Paper Boys, Media Outlets and T-Rex

Shawnee Oklahoma, 1960.  It’s 5:00 AM on a very typical winter morning in the prairie; bone-breaking cold with frost, ice, or snow (more often than not, all three) covering everything in sight. Even the air seems to be solidified with ice. The ever-present prairie wind is biting into my exposed face while simultaneously shaking the icicles off the now bare pecan trees; like bombs dropped by some unseen aircraft, they crash onto the corrugated steel roof of the barn/garage creating a sound I’m occasionally reminded of as cars slam into one another at a busy intersection; minus the screeching tires.

Like stalagmites and stalactites joined over centuries of undisturbed formation, icicles are hanging from the eves of the house; or are they standing from the ground? I can no longer tell, but they form an almost prison-like cell around the porch caging me in until I’m ready to “break free” for the first of two daily routines; my part in the promulgation of news.

I firmly believe the inventor of the Frisbee was once a kid with a paper route. Those of us old enough to remember this routine can recall the simple, but well respected skill of folding a newspaper into a square and sailing them through the air from the street without so much as a break in peddling (unless of course your bicycle, like mine, was possessed), AND skillfully landing it on the porch, next to the door, on the opening side so the customer need but open the door for two seconds to retrieve the paper.

All this without hitting the door or house to avoid waking the customer.

Sitting amongst several bundles of newspapers dropped by the “spotter truck,” earlier in the morning at the end of the long, dirt driveway, I’m using one bundle as a temporary chair (the first time is most certainly the last time one sits for longer than thirty seconds on a surface exposed to winter conditions in the prairie). I'm rapidly folding each copy of the morning news, the “Shawnee News Star” and stuffing them into tight, organized rows inside the canvas satchels which hung on each side of my daily nemesis – the demonic Schwinn bicycle with nut-cracker bearings.

Oh how I would have loved to see that damned bicycle crushed, melted and left to rust in some long-forgotten junk yard. Or better yet, throw it onto one of the busy RR tracks in Shawnee and watch with utter satisfaction as it received its just rewards; over and over again.

More than fifty years later, it’s oddly contemptible to see some lunatic in a car swerving through the neighborhood at speeds even the Nevada Highway Patrol would take issue with on the freeway. For the safety of my dogs, I don’t leave my backyard until this moron has made the loop through the neighborhood; like someone who has been on an all night binge, he/she carpet bombs the neighborhood, depositing massive bundles of “newspapers” wherever they may fall.

If the reader is fortunate, the paper is at least in the same neighborhood as their house, but he/she must retrieve it from the neighbor’s yard, from under the car, or even from atop the car.

Like the paperboys of the 1950’s, 60’s and earlier, printed news is on the brink of extinction. Some will blame everything from gossip to technology. Some Newspapers are unequivocal in pointing the finger of blame squarely at the Internet, as if it were vampire zombie werewolves raiding precious advertising revenue.

As is often the case in human nature, people point fingers at symptoms rather than the cause and a loss in ad revenue is just that; another symptom.

Once a true art; unbiased, unabashed and sincerely concerned in informing the public at all costs, printed media was a trusted companion for anyone with a porch or within walking distance to a news stand. Just as the airwave artists of a long gone era, John Cameron Swayze, David Brinkley, Chet Huntley, Walter Cronkite, and the king of media news, Edward R Murrow, printed media likewise earned admiration and respect from dedicated readers around the world.

But that was then.  And this is now; wherein I see two major afflictions killing off the media outlets:

1. PROFIT: Media has evolved, like so many other aspects of corporate America, into a single-minded entity with one purpose and one purpose only; to earn shareholder dividends. As long as profit is turned; as long as the corporate CEOs and Chairs continue to receive their absurdly massive and unearned income; like a beheaded snake biting its unattached body in reflexive behavior, media will continue to commit suicide while the rest of us search for quality information rather than page after page of political opinion and manipulation.
2. TARGETED AUDIENCE: Without great effort, one cannot find a printed newspaper that is anything more than editorialized, polarized bullshit seemingly hell-bent on reducing its readership to such a specialized niche, advertisers would be fools to blow their budgets on such restricted customer bases.

Regardless of your “political pole,” be it left, right or in between, US media outlets have become so polarized due to their efforts to support the particular corporate leadership’s political agenda, they no longer seek “news,” but a storyline which fits the company image. In doing so, the media outlets focus on a diminished audience, serving the interests of limited readership whose political views most resemble those of the media ownership.

Despite the pitifully inaccurate diagnoses of these self-treating physicians of news outlets, what we see in this new age of self-destructive media is pure and simple blindness to the cause and effect of their own selfish desires. There are but two problems and two solutions, and it doesn’t take a grossly overpaid, under-achieving executive to diagnose the problem and to correctly treat the illness.

But they won't.  Rather, they will cry, whine and continue to promote an ever-shrinking reader base until they too are a relic of the past.

The correlation between the paperboy/early-morning lunatics, and the news then/now is obvious and impossible to ignore.  Quality is always better than high-speed, sloppy volume; bullshit is bullshit – it all stinks and our media outlets are packed full of bullshit. Nobody in corporate America wants to deal with it, and certainly; nobody in the neighborhoods wants to pay for it.

