brzezinski&#8217;s two governing bodies. He also stated clearly and plainly that America must stop trying to be number one in the world, and must work toward a more cooperative approach with other countries.</p>
<p>Imagine the CEO of Apple Computers, Steve Jobs, addressing the shareholders of Apple stock and stating, &#8220;We must stop trying to be number one in the world, and must work toward a more cooperative approach with other companies.&#8221;</p>
<p>The shareholder response?</p>
<p>Instant public execution of Steve Jobs.</p>
<p>How is it then that people are so willing to accept such words from a socialist/fascist Zakaria? Because he&#8217;s such a pretty man with a big, bright smile, shining eyes, and dripping with charm, not to mention well-practiced eloquence? Or is it that we&#8217;re unwilling to challenge him because he&#8217;s from the subcontinent of India, whose inhabitants have suffered so through the ages?</p>
<p>All it takes for evil to prevail is for good people to do nothing.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m not buying into Zakaria&#8217;s words.</p>
<p>And neither should you, unless you&#8217;re a socialist/fascist.</p>
<p>The power and reach of Zakaria and other Brzezinski proteges like him are enormous, especially so because their bosses own and control the mass-media magazines and networks where they work and spread the Brzezinski word on socialism/fascism. Actually, socialism is just a sanitized word for the dirty concept of fascism. Political science types will argue vehemently that the two are well distinguished, but I say, &#8220;Baloney. They&#8217;re one and the same and their end game is the same: oppression of the citizens and all their rights.&#8221;</p>
<blockquote><p><span style="color: #993300;">Zakaria was shaped by the Brzezinski Cartel to be a subtle voice of fascism.</span></p></blockquote>
<p>Where have we seen this push for fascism before? In his 1935 book, <em>War is a Racket,</em> Smedley D. Butler revealed the failed putsch by Wall Street right-winger Tories to overthrow President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Butler, a highly decorated US Marine who received two Medals of Honor and one Brevet Medal (awarded to officers before the Medal of Honor), was invited by the Wall Street gang to lead a band of 500,000 troops to take over and install a fascist government here in the United States.</p>
<p>These Wall Street fascists knew unequivocally that they could never count on General Butler, a Jeffersonian Patriot of the highest order, who subsequently fell into their trap and alerted Congress and ratted out these fascist Wall Streeters.</p>
<p>At the time, <em>Fortune</em> magazine, still a voice of the Tories, praised fascism at the time, celebrating the regime of Mussolini. <em>The New York Times</em>, forever a voice of socialism/fascism and the Brzezinski Cartel, sported the headline:</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong>General Butler Bares &#8216;Fascist Plot&#8217;<br />
To Seize Government by Force<br />
Says Bond Salesmen, a Representatives of Wall St. Group, Asked<br />
Him to Lead Army of 500,000 in March on Capital&#8211;Those<br />
Named Make Angry Denials&#8211;Dickstein Gets Charged.</strong></em></p>
<p>Details about this fascist plot to overthrow a &#8220;democratic&#8221; government can be found in a number of books: <em>War is a Racket</em> by Smedley D. Butler; <em>1000 Americans</em> by George Seldes; <em>The Plot to Seize the White House</em> by Jules Archer, among others.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, the &#8220;fascist plot&#8221; described above was ultimately a ruse, and it had a grander ulterior motive: to further install the true fascist&#8217;s puppet, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, more firmly in his seat.</p>
<p>And it worked beautifully. . . .</p>
<p>Zakaria, like his handlers, is a sheep in wolf&#8217;s clothing.</p>
<p>Good thing he chooses to hide in plain sight.</p>
<p>Better, too, that there&#8217;re REAL wolves among us who can spot him . . . and are eager to engage.</p>
<p>Haggis, anyone?</p>
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		<dc:creator>William Dean A. Garner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every night before I slip into the great unknown where my subconscious rules the world, I read at least five pages of Thomas Jefferson&#8217;s personal writings, sometimes even the same pages as the previous night, imaging he &#8217;s actually standing next to my bed and whispering these words into my ear, and sharing his unique [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Every night before I slip into the great unknown where my subconscious rules the world, I read at least five pages of Thomas Jefferson&#8217;s personal writings, sometimes even the same pages as the previous night, imaging he &#8217;s actually standing next to my bed and whispering these words into my ear, and sharing his unique experiences about the concept and practice of democracy and freedom.</p>
<p>He laments over his continual struggle with other members of the nascent Congress, those frightened souls who conspired to undermine the authority of the newly created United States of America and side with King George and the great Bank of England, which sought to tax the American colonies to death. Paradoxically, yes, to death: if the Bank of England could reduce us to rubble, they then could install a Great Britain, West Bank, populated by dukes, barons and lords of, say, The Great Mexican State of California.</p>
<p>But I&#8217;m getting ahead of myself.</p>
<p>How is it that everyone outside the United States is well familiar&#8211;to the point of being nauseated&#8211;with the imperialism of the United States, while practically no one inside the US has a clue?</p>
<p>It doesn&#8217;t take much to control a great country: a few choice leaders at the top, controlling about one hundred loyal dogs, tongues lolling about, who in turn control thousands more in an army or armada of the military, who in turn control the rest of the population.</p>
<p>Sound easy? It is. Hitler did it well for 12 years, from 1933 to 1945, until he and Eva Braun were ferreted out of the country by British intelligence agents.</p>
<blockquote><p><span style="color: #0000ff;">When the US has taken over another country&#8217;s government and installed its own dictatorship, that country&#8217;s economy has gone into the toilet, and US transnational corporations have earned billions of dollars a year from blood and dissonance and destruction.</span></p></blockquote>
<p>In Latin America, where I did most of my 211 missions as a corporate silladar (read: <em>good</em> mercenary) over a very grueling and extremely dangerous nine-year period, I talked with intellectuals who knew more about American history than I did, which prompted me to read more than I already did&#8211;about 10 books a month. I first learned about the US&#8217;s awful habit of sending in &#8220;economic hitmen&#8221; who tried to bribe and threaten reasonably stable governments to take out high-interest loans and agree to impossibly large building projects, all performed by US transnational corporations like Bechtel, e.g. When the economic approach didn&#8217;t work, the US sent in the assholes, men who murdered all the right people in that country&#8217;s government.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t chastise me for reporting what&#8217;s been known and reported in many parts of the world for decades. Don&#8217;t bother. I hear it all the time, even from friends who patriotically wave that beautiful American flag to and fro, all the while ignorant of what it actually stands for and who owns it.</p>
<p>When the US has taken over another country&#8217;s government and installed its own dictatorship, that country&#8217;s economy has gone into the toilet, and US transnational corporations have earned billions of dollars a year from blood and dissonance and destruction. Every single time. There are no exceptions here. None. The US government&#8217;s henchmen, the CIA, the State Department and US AID, have destroyed any semblance of democracy in Latin America, and for what?</p>
<p>US transnational companies&#8217; profits. Pure and simple. For the greed of a few Americans.</p>
<p>When I tell this story to people in the US, they treat me like I have incurable leprosy. Yes, it&#8217;s hard to swallow, difficult to comprehend. So what&#8217;s it going to take for the average US citizen to wake up and realize that all the hatred toward us Americans is for GOOD REASON: our own government has destroyed many countries in this big beautiful world of ours, and has further alienated and marginalized their wonderful people.</p>
<p>They hate us because they think we&#8217;re a party to our government&#8217;s ill deeds.</p>
<p>They also love us because we live the American Dream. For now.</p>
<p>This is an interesting paradox, this love-hate relationship with us. I call it a relationship, because that&#8217;s what they want with us, although they want nothing to do with our government as it is today. Neither do I, so I understand as well as they do.</p>
<p>I didn&#8217;t grow up in the United States. My formative years, all 12 of them, were spent in Europe where my first languages were Spanish and German, then English and later Italian. My first memory in life was when I was two years old and walking with my Opa, who at that time was 65 years old and who had survived WW II. On one particular outing, we rounded a corner and ran into a friend of his, a very tall gentleman who looked down on me and said, &#8220;Guten tag, Jungen!&#8221; He did so with a huge gaping hole in his head: his right eye was missing, displaying only a soft, fleshy cavity that captivated me to no end. I wanted to reach out and put my little finger in this cavity and feel its softness, figure out what made this monster tick.</p>
<blockquote><p><span style="color: #ff0000;">They yearn to come to America. They fight and kill to come here. They cross borders illegally to come to the US. They pay thousands of dollars and yen and yuan and pesos to board vans and buses and freight cars and junks and ferries to come here.</span></p></blockquote>
<p>During my determinative days in Europe, I listened to hundreds of conversations about the US and its foreign policy. It was then that I learned never to read an American newspaper, unless I wished to learn something mundane like whether the Orioles beat the Dodgers. Since I hated all organized sports, I was in no danger of reading such drivel. I also learned that the BBC was a government-run network, that France controlled all its media, and that Italy wasn&#8217;t worth reading, even for amusement. The only news worth gathering was from people on the street, people I met and knew and grew up with over 12 years.</p>
<p>The United States has done one thing right: been consistent in its policy. That&#8217;s about it, consistency. It has destroyed fledgling democracies in Latin America, shored up the militant state of Israel to kill its Arab neighbors, and ransacked other countries for their wealth and natural resources.</p>
<p>One of my old professors used to say, &#8220;If you can&#8217;t be good, at least be consistent.&#8221;</p>
<p>And the United States&#8217; foreign policy has indeed been consistent.</p>
<p>Now I know what he meant.</p>
<p>And I also understand why they all hate us so much: because we kill their spirit, their leaders, and steal their resources. And then when we&#8217;re done with them, we cast them aside like so much chattel.</p>
<p>The flip side: I understand why they love and envy us so, too, because we live in a world that promises and preaches and advertises PEACE, FREEDOM and DEMOCRACY.</p>
<p>They yearn to come to America. They fight and kill to come here. They cross borders illegally to come to the US. They pay thousands of dollars and yen and yuan and pesos to board vans and buses and freight cars and junks and ferries to come here.</p>
<p>Why?</p>
<p>Because we promise Jeffersonian PEACE, FREEDOM and DEMOCRACY, something every human wishes for.</p>
<p>Yet, until we actually practice it, those who have that love-hate relationship with us will still HATE us for promising it to everyone and delivering it to no one.</p>
<p>If Thomas Jefferson were alive to see this debacle today, he would doubtless say, &#8220;I told you so, you idiots,&#8221; referring to a statement he made about how big banks and their interests would take over the western world and destroy it.</p>
<p>Where are this generation&#8217;s Dr. Noam Chomskys when we need them the most?</p>
<p>Playing video games, plumping up on McDonald&#8217;s, and stoning to shoe-gazer, thumb-up-your-ass, downer chords on iTunes.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m guilty as sin and I apologize for this.
Jeff Rense, Henry Makow, David Icke, and other fringe reporters of the dirty, nasty, stinking, accurate truth are also guilty.
How could those of us who are disseminating the truth about our government and its handlers be a bad thing?
Simple: we say too much, and it&#8217;s absolutely overwhelming [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m guilty as sin and I apologize for this.</p>
<p>Jeff Rense, Henry Makow, David Icke, and other fringe reporters of the dirty, nasty, stinking, accurate truth are also guilty.</p>
<p>How could those of us who are disseminating the truth about our government and its handlers be a bad thing?</p>
<p>Simple: we say too much, and it&#8217;s absolutely overwhelming to those who were weaned on traditional mass-media news icons like Edward R. Murrow, Walter Cronkite, Peter Jennings, Christiane Amanpour et al.</p>
<p>Alex Jones, who some feel is actually a commercialized pawn of The First Sphere of Influence (Rothschild-Brzezinski), has several websites and each looks like a schizoid version of the <em>National Enquirer</em>. Who in their right mind would ever migrate to such a tabloid? Alex is guilty of sensationalism. It&#8217;s meant to be overwhelming and seemingly a negative take on all the things we take for granted about how our government works, and it scares the hell out of us ordinary citizens.</p>
<p>So there must be a way to report on the ill deeds of our government and its handlers, i.e. the Brzezinski Cartel, without frightening the general public, or as Alex Jones does, mislead us.</p>
<blockquote><p><span style="color: #757dc7;">Unfortunately, most people will discount the dirty, nasty, stinking, accurate truth I write here. It&#8217;s just too sensational, unbelievable and, above all, too much too soon.</span></p></blockquote>
<p>Good marketers know what I&#8217;m talking about: a client has an excellent product or service that is so far outside the mainstream that it appears false. So how to market such an entity? Again, simple: a little at a time to a select few whose girded loins can handle the stress. With time, release a little more info to others, who in turn spread the word to others.</p>
<p>Again, I am guilty as sin for posting sensational pieces about how Zbigniew Brzezinski and his banker-bosses run the world. What good American citizen who was force-fed 9th grade Civics, voted in every election since they were 18, and registered as either a Republican or Democrat would ever consider reading such drivel?</p>
<p>Unfortunately, most people will discount the dirty, nasty, stinking, accurate truth I write here. It&#8217;s just too sensational, unbelievable and, above all, too much too soon.</p>
<p>Another confession: I&#8217;m not a good marketer. I like to spill it all in one spoonful. And then do it again two seconds later. I may as well dump a truckload of New Truth all over you. Hopefully, someone much much smarter than I will come to our rescue, re-package my information, and then find a better way to disseminate to the general public, so the dirty, nasty, stinking, accurate truth gets out there.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m guilty as sin and I apologize for this.</p>
<p>Still, if you&#8217;re in a forgiving mood, I kindly ask that you brave the 10X news I offer here. What&#8217;s 10X? It&#8217;s a neologism that means something like &#8220;tens times the normal concentration of something, or something that&#8217;s overwhelmingly concentrated or dense.&#8221; I ask that you take the time to read these pieces, consider them, let them bounce around your subconscious for a few weeks, then read them again. It takes time to consider concepts that go against the grain of a reality that&#8217;s been shoved down our throats since birth. Take your time, please.</p>
<p>And when you get it, please pass it on and help others overcome that initial overwhelming feeling.</p>
<p>Most of us have the right idea: to spread the word about the ill deeds of our government, Zbigniew Brzezinski and the evil family Rothschild, and to ignite a concerted resistance against this insidious change. I fully support anyone for braving the elements and getting the word out. After all, The First Sphere of Influence has murdered at least four US Presidents, plus hundreds of others who crossed them and/or spoke out against them.</p>
<p>I also ask Jeff, Henry, David et al. to consider what I&#8217;ve written here and find a way to dole out the bad news to everyone without scaring them off forever.</p>
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		<title>Healthcare in America: A Glimpse of the Future</title>
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		<dc:creator>William Dean A. Garner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following article appeared in the UK&#8217;s Mail Online and can be found here: MailOnline.co.uk
In short, the UK&#8217;s socialist healthcare system is a dismal failure and provides a glimpse into our own future healthcare in America. The mainstream media do not report on this issue, because they are controlled by an elite power structure that [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The following article appeared in the UK&#8217;s Mail Online and can be found here: <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1029038/Cancer-patient-kills-day-told-NHS-Trust-fund-25-000-drug.html#">MailOnline.co.uk</a></p>
<p>In short, the UK&#8217;s socialist healthcare system is a dismal failure and provides a glimpse into our own future healthcare in America. The mainstream media do not report on this issue, because they are controlled by an elite power structure that supports a socialist system in this country. What occurs everyday in socialist systems around the world is never likely to appear in US mainstream media.</p>
<p>The last time I was chilled to the bone was the winter of 1996-97 when I was in Ranger School. That near-frozen Georgia humidity shot straight to my spine and, ironically, was the only stimulus that let me know I was still alive. I thought I&#8217;d not feel that sensation again. Ever. But I was wrong. This article saddened and chilled me deeply. I hope it chills you, too.</p>
<p>Thank you to <em>Mail Online</em> for giving me permission to reprint the article in its entirety. . . .</p>
<h3><span style="color: #000080;">Cancer patient kills himself day after he is told NHS Trust would not fund £25,000 drug</span></h3>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">By </span><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/search.html?s=y&amp;authornamef=Rebecca+Camber"><span style="color: #000080;">Rebecca Camber</span></a><span style="color: #000080;"><br />
Last updated at 11:04 AM on 25th June 2008</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">A cancer patient killed himself after being told he had been refused a wonder drug by his local primary care trust.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">Albert Baxter, 77, was terminally ill. But he was turned down for a drug which could have prolonged his life and shrunk his tumour.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">In desperation, he offered to pay for the treatment. But he was told if he did so, he would also have to foot the bill for the rest of his treatment, which he could not afford.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">The former bus driver had been diagnosed with renal cancer in January 2007.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">His oncologist, Dr Fiona McKinna told him that the drug Sutent was his only hope. But although she requested the treatment, costing £25,000 a year, in March, East Sussex Downs and Weald Primary Care Trust turned it down on the grounds of cost and clinical effectiveness.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">As his condition deteriorated, his clinician launched an appeal &#8211; and Mr Baxter hoped that the decision would be overturned.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">But when he went to see his consultant on June 5, 2007, she was unable to give him the drug.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">Mr Baxter, known by his middle name John, returned to his home in Eastbourne, East Sussex.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">The next day, his partner found him dead, with a bin liner over his head. Mr Baxter had not yet found out whether the Trust would consider his appeal.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">Yesterday Barrie Curryer, his partner of 30 years, said: &#8216;What really upset him was that he worked all his life and paid into the health system and was refused treatment.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">He thought it was because of his age, which I think played a part too.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">&#8216;The trust people just sit in a room and read about John but don&#8217;t see the patient. I blame the PCT because John&#8217;s oncologist and GP wanted the drug. I think he built up his hopes of getting it.</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="color: #ff6600;">I don&#8217;t think his life would have come to an end precisely when it did had he been prescribed the requested drug. <span style="color: #3366ff;">Alan Craze, East Sussex Coroner</span></span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">The 70-year-old retired nurse added: &#8216;It was the only drug that could do any good for him, there was nothing else. He was told it would not cure him but would give him a better quality of life.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">&#8216;I can&#8217;t say he was depressed, just very angry about it. He was so weak and just could not get up the stairs so I had to get people to help me.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">&#8216;He said, &#8220;Nobody is doing anything for me, they&#8217;re just letting me die&#8221;.&#8217; I had prepared myself for his death but not under these circumstances.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">&#8216;We offered to pay for the drug but if we had done we would have had to pay for all his treatment.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">&#8216;We just could not afford that and John would not have accepted that anyway. I just wish he hadn&#8217;t done it, we didn&#8217;t even say goodbye.&#8217;</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">Friends of the couple, who ran a guesthouse together, organised a petition to get the drug but it failed to move health bosses.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">An inquest into his death in April, heard that Mr Baxter&#8217;s GP, Dr Rob Wicks, also campaigned for the patient to be prescribed the drug.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">He told Eastbourne Coroner&#8217;s Court: &#8216;It would have held the progression of the disease and alleviated symptoms &#8211; improving his quality of life.&#8217;</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">But Lisa Compton, of the Trust, told the inquest that clinical effectiveness and cost were the two main reasons for refusing the drug. It was one of just two rejections for the treatment out of 19 requests to the Trust since January 2007.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">Recording a verdict of suicide, East Sussex Coroner Alan Craze said: &#8216;I don&#8217;t think his life would have come to an end precisely when it did had he been prescribed the requested drug.&#8217;</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">The Trust had an &#8216;almost impossible&#8217; job deciding on medication and there had to be a limit on resources, he added.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">Sutent, is the first new treatment for advanced forms of kidney disease in 30 years. Trials have shown that it can prolong the lives of those with advanced stages of kidney cancer by up to two years and can shrink the tumour.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">It is prescribed throughout Europe and licensed for use here. But it has yet to be approved by the Government&#8217;s drugs rationing body, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">In the meantime, it is up to primary care trusts to decide whether to offer patients the drug, but they are not obliged to do so.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">Under Health Service rules patients are not allowed to make so-called co-payments to top up their existing NHS treatment. If they want to pay for drugs not funded on the NHS, they must to pay privately for their entire treatment.</span></p>
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		<title>Transportation Security Administration (TSA): Too Stupid to Acknowledge</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 13:09:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Dean A. Garner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In London&#8217;s Gatwick Airport last week, I passed a British soldier carrying a fully loaded assault rifle with an extra 30-round magazine attached to the one loaded inside the weapon. He had his back to a wall with people moving to his left and right. I almost laughed as I passed him, but I felt [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In London&#8217;s Gatwick Airport last week, I passed a British soldier carrying a fully loaded assault rifle with an extra 30-round magazine attached to the one loaded inside the weapon. He had his back to a wall with people moving to his left and right. I almost laughed as I passed him, but I felt sorry for the man because he was just doing as he was trained. Fact is, I could&#8217;ve easily overpowered this chap, taken his weapons and ammunition, and wreaked bloodshed on everyone within 30 meters of the business end of that assault rifle.</p>
<p>Whom do the so-called authorities think they&#8217;re fooling here, placing a solitary armed soldier amidst holiday travelers? The only people who were impressed with that soldier were old women and 12 year olds. Everyone else smiled at the man as they passed, as if he were standing there in the nude, wearing one of those Buckingham Guard 2-foot-tall bearskin hats.</p>
<p>No one took this guy seriously.</p>
<p>And what if two or three &#8220;terrorist types&#8221; had assaulted the young soldier and taken his gear? Who would&#8217;ve been there to back up the soldier and dispatch the terrorists?</p>
<p>This ridiculous incident brings to mind the activities of one little organization, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). To me, the TSA is too stupid to acknowledge, but I will say a few words here:</p>
<blockquote><p><span style="color: #ff0000;">TSA security personnel are only effective at keeping us ordinary citizens in line.</span></p></blockquote>
<p>In all airports, most TSA officers are armed with 15-shot pistols (okay, maybe a coupla extras), extra magazines packed inside a leather snap-pouch, some pepper spray, and maybe a baton or something else to make them feel safe. Real terrorists and criminals laugh at these guys. They&#8217;re easy to overpower. Ordinary citizens don&#8217;t assault TSA security personnel because, well, it&#8217;s not the polite thing to do. So we scurry past them at security checkpoints, smiling and wishing them Happy New Year and trying to exchange other pleasantries, while the TSA guys secretly hope to run into an international bad guy that will surely cower in fear at their mere presence.</p>
<p>If a seasoned criminal wants to overtake a police officer, it&#8217;s easy for him to do so, because the bad guy is brutal and swift and decisive. Ordinary citizens aren&#8217;t brutal and swift and decisive, so we&#8217;re easy to corral and keep in line. When the terrorist bad guy appears on the scene, though, law enforcement types have their hands full with men who aren&#8217;t afraid to shoot to kill. They do it all the time and with good result and minimal effort. Witness: Taleban soldiers easily break through US military defenses and kill soldiers and operatives indiscriminately. And they do it often. Same thing with hard-core criminals in Baltimore and LA and Chicago: when they want to kill someone, they do, including police officers.</p>
<p>TSA security personnel are only effective at keeping us ordinary citizens in line. They&#8217;re a poor match for terrorists and other bad guys, who are far better at killing than the well-paid TSA types.</p>
<p>Slightly off the subject, but this is funny: on a recent flight out of Tampa, I witnessed TSA male officers order a beautiful buxom blonde woman to submit to a &#8220;pat down&#8221; or a full-body scan. The woman smiled and opted for the scan, which revealed to the TSA officers a lovely full-body view normally reserved only for the woman&#8217;s spouse. She was very gracious about the whole ordeal, as the TSA security personnel snickered to themselves like 12-year-old schoolboys who&#8217;d just peeked up some girl&#8217;s dress.</p>
<p>Do you think this type of abuse happens only sporadically?</p>
<p>Back to my message: so why bother to have these TSA personnel around at all, other than to entertain us with idiocy? They create an <strong>illusion of safety</strong>, which allows the masses (read: you and I) to function well and spend money and pay taxes without living in fear of some terrorist attack.</p>
<p>So maybe the TSA is good for something after all: getting us to function well and spend money and pay taxes.</p>
<p>Too stupid to acknowledge, you ask me, and thank you for the entertainment.</p>
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		<title>UK Government Seizes $2B in Philanthropic Donations to British Hospitals</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 21:06:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Dean A. Garner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week in London, Ministers released an unprecedented statement to the public: Hundreds of millions of pounds in donations to hospitals would be nationalized under a National Health Service &#8220;accounting change.&#8221;
Excuse me? Accounting change?
