2013 - TIMELESS THEMES & THE FLU

I haven't had a bug for a long time, so maybe I was due.  At any rate, I have managed to contract the flu.  Luckily, you can't catch it from me by electronic transmissions...so taking my few good moments today to write.  If I make no sense, you can blame it on influenza weakness.  The other thing is, I am seriously considering going "Galt" in my own way.  I find myself preaching to the choir.  While I cherish my friendship with my good blogger friends and sharing our information, I am not seeing a major shift in the knowledge base of the country.  My original intention in writing this blog was to share information that would educate those who really have no clue about what it means to be an American.  Over the past four years of writing, I have to conclude that those who wish to know, already do. Those who don't care, still don't care.  Maybe it's the flu talking, but at this moment I have to say I need to focus my energies on things less futile.   

I'll write today....but not as much or as often going forward.

2013 begins......and things look bad to worse. 

Nations come and go.  Economies flourish, flounder and collapse.  Life is ephemeral.  It has always been so.  Makes you wonder.  If life is a morality tale, playing the same things over and over again, why are people not learning the lessons?

The climate changes.  It always does.  There will be people who prey on other people's ignorance.  As Father Time and the Baby New Year ring in 2013, global economics are desperate for most, thanks to very lame leadership.  America is on the downhill slog owing to decades of socialist corruption.  Congress is fighting with those who would save the day for the sake of keeping the well-heeled rolling in clover.  (I'm tempted to say, "These Are The Days Of Our Lives.")

In the history of the world there have been predatory people who cook up schemes to win advantage over other people.  Read some history of World Civilization and you will see recurring themes on economics and survival, on governing policies, poverty and wealth.  What do you get after the connotation "modern."  Post-modern.  What comes after that?  Post-Post modern?  How modern is modern when what we face is classic and timeless corruption from the powerful?  When Obama talks about "change," and then carries out acts of timeless corruption, just how stupid does he think the American public is?  (hint: He is absolutely certain he is the smartest guy in the room and everyone else is a nincompoop.)

During the majority of my life, a weather catastrophe was called "An Act Of God."  The reason for this was because man does not cause the weather or the climate.  We were all on the same page.  Enter stage left come God deniers who now say humanity is responsible for Acts Of God. The people who can think this up are people who think of themselves as gods.  That means they think, because they can manipulate populations, they can make populations believe in their own guilt over something that no one can manipulate.  And they have.  It rains.  It's your fault.  It doesn't rain.  It's your fault.  It's hot.  It's your fault.  It's cold.  It's your fault.  There is a flood in Pakistan.  It's those bad Americans' fault.  Tsunami in Indonesia or Japan.  It's your fault.   The amazing thing to me is that there are people in America, lots of them among us, who can even remotely believe in this guilt trip.

Below is a comment on an article by Lord Christopher Monckton published at Watts Up With That  I grabbed the comment for the eloquent description of what has happened with the insane theory of Climate Change / Global Warming. 

The CAGW fraud as peddled by the UN was never about the science was it? That was a fabricated cover and a perfect excuse to set up the basis for a unified regulatory proto world government, the drawing together of regional governments under a supreme UN led world government. In of itself and standing alone on its merits the case for CAGW is nothing short of ridiculous, it is the embodiment of the Emperors cloak. While the fawning lickspittles shower the wearer with admiration and the mob shout their adulation it goes unnoticed by most that there is in fact no cloak, not until the little boy who has no stake in the process calls out do others realise the truth.

The cloak is the CAGW fraud and the little boy is the sceptic movement. The cautionary tale come to life in the modern age. As a fabricated useful cover the CAGW fraud was a vehicle, a way of uniting disparate opinion, a method of smothering dissent and caution and a way of uniting the public against a common enemy and a common threat. Make up a public threat and peddle that threat as imminent and dangerous and the public as we have seen through history can be manipulated by those with the will and the means to do it. While the gigantic funding flows those who benefit will not seek to end that funding, the law of self interest.