Unlike T-Rex, which had little to say about its extinction, printed and broadcast media outlets are rabidly frothing at the mouth while seeking their own demise with short-sighted, delusional, profit-oriented goals. When they find themselves extinct, there will be nobody to point the fingers at but themselves.

Certainly, broadcast companies can continue to pollute the airwaves with the likes of "The Twerking Bubble Butts of Go-down, Dumb-down, and Run-down," or "Valley Girl Vampires Caught in the act of Fanging Pflugerville's Zombies." We all know there's no shortage of takers on those mind-expanding views into reality.   However, it'll be a bit difficult for the printed media to explode with such distinctive representations of what life has to offer us all.

Perhaps T-Rex and the US media outlets do indeed have extinction in common - they're both nothing more than overgrown chickens pecking away at chat while the meat, the stuff we readers truly wish to read and with which to keep ourselves informed, is consumed by maggots and decay.

Natural Selection doing what it does best.

Hoedspruit Endangered Species Center

I discovered Hoedspruit Endangered Species Center ( HESC ) while involved in my favorite pastime - reading articles about and watching videos of wild animals around the world and I have to say, this group is by far the most enjoyable to watch as they take a very refreshing and fascinating approach to caring for the gifts from Mother Nature.

Through routine, three-week programs, HESC provides students with what I and surely the students would consider, an opportunity of a lifetime in hands-on activities assisting endangered species and other animals in need of some human interaction.

The deep devotion to and passion for the wildlife of Africa and the opportunities they take to inspire others is unmatched and simply incredible to read about.

HESC students post routine updates.  Awesome kids doing awesome things with an awesome group.

Check them out - you'll find yourself hooked on their activities as I am.

One of my favorite stories - helping "Lions Den" and "Dingle Bell," two rhinos whose horns were savagely and ruthlessly removed by poachers, leaving gaping holes in their snouts.

And I can't go without posting a couple of my favorite animal (well, second favorite to my dog)

For What It’s Worth

Once again, we are faced with battle lines being drawn; we can all see there’s something happening here.  We can’t avoid the man with the gun over there, telling me I got to beware.

For it is now a grotesquely common cultural oddity unique to the United States; more American than apple pie, baseball and even mom.

Those affected are revisited by grief with each subsequent mass shooting; reminded time and again, that they’re among the statistics that have become the line drawn in the sand.  With each mass shooting, new faces stream across the media, joining the previous; bonded with a common thread that should never have been spun.  Shouting, crying, asking; “why” and repeating over and over; I think it’s time we stop!  And oh how they wish, after every mass shooting, they could take them into their arms, warning them; children what’s that sound?

But they can’t.  They scream “I think it’s time we stop; everybody look - what’s going down?  Our children are gone; our lives are devastated.

But the killers of children, parents, lovers and siblings refuse to admit culpability in the paranoia that is theirs:

“the gun grabbers are after my precious.  They’re there I know they are; clandestinely and insidiously scheming to take from my cold, dead hands my precious. We must defend precious at all costs, even life, for that is but collateral damage, expendable; they can all die in martyrdom for my precious.  As long as that life is someone else’s; preferably the women and children we use as human shields.  After all, we wouldn’t want to die in vain without the drama of their blood flowing into the streets; what good is a bloodless show, a show of someone’s death protecting my precious?”

There’s battle lines being drawn alright, and those battle lines are; the streets of freedom, safety and liberty? 

The bearers of precious are here to guard our freedoms and will gladly gun down any who disagree with them.  Nobody’s right if everybody’s wrong, so we’ll simply shoot in the name of freedom.  Oh what lovely freedom!  In the US of A; where we can roam the streets without fear of becoming another statistic!  Not a group of deranged, paranoid killers in sight thanks to those with their precious.

The parents and the lovers of those gone know all too well that paranoia strikes deep; into your life it will creep, without a moment’s notice.  But, we can let freedom ring, for we have given our young people speaking their minds; given the cause our hopes, our loved ones in the name of the second.  Wondrous freedom; such comfort to know we are safe to roam our safe streets.

What a field day for the heat.  A thousand people in the street, singing songs and carrying signs; mostly saying hurray for our side.  They lost their loved ones, but it’s worth it in the name of the second. As long as it’s someone else’s loved ones.

You’ve taken it all out of context you say?  “This is not about guns or the freedom to carry assault weapons to buy hamburgers; this is about outrage against the man.  And so are we.”

Well I MAY have taken the lyrics out of context, but you have MOST CERTAINLY taken out of context, the second amendment.

You have infringed upon my freedom to walk my streets without the fear of being gunned down by the lunatics with access to just about any firearm manufactured; the liberty to own your precious does not trump my freedom to live without fear.

Your precious is not worth one more life; not one more grieving parent whose life has been dubbed collateral damage for a “right” that you grossly misinterpret so you can find your balls while hiding behind dead women and children.”

And these are mass SHOOTINGS!  So your argument "why not control knives, or baseball bats, or steel-toed shoes, or as in one Mother Jones video; bathtubs" or any of your other lame arguments that are absurdly juvenile and utterly nonsensical.  The problem is a lack of control on firearms.  How many people have died in mass knifings?

Paranoia strikes deep

Whose Fault Is All This?

