During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. ~ George Orwell
California cities PG&E will cut power Saturday
Throughout America's adventure in free government, our basic purposes have been to keep the peace; to foster progress in human achievement, and to enhance liberty, dignity and integrity among people and among nations. To strive for less would be unworthy of a free and religious people. Any failure traceable to arrogance, or our lack of comprehension or readiness to sacrifice would inflict upon us grievous hurt both at home and abroad. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
4th Reich Tutorial ~ What In Tarnation ~ Dear Citizens ~ Titor on Civil War
Doom and Gloom via Rossana Podestá Massa
Life is deep & simple & what our society gives us is shallow & complicated. ~ Mr. Rogers
Robin Trower - Bridge of Sighs - BBC 1974 HD via Klaus
Moscow Mitch via Moscow Mitch
The Great Dictator ~ Charlie Chaplin ~ Kinetic Typography via Korhan Kutlu
Klaatu: "Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft" via Jeff Boulton
Nobody for President ~ NONE of the ABOVE should be a choice on voter ballots ~ Campaign Manager Comments
by C. Spangler
During 1975 I was working on some statistic (computer) programs and accidentally ran across numbers showing fifty percent (50%) of 'the people' who could vote, were not registered or showing up at the polls. In other words, plain and simple APATHY was at hand!
Simultaneously, I was growing tired of all political arguments; especially voting for lesser of evils, decided to come up with an alternative, and here is the result..
The least expensive, most effective way to implement change was to do away with the office of president and let Congress run the country or include NONE of the ABOVE as a valid choice on voter ballots.
On December 8, 1975 I discussed these statistics with Wavy Gravy and he replied, "You mean Nobody is winning Presidential elections?"
That question became a spark that ignited the Birthday Party's Nobody for President campaign.
The "Birthday Party" decided to support an easy, cost-effective, way to restore political balance:
None of the Above
should be a valid choice on voter ballots.
Unfortunately, a jaded two party system rejects this simple fix because Nobody has all the answers and believes: if a majority of citizens voted for None of the Above, rather than lesser of evils, voters would have to find someone competent to lead them !!! The media said, "Nobody could argue with that logic."
(1) Put "None of the Above" on voter ballots.
(2) Change requirements for President:
(a) Extremely hard civil service exam.
(b) Top scores compete in Prezolympics.
(c) Top 10 winners become candidates.
(d) Election winner becomes President.
(e) Gets device implanted in brain that explodes if a lie is told.
(3) Hire a Ribbon Cutter for President.
(a) Saved money pays off national debt.
(4) Declare election day a holiday.
(a) Voting receipt required for pay.
(5) Tie election participation to jury duty.
(a) Those who don't vote go on jury rolls.
I would be remiss if I did not mention Tuli Kupferberg ~ [Tuli's Wikipedia Page] who was one of the original Nobody supporters!
Nobody brought peace to our time, lowered taxes, balanced the budget, fed the hungry & destitute, established a corporate death penalty, created free health care, ordered Congress & Senate to use same benefits as "The People," reminded everybody Jesus said, "Love one another" (NOT murder or maim), and ...bakes apple pie better than Mom!
Boptime w/Even Steven Leech
Boptime begins at 6am (EDT) Saturday morning with a batch of oldies back to back to back. At 7am (EDT) on Rockabilly Ridge with Michael Ace we get you into that Halloween mood with some appropriate tunes. We keep the Halloween theme going at 8am (EDT) with even more music that fits the season. At 9am (EDT) Boptime listener Jim Matthews delivers his Dream Hour. ~ Steve
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Dahbud Mensch ~ Stuck in the middle with WHO? ~ Time To Stop TRE45ON Now?
Your retardation is disadvantageous. I propound you all vamoose with great importunity.
Oh crap! It's a Thesaurus
Beethoven’s 5 Secrets ~ OneRepublic (Cello Orchestral Cover) ~ ThePianoGuys via mzeyimateos
3-Minute Civics:
An impeachment primer
by TRACY HAHN-BURKETT for the Concord Monitor, Published: 10/20/2019 7:30:08 AM, Article Source
The term “impeachment” is in the news daily these days, and it’s not going away anytime soon. But what does that term really mean? Who is eligible to be impeached, and on what grounds? What are the rules? Who decides? What are the consequences of being impeached? And where is this all spelled out, anyway?
Let’s cover the basics – or at least lay enough of a foundation in 800 or so words to understand the news stories in the days ahead.
The term “impeachment” has become shorthand for what is actually a two-step process. It’s a political remedy – not a criminal one – established in the Constitution to remove from office certain senior officials of the United States government who have committed improper acts.
With me so far? Let’s get into some details.
Article II, Section 4 of the Constitution says: “The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.”
Who are we talking about? Only 19 people have been impeached in the history of our country. Two were presidents – Andrew Johnson in 1868 and Bill Clinton in 1998 – and most of the others were judges. (President Richard Nixon resigned in 1974 to avoid impending impeachment.) Because the news these days is focusing on a president, let’s keep the conversation simple and stick with that.
But I remember history class (and actual history), and Presidents Johnson and Clinton weren’t kicked out of office. You’re correct. That’s because they were impeached, but not convicted. Keep reading.
How does impeachment work? The (very broad) outlines for impeachment are set forth in Article I, Sections 2 and 3 of the Constitution. Impeachment proceedings take place in the House of Representatives. There is no clearly proscribed manner or time frame in which this needs to take place. Generally, one or more House committees conducts an inquiry to determine if there is sufficient evidence to bring articles of impeachment to the full House for a vote.
If the evidence is deemed sufficient, the articles of impeachment make their way to the House floor, and if the House votes in favor of one or more articles by a majority vote, the president is impeached.
But impeachment is really just stage one. Impeachment functions much like an indictment, and an impeached official still holds his or her office. After a successful impeachment vote, Article I, Section 3 of the Constitution says that trials for impeached officials take place in the Senate. A team of House members acts as prosecutors, and the impeached official, as the defendant, is represented by legal counsel.
The chief justice of the United States presides while the Senate acts as the jury; the prosecutors present evidence, the defense can cross-examine and present its own case.
What was that you said about an “inquiry?” This is one of the undefined aspects of impeachment. In the Nixon and Clinton cases, the full House voted to refer the impeachment matter to the House Judiciary Committee for investigation or “inquiry.” In Nixon’s case, that committee conducted its own investigation before drafting impeachment articles, while the committee decided to rely on a special prosecutor’s investigation in the Clinton matter.