Thousands of scientists and many institutions rely on CAGW funding, a funding stream that would not be available. And whats more those involved know it too, as surely as the sun rises most scientists know in their heart the CAGW fraud is rubbish but self interest dominates. When the CAGW fraud folds it will do so faster than East Germany, those who peddled it will become overnight sceptics, in fact shortly after the CAGW fraud folds you will be hard pressed to find a true believer. Money and political support is the key, its propped the CAGW fraud long after it would have fallen out of favour and become just another phlogiston blunder.

That sounds like a Shakespearean plot, doesn't it?  Timeless themes.  Self-interest, corrupting and bending policies and reality, to benefit someone, or some few, on the suffering of others.  It doesn't get more classic and timeless than that.

As 2013 moves in, I am watching headlines on the price of a gallon of milk being manipulated by the Federal government. (as it has been since at least 1940) Today I read the "Fiscal Cliff Bill" has averted some catastrophic increase in milk prices.  Otherwise, it did nothing to avert our serious debt crisis.   Energy prices are manipulated by the Federal government.  Land prices are manipulated by the Federal government.  Education prices are manipulated by the Federal government.  No wonder those people think they are gods, manipulating food, energy, land use, water use, education, on and on. 

American citizens are voting for other Americans who think they are gods.  The Federal government is so far out of control, we can't move without being manipulated. The god disease must be contagious. (At least people get over the flu.  They don't seem to get over the god disease.) We see local government officials taking on the same attitudes....and unelected boards doing the same.  We are living among people who have no other goal in life but to tell other people how to live. When I was a kid, my brother used to have a saying that made everyone shut up.  "Who died and left you in charge?"  Well, that's pretty much what I want to say to the Americans who think they are gods. 

The same people who banned incandescent light bulbs are now trying their best to ban guns.  Power to ban things is very seductive, no?  I'd like to ban lying.  Actually, I'd like to ban government from power over us.  Oh, that is what the Constitution was supposed to do.  

Welcome to 2013.  A Georgetown professor (Constitution classes at a "prestigious" university) writes an op-ed saying we should throw out the Constitution. Headlines promoting trans-humanism, technocracy, bureaucracy.  $7 million for Obama's family vacation?  $60+ Billion for one section of the country that has had a natural disaster.  Redistribution of wealth is so much fun...especially when it isn't your wealth.

I received an email about ten days ago from someone saying he was in Connecticut and said he owned one of my paintings that was damaged in Hurricane Sandy.  He wanted to know the value of it for insurance purposes.  Hmmmm...I emailed back, sympathized and then asked if he could describe the painting or send me a picture of it?  No reply.  Gee, do you think he is looking to cash in on the government or his insurance company for fictional losses?  I never did hear back from him.  No idea what that was about.

Next mission....get over the flu and get on with less futile efforts.  

Happy 2013, if we can muster it.

 

THE THIRD WAY - COMMUNISM IN CORPORATE CLOTHING

(This is a continuation of the Code Tsunami theme from a previous post...and a reflection on Angelo Codevilla's Ruling Class thesis.)  
The problem is:  You can see it coming, but you can't stop it from happening.  A friend of mine recently told me it is time to hunker down and just figure out how to survive.  I'm beginning to view political abuse of power as a hurricane heading straight at us.  You watch in awe and fear, but you can't prevent it from its destructive purpose.  I know that sounds terribly hopeless, but while I am engaged in Tea Party attempts to stop the hurricane, and I am supporting candidates who express restoration of the Constitution, at this point, I don't see the hurricane breaking up and dissipating.  The hurricane has gained strength and has kicked up enough flying shrapnel in the form of regulations to take out all of the surrounding countryside, bigger than anything a few serious minded Constitutionalists can fight.