If you didn&#8217;t get it the first time, here&#8217;s another angle: in London, England, the UK government has seized more than $2B [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Last week in London, Ministers released an unprecedented statement to the public: Hundreds of millions of pounds in donations to hospitals would be nationalized under a National Health Service &#8220;accounting change.&#8221;</p>
<p>Excuse me? Accounting change?</p>
<p>If you didn&#8217;t get it the first time, here&#8217;s another angle: in London, England, the UK government has seized more than $2B in funds that were donated to hospitals in the country, to offset losses by the National Health Service.</p>
<p>In short, the socialist government of the UK has just stolen billions of very hard-earned tax dollars to correct egregious accounting problems by government officials.</p>
<p>I suppose I could say it in other terms, but the outcome will be the same.</p>
<p>Worst of all, it&#8217;s about to happen in here in the US. Unless you step up and revolt against this fascist practice of stealing money from citizens. Zbigniew Brzezinski and his boss bankers, The Evil RedShields, have directed Obama to take over the $500B-a-year donations to charity organizations. Or at least a large part of it. The bankers simply want more of your money and they&#8217;re going after it in every way possible, including dismantling the most precious form of giving in the world: American Philanthropy.</p>
<p>Mark my word, as others have said it, too: our beautiful country is going the way of a fascist regime. The writing isn&#8217;t simply on the wall; it&#8217;s on every crumbling road, bridge, sewer system, decrepit runway, dilapidated inner-city neighborhood, and stamped on the foreheads of millions of Americans who are allowing it all to happen.</p>
<blockquote><p>Having screwed up the national economy, emptied the public purse, dipped into the publics personal pockets, now Gordon and crew are grabbing the charity money the public have raised. Having abused their trust this Government has set its heart on plundering the charitable trusts. The funds raised are in memory of loved ones, grateful thanks for care given, or a desire to help those in pain.   &#8211;Laurence St. Lyon</p></blockquote>
<p>The passage of so-called healthcare reform in this country signals a new era in the dismantling of our once-proud democracy. Actually, it began 150 years ago, but the pace has accelerated greatly over the past 10 years. Witness: the Patriot Act. 9/11 attacks. Dubya Bush being sent to the White House by the Supreme Court. A complete and ill-prepared unknown Obama being placed in the Presidency by Brzezinski and his banker bosses. The formation of a Gestapo-like Department of Homeland Security. The progressive stripping of American citizens&#8217; civil rights.</p>
<p>Et cetera.</p>
<p>We&#8217;re all too preoccupied with our busy lives to pay any mind to the evils of Brzezinski et al., allowing them to get away with wholesale murder, rape, grand larceny, dismemberment. Who has the time to study the inner workings of these horrible people and their insidious actions? Who could possibly take the time to fully understand the mechanism that powers the fascist machine that&#8217;s revving its engines ever louder and higher each day in America?</p>
<p>My wife and I traveled to the UK last week and talked with dozens of Brits, Scots, Germans and a few Americans about how they felt about giving up so much of their income to a socialist/fascist government. Not one single person said they liked the current system. Not one. On any level. Many said they despised having to pay 60% of their income in taxes, then not receive adequate medical care when they needed it. Healthcare in Germany is rationed, just as it is in the UK, and soon will be here in the US. Not a single man, woman or child we talked with had a positive word to say about their government. Not one.</p>
<p>What&#8217;s happening in Great Britain will happen in America if we citizens don&#8217;t stop it now. All it takes for evil to prevail is for good people to do nothing. Brzezinski and his boss bankers roll the dice every day, banking on the fact that almost all Americans will fall into lockstep with the other socialist/fascist countries they control.</p>
<p>What they aren&#8217;t banking on, though, is our love of peace, freedom and democracy.</p>
<p>Bring it on, Brzezinski. We have a surprise for you. . . .</p>
<p>By the way, here&#8217;s what 78 Brits had to say about their own government seizing those donations to hospitals (quotes and statistics kindly ripped from the <em>London Times</em>):</p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">Richard Groves wrote: its an obscenity that people have to jump out of airoplanes and walk the street with collection buckets to supply the NHS with equipment to do the job. This government is an obscenity of the highest degree sorry lowest parasite politics thats where we are in the uk today. December 29, 2009 10:26 PM GMT RECOMMEND? (16)</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">Amrit Kaur wrote: disgusting! December 29, 2009 9:11 PM GMT RECOMMEND? (17)</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">HRD Vincent wrote: Fair expression Mod&#8217;s ?! Come on&#8230; The juxtaposition of insane Nu-Labour&#8217;s preferential and reverential treatment of its&#8217; failed and incompetent bankers; and its obvious intention to claw back the banker&#8217;s missing money from the British public is utterly and appallingly breathtaking The fact that they simply do not care that we know, or how we feel about it is just damned insulting. I&#8217;d like to paraphrase a comment made by an American friend of mine, he said: &#8220;Most country&#8217;s governments are scared of the people; in Britain it seems that the people are scared of the government&#8230;&#8221; This is another example of &#8220;Nu-Labour-New-Think-new-politik&#8221; oppression. Well people, you have a vote &#8211; I really do fervently hope that you use it wisely next time, after all we have a lot to do to fix all of the things that have been broken by these insane people. December 29, 2009 7:18 PM GMT RECOMMEND? (23)</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">Chris Jones wrote: Much of this was donated in bequests. Grave-robbing about sums up this grasping, lying, shambles of a Government December 29, 2009 7:15 PM GMT RECOMMEND? (28)</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">HRD Vincent wrote: Come on Mod&#8217;s I dare you&#8230; Well people, you have a vote &#8211; I really do fervently hope that you use it wisely next time, after all we have a lot to do to fix all of the things that have been broken by these insane people. December 29, 2009 7:15 PM GMT RECOMMEND? (9)</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">Judy Walton wrote: This money isn&#8217;t the governments to &#8216;manage&#8217;. People need to apply pressure, (via their MP&#8217;s) on the government to leave this money alone. Either that, or stop contributing to the &#8216;Labour&#8217; fund. December 29, 2009 6:59 PM GMT RECOMMEND? (25)</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">David Masu wrote: Nobody has ever seen Gordon Brown and Bernie Madoff in the same room at the same time. Just a thought. December 29, 2009 6:47 PM GMT RECOMMEND? (14)</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">Frank Spence wrote: Whilst these matters remain as &#8220;charities&#8221; they fall under the ambit of the Charity Commissioners who regulate and over see their activity. This raises a question for me, if the Government takes control of the charitable donations does that bring the Government under the control of said Charity Commissioners? If the answer is yes who elects them?</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">This inept, incompetent and dishonest knows no limit to their avarice in terms of getting their hands on other peoples money, any body&#8217;s money. People have given these donations for a specific purpose and that purpose was NOT in order that Government should use it as an excuse to cut funding. Donations are in addition to and not instead of Government funding. December 29, 2009 5:38 PM GMT RECOMMEND? (25)</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">Jake Blair wrote: Imagine you removed all the mangement of our hospitals. Imagine a place where Dr&#8217;s, nurses and matrons all ruled the wards. A place where a small team of retired Dr&#8217;s could consult on processes, and practices of an entire hospital. Now imagine that same team, benchmarking from each counties own hospitals and specialists. Soon after this first step, I see no reason why it shouldnt flourish. Ban politics from anything which you want to be productive. Unfortunatly the electorate, cannot see past one goverment, and put up with the status quo. December 29, 2009 5:15 PM GMT RECOMMEND? (15)</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">Jake Blair wrote: Theives. Where it ends up before, will lose. So you get less budget, and less care. Sounds like a lose lose. Sort it out. Privitise the whole thing. Cap their profits. Ensure investment. Some people get rich, but the majority will win. If we removed the non-uk naitonals abusing our system from the equation, then we wouldnt have to robt he publis contirbutions. December 29, 2009 5:12 PM GMT RECOMMEND? (10)</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">Jake Blair wrote: If we all paid an itemised bill, and forced parliment not to &#8220;cross-lend&#8221;, ie: ring fenced contributions, even charity ones, to their dedicated purpose, and subtracted their inflated ego management, then we would have an effcient and productive economy. Unfortunatly, the desires of politicians, and their extremely poinsonous infectious words, means money intended for one source, ends up in another, at the whim and detrimewnt of another. Time to bring in itemised bills. All I ever see is Tax goes up, service goes down. If any company was run this way, they would be bankrupt like this goverment currently is. Labour and their entourage are amongst other names, highway robbers. Next they will tax the amount of times you go to the toilet. All to what? Fund illegal wars, ID cards, Immigration, Benefits? Since when do we, the general public have ANY say on how our money is spent? December 29, 2009 5:04 PM GMT RECOMMEND? (8)</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">Colin Smith wrote: The Government is an irresponsible thieving institution and I would never give any money to any body that it has any influence over. The temptations to steal are too strong for Westminster to resist. Every day the signs grow clearer that we are a bankrupt country: wait for us to be downgraded from AAA status and see the economic recession become a collapse. People might then, finally, begin to wake up and see just how corrupt all our institutions have become under the cloak of the last thirty years&#8217; false prosperity. December 29, 2009 4:51 PM GMT RECOMMEND? (15)</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">Martin Carter wrote: To all those who are pointing the finger at the present government, please see my earlier post last night (11.13pm) &#8211; it is not just New Labour &#8211; all three of the parties are after cash and control one way or another. I cannot make my mind up whether it is the politicians themselves who are to blame or whether they are just too weak to stand up to the public sector officers. December 29, 2009 4:37 PM GMT RECOMMEND? (4)</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">David Gould wrote: Haven&#8217;t people noticed that the government got its hands on lottery money years ago. It was set up to fund &#8216;good causes&#8217;. I suppose you could claim the government is a &#8216;good cause&#8217;, if you are mad that is. December 29, 2009 4:27 PM GMT RECOMMEND? (12)</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">Laurence St.Lyon wrote: Having screwed up the national economy, emptied the public purse, dipped into the publics personal pockets, now Gordon and crew are grabbing the charity money the public have raised. Having abused their trust this Government has set its heart on plundering the charitable trusts. The funds raised are in memory of loved ones, grateful thanks for care given, or a desire to help those in pain. Not relieve the Government of it statutory duties or allow it to find more money for &#8216;initiatives&#8217; that do not show any and &#8217;schemes&#8217;, that enrich only those &#8217;schemers&#8217; able to work the system, in a vain attempt to win votes. December 29, 2009 3:50 PM GMT RECOMMEND? (15)</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">A Williams wrote: I posted a comment earlier which Timesonline chose not to publish. I repeat it here in the hope that they will given that it so clearly demonstrates the value to society of organisations, funded by charitable donations,that would not function without them: &#8221;Yesterday,in my local pub/restaurant, a man collapsed with severe chest pain. An ambulance was called but, within 3 minutes (yes, an incredible 3 minutes) the local &#8220;first response&#8221; team were on site and had stabilized the man by the time the NHS ambulance arrived some 15 minutes later. My point being that the first responders who are funded by charitable donations and their own contributions(they have to buy their own vehicles and equipment) would not exist if all funding went into a centralised pot and people would die. Mr.Brown, keep your grubby fingers out. December 29, 2009 3:28 PM GMT RECOMMEND? (20)</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">Sean Lynch wrote: This governement is criminal. They have no right whatsoever to sequestrate money donated by the public. Please get Labour out, they are Communist tyrants and madder than a box of frogs. God help us, there will surely be a revolution if Brown fixes the election and gets back in. December 29, 2009 3:24 PM GMT RECOMMEND? (12)</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">E Thompson wrote: Will this apply to all charities? If so, I&#8217;ll need to change my will substantially too. December 29, 2009 3:05 PM GMT RECOMMEND? (10)</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">neville watson wrote: For ten years this Socialist Government treated the public purse like a bottomless pit. That created a non sustainable situation even before the onset of the banking crisis, itself caused in no small part by a flawed regulatory system (thank you Mr Brown). We now have an administration bombarded on all sides by calls for yet more public spending when the cupboard is already bare. I see the proposed raid on Hospital Charities as no more than an act of desperation by a Goverment bankrupted through its own misguided policies and afraid to take the necessary remedial action. Remember, the National Lottery pot was also &#8220;attached&#8221; by this Goverment despite spin claims to the contrary. We need to get back to good basic housekeeping for the public accounts, and this lot are not the ones to achieve it. December 29, 2009 3:00 PM GMT RECOMMEND? (16)</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">E Thompson wrote: Will this apply to all charities? If so, I&#8217;ll need to change my will substantially too. December 29, 2009 2:53 PM GMT RECOMMEND? (7)</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">D B wrote: The govt will no doubt take all the donations to the soldiers&#8217; rehab centres out of the budget. All hospitals should get local newspapers on their side &#8211; highlight the donations to particular areas where the govt cuts follow. December 29, 2009 2:07 PM GMT RECOMMEND? (12)</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">Jordan Seymour wrote: Isn&#8217;t a charitable donation to the nhs pretty much a case of the public saying (or voting), we think they need a bigger budget, and the government decides no we&#8217;d rather have it regardless of what you think (or would vote, if we had any say on putting policy through). And we live in a democracy? December 29, 2009 12:40 PM GMT RECOMMEND? (17)</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">Jordan Seymour wrote: How long before we hand money to a friend and it has to go through the state? December 29, 2009 12:31 PM GMT RECOMMEND? (20)</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">max martin wrote: It would be foolish to think that the government does not already know about the approximate sums of money given to health. It would be even more naive to think that the government is not already restricting revenue expenditure accordingly. The State stealing from charity boxes is not new; this will just make the stealing more informed and proportionate. December 29, 2009 12:28 PM GMT RECOMMEND? (17)</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">John Fulwood wrote: I am speechless. Is this going to be the only counry in the world where the term NGO is meaningless? Non government organistaions that are told how to spend money donated by individuals who want to alleviate suffering outside the tentacles of the state. December 29, 2009 12:16 PM GMT RECOMMEND? (24)</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">Anne Hargreaves wrote: Like thousands of others I contribute to the cancer charity of MY CHOICE knowing that the money will be used for it&#8217;s intended purpose &#8211; new equipment,research and improved patient facilities. This Government has already spent money irresponsibly resulting in debt of obscene proportions. They MUST NOT get their hands on charitable donations! December 29, 2009 11:57 AM GMT RECOMMEND? (34)</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">Marie Butler wrote: People Give money to hospital charities they think need more money. If their money is used to cut funding they will stop paying to charities, and with the lack of earning power causiong real hardship to many who would give they wouldn&#8217;t need much excuse to withdraw their support. Next this government will be claiming business tax on charity income. We realy have to vote these out but what are the Tories saying about this? December 29, 2009 11:08 AM GMT RECOMMEND? (32)</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">Daniel Earley wrote: This is exactly what happened with the National Lottery. Labour uses those funds fo its own causes and, suprise, suprise, most of the board of the National Lottery are Labourite ministers or cronies. So much for charities having independent status. December 29, 2009 10:57 AM GMT RECOMMEND? (48)</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">Chantima Chuman wrote: All hospital charities should withhold any cash until this decision is reversed. This so called government is just despicable. December 29, 2009 10:56 AM GMT RECOMMEND? (57)</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;"> John Moffat-Roberts wrote: Too much top down decisions, too much centralisation, too much interference, too much regulation, too much blind stupidity&#8230; it&#8217;s been too much for too long. Oh to be in that England &#8211; the land of the free! December 29, 2009 10:49 AM GMT RECOMMEND? (47)</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">Louise Brooke wrote: That&#8217;s it &#8211; from now on I will ONLY donate my time to charities &#8211; NOT money or goods. Labour has had enough of my money, they are not getting any more! How dare they, do they really think that the electorate are that stupid? December 29, 2009 10:36 AM GMT RECOMMEND? (53)</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">George Shepherd wrote: THat&#8217;s ok &#8211; my donations are stopped as of today. December 29, 2009 10:31 AM GMT RECOMMEND? (65)</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">marnie andrew wrote: people generally give to a specific cause that they feel strongly about, if they can not do that they wont bother to give, i wouldnt. how will they count practical gifts such as toys or heart monitors given directly to a unit December 29, 2009 10:21 AM GMT RECOMMEND? (29)</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">James Bowater wrote: Another way to get their expenses paid . December 29, 2009 10:16 AM GMT RECOMMEND? (34)</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">Claire Wright wrote: My family donate sums to Great Ormond Street Hospital in recognition of the support they gave my sister and her severely sick child. We want that money to help other families in similar situations, not to be used as an excuse to cut money to these institutions following years of excess under a Labour government. December 29, 2009 9:53 AM GMT RECOMMEND? (74)</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">John Punshon wrote: This is exactly what they did with the Lottery money, isn&#8217;t it? December 29, 2009 9:52 AM GMT RECOMMEND? (56)</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">Paul Wilson wrote: This is worse than it looks. The government are talking about consolidated balance sheets, this means they are treating all of the charities assets as their own not just the income. Presumably this will be because the charities concerned can only donate to the NHS and therefore in Labour&#8217;s logic the NHS is the beneficial owner of the charities assets. How long will it be before the &#8216;Charities Commission&#8217; change the rules to allow the beneficiary to dictate trustees when where and how much they give to their beneficiaries. Bottom line here is that Labour regard ALL assets as belonging to them. You have been warned. December 29, 2009 9:52 AM GMT RECOMMEND? (59)</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">David Marsh wrote: Just as they have done with the National Lottery Labour want to use OUR cash as another stealth tax to plug the holes in Brown&#8217;s disasterous economic polices, let&#8217;s hope it doesn&#8217;t go into Labour marginals to try and boost their standing in those sets before the election&#8230;.. December 29, 2009 9:49 AM GMT RECOMMEND? (47)</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">Ian Dickson wrote: Politicians are an ugly stain on society. We should get rid of them quickly before they destroy all we hold dear to our hearts. Does anyone over the age of 40 recognise the country we now live in? Thought not. December 29, 2009 9:44 AM GMT RECOMMEND? (54)</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">Philip Braine wrote: You don&#8217;t list donations on a balance sheet, silly. You list them in the income and expenditure account. If the Treasury tries to pinch them, however, you probably won&#8217;t have to list them at all as people won&#8217;t bother. December 29, 2009 9:13 AM GMT RECOMMEND? (32)</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">Border Burg wrote: to refuse to looking for NHS savings is part of the problem December 29, 2009 9:08 AM GMT RECOMMEND? (25)</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">Stephen Bishop wrote: So the cost of the NHS has been understated by £300M per year. December 29, 2009 8:56 AM GMT RECOMMEND? (31)</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">David Masu wrote: My will leaves my estate to Great Ormond Street. As from tomorrow it will not. December 29, 2009 8:37 AM GMT RECOMMEND? (100)</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">david skitmore wrote: Just when we thought Labour can&#8217;t sink any lower. December 29, 2009 8:23 AM GMT RECOMMEND? (114)</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">Bill Bird wrote: &#8217;ministers take control&#8217; &#8211; sounds like an oxymoron to me. December 29, 2009 8:15 AM GMT RECOMMEND? (57)</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">Douglas Hendry wrote: Isn&#8217;t it amazing how these people can find ways to squeeze more and more blood from ever-smaller stones? December 29, 2009 8:01 AM GMT RECOMMEND? (79)</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">Simon Marshland wrote: Few charities will trust this spendthrift government with its donations and rightly so. The result of this latest smash and grab attempt will be to deny needed funds to the NHS. December 29, 2009 7:55 AM GMT RECOMMEND? (76)</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">mike barton wrote: soon as i saw &#8220;Ministers take control of&#8221; my heart sank December 29, 2009 7:53 AM GMT RECOMMEND? (80)</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">david skitmore wrote: Labour have run out of steam, because they have run out of our money. December 29, 2009 7:45 AM GMT</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">Terrrence London wrote: What a sad day for said Charities, their donors, and their intended recipients. Yet another nail in the coffin of British democracy Government of the people, by the people, for the Government December 29, 2009 7:44 AM GMT RECOMMEND? (52)</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">John Hughes-Wilson wrote: See Chris&#8217;s post at 29 Dec 04.41. It&#8217;s no joke. Can you imagine an RNLI service run by the government and the Treasury? It would cost twice as much, be three times as bureaucratic and half as efficient. However, the Treasury have long considered