Welcome Back, Crater

Posted on August 24, 2009 by ehurst

Back when I first started learning Linux and BSD, I went through a series of cranky machines, mostly used in part or in whole. I began giving them names based on some previous theme I had back in the military, using names to suggest noises and such. My first real usable box was named thud. A laptop was snap, and there was a crunch, wham, and bam.

Then my wife decided to replace her cranky old Pavilion with something better. Frankly, that 1.8Ghz Celeron was the fastest thing I ever used. Back in those days, I named it crater. I finally had enough income to build one, then eventually traded up to an even faster dual-core 64. I gave crater to my son. He used it some for a while, then we recently traded him up one, and I got the old Pavilion back after three years away.

Since then I’ve changed themes to something more subtle and religious. I’ve named it now rest, to offset the Inspiron laptop named journey. Yeah, my Konsole prompt says, ed@rest>.

It took a few tries to find a usable Linux. I knew FreeBSD would work, because that was the last thing I had put on it before my son insisted on XP. But I wanted to see if there was anything that could still identify the strange hardware and behavior of this cranky old HP. CentOS insisted it could go into hibernate, which didn’t work out well. Neither Etch nor Lenny would install, locking up on the package installation. Nothing in openSUSE would work, either. I kept getting a plain console installation. Most everything choked on the Intel 855G graphics chipset.

Finally, I got Kubuntu 8.04 to work. That’s what I’m using right now, and I was delighted to find it had been bumped up to KDE 3.5.10. It’s working fine, and I get to keep this for awhile.

Resting in the old crater….

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Your Next New Government

Posted on August 23, 2009 by ehurst

Okay, we have had a really bad time with that king and his minions in the assembly. Fat lot of good that thing was made His Majesty give up some power; he just got more people to agree with him about oppressing us. So let’s do away with inherited titles and such, and make the government rest entirely upon the consent of the governed.

Now, we have to separate out the judicial, legislative and executive. And we really shouldn’t make it too easily manipulated by the winds of daily fashion, so we’ll make the offices stable, splitting the legislative between a popular one and a state one. And make sure all the states can get together and change things if they try really hard. The executive we’ll screen behind a bunch of electors who can change their minds, but probably won’t. Then we’ll make the executive choose the judicial, and the legislative has to okay it. Checks-n-balances, you see.

Oh, wait. We got an executive which lies to the people and creates a false impression of things. Well, that’s okay, we have the other two branches. No, he picks the judges and lies to the legislative about them. And now the legislative has been hijacked by moneyed interests and are lying to the people, too. And parties own the process and won’t let anyone in who isn’t part of their system.

Wow. We went from a single point of failure to a broad coalition of multiple points of failure. Used to you only had to take out a small handful of powerful oppressors, but now we have a million of them getting paid out of the same corrupt system.

Do we need a new paradigm? Because wiping out the big bunch while keeping the same ideals will only bring back a new corrupt army of rulers, rather like the ones we have now. Yep. How about a government which simply can’t get away from the people they have to rule? How about one that has to face them and their concerns every day, and can’t go away and hide behind vestments of office to shut them out? How about a government most likely to love you? Yes, it’s always possible someone won’t really love you, just pretend, but if they are within arm’s reach, it’s pretty hard to deceive you always. How about a government that is strictly family?

I call it Primitive Tribal politics. I found it in the Bible, as the design God used for His people.

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CentOS 5.3 and ath5k

Posted on August 22, 2009 by ehurst

For a time I ran Etch on my Inspiron 4100 because I kept having trouble with my wifi card on CentOS. While the Backports site offered a recent kernel for Etch, I missed the RedHat world very much. After doing some research, chasing different references, I found there was a solution. After reinstalling CentOS 5.3, I then added a testing kernel, and it worked much better.

The old kernel (2.6.18-128 series and previous) would all attempt to load the driver. The latest update would load the ath5k module and work fine, but then would hang when breaking down the interface. Not only did it require a full reboot, but it was necessary to kill the machine to get the kernel to completely shut down. According to the CentOS Wiki page for Wireless, this was an acknowledged problem. I found the bugzilla discussion about this, but no solution was posted on that list. Finally, I ran across a reference to some testing kernels built specifically against CentOS 5. I chose the latest (kernel-2.6.18-162), but installed it alongside the official released, instead of as an upgrade. It worked without a hitch.