Although I avidly and vociferously support far more stringent laws regulating firearms, I worry that, like so many other issues carved out of our social environment and stuffed under some hyper-focused magnifying glass, perhaps we focus too hard on trimming one single blade of grass when the whole damned lawn needs to be mowed (or hell, maybe burned and replanted).

I’m a voracious consumer of news reported by various small, international media outlets disconnected to our completely biased main stream media.  From a perspective gained in doing so, the culture of our nation seems unlike any other among the developed nations on this planet in that it repeatedly breeds hate, violence, racism, misogyny and murder like rats receiving daily injections of testosterone.

Hell; we're even the only developed country still using the death penalty for christ sake.

I'm neither educated well enough, nor am I equipped with the natural intelligence it would take to find any single factor, or even a group of prevailing causes to pin the parade of horrific violence that streams endlessly across the idiot tube, over the radio waves and through the Net (almost sounds like a Christmas carol).

As much as I would love to blame all this on what is likely the most repulsive lobbyist group that has ever entered the lobby arena, the NRA (and make no mistake, I firmly believe that the NRA and their efforts towards massive firearms proliferation are major factors in all these mass shootings), there’s more to the problem; there must be.

And!  As much as I would love to add the following to my hypothetical causal analysis; evangelical extremists spewing ad-lib Christianity while they promulgate hate against other religions and diversity; myopic politicians owned by special interests; the apathetic white middle class living in the comfort of our indifference, I still cannot find a definitive connection to any one of them, or even collectively that explains the incredible volume of violence Americans summon from whatever "hell" there is to cast upon one another.

Is it the culture of exceptionalism we've been force-fed from the moment we could find our way to K-12? 

Or, is it the incessant barrage of all the mind-numbing drivel combined, scrambling our brains beyond the capability to organize our own thoughts well enough to fix any of them?

I’m not one to read what even looks like a conspiracy theory, much less subscribe to them, but one can't help but wonder; is there some grand manipulation taking place that would make Lysistrata herself proud?

It’s all very baffling and frustrating, especially when we continue to hear the same rhetorical horseshit coming from the same horse’s asses; all the while nothing is resolved.

The only fix, and just perhaps even a contributor to our conundrum, I can see is personal responsibility, and accountability.

Perhaps we spend too much time blaming others and seeking a fix from government, when we we should simply be changing us rather than attempting to change the world around us.

The Ethics of Firearm Ownership - It's Time the NRA Return to its Grass Roots

If you're old enough, you can likely remember when the NRA supported and strongly advocated gun control measures; a time when a responsible organization promoted safety and ethics first, when the NRA's core values weren't based upon profits for, and before they became a registered lobbyist organization for firearms manufacturers.

The gun laws in this nation need to seek wisdom over obsession; advancement of ethical products over corporate profit margins.

Among the extreme polarization over gun rights and gun control, I ask one simple question; when firearms manufacturers use marketing tactics based upon fear and paranoia rather than product quality and safety, are their motives and products ethical?

I am a gun owner, but I see no validity in the hyperbolic rhetoric being spewed by extremism in ownership of firearms.  I see no value in everyone carrying firearms, concealed or openly, in public venues; there is simply no logic, no safety and no reason in doing so.

We have gone from a nation of gun owners to a nation of obsessive-compulsive fanatics.  And, I see no logic in the status of gun ownership laws in this nation.

A case in point: 

I have a brother-in-law who has been diagnosed bipolar and severe manic-depressive.  The state and federal government have both declared him permanently disabled due to his illness.  

Due to his inability to obtain and maintain meaningful employment, his extremely limited financial resources, we allow him to live in a house we own a few miles from us rent-free.  His social security benefits would make it virtually impossible for him to live anywhere and pay rent.

When it comes to firearms, strange behavior reaches epic levels with this guy.  Like many subscribing to the paranoia-marketing tactics of gun manufacturers, with unfounded vitriol he proclaims; "it's my second amendment right to own guns,” yet can neither quote the amendment nor reasonably debate the intent of the amendment.

I've watched this gun-crazed person sit on a sofa and, with the same sick look an addict has at the sight of heroin, literally caress a handgun as though it was a living, breathing being.

The gun laws need to protect people, NOT GUN MANUFACTURERS.

In the space of three years, I've removed no less than ten firearms from the house, including the absurd S&W 500 he kept under his pillow because he “hears people running around the house hitting the windows,” a fully automatic shotgun, AR15’s.  This taking place in a retirement community in which the minimum age in order to reside is 55.  Those crazy-ass old people, running around in their electric scooters and walkers, pounding on windows of their neighbors.

When he discovers I've taken them (and YES, I do go into the house and remove them.  If the law won't protect him and those around him, I must.), using his social security benefits, he simply goes to the local pawn shop to buy another.

Due to his many antics, the local police officers know him well and have been called to the house on several occasions.  But, they won’t even enter the house without their own weapons in hand and I certainly cannot fault them for doing so.

I've contacted city, state and federal law enforcement agencies with concerns about both, his diagnosed mental disorder, and this very odd behavior in an effort to have his access to firearms AND his CCW revoked.

The very government which has certified him as mentally disabled; the very government which issues his disability checks, refuses to revoke his concealed carry permit.  The law in Nevada is simple - any person not a convicted felon or forcibly institutionalized within the last five years can open carry and obtain a CCW.

The NRA, with its new leadership, needs to stop promoting firearms profit over safety.