Dick Morris recently came out with a book titled, "Screwed."  In it he describes the dangers of Obama and the Senate passing treaties with the UN before the election in November.  One of these treaties is called, "LOST."  It has been tried before and put down.  Now John Kerry is resurrecting it for Senate approval.  You can find out why this is a bad idea here  and here.  Suffice it to say, this is just one example of what the globalists have planned to further destroy our sovereignty.  

While we are fighting off insane micro-managing regulations at the State or local levels, the nation is under attack at the global level.  Who is doing this?  Is it Republicans?  Democrats?   We're way beyond that now.  The answer is both, actually.  As libertarians in the U.S. grapple with the third party dilemma, which isn't successful enough to solve the problem, we are seeing the entire political system merge into something called, "The Third Way."  

"...in a 'Third Way' society, private property must be allowed. Rather than government owning all property and the means of production, as in pure socialism, an alternative is used. In a 'Third Way' society, property and business is heavily controlled by government regulation, rather than government ownership.

"However, in a 'Third Way' society, the laws to keep us citizens in line come from the communist model of government -- which means complete government control of everything from womb to tomb. We are to have a semblance of freedom. But the working class people must never have enough freedom (or accumulative power) to interfere effectively in either commerce or government. The moneyed elite, however, work under the capitalist system, and capitalist rules, so as to continue generating wealth. The elite get the freedom, the workers get strictly controlled."

The American public knows nothing about "The Third Way."  It isn't part of our common political vernacular, even though Bill Clinton and Tony Blair spoke about it at some length.  (They still do.) 

Reports Don Fiedor:

"Blair said that the world's center-left parties had to put themselves at the forefront of managing social change in the global economy.

"The old left [communists] resisted that change. The new right [conservative capitalists] did not want to manage it. We have to manage that change to produce social solidarity and prosperity."

So there you have it: managing social change in the global economy to produce social solidarity and prosperity. Blair's explanation is a short definition of a political plan that has been in the works for quite some time. It started with the Rhodes Scholars at Oxford University and is now taught in select American schools, such as the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. The perpetrators support a blend of the best of communism and capitalism. The captains of big business and industry are to continue receiving every liberty, freedom and privilege they have come to expect. In return, they are expected to produce products, generate capital and support the governing elite.

Government's function will be to control the people, and insure a ready work force. That will be accomplished through a myriad of laws, rules and regulations controlling everything in the lives of the people."

Is it any wonder that Americans don't know where to look for Constitutional leadership?  Both the right and the left at the top of the political parties are well schooled in "The Third Way."  The policies of "The Third Way" provide them with bread and butter / campaign money.  Global corporations and global banks cannot afford to ignore politicians who regulate global policies.  (Here I want to add that Agenda 21 is a handbook for "The Third Way," as it creates global standards for every economic, cultural, and social aspect of life for every human on the planet by combining corporate and governmental policies. You can see a microcosmic version of this with the EU and the failure that has become.)  Further complicating this insanity is that neither base from the right or the left want anything to do with the policies of "The Third Way."  Communism in Corporate clothing is not satisfying to either side.  The Hegelian Dialectic = synthesis is "The Third Way" method taught in Oxford and Harvard and other ivy league halls of elitists, but the real world is not interested in compromising their souls for the sake of either Communists or Corporations.  Americans especially are not interested in this because the entire thing is treason against our Constitution. 

I think this is way beyond the grasp of concept of most the American public.  That is why I think the hurricane is coming no matter who is elected in November.  Americans, generally, see the errors, but don't realize how the game is rigged, nor do they know what they can do to stop it.  Me included. 

Yes, I'll vote for Romney, if he is the Republican nominee.  But Romney doesn't seem to be the anti-Third Way candidate, especially with the Wall St. and global corporate backing he is getting.  My Ron Paul friends will say that Paul is the anti-globalist candidate, and they may be right.  But Paul did not garner enough to get the nomination. Will Romney slow down the hurricane?  Doubtful.  Could anyone? 