Apparently the next release (5.4) will include something later as upgrade, but it’s good to know this, at least, has already been fixed.

Card: Netgear WG511T with Atheros AR2414 chip (AKA AR5212).

Update: Now, a month later, CentOS/RedHat released a later kernel (2.6.18-164.el5) as part of the standard update, and it works just fine for this chipset.

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World Upside Down

Posted on August 22, 2009 by ehurst

It is no longer hyperbole to suggest the federal government of the U.S.A., and many state governments therein, have surrendered any claim on legitimacy.

Where do I find words to say this? At this point, I’m either preaching to the choir, or you will surely find me utterly deluded. I often wonder how the fundamental nature of reality shifted without me noticing. People who hold offices of government authority are now remaking the Universe simply by insisting a lie is truth, and truth is a lie. They are usurping God’s throne as Creator, presuming to exercise divine fiat.

In our human minds, we realize there are anecdotes. Lump enough of them together and you have cause for asking questions. When you get enough anecdotes, you have a trend. A strong trend becomes justification for full assertions, such as my first sentence above.

What kind of people are we putting into these roles of authority? How did we get to the place where actual innocence means nothing in a court of law? How did we come to the place where bureaucrats are permitted to twist reality, and judges simply sign off on it? Where court officials can simply lie outright, knowing it will not impede their work if anyone notices?

As a young man, I often shook my head at the wild and crazy statements made by flakes who were arrested, saying God told them the court was wrong. Now I’m finding those disheveled souls were telling the truth, and the folks wearing fine suits were the flakes. The essential assumption behind our Constitution and similar state documents, which leans on the facts and certain verities of human existence, can no longer stand.

How do you respond to that? What happens when you are confronted by a law enforcement officer, knowing all this filth stands behind them? No matter what you say or do, if they decided in their minds you have broken the law, you can’t possibly win. By no means do I counsel anyone how to act, but you surely know: Under the Covenant of Noah, you have no obligation to cooperate with such government, any part of it.

Surely, there are places where it’s not quite that bad. There are some officials who aren’t quite that corrupt. But at what point do you decide you can’t afford to trust them and play along? God help us!

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Calm Before the Storm

Posted on August 21, 2009 by ehurst

I’ve run out of track. There aren’t that many philosophical issues to explore right now. I’m bearing an urge to make my heart ready for some big changes.

We’re just waiting to see what happens next. It’s not exactly news, but a really fine analysis of the impending FDIC quarterly report indicates things are worse than I had thought. Here’s my executive summary. The FDIC is insolvent, and can only remain active by tapping it’s line of credit from the Treasury. But the Treasury is also deep in the hole. The previous FDIC report of 300 weak banks was optimistic; try some 2000 (out of 8400 member banks). Precious few banks are even showing a profit so far this year. Most of those showing a profit are the beneficiary of TARP funds, and many others are simply lying. Some are showing a profit from gambling in the stock market, something which offers zero protection should the investment fail.

We may very well see the regime finesse this and nobody will panic. At least not from that. There are plenty of other things which could bring martial law down on the nation. I still believe the regime is doing all they can to provoke an armed response, seeking any plausible excuse to impose martial law. Until then, lots of other bad things can still happen. In the background the currency is being inflated so fast, we can hardly track it. I can’t remember where I saw it, but someone said the government is spending $1.85 for every $1.00 that comes into the Treasury.

It could take weeks yet before things get ugly. But I’d still keep a wary eye on August 26. The next pivotal date after that would be end of September or first of October. If anything interesting gets reported, we can talk about it, but it appears we are in a quiet spot for now.

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Web of Lies

Posted on August 20, 2009 by ehurst

God granted humans the facility for speech with one purpose in mind: transmitting truth. Defining truth is covered elsewhere, this is about sharing it. The point is, using your speech to deceive, confuse and manipulate as the end result is sin. Efforts to cover that sin add more sin.