There are no set rules setting forth how the House has to go about the impeachment process. In reality, the party holding the majority will be able to make this determination.
What can a president be impeached for? I get bribery and treason, but what exactly does “high Crimes and Misdemeanors” mean? The first thing to note is that articles of impeachment don’t have to consist of actual crimes. Impeachment is a political process, not a criminal one, and Congress has wide latitude to determine what constitutes a political offense.
We and Congress can look to Alexander Hamilton in Federalist Paper 65 for guidance, in which he referred to: “Those offenses which proceed from the misconduct of public men, or, in other words, from the abuse or violation of some public trust … they relate chiefly to injuries done immediately to the society itself.”
Impeachable offenses have generally been interpreted to mean violations of one’s oath of office or other serious abuses of power that may or may not have been actual crimes under law. Or, put another way, they are what Congress says they are.
What are the consequences of impeachment? At the end of the trial, the jury votes. If two-thirds of the senators vote for conviction, the president is removed from office and the vice president becomes president. Note that if any of the impeachable offenses involved actual criminal behavior, charges would need to be prosecuted as separate proceedings in the criminal justice system in order for any criminal penalties to be applied.
In summary, impeachment is a constitutional, political process. In may involve actual criminal activity, but it may not.
The Founders included impeachment in the Constitution as a safety valve they hoped would be needed and used rarely but wisely. Understanding what impeachment is and isn’t – as well as how it works – will help everyone in the days and months ahead. [Source]
TIME TO STOP
TRE45ON NOW?
We will bury you! ~ Soviet First Secretary Nikita Khrushchev
The Original Complete List Of The
45 Declared Goals
For The Communist Takeover Of America
1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.
2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.
3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament [by] the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.
4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.
5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.
6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.
7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.
8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev's promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.
9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.
10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.
11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)
12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.
13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.
14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.
15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.
16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.
17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
18. Gain control of all student newspapers.
19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.
20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policy-making positions.
21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.
22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms."
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art."
24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.
25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."
27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity, which does not need a "religious crutch."
28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state."
29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.
30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man."
31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the "big picture." Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.
32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture--education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.
33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.
34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.
36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.
37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.
38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand [or treat].
39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.
40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.
42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use ["]united force["] to solve economic, political or social problems.
43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.
44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.
45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction [over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction] over nations and individuals alike.
Manifestoon via jessedrew
Dahbud Mensch ~ Stuck in the middle with WHO? ~ Why One Should Trust Nobody more than a Politician
What Democrats & Republicans
Approved Without Reading
The Patriot Act Is A Crime Against U.S. Citizens
Distant Relatives [Patience] via nabil elderkin
It is alleged the first major Spying on US Citizens was specifically done on media personnel & politicians previous to Bush becoming president during 2000; thanks to a partisan Supreme Court & limp Democraps. The Patriot Act; never read by your elected politicians, was established October 26, 2001.
The PATRIOT ACT excretes on the fourth amendment. Simply, anyone doing anything "criminal" can be treated as a "terrorist." Sounds innocuous until you realize that speeding on the highway, on your way to work, is considered to be "criminal."
The PATRIOT ACT brought to you by
Republicans,
Supported by Democrats &
Nobody Read It
The Patriot Act Is Not About Terrorism,
It Is About Control of United States Citizens.
Ashcroft holds a sign saying, "The Bush Jihad Against The Bill of Rights" and
Freedom is Slavery!
ABCNEWS.com has obtained a draft of the Vital Interdiction of Criminal Terrorist Organizations Act of 2003, or VICTORY Act, which could be introduced to Congress this fall, and which appears to have been prepared by the office of Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Ashcroft says, Uh, yah ... I still need more emergency powers. Our Republic remains endangered.
Provisions in the draft would:
Raise the threshold for rejecting illegal wiretaps. The draft reads: "A court may not grant a motion to suppress the contents of a wire or oral communication, or evidence derived therefrom, unless the court finds that the violation of this chapter involved bad faith by law enforcement."
Melba says, Edith, I hear the Government can tap our phones whenever they damn well want to!!!
Ashcroft who is illegally listening to the conversation says, That's not true, Edith-It's only to catch
terrorists!
Edith questions by asking, Melba is a terrorist?
Extend subpoena powers by giving giving law enforcement the authority to issue non-judicial subpoenas which require a person suspected of involvement in money laundering to turn over financial records and appear in a prosecutor's office to answer questions.
Ashcroft, while devouring United States Citizens' CIVIL LIBERTIES, demands MORE.
Extend the power of the attorney general to issue so-called administrative "sneak-and-peak" subpoenas to drug cases. These subpoenas allow law enforcement to gather evidence from wire communication, financial records or other sources before the subject of the search is notified.
Mr. Ashcroft wants people who go into American homes to snoop while they're there.
~ USPS, FEDEX, UNITED PARCEL, ACME EXTERMINATORS, & ED'S PLUMBING are depicted
At the door a woman says, I'm sorry Alice, I'll come back later I didn't know you had snoops.
Allow law enforcement to seek a court order to require the "provider of an electronic communication service or remote computing service" or a financial institution to delay notifying a customer that their records had been subpoenaed.
Ashcroft says, IF AT FIRST YOU DON'T SUCCEED.... and is about to blow-up American CIVIL LIBERTIES
"This bill would treat drug possession as a 'terrorist offense' and drug dealers as 'narco-terrorist kingpins,' " the aide argued. "To say that terrorist groups use a small percentage of the drug trafficking in the United States to finance terrorism may be a fair point, but this bill would allow the government to prosecute most drug cases as terrorism cases."
John Ashcroft's War on Terrorists ~ A large eye watches a couple in bed, who are trying to sleep.
Concluded the aide: "It really seems to be more about a political agenda to jail drug users than a serious attempt to stop terrorists."
WAR ON TERROR thugs destroy a home, hold a gun on a dog, and look at women's
underwear during a raid.
Not finding anything terror related, one thug says,
So...As long as we're here... Does your evil kid smoke dope?
Terror Alert ~ Have You Seen This Man (Ashcroft)? Targets May Include:
* Your privacy rights * Your right to know what your government's up to
* YOUR PROTECTIONS UNDER THE JUSTICE SYSTEM:
Ashcroft cuts the bell ringer off a Liberty Bell with CIVIL LIBERTIES written on it,
while shushing Americans.
Read Complete Patriot Act page?