Open Debates 2016, The Plan

Open Debates 2016, The Plan

When was the last time you heard anything resembling real substance in presidential debates?

Time to take politics to the road with some serious candidates and extinguish the charades that are being called "debates."

YOU AREN'T ENTITLED TO FOOD!!!

One sentence says it all; 47% of Americans believe they are entitled to healthcare, food and housing," thereby implying that people are not entitled to healthcare, food and housing.We JUST never seem to run out of elitist puppet buffoons to listen to.

Blowing the whistle on Obama's America - Listening Post - Al Jazeera English

Blowing the whistle on Obama's America - Listening Post - Al Jazeera English

So! You Don’t Think Our Political System Is Broken!

GAWD!!!  It’s upon us!  Election season, or more appropriately; open season on you and I, the tax payer is once again here.  With their hunting licenses in order, the hunters are wearing their seasonal camouflage smiles, oiled, test-fired, and locked and loaded their weapon of choice – long-range 50 caliber, fully automatic Super-PAC’s.  They have zeroed-in their scopes on our chests and we have no defense whatsoever against the safaris headed our way.

Thanks to the cunning skills of the hunters, they have found the perfect weapon; they have hidden the true smell of politicians with wild animal Super-PAC urine.  We no longer can determine where money is coming from, how much of it is coming, or more importantly, you and I pay the bill at every step of our commercial lives.

Hunter behind blind number 1 – Mitt Romney:

Romney’s ammunition is a paltry $86,631,381.00 as of March 31 2012, but make no mistake; Romney can easily support his own campaign without the aid of his targets, You and I.  But he really dislikes taking money from his prey -

Presidential candidate Romney stated in August 2011 that his ability to benefit from large contributions via PACs from individual donors helps him to equalize the influence of corporations and unions that can pool small contributions from many employees or union members. Romney stated “My own view is; I don’t like all the influence of money in politics, but I don’t have a solution that’s a lot better than saying let people contribute what they will, then report it, and let people know who gave what to whom.” 

This bears repetition; “in order to equalize the influence of corporations and unions… I don’t like all the influence of money in politics.”  What???  Isn't this a bit analogous to Bernie Madoff decrying; “I really hate ponzi schemes, but what choices have I in order to equalize the financial equilibrium of the planet Earth for us poor folk?”

Yah; OK Mittster, you shining beacon of anti-corporate influence-peddling; thank you so very much for keeping an eye out for us average Joe’s.  What would we ever do without you??

Hunter behind blind number 2 - Barack Obama:

Obama’s ammunition is a whopping $191,671,860 as of March 231, 2012.  Unlike Romney, Obama is truly dependent upon donations to run his campaign, for he has no ultra-rich family background to draw from; he is quite literally the son of a goat herder and could be one of us. 

And if you believe that, perhaps you should run for President of the United States; if you’re extraordinarily lucky, you’ll raise a powerful bankroll of $163,367.00 like Randall Terry, the; now wait for the drum-roll …. anti-abortionist Democrat?  Well hell!  No wonder he raised pocket change; with hunting credentials like that I’m surprised he didn’t shoot himself in the head on his first hunt like Ricky Pinky.

The President and 2012 candidate Obama, who stated in 2007: "I don’t take PAC money and I don’t take lobbyists’ money," came out with an endorsement of super PACs via his campaign manager Jim Messina in his statement: "With so much at stake, we can't allow for two sets of rules in this election whereby the Republican nominee is the beneficiary of unlimited spending and Democrats unilaterally disarm.”   According to press reports, in asking his top fundraisers to steer money to the main super PAC backing his reelection, Obama embraced a campaign vehicle he previously denounced.

"I don’t take PAC money and I don’t take lobbyists’ money." Now, I have to give him credit here, it’s all a big misunderstanding; there is a difference between PACs and Super PACs, so it was simply our fault, our lack of understanding of his statement that’s created the woefully errant shift in perception and besides, they weren’t “registered lobbyists”  It’s all in the ears of the listender, right? 

Didn’t I read somewhere in this post something about ponzi schemes?

As of March 31, 2012, all the hunters have raised a total of $419,359,521.00.  4.2 million dollars!  That’s almost a half Billion dollars, for campaigns and the hunting season has just begun (officially) and already Barack Obama alone has raised 20% of the entire 2008 campaign of ALL candidates combined.

Now, if you’re not blind, deaf, or a reclusive moonshine distiller in my one-time neighborhood, the foothills of the Ozarks, you would already know where the Republican hunter, Romney gets his money (but wait, there’s more), but where does an ordinary Joe like Obama come up with enough money to outright support 12,090.5 families in the state with the lowest per capita income of the 50 United States, Mississippi?

(You shoulda voted Obama, Mississippi.  Pay back is one bad-ass mother f ^*&$#.)

Just as he is in the details, the Devil is also hidden in the ammunition itself.

PAC – Political Action Committee, a committee (such a wonderfully benign word; “committee”) organized for the sole purpose of directing pooled campaign donations towards efforts, either for or against political elections in accordance with the Federal Election Campaign Act (FECAL er uhm, FECA).

Ironically enough, this “act” was passed as part of the Taft-Hartley Act designed to, get this; "eliminate influence-peddling by labor unions and/or corporations," this in turn lead to a series of other acts, designed to control the volume of and methods in which political donations are managed.  In essence, donations were limited to $5,000.00 per year by individuals and corporate or union donations were FECALLY prohibited to contribute to the campaigns.