ways of getting their hands on its money as part of a &#8216;National Rescue Service&#8217;. Fact: You cannot trust the Treasury with your money, never mind the politicians. Look at the national Lottery, the big &#8220;Voluntary Tax&#8221;. Who taxes, runs and controls its money? Who uses it to fund things that should be done by government taxmonies? December 29, 2009 6:59 AM GMT RECOMMEND? (72)</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">Edward Carroll wrote: Why are we not surprised? The destruction of private pensions and increase for MP&#8217;s. The sale of our gold. The wars, but keeping the troops short of equipment, hospital treatment, and sueing the two wounded men to reduce their payout to less than many government/civil schemes. The referendum and statement that Lisbon is not the costitution. A thrice caught minister made a lord and now seems to be running the government. An unelected prime minister who grabs the limelight but is nowhere to be seen when things go wrong (often). The claims fiasco and the promises, but then they are nulabour promises. Immigration. Finance. Can you think of any part of our once proud country they have not wrecked? The list seems endless December 29, 2009 6:48 AM GMT RECOMMEND? (177)</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">Chris Palmer wrote: A few years ago, my local (city) council declared war on all those who live on the streets. This was not only aimed at the feckless, but at the genuinely homeless and ill as well. The council used its own glossy newspaper style organ of propaganda to instruct us NOT to give money or anything else to beggars but, if we felt moved to do so, to give it to the council who knew far better how to spend this money on the homeless &#8220;for their own good&#8221;. Needless to say, I never contribute a penny more to the council than the council tax I am legally bound to pay. I continue to ignore the feckless, as I always did, and I now indulge in spontaneous acts of underhand charity towards those others who ask me, or sometimes who don&#8217;t. If the government get their grubby hands on charitable offerings to the NHS, I shall simply find another way to give, or another deserving cause to give to. As Jenny Willot said, “The Government has no right to get its hands on any charitable NHS funds&#8221;. And that should be the end of the matter. December 29, 2009 6:07 AM GMT RECOMMEND? (82)</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">Stephen Baker wrote: Gormless Gordon strikes again. Yet more underhand, mean-spirited sleight of hand by this appalling Government. Not exactly a vote winner, is it? December 29, 2009 5:45 AM GMT RECOMMEND? (126)</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">A G wrote: It is my understanding that the charities concerned are there to provide benefits to patients that the NHS lamentably neglect to fund.Usually, these benefits are specific aimed to improve the quality of life of patients who are suffering from serious conditions or to acquire particular equipment that the NHS will not fund. This reprehensible act will undoubtedly result in people reconsidering their position leading to a reduction in donations. In the past have given to one Cancer related organisation but it will not happen again. December 29, 2009 5:38 AM GMT RECOMMEND? (51)</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">Man in The Street wrote: When will politicians learn to keep their grubby hands of other peoples cash? I&#8217;m sick of all of them, revolution anybody? December 29, 2009 5:30 AM GMT RECOMMEND? (71)</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">Stephen Hollinshead wrote: If it&#8217;s no longer a charity and just going into the the hospital budget then people will stop giving money simple as that. People are quite willing to donate to buy extra equipment for their local hospital, but if they even begin to think it is going to be used to pay for basic things like wages then the donations will dry up very quickly. Will people donate again if money donated for say a scanner appeal is diverted to fund something else, once trust is gone it is very hard to regain it. December 29, 2009 5:04 AM GMT RECOMMEND? (62)</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">CHRIS xxxx wrote: There is no limit to how low Labour will go. Now they are after charitable donations. What next? The Red Cross, RNLI? Gordon: Call the election now so we can end your attrocious prime ministership. December 29, 2009 4:41 AM GMT RECOMMEND? (81)</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">Robert Elliott wrote: So, not content with taxing us all to death, Znanulabour now want to incorporate charitable donations into the Treasury pot. This government is below contempt. When will all those spineless backbenchers represent their electorate anc call for no confidence. We are gradually heading towards a soviet style dictatorship, with Gordy the contriol freak at its head. Enough is enough. They have to go, they are fundamentally dishonest. December 29, 2009 2:34 AM GMT RECOMMEND? (88)</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">Geoffrey Johns wrote: so new labour squeezes its mucky paw into your pockets yet again December 29, 2009 2:13 AM GMT RECOMMEND? (65)</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">Trudi Morris wrote: It&#8217;s just another cash grab &#8211; it&#8217;s not the first and won&#8217;t be the last. It&#8217;s why our ancient regiments are largely gone: so the government could empty the accounts. Old soldiers bequeathed monies marched quickstep to the Treasury. Labour will stoop at nothing. December 29, 2009 1:39 AM GMT RECOMMEND? (67)</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">Bob Evans wrote: Just another way for Government&#8211;The State&#8211;to discourage individual charitable giving. One only need think of the charitable nature of the British people a century ago, and how it has been diminished. In neutralizing and eliminating charitable giving, Government makes everyone even more dependent upon the hydra-headed monster we know as The State. December 29, 2009 1:22 AM GMT RECOMMEND? (61)</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">Sue Birmingham wrote: All it needs is a campaign to set up new charities where the trustees aren&#8217;t the directors of the relevant NHS trusts, and the money will be safely back in independent hands. December 29, 2009 12:48 AM GMT RECOMMEND? (40)</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">Simon Newbold wrote: Just when you think that this appalling Government has sunk to the nadir of its policies, it can come up with an idea such as this. What depths can they possibly sink to next??? December 29, 2009 12:41 AM GMT RECOMMEND? (142)</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">paul dee wrote: The irony is that the people who came up with this wheeze almost certainly are covered by private health plans. Trim the cost of the health service for the hoi polloi is presumably their aim. December 29, 2009 12:29 AM GMT RECOMMEND? (47)</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">KW Cook wrote: Forgive my cynicism, but why is everyone showing such surprise? What do we expect from these &#8220;Honourable&#8221; politicians? I hope to God they keep their avaricious hands off the RNLI, if they find it irresistible, I advise you all not to venture unto the sea in ships, you might adversely affect NuLab&#8217;s precious targets. December 29, 2009 12:26 AM GMT RECOMMEND? (69)</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">David Ross wrote: So, who still doesn&#8217;t believe that we now live in a communist police state? December 29, 2009 12:16 AM GMT RECOMMEND? (208)</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">peter codner wrote: I&#8217;d love to know the name of moron who came up with that &#8220;courageous&#8221; idea December 29, 2009 12:14 AM GMT RECOMMEND? (53)</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">Geoff Miller wrote: People should stop giving donations to the NHS anyway. They are not responsible enough with money &#8211; there are too many managers and not enough front line staff, money is wasted all over and all the decisions are made by an unaccountable board of directors rather than by the doctors and nurses. The whole service needs a shake up. December 28, 2009 11:22 PM GMT RECOMMEND? (130)</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">Martin Carter wrote: This isn&#8217;t the only example of &#8216;nationalising&#8217; the independent / charitable sector. In Tory/LibDem controlled Leeds, several of the theatres &#8211; including the Grand and City Varieties &#8211; were set up as independent companies so they could benefit from lottery funding and grants which the Council could not othewise have obtained. No sooner have all the grants and refurbishments been completed than the Council has effectively moved back in and taken control of them, appointing one of its leisure services officers as Director of Theatres. I now deeply regret having donated any money to them for refurbishment. December 28, 2009 11:13 PM GMT RECOMMEND? (76)</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">Phil Dunderdale wrote: I suppose the government think people will not notice? Next the money from Children in Need will be used to pay for income support and the Poppy Appeal will be used to wage silly wars. In fact soon they wrap up all charity donations and call them HMRC donations. December 28, 2009 11:09 PM GMT RECOMMEND? (140)</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">Peter Sharpe wrote: I think this a storm in a tea cup. The change accounting treatment of these items will have no impact on the facts on the ground for the charities. Secondly, it wasn&#8217;t the Department of Health&#8217;s choice, the Treasury chose to adopt the new accounting standards and the DH&#8217;s scope for interpretation if the standard is limited. I think the Charities Commission has got it&#8217;s knickers in a twist over nothing about this. In Accounting 101 you learn about substance of legal form. December 28, 2009 11:04 PM GMT RECOMMEND? (5)</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">Andy Davis wrote: When you have a socialist government you expect corruption, you expect incompetence, you expect style over substance, you expect patronage, you expect attacks on basic freedoms but even so this government still manages to surprise me with its basic lack of moral values. December 28, 2009 11:02 PM GMT RECOMMEND? (247)</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">Christopher Stubbs wrote: Mmmm, politicians with their fingers in the kids piggy bank eh? Whatever next? December 28, 2009 10:58 PM GMT RECOMMEND? (160)</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">ta NKY wrote: so people arent going to be given to specific causes, they are just going to give it to the great and glorious £100 billion nhs. December 28, 2009 10:53 PM GMT RECOMMEND? (54)</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">jayil london wrote: In other words &#8211; Laws are made to be broken. Where do we the people start? December 28, 2009 10:52 PM GMT RECOMMEND? (80)</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">Hugh Davies wrote: Never forget, politicians believe that everything belongs to them. And this is just another example. December 28, 2009 10:40 PM GMT RECOMMEND? (191)</span></p>
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		<title>Healthcare Reform in America Has a Face: Zbigniew Brzezinski and the Evil Family Rothschild</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[What does a so-called geopolitical strategist have to do with healthcare reform in America?
Everything. Especially since this man, Zbigniew Brzezinski, represents the largest banking family on the planet: The Evil Family Rothschild.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What does a so-called geopolitical strategist have to do with healthcare reform in America?</p>
<p>Everything. Especially since this man, Zbigniew Brzezinski, represents the largest banking family on the planet: The Evil Family Rothschild.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;ve just been provoked into a hissy fit, ready to pull out your 9th-grade civics text book, don&#8217;t bother: most of it is as inaccurate as it could be, and for good reason.</p>
<p>Our country isn&#8217;t a democracy, and it hasn&#8217;t been for more than 150 years. That&#8217;s not hypothesis, it&#8217;s not theory, and it&#8217;s certainly not conjecture: it&#8217;s absolute fact. That&#8217;s why I simply state it and put it out there for you to stir around in the soup between your ears. If you get mad enough or frightened beyond the norm, then maybe you&#8217;ll tell others.</p>
<p>My aim is to spread the word about how the world really works, and to do so before I die a natural death or am murdered by the Rothschild&#8217;s henchmen. Yes, they&#8217;ve dispatched thousands of others over the past several hundred years, those would-be whistleblowers. Thing is, we live in an era of flash media and viral marketing, so anything I write here will be seen by many and it will not be lost when I&#8217;m gone.</p>
<blockquote><p>My aim is to spread the word about how the world really works, and to do so before I die a natural death or am murdered by the Rothschild&#8217;s henchmen.</p></blockquote>
<p>Brzezinski is merely the Family Rothschild&#8217;s errand boy, carrying out the dirty little wars that garner billions for the RedShields&#8217; empire. Rot in German is RED; Schild in German is SHIELD. Hence my using the seemingly derogatory Americanized term, RedShield. It also smacks of old Soviet oppression. Fitting description for a family that seeks to turn the US into another socialist-communist country, and enslaving its people.</p>
<p>By now, you&#8217;ve tuned out this article and gone on to other mundane things around the house. Those of you who are still with me should consider the facts above, let them stew inside your subconscious for a few days or weeks, then write your &#8220;elected&#8221; representatives and let them know YOU now know how this system works and you&#8217;re not gonna let some socialist-communists, the RedShields, run this beautiful country of ours into the ground any further than they already have.</p>
<p>With viral spread of the good word, it is now possible to launch the truth. A hundred years ago, the RedShields counted on relative anonymity to carry out their dirty work. While we may not have complete transparency, the old barriers that prevented us commoners from understanding the true nature of the systems of government in the western world are falling, if only slowly and against a great inertia&#8211;that of indifference.</p>
<p>Remember: all it takes for evil (The RedShields) to prevail is for good people (YOU) to do nothing.</p>
<p>Again, this country of ours is NOT a democracy. Yes, you may feel like you have the freedom to move here and there without showing your papers to the border guards, but underneath this sheen of Thomas Jefferson&#8217;s freedom and democracy is an insidious beast that thrives on oppression of its own people. I don&#8217;t care whether it is socialism or communism or whatever, the fact is that it is NOT a democracy. Our so-called income tax is illegal. There is NO law on the books, stating that American citizens must pay an income tax on their personal earnings. There are laws that direct corporations to pay corporate tax, yes. There are laws that direct citizens to pay capital gains taxes, yes. But there is NO law that directs us to pay taxes on our income. None. Period. All our income taxes go to the Federal Reserve, which is NOT a US government institution. It&#8217;s owned by the RedShields. A large portion of our hard-earned income goes to a family of socialist-communist thugs who rule the entire western world.</p>
<p>As a child, I was promised freedom and democracy. It&#8217;s hardwired into my DNA. Try to take it from me and I&#8217;ll do whatever it takes to stop you. If the RedShields and their man Brzezinski think they&#8217;re going to convert people like me&#8211;and hopefully you, too&#8211;into little socialists or communists, they&#8217;re mistaken. Based on evolutionary chemistry, there WILL be an uprising against the RedShields, and they will not recover from it. Question is, when will this happen? The way things look now, it will be in the next 25 years and I pray I have a big hand in it.</p>
<p>And this brings me to the subject of this article: healthcare reform in America. For one, the so-called reform is a sham. It&#8217;s not about healthcare; it is about reform. Reforming the United States into a fascist state. It&#8217;s all about control, using healthcare reform as a vehicle. Thing is, The First Sphere of Influence&#8211;Rothschilds and Brzezinski&#8211;didn&#8217;t count on such a backlash from the citizens of this country.</p>
<p>Ah, enough.</p>
<p>For one moment, let&#8217;s just say there <em>may</em> be a legitimate attempt to bring better healthcare to the citizens of this country. There is no real healthcare reform in a democracy (or constitutional republic) without debates at the grassroots level, then building a consensus and passing on that result to elected officials who, in turn, vote on it properly according to the will of the people. According to YOU. According to ME.</p>
<p>The so-called &#8220;passing&#8221; of these bills in the House and Senate is an absolute joke. These &#8220;elected&#8221; officials should be banished to the Antarctic, to turn glaciers into igloos for tourons.</p>
<p>Not a single member of Congress or the Senate has stood up and publicly opposed this healthcare legislation, because it is a foregone conclusion: oppressing the rights of the people and bringing them under yet another unnecessary rule of a government that is becoming more and more oppressive each day. In Germany in the 1930s, healthcare was rationed out only to those who were deemed important to the state, those who were young and healthy and contributing to the Nazi regime. In the US today, healthcare reform will do exactly the same thing: withhold healthcare from those who are deemed not important to the socialist-communist system, those who aren&#8217;t young and healthy and contributing directly to the regime.</p>
<p>In my lifetime, I&#8217;ve seen The Big Push where Brzezinski, at the behest of his handlers The RedShields, have made a big push to oppress the rights of all Americans. The Patriot Act is a glaring example, stripping the rights of all citizens. For example, I could be arrested and carted off to a federal prison (not local jail) without a formal charge, and my wife would never have access to me, nor would my attorney. I could be branded an anarchist or dissident or enemy of the state.</p>
<blockquote><p>While you were enjoying the freedoms that Thomas Jefferson dreamed of, fought for, and penned in the most important documents this world has ever seen, the RedShields were boiling you alive, one slow degree at a time.</p></blockquote>
<p>The Department of Homeland Security is modeled directly after the Nazi&#8217;s Gestapo. It&#8217;s only the beginning now, but we&#8217;ll see these modern-day Nazis more and more, and they&#8217;ll be violating our civil rights more and more, too. Agents from Homeland Security can come into YOUR home and search it without warrant any time of the day or night. And they can arrest YOU and place you in a federal holding facility indefinitely. You could be labeled an enemy combatant (a bit of a stretch, yes) and therefore be stripped of ALL your constitutional rights. The grand experiment for this is the US military prison at Guantanamo, where &#8220;enemy combatants&#8221; have been held for years without access to legal counsel or their families. All under the Patriot Act, these non-democratic actions are simply little experiments to see how the public reacts. And so far, we&#8217;ve allowed them to get away with stripping the rights of prisoners, redefining The Geneva Conventions. Oh, excuse me: I meant, ignoring wholesale The Geneva Conventions.</p>
<p>And where were YOU while all this was going on? Watching the latest movie on DVD, going bowling with your spouse, crossing US borders to vacation at the beach, enjoying a Thanksgiving dinner with family and friends.</p>
<p>While you were enjoying the freedoms that Thomas Jefferson dreamed of, fought for, penned the most important and influential documents this world has ever seen, the RedShields were boiling you alive, one slow degree at a time.</p>
<p>One has to wonder why the RedShields would be pushing so hard these days to form a socialist-communist one-world government in such a hurry. They almost seem desperate. This last happened in the western world in 1933 when they took over Germany, using Adolf Hitler as their puppet, and destroyed any semblance of established order, instituted their own order, formed terribly oppressive organizations like the Gestapo, turned all Germany&#8217;s citizens in to slaves of his regime, and ruled until 1945 when he was secreted away by the father of James Bond, Ian Fleming, and Rothschild cohorts.</p>
<p>The RedShields pit one country against another or others in horrible battles, funding both or all sides, and reaping the bloodstained benefits from it all. The pattern continues to this day . . . in Afghanistan and Iraq, not to mention the hundreds of other internecine battles throughout the world.</p>
<p>I could go on and on and perhaps will someday . . . in a book that chronicles the rise and fall of the RedShields.</p>
<p>All it takes for evil to prevail is for good people to do nothing. In the name of peace, freedom and democracy (or a constitutional republic), I will fight The Evil Family RedShield until I die or am murdered by the RedShield&#8217;s henchmen.</p>
<p>What are YOU willing to do to to restore and then preserve peace, freedom and democracy?</p>
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		<title>Elite Bloodlines: The Mutant French Poodle Syndrome</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:46:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Dean A. Garner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloodlines of the elite are all the talk these days, and have been since Dan Brown&#8217;s The Da Vinci Code, which spoke of JC&#8217;s bloodline possibly being snuffed. Bluebloods, quite ignorant of basic biology, don&#8217;t realize the only true blue blood on the planet runs through the open systems of arthropods like crabs. The blue [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Bloodlines of the elite are all the talk these days, and have been since Dan Brown&#8217;s The Da Vinci Code, which spoke of JC&#8217;s bloodline possibly being snuffed. Bluebloods, quite ignorant of basic biology, don&#8217;t realize the only true blue blood on the planet runs through the open systems of arthropods like crabs. The blue color results from copper being the oxygen carrier in their blood. The carrier in human blood is iron, thus giving our blood its distinct red color. But don&#8217;t tell the bluebloods this.</p>
<p>Also, please don&#8217;t tell the Blues that maintaining bloodlines without sufficient infusion of new genetic material leads to amplified mutations that, in turn, make for a mushy brain. The French poodle is a prime example. Historian Philip Warner points out:</p>
<p><em>Modern dogs are a poor copy of their sturdier ancestors, and many an animal that was once in the forefront of the chase has now been turned by the breeders into a wretched specimen which can hardly hold a sugared biscuit in its mouth without dropping it.</em></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="color: #ff6600;">Today&#8217;s subspecies of poodle can&#8217;t tell the difference between a duck and a Toyota.</span></p></blockquote>
<p>Old World poodles were water-loving dogs.</p>
<p>Today&#8217;s poodles splash about in mud puddles.</p>
<p>Old World poodles had high levels of intelligence.</p>
<p>The modern French poodle can&#8217;t even speak its own language.</p>
<p>The poodle of old were heavily trained to be retrievers of shot birds.</p>
<p>Today&#8217;s subspecies of poodle can&#8217;t tell the difference between a duck and a Toyota.</p>
<p>And so we&#8217;re back to our discussion of bloodlines of the elite: which would you rather have, the achingly low IQ of a Dubya . . . or the high, thinking intelligence of some hardworking woman from deepest, darkest Kansas, whose genetic mix consists of tidbits of African, Mexican, Scottish, Irish, German and Whatsit?</p>
<p>Diversity ensures not only survival of the species but evolution into a higher being. The Bush, Obama, Bzrezinski, Rothschild and other families have become so inbred that they can&#8217;t tell the difference between a duck and a Toyota.</p>
<p>Viva la Bloodline, indeed. . . .</p>
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		<title>F/A-18 Hornet: Free to Good Home</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 13:13:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Dean A. Garner</dc:creator>
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Decommissioned US Navy F/A-18 Hornet for sale. 