Boptime w/Even Steven Leech
Boptime begins at 6am (EDT) Saturday morning with a batch of oldies back to back to back. At 7am (EDT) on Rockabilly Ridge with Michael Ace we’ll hear some rare and demented rock & roll from the 1950s. At 8am (EDT), after a week off from live programming due to an infrastructural problem, we return to live broadcasting by going back to this day in 1948 with some great pop and R&B tunes, including a visit to one of Wilmington’s hottest night spots. At 9am (EDT) we bop up to this day in 1955 with a batch of new tunes, the #1 pop, R&B, and country tunes, what was playing at the movies, and more. ~ Steve
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Notes from ~@~
October 16, 1965
A Tribute to Dr. Strange
In October 1965, a small commune called the Family Dog threw an unusual dance at Longshoreman's Hall, starring a rock band called the Charlatans that had played the previous summer at the Red Dog Saloon, a restored silver rush dance hall in Virginia City, Nev. The second-billed group, which had an even weirder name, Jefferson Airplane, was making its first appearance outside the Marina District nightclub it had opened the month before. The third act on the bill, the Great Society, featured a former model from Palo Alto named Grace Slick.
George Hunter, Dan Hicks, Mike Wilhelm, Mike Ferguson, Richie Olsen
The Charlatans, 1964, Golden Gate Park Conservatory
More than a thousand people turned up for the dance. Hair flowing over their collars, the revelers were dressed cheerfully in colorful discards plucked from thrift stores. Many were on LSD, as were many of the musicians. Virtually everyone who attended "A Tribute to Dr. Strange," as he dance was called, seemed to have the same thought about the gathering: "I didn't know there were this many of us."
The Glory Of Love via Nabuke O
Words to the above tune written by Billy Hill, recorded by Benny Goodman in 1936, and performed by The Five Keys during my day:
You've got to give a little, take a little ~ And let your poor heart break a little ~ That's the story of, that's the glory of love ~ You've got to laugh a little, cry a little ~ Before the clouds roll by a little ~ That's the story of, that's the glory of love ~ As long as there's the two of us ~ We've got the world and all its charms ~ And when the world is through with us ~ We've got each other's arms ~ You've got to win a little, lose a little ~ And always have the blues a little ~ That's the story of, that's the glory of love ~ As long as there's the two of us ~ We've got the world and all its charms ~ And when the world is through with us ~ We've got each other's arms ~ You've got to win a little, lose a little ~ And always have the blues a little ~ That's the story of, that's the glory of love ~ That's the story of, that's the glory of love
NONE of the ABOVE should be a valid choice on Voter Ballots!
Boptime w/Even Steven Leech
Boptime usually begins at 6am (EDT) Saturday morning with a batch of oldies back to back to back, but work is being done on the studio building, so...
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Dahbud Mensch ~ Stuck in the middle with WHO ? ~ Corporate Death Penalty
Are We Supposed To Take
Spoiled Food To PG&E
For Verification ?
California Wildfires Sparked Minutes After Electrical Failure
California Firefighters Take Offensive Against Blazes In Wine Country, L.A. Suburbs
During the older days corporate felons would be
tarred, feathered & ridden out of town on a rail?
FELON = PG&E ?+ CPUC + EXECUTIVES + TAR & FEATHER + RIDDEN OUT ON A RAIL
Part One: Convicted Felon/Murderer and ??? Payback for burning down NORCAL ???
Millions are out of power in California,
but were the PG&E shutoffs necessary?
by Nsikan Akpan, Science Oct 10, 2019 10:41 PM EDT, Source
On Tuesday, Pacific Gas & Electric warned 51,000 customers in Contra Costa County, California that they could lose power, as the beleaguered utility company shut down its grid due to an elevated wildfire risk. Nearly 800,000 PG&E subscribers — more than 2 million people — were expected to lose power in the region overall.
The warning area included the Meals on Wheels kitchen in the city of Antioch, located east of Berkeley and the San Francisco Bay. That chapter of the charity provides food for more than 1,000 people — mostly seniors.
“We had asked our volunteers to report in even if we had no power and no food, so that we could still do the welfare check that we typically do when we deliver food,” said Nancy Raniere, nutrition services division manager for Meals on Wheels Diablo Region. All 63 of their volunteers came in, even though many lacked power at their own homes, she said.
Strong seasonal winds that regularly strike California in autumn and early winter — called Diablo winds in the north and Santa Ana winds in the south — motivated PG&E to conduct widespread power shutoffs.
“We have had some preliminary reports of damage to our lines. So we’ll have to repair those damages before we can safely energize the line,” PG&E spokesman Paul Doherty told the Associated Press.
On Thursday, those wild gusts spread south, pushing Southern California Edison to shut off power to 12,000 people. Those measures weren’t enough to stifle a fire that struck near Los Angeles, destroying homes.
Yet early signs suggest that PG&E may have overestimated the fire risk this week.
If it feels like you hear about California’s fire risks every fall, it’s because they have become habitual. Fire season is stretching later and later into the year — because of warming temperatures, increased droughts and annual winds.
The last two autumns witnessed the two most destructive fires in California history. The Tubbs Fire in Napa and Sonoma counties destroyed 5,600 structures in October 2017, while the 2018 Camp Fire demolished nearly 19,000 buildings — most in the town of Paradise. At least 85 people died in that blaze.
PG&E power lines were faulted as the cause of the Camp Fire, and attorneys for victims still believe the utility can be blamed for the Tubbs Fire too, even though an investigation by the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection cleared the company in January. [Please Continue Reading]
Part Two: One reminder of what the Convicted Felon/Murderer has done in the past...
Backtrack:
Politicians: Politicians race to San Bruno
PG&E diverted safety money for profit, bonuses
PG&E collected millions more for pipeline repair than it spent
PG&E charged: multiple violations of Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act
PG&E slapped with a record $1.6 billion penalty for fatal San Bruno explosion
On September 16, 2014, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Carol Brown,
chief of staff for the president of the California Public Utilities Commission,
had communicated with PG&E executives to help move litigation to judges
they expected would be friendly to PG&E's side. [Judge scandal under federal
investigation ~ II Corinthians, 11:13-15]
PG&E customers face triple whammy in gas and electric bills
PG&E trial: Prosecution drops maximum penalty to $6 million
Mercury News editorial: PG&E leniency demands explanation
PG&E guilty on six charges connected to fatal San Bruno explosion
Mercury News editorial: Hold PG&E accountable
PG&E hasn’t learned lessons from San Bruno explosion, officials say
Editorial: PG&E found guilty, but it’s not enough (East Bay Times)
Politicians: Politicians’ talk of regulatory reform is just pious rhetoric
PG&E seeks to overturn guilty verdict in trial linked to San Bruno blast
Despite flawed records, PG&E raised pressure on pipe that exploded
PG&E criminal charges against agency ‘unwarranted,’ says it didn’t break the law
Politicians: Lawmakers kill major revamp of PUC, but some reforms get approved
PG&E 2010 San Bruno pipeline explosion via Wikipedia ~ II Corinthians, 11:13-15
Part Three: Corporate Death Penalty?