In a Super simplified version of events; in 2010, a few things occurred that created life oh so much the better for the hunters, allowing PACs to morph into “Super PACs” who could now spend what they wish, as much as they wish and for whom they wish as long as they claimed to be independent of the campaigner.  They could coordinate efforts through inactive participants such as the media.  Wait!  What?  They can unofficially send each other secre codes through the inactive participants, like the media? (Oh yah, that works!  Perhaps al Zawahiri shoulda thought of that and sent hidden codes on the front page of the New York Times to bin Laden in English).

As of February 2012, according to Center for ResponsivePolitics, 313 groups organized as Super PACs had received $98,650,993 and spent $46,191,479. This means early in the 2012 election cycle, PACs had already greatly exceeded total receipts of 2008. The leading Super PAC on its own raised more money than the combined total spent by the top 9 PACS in the 2008 cycle.  We're really rollin now foks.

The 2012 figures don't include funds raised by State level PACs nor funds raised by national level non-profit groups that pool "soft-funds". Spending by non-profits, also called 527 organizations, exceeded $500 million in the 2010 election cycle with the two largest organizations being the Republican Governors Association $131,873,954 and the Democratic Governors Association $64,708,253 Spending by the 527 organizations for the 2012 is expected to be double and much will be derived from donors kept hidden from voters.

Why is it that every time the government tries to control things, they make it worse for the hunted and better for the hunters????

I think you know the answer to that one.

So!  It comes down to this; if you want to continue voting the party line, that’s your call; Republican or Democrat, that’s what it’s about.  Like rooting (but don’t use that term when supporting an Australian sport; use “barracking” instead, or they’re likely to think you’re inviting them to bed with you) for the home team, it’ll get you what you want.  Maybe; if you're a Super PAC Chairperson.

So as you seek sanctuary in the woods this season, remember these two things:

1.       Every time you participate in our economy, you are donating money to a candidate; the candidate may or may not be of your choosing, but rest assured, you are donating SUPER time.

2.      If you want to piss up a rope, don’t hope for it to come back down onto you smelling like red fox urine, for the hunters already have that too.

Happy Season All! 

And if you want to read a bit more about the hunters in order to prepare you for the season, here are a few links of interest.

Hunting Secrets

Hunter's Ammo

Retired Hunters

Hunters of Equality

Not convincing you say?

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Brother Love's Show

Meet the new hyper-hawk party

“Hot August night

And the leaves hangin' down

And the grass on the ground smellin' – sweet”

In the election of 2008, we sought to elect a candidate, not based upon merits (for he had virtually none of those), not based upon experience (for he had virtually none of that either), but on a single strand of hope that somehow an inept, inexperienced individual who came from nowhere could fulfill a litany of grandiose promises which he, like a traveling evangelist healing the lame, shouted from the pulpit. 

“Pack up the babies and grab the old ladies

 And everyone goes,

Everyone knows,

Brother Love's show

Room gets suddenly still and when you'd almost bet

You could hear yourself sweat - he walks in…..

Move up the road

To the outside of town

And the sound of that good gospel beat

Sits a ragged tent"

Who was this Brother Love of the Democratic Party?  Where did he come from?  Like that traveling evangelist, his tent was erected in the dark of night, seemingly to appear from nowhere; a grand and mystical entrance from above; a messenger to behold in the light of a wondrous dawn.

We flocked to the polls in hoards of the devastated, yet starry-eyed, hope-filled blind seeking his hands upon our heads; hearing his words so eloquently spoken, we bathed in his charm and basked in his revelations that he was our only hope, our link to salvation.  Laying his hands upon our heads, he diverted our thoughts, giving us the security blanket we so desperately craved; we were charmed by the charisma of a man who was neither remotely qualified nor possessed even the most rudimentary skills required to heal us.  We handed over to Brother Love our trust, our absolute and unyielding devotion to the cause, the cause of healing our angst after decades of deprivation and utter hell.

“Take my hand in yours,

Walk with me this day

In my heart I know,

I will never stray

 Halle-halle-halle-halle-halle-halle-halle-halle”

There’ll be no healing folks.  There’ll be no salvation, for the thunder in his voice and lightning in his eyes is but a fiddle upon which he strummed our troubled souls while he passed the basket around, knowing full well his show was a sham built upon the hopes of the weary, preying upon those in dire need.

His strident, yet barren promises of healing our nation vanished like a gossamer dream.  Even as we awoke, horrified that we were still blind, he continued his fire and brimstone brand of oration as though he was still in the tent, playing the part of Brother Love in his vacuum of rhetoric and make-believe, for that’s his credentials; it’s what he does best!  It’s all he does!  

His modus operandi rapidly became clear as he quietly capitulated our hopes and our progressive ideals, selling them to Corporate America’s insurance, banks, and war machine in exchange for unprecedented power behind the pulpit within the Oval Office; the 20^th Century throne.

In 2008, we simply hoped against hope to negate the decades of the Bush Dynasty and its doctrine which destroyed the personal liberties of America’s population and the sovereignty of all nations across the globe at alarming rates using extraordinarily effective shock doctrine tactics and blinding propaganda.  We sought to remove a fascist regime which successfully demolished what was once a beacon of hope, reverence, liberty and opportunity then rebuilt it with a land and government now viewed with contempt across the globe.