Drowning in the throes of a mid-life crisis? Then this baby will rocket you out of those blues and into a whole different kinda wild blue!
Guaranteed chick magnet! Take your prospective hottie on the roller coaster ride of her life. I tell ya, this bird is the best [...]]]></description>
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<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">Decommissioned US Navy F/A-18 Hornet</span> </strong><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>for sale. </strong></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">Drowning in the throes of a mid-life crisis?</span></strong> Then this baby will rocket you out of those blues and into a whole different kinda wild blue!</p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Guaranteed chick magnet!</strong></span> Take your prospective hottie on the roller coaster ride of her life. I tell ya, this bird is the best foreplay ever: forget the expensive movie, dinner, dancing and creme brulee, and strap on 17 tons of otherworldly beast and scream around those diaphanous blue skies at Mach 2. If her pants aren&#8217;t down around her ankles after that first 6-G turn, then light the burners and slam the G into the red zone.</p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>If you&#8217;re not into babes, then this is perfect for home protection! </strong><strong><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Take off from your street, climb to altitude, see all potential threats before they reach your home, then blast &#8216;em all to North Carolina. Landing&#8217;s easy: just set up an arresting wire across the street in front of your house, fold up the wings, then taxi right into your garage. </span></span><br /> </strong></span><br /> <strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">Excellent condition:</span></strong><span style="color: #ff0000;"> </span><br /> -Garaged for past two years<br /> -Street legal in DC, Maryland and Virginia<br /> -Odometer with less than 1,000,000 miles<br /> -Zero to sixty in 10 milliseconds<br /> -Only 525 cat-traps (catapult take-offs and carrier landings)<br /> -Never been shot down<br /> -36 bullet holes in fuselage and right wing have been fully repaired<br /> -Original body, paint<br /> -New tires<br /> -Good shocks<br /> -Serviceable tailhook<br /> -Rebuilt motor<br /> -Factory-new afterburner<br /> -Certified GOOD TO GO Aces II Ejection Seat<br /> -Full avionics Sport Package with Heads-up Display and surround-sound Dolby stereo system<br /> -Gentex flight helmet, G-suit and flight gear<br /> -Flew 100 missions over Iraq in 1990-91; TOPGUN in 1992-93<br /> -Optional accessories: bombs, bullets, missiles and the brain that goes in the cockpit<br /> -Does not include wingman or fuel<br /> -Batteries not included<br /> -Some assembly required</p>
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		<title>Communism vs. Democracy: Welfare and Oppression Over Freedom? No, Thanks</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 12:19:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Dean A. Garner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For 200 years, Russia has excelled in producing physicists of very high quality, all firmly grounded in the foundations of mechanics and heat, electricity and magnetism, and of course mathematics. During WW II, the Korean War and Vietnam War, Russian (then Soviet) engineers designed and built warfare technology that was unsurpassed. Mechanically, that is. Russians [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For 200 years, Russia has excelled in producing physicists of very high quality, all firmly grounded in the foundations of mechanics and heat, electricity and magnetism, and of course mathematics. During WW II, the Korean War and Vietnam War, Russian (then Soviet) engineers designed and built warfare technology that was unsurpassed. Mechanically, that is. Russians had practically invented the art of airframe design and building, and also produced excellent motors to power the aircraft like the MiG-15, MiG-21, MiG-29 and Su-27, among many others.</p>
<blockquote><p><em>When you allow a man his dignity, he&#8217;ll break his back for you</em>.<br />
&#8211;Pete Harbeck</p></blockquote>
<p>Something important was lacking, though: the passion, freedom and spirit of high technology. The best example I saw of the egregious difference between the effect of Communism vs. Democracy was when I flew in the back seat of US high-performance fighters and attack aircraft like the A-4, A-7, F-4, F-14, F-15, F-16, F/A-18 and others. And then sat in the cockpit of a Russian MiG-29. The Russians were aerodynamically superior in nearly every way, even with a heavier and clunkier airframe and motor. Inside the cockpit, though, the Russians were a full generation behind&#8211;at least 30 years. What the airframe and motor boasted in engineering beauty and simplicity, the avionics shrunk in abject horror for their analog dials and switches that looked directly stripped from an early Vietnam-era US fighter. It was embarrassing to hear the Russian pilot discuss the intricacies of his cockpit. Absolutely embarrassing.</p>
<p>And this brings me to my point about a glaring difference between Communism and Democracy: the Russian Communist government failed in every way to motivate its engineers and physicists to design and build modern fighter jets that could compete in a killing skies with American ingenuity and creativity and freedom. By stripping their citizens of freedom and dignity, the Russians effectively killed their own technology programs before they could even launch. Without the freedom to dream wildly and to dream big, their engineers could only produce mechanically good aircraft, with a wholly mediocre cockpit and avionics. They lacked the desire and motivation and drive to perform at the peak levels of their American counterparts, and thus lost the Cold War not to an arms race that could never be won, but to oppression of their own freedom.</p>
<p style="text-align: right;"><em>When you allow a man his dignity, he&#8217;ll break his back for you</em>.<br />
&#8211;Pete Harbeck</p>
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		<title>Democracy vs. Socialism: Live Free And Prosper or Suffocate and Die</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:25:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Dean A. Garner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re the one of the youngest governments on the planet and yet we&#8217;ve managed to establish the US as a powerhouse worldwide in many areas. Don&#8217;t mind our decline in many of those areas, too; it&#8217;s a natural progression of neglect and a shift from democracy to socialism. The most important item to consider and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We&#8217;re the one of the youngest governments on the planet and yet we&#8217;ve managed to establish the US as a powerhouse worldwide in many areas. Don&#8217;t mind our decline in many of those areas, too; it&#8217;s a natural progression of neglect and a shift from democracy to socialism. The most important item to consider and keep in mind always is that the narrow window of democracy in America has shown that freedom produces a happy and prosperous people who invent and create and develop. Entrepreneurs are the backbone of our society. Along with their investors.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ll keep this short: the Brzezinski Cartel would do very very well if it shifted its goal of establishing a one-government planet of socialism and better developed democracy as the system of government, while investing heavily in entrepreneurs. Money is the key here, which will not be in abundance in a socialist society. Look at the old decrepit Soviet Union: it crumbled under its own weight of ignorance and foolishness, while the US thrived. For a while.</p>
<p>Yes, we&#8217;re crumbling under the weight of the Cartel&#8217;s stupidity and ignorance, as well, but we still have time to change this behavior. By investing in our own creativity and ingenuity, we will ensure our continued leadership, allowing us to evolve into a smarter and more efficient society. My wish for us is that Brzezinski et al. take a crash course in human evolution and behavior, not to mention neurochemistry, and learn that we humans function best of all when we&#8217;re free and happy, not bundled and oppressed and anxious.</p>
<p>Socialism may be here to stay, yes, but I say let&#8217;s confine it to the dictionary where it belongs. And as for Brzezinski? I&#8217;d deport him back to some socialist country that may appreciate his low-slung views on people and the world.</p>
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		<title>The Brzezinski Cartel: A House of Cards</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:53:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Dean A. Garner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The most prolific sociopaths remember alternate realities: all the lies they tell, to whom, when, where and sometimes why. The only truth is what they say the truth is, not what occurred in reality. Sociopaths have a better developed communications system between their cortex and primitive brain regions, allowing them to better manipulate behaviors to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The most prolific sociopaths remember alternate realities: all the lies they tell, to whom, when, where and sometimes why. The only truth is what they say the truth is, not what occurred in reality. Sociopaths have a better developed communications system between their cortex and primitive brain regions, allowing them to better manipulate behaviors to effect their goals. Successful sociopaths are those who integrate false feelings of passion and compassion in their daily interactions with normal people. We see their true behavioral core when they&#8217;re backed into a corner with no way out.</p>
<p>What is perhaps the most saddening con of our time, the grand manipulation of America, the UK, Europe and the developing world, has yet to hit the mainstream. Since the media are controlled by members of the under-corporations that are in turn controlled by the Brzezinski Cartel, you will never see it in the mainstream media outlets like the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, etc. Those newspapers, like the television broadcasters, are tightly controlled and only report on the horrific and mundane, just enough &#8220;real&#8221; news to retain a readership or an audience.</p>
<p>A House of Cards has been built by the Brzezinski Cartel: their system of twisted socialistic values simply will never work in this current society, where peace, freedom and democracy aren&#8217;t simply the norm, but an ingrained part of our DNA. While the Cartel has systematically been dismantling our freedoms over the past 150 or so years, Mother Nature ensures that there will be a terrific backlash against the tyrants of the Cartel, and their House of Cards will collapse soundlessly in a small heap of pulp.</p>
<p>I suggest that, when the dust has settled, we sweep up those cards, dump them in an incinerator, and spread the resulting ash over the ocean. Which ocean? Pick any one; they&#8217;ll appreciate the carbon.</p>
<p>No one can fool a great population for too long, esp. when that population is increasingly becoming hip to the misdeeds of its ruling party. And no one could&#8217;ve predicted how well the Internet would&#8217;ve enabled such communications to evolve, least of all the Brzezinski Cartel. As the world population gains access to the real story about the Cartel, more and more people will pass it on to those who care about their own freedom, about democracy, and a new movement will rise up, slowly and inexorably.</p>
<p>Take away the freedom of a few and maybe only a few people will hear about it. Take away the freedom of millions of Americans who&#8217;ve been raised on it and you millions not only will hear about it, but will join this growing movement of dissent until the boiling point is reached. Beyond that, anything goes.</p>
<p>I eagerly await the day when the boiling point is reached. . . .</p>
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		<title>Boar&#8217;s Head Sarasota Deli Provisions: Unacceptable Business Practices</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:35:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Dean A. Garner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 09 December 09 edition of the Ft. Myers News-Press features a story by Sam Cook about meat-processor/distributor Boar&#8217;s Head, based in my hometown of Sarasota, Florida. Bravo, Mr. Cook.
Normally I do not feature articles on local businesses unless I feel those companies are at least excellent. Today is a sad exception, but it&#8217;s necessary [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The 09 December 09 edition of the Ft. Myers <em>News-Press </em>features a story by Sam Cook about meat-processor/distributor Boar&#8217;s Head, based in my hometown of Sarasota, Florida. Bravo, Mr. Cook.</p>
<p>Normally I do not feature articles on local businesses unless I feel those companies are at least excellent. Today is a sad exception, but it&#8217;s necessary to expose Boar&#8217;s Head and its local distributor, Sarasota Deli Provisions, and their unacceptable business practices.</p>
<p>Mr. Cook reported: &#8220;the Sarasota-based company ran off customers at Topps Supermarket, The Sandy Butler Gourmet Market, Mario’s Italian Meat Market and City Deli by parking trucks in parking lots and entranceways.&#8221;</p>
<p>How could this happen?</p>
<p>Only Boar&#8217;s Head knows for sure, but the Ft. Myers businesses were hosting fundraising events for the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation, which is based in Dallas. Folks I talked with said Boar&#8217;s Head truckers intentionally blocked several entrances and occupied a dozen parking spaces in the parking lots of the markets, even though Boar&#8217;s Head does NOT do business with any of those markets. There&#8217;re even posted photographs of this bully-behavior.</p>
<p>One of the witnesses to Boar&#8217;s Head Sarasota Deli Provisions&#8217; antics was Mr. Steve Riley, marketing director of Dietz &amp; Watson, the Boar&#8217;s Head competitor that actually sponsored the events at each market. I asked Mr. Riley to share some of his views about it and his company&#8217;s involvement in this fundraising effort:</p>
<p><strong>How did D&amp;W become involved in this project with Susan G. Komen for Cure of SW Florida?</strong> We work with the Philadelphia chapter of Susan G. Komen for the Cure. They have chapters across the country and Philly is our hometown. We wanted to do some charity events to say thanks to the community that was serving as host for our national sales meeting and we know what a great organization Komen is.</p>
<p><strong>Has D&amp;W had unpleasant dealings with Boar’s Head in the past?</strong> Well, they are our competitor. An issue we have been talking about lately is Boar’s Head’s demand for deli case exclusivity in grocery chains. Deli case exclusivity reared its head again this summer in North Carolina where the Harris Teeter grocery chain was forced to tell its customers they could no longer choose to purchase popular Dietz &amp; Watson products. Why? Because they wanted to offer Boar’s Head as another choice. But consistent with Boar’s Head’s anti-choice approach, Boar’s Head wouldn’t allow a premium competitor to sell alongside them in the deli case. A Harris Teeter spokeswoman told a local newspaper that customers enjoyed Dietz &amp; Watson products, which she called “outstanding,” and that making the change was a “difficult decision.”</p>
<p>Public opinion in North Carolina was intense, and the media in Charlotte, including three network television stations, covered a consumer choice event Dietz &amp; Watson held in the city on Oct. 13. While Boar’s Head won’t even publicly acknowledge their exclusivity edict, executive editor of <em>Progressive Grocer</em>, a leading grocery trade magazine, wrote on August 3 that Boar’s Head’s longstanding all-or-nothing game plan is common knowledge in the industry.</p>
<p><strong>What specifically happened at each of the businesses where the fundraising took place?</strong> I was at the event in Port Charlotte. There, we were doing what we call the Deli Challenge at one of our accounts, City Deli, and also taking donations for Komen as well. We sample our products head-to-head against Boar’s Head products. Well, in rolled more than 35 Boar’s Head trucks. They parked in front of the store and also blocked traffic and parking. Then the Sarasota Boar’s Head distributor, Mr. Bob Fox, got out of the truck, along with many other of his drivers, and approached Dietz &amp; Watson employees who were setting up for the day. He kept saying things like “We want to do the Deli Challenge. We want to be a part of the Deli Challenge,” and getting right up in people&#8217;s faces. He told us they didn’t even have product on their trucks! So apparently they were not there to participate in any taste-testing but just there to intimidate. Finally the sheriff came and they [Mr. Fox and his employees] quickly left to go hit our other events in Fort Myers, which were strictly hot dog sales with 100% of proceeds going to the charity.</p>
<p><strong>How do you estimate the loss of funds raised at the events?</strong> We can’t really estimate that. I believe we raised more than $2,000, but our president and CEO Louis Eni wanted to make sure that Boar’s Head’s actions didn’t shortchange Susan G. Komen, so he is more than matching what was raised and giving a check to them for $5,000, and apologizing on behalf of Boar’s Head.</p>
<p><strong>Who at Boar’s Head instigated their show of force at the companies?</strong> We don’t know if Boar’s Head corporate approved this or not. We just know that Bob Fox of Sarasota Deli Provisions was the ring-leader in this incident. As Louis [Eni, CEO] said, “I can’t image that Bob Martin (Chairman and CEO of Boar’s Head) would sanction his distributors disrupting charity fundraising events.”</p>
<p><strong>Has D&amp;W called Boar’s Head to call them on their bad behavior? If so, what was said? If not, why?</strong> No. We call Boar’s Head a “marketing machine” and ourselves a family-owned business, which we are. At Dietz &amp; Watson, so much of our time is focused on creating the freshest, best-tasting deli meats and cheeses. Put simply, we don’t have time for these antics. One thing we will do is put our product up against theirs any and every day of  the week. That’s why we are pressing for consumer choice at grocery stores. We want the consumer to decide who is best.</p>
<p><strong>What is the Foundation’s reaction to Boar’s Head’s bad behavior?</strong> I spoke with Miriam Ross at Komen of SW Florida this a.m. She was shocked, and thankful that Dietz &amp; Watson was going to step up with the $5,000 donation.</p>
<p><strong>What do you feel should be done to punish Boar’s Head?</strong> This is certainly not Dietz &amp; Watson’s call. The public and retailers have the freedom of choice. This is one of the things that makes America great.</p>
<blockquote><p><span style="color: #0000ff;">All it takes for evil to prevail is for good people to do nothing.</span></p></blockquote>
<p>Boar&#8217;s Head&#8217;s childish tactics remind me of those 5th-grade bullies in the schoolyard. Remember those punks who used to take your lunch money, push you around, steal your backpack and books, sit in your designated seat? Intimidation works only when people allow it to work.</p>
<p>Shame on Boar&#8217;s Head Sarasota Deli Provisions and all the truckers and colleagues who took part in this pathetic show of pseudo-force.</p>
<p>The question now becomes: what are you going to do about it?</p>
<p>Me? I used to buy Boar&#8217;s Head meats at our local Publix Supermarket in town, and I&#8217;ll never do it again. Am I being unreasonable? Maybe. Do I feel better for it? Yes.</p>
<p>And I&#8217;m gonna sorely miss those delish Boar&#8217;s Head deli meats and cheeses. But if I broke down and featured them in one of my panini burritos or my wife&#8217;s worldclass Sunday hash, I&#8217;d heave a few times then throw up. I said something to this effect to the Boar&#8217;s Head rep on the phone:</p>
<p>Boar&#8217;s Head: 1819 Main Street, Suite 800 Sarasota, Florida 34236 (941) 955-0994 (888) 884-2627 (toll free)</p>
<p>Sarasota Deli Provisions 7025 Professional Pkwy E Sarasota, Florida 34240-8412 (941) 907-4192</p>
<p>Remember: all it takes for evil to prevail is for good people to do nothing. There&#8217;re many out there who couldn&#8217;t care less about Boar&#8217;s Head&#8217;s predatory business practices, and they&#8217;ll keep right on buying Boar&#8217;s Head meats, allowing evil to prevail.</p>
<p>Are you one of those people?</p>
<p>[Mr. Cook's original article appears here: <a href="http://www.news-press.com/article/20091209/COLUMNISTS02/91208062/1075/Boar-s-Head-tries-to-wreck-competitor-s-cancer-fundraiser-events">Ft. Myers News-Press</a>]</p>
<p>P.S. Publix is now going to be very happy: that 10 pounds of deli meat and cheese we buy each month will now be the Publix brand, not Boar&#8217;s Head.</p>
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		<title>The Brzezinski Cartel: Vis Consili Expers Mole Ruit Sua</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 05:15:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Dean A. Garner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Brzezinski Cartel (BC) of white bankers and industrialists will, by virtue of its abject brutality and egregious lack of wisdom and proper direction, collapse under its own weight of arrogance and stupidity.
