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Bill Totten | 1 Sep 2009 03:27
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[BillTottenWeblog] The Money Myth Exploded


The financial enigma resolved - A debt-money system

by Louis Even 

versdemain.org (late 1930s)

"The Money Myth Exploded" was one of the first articles of Louis Even, and
remains one of the most popular to explain how money is created as a debt
by private banks. It is available in the form of an eight-page leaflet
(tabloid format) that you can order from the "Michael" office, in several
languages: English, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Polish, Portuguese.

1. Shipwreck survivors

An explosion had blown their ship apart. Each one grasped the first bit of
wreckage that came to hand. And when it was over, there were five left,
five huddled on a raft which the waves carried along at their will. As for
the other victims of the disaster, there was no sign of them.

Hour after long hour their eyes searched the horizon. Would some passing
ship sight them? Would their make-shift raft finds its way to some
friendly shore?

Suddenly a cry rang out:  "Land! Look! Over there, in the direction the
waves are carrying us!"

And as the vague silhouette proved itself to be, in fact, the outline of a
shore, the figures on the raft danced with joy.
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Gary Crethers | 1 Sep 2009 05:49
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LA Burns, Repubs Deathers Now, Cheney Lies, Baer On CIA, Soufan On Torture

Schwarzenegger Fiddles, LA Burns, Afghanistan Bad News, Cheney Rebutted. CIA Baer, Repubs All Deathers Now.
Its hot here in LA even by the beach it is over 90 degrees at 6:30 in the evening. Where I work in the San Gabriel
Valley it was 103 at 5 PM as I headed home. That is hot. There are fires burning all around the city and people
are stupid enough to not pay attention to the warnings to leave. Last night a couple decided to hide in a hot
tub and were almost boiled alive and today 5 persons are stuck in a ranch in the middle of the fire when they
were told to leave. There are 8 fires now in the LA region and the Governor has declared 4 counties in
southern California to be disaster areas.
This morning I was listening to reports on Democracy Now about Katrina and the hospital where people were
killed by doctors who were performing triage and putting the worst cases out of misery because the
government failed to come back for them when the power failed after the hospital was flooded. There was a
major article this weekend in the New York Times Magazine on the subject. 
Today it became clear that the Republicans are not going to attempt to help pass health care legislation.
This on Rachel Maddow’s show. The White House Press Secretary today made that announcement after this
weekend one of the Republicans on the Finance Committee, Enzi said that the health care bill will kill old
people. Grassley said he was opposed to the health plan all along. SO WHY ARE THEY ON THE COMMITTEE TO REFORM
HEALTH CARE?
Bernie Sanders the one Socialist in the Senate agrees with Rachel saying that the Republicans have no
intention to help pass health care reform. He says we need to get the 60 votes to cut off the Republican
Filibuster. All we need is 50 votes plus the Vice President. Now that the President is beginning to admit
there is no chance of getting Republican support. Now it is time to rally the American people and pass the
bill. 
This from Democracy Now.
““The Deadly Choices at Memorial”–Investigation of New Orleans Hospital Tells Story of How
Medical Staff Euthanized Patients in Katrina Aftermath
On the fourth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, a major investigation reveals harrowing new details of
one of the many human tragedies that occurred in the aftermath of the storm. Forty-five patients at the New
Orleans Memorial Medical Center died in the days after Katrina’s floodwater knocked out the power in
the hospital. A 13,000-word article titled “The Deadly Choices at Memorial” tells the full story of
what really happened to some of those patients. It’s the cover story of the New York Times Sunday
Magazine this weekend and the product of a two-and-a-half-year investigation. We speak with reporter
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Bill Totten | 2 Sep 2009 03:05
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[BillTottenWeblog] Entropy Gets No Respect


by John Michael Greer

The Archdruid Report (August 26 2009)

Druid perspectives on nature, culture, and the future of industrial
society

The relation between modern industrial society and the scientific ideas
that supposedly guide it is more complex than a casual glance will
necessarily reveal. The ideology a society believes that it embraces
and the assumptions about the world that actually underlie its actions
and institutions are not uncommonly at odds with one another. It often
takes the most strenuous sort of willed inattention to fail to notice
the gap, but efforts toward that end can count on the support of public
opinion as well as the more tangible backing provided by economic
interests.