Back in the early 1990s, I worked in the DARE Program, supposedly teaching kids in the US DoD Schools in Europe how to resist the cultural urges to get involved in drug abuse. The program remains as yet another example of government’s natural love for monumental boondoggles. I don’t doubt the people who wrote the program were sincere — I met some of them — but they were sincerely wrong. You could have predicted from the start government officials would always be a sucker for something which looks good but cannot possibly work. It was glitzy, cool, hip and sold well to the public. The program was also a miserable failure in its stated goals.

Ironically, one of the things in the program which worked well was the brief study of advertising manipulation. The program materials identified several approaches used by advertisers to get fools to buy their stuff. The kids were tasked with digging through magazines — even then over half of the paper content was taken up by advertising — and picking up on the subtle messages and false assumptions. We did the same with other media, but the point was, this was the one part of the program which worked relatively well, making the kids appropriately skeptical to the degree possible. It was the one part of the teaching on which I worked hardest. A couple of cynical young souls pointed out to me the DARE Program itself was loaded with hype; God bless `em, they were the only ones who got it.

The average human remains a herd animal on such issues. I don’t flatter myself pretending to be any better in the broad sense, given the number of things to which I spare little attention, accepting the default provided by whatever system is providing. But this one thing I do know: I’m very much on the fringe when it comes to mass information transmission. I despise TV, but watch it just a little to keep track of the medium itself. I seldom listen to radio, but when I do, usually tune in a classical music station. I glance at newspapers when they are in front of me. I flip through magazines only in waiting rooms. Still, I pay more attention to advertising only because I still study the manipulation of the herd.

When advertising seeks more control yet over my attention, then it has crossed that line which has already moved too far from sanity. Morally, advertising should restrict itself to, “Here’s what we have.” I don’t even admit them the privilege of telling me why their product is better than another. Tell me what you have, with a dry account of its features and price. Leave the rest to me. Anything more is illegitimate manipulation. As you might surmise, I bear a passionate hatred for most advertisers as children of Satan. When they seek to gain even greater leverage, I view them as demons.

Browser cookies can serve a useful purpose, but the vast majority do not. I tend to set my browser to accept a small handful of cookies from sites I really need, and for the rest I turn them off. It’s a privilege, not a right, for anyone to store their data on my computer. By no means do I easily permit them to gather data about me. There can be but a tiny few justifications for it. As you might expect, it’s only ever done by those with no justification for it. I always encourage people to be strict with cookies.

But we then discover Flashplayer has its own cookies. Worse, they aren’t actually “cookies” — small bits of data. They are more like huge cakes of data, very hard to delete. You have to know precisely where to find them, and delete whole directories to prevent the unique ID number being preserved and the cookies recreated, something Wired features as “zombie cookies.” When testing, I discovered sites I visited without any active Flash elements still manage to set Flash cookies. The Wired article links to instructions on setting Flash to be more protective, but warns Adobe has gone out of their way to make it as complicated as possible.

Flashplayer takes up way too much computer resources on Linux in general, indicating Adobe is only pretending to care about Linux customers. But it’s particularly painful on my old laptop. The only reason I ever installed it was because so many friends and acquaintances have drunk the koolaid and insist on sending me links, or embedding Flash videos in their pages. Often, the entire content I want is contained in the video itself, with no text version available. But having learned and investigated this cookie issue, I found it a last straw and deleted the Flashplayer. If I really need any videos, I’ll just use Clive and download them for direct viewing with MPlayer. I’ve never kept but one or two videos over the years I’ve been messing with them at all, so this method is just the manual equivalent of what browsers do anyway. Everything your browser draws off the Net is kept in a cache for some period of time, so you technically keep a copy of all the videos you see. I don’t need Flashplayer.

Further, I am find it increasingly tiresome to deal with all this advertising based portion of the Net. The primary argument in favor of forcing ads upon me is that’s how we pay for content. There are a few places where I find the content worthy. Wired is useful, for example. Most sites are simply ad-sponsored propaganda I could do without, which includes virtually every mainstream news site. The vast majority will never simply report the facts, but will always be seeking to misguide and misinform. This is not a reference to a political difference of opinion, but a reference to shaping the worldview of visitors by declaring this or that is soooooo important, but things not mentioned you should never care about. More Michael Jackson; almost nothing about the Bilderbergers. More about famous dead newsmen; no honest examination of dissenters from Global Warming or any other major issue. I visit such sites only to see the latest lies, and always keep the graphics turned off.