It&#8217;s inevitable that the blunders over the past 100 years are still being repeated on a daily basis by a group of men [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Brzezinski Cartel (BC) of white bankers and industrialists will, by virtue of its abject brutality and egregious lack of wisdom and proper direction, collapse under its own weight of arrogance and stupidity.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s inevitable that the blunders over the past 100 years are still being repeated on a daily basis by a group of men who, by this time in their advancing years, should have a good handle on life and all things in it. But no, Brzezinski et al. clearly have not made a study of the evolutionary processes that govern life, including us lowly humans and our behaviors.</p>
<p>The second law of thermodynamics holds that entropy is always increasing, meaning that <em>random</em> events will occur more often with time. Since I do not believe in randomness&#8211;neither does the Universe&#8211;I&#8217;ll change this law a bit: non-randomness is always increasing, and since there is no such thing as randomness, then some measure of order, however small, is always being created, sought or reached in the Universe.</p>
<blockquote><p>Mother Nature finds a way. The Universe ensures this.</p></blockquote>
<p>When humans have tried (in vain) to suffocate the second law, i.e. attempted to contain something or prevent it from occurring, the results have always been disastrous. Always. The Universe&#8217;s proxy on this planet, Mother Nature and her process of evolution, always expressed her displeasure when the Laws of the Universe are violated. Whether humans have attempted to contain the forces within the atom or stifle the freedom of a race of people, the nonrandom Universal forces are in cahoots to prevent containment.</p>
<p>Mother Nature finds a way. The Universe ensures this.</p>
<p>Brzezinski et al. have over decades tried to contain the rights, freedoms, liberty of ordinary people to one end: domination of the planet under one Marxist-Socialist government with a small council of so-called leaders. Emphasis on so-called, as they are wealthy and &#8220;well-educated,&#8221; yet extremely ignorant of the consequences of their actions, plus they lack a healthful sense of self-awareness.</p>
<p>With each <em>victory</em>, the BC have moved closer to their own goal, while seemingly ignoring the gains of those they have oppressed. With each victory, the BC have also forced the inevitable: the rise of the oppressed, who have grown in strength, numbers and wisdom; so much that they now are a direct threat to the BC and its goal of bringing the entire world population under their domination. The BC has grossly underestimated the power of the elastic backlash of an oppressed people: when humans have been egregiously oppressed, they have risen up in a surprise rush to defeat their captors. Sadly, this has only happened after decades of considerable suffering by the oppressed, which form coalitions that seem to self-organize, band together in larger cohesive units and then storm the castle en masse.</p>
<blockquote><p>With each victory, the BC have moved closer to their own goal, while seemingly ignoring the gains of those they have oppressed.</p></blockquote>
<p>What these ignorant white men have seen over the century is the steady, firm and inexorable resistance of the people of the world&#8211;and ignored it. And as the BC reveals more of its plans and goals, the oppressed grow angrier and stronger. Imagine a large elastic rubber band being pulled back more and more, back to its fully cocked position, holding in its end pouch a small nuclear device. When the oppressed truly have had their fill of oppression by the BC, the rubber band will reach the end of its travel, pause for a moment at the cocked position, then invoke e = mc(squared).</p>
<p>The BC has either underestimated or not considered the glaring fact that America has been severely indoctrinated in the Founding Father&#8217;s concepts of peace, freedom, democracy, and the pursuit of happiness. People from all over the planet have flocked to our country to live the American Dream and to experience&#8211;there&#8217;s that word again&#8211;freedom. Even though we are a culture of slugs and lazies who are whipped on daytime TV, nighttime TV, Madison-Avenue advertising, McDonald&#8217;s, hotdogs, apple pie, we have never forgotten what freedom tastes like, smells like, looks like.</p>
<blockquote><p>The BC has either underestimated or not considered the glaring fact that America has been severely indoctrinated in the Founding Father&#8217;s concepts of peace, freedom, democracy, and the pursuit of happiness.</p></blockquote>
<p>We are a nation of free people who, even under the invisible thumb of the BC, know that life is better as a free man and woman than as a socialist slave. Polish-born Socialist Bzrezinski is immune to the ideals of Thomas Jefferson. Comrade Bzrezinski knows only of the poisoned soil of Socialism that inadequately nourished his shoddy root system from birth. He knows only of the strife, the pain and suffering of oppressed humans under a brutal regime. While he grew up in a relatively free society in Canada, that poisoned soil still clings inexorably to his frail and leaky roots.</p>
<p>The BC has failed in its attempt to contain China, Russia and Japan, all extremely aggressive and barbaric states. Their only option left is to form a Socialist government of the US, UK and European nations, in direct opposition to the Communist and post-Imperialist states. Or is it their only option?</p>
<p>To be continued. . . .</p>
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		<title>The US Army Grunt: Happy Thanksgiving to You, Mate!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 17:52:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Dean A. Garner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy Thanksgiving to the US Army Grunt: the man who slugs it out in the worst of weather, under the worst of conditions, for pay that will last 29 days, for those three divorces, children that hate you because of your absences, and for all the other million little things that you endure on behalf [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Happy Thanksgiving to the US Army Grunt: the man who slugs it out in the worst of weather, under the worst of conditions, for pay that will last 29 days, for those three divorces, children that hate you because of your absences, and for all the other million little things that you endure on behalf of a nation of people who thank you and praise every stupid little thing you do for us.</p>
<p>Thank you, Grunts.</p>
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		<title>The Evolutionary Chemistry of Power: How Good People Turn Bad</title>
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		<dc:creator>William Dean A. Garner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not enough of us listen to the egghead set. Even when they say stuff like, &#8220;Hey, we just sent two separate beams of protons in opposite directions at the same time! Isn&#8217;t that cool!? Woo hoo!&#8221;
Yes, it is cool. And woo-fucking-hoo, too! It&#8217;s also important, because it paves the way to smash protons into each [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Not enough of us listen to the egghead set. Even when they say stuff like, &#8220;Hey, we just sent two separate beams of protons in opposite directions at the same time! Isn&#8217;t that cool!? Woo hoo!&#8221;</p>
<p>Yes, it is cool. And woo-fucking-hoo, too! It&#8217;s also important, because it paves the way to smash protons into each other and hopefully generate some interesting and unknown subatomic particles that will reveal more about our own existence, the origin of Planet Earth and the Universe. Not only this, but also how we may harness the powers of the Universe.</p>
<p>Does anyone care?</p>
<p>Not really.</p>
<p>Why?</p>
<p>Only three of us in the audience took physics and high school and college. Everyone else took business and econ courses. So what&#8217;s the incentive to pay attention if it&#8217;s all Greek to you and you&#8217;ve been taught all your life that eggheads are dweebs and nerds and geeks, and we should lock them all up in a dungeon and let them out only on Halloween?</p>
<p>The Dark Ages were aptly named not because of the little ice age everyone was suffering in but because of something far more sinister: the dark, empty mindset of world leaders. More curious minds (read: would-be scientist types) were murdered in this period than in any other period in recorded human history. The leaders figured that if they killed off what they couldn&#8217;t comprehend, then whatever the murdered ones were trying to teach people about didn&#8217;t exist.</p>
<p>Physics and chemistry at that time didn&#8217;t exist in the minds of those leaders.</p>
<p>Oops, I was wrong: some employed alchemists to turn water into wine . . . and lead into gold. . . .</p>
<p>Curiously, though, the earth kept rotating, the magnetic field went right on shifting here and there, apples kept falling from trees. So I guess physics did exist back then. Maybe chemistry did, too, because ions kept swimming across ion channels inside people&#8217;s neurons, meats were catabolized to amino acids, blah blah blah.</p>
<blockquote><p><span style="color: #ff6600;">The Dark Ages were aptly named not because of the little ice age everyone was suffering in but because of something far more sinister: the dark, empty mindset of world leaders.</span></p></blockquote>
<p>Thankfully, and somewhat contrary to my introduction above, we now live in a more sophisticated world where people are at least somewhat familiar with what physics and chemistry are, how our bodies work, how we pollute our environment with toxins and peed-out hormones and spent antibiotics. At least the majority appreciate and respect science instead of shun it.</p>
<p>What most people do not yet comprehend is the fact that our own chemistry changes as we go through life, meet new people we love or hate, experience new things that arouse or frighten us, and as we get older, period. The chemistry of power is a little-understood discipline that encompasses biology, neurochemistry, biophysics, biochemistry, evolutionary biology, among others. Perhaps one of the most important areas of the chemistry of power is how chemistry changes subtly over time as a person rises in rank or importance and begins to influence more and more people, thus gaining more and more power, money and influence.</p>
<p>The fascinating and frightening evolution of an individual&#8217;s own brain chemistry can occur over a period of weeks and months, not the hundreds or even thousands of years that we might expect. Very striking changes occur almost immediately in which genes are expressed, proteins are produced, more testosterone is manufactured, the senses are heightened in preparation for the oncoming battle with rivals and younger challengers, the body&#8217;s immune system gears up to protect more vigilantly from invading viruses and bacteria and fungi, neurons make new connections with neighboring cells to store new memory traces that will aid in the battle, and thousands of additional shifts, alterations, transformations, changeovers, transmutations and still-unknown modifications.</p>
<p>Mother Evolution has prepared the leader for a different type of lifestyle: vigilance, aggression, quick reactions. Combat. Behaviors that accompany this serious change in a leader&#8217;s chemistry can be life-changing and threatening. What has been seen thus far are increases in aggression, poor snap judgments, alienation of previous friends and family, and the inexorable need to control every single item in that leader&#8217;s world.</p>
<p>A new-found sense of control is used to wield a never-before-seen power that makes all others stand at attention, cower in fear. When these new behaviors emerge, followers are drawn to the leader in curiosity and intrigue, admiration and fear.</p>
<p>We see the same neurochemical and physiological changes in lower vertebrates, for example, some fish: female cichlids who are subordinate to an alpha male that is suddenly killed by a predator (or removed by the giant hand of a researcher) will chemically become males within hours and one of the beta females then will fight off her rivals and become the alpha male. Yes, I hear the ignorante laughing and scoffing at this example, saying it couldn&#8217;t possibly be the same in humans, if occurring at all, even in those fish. Well, they&#8217;re sorta right: it&#8217;s not <em>exactly</em> how it happens it humans, but this type of chemistry and subsequent behavior does occur similarly in our fellow humans.</p>
<p>While Mother Evolution has blessed leaders with heightened awareness, it also has handicapped them with a severe decrease in basic thinking smarts and intel. In short, leaders are stupid and they do dumb things. Because they do not trust anyone beneath them, they seek only the council of their own kind. Dumb move, of course. And it becomes self-fulfilling, always sending them into a spinning chaos.</p>
<blockquote><p><span style="color: #ff6600;">Mother Evolution has prepared the leader for a different type of lifestyle: vigilance, aggression, quick reactions. Combat.</span></p></blockquote>
<p>We humans have an inexorable need to be cared for, stroked and cuddled. And we expect these behaviors from those who tower above us during our childhood. Sadly too, we also yearn for this treatment from strong adults in our life, those who appear smarter, more agile, stronger, more capable. Those we perceive as better leaders than we ever possibly could be.</p>
<p>And that&#8217;s where we make the biggest mistake of our lives: trusting a so-called leader to, well, <em>lead</em> the way to righteousness, safety and security, and maybe even prosperity. Unknown to us, though, our leaders couldn&#8217;t be more ill-equipped to do the job.</p>
<p>Take, for example, the people who currently run our planet: Chinese Communists, Russia, Japan and the Brzezinski Cartel. The last group runs the United States, Great Britain and Europe. I won&#8217;t delve into the high probability that extraterrestrials are among us now and actively influence politics. However, without even considering spying on any of the aforementioned entities, it&#8217;s easy to see how they have fared over the decades:</p>
<blockquote><p><span style="color: #ff6600;">As I look around me, I see total destruction of many habitats, pollution of waterways on a grand scale, consolidation of corporations to the point of gross monopoly, and our so-called leaders&#8217; callous indifference toward all the problems we&#8217;re seeing today.</span></p></blockquote>
<p>China is as polluted as ever. Their Communist government is a disaster. Its own people are sick of the government and would like to see a change to the type of government that promotes and supports freedom. While China owns nearly $1T dollars of US debt, it still has only so much leverage over the US and its policies. Its science and technology programs have contributed little to world science over the past 100 years. In fact, they&#8217;ve stolen most of what they have in science, medicine and high-tech.</p>
<p>Russia is still licking its wounds from its untimely demise in the late &#8217;80s and early &#8217;90s. Yes, there has been a gold rush by those opportunists who saw the future of oil and gas, but they&#8217;re few and far between. Russia&#8217;s main export is still arms. Along with China, it supplies the third-world countries of the world with the means to kill and maim each other. It contributes to science and high-tech in a minor way. You don&#8217;t see big-screen TVs coming out of Russia. Nor do you find Russian products on the shelves at Wal-Mart. But they&#8217;re so BIIIG! So how can this be, our not importing superior Russian goods and services? Because they&#8217;re substandard or nonexistent.</p>
<p>Japan invaded China two times over the past 110 years. They ripped off tons of Chinese gold that got them through most of the 20th century, but when the money ran out, their economy imploded for at least ten years. Japan attacked the US in 1941, thus bringing WW II to our doorstep. Japan&#8217;s imperialist mission was brought to a screaming and startling halt in 1945 during two separate days of horror, in which two atomic bombs were unceremoniously dropped on their heads. Since then, Japan&#8217;s use of China&#8217;s gold has propelled them into the 21st century well ahead of all others. Although they are number one in high-tech, their distrust of anything Gaijin, coupled with a general arrogance, keeps them from becoming true leaders on the world stage.</p>
<blockquote><p><span style="color: #ff6600;">Russia&#8217;s main export is still arms. Along with China, it supplies the third-world countries of the world with the means to kill and main each other.</span></p></blockquote>
<p>The Brzezenski Cartel (BC) is a decades-old group of bankers whose minions start and stop wars, manipulate the banking systems in many countries, try to overthrow and occupy countries, all for the greater good of those bankers and sons of kings. The Blue Bloods, they call themselves. I call them <em>cyanophiles</em>. Whenever I&#8217;m around a Blue Blood, I tell him that the only true blue bloods in the world are land and some marine arthropods, which have copper as the ultimate electron acceptor in the electron transport system of the mitochondria. Copper replaces iron in its &#8220;hemoglobin,&#8221; thus conferring the blue color of its blood. That remark always welds Blue Bloods&#8217; shoes to the floor. The BC doesn&#8217;t care a whit for science, technology or medicine. Its goal is to hoard all the money, not thinking about the day when its servants aren&#8217;t able to earn money any longer and contribute to the BC&#8217;s thirsty and lusty nature for more of the same: money. And while the BC hoards trillions in dollars and Pounds and Euros, the very infrastructure of its own country is sinking and falling and disintegrating at their very feet, and still they refuse to invest the necessary funds to re-build America, Great Britain and Europe, and thus ensuring their very survival. I refuse to think the BC wishes to see the demise of the world, therefore, their actions are maladaptive and clearly not working well to preserve their &#8220;investment.&#8221;</p>
<p>No, these so-called leaders of ours have been possessed by the demons of power. They&#8217;ve tasted it, smelled it and inhaled it, smeared it like warpaint on their faces and bodies, drunk it like grog, smoked it like Mary Jane, shot it like opium, shoved it up their asses like a New Age veggie enema. They continually ingest these demons in every conceivable way, so much so that they&#8217;re now unrecognizable as humans.</p>
<p>We can thank Mother Evolution for these significant changes in chemistry and behavior, and we also can castigate her for not conferring upon the rest of us the brass balls to do anything about our leaders.</p>
<blockquote><p><span style="color: #ff6600;">Whenever I&#8217;m around a Blue Blood, I tell him that the only true blue bloods in the world are land and some marine arthropods, which have copper as the ultimate electron acceptor in the electron transport system of the mitochondria.</span></p></blockquote>
<p>Perhaps the biggest shame of all is our not taking it upon ourselves to oust these leaders from power and try to install more reasonable ones, if that&#8217;s at all possible. Who might they be, these would-be saviors of Planet Earth? Start with a pool of non-political women who have been great mothers to at least two children who are good, well-adjusted kids. Moms are the coolest heads. Dads are idiots, so leave them at the door. Monitor the women&#8217;s chemistry for the changes I&#8217;ve alluded to above. Encourage and love and nurture these women-leaders, not unlike bees and ants do their queens. Why? It ensures the very successful survival of the species, not simply a perfunctory business-as-usual proposition. Ants and bees evolve with time to build bigger and better and stronger societies that work cooperatively and efficiently.</p>
<p>We must discard the current leadership and start anew.</p>
<p>As I look around me, I see total destruction of many habitats, pollution of waterways on a grand scale, consolidation of corporations to the point of gross monopoly, and our so-called leaders&#8217; callous indifference toward all the problems we&#8217;re seeing today.</p>
<p>When I think of our world leaders, I see spoiled 12 year olds on the schoolyard, hoarding the booty, beating up and bullying the rest of us, alienating anyone not of their cloth, showing egregious disrespect toward their teachers, refusing to play fair or participate in groups or join in team-building activities, and conferring among themselves about what to do next. My question to you is, how long can this behavior continue, before the rest of us rally against the Federal Reserve, Big Pharma, Big Union, Big Government and demand that we return this great country of ours to a true Republic, with peace, freedom and democracy?</p>
<p>The answer is simple: soon.</p>
<p>Mother Evolution has ensured that the <em>weak</em> shall grow in significant numbers, rise up against the so-called powerful minority, and overthrow them in a hail of fire and thunder.</p>
<p>And then the cycle starts all over again. But at least the little guy will have it good for about 100 years, until the chemistry of the followers-turned-leaders changes for the worst and produces a new breed of leader, maybe even worse than the previous ones.</p>
<p>This cycle of events is inevitable until one thing changes: the human genome. Which is why I place so much faith in <em>time</em>. With time, Mother Evolution will create for us a new default gene that produces proteins that support the favored behavior we so wish for: compassion. The day we are compassionate, and not selfish, by default is the day when leaders&#8217; chemistry will change for the better.</p>
<p>We have about another 10,000 to 100,000 years before we see any significant change in the human genome, unless the benevolent aliens out there care to accelerate the process. . . .</p>
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		<title>An Alien&#8217;s Letter to Planet Earth: Goodbye and Thank You</title>
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		<dc:creator>William Dean A. Garner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Planet Earth and all its Inhabitants,
My name in your English language is the equivalent of HighSong, which in my Vinokuk culture isn&#8217;t a real name but rather a sensation or feeling of tranquility. In my case, it stems from my habit of emitting very high-frequency chirps when excited. Those chirps, when of sufficient amplitude, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="color: #333333;">Dear Planet Earth and all its Inhabitants,</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">My name in your English language is the equivalent of </span><em><span style="color: #333333;">HighSong</span></em><span style="color: #333333;">, which in my Vinokuk culture isn&#8217;t a real name but rather a sensation or feeling of tranquility. In my case, it stems from my habit of emitting very high-frequency chirps when excited. Those chirps, when of sufficient amplitude, time and duration, form what you would call a song, as some have told me throughout my many years of existence.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">We have no real names where I exist, only the approximations of melodic sounds that represent each being. Since we are not burdened with billions of living beings on my space, there appear to be plenty of distinct melodic sounds to represent each of us.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">There are no real words in our language, no real lexicon like yours, only packets of information transfer that represent neural processes. These packets are called quantoretta and move about the black goo that you term dark matter, which binds every known entity in the Universe. While you humans postulate the existence of multiverses, this is utter nonsense. There is only one plane of existence, only one time and it is the Universe, an endless and boundless space of the black goo, with sufficient quantoretta to allow full communication no matter the distance between parties. Each quantoretto is capable of direct interaction with particles over a vast section of the Universe, hence the need for so few of these quantoretta.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">More than one billion years ago, my race of beings was established by an ancient group of beings that were dying off by the billions. Their planet had become overcrowded and filled with disease and pestilence. Their advanced technology was not enough to spare their species, though. Now their only remains are the few packets of genetic code that are now part of my race&#8217;s distinct genetic code, which is decidedly different from your simple and highly limited, two-stranded DNA. Our complex system of producing the building blocks of life provides not only for the production of proteins, but also supplementary fats and carbohydrates and additional chemicals that are of no use to you at this point in time, as you have not evolved sufficiently to appreciate their structure and use. If Planet Earth is a 2-bit system, my beings represent a 524K-bit system, capable of far greater things than you can imagine.</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="color: #993366;">More than one billion years ago, my race of Vinokuk was established by an ancient group of beings that were dying off by the billions.</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">Before the last band of those beings died, they left my beings with a detailed history of their existence and that of other beings. Throughout the Universe, there have been thousands of separate and distinct civilizations that have come and gone. Each, though, has left their genetic code behind and intact, allowing other advanced beings to use it to their benefit. In our example, my beings were fortunate to have inherited the genetic code of very advanced and benevolent beings whose existence failed because of a lack of balance of their extreme compassion with cold logic. Simply put, they were too kind and benevolent for their own good and thus they died out. In the Universe, extremes do not last more than 10,000 to 50,000 years. Your very existence as an extremely ignorant and dangerous culture is one example. Your word for it would be </span><em><span style="color: #333333;">thugish</span></em><span style="color: #333333;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">My race of beings&#8211;we&#8217;re not human, so let&#8217;s refer to us as Vinokuk, as we do not have a skin covering a body as you do. Our tissues appear to be evanescent and, to use an Earth analogy, smoky or cloudy. We appear as ghosts to you, going in and out of focus and shifting from transparent to translucent according to our current state that you call emotions.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">We Vinokuk have developed the most advanced system of science, medicine and technology in the known Universe, so much so that all other beings we know of model their cultures after ours, and even have spliced our genetic code into their own, thus creating highly advanced species for various purposes, not all of them good. For more than 750 million years, we have known the secrets of the humanoid brain and nervous system, and have successfully decoded every known chemical and physical process in the humanoid body.</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="color: #000080;">We Vinokuk have developed the most advanced system of science, medicine and technology in the known Universe, so much so that all other beings we know of model their cultures after ours, and even have spliced our genetic code into their own, thus creating highly advanced species for various purposes, not all of them good</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">Thus, we have charted the paths of every atom and molecule in your human body, and can now predict your every move, action, thought, chemical event, biophysical mechanism. In short, we have decoded the mysterious human brain. Unknown to you humans, though, it&#8217;s no mystery at all; just a conglomeration of ions, soft tissues, electricity and magnetism, and the behind-the-scenes work of subatomic particles, all performing in predictable concert. When we deciphered the humanoid genetic code and the workings of the humanoid brain, we then applied our knowledge to you humans and all the existing animals on Planet Earth. While you cannot comprehend this, you humans are inexorably locked in place with all other animate and inanimate objects on Planet Earth. You possess the age-old power to communicate and to some extent control all other beings via systematic manipulation of various quantoretta.