Consider the clash between the Christian and liberal values allegedly
embraced by the great powers of nineteenth century Europe and the
ruthless political and economic exploitation imposed by these same
powers on the subject peoples of their huge colonial empires. The
result was a rush to find some justification for European empires other
than the obvious one, which was simply that Europeans wanted the wealth
and power they could get by exploiting the rest of the planet. As
Stephen Jay Gould chronicled in his engaging The Mismeasure of Man
(1981), generations of scientists thus spent their careers trying to
argue that the "white race", that imaginary and variously defined
beast, was biologically superior to the other "races" on the planet.
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LCM | 2 Sep 2009 03:18
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Re: [A-List] How the Israel lobby controls the U.S.

Pollard was one of the people my father, who I previously have mentioned
(at least on A-List) was the S.E. U.S. regional coordinator for the ADL,
had discussed with me. My dad was very angry about his continued
imprisonment and did not understand why the various Israeli and Jewish
interest groups were unable to free him either.

An interesting mystery.

Maybe Pollard was a double agent for the Illuminati?

Leigh

Paul Wright wrote:
> If AIPAC controls the US then why is Jonathan Pollard still languishing
> in prison after 22 years for spying on the US for Israel? Every Israeli
> government and many prominent Zionists have sought his release to no avail.
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Gary Crethers | 2 Sep 2009 04:01
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Re: [BillTottenWeblog] Entropy Gets No Respect

Arch druid? I hope human sacrifice isn't part of your prescription. The original Druids were up there with
the Aztecs in quality of human sacrifice to the gods. I am more of a fruit and flowers guy myself. The gods I
prefer don't care much for blood.
  But then perhaps he is from the reformed Druid church. 

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From: Bill Totten <shimogamo <at> ashisuto.co.jp>
To: garyrumor2 <at> yahoo.com
Sent: Tuesday, September 1, 2009 6:05:18 PM
Subject: [R-G] [BillTottenWeblog] Entropy Gets No Respect

by John Michael Greer

The Archdruid Report (August 26 2009)

Druid perspectives on nature, culture, and the future of industrial
society

The relation between modern industrial society and the scientific ideas
that supposedly guide it is more complex than a casual glance will
necessarily reveal. The ideology a society believes that it embraces
and the assumptions about the world that actually underlie its actions
and institutions are not uncommonly at odds with one another. It often
takes the most strenuous sort of willed inattention to fail to notice
the gap, but efforts toward that end can count on the support of public
opinion as well as the more tangible backing provided by economic
interests.

Consider the clash between the Christian and liberal values allegedly
embraced by the great powers of nineteenth century Europe and the
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LCM | 2 Sep 2009 04:42
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Re: [BillTottenWeblog] Entropy Gets No Respect


I knew the chief Arch-Angel of Holy City California. He was a fat
little Portuguese guy who wore a tam-o-shanter, smoked cigars (and
weed), and used to drive a Renault R-10 that had outlived it's supply
chain.

But I digress... The only similarity being he's deceased, and so is
anyone who had any solid information about ancient Druid practices and
no axe to grind... or 'strokes' for that matter.

Druids now, are like Wicca practitioners... of modern philosophical
origin grafted on to what is know of the 'olde time religion'.

Not much is known with any certainty, and human sacrifice is one of
those uncertainties.

"Diodorus Siculus asserts, on *unnamed sources*, that a sacrifice
acceptable to the Celtic gods had to be attended by a druid, for they
were the intermediaries. He also claims that before a battle they
often threw themselves between two armies to bring about peace.

(That's 'sacrifice', but not the kind of which you speak...)