As a fringer, my choices have no real effect on what everyone else does in this regard. A rare few websites won’t let me see any content unless I accept their cookies. For them, if I’m really interested in something, I use Elinks and delete their cookies later. Track that, butthead! They don’t notice, and would hardly give it a thought if I bothered to write, even if ever so graciously composing a scholarly complaint. I don’t matter, because I use advertising as a perverse guide for what to avoid. If they gotta advertise, it must be crap in the first place. The best products I’ve found typically are not advertised that way, but by word of mouth or direct free samples. Meanwhile, the most important sources of information are mostly bloggers who do it for free, or as a hobby. In a very broad sense, I personally wouldn’t miss the ad-supported Web, because most of it is a lie.

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Picture a Depression

Posted on August 19, 2009 by ehurst

Try to follow this; think holistically, think big picture, the broad scope. Set aside for a moment the anecdotes which indicate the exceptions and consider the obvious trends in a broad sweep.

We are in for a rough patch. It’s not enough to talk about the collapse of the US dollar, and it won’t serve much to chase too many threads about what the Illuminati are going to do or not do. They aren’t omnipotent or omniscient, and will have to deal with reality the same as the rest of us. It’s more important to begin building a generalized, non-specific picture of what happens after the dollar collapses. Then, go back and apply those general trends to your daily existence.

Aside from a handful of regulations, there are almost no significant barriers between nations and countries any more, as regards the movement of wealth. You might have a tough time moving your body and real property across a border, but your money is already there. The banking system has been globally linked for a long time, and the only thing a border means is an excuse to charge a fee to access your supply of electronic data at your bank. Go anywhere you like and throw it on the plastic; they’ll take care of it for you.

The use of the dollar is critical here, because for the last few decades, that was the big kid on the block among national currencies. So much so US bureaucrats at one point twisted arms and made the whole world treat the dollar as the international trade currency. Once that was done, our biggest and brightest CEOs convinced the government the consuming public would benefit from moving the mundane factory production activity to places where the dollar bought more of life than it would in the US. That means lowering labor costs to lower the price of stuff you buy in the store. That did happen, as our cost of living went down, but it also slowly bled away the means of making a living here. There was a large effort to create high paying jobs which didn’t really do or make anything, but kept the dollars running around in circles fast enough no one noticed there was no place for them to go but out of the country. Celente refers to running money around fast as the bubbles; it looks like a lot of money because it’s moving so fast.

We started buying a lot of stuff. And we were importing almost everything we consumed, except for a few things which can’t be sold that way. Even now, they are trying to find new ways to ship more jobs overseas to lower price employment markets. The point is, it allows these companies with a headquarters office here to own nothing else here but the market for their goods, all of which are made elsewhere. And they get to keep their accounting in dollars, because dollars can go anywhere. As those dollars bled away over the past few decades, there was more and more air space between them, as it were, until there weren’t that many to bounce off the sides any more, and the pressure deflated out of the bubble. Meanwhile, the spot from where the bubble grew was being excavated secretly to keep the bubble inflated. When the bubble collapses, it will have a lot farther to fall than when it started. The pit is massive beyond imagination.

It’s falling. Adding trillions of new dollars no longer works, and pretty soon the whole thing dies. The dollar will have no value, because there will be more dollars than grains of sand on the seashore. In economics, the most valuable thing is that which is hardest to get, of which thing the people highly value. When dollars are too easy to get, nobody cares, nobody wants them. There is some invisible tipping point out there in the collective minds of the world when the dollar is suddenly worth nothing (more or less), and they won’t accept any more. Imports stop.

Since we import everything imaginable, that means there will be nothing to buy or sell. Dollars might still mean something here, but there won’t be anything here for which to exchange them. After decades of buying stuff on credit which we really didn’t need, but felt we just had to have, now we can’t even get food. Because your fake job doing nothing but tossing dollars around also died, and you don’t have any dollars to grab and keep. All those nice nifty things you bought on credit are being reclaimed by those who hold your loans.