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">The results of our own research into you humans have not been at all surprising: with the advent of your high-technology over the past 50 years, you have outpaced the natural course of evolution by hundreds of years. When this occurs, a humanoid species becomes too dependent on artificial technology and less in tune with the environment from whence you came. Out-of-touch reality is akin to being a robotic species. I do not castigate the robotic species, as we employ them as The Guardians on my space. I caution the lack of contact with your nature, a practice that has become all too prevalent in your culture. I have witnessed more humans coveting a can of Dr Pepper than their own human spouse.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">The only real revelation of note is Planet Earth&#8217;s moving to a global crisis of surface-temperature increase, the likes of which haven&#8217;t been seen on your planet for millions of years. Ironically, only your technology can save your existence, as you cannot change the Universal laws of physics, nor can at this point in your existence change the near-circular orbit of Planet Earth around your sun. My beings have chosen not to aid Planet Earth in any way whatsoever until humans destroy themselves. Only then will my beings come to Planet Earth to establish a new civilization. Some would call this callous and indifferent. We see it in much greater terms: Planet Earth has had its chance to evolve into a space of high beings and it has not. While this has been seen in other civilizations, we consider it an anomaly and thus must be destroyed.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">All to often in the Universe, a planet&#8217;s global ecosystem will go astray, as with humanoid and you humans, and must be destroyed. While my beings could easily destroy you all, we have chosen not to, and to simply allow your own nature to run its full course. We are eagerly awaiting your demise, however, as you humans have made every effort to squander all natural resources, destroy precious living habitats, kill or maim or imprison each other, covet or destroy the animals and lower life forms on Planet Earth. Your evolution is an example of one gone off course, and it must be righted somehow. Since my beings can see no way to right it, we will let you die off quickly.</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="color: #3366ff;">There is one important, if not extremely unlikely possibility here, although I confess that I have never witnessed it: Planet Earth can reverse its course of destruction by simply killing off its government and major corporate leaders</span><em><span style="color: #3366ff;"> in toto</span></em></span></span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">We have made careful observations about the leadership of Planet Earth, and have some rather mundane conclusions: the few beings who are now in charge are doing a horrendous job of stewardship: egregious selfishness and self-serving actions, crumbling infrastructure, bickering and infighting among leaders, lack of compassion for the less fortunate, loss of precious natural habitats on the planet, squandering of valuable resources in a vain attempt to consolidate them only for the chosen few, the leaders and their offspring. The leaders on Planet Earth have absolutely failed the planet and are directly responsible for its untimely demise. Were we to intercept Planet Earth&#8217;s collision course with destiny, we would first annihilate Planet Earth&#8217;s leadership. Destroy them and their bloodlines, which have systematically destroyed the planet over the millennia. We have discovered that it is always in a species&#8217; best interest to destroy maladaptive bloodlines, rather than gamble and leave them to evolve. </span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">There is one important, if not extremely unlikely, possibility here, although I confess that I have never witnessed the concept in any other civilization: Planet Earth can reverse its course of destruction by simply killing off its government and major corporate and industrial and banking leaders </span><em><span style="color: #333333;">in toto</span></em><span style="color: #333333;">, then appointing a true council of leaders of mixed race, benevolent intent, and high, thinking intelligence. </span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">It absolutely must begin with the total annihilation of every single existing leader in these categories. In the United States, this would mean the entire presidential administration, the Senate and House, the entire corrupt US government, the entire families of every leader in office today. Across the globe, it would man eradication and cleansing of every corporate figurehead and his executive council, and each of Earth&#8217;s billionaire industrialists and bankers. The human Soros come to mind, if only briefly. And let&#8217;s not forget Planet Earth&#8217;s largest and most prolific sociopathic entity, the World Bank and all its minions, and your grand puppeteer, Zbigniew Brzezinski, and his bloodline whom we would like to see skewered on a hot rod and served up over basmati rice.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">An interesting aside about this little insignificant human you call Brzezinski: 30 of your Earth years ago, I was assigned to monitor those humans who were the true foreign policy-makers on behalf of the United States. My devilish nature soon took over and, on more than one occasion, I casually sabotaged Brzezinski&#8217;s efforts. You do recall the imploded economy during President Carter&#8217;s administration, yes? And the fact it took ten of your Earth years to expel the Soviets from Afghanistan in the 1980s. During those times, Bzrezinski was furiously attempting to find those who thwarted his work, and he never did, although he had many people purged along the way. Once before I thought briefly of reducing him to ash, but decided against this little measure. I knew he would play a big role in the destruction of the United States and the world, and my move has played out nicely. Thank you, Comrade Brzezinski.</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="color: #ff6600;">All it takes for evil to prevail is for good people to do nothing</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">I realize there are many more of these destructive forces on Planet Earth, but I will not be bothered with them now. They soon will take their place in the Universe . . .  as recycled ash.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">While impossible on a human scale, this possibility I proffer above would mean starting from the beginning with good, strong, benevolent people as leaders, those with a good balance of benevolence and good, sound logic.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">Again, this is absolutely impossible for you humans, but I pose it to you out of fairness and accuracy in my reporting.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">I shall close now with the following adage that we still have imprinted within us as a reminder of the terrible mistakes of failed civilizations over the milennia: </span><em><span style="color: #333333;">All it takes for evil to prevail is for good people to do nothing.</span></em></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">It shall go without saying, Planet Earth, that you have allowed evil to prevail in your leadership for far too long. You certainly deserve the oncoming slaughter of your species, and my beings wholly welcome it.</span></p>
<p><em><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #333333;">Goodbye and thank you for the bounty you have bequeathed to us.</span></span></em></p>
<p><em><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #333333;">CHIRP! CHIRP! CHIRP!</span></span></em></p>
<p><em><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #333333;">Iylhamek,</span></span></em></p>
<p><em><span style="color: #333333;">HighSong of The Vinokuk</span></em></p>
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		<title>The Guide to Clinical Preventive Services 2009: Dangerous and Misleading</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:11:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Dean A. Garner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Women should have frequent full-body exams, including mammograms and Pap smears, at least once a year, especially those women in the 40-49 age group.
Anyone who advocates less than this is an idiot. Or a Socialist. Or Comrade Obama. Or the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF).
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Women should have frequent full-body exams, including mammograms and Pap smears, at least once a year, especially those women in the 40-49 age group.</p>
<p>Anyone who advocates less than this is an idiot. Or a Socialist. Or Comrade Obama. Or the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF).</p>
<p>The USPSTF states the following in <em>The Guide to Clinical Preventive Services 2009</em>:</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Helvetica;">In the trials that demonstrated the effectiveness of mammography in lowering breast cancer mortality, screening was performed every 12-33 months. For women aged 50 and older, there is little evidence to suggest that annual mammography is more effective than mammography done every other year. For women aged 40-49, available trials also have not reported a clear advantage of annual mammography over biennial mammography. Nevertheless, some experts recommend annual mammography based on the lower sensitivity of the test and on evidence that tumors grow more rapidly in this age group.</p>
<p>What it does not tell you is that the statement about women in the 40-49 age group is ambiguous at best, dangerous to many at worst:</p>
<p style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px;">For women aged 40-49, available trials also have not reported a clear advantage of annual mammography over biennial mammography.</p>
<p>While there may not be a &#8220;clear advantage&#8221; to women aged 40-49 having an annual mammography, it HAS clearly saved thousands of lives. And many of those women recently have come forth in the news to blast these recommendations, saying that they may have perished should they have NOT gotten that mammogram during their 40s.</p>
<blockquote><p><span style="color: #993366;">While there may not be a &#8220;clear advantage&#8221; to women aged 40-49 having an annual mammography, it HAS clearly saved thousands of lives.</span></p></blockquote>
<p>The report contradicts itself from one sentence to the next, when discussing the 40-49 age group:</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Helvetica;">Nevertheless, some experts recommend annual mammography based on the lower sensitivity of the test and on evidence that tumors grow more rapidly in this age group.</p>
<p><em>Tumors grow more rapidly in this age group.</em></p>
<p>We know this to be absolute fact, so why would Comrade Obama&#8217;s USPSTF recommend that women wait until age 50 to get a mammogram? To save money.</p>
<p>More than ever, because of the introduction of nanoparticles in many products that women (and men) use, these women need to monitor their health. We celebrate breast-cancer awareness with rallies and fund-raising galas and marches, all the while ignoring the culprits behind the production of these cancers and syndromes: Big Industry. Yes, there is a genetic component to a person&#8217;s disposition toward a particular disease. And this component should never be overlooked or underemphasized. In the USPSTF&#8217;s recommendations, they overlook the genetic component altogether:</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Helvetica;">The USPSTF did not examine whether women should be screened for genetic mutations (e.g., <em>BRCA1 </em>and <em>BRCA2</em>) that increase the risk for developing breast cancer, or whether women with genetic mutations might benefit from earlier or more frequent screening for breast cancer.</p>
<p>While I argue that the genetic component does not play as big a role as the environmental one, it should still be tested for and monitored throughout the life of a patient, especially those with a genetic history of breast cancer.</p>
<p>There is also an environmental cause that too should not be overlooked. Big Industry has been polluting the United States for more than 100 years, causing myriad diseases and maladies and syndromes. This isn&#8217;t hypothesis or theory. It&#8217;s absolute fact. Big Industry is the main cause of breast cancer in the United States and abroad. BI is protected by every major government on this planet because it generates Big Money for a chosen few. Just follow the money and you&#8217;ll see. . . .</p>
<p>Again, because we now live under a cloak of New Big Industry, with more frequency use of nanoparticles that easily penetrate many tissues and cells in our bodies and disrupt normal physiology, we all should be getting more frequent medical checkups.</p>
<p>Comrade Obama has shown us one very important fact about The Government of the United States of America: this is no democracy. Recall the &#8220;passage&#8221; of the Patriot Act. Recall the &#8220;passage&#8221; in the House of Comrade Obama&#8217;s so-called healthcare reform bill.</p>
<p>If Thomas Jefferson were alive today and in good health, he would call upon the Virginia Militia to dispatch Comrade Obama, and would do so without ceremony. One day, the Comrade would be here. The next, he&#8217;d be erased from the landscape, his atoms recycled in some corn field.</p>
<p>It will take a 21st-century Thomas Jefferson to deliver us from the evil that is Comrade Obama and his Socialist government. Since there are no candidates on the horizon, I suggest we all hang on for a wild ride down the evanescent rapids of pre-Socialism.</p>
<p>Oh, and don&#8217;t forget to get your annual mammogram, ladies, especially those of you aged 40 to 49.</p>
<p>In the immortal words of Spock, &#8220;Live long and prosper.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Potty Snippets: A Living Memoir, 95% of Which Might Be True</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:37:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Dean A. Garner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fuck it: I&#8217;ve decided to write a memoir online first, then publish it later when I have the time. Since I can&#8217;t decide on a proper title just yet, I&#8217;m calling this one Potty Snippets: A Living Memoir, 95% of Which Might Be True. Another title I have in mind is, Available Balance: -$19.59. It [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Fuck it: I&#8217;ve decided to write a memoir online first, then publish it later when I have the time. Since I can&#8217;t decide on a proper title just yet, I&#8217;m calling this one <em><strong>Potty Snippets: A Living Memoir, 95% of Which Might Be True</strong></em>. Another title I have in mind is, <em><strong>Available Balance: -$19.59</strong></em>. It sorta describes my ancient attitude toward money, although I have since had a few come-to-HeyZeus! moments about it. Money, that is.</p>
<p>A dear friend of mine, Jo May, from Cape Town, South Africa told me years ago I should write this thing, so now I am. The outline so far is about 50 pages, typed, single-spaced, so this baby is gonna be a big one. And to think that a memoir is only supposed to encompass a relatively short and memorable period in a person&#8217;s life. Well, hell, every waking moment of my life has been memorable. I can&#8217;t recall a dull moment in there anywhere. Never.</p>
<blockquote><p><span style="color: #008080;">Legend has it that I was kidnapped by my dad’s mom, an old country bitch with a temper like a snake that’d just swallowed a bushel of habaneros.</span></p></blockquote>
<p>Maybe I should just shut up and get on with it. Oh, forget that! I should tell you this: I started writing the outline to this thing in late 2007, then came to the year 1981 and I stopped like an electron at zero Kelvin: I had fallen in deep deep love with Alexandra Quarles in 1981. When I wrote a little more about my seeing and meeting her for the first time back then, I immediately looked her up and sent her an email. Fast-forward: 18 months later, we married in Key West, on July 1, 2009.</p>
<p>Now I really need to get on with this. I&#8217;ll post at least one little snippet, or chapter, a week until I finish or just get tired of doing this. In case you&#8217;re not sure what comprises a snippet, here&#8217;s a metric: 400 words or less, something to snicker at during a fast potty break in the middle of a hellish day.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">On the Lam with Gram</span></p>
<p>I was born in Laredo, Texas on Thanksgiving Day, 1959. Legend has it that I was kidnapped by my dad’s mom, an old country bitch with a temper like a snake that’d just swallowed a bushel of habaneros. <em>Mean</em> is a kind word for her. She hated my mom, and for good reason: my mom was beautiful, wild, exotic, intelligent, thinking, and just as nuts as my grandma. Grandma Garner wanted me to be raised all “proper” and not by some rabid she-wolf, so she kept me for a few weeks, whispering all sorts of backwoods southern mystical nothings (emphasis on nothing) into my ears each and every minute. Dunno how much of it stuck between my ears, but I do recall the thrill of being on the lam with Gram. At less than a year old, I was an outlaw on the run, hanging with Gram and the tumbleweeds. Damn sight better than being a Hell’s Angel.</p>
<p>Some weeks later, I was repatriated with my parents, pro’ly rescued by a highly seasoned Special Forces A team that had to shoot Gram between those lifeless, coal-black eyes. That’s the romantic side. The bare naked truth is that Gram turned me in to avoid a felony conviction and a long stretch in some dirt-floored prison in southern Nowhere USA. The real reason aside, I landed in Germany with my parents and lived for years on a lovely little farm in Wuschiem, a teeny-tiny village in central Germany, where the US military housed a billion dollars’ worth of ICBM missiles, all curiously aimed in the same direction—at Nikita Khrushchev’s head. I often wondered what Niki was aiming at our little farm. . . .</p>
<p>If you ever saw the movie <em>Babe</em>, then you saw my farm. We had pigs, chix, roosters, cows, eggs, potatoes, sauerkraut, milk and butter, all of which had legs of their own and I was the designated wrangler. Yup, I was trained at an early age to round up all the aforementioned critters for Opa and Oma, so Aunt Erna could cook the various meals of the day. I milked the cows and drank right off the tap—freshest drink in the known universe. I fed the chix and got chased around the farm by the three mean-ass patrolling roosters, all of whom reminded me of Gram.</p>
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		<title>A New Palestinian State: Israel Has One, Why Not Palestine?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:36:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Dean A. Garner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For two thousand years, there have been many attempts to create a Jewish state in Palestine. All to no avail. Even Napoleon laid down plans for it. So did countless others. . . .
Sometime in early 1945, a secret meeting was held with President Roosevelt, top Army generals and aides, plus a few staff personnel. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For two thousand years, there have been many attempts to create a Jewish state in Palestine. All to no avail. Even Napoleon laid down plans for it. So did countless others. . . .</p>
<p>Sometime in early 1945, a secret meeting was held with President Roosevelt, top Army generals and aides, plus a few staff personnel. All but one are now dead, and the surviving member is almost 100 years old. During that dark meeting, the question of where to put the new state of Israel was posed to the group. The first thought was to put the new state of Israel within the borders of Texas.</p>
<p>Yes, I said <em>Texas</em>, as in the Alamo where we got our asses handed to us by Mexican General Santa Ana. <em>Texas</em>, as in the land of the American Tortilla, that soft floury blanket that holds any variety of spiced beef, cheese and beans. Or just plain butter.</p>
<p>Everything&#8217;s big in Texas. Especially Israel. Or so they wished.</p>
<p>Can you imagine that: the new state of Israel being stationed in Texas? Israelis and Palestinians aren&#8217;t miscible. Imagine how it would&#8217;ve been with Israelis and Mexicans? Now there&#8217;s a quick detonation into WW III.</p>
<p>Yes, Texas was seriously considered by this committee of President Roosevelt and his military power brokers. For about five seconds. Actually, the idea was posed to Roosevelt a year before, and he politely declined.</p>
<p>While Roosevelt coveted the Jewish vote, he knew that Americans as a whole would never tolerate a Jewish state within our own borders, knowing how prejudiced Americans were. He also did not wish to piss off the British and violate the Balfour Declaration of 1917. Our beloved president knew that if he ruined the US&#8217;s relationship with the British and they got their asses kicked by Nazi Germany, he&#8217;d be obligated to bail them out, something he wished to avoid as it would&#8217;ve cost billions more dollars than it did just to be allies in WW II.</p>
<blockquote><p>Can you imagine that: the new state of Israel being stationed in Texas? Israelis and Palestinians aren&#8217;t miscible. Imagine how it would&#8217;ve been with Israelis and Mexicans? Now there&#8217;s a quick detonation into WW III.</p></blockquote>
<p>So, in the end, it was decided that Israel would have its own state, and it would reside in Palestine, which would be carved up like so much turkey. Actually, a good portion of that turkey did belong to Jews 2,000 years ago, but was unceremoniously ripped from them, only to have Arabs take over the Jewish homeland.</p>
<p>Israel now has its own state, albeit a fragile and unstable one. Why not Palestine? It took 2,000 years for the Jews to convince world powers that a state of its own would somehow benefit the world. How long will it take the world to realize the importance of a Palestinian state? How much more bloodshed will it take to show that it&#8217;s in the best interests of everyone to establish a stable and secure homeland for Palestinians?</p>
<p>Taking a page from its own history, Israel could do the right thing here and lobby the European Union favorably for the creation of a Palestinian state. It&#8217;s in its own best interests to do so. Now fighting for its own survival among its genetically similar Arab brothers and sisters, Israel can build goodwill among the very people who share its blood and uncertain future. No Israeli wishes to admit that he or she shares such close genetics with an &#8220;enemy,&#8221; but he and she will do themselves a great favor by cultivating a new line of thinking: establish a secure and stable state for their Palestinian neighbors. This gesture will go a long way to heal thousands of years of hatred among Arabs and Jews. If not in our lifetimes, then sometime in the future.</p>
<p>What pains me the most is that the real power here, the Rothschilds, will never Palestinians to have their own state. Never. . . .</p>
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		<title>The New Fast-Food Court</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:16:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Dean A. Garner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week, Japanese researchers revealed a robot that could learn to slice ham, break eggs, mix ingredients together and thus prepare an omelet. The video demonstration showed a technician physically moving the robot&#8217;s arms and hands the exact way it should during preparation of the omelet. Reminds me of mom doing that with me when I [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This week, Japanese researchers revealed a robot that could learn to slice ham, break eggs, mix ingredients together and thus prepare an omelet. The video demonstration showed a technician physically moving the robot&#8217;s arms and hands the exact way it should during preparation of the omelet. Reminds me of mom doing that with me when I was two. The results, though, were slightly different. Other researchers, too, have recently shown the ability of robots to &#8220;think&#8221; and &#8220;learn&#8221; from their handlers and cues in their environment.</p>
<p>As with everything else, it&#8217;s only a matter of time until iRobot bursts onto the scene, ready to do up omelets, cakes, laundry, the windows, and even sex with its owner. Imagine that: eschewing the blow-up Jenna Jamison doll for the &#8220;real thing,&#8221; equipped with . . . oh, heck, where was I?</p>
<p>Anyway, it&#8217;s not far off when we soon will have such enormous computing power in the hands of robots and small computers that life around us will then become nearly totally automated. Think about how life has changed for us over the past ten years: instead of going to the library to research a school paper, something that took a whole day, you now go on line and find nearly every reference you could ever wish for and then some, plus since Google is pirating everyone&#8217;s books over the past 500 years, you&#8217;ll find new and never-before-considered material for your paper. Remember how long it took to register your car? Thirty minutes to the DMV, 30 minutes in line at a government office, 10 minutes with the clerk, 30 minutes back home. More than an hour and a half. Now, you go on line and do it in less than five minutes. There&#8217;re a million examples.</p>
<blockquote><p>For felonies, you may have to be somewhere in person, in case the robot-bailiff needs to escort you to jail. Or inject you with a lethal cocktail.</p></blockquote>
<p>What we&#8217;ve yet to see, though, is the day when we go into court&#8211;The New Fast-Food Court&#8211;have the bailiff scan our submission card, then the &#8220;judge,&#8221; a robotic facsimile of the real thing, only smarter and faster and better, takes all of one second to come to a decision and spits it out. You pay your fine and be on your way. Oh, one thing, you do it all on line. Again. For felonies, you may have to be somewhere in person, in case the robot-bailiff needs to escort you to jail. Or inject you with a lethal cocktail. Your loved ones can watch via live video, while downing TV dinners and Supersized Cokes.</p>
<p>iRobot isn&#8217;t simply on the way, it&#8217;s here. Now. And it is in our evolutionary genes to allow it into our lives and to automate . . . everything. Remember the part about sex? No need for pain-in-the-ass males any longer! Ladies, your new robot comes with all the active sperm you could ever need. Don&#8217;t mind the fact that it&#8217;s all robotic nanosperm, equipped with the latest version of The New and Improved Human Genome. It&#8217;s for the greater good, darlin&#8217;.</p>
<p>If the nanosperm bothers you, rest easy: your robot comes with a variety of penis sizes, something for every mood, plenty to distract you while your Socialist president sells off your hard-won freedom, liberty and self-respect.</p>
<p>Is there a Hal on the horizon? Or a Sonny (robot from movie <em>iRobot</em>) who tries to protect Big Human from its own self-destruction? As someone said about Big American Banks: if they&#8217;re too big to fail, then they&#8217;re too big to exist.</p>
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		<title>The American Veteran: Silent Hero</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:54:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Dean A. Garner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The worst job in the world is everything a grunt does.