Why are PG&E executives, CPUC executives, and Politicians allowed to get away with murder & maiming anybody they choose, only to walk free, just like in Bhopal?
Federal prosecutors get judge to cut $500 million plus dollars in natural gas pipeline explosion fines caused by criminal PG&E executives partying with funds set aside to protect residents of San Bruno, where eight people died, fifty-eight people were injured, and thirty-eight homes were destroyed.
Time For A Corporate
Death Penalty?
by Bruce A. Dixon, Black Agenda Report managing editor, Source, Wed, 06/09/2010 -10:35, corporate rule
There are more than 40 federal offenses for which the death penalty can be applied to human beings, most of them connected to homicide of one kind or another. But countless homicides committed by the artificial persons we call corporations go unpunished every day. Apparently “personal responsibility” applies only to humans who are not operating behind the legal shield of corporate personhood.
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Over the last hundred or so years, corporations have gained many of the rights previously accorded only to human beings. Corporations have the right to buy and sell anything or anyone that can be bought or sold. Corporations have claimed the right to lie in their advertising and PR as "free speech," along with the right to help us mere humans choose our judges and elected officials with unlimited amounts of cash, including anonymous cash. Corporations have been awarded the right to patent genetic sequences of diseases and to monopolize their cures, as well as patent rights to living plants and animals not of their invention. A whole type of new anti-pollution regulation called "cap and trade" actually enshrines a corporate right to pollute and establishes exchanges upon which speculators can bid, trade and capture rents for those alleged rights. And unlike a working person, who has no right to next month's let alone next year's wages, legal scholars working for corporations have devised and popularized something they call the "regulatory takings" doctrine, under which corporations may claim and recover from the government rights to profits they might have made in years to come. And let's not even talk about trillions in corporate welfare for banks, military contractors, Wal-Mart and others.
While many argue that corporations have too many rights as it is, this might be a good time to extend them at least one more right we humans have kept for ourselves until now; the right to be put to death for serious crimes. Right now federal statutes alone offer individuals more than 40 different ways to earn the death penalty, including kidnapping, treason, aircraft hijacking, espionage and many varieties of murder, conspiracy, threatening murder and some drug crimes. Individual states offer the death penalty for a host of similar offenses.
Putting bad corporate actors down the way we do rabid dogs and serial killers is not a new or even a radical idea. Corporations are created by the charters of individual states, so states DO have the power to revoke them. Early in this country's history, corporate charters used to limit a company's existence to a set number of years, to confine their operations to manufacturing a certain item, building a specific road or canal and prohibit them from changing ownership, dumping or concealing their assets or engaging in other kinds of business. These are legal powers that our governments have not used in a long, long time, but which it's high time to reclaim.
Homicidal profit-seeking on the part of corporations has become an everyday fact of modern life. Whether it's employers cutting health and safety corners, marketers pushing unsafe drugs, food and products of all kinds, or the deadly industrial fouling of the planet's air, soil, oceans and climate we are living in the midst of a corporate crime wave of murderous and epic proportions. If we value human life, it only makes sense to treat corporate serial killers like, well, corporate serial killers, to confiscate their ill-gotten assets, to revoke their corporate charters and sentence the artificial personae of corporate malefactors to death. If corporations are legal persons, it's time to enforce some personal responsibility upon them with a corporate death penalty.
After we accomplish that, it will be time to think about extending a little of that personal responsibility to the actual humans who operate behind the legal shield of the corporations. But right now, as the saying goes, a corporation can't even get arrested in this country, which, come to think of it is still another right we humans ought to bestow upon them.
For Black Agenda Radio, I'm Bruce Dixon. Find us on the web at . ~ Article source
Part Four: Remembering what a Convicted Felon/Murderer did to Flying Snail Ranch!
Brooks & Dunn "Hillbilly Deluxe" via HQ Creative
201509.12 Valley Fire, Loss of Flying Snail Ranch: Complete or Pages
Backyard, Eastern Ridge ~ With 300'/91m waterfall (white water) drop into pool at bottom.
2 years after the Fire
How? by John Lennon, sung by: Ozzy Osbourne via Beatriz Gonçalves
Dahbud Mensch ~ Stuck in the middle with WHO ? ~ Melania's spouse orders truth to be fired
Truth Will Not Set Me Free
Trump administration orders ambassador at center
of Ukraine
scandal not to testify before Congress
Your President via ausernameitis ~ Reddit Source
Hey, Republicans. Your guy is a fucking stupid dipshit moron traitor asshole. via TheBigPhilbowski
No Trump in America has ever served in the military; this spans 5 generations, and every branch of the family tree. In fact, the reason his grandfather immigrated to America was to avoid military service
More Trump highlights:
✓ Makes the U.S. Navy Blue Angles violate ethics rules by having them fly at his July 4th political campaign (July 4, 2019)
✓ Demands US military chiefs stand next to him at 4th of July parade (reported July 2, 2019)
✓ Uses his D-Day interview at cemetery commemorating fallen US soldiers to attack a Vietnam veteran (June 6, 2019)
✓ Starts his D-Day commemoration speech by attacking a private citizen (Bette Midler, of all people) (reported on June 4th, 2019)
✓ Made 2nd wife, Marla Maples, sign a prenup that would have cut off all child support if Tiffany joined the military (reported on June 4th, 2019)
✓ Turns away US military from his Memorial Day speech because they were from the destroyer USS John S. McCain (May 27, 2019)
✓ Orders the USS John McCain out of sight during his visit to Japan (May 15, 2019). The ship's name was subsequently covered. (May 27, 2019)
✓ Pardons war criminals (May, 2019)