So maybe the repo-man can’t get paid, and you get to keep some stuff. What good will it do? You can’t put gas in the car, so they might as well take that. Wait, you might need a place to sleep, since your house/apartment is gone. What are you gonna do, start robbing? The businesses are closed. Your neighbor has nothing, just like you. You can’t even steal what you need. We can’t get it anywhere else, so we’ll have to start all over from scratch learning how to make our own stuff again. The time and effort it takes to turn your world around and start living like the original colonists coming here to America is called “friction” by economists. It’s a drag having to start all over. Some folks take to it right away, but most will not. They are completely disoriented; someone took away their dreamscape and left a nightmare in its place.

In fact, the people most likely to fight reality and demand a return to the dream are those in government who are largely responsible for this mess. They will honestly believe they are doing you a great service, and will demand to be paid. They will insist all that money they keep spending has to keep coming in, and will squeeze you for it. There simply are no words for the kind of squeezing they will do. Life will be hard enough, but they will try to take everything you have and demand more. And you think the colonists had it tough with hostile natives. This time you will be the native, and the invaders will be government thugs. Your government is already your greatest threat, but when things really get difficult, it will be open warfare. That is, until reality hits DC and they stop.

I have no idea what it will take for any government to face reality, but that period of time between the high and the bottom of withdrawals is also a part of that economic “friction.” I’m pretty sure there will a mass of bloodshed we cannot imagine. Meanwhile, you will still have to build a new status quo in your local community, fighting off the mass of predatory bandits who will act just like government, demanding you support their lifestyle, and you will have a hard time distinguishing between government and bandits. It really depends on cultural factors where you live, but the so-called Wild Wild West will be tame by comparison.

Ever heard of The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse?

This is the reality you, and I, and the Illuminati will have face. It’s not as if this is the end of the world, but things will be tough for as long as it takes to rebuild an economy where we have something besides worthless dollars to ship overseas in exchange for whatever it is they have to sell us. What complicates things even further is the Illuminati will be trying to keep you from recovering too much. While we are down, they will be working feverishly to cement their hold on everything that makes trade and communication possible between countries. They will be seeking direct control over the government here and everywhere else, via control over economic activity.

I’m not sure any living being can accurately predict what that will look like. However, I do know the one thing they cannot control without your full cooperation: your mind. Unless you make that open invitation, they can’t get inside. Yeah, you know what that means. You’ll have filter everything coming into your mind to keep out their controls. That means every mainstream information outlet: TV, AM-FM radio, Net 2.0 (not the underlying Internet, yet), newspapers, most public libraries, all public advertising, etc. You’ll even hear it echoed by airheads around you. A tall order it is escaping their noise. But once you do, you can decide for yourself what you really need in your life, what you really want, and stop buying their sewage. They will surely try to limit all opportunities to escape, making it illegal to even think freely. You can already go to jail for refusing to accept certain monumental fictions put forth by governments.

This is no dystopian fiction for your entertainment. Your best hope is to embrace a mindset of thinking for yourself. Even if it turns out you were wrong, every time you get a better picture of things, a commitment to know the reality of things will serve you better than buying the lies. Make your own path, provide for your own needs, and stand free of artificial support which entraps you like a drug. None of us will ever be completely independent, but you can understand your real limits and choose carefully where you place your trust. Pull away, if ever so slightly, and begin standing on your own. When enough of us do that, we can make it very, very hard for the Illuminati to make choices for us.

Concrete examples:

  • Be conscious of the mind shaping illusions of mainstream media. Read some classical literature and build a whole new view of reality. I prefer ANE philosophy, but I can’t push my preference on you, only warn you God’s own mind is found there.
  • Make your brain ready to see opportunities to produce your own food, process it, cook it from scratch, etc. Circumstances will limit you, but need not prevent a creative solution.
  • Be mobile in every sense. Sentimental attachments are not a good basis for decision making.
  • Make terms with a give-n-take world, instead of demanding a perfect solution. That latter makes you more likely to demand assistance from, and remain dependent on, a government which does not love you. Get to where you never need to call cops, firemen, or any other emergency service. Freedom is more valuable than comfort.
  • Encourage every other human to be free. Their good choices will make your life better, even as your freedom improves theirs.
  • Consciously build community.