Being a grunt isn&#8217;t hard; it just sucks. And it sucks 24/7/365 for the duration of a tour.
Being a grunt is like serving in a medium-security prison: your time is never yours . . . the iron bars of your cell are only inches away, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The worst job in the world is everything a grunt does.</p>
<p>Being a grunt isn&#8217;t hard; it just sucks. And it sucks 24/7/365 for the duration of a tour.</p>
<p>Being a grunt is like serving in a medium-security prison: your time is never yours . . . the iron bars of your cell are only inches away, a grim reminder of your captivity . . . little pleasures&#8211;like cigarettes, M&amp;Ms, and the occasional decent meal&#8211;are mere distractions whose power lasts only as long as that cigarette, and serve only to remind you what you don&#8217;t have and usually can&#8217;t afford until that next Direct Deposit.</p>
<blockquote><p>Being a grunt isn&#8217;t hard; it just sucks.</p></blockquote>
<p>No one higher up tells you enough information about anything to stave off anxiety.</p>
<p>Your weapons, while supposed to be state-of-the-art technology, represent what is corrupt and lazy and shameful in America, and will crap out during any firefight that last longer than 10 minutes.</p>
<p>Pain is your best friend and follows you until the day you finally die.</p>
<p>Medical care is, well, it&#8217;s there if you wish to roll the dice, or be a lab rat in the DoD&#8217;s testing of its latest piece of high-tech medical hardware.</p>
<p>Women? That&#8217;s a concept that appears in a magazine or in your buddy&#8217;s nude pictures of his wife, the ones he passes around out of compassion for his sex-deprived buddies.</p>
<p>Freedom? It&#8217;s what we fight for, even in garrison, and never actually experience ourselves.</p>
<p>At least the boots never fell apart.</p>
<p>Thank you, Grunts.</p>
<p>Happy Veterans Day!</p>
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		<title>Nidal Malik Hasan: Some Overlooked Facts and Probabilities</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:56:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Dean A. Garner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[All it takes for evil to prevail is for good people to do nothing. . . .
I see this everywhere: good people witnessing bad things, not necessarily evil, and tuning them out, walking away, doing absolutely nothing. Why? The thinking is, if it doesn&#8217;t affect them, let it be someone else&#8217;s problem. Saving one&#8217;s own [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>All it takes for evil to prevail is for good people to do nothing. . . .</p>
<p>I see this everywhere: good people witnessing bad things, not necessarily evil, and tuning them out, walking away, doing absolutely nothing. Why? The thinking is, if it doesn&#8217;t affect them, let it be someone else&#8217;s problem. Saving one&#8217;s own ass is an evolutionary adaptation: it preserves the organism. But it does not ensure survival of the species as a whole. That&#8217;s why Mother Nature surreptitiously dropped a few vigilant ones into the mix: the whistleblowers, troublemakers, shit-disturbers, conspiracy theorists. We scoff at them from afar. But they&#8217;re the ones who report the wrongdoings.</p>
<p>Woodward and Bernstein would never have discovered Watergate without the continual leaks from FBI Deputy Director Mark Felton, Sr.</p>
<p>Public support for the Vietnam war significantly faded following the release of the Pentagon Papers by Daniel Ellsberg.</p>
<p>Bernie Madoff may have done even more damage had Harry Markopolos not alerted not only the SEC over a period of several years, but also many colleagues and their firms who ultimately chose not to invest with Madoff.</p>
<blockquote><p>All it takes for evil to prevail is for good people to do nothing. . . .</p></blockquote>
<p>Where were those brave souls when Nidal Hasan was undergoing his medical training at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS)? And where were they when he did his residency at Walter Reed? Where were they when he talked vociferously about the US&#8217;s fighting Muslims in Muslim countries?</p>
<p>How did Hasan slip through the cracks? He wanted to be a psychiatrist but couldn&#8217;t afford traditional medical school. It remains uncertain what his MCATs were, but it&#8217;s my guess that they were just enough to get him into the DoD&#8217;s med school, which is known in med-school circles as &#8220;not as competitive&#8221; as traditional medical schools. The DoD accepts less-qualified students to fill an urgent need for military doctors. And while traditional med students are being crushed by hundred-thousand-dollar-a-year tuitions, the DoD pays USUHS students to attend this second-rate medical school: about $4400 per month for a single student, plus gives them free tuition.</p>
<p>Hasan may have been one of those bottom-rung students who just qualified for medical training. What is known, though, is that he agreed to serve the mandatory seven years post-medical school in the US Army. He signed an oath to preserve and protect the Constitution of the United States, not as a Muslim but as an American.</p>
<p>It was seen early on that Hasan had problems with authority and in dealing with patients he saw. His professors and supervisors wrote less-than-stellar recommendations on his behalf, and let Hasan be someone else&#8217;s problem. Like cattle on a farm whose end results are meat and leather, DoD med students and military medical residents are herded from one facility to another, regardless of performance. They have to do such grievous harm before being shipped off to some other MOS (military occupational specialty) or job. That&#8217;s one reason why the US military has such lousy medical care: they get bottom-rung doctors, of which Hasan was one.</p>
<p>This man slipped through so many cracks in an already failed system that it redefined <em>idiocy</em>. Hasan should&#8217;ve been reprimanded many times during his short Army career. He should&#8217;ve been booted from his residency at Walter Reed. He should&#8217;ve been rejected by the admissions committee at USUHS.</p>
<p>Those people who allowed this man to continue with his studies and training consciously decided to cover their own asses and not report his unsatisfactory behavior. They consciously chose not to blow any whistles, lest they be reprimanded or fired for singling out a Muslim. Or perhaps an expensive DoD investment. Yes, the DoD makes it very difficult to fire its own healthcare workers. Very.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s how desperate they are. . . .</p>
<p>Ah, so many <em>should&#8217;ves</em>.</p>
<p>One final <em>should&#8217;ve</em>: someone who witnessed this man&#8217;s bad behavior <em>should&#8217;ve</em> come forward and demanded that those in power actually do something about it. Someone who cared enough about the system. About humanity. And who didn&#8217;t care whether the man was a Muslim or a Jew or a Catholic.</p>
<p>All it takes for evil to prevail is for good people to do nothing. . . .</p>
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		<title>Tranquil Impressionism</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:37:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Dean A. Garner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In December 2005, I bought a Yamaha synthesizer, hoping to create some deep-house tunes to soothe me. I found a few flavors I loved, but got stuck in one chord for days. After careful thought, I knew I could never create the kind of music I wanted, so I sold the synth and discovered iTunes [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In December 2005, I bought a Yamaha synthesizer, hoping to create some deep-house tunes to soothe me. I found a few flavors I loved, but got stuck in one chord for days. After careful thought, I knew I could never create the kind of music I wanted, so I sold the synth and discovered iTunes where I found more than what I dreamed of.</p>
<p>Filled with new eargasmic stuff to trip on, I then searched in vain for visual stimulation&#8211;artwork. There was absolutely nothing on the planet that satisfied that particular hunger, so I started painting things myself. Less than four years and 80 paintings later, I discovered something odd: I could paint. Granted, the stuff was mushy and sometimes undefinable, but to my most important &#8220;client&#8221; (me), it was cool. Initially, I took shots of the paintings, digitized each one, and emailed them to friends for Christmas and birthdays. People loved them.</p>
<p>In 2007, though, my wife Alex suggested I frame some of them and find a venue, so we shopped around a bit and eventually I was accepted to display at an art show at a local yacht club. The paintings were a big hit. With some. That&#8217;s not to say people didn&#8217;t go, &#8220;Wow!&#8221; all the time, but the mainstream had trouble with this new style. Soon after, I searched high and low for other like paintings, and found none. People just didn&#8217;t do mushy stuff like this.</p>
<p>Then it hit me: I needed to define this style, so I coined the term <em>Tranquil Impressionism</em>, based on a conversation with a friend at an art gallery in Naples, Florida. Nicola said, &#8220;Your work is very glorious and tranquil!&#8221;</p>
<p>And so a new genre was born.</p>
<p>Accepted? Well, maybe not quite yet. I&#8217;ve not splashed it on the art world at large just yet. We did, however, launch a website that features some of my work: <a href="http://tranquilimpressionism.com">TranquilImpressionism.com</a></p>
<p>In 2009, Alex once again suggested something I&#8217;d never do: produce large-format greeting cards from my paintings, so I did. You know how wonderful it is to be with someone so much smarter than I? A pleasure and an honor. We got the right envelopes and high-end packaging, then shopped them around a few places in town. They&#8217;re now for sale at several stores in Sarasota, Florida, with more on the way. Our next step is to create free-standing displays of different-sized cards and affordable poster prints. Hey, I&#8217;m no art snob: I&#8217;d love to have my stuff hanging in some 20-year-old student&#8217;s dorm room, especially if it changes her life for the better. The flip side? I also relish having more on display in high-end venues. With all the writing these days, I have so little time for this new venture.</p>
<p>So, about once a week I step into the studio and grab a few buckets of paint and a few brushes and scrapers and straws and a blow-dryer, put on some Maserati or Scenic or Tristeza, and do something I feel I was born to do: paint my soft, warm, mushy thoughts on a canvas.</p>
<p>For now, I hope you enjoy my little Six-Shooter below. And thank you very much for visiting!</p>
<p>Tashakor,</p>
<p>William Dean A. Garner</p>

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		<title>The Death of Curiosity</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 11:59:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Dean A. Garner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems absurd to think about it now, but what happens when that day come when we know everything? The human body, demystified. The earth, revealed. The universe, decoded. Everything is known.
Will knowing everything be the death of curiosity?
The past century: an explosion of revelations in science, medicine, physics, chemistry, economics. We split the atom [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It seems absurd to think about it now, but what happens when that day come when we know everything? The human body, demystified. The earth, revealed. The universe, decoded. Everything is known.</p>
<p>Will knowing everything be the death of curiosity?</p>
<p>The past century: an explosion of revelations in science, medicine, physics, chemistry, economics. We split the atom and ended a war with it. We saw inside the human body and discovered how to heal parts of it. We created new elements and molecules, and added whole new levels of science and technology. The entropy of a free-market society has created unprecedented wealth for a select few, unbelievable poverty for billions more.</p>
<p>Humans are soft-wired to be curious. It has killed some of us in the process of exploring and asking questions and demanding answers. As the bystanders witnessed the errors, they produced successful trials and unexpected results. We are designed to be curious, to explore our world, be it the oceans, the heavens and stars, or the human brain and body.</p>
<blockquote><p>Will knowing everything be the death of curiosity?</p></blockquote>
<p>Will there ever come a day when we know everything there is to know about . . . everything? As I think about the future, using the most dangerous tool available&#8211;the present&#8211;I wonder what that day will look like, when the last scientist answers the final question about the human mind: what does this do? And the answer is revealed in an instant. Does she then close up shop, head to the pub with the lads, and celebrate another business-as-usual event? Or does it, in itself, become the most striking Nobel moment in human history.</p>
<p>Will this be the death of curiosity? What will be left to ask? What will we then do, having discovered everything there is to know about everything. Will we simply then expound on and improve and change and then sit back and witness the results?</p>
<p>Thankfully, there will always be change, always new laws of physics to pass and implement. So there will always be something new to reveal, new questions to consider, new information to share with others. Always. Our Universe is a giant playroom with seemingly endless supplies of toys of every size, shape, color, texture, smell and taste. While I am using the &#8220;power of now&#8221; to consider this odd future, I also invoke the power of science fiction, i.e. crazy, unbridled thinking, in my queries. The very nature of nature means change, so I look forward not to a final day of discovery, but to an infinite series of new problems and dilemmas to solve.</p>
<p>The question then becomes: will there ever be enough time to discover it all?</p>
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		<title>Book Editor Agreement</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:24:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Dean A. Garner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Enclosed is a generic Book Editor-Client Agreement or Contract I&#8217;ve used over the years. It&#8217;s time for me to hang up my spurs so I&#8217;m sharing all my secrets with you. I wish you lotsa great work for many years to come!
William Dean A. Garner

William Dean A. Garner
The Super Editor
10231 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90212
Toll-free [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: left;">Enclosed is a generic Book Editor-Client Agreement or Contract I&#8217;ve used over the years. It&#8217;s time for me to hang up my spurs so I&#8217;m sharing all my secrets with you. I wish you lotsa great work for many years to come!</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">William Dean A. Garner</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">
<p align="center">William Dean A. Garner<br />
The Super Editor<br />
10231 Wilshire Blvd<br />
Los Angeles, CA 90212<br />
Toll-free tel 800.555.3842<br />
Email MisterEd@TheSuperEditor.com</p>
<p>Merry Christmas 2009</p>
<p>Ms. Wunnerful Client<br />
Los Angeles, CA</p>
<p>Dear Ms. Wunnerful Client:</p>
<p>Thank you for contracting me to perform a scorched-earth edit of your fiction manuscript, <em>The Accidental Adultress</em>, approximately 120,000 words.</p>
<p>The work entails my reading your manuscript and producing a 15-page evaluation of <em>The Accidental Adultress</em>, including but not limited to my impression of the characters and voice, overall story, style, pace, plot line and subplots, background and settings, mechanics (grammar and structure), and marketability in this current publishing market.</p>
<p>Please note that I am neither a publishing company nor a literary agent, and thus cannot guarantee that your work will be published. I am available on an hourly basis to advise you how to contact literary agents and publishers, should you require this service.</p>
<p>I make no promises about the marketability or salability of your work. My opinion is offered only to give you a good idea about how your work might perform in this current publishing climate.</p>
<p>You have agreed to pay me at a rate of $25.00/page of manuscript, which, for <em>The Accidental Adultress</em>, equates to $10,375, payable upon accepting this letter agreement. Please make your personal or bank check payable to <strong>The Super Editor</strong>. Work will commence shortly after your check clears our bank, depending on your position in the work queue.</p>
<p>I agree not to discuss any aspects of you or your project, <em>The Accidental Adultress</em>, with any party or entity whatsoever.</p>
<p>I am being contracted to edit <em>The Accidental Adultress</em>, and thus have no right to authorship or royalties of any kind, now or in the future.</p>
<p>This letter agreement is subject to the laws of the State of California.</p>
<p>You are free to terminate this agreement at any time during my reading or evaluation. I will calculate accurately how much work I have done up to that point, and subtract the balance of my fee and return it to you at the address listed when you sign this letter agreement. If, for any reason, I terminate this letter agreement, I will calculate my fee up to that point, and refund the balance to you.</p>
<p>This letter agreement commences upon your signing and dating it.</p>
<p>Please print two (2) copies of this letter agreement, return both signed copies to me at the address listed in the letterhead, along with your check for $10,375. I will return one signed copy to you.</p>
<p>Again, Ms. Wunnerful Client, thank you for your interest in me and my work. I look forward to working with you on <em>The Accidental Adultress</em>.</p>
<p>Sincerely,</p>
<p>William Dean A. Garner</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Ms. Wunnerful Client</span></p>
<p>Address:<br />
Phone(s)<br />
E-mail:</p>
<p>Signed:  ________________________________</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">William Dean A. Garner</span></p>
<p>10231 Wilshire Blvd<br />
Los Angeles, CA 9021<br />
E-mail: MisterEd@TheSuperEditor.com</p>
<p><em> </em></p>
<p>Signed:  ________________________________</p>
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		<title>Exopolitics: The New World Order</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:03:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Dean A. Garner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Animal Behavior]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Would you like to rule to world? Ever thought about what it takes to run a planet? Glad-handing with cool people of all stripe, wining and dining with the best and brightest minds&#8211;oh, and a few politicians, too&#8211;making policy for the rest of us to follow. Well, some of us.
What would you do if you [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Would you like to rule to world? Ever thought about what it takes to run a planet? Glad-handing with cool people of all stripe, wining and dining with the best and brightest minds&#8211;oh, and a few politicians, too&#8211;making policy for the rest of us to follow. Well, some of us.</p>
<p>What would you do if you were the Supreme Human in Charge of Earth (SHICE)? Could you handle the schedule, let alone the exposure and decision-making and time away from family and friends? You&#8217;d be living in what was previously a super-secret Air Force Space huttle-like aircraft when on earth, but then for the intragalactic and interglactic meetings, you&#8217;d climb aboard something otherworldly, indeed. I can&#8217;t say what it is, but it&#8217;s stationed in Dulce, New Mexico, where there&#8217;s a well-established inter-species space port of sorts.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s right, I said intragalactic. And inter-species. Sound science fiction to you? To most it is, so don&#8217;t be embarrassed. Others, though, have known for thousands of years. Why haven&#8217;t the rest of us been clued in? We have. We have simply chosen to ignore the facts. They&#8217;re all around us in one form or another. If you&#8217;re one who thinks some race of humans on this planet built the impressive structure at Puma Punku, Bolivia, then please stop reading this article. Now is good.</p>
<blockquote><p>The New World Order will include diplomacy with, yes, alien life forms. They&#8217;ve been among us for tens of thousands of years, if not longer, so they deserve a seat at the world table of politics.</p></blockquote>
<p>After more than 50 years of advanced technology, mostly designed and created by people the US kidnapped from the old Soviet Union and her satellites and Nazi Germany, the United States has enjoyed its position as the world leader in science, high-tech and medicine. China and India, trying to break free of their Third World status, make some of the most sophisticated electronics we use every day. Yet neither country developed any of the technology or know-how to build those advanced items; they simply got their marching orders from US corporations and cranked out thousands and millions of whatever was on the production list that week. I won&#8217;t go into what they do when the five-o&#8217;clock whistle blows (read: black market production). We&#8217;re lucky: the US has enjoyed being at the top of the high-tech food web for decades. And yet, compared to those who have visited us from beyond earth, we are woefully ancient in our studies of science, medicine and technology.</p>
<p>What would happen if some new species came along from the outer reaches of our galaxy or beyond and brought us a whole new world order? What would we do? How would we react? Who would be in charge? The SHICE dude? If it were one of the Clintons or even the free radical Obama, I&#8217;d call them the new-order SHICEsters. Silliness aside, how would this new world order actually work? After all, the world&#8217;s countries have largely been at odds or at war with each other for a million years. And in one smooth motion, they all suddenly gang together and form The New World Order, with SHICE dude in charge?</p>
<p>Doesn&#8217;t happen that way. We&#8217;re all still a bunch of separate and independent tribes, scattered across the globe, trying desperately to evolve into higher beings. It&#8217;s not going so well, according to Mother Evolution: we&#8217;ve still not conquered our gene(s) that code for all those proteins that give rise to the selfish behaviors we so blithely exhibit. Compassion isn&#8217;t written in our genes just yet, so tribes will still be warring for centuries, if not thousands of years to come.</p>
<p>Enough about evolution for a moment.</p>
<p>During the past 50 years, the world has been visited by alien life forms that have gotten closer and closer to revealing who they are and where they are from. Not just to those in power, but to all of us. Some in power have secretly been gathering all the information and intel about these beings that is now known, unfortunately, it has been almost impossible for all the corporate and bureaucratic red tape that&#8217;s tied them up for decades. Those large international corporations have denied even government officials from the highest office access  to sensitive files and information about alien visits to Planet Earth. Some in government have fought back, creating large powerful &#8220;think tanks&#8221; that are designed to step into the White House when the time is right.</p>
<p>Enter: Exopolitics.</p>
<p>The New World Order will include diplomacy with, yes, alien life forms. They&#8217;ve been among us for tens of thousands of years, if not longer, so they deserve a seat at the world table of politics. Many in our government right now are vying for positions at that table, so they can become the SHICE. How will they deal with aliens on political matters? What even encompasses &#8220;politics&#8221; with aliens? Do we charge them landing taxes each time they break through the troposphere and make a smoking hole in the ground somewhere? Do we exchange our puny technology with their vast knowledge of space and time travel? If you were the alien ambassador, would you trust Obama or Hillary Clinton with those secrets? Gawd, I shudder to think who would entrust such precious alien high-tech to those self-serving, idiot-human life forms. Give it to Jane Goodall or Greg Mortenson, whom we know would use the power for good, not evil.</p>
<p>Yet, these power mongers in the White House are pushing and shoving for spots at that Intergalactic Table of Animals and Aliens.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve just lost the rest of my mind. Pardon me while I take my leave to find it. Wait, there it is! [Points to a spot among the heavens, a cluster of stars far far away.]</p>
<p>Okay, I lied. I&#8217;m not done just yet.</p>
<p>If I were the SHICE dude, I&#8217;d ask the following questions of our alien sisters:</p>
<p>1. Where does water come from and how can we get an endless supply of it?</p>
<p>2. How can we effectively recycle our own precious resources, like water?</p>
<p>3. How do we quickly and effectively wean ourselves from oil?</p>
<p>4. How do we use nuclear energy safely and efficaciously?</p>
<p>5. Where do we store the nuclear waste, or better yet, what can we do with it? Recycle it somehow?</p>
<p>6. How do we speed up the evolution of molecular biology to create a species of robot that will do the laundry, the 96 windows in our home, scrub the deck outside once a week, feed Sable the dog, feed Mr. The Cat, and shave me head once a day?</p>
<p>7. How do we force Mother Evolution to rid the world of the selfish gene, thus banishing the Obamas and Clintons and Madoffs of this world to eternal hell?</p>
<p>8. How do we deal with the crisis of overpopulation without destroying the planet?</p>
<p>9. What kind of bomb can we drop on the Vatican so it destroys only Roman Catholicism and all its inherent evils?</p>
<p>10. How do we travel back into time?</p>
<p>11. How do we change events in the past?</p>
<p>12. Can we speed up time to get to the point where we know everything there is to know about the human brain and body?</p>
<p>13. How do we cure all the ills of the world?</p>
<p>14. Is there a way to harness enough energy at the tip of my finger so I can secretly POINT &amp; ZAP an evil someone into oblivion?</p>
<p>15. How do I live forever in a young, healthy mind and body?</p>
<p>16. How do I rid the universe of evil?</p>
<p>17. What is the chemical basis of evil?</p>
<p>18. Would you please stop abducting humans from our cities?</p>
<p>19. Do you mind paying landing taxes?</p>
<p>20. Will you take me for a ride across the Universe? Please please please?</p>
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		<title>Ghostwriter Agreement</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:58:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Dean A. Garner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is a generic Ghostwriter-Client Agreement or Contract that I&#8217;ve used over the years. Since I&#8217;m slowly working my way out of this business, I&#8217;m sharing all my secrets with you. Have fun with it. My wish for you is lots of great work!