GASTONIA MAYOR GAIA

Front page of Hometown Section of the Gastonia Gazette - Photo of Mayor Stultz as Mother Earth

Click on picture for a larger view.

This is what the Mayor of Gastonia looks like. This is what the Mayor of Gastonia does with her time. This is what the U.S. Conference of Mayors is encouraging, i.e. mayors supporting Sustainable Development through the worship of Mother Earth.

What is the purpose of government? Celebrating Earth Day? Forcing people to comply with the United Nations' Agenda 21? Implementing Eminent Domain for Greenways? Using the force of government to tax people into submission? Creating high density corridors in order to force people out of rural areas? Regulating farmers out of the use of creeks to water their cattle? Using our tax money for grants to hand out to favored businesses who comply with Sustainable Development or Smart Growth? Taking privately owned land to create "buffer zones" around all water sites? Dressing up in costumes to lead the indoctrination of our youth? Taxing one business to support competing businesses in the name of downtown renewal? Using NGO councils to determine government policies without referendums?

Our Mother Gaia Mayor has done all of that and more. Constitutional government includes none of the above.

What has happened to our government? Costume parades in honor of Mother Earth? This picture just about says it all. I can't help but wonder if there is an adult left in this country who can lead us out of the wilderness and into the land of reason again.

THE VOTER'S BLESSING AND BURDEN

The real impact of the upcoming election is to find out how much power we, the electorate, still have.  NGO's (non-governmental organizations) have been set up to regulate without our authority, the government at all levels has ignored our Constitution, global and corporate power brokers have usurped our authority, Congress has become a bad joke, academics with no practical experience are imposing ideologies we don't believe in, crises are being manufactured in order to manipulate the public, etc.  It is a very different place in which we find ourselves.  The question remains: Can America survive this?  Is this moment in history a perfect storm that will destroy America?  Or is this the moment in history when Americans take back their own legacy of freedom and prosperity?  Are there enough Americans aware of their own precious legacy to even understand the weight on their shoulders?

For decades now, while the American public school system has been dumbing down students and using them for social engineering laboratories, academics in universities have been concocting a globalist, socialist, ideological view that is antithetical to the foundations of our country. The 'ruling class' academics think of themselves as above the ordinary American.  They think they are bigger in brainpower and understanding of the complex world we live in.  Through their arrogance, they believe they know better than the average American voter.  

Democracy to the 'ruling class' is a weapon to fool people into thinking they have some say in matters, but in reality to divest people of a real say in government.  That sounds like a dichotomy, but if you look at the inferior choices we have had in past elections, and the melding of corruption in both major parties, you can understand that dichotomy.  Most countries of the world do not have primaries where citizens can put themselves in position of being elected.  Most so-called democratic countries have power structures which choose who will be elected or not. 

We are fortunate in our country to have primaries, where our citizens elect candidates for political offices.   Yet, when it works to elect candidates the people want, as it did in this past primary season, look how the 'ruling class' elitists howled at and ridiculed the people's selections.  Look at the media hysteria over Christine O'Donnell in Delaware, for instance, who is going up against a devout and admitted Marxist.  The people in Delaware chose O'Donnell over a Republican who voted with Obama on most of the big government socialist programs.  Republicans rejected Obama's agenda and voted to put up a real conservative against a Marxist.  It's a clear choice in Delaware, thanks to the people's voices.  But the 'ruling class' booed and hissed. That is just how far left the 'ruling class' in America has gone. 

This is a telling moment in our lifetimes.  In this election and the next, we are about to find out if we are in charge of our own destiny, or if we are pawns of a broken system created by 'ruling class' elitists who could care less if our Constitution survives or not.  We are about to find out if NGO's  and socialists are going to continue putting us on the "Road to Serfdom," taking away every last vestige of our liberties, or if our American spirit will prevail.   We have the burden, the privilege, and the blessing given to us by our Founding Fathers to give it our best, and hopefully not, last shot.