Note: The term “Illuminati” here represents an unknown They out there in the world who surely exist, but are hard to pin down. They want to rule all humanity, and there appears to be a number of different, and sometimes, competing agendas among this global elite. Not knowing who they are does not prevent us discerning their plans, nor disable us from effectively keeping them out of our lives. Be certain, under whatever suave exterior, these people are unspeakably evil, willing and self-conscious.

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Judging Threats by Fruits

Posted on August 18, 2009 by ehurst

You shall know them by their fruits.

From the list of heinous threats coming down out of Washington, DC, a few items have shifted this week. We now have Obama publicly backing off on full government funded health insurance. It is probably a lie, but at least is shows government figures are getting the message they can’t just steamroll this one over us. We also have news the H1N1 vaccine isn’t going to make delivery dates in full, but will dribble into our government’s supply over a period of weeks. That would make it particularly difficult to do the roadblock-RFID-wristband approach, since that would require having the vaccine on hand for an all-at-once mandatory program. Then there’s the cap-n-trade business, which even the UN bigshot says isn’t going to work the way it now reads in Congress because it’s too ambitious. I’ll bet none of us would have expected a UN bureaucrat to say anything like that! At any rate, plenty of these really bad and oppressive ideas hanging over our heads like the Sword of Damocles are suddenly just a little less fearsome.

They aren’t going away, but they aren’t the real game, either. That is, it’s not the real game of those “Illuminati” folks, of they would surely find a way around it all. Keep your eyes open for that. Meanwhile, what threats are not derailed yet? The broader threat from GW propagandists, and the impending conference in Copenhagen in December. What vaccines we are going to get will contain all manner of nasty things, such as thimerosal, something which should have been removed from the market long ago. Monsanto is raising prices on their latest Frankenfood seeds, the justification being these are even more productive and profitable for farmers. Monsanto remains the biggest single threat to human nutrition, because their stuff is designed to contaminate everything which is not GMO. And the US Army still plans to field a half-million troops on US soil for non-defense purposes not yet explained. Oh, and the promise of another 9-11 is still out there.

Don’t be fooled. Every news release is a lie, something designed to keep you from seeing the facts, even if the report itself is accurate in what it does say. Mainstream sources of news are not in the business of informing, but manipulating, on behalf of the satanic elite. Keep your eyes on what they do, not what they say.

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What Did They Expect?

Posted on August 18, 2009 by ehurst

You don’t have to support violence to understand it. It’s possible to defend violence on purely logical grounds.

Given my clearly stated distaste for Western logical forms, that should hardly indicate I don’t get it. Part of my objection is the absolute impotence of such logic to address eternal issues. But most of America is rooted in that Western rationalism with linear analytical structures.

The standard mainstream repulsion against violence is purely cultural, in the sense it is so very easy to trace it back to the newly rising middle class at the end of the Middle Ages. There are several good books on the subject, but the point is the final death of feudalism was the foundation for the Enlightenment, itself a mere revival of ancient Hellenistic philosophy, which posited man in this world is the measure of all things. The fear of a soul which believes this is all there can be is the result of that logic, so our modern middle class American society fears violence it can’t control. Don’t be fooled; the middle class would gladly slaughter anyone who threatens to expose their vacuous lack of moral substance, which explains the unconscionably harsh sentencing against some things, but the complete lack of logical consistency which allows drug dealers life in prison while while rapists get off with a few months.

Fear is the given; the logic must flow from that unquestionable source.

So we have this public denunciation of mere threats against a Congressional member. The threats are tied to discussions about public policy regarding government regulation of medicine. If you buy all the unspoken assumptions, you’ll go, “tsk, tsk” and wonder if it’s not funded by the HMOs. (Take a moment to note I support neither public health provisions nor HMOs, but that’s another story.) However, if we deconstruct all those assumptions, we get a totally different picture. This is not illogical and brutish at all.