✓ Purges 200,000 veterans healthcare applications (due to known administrative errors within VA’s enrollment process and enrollment system) (reported on May 13, 2019)
✓ Deports spouse of fallen Army soldier killed in Afghanistan, leaving their daughter parentless (April 16, 2019)
✓ Complains a deceased war hero didn't thank him for his funeral (March 20, 2019)
✓ Diverts military housing funds to pay for border wall (Feb 15, 2019)
✓ refuses to sign his party's funding bill, which shuts down the government, and forces a branch of the military to go without pay (but his appointees got a $10,000 pay raise). This branch of military is forced to work without pay, otherwise they are AWOL (Dec 22, 2018 – Jan 25, 2019)
✓ doesn't pay the Coast Guard, forcing service members to rely on food pantries (Jan 23, 2019)
✓ bans service members from serving based on gender identity (Jan 22, 2019)
✓ denies female troops access to birth control to limit sexual activity (on-going. Published Jan 18, 2019)
✓ tries to deport a marine vet who is a U.S.-born citizen (Jan 16, 2019)
✓ when a man was caught swindling veterans pensions for high-interest “cash advances," Trump's Consumer Financial Protection Bureau fined him $1. As a reminder, the Trump administration's goal was to dismantle the CFPB, installing Mick Mulvaney as the director, who publicly stated the bureau should be disbanded. (Jan 26, 2019)
✓ calls a retired general a 'dog' with a 'big, dumb mouth' (Jan 1, 2019)
✓ increases privatization of the VA, leading to longer waits and higher taxpayer cost (2018)
✓ finally visited troops 2 years after taking office, but only after 154 vacation days at his properties (Dec 26, 2018)
✓ reveals covert Seal Team 5 deployment, including names and faces, on Twitter during visit to Iraq (Dec 26, 2018)
✓ lies to deployed troops that he gave them a 10% raise. He didn't give them a 10% raise (Dec 26, 2018)
✓ fires service members living with HIV just before the 2018 holidays (Dec 19, 2018-present)
✓ gets three Mar-a-Lago guests to run the VA (unknown start - present, made well-known in 2018)
✓ calls troops on Thanksgiving and tells them he's most thankful for himself (Thanksgiving, 2018)
✓ urges Florida to not count deployed military votes (Nov 12, 2018)
✓ cancels Arlington Cemetery visit on Veterans Day due to the rain (Nov 12, 2018)
✓ doesn't visit US cemetery marking the end of WWI due to the rain (but other world leaders go anyway) (Nov 10, 2018)
✓ stops using troops as a political prop immediately after the election. However, troops remain in muddy camps on the border (Nov 7, 2018)
✓ uses troops as a political prop and sends troops on a phantom mission to the border and makes them miss Thanksgiving with their families (Oct-Dec, 2018)
✓ doesn't pay veterans' VA benefits (made public Oct 2018)
✓ doubled the rejection rate for veterans requesting family deportation protections (July 5, 2018)
✓ deports active-duty spouses (11,800 military families face this problem as of April 2018)
✓ forgets a fallen soldier's name (below) during a call to his pregnant widow, then attacks her the next day (Oct 23-24, 2017)
✓ sends commandos into an ambush due to a lack of intel, and sends contractors to pick them up, resulting in a commando being left behind, tortured, and executed. (Trump approved the mission because Bannon told him Obama didn't have the guts to do it) (Oct 4, 2017)
✓ blocks a veteran group on Twitter (June 2017)
✓ discharges active-duty immigrant troops with good records (2017-present)
✓ deports veterans (2017-present)
✓ says he knows more about ISIS than American generals (Oct 2016)
✓ says vets get PTSD because they aren't strong (Oct 3, 2016) (note: yes, he said it's 'because they aren't strong.' He didn't say it's 'because they're weak.' This distinction is important because of Snopes)
✓ accepts a Purple Heart from a fan at one of his rallies and says: “I always wanted to get the Purple Heart. This was much easier.” (Aug 2, 2016)
✓ attacks Gold Star families (2016-present. Myeshia Johnson--gold star widow, Khan family--gold star parents, etc)
✓ sends funds raised from a January 2016 veterans benefit to the Donald J Trump Foundation instead of veterans charities (the foundation has since been ordered shut because of fraud) (Jan, 2016)
✓ says he doesn't consider POWs heroes because they were caught (July 18, 2015)
✓ says having unprotected sex was like Vietnam (1998)
✓ for a decade, sought to kick veterans off of Fifth Avenue because he found them unsightly nuisances outside of Trump Tower. “While disabled veterans should be given every opportunity to earn a living, is it fair to do so to the detriment of the city as a whole or its tax paying citizens and businesses?” - 1991
✓ dodges the draft 5 times
WE'RE GETTING NUMB
TO MELANIA'S SPOUSES'S LAWLESSNESS.
THAT'S VERY DANGEROUS!
Dahbud Mensch ~ Stuck in the middle with WHO ?~ Who are Ministers of Satan?
Satan's demons take on the image of God
similar to that done in Eden ~ II Corinthians, 11:14
(How else do they take control of earth?)
Antichrist is variously understood as being a consummately evil system of government or leader.
Antichrist will be a leader who deceives many people.
Antichrist will divide the world and create war without end.
Antichrist will declare that things which are evil to be good.
Antichrist will refer to war as peace, death as a solution for justice, & serving the wealthy as a means of helping the poor.
Many nations will recognize that he is evil, but his own people will be inclined to believe his deceptions.
Stormy Weather via Jeff Reiter
The GOD of Christians, Muslims, and Jews said,
Thou Shalt Not Kill
Thou Shalt Not Steal
Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery
Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbors Wife
Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness Against Thy Neighbor
amongst other things, and Jesus extended this concept when he said:
Christians are to no longer execute sinners, so they should not wage carnal war, but spiritual warfare ~ (John 18:36; 2 Corinthians 10:1-6; Ephesians 6:10-18; 1 Timothy 1:18-20; 6:11-14; 2 Timothy 2:3-5; 4:6-8)
Christians must be peacemakers forgiving those who do them harm treating their enemies with love and not seeking revenge ~ (Matthew 5:9, Romans 14:19), (Ephesians 4:29-32; Colossians 3:12-14; Matthew 6:9-15; Mark 11:25-26), (Luke 6:27-36) (Romans 12:17-21; 1 Peter 3:8-12)
Hatred, which is the same as murder, is unforgiving, vengeful and hostile towards one's enemies ~ (1 John 3:15)
Somebody’s Fool, Spo-Dee-O-Dee ~ Rhythm Bomb/ Sleazy Records, Bopflix Films
but... Y'all seem hell-bent on creating a
עֵגֶּל הַזָהָב
...begging the question, "WTF is wrong with you?"