We did not replace a contemptible, mindless, heartless machine “The Dynasty” with a choice, we replaced it with what is now the norm, a candidate who was NOT a choice, but a LESSER EVIL.  We eliminated the dogma of King George I and II, not with an idealistic change-maker such as the one Brother Love in his ever-present and eloquent, yet nauseatingly empty, rhetoric-filled oratories promised that he was, but with the new and masterful King of the Pulpit.

Rather than healing, a frightening phenomenon has occurred in this country in which the once domestic policy-minded, peace-seeking Democratic Party has donned the war paint of the GOP; they have utterly abandoned domestic issues while adopting the Republican ideology of war-mongering before all else. 

Our government is now finally united for the first time in many, many decades; united in the elitist’s agenda to dismantle the Constitution of the United States and dominate the world.  We now have a single party government; you can call them Democrats or you can call them Republicans, but they are in fact singularly-focused, fascist bureaucrats serving the doctrine of elite preeminence and American domestic policy is a nuisance to this new paradigm, the albatross around the necks of those seeking global domination.

Even the buzz-cut, ultra-conservative, gung-ho officers of TheNational Defense University have recently voiced strong concern over Brother LOve's disinterest in and even outright disdain for his military advisors’ advice. 

Almost unbelievably, the officers including Admiral Michael Mullen, the most recent of previous Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, empathically and unanimously state that their recommendations to cut military spending by AT LEAST 20% and redirecting the funds towards “massive boosts to education” will almost certainly be ignored.  Yes!  You read that corrctly.  The highest ranking, most respected military officers in the U.S. are recommending that we cut defense spending and funnel that money into education.  Unlike the Commander-in-Chief, his officers intelligently recognize that “repairing the domestic situation in the U.S. should be THE priority and they, again unlike their Chief, realize that "national security stems from domestic muscularity and weapons are a product of that, not a cause of domestic strength.”

Rather than removing tyranny, we instead have furthered the goals of the elite, creating an office within which holds power unlike anything the world has ever before seen and with that power, it holds the pre-established precedence, tacit approval and legal support to do anything, to anyone, anyplace, at anytime.

“Startin' soft and slow-ow,

Like a small earthquake

 And when he lets go-o,

Half the valley shakes”

And Brother Love knows precisely where his lightning resides!  

Prior to 2004, the unmanned aircraft or “drones” were but spies in the skies aiding our illustrious war on terrorism, but during Brother Love’s salvation show, they have undergone a terrifying transformation and have amassed “impressive” kill rates, reaching a staggering death toll ranging between 1,785 to 2,771.  And, that death toll is highly suspect in its ostensible effectiveness in killing “terrorists,” or “insurgents.” 

The Brookings Institute estimates that in fact, for every militant killed, there are 10 civilians killed, but they can do so without endangering American lives, so we quietly watch in awe, the new technology of death.

I will end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and withdraw American Forces.

As with ALL his promises of anything of substance, Obama’s promised end to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Iraq remains heavily controlled by the U.S.

“NPR commentator Ted Koppel recently visited Iraq on assignment for NBC's "Rock Center" with Brian Williams. His report aired last night. His conclusion: The United States is not leaving. The largest U.S. embassy in the world, two huge consulates and more than 16,000 officials and contractors will remain behind.”

The number of drone attacks in Afghanistan has increased by over 3000% from an average of 2.25 attacks per year to a whopping 68.5 attacks per year since Brother Love was elected.  And the drone attacks are expanding beyond the borders of Iraq and Afghanistan; to Somalia, Yemen, Pakistan and the Philippines.  Drone attacks are not just killing people “known to be terrorists,” but are being used to kill many who are simply suspected as being terrorists.

The Guardian reports

“In remarks on Monday, US counter-terrorism adviser John Brennan admitted for the first time that US drones have killed civilians. "It is exceedingly rare, but it has happened," he said.

With his sources in the intelligence community, Brennan no doubt has more information about the number and identity of individuals killed than do journalists and lawyers who, in the last year, have documented hundreds of what they call "civilian deaths". But the discrepancy between Brennan's view and theirs is not about the facts; it is about definitions. Brennan would call "terrorists" many of the people whom the journalists and lawyers would say are civilians.

"Terrorists", whom the Obama administration may go after with lethal force, are not just people linked to the 11 September 2001 attacks, or active members of al-Qaida. According to Brennan, most of them are already dead:  "Al-Qaida has been left with just a handful of capable leaders and operatives."

Yet there are, according to Brennan, thousands of individuals the US can lawfully target in drone strikes. Under the hugely expansive definition he described Monday, the US can kill individuals across the globe. Brennan named potential targets not just in Pakistan and Yemen, but in Somalia, Nigeria and west Africa. The Obama "war on terror" may include groups like al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb, which Brennan described as attempting to "destabilize regional governments", and Boko Haram, a group that "appears to be aligning itself" with al-Qaida and is "increasingly looking to attack western interests in Nigeria". Moreover, the US can kill not just leaders and operatives, but individuals who "possess unique operational skills that are being leveraged in a planned attack."

I will close Gitmo!

Need I say anything on this subject?