 Diodorus remarks upon the importance of prophets in druidic ritual:
"These men predict the future by observing the flight and calls of
birds and by the sacrifice of holy animals: all orders of society are
in their power... and in very important matters they prepare a human
victim, plunging a dagger into his chest; by observing the way his
limbs convulse as he falls and the gushing of his blood, they are able
to read the future."
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james m nordlund | 2 Sep 2009 06:10
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Free Jailed Falsely :)

Help Mr. Leonard Peltier get the parole he, and humanity, truly deserves, advocate and evoke   :)
Leonard has carried a constant burden for all of humanity, for over 34 years straight, graciously,
courageously, and with great generosity, and, besides thanking him, we have a responsibility to act, not
just to right the wrongs of this world, to act to lessen  Leonard's, and those like Leonard's, burdens;
they've humbly born for us all.  Luckily, "we, the people...", can still be the voice for those unheard;
let us do what we can do to support Leonard's parole.  Thanx, again.  Ciao.    :)
reality

This Action, on Change.org, the url    :)
Free Jailed Falsely    :)
http://humanitarianrelief.change.org/actions/view/free_jailed_falsely
http://www.change.org/profile/189788/actions10
 
Very latest from Friends Digest  :)
Friends Digest Vol. 3, No. 8   :)
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DisabledGreensNews/message/8793

Friends Digest Acts: Attorney Seitz on denial of parole; etc..   :)
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DisabledGreensNews/message/8769

Friends Digest Vol. 3, No. 7   :)
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DisabledGreensNews/message/8759

Shout Out to NH and Surrounding Area :)
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DisabledGreensNews/message/8756

Friends Digest Vol. 3, No. 6   :)
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DisabledGreensNews/message/8748

News from Lewisburg :)
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Gary Crethers | 2 Sep 2009 06:52
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Could be most of what I know about Druids come from Tacitus, and my years in the New Age, as a communard in a
gnostic community durring most of the 1970's who were in close contact with the Findhorn community and the
Fairies of Britannia, I am somewhat familiar with the revisionist view of Druids. Being able to say I have
been there and done that, I will take Tacitus and the Romans before I would take a 20th century or 21st
century reinterpretation. 
   I have seen the specials on Druids on History and National Geographic and have read Gerhard Herms 'The
Celts". and some other books like 'Bede "History of the English Church", "Anglo Saxon Chronicle", "In
Search of the Dark Ages" by Michael Wood, "The Twelve Caesars" Suetonius, "Early History of Rome" Livy,
"History" Polybius, "The Gallic Wars" Caesar, and a lot more stuff over the years, as well and I belonged to
a late roman reenactment group for a while that was into Arthurian stuff, although I could never afford the
costume. 
   Here is Tacitus. Basically I am agnostic on the gentle Druids, I think they were fighting to keep their
position and saw the Romans as a major threat. Which was legitimate from their viewpoint. After all he
managed to stamp out the independence of the Gauls and many of them fled to Britain. They knew from
experience what to expect when Claudius invaded. But from Claudius's viewpoint he was getting rid of an
evil bloodthirsty cult. At least that seems to be how he justified the invasion. Most of us would be opposed
to Roman imperialism if we were to compare Rome to the USA or Great Britain in the last century. Just as most
of us would oppose the Spanish imperialism in Mexico when Cortes took Montezuma hostage. But I don't think
I would want to be trying to defend cutting out of hearts to make the sun rise, no matter how well the argument
was made. 

Tacitus, Annals, Book XIV, Chapters 29-37 

Chapter 29. [Military campaign in Wales] 

During the consulship of Lucius Caesennius Paetus and Publius Petronius Turpilianus [AD 60-61], a
dreadful calamity befell the army in Britain. Aulus Didius, as has been mentioned, aimed at no extension
of territory, content with maintaining the conquests already made. Veranius, who succeeded him, did
little more: he made a few incursions into the country of the Silures, and was hindered by death from
prosecuting the war with vigour. He had been respected, during his life, for the severity of his manners;
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Gary Crethers | 2 Sep 2009 07:56
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Famous Fuck You- Bombing of LA Times, RAC, Bob Avakian, Japanese New Government, My Attitude.