2 PETER 2:1 ~ But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
2 PETER 2:2 ~ And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
2 PETER 2:3 ~ And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not. [Continue Reading]
The Staple Singers ~ Respect Yourself (from Soul Train) via Domo
Dahbud Mensch ~ Stuck in the middle with WHO ? ~ Manipulation Accomplished
Supreme Court to democracy:
Drop dead
With a single rash, partisan act, the high court has tainted the Bush presidency, besmirched its own reputation and soiled our nation's proudest legacy.
by Gary Kamiya, Salon's executive editor
Dec. 14, 2000 | Tuesday, Dec. 12, is a day that will live in American infamy long after the tainted election of George W. Bush has faded from memory.With their rash, divisive decision to dispense with the risky and inconvenient workings of democracy and simply award the presidency to their fellow Republican, five right-wing justices dragged the Supreme Court down to perhaps its most ignominious point since the Dred Scott decision.
The court was the last American civic institution to have preserved an aura of impartiality, to be regarded as above the gutter of partisanship and self-interest. The reality, of course, is that no court, no judge, no human being, is completely free of those entanglements. Yet the court has generally acted wisely in avoiding judgments that would inevitably and utterly besmirch it. With one reckless and partisan ruling, it squandered its most precious possession: its reputation. It may take years, even decades, to repair the damage done by the Scalia-Rehnquist court's decision to cancel the election and crown the winner.
It's hard not to conclude, now that this whole sorry saga is over, that the fix was in from the beginning. Not the crude, "vast right-wing conspiracy" fix of Hillary Clinton's imagination, but a de facto fix. Why shouldn't one think the game was rigged, when five Republican-appointed justices -- one of whose son works for the law firm of the lawyer representing Bush, another of whose wife is recruiting staff for the Bush admininstration and two of whom have made clear their desire to retire under a Republican administration -- trashed their entire judicial philosophy to ram through, with only the most cramped of legal justifications, a last-second victory for a Republican who lost the national popular vote and, when the votes in Florida are actually counted, is likely to have lost the Florida one as well?
Perfect justice does not exist. But this was judicial folly, politically explosive and judicially threadbare. This was the court stepping in and awarding victory to one side before the game was over. Even those of us who don't often agree with the court's conservative majority expected better.
As Justice Stevens wrote in his savage dissent, "The position by the majority of this court can only lend credence to the most cynical appraisal of the work of judges throughout the land ... Although we may never know with complete certainty the identity of the winner of this year's election, the identity of the loser is perfectly clear. It is the nation's confidence in the judge as an impartial guardian of the rule of law."
As soon as the ruling was handed down, a nearly hysterical chorus of TV commentators, many of them cynical bear-baiters who wouldn't believe oaths sworn by their own mothers, suddenly pulled long faces and began urging the American people to accept the court's verdict, defer to its wisdom, venerate its grandeur, unite around Bush and generally go quietly back indoors to await further instructions. Television is never more nauseating than when it slips imperceptibly into its role as quasi-official national nanny, instructing the unruly masses in correct civic comportment. But if the dissenting justices can pour bile on the majority's opinions -- Stevens explicitly accuses his conservative brethren of impugning the integrity of their judicial colleagues -- why is it so frightening for the people to do the same thing? The American people's allegiance to democracy should be greater than our fealty to a court that has just spat in its face. In any case, we survived His Fraudulency I, the unduly elected Rutherford B. Hayes, and we will survive His Fraudulency II.
What the court ruled, when you get down to it, was that democracy shouldn't be allowed to get in the way of bureaucracy. One man, one vote? Overrated. Every vote counts? Too much trouble. None of those democratic pieties, the court in its infinite wisdom ruled, are as important as strict adherence to niggling rules and timetables -- rules and timetables that the court itself had the power to set aside.
If a court received evidence that a condemned prisoner was actually innocent, but that evidence arrived five minutes after some subclerk's filing deadline, you would not expect it to simply blithely proceed with the execution on the grounds that proper paperwork had not been done. But that, in effect, is precisely what the Supreme Court did. And what it killed was not only any possibility that this election will ever be regarded as fair or final but the principle that every vote must be counted.
Of course, the Florida recount was flawed. The justices had legitimate reason to be troubled by irregularities in the recount process. The differing standards about what constituted a legal vote, left open by the vague Florida statutory language about the "intent of the voter" and the "clear intent of the voter," opened a Pandora's box -- start recounting without a clear standard and you're in an endless wilderness of enigmatic chads.
But the court's position that those irregularities -- which are comparable to the irregularities that plague every election in every state in the country -- violated equal protection rights and therefore are a matter for federal intervention, is indefensible. It's indefensible on grounds of judicial consistency, considering the court's long history of deference to the states in establishing and interpreting local law. But the real reason it's indefensible is factual.
If the recount violated equal protection rights, then the entire Florida election -- not to mention the national one -- did, too. As Gore attorney David Boies pointed out in oral arguments before the court (although he might as well have been talking to five potted plants -- those minds were closed), the different standards used in counting punch-card ballots have considerably less impact on which votes end up counting (the heart of the equal protection claim) than the different voting machines that are used. Optical scan devices, found in richer, whiter, pro-Bush counties, generate many fewer errors than punch-card devices, which are found in poorer, blacker, pro-Gore ones. Yet the U.S. Supreme Court did not suddenly drop its long-standing aversion to meddling in state affairs and rush into Florida to rectify this grave inequality. That apparently only happens when a fellow Republican needs rescuing.
In any case, even assuming that the differing standards used to evaluate punch-card ballots constitute grounds for federal intervention, there was a clear and fair solution, as suggested by Justice Souter in his dissent: Impose a statewide standard, to be overseen by a judge, and see if the recount could be completed by Dec. 18, the date set for the meeting of electors.
What harm would there be in attempting to carry out this remedy? The court made much of Dec. 12, the "safe harbor" deadline after which the frail craft carrying Florida's precious electors would be buffeted by unknown seas -- smashed by Hurricane DeLay, drenched by Tsunami Lott. But as all the dissenters pointed out, nothing in the Constitution requires states to send electors by that date. A safe harbor means exactly that: a safe harbor. Why not expose the electoral dinghy to those seas? What was the court so worried about? Could it be that, like the man to whom they served up the election, their real fear was that Bush might not win? How else to explain their refusal to pursue the option that many observers thought they would -- an evenhanded solution that would have guaranteed victory to neither man, honored the sacred principle that every vote counts, restored the luster to the court and prevented their legacy from being tarnished forever?
Instead of starting with the principle that the sacred duty of any court intervening in an election is to get the votes counted, and doing everything in their power to make that happen in as fair a way as possible, the five GOP justices simply declared that it couldn't be done because recounts weren't perfect and -- gosh, look at my watch! -- time had expired.
