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Robert David STEELE Vivas

Everything said about KEYSTONE is a lie.  It is about refining and exporting the dirtiest most expensive source possible, at great externalized cost to the public and future generations (including water needed to flush the tar).  FURTHERMORE, not a single person running for the presidency–including Ron Paul who dismisses General Welfare in the Preamble to the Constitution–is being honest about the fact that we have a 22.4% unemployment rate.

Jill Stein

Dr. Jill Stein, GPUS Presidential Candidate, will be in the Northern Virginia/DC area, mid-January.  We have scheduled a house party so people can get to know Jill better.  We’ll meet at the home of John Reeder.   We’ll have snacks and drinks.    If you can, please rsvp to tamar@gp.org.   Even if you haven’t let us know, come anyway.  We’re just trying to get a rough estimate of attendance.

When:    Wednesday, January 18, 2012, 7:30pm
Where:    1812 N. Huntington Street, Arlington, Va 22205
Contact:   Tamar Yager, 703-534-2187 or 502-296-3849

Metro:  Orange line to East Falls Church.   Need to call Tamar for a pick-up (advance notice please).

Driving directions:  from Lee Highway and Harrison Street go south on Harrison Street to 18th Street; go right onto 18th Street and go 3 blocks to a right onto Huntington Street.  The house is the third house on the left.

Phi Beta Iota:  There are multiple candidates for