Famous Fuck You- Bombing Of LA Times, RAC And You, Bob Avakian’s Ghost
September 1st, 2009 
Some people don’t like me. I don’t understand it myself. I mean I really try to be nice to people. But
sometimes I just got to tell it like I see it and that offends people. Not everyone, but it happens. Like my
former boss. I got really fed up one day after working for the guy for about 6 years and I called him an
asshole. He took it personally. I don’t see how people can be so stuck on themselves. I mean I know I am an
asshole sometimes, you would think the guy would thank me, but no, he got all offended and fired me. Or maybe
it was because we were trying to join the Teamsters and someone ratted on us. Could be. I will never know now.
Or like the moderator at this anarchist site in LA. He really doesn’t like my comments about certain
people. I asked him to be more specific but all he would say was “Fuck You”, eloquent enough I guess, but
you know I am kind of dense, I like an explanation that goes beyond a simple explicative, especially from my
comrades in the struggle to overthrow capitalism. I mean, if we are ever in the trenches together I want to
know if I can trust the guy or if he is a little cry baby who can’t take a little comradely criticism. But
then how likely are we ever to be in the trenches here in LA?
You never know. When we were marching down Sunset heading for the CNN building during the 2003 anti war
protests arm in arm, it would be good to know if the person on the right or left is trustworthy. Or when we were
battling with the cops last summer in the streets of Denver, you want to know that the people with you are
going to let your comrades know if you get busted or hurt. There are lots of situations that come up when you
have to know if you can count on the people you are with and if you can’t even engage in a little verbal
debate without the people you are supposedly counting on getting all frosty on you, well then you wonder
what would happen in a real stressful situation.
Just a few thoughts from an older comrade who has been through the shit a few times.
What is this thing with Bob Avakian and the RCP on Pacifica? It is Tuesday it must be RCP day on KPFK. The DJ was
even playing a speech by Bob Avakian. I mean the guy may or may not have some good ideas, but he is a lousy
speaker. Please. I was driving home from work, I like a good rousing political speech as much as the next
guy. But Bob Avakian? Really! I would rather listen to Ralph Nader, or Amy Goodman, or even Obama. But
Avakian has a voice like he was being strangled or had just had a piano fall on his foot. It is not pleasant.
He did speak about the four alls and other Maoist rhetoric that I haven’t heard since high school. It was a
little embarrassing, I mean do people really talk in terms of the 4 alls? I guess if we were ignorant
peasants in rural China who had never been to school this might be revealing, but it was a little dated. Not
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Bill Totten | 2 Sep 2009 09:03
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[BillTottenWeblog] End of Summer Blues


Clusterfuck Nation 

by James Howard Kunstler

Comment on current events by the author of
The Long Emergency (2005)

www.kunstler.com (August 31 2009)

In my larval, pre-blogging days, I always faced the back-to-school moment
with abject dread.  It meant returning to a program of the most severe,
mind-numbing regimentation in the ghastly New York City public schools
after a summer of idyllic unreality in the New Hampshire woods, where I
went to a Lord of the Flies (1954)type of summer camp.  And so here I am,
many decades later, still uneasy as the final page of the August calendar
flies away in a hot Santa Ana wind, and a great hellfire closes in on the
far eastern reaches of Los Angeles, and the American money system falls
into a peculiar limbo, and every fifth person is out of work, or going
bankrupt, or glugging down the seawater of default, or being denied
coverage by health insurance that he-or-she has already shelled out ten
grand for this year, or getting shot in a trailer park.

I was in Los Angeles for a few days last week, as chance had it, marveling
at the odd disposition of things there.  I've been there many times over
the years, but you forget how overwhelmingly weird it is. Altogether the
Los Angeles metro area has the ambience of a garage the size of Rhode
Island where someone happened to leave the engine running.  To say that
Los Angeles is all about cars is kind of like saying the Pacific Ocean is
all about water.  But one forgets the supernatural scale of the freeways,
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