This argument is the epitome of probity, if you take your judicial philosophy from Kafka. The majority said the recount couldn't be done in time -- then smashed the clock with a hammer. They had the colossal gall to write, "A desire for speed is not a general excuse for ignoring equal protection guarantees" -- when they were the ones who halted the recount and imposed artificial deadlines that made that "desire for speed" necessary. As Justice Ginsburg said in her dissent, "The court's conclusion that a constitutionally adequate recount is impractical is a prophecy the court's own judgment will not allow to be tested. Such an untested prophecy should not decide the presidency of the United States."
It is difficult to avoid the degrading conclusion -- degrading, because it implies a substantial lack of judicial competence and integrity on the part of the court's majority -- that from the start the court's right-wing majority, like the Bush camp to which it has so many ties, secretly regarded the very idea of a recount as suspect, inferior, secondary, an ignoble and unacceptable tainting of the God-given, majestic, sacrosanct first-count results (which just happened to show Bush in a razor-thin lead). The single most frightening image of the entire surreal episode may have been James Baker's icy, contemptuous rage as he denounced Gore's request for a recount -- his scowling face almost a caricature of the left's cartoon image of the authoritarian, white-haired, vengeful, win-at-all-costs, God-is-on-our-side right-winger. The Supreme Court ruling had footnotes instead of rage, but it seems to have operated on the same assumptions.
Justice Scalia confirmed this with his bizarre defense of his order to stop the recount, in which he gratuitously said, "The counting of votes that are of questionable legality does in my view threaten irreparable harm to petitioner, and to the country, by casting a cloud upon what he claims to be the legitimacy of his election." It was prudent of Justice Scalia to include the words "what he claims to be," but does anyone really doubt that Scalia, like those Bush supporters who kept angrily braying that Bush had "won," believed that the Texas governor should by rights have already moved into the White House, and Gore's attempts to find out what the vote actually was were damn near treasonous?
This we-already-won mind-set explains why the court signally failed to look at the election as a whole, and craft a remedy that tacitly acknowledged the errors both sides made -- a ruling that would have been as politically wise as the one it issued was divisive and rash.
Courts are not explicitly political institutions, but when dealing with an issue as momentous as the election of a president, it would seem wise for the court to assess the entire context in which a given legal challenge takes place. The Florida election was an equal-opportunity debacle: Both sides acted wrongly and bear some responsibility for the mess. But no one objective could conceivably look at it and claim that the Democrats had overreached so badly that they deserved to be terminated by judicial fiat.
Florida's governor was George W. Bush's brother. Its secretary of state, who never ruled against him, was a high-ranking official in his campaign who hired a private voter-roll cleansing company with Republican ties that disqualified hundreds of legitimate Democratic voters. The Florida GOP illegally completed Republican ballot applications in Martin and Seminole counties while denying Gore campaign workers the same opportunity to correct Democratic ballot applications. It took every opportunity to disqualify improper ballots for Gore, while demonizing Gore for doing the same thing to military overseas ballots. Determined to ensure a Bush victory at all cost, the GOP-controlled Legislature voted to push a slate of Bush electors through -- regardless of what recounts might show. And, of course, the GOP dragged its feet at every turn, resisting recounts and trying to run out the clock.
The Democrats, for their part, lost the moral high ground by failing to call for a statewide manual recount from the beginning. They squandered more capital threatening to sue over a ballot designed by a Democrat. They ignored the obvious injustice of changing the definition of what vote should count in the middle of the process: Palm Beach's recount, in which the standard kept changing, was a travesty. And, like their Republican counterparts, they played hardball with every ballot they could get their hands on.
In light of this situation, a ruling that handed victory to one side and not the other was the last thing, from a political as well as an ethical perspective, the court should have been looking for. And fortunately for the court, a decision to remand back to the Florida Supreme Court would not by any means have ensured a Gore victory -- Bush was actually gaining votes by some accounts -- making it the right thing to do both legally and politically. Yet the court, in thrall to the idea that Bush had already won and, one suspects, secretly accepting the Rush Limbaugh crowd's canard that the hand recounts were not just subject to different standards but to malevolent Democratic manipulation and chad chomping, did not even try. It stopped the counting. It stopped the election. It stopped democracy.
Justice Ginsberg, in her dissent, summed up the case with quiet eloquence. "Ideally, perfection would be the appropriate standard for judging the recount. But we live in an imperfect world, one in which thousands of votes have not been counted. I cannot grant that the recount adopted by the Florida court, flawed as it is, would yield a result less fair or precise than the certification that preceded recount."
Thousands of votes have not been counted. Think about that, whatever your political persuasion is, from time to time during the next four years. Imagine them, gathering dust in a filing cabinet somewhere, each one of them expressing the choice of a person who, when he went to the polling place that Tuesday in November, had every expectation that the United States would do its very best to ensure that whether he was rich or poor, black or white, he would be heard.
The people have not been heard. They will not be heard. And each of those uncounted ballots is a cry of reproach against the act of judicial arrogance that has now forever silenced them.
[Ed. Note: I have had this article linked since 2000 on many pages, to: http:// www.salon.com/ politics/ feature/ 2000/ 12/ 14/ bush/ index.html which no longer works.]
Dahbud Mensch ~ Stuck in the middle with WHO ? ~ Revolution, without conspiracy, Is An Act of One
Samuel R. Caldwell - America's First Victim of Marijuana Prohibition
began four (4) years hard labor for selling 2 joints on October 8, 1937
What In Tarnation?
Cult
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ~ Source
The term cult usually refers to a social group defined by its religious, spiritual, or philosophical beliefs, or its common interest in a particular personality, object or goal. The term itself is controversial and it has divergent definitions in both popular culture and academia and it also has been an ongoing source of contention among scholars across several fields of study.[1][2] In the sociological classifications of religious movements, a cult is a social group with socially deviant or novel beliefs and practices,[3] although this is often unclear.[4][5][6] Other researchers present a less-organized picture of cults saying that they arise spontaneously around novel beliefs and practices.[7] Groups said to be cults range in size from local groups with a few members to international organizations with millions.[8]
Beginning in the 1930s, cults became the object of sociological study in the context of the study of religious behavior.[9] From the 1940s the Christian countercult movement has opposed some sects and new religious movements, and it labelled them as cults for their "un-Christian" unorthodox beliefs. The secular anti-cult movement began in the 1970s and it opposed certain groups, often charging them with mind control and partly motivated in reaction to acts of violence committed by some of their members. Some of the claims and actions of the anti-cult movement have been disputed by scholars and by the news media, leading to further public controversy.