Sincerely,
William Dean A. Garner
Me Cool Ghostwriter
1234 Pullman Lane
Beverly Hills, CA 90210
Phone: [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The following is a generic Ghostwriter-Client Agreement or Contract that I&#8217;ve used over the years. Since I&#8217;m slowly working my way out of this business, I&#8217;m sharing all my secrets with you. Have fun with it. My wish for you is lots of great work!</p>
<p>Sincerely,</p>
<p>William Dean A. Garner</p>
<h2 style="text-align: center;">Me Cool Ghostwriter<br />
1234 Pullman Lane<br />
Beverly Hills, CA 90210<br />
Phone: 800.555.5678<br />
E-mail: me@coolghostwriter.com</h2>
<p>DD MM YYYY</p>
<p>Mr. XXX<br />
1234 YYY Street<br />
New York, NY</p>
<p>Dear Mr. XXX:</p>
<p>Thank you for contracting me to perform ghostwriting and editing of a nonfiction book about you and your life, in the spirit of the following books:<br />
<em>Become a Better You</em> – Joel Osteen<br />
<em>Audacity of Hope</em> – Barack Obama<br />
<em>Kite Runner</em> – Khalid Husseini<br />
<em>The Success Principles </em>– Jack Canfield<br />
<em>Three Cups of Tea</em> – Greg Mortensen<br />
<em>The Alchemist</em> – Paul Coelho</p>
<p>With your full cooperation and guidance, I will design and produce a manuscript of approximately 100,000 words, based on you and your life experiences.  The final manuscript will be completed by December 31, 2010, barring any unforeseen delays.  I will do whatever it takes to ensure we are always on schedule and that we meet any deadlines set forth in this letter-agreement and other written or verbal agreements.</p>
<p>This end result of this book project will be to submit the manuscript to New York trade publishing houses, plus other prominent literary markets, e.g. Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, and Washington, DC. This also includes all reputable independent publishers.</p>
<p>If necessary, I will prepare a detailed marketing plan and then query via phone, email and/or in-person visits all major publishing houses (or literary agents). While I will make every effort to secure an excellent publisher on your behalf, I make no claims or guarantees that our manuscript will be accepted by a publishing house for publication or literary agent for representation.</p>
<p>My responsibilities will include, without limitation, ghostwriting, interviewing, conducting research (as needed), documented fact-checking, market research (other books in this category), generating drafts for your review and markup, redrafting of the manuscript as required, and final rendering of a commercially viable and excellently written manuscript that meets book publishing-industry standards.</p>
<p>If our project is terminated for any reason not due to my fault, then I will be entitled to a cancellation fee, according to the following schedule:</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">% Completion</span> <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Cancellation Fee (compensation)</span></p>
<p>25%                                                $75,000</p>
<p>50%                                                $150,000</p>
<p>75%                                                $225,000</p>
<p>100%                                              $300,000</p>
<p>This is a work-for-hire agreement, meaning that you own all intellectual-property rights to a manuscript and book we produce together. I irrevocably grant and assign to you all rights, title and interest, including all rights under copyright, trademark and patent law, worldwide, in and to the materials.</p>
<p><strong> </strong></p>
<p>You shall pay me a flat fee of $300,000 for the creation of a manuscript and additional editorial/agenting duties as outlined in paragraph 5 above. Fee will be remitted in the following manner: $150,000 upon signing this agreement, $75,000 for completion of the manuscript’s first draft, and $75,000 upon completion of the manuscript’s final draft, including editing and polishing.</p>
<p>I will be responsible for all additional work-related expenses, including travel, lodging, meals and transportation, unless you are able to arrange any travel, lodging, meals and transportation. The latter arrangements should be a first priority.</p>
<p>I shall keep in confidence and not disclose to any third party or entity, or use for my own benefit any confidential proprietary information from you without appropriate prior written authorization. Exceptions: I may allow a third-party editor hired by me at my own expense complete access to any manuscript produced by me for you. Any third-party editor hired by me shall be legally bound to the same restrictions regarding confidentiality as I am. I shall inform you of my decision to work with a third-party editor and of the duties undertaken by that editor.</p>
<p>All notices to me shall be sent to Me Cool Ghostwriter, Cool Ghostwriter LLC, 1234 Pullman Lane, Beverly Hills, CA 90210. Please do not attempt to send any faxes to me. Any documents can either be mailed to the above address or emailed to me at me@coolghostwriter.com. Phone calls may be made directly to my office, 800.555.5678.</p>
<p>This letter-agreement shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of the State of California. Any disputes between us shall be placed in mediation prior to any court proceedings. Mediation shall be in accordance with the laws of the State of California. All legal correspondence shall be addressed directly to my attorney, Mr. XYZ.</p>
<p>I promise not to compete with you or your ideas for this book project in any way whatsoever, and agree not to undertake any book project that is similar to your project for a period of two years after the completion of our book project. Similar means stories or materials about XYZ of any sort whatsoever.</p>
<p>I look forward to our long and fruitful association. And thank you once again for working with me on this exciting book project,</p>
<p>Sincerely,</p>
<p>Me Cool Ghostwriter</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">[Client Name]</span><br />
Address:<br />
Phone(s):<br />
E-mail:</p>
<p>Signed:  ________________________________</p>
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<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">[Ghostwriter            Name]</span><br />
Address:<br />
Cool Ghostwriter LLC<br />
1234 Pullman Lane<br />
Beverly Hills, CA 90210<br />
Phone: 800.555.5678<br />
E-mail: me@coolghostwriter.com</p>
<p>Signed:  ________________________________</p>
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		<title>Scientific Fact: Fox News is 53.7% Useless Noise</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:05:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Dean A. Garner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over a three-day period, I recorded Fox News in the morning over a span of five minutes, during which it featured at least three members of the news team. To be accurate in my assessment of Fox News, I used a spectrum analyzer to tease apart the various voice frequencies and came upon an interesting [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Over a three-day period, I recorded Fox News in the morning over a span of five minutes, during which it featured at least three members of the news team. To be accurate in my assessment of Fox News, I used a spectrum analyzer to tease apart the various voice frequencies and came upon an interesting fact: 46.3% of the time, separate and independent voice prints could be discerned among the members of the news team, suggesting that each was contributing news or opinion (or something) in a separate and independent manner. The remainder of the time, though, I recorded overlapping frequencies of all members of the news team, suggesting that they were all stepping on each other&#8217;s news and opinion (and something).</p>
<p>Unfortunately, it is difficult for the human ear to tease apart separate and independent voices when others are overlapping and are of equal or greater magnitude.</p>
<p>In short, Fox News reported news or opinion (or something) less than 50% of the time over a period of five minutes on three separate days, suggesting they&#8217;re wasting our precious minutes approximately half the time. During this study period, they broadcast 53.7% useless noise.</p>
<p>The average American earns about $25 an hour, which equates to 42 cents per minute. Fox News has an approximate viewership of 2 millions households each morning, each with approximately 1.37 average wage earners. During this study period, Fox News wasted approximately $17 million dollars of American&#8217;s hard-earned pay, i.e. those who were hoping and wishing for real news and information.</p>
<p>On a daily basis, Fox News wastes about . . . well, you can do the math on that one.</p>
<p>Of course, everything I just said might be wrong.</p>
<p>But I doubt it. . . .</p>
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		<title>Richard C. Holbrooke: An Open Letter to You, Homes</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:35:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Dean A. Garner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Mr. Holbrooke:
I&#8217;ve read with great dismay your handling of the Matthew Hoh Affair. Here&#8217;s my take, something I shared recently with friends in Afghanistan, those who really know what&#8217;s going on there:
&#8220;We’re all going YAWN. The silly media manipulate what people should read and hear. I think they feel we’re too stupid to think [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dear Mr. Holbrooke:</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve read with great dismay your handling of the <em>Matthew Hoh Affair</em>. Here&#8217;s my take, something I shared recently with friends in Afghanistan, those who really know what&#8217;s going on there:</p>
<p>&#8220;We’re all going YAWN. The silly media manipulate what people should read and hear. I think they feel we’re too stupid to think for ourselves, and the parents among us are saying what I already told you earlier about this whiny guy.</p>
<p>Put him in the corner for a time-out. But, no, the administration coddles him like a spoiled brat and puts bows and ribbons in his hair and dances him around like a showdog.</p>
<p>It’s disgusting how this toxic parent treats its children. . . .&#8221;</p>
<p>Sincerely,</p>
<p>William Dean A. Garner</p>
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		<title>Freedom, Redefined by Comrade Obama</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 22:13:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Dean A. Garner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Freedom has been redefined by Socialist President, Comrade Obama: FREE-radical DOMination, meaning that the &#8220;free radical&#8221; Obama, i.e. the man who oxidizes our freedoms, is out to dominate the world with his socialist agenda.
STOP FREE-radical DOMination Now Before It Oxidizes You, Too. . . .
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Freedom has been redefined by Socialist President, Comrade Obama: FREE-radical DOMination, meaning that the &#8220;free radical&#8221; Obama, i.e. the man who oxidizes our freedoms, is out to dominate the world with his socialist agenda.</p>
<p>STOP FREE-radical DOMination Now Before It Oxidizes You, Too. . . .</p>
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		<title>The Oxidation of Freedom by the Free Radical Obama</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:22:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Dean A. Garner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[More beautiful than a buckeyball, as evanescent as a carbene molecule, FREEDOM is the rarest molecular structure in the Universe.
It requires a continuous struggle against the inexorable forces of chaos, a neverending fight against the demons of entropy, and a day in-day out battle against evil itself&#8211;those who oppose freedom.
The Free Radical, Comrade Obama, is [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>More beautiful than a buckeyball, as evanescent as a carbene molecule, FREEDOM is the rarest molecular structure in the Universe.</p>
<p>It requires a continuous struggle against the inexorable forces of chaos, a neverending fight against the demons of entropy, and a day in-day out battle against evil itself&#8211;those who oppose freedom.</p>
<p>The Free Radical, Comrade Obama, is now about to sign away Americans&#8217; hard-fought freedom&#8211;literally&#8211;by penning his name to a treaty that seeks to tackle global climate change. While I agree with the premise of the argument, reversing climate change to a stable point that ensures the safety of this planet, there&#8217;re so many other hidden agendas in the treaty that make it absolutely vile and worthless.</p>
<p>Comrade Obama&#8217;s signing will essentially oxidize freedom to the point it is no longer a recognizable entity, something that has taken billions of years to develop. And in one fell swoop, this dangerous little animal is reducing freedom to it&#8217;s constituent atomic and subatomic parts. Read: killing freedom as a concept and leaving Americans with a socialist system not unlike that of old Communist Russia&#8217;s. Or worse, France&#8217;s, for goodness&#8217; sake.</p>
<blockquote><p>This finance should come from the payment of the adaptation debt by developed country Parties and be based principally on public-sector funding</p></blockquote>
<p>The treaty under fire is the <em>United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change</em>, which seeks to supercede our beloved US Constitution. There&#8217;re only a few rare instances in which another document can do so, and they&#8217;re written into the Constitution: Article VI, paragraph 2:</p>
<p>This Constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every state shall be bound thereby, anything in the Constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding.</p>
<p>While it has yet to be fully legally determined, this treaty is poised to oxidize the freedom of ALL US citizens. In short, it will strip us of all those freedoms we have fought and struggled so hard for over the last 250 years. And for what?</p>
<p>Money.</p>
<p>In the treaty, if you have time to read the working draft, the final 30% is fully devoted to how we taxpayers will fund this misconceived demon, who will receive our hard-earned money, and all the dire consequences that follow non-compliance. They want us to pay 0.7% of our entire GDP to fund this effort. Here&#8217;s a snippet:</p>
<p><!--StartFragment--><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, Verdana, Arial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[This finance should come from the payment of the adaptation debt by developed country Parties and be based principally on public-sector funding, while other alternative sources could be considered.] [[Sources of new and additional financial support for adaptation] [Financial resources of the “Convention Adaptation Fund”] [may] [shall] include: (a) [Assessed contributions [of at least 0.7% of the annual GDP of developed country Parties] [from developed country Parties and other developed Parties included in Annex II to the Convention] [taking into account historical contribution to concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere];]</span></span></span></p>
<p>It&#8217;s absolutely IMPOSSIBLE to make the changes this treaty is proposing, so it tells me that the only real goal in our lifetime is to extort money from all of those who violate the terms of the treaty. That means, my fellow Americans, that you and I will be paying hefty taxes for the rest of our lives to the Socialist Government of the United States which, in turn, will hand over that money to disadvantaged nations. In no part of the treaty do we see wording that mandates to these accepting nations HOW they will spend our money. They will simply be guaranteed of receiving it. Sounds like welfare, huh?</p>
<p>This coming phenomenon is no joke. It&#8217;s not a hypothesis. It&#8217;s not a theory. It&#8217;s absolute fact.</p>
<p>Well, I guess I&#8217;ll hafta invoke my adage: the best revenge, if you must have it, is success . . . and making more money!</p>
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		<title>Books! Books! Books! Who&#8217;s Qualified to Set the &#8220;Right&#8221; Price?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:08:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Dean A. Garner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s a good book worth to you? Thirty dollars? Ten dollars? A buck? When you read a great novel or work of nonfiction, do you consider what the author slaved through to share her thoughts with you, to edit and polish her best work so you could enjoy 15 hours of entertainment? Do you care [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What&#8217;s a good book worth to you? Thirty dollars? Ten dollars? A buck? When you read a great novel or work of nonfiction, do you consider what the author slaved through to share her thoughts with you, to edit and polish her best work so you could enjoy 15 hours of entertainment? Do you care that she invested 1,000 hours of her valuable life in it and now has a mortgage and a dozen bills to pay?</p>
<p>Probably not.</p>
<p>And it&#8217;s not that we don&#8217;t value the wizards behind the black curtains of our entertainment. We don&#8217;t know any better. We haven&#8217;t been taught to appreciate the work of others and to value it for what it is, to respect the fact that another human being like us painted a masterpiece of thoughts, ideas, beliefs. We are ignorant of so many little details that make up the fabric of our society, and there&#8217;re very few people out there who are willing to show us the path. What do you want them to do, write a book about it?</p>
<p>A recent news article highlighted the plight of those behind the books&#8211;the New York trade book publishers. They&#8217;re complaining that Wal-Mart and Amazon and Target are all trying to undercut each other in pricing books. It&#8217;s no big deal for Wal-Mart or Target to sell a book 80% below its list value, because it&#8217;ll easily make up the loss in another department. Amazon, too, has ways of recouping losses on bestselling books by selling hundreds of thousands of other, perhaps lesser-known, books. Clearly, these retailers see books as a commodity, something to be sold at the highest price possible, unless of course you&#8217;re in a price-cutting war with the competition.</p>
<blockquote><p>If a book publisher truly values its authors&#8217; works, then it will sell them at high prices, even to retailers.</p></blockquote>
<p>The question then becomes: who is qualified to set the &#8220;right&#8221; price for a great book? Simply put, if people do not place value on an object, regardless of whether the next Rembrandt created it, then it&#8217;s practically worthless. That author described above is then laboring for love of her craft, not for the adulation of her fans and followers.</p>
<p>Is it then appropriate for publishers to cry foul when the retailers to whom they sell these books at half the list price end up selling those books at well below list? After all, didn&#8217;t the publisher immediately cut its own author off at her knees by halving the price of her book to the retailers? And then this very publisher says, “I don’t think it’s a good thing for books to be perceived to be low-value items,” said David Young, chief executive of Hachette Book Group, Mr. [James] Patterson’s publisher. “A hell of a lot goes into the creation of a book or a career of a writer, and to have our top products savagely discounted is not good for the long-term health of our business.” [excerpted from <em>In Book-Pricing Battle, How Long Can They Go?</em> in <em>New York Times</em>, October 21, 2009]</p>
<p>It&#8217;s the <em>publishers</em> who have all the right stuff to set the &#8220;right&#8221; book prices, not retailers. If a book publisher truly values its authors&#8217; works, then it will sell them at high prices, even to retailers, some of whom will be forced to pay a premium for excellent work and then in turn sell it for a premium-plus. Fact is, publishers earn more than 95% of the list price of a book, so they&#8217;re not the losers here; authors are. Yet, some publishers feel compelled to speak out against low price-selling books by Amazon and Target and the like; it&#8217;s an affected behavior, not genuine. When you examine their argument you&#8217;ll see it&#8217;s little more than warm air. Emphasis on <em>warm</em>.</p>
<p>Shame on those New York trade publishing companies for undercutting their authors, then complaining that retailers are setting too-low a price for a work of art.</p>
<p>[UPDATE: 23Oct09]</p>
<p>The American Booksellers Association (ABA), which represents independent booksellers across the US, sent a letter to the Justice Department, asking it to investigate the &#8220;predatory pricing&#8221; of Amazon.com, Target and Wal-Mart.</p>
<p>Good grief. The ABA is a wimpy group. They should be screaming at the publishers who are responsible for setting all this pricing in motion. My suggestion? For a book that lists for $29.95, publishers should sell it for $25.00, forcing booksellers&#8211;whether they&#8217;re a Wal-Mart or a mom-and-pop bookshop&#8211;in turn to sell it for no more than the list price. Again, it&#8217;s the publishers who are to blame here, not the Amazons and Targets.</p>
<p>This whole argument reminds me of the breast-cancer debate: the very people who <em>cause</em> breast cancer in this country&#8211;Big Polluters of Industry&#8211;are never held accountable for their gross misdeeds. Instead, people form groups to <em>raise awareness</em> about breast cancer and to <em>fight</em> this insidious disease, without ever confronting the very cause of it all. Again, very wimpy and Casper Milquetoasty.</p>
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		<title>Obama on Climate Change: &#8220;As Your New God, I Shall Change the Laws of Physics!&#8221;</title>
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