Now!  Can you remember the short, almost imperceptible snippet in the news a few months ago about using drones to “oversee the borders?”

The Intel Hub

By Tim Watts

February 9, 2012

“Once again, another shocking story that threatens the personal privacy of US citizens has been kept from us by our politicians and the mainstream media.

Did you know that a bill, HR 658, the FAA Air Transportation Modernization and Safety Improvement Act, has just passed both the House and the Senate that authorizes the use of 30,000 spy drones over America? Like the anti-Posse Comitatus NDAA legislation that passed in November, this bill was not widely reported by the mainstream media.

Do not feel bad for not knowing about this, because, similar to the anti-Constitutional NDAA legislation, they purposefully tried to hide this from the American public. The corporate controlled mainstream media was once again complicit and was an integral accessory in this crime against “We the People.” The corporate mainstream media failed us all miserably once again.

Think about the enormity of this for a second… 30-THOUSAND drones flying overhead surveilling the US. If you divide that by 50 states, that is 600 drones per state! Most states don’t have even have one-third of that in counties, so 600 drones, or more per state is a bit overwhelming. And considering that some states are very small, such as Rhode Island and Connecticut, it won’t take that many to spy on those diminutive territories, leaving far more drones to cover the larger states.

This is an outrage, plain and simple. If you’re not pissed off about this, you’ve got shit for brains. There is no good reason why we should have 24/7 surveillance of American citizens. Of course the advocates for creating this intensified police state will proffer that this is needed “to fight terrorism,” but let’s examine that issue for just a moment.

We’ve only had two successful acts of terrorism in the US, both happening well over ten years ago. It’s not like we’re under a constant monthly or weekly barrage of terrorism, at least not from foreign threats. We’ve been terrorized by our politicians and our media plenty, far more than we have from foreign entities. That’s an undeniable fact. Again, just look at the record.

We had the 9/11 attacks in 2001, and then shortly after we had the anthrax attacks. As we look at both of those events, there is an incredible amount of evidence that points to a false flag operation, state sponsored terrorism by rogue factions within our own government, blamed on a foreign entity. See the NewsFocus reports on the 9/11 attacks and the anthrax attacks.

These plots succeeded solely because of US officials and their dereliction of duty, yet our Constitution and “We the People’ are the ones who have been made to suffer. The highly flawed 9/11 Commission admitted as much.

Senator Mark Dayton excoriated the Commission panel over bald faced lies in their report that attempted to cover up the numerous failures of protocol on that fateful day. Our top officials failed to do their jobs on 9/11, yet no one was demoted in rank and no one was prosecuted for their egregious ineptitude. Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld all failed to act appropriately, and in fact, acted suspiciously outside the norm of their designated duties.

As far as the anthrax attacks go, they were actually tracked to a US military facility, at Ft. Detrick, Maryland. That’s right, the anthrax used in the attacks was made in a US Army lab. Once that story became public, they shifted their blame from foreign terrorists to designated patsies within the US defense structure. The story died immediately.

So, with all of this in mind, we have only had TWO “alleged” successful terrorist attacks in this country in eleven years time, and both were highly suspicious events that have been attributed to false flag attacks from rogue officials with the US government, yet for some reason, we keep passing law after law that rescinds our Constitution and Bill of Rights, to set up a virtual police state in the US.

Does this honestly make any sense to you?

For what it’s worth, we are actually fomenting terrorism with our highly bogus, bst War On Terror. We have formally invaded and brutally attacked three countries without provocation, Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya, plus we’re also bombing Pakistan and killing scores of innocent civilians there as well.

This reporter’s take is, TPTB are trying to escalate terrorism to justify their fascist takeover of the United States. They’re literally trying to piss off foreign entities to pick a fight. Again, they’re attempting to justify their assault on “We the People,” to establish a police state lockdown in America. This isn’t about fighting terrorism folks, it’s about keeping us under their heel, under a 24/7 watch.

Look at what’s happened in just the last few months… Congress passed the NDAA Act behind our backs, authorizing military use on US soil against American citizens. At the same time, President Obama has enacted the SIP, the Strategic Implementation Plan against domestic “extremism.”

If you speak out against the government for criminal activity, or for egregiously attacking our Constitution, you can legally be considered an extremist and a terrorist. Bad news for you, because now you can be hauled away and imprisoned for life, without a trial or your Habeas Corpus rights.

FEMA also has drawn up a new Contingency of Government plan that incorporates offensive military definitions and criteria that can be used against “We the People.” Add to this the fact that the FBI has enacted new absurd terrorism identifiers that make us all suspects. (Having more than seven days worth of food in your house makes you a terrorist suspect. Please see my three-part series on the NDAA legislation.)

What is most unusual about the vote for the new drones over America bill (HR 658) is it was very much a partisan vote, with Republicans being the primary supporters and Democrats staunchly voting against it. You can see the roll-call of votes below if you doubt this. The house vote was very close, with 223 yes votes and 196 no votes. Sadly there were 13 reps that decided not to vote on the bill.

The real curiosity is that the vote in the Senate was overwhelmingly in favor of the bill, with only 20 Senators voting no. Again, most of those voting no were Democrats. Still, how does the Senate vote highly in favor of such a horrific bill, when the House is nearly split down the middle? And once again, the partisanship absolutely baffles me.