First, we must simply dismiss the fiction our election process bears any relation to public will. The entire process is manipulated from the start, and it’s rare when your local Dog Catcher doesn’t gain office by corrupt dealing. That is the nature of influence in modern America. You will never, ever be permitted to vote for the person you honestly believe is best, nor even gain an honest appraisal of those who might be qualified. All public notice regarding elections is thoroughly manipulated to funnel all discussion into foregone conclusions, channels favorable to the current ruling regime. You can choose Socialist Party A, or Socialist Part B, but you will most certainly have socialism. Don’t ask.

Second, the ancient pretense the people elected give a rotting rat’s patootie what you think keeps that system in place. When they dare to suggest they want to hear from you, that means they want you to line up in favor of what they plan to do anyway. Yes, you’ll get choices. Same as before: You can have corporate fascist rationed medical care or communist rationed medical care. Either way, certain select groups of people will get their fat cuts from overcharging you, so shut up and hand over that wallet. Oh, and sometime down the road we might consider giving you something which resembles medical treatment, but you can be sure the doctors and nurses won’t even be allowed to think outside the prescribed boxes. That system was lined up long ago, too.

Thirdly, a small handful of our national Founding Fathers dared to write their honest thoughts about this process they foresaw in some degree. Knowing nearly all men could be had for the right price, they said we should take care to arm ourselves with modern combat weapons and prepare to threaten, even wound and kill, those who would pretend to rule us. They called this idea the 2nd Amendment. Almost immediately the majority of those who actually held government offices back in those days began dismantling that idea. By no means should we see the incremental weakening of that ideal as some series of accidents of history. That was the plan from the start. Those hotheads who dared to state the obvious were in the minority, and seldom held office very long. As soon as possible, the wedge of alienation was driven between the governing and the governed. Despite pretty words to the contrary, the bulk of government activity, in all three branches of the federal machinery, have steadily ground away at any notion of liberty.

So let’s get all proper and whine about threats from people who dare to oppose the proposal without first submitting their contentions to the mangling machinery. By now, the logic is clear. Some portion of the governed have come to realize no portion of the federal government would dream of submitting to public accountability. What they think of that idea is too obscene for me to type here. And the people are starting to get it. Since no effort at calling government officials to account will get anywhere, they offer what little is left them. “Stop raping us or we will kill you.” You understand, of course, I’m still being nice and choosing gentle words.

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Background Buzz of Danger: GW

Posted on August 17, 2009 by ehurst

One of the best ways to gain illegitimate control over others is to prepare a massive take-over, then keep everyone busy with more immediate concerns while you keep that major effort out of view. Even better is to hide that massive effort in plain sight.

So it is with the Global Warming scam. The indoctrination is so thorough and so successful, there are otherwise wonderful places on the Net you can visit where daring to suggest GW might not be gospel would get you run out on a virtual rail. For example, mention casually on Slashdot you don’t support the notion of GW, and you’ll see an avalanche of invective, all working on the assumption no one with intelligence could possibly deny this thoroughly founded scientific consensus. Except, consensus means nothing.

I refer you to this very powerful interview by Vox Day with Ian Wishart, regarding the latter’s new book, Air Con: The Seriously Inconvenient Truth About Global Warming.

To achieve emissions cuts at that sort of level will require the equivalent of financially carpet-bombing the industrialized first world back to the Stone Age. And once the UN gets enough countries to agree that agriculture should be included in cap and trade, American farmers will be hit too, because the US administration will already have put the mechanisms in place to recognize the obligations of these international agreements.

If you look at the economic prize at stake, consider this. We currently have gold markets, but you are not forced to buy and sell gold and only a tiny percentage of the community are active in the gold markets. The financial markets are larger, but even then most of us are not forced to buy and sell shares or trade forex, and only a minority of us actually do so. But if carbon trading becomes compulsory worldwide, effectively every single one of us will be forced to buy and sell through this scheme. No one will be able to go through their daily lives without being represented directly or indirectly in the carbon markets. Those who control the carbon markets will effectively control the world.

Nothing I could post today would be half as important as that interview. Yes, it’s long, but it’s so valuable I’m keeping a backup copy in personal electronic storage. For those of you so inclined, maybe you should bring down a little thunder and lightening on your Congressional delegation regarding the Copenhagen treaty conference coming up in December.

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