The term "new religious movement" refers to religions which have appeared since the mid-1800s. Many, but not all of them, have been considered to be cults. Sub-categories of cults include: Doomsday cults, personality cults, political cults, destructive cults, racist cults, polygamist cults, and terrorist cults. Various national governments have reacted to cult-related issues in different ways, and this has sometimes led to controversy. ~ [Continue reading]
Dahbud Mensch ~ Stuck in the middle with WHO ? ~ 'Only the best people...'
'Only the best people'
Drinking With Dictators via Rattus-rattus415
David Garrett - (12/28) - Smooth Criminal (feat. Orianthi) via Marcito
Government, Vaping Epidemic, & Epstein Pedophilia Cult via AndyMaas
Affidavits regarding brutal rape of minor:
https://www.scribd.com/doc/316341058/Donald-Trump-Jeffrey-Epstein-Rape-Lawsuit-and-Affidavits
Review of these documents:
https://www.snopes.com/news/2016/06/23/donald-trump-rape-lawsuit/
Video of testimony:
Place finger here to restore humanity in the United States
Disclaimer #4
4. Life is like photography. You use the negative to develop.
Leningrad Cowboys, Happy Being Miserable via Leningrad Cowboys Official
Disclaimer #6
6. If we want world peace, we must let go of our attachments and truly live like nomads. That's where I no mad at you, you no mad at me. That way, there'll surely be nomadness on the planet. And peace begins with each of us. A little peace here, a little peace there, pretty soon all the peaces will fit together to make one big peace everywhere.
Nothing else matters, Metallica arr. Karianne Brouwer violin, Maaike Schoenmaker cello
Notes from ~@~
Freedom of expression and freedom of speech aren't really important unless they're heard...It's hard for me to stay silent when I keep hearing that peace is only attainable through war. And there's nothing more scary than watching ignorance in action. So I dedicated this Emmy to all the people who feel compelled to speak out and not afraid to speak to power and won't shut up and refuse to be silenced.~ Tom Smothers
Carlin Step, DJ Steve Porter & Eli Wilkie from Roland Kardeby
The Great Bell Chant (The End of Suffering) from R Smittenaar
One Day, Matisyahu via ShalomLearning
Unsung Hero from Rattakarn Srithavatchai "Garn"
Boptime w/Even Steven Leech
Boptime begins at 6am (EDT) Saturday morning with a batch of oldies back to back to back. At 7am (EDT) on Rockabilly Ridge with Michael Ace we’ll hear some tunes that weren’t released on U.S. labels. At 8am (EDT) we continue that blues mood with Maurice, Paulé, and Uncle Richard, and a little Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix in the mix on the Morrie Sims Show. We fill out the 8am hour with the Delaware Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame and some old favorites from the Montels, Frankie & the C Notes, Carmen Poppity and more. On the Club Baby Grand at 9am (EDT) we play some jazz tunes from the Boysie Lowery Big Band, Millie Cannon, Alfie Moss and Dexter Koonce, Gerald Chavis, as well as the late Ron Sutton with Spiritual Rhythms and Aniya Jazz, and end up with Kirk Lightsey and Marcus Belgrave with a Len Foster penned tune. ~ Steve
BOPTIME: Saturday, 6 AM Eastern time, 3 AM Pacific time
Go To: http://www.wvud.org/?page_id=24
Click on a listening link below the WVUD logo:
Available locally in DE on WVUD-FM 91.3, Shoutcast [Search: WVUD], and TuneIn
The Sacred Clowns ~ Heyókȟa
The Heyókȟa symbolize and portray many aspects of the sacred, the Wakȟáŋ. Their satire presents important questions by fooling around. They ask difficult questions, and say things others are too afraid to say. By reading between the lines, the audience is able to think about things not usually thought about, or to look at things in a different way.
Principally, the Heyókȟa functions both as a mirror and a teacher, using extreme behaviors to mirror others, thereby forcing them to examine their own doubts, fears, hatreds, and weaknesses. Heyókȟas also have the power to heal emotional pain; such power comes from the experience of shame--they sing of shameful events in their lives, beg for food, and live as clowns. They provoke laughter in distressing situations of despair and provoke fear and chaos when people feel complacent and overly secure, to keep them from taking themselves too seriously or believing they are more powerful than they are.
In addition, sacred clowns serve an important role in shaping tribal codes. Heyókȟa's don't seem to care about taboos, rules, regulations, social norms, or boundaries. Paradoxically, however, it is by violating these norms and taboos that they help to define the accepted boundaries, rules, and societal guidelines for ethical and moral behavior. This is because they are the only ones who can ask "Why?" about sensitive topics and employ satire to question the specialists and carriers of sacred knowledge or those in positions of power and authority. In doing so, they demonstrate concretely the theories of balance and imbalance. Their role is to penetrate deception, turn over rocks, and create a deeper awareness.
Develop Your Mind, Not Sacred Sites
Cree Prophecy
Only after the last tree has been cut down,
Only after the last river has been poisoned,
Only after the last fish has been caught,
Only then will you find money cannot be eaten.
Nobody for President ~ NONE of the ABOVE should be a choice on voter ballots
C. Spangler & Wavy Gravy, Nobody for President, 197610.12 ~ Photo: James Stark
American Dream, George Carlin via Ishtar [Not Work Safe] Nobody should have that much power
Message via Mike Pinder
Oh, I hope that I see you again I never even caught your name As you looked through my window pane ~ So I'm writing this message today I'm thinking that you'll have a way Of hearing the notes in my tune ~ Where are you going? Where have you been? I can imagine other worlds you have seen ~ Beautiful faces and music so serene ~ So I do hope I see you again My universal citizen You went as quickly as you came ~ You know the power Your love is right You have good reason To stay out of sight ~~ But break our illusions and help us Be the light ~ by Mike Pinder
Why I Think This World Should End, Prince EA via Prince EA
Without love in the dream, it will never come true. ~ Jerry Garcia/Robert Hunter
And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make. ~ John Lennon
The man whispered, "God, speak to me" and a meadowlark sang. But the man did not hear. So the man yelled "God, speak to me" and the thunder rolled across the sky. But the man did not listen. The man looked around and said, "God let me see you" and a star shined brightly. But the man did not notice. And the man shouted, "God show me a miracle" and a life was born. But the man did not know. So the man cried out in despair, "Touch me God, and let me know you are there" Whereupon God reached down and touched the man, But the man brushed the butterfly away and walked on.
Don't miss out on a blessing because
it isn't packaged the way you expect!
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