I’m starting to think that maybe the research from the 2011 University College of London study is actually correct. They proffered that people tending to be conservatives have a much larger amygdala. Why does that matter?

According to the study, the larger the amygdala, the more susceptible the brain is to being scared. At face value that seems patently absurd to this reporter. Seriously, it sounds absolutely ridiculous, but in light of the recent vote on HR 658, I’m seriously beginning to wonder.

To be fair, there were some Democrats involved in the passage of this bill, such as the regular corporate shills, like Diane Feinstein, Barbara Boxer, and Carl Levin, but the support for HR 658 is far and away one-sided. That is disturbing to see. Again, it truly baffles this reporter, but I digress from the gist of this article.

If you think that having 30,000 drones over America is going to make us safer, you’ve been watching too much TV. How do these drones know who is traveling in a particular vehicle? How do they know if a sleeper cell has suddenly become active, or if a group has successfully infiltrated the country?

Would these drones have stopped the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing? Would they have stopped the 9/11 attacks? Would they have stopped the anthrax attacks? The answer to all three of these questions is a resolute NO, because US authorities were asleep at the wheel, or complicit in all three of those events.

So how will 30,000 drones over the US keep us safe from terrorism? Maybe a better question is, how might 30,000 drones be used to enforce a police state over American citizens. The latter is more chilling and offers far more possibilities for TPTB. This is quite disconcerting given the fact that during the latest census all of our homes were GPS’d.

The bill is worth $63.4 billion dollars, so it will be interesting to track the money on this one. Considering that we are in such a dire economic crisis, it is interesting that they deem it necessary to spend $63.4 BILLION dollars at this time.

Another disturbing thought, these drones can remain airborne for up to 50 hours at a time. What perils does this offer for air traffic safety, by adding 30-THOUSAND new aircraft to our skies? The FAA has nine months from the bill’s signing to submit a plan to safely allow access for the drones.

The fact that our corporate controlled mainstream media failed to report on this, as they failed to do with the NDAA legislation, ought to tell you that they are working with TPTB. No other conclusion can be made. They have been complicit and willing participants in these anti-Constitutional attacks on “We the People.”

This reporter advocates naming them as accessories to the crimes of state, for they are sharp enough to ferret out the real story, yet they refuse to do so.

One side note on HR 658… it also allows for GPS control and landing of aircraft. This is actually supposed to be the major impetus for the bill, with the drones as a secondary component. The GPS aspect is somewhat troubling because of the magnetic shifts that have been occurring on this planet.

The geomagnetic poles have undeniably been moving, so much so that airports have had to re-designate runway coordinates and adjust their GPS instrumentation. I would hope that with this in mind, they have implemented proper safeguards to account for this documented scientific anomaly.

In conclusion, it is very clear that a police state has descended upon America. If you doubt that, you have not been paying attention. The agenda for the New World Order has been furthered tremendously in the last decade since 9/11, and even more so in just the last year. NWO advocate Senator Jay Rockefeller said the bill is “the best news that the airline industry ever had. It will take us into a new era.”

You have to seriously ask yourself… with only TWO incidents of actual  successful terrorist acts since 2000, why is our government moving recklessly with such EXTREME measures to counter a threat that does not present itself to us as on a daily, weekly, monthly, or even yearly basis?

George W. Bush absurdly said after 9/11 that the terrorists hated us for our freedoms. It would appear to this reporter that it is the powers that be who truly hate our freedoms. Foreign terrorists did not take our freedoms away. Our politicians and government officials have done that, and they did it because Americans were too lazy to pay attention to what has been going on in their own country.

We are the most overly entertained society the world has ever known. There is a reason for that. If you keep watching the boob tube and continue to ignore what our elected servants are doing to us all, pretty soon you will be watching “Amerikan Idol” and “Goosestepping Mit Der Stars.”

What is happening in America today is far worse than Nazi Germany. Just because you still get to watch the idiot box and shop at Wal-Mart does not mean that you are free.

Time to wake up America. It’s time for all good men (and women) to come to the aid of their country, while you still have the chance to do so.”

As it turns out, Brother Love is not our salvation, but rather a continuation of the hell he promised to resurrect us from.  He has effectively united two once polar opposits, the Democrats and the Republicans to honor one cause and one cause only; world domination at the expense of the globe’s entire population, save the 1% of the extraordinarily wealthy. 


He has passed his basket and taken the precious, hard-earned dreams of the world and handed them over to the very demons of the future, the ruling elite class of the planet Earth.

No!  We have NOT replaced the authoritarian regime of the Bush Dynasty we have, perhaps unwittingly so, promoted the office of President of the United States to Benefactor of the Elite and Assassin of the not so.   And we must be very, very worried, not just those “suspicious persons,” but ALL of us, for our very civil liberties and perhaps our very safety.

How long will it be before those drones are firing on “suspected terrorists” within U.S. cities, or Canada, England, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, etc.... killing far more than 10 civilians for every “suspect” (these countries are much more densely populated than are Iraq and Afghanistan), all at the whim of a now horrifically powerful RepubliCrat???

Be sure to pay your taxes, say your prayers and never, ever look up, for that just may be construed as very suspicious activity.  Brother Love is watching, he’s a conman, a pathological liar and he’s packing some damned serious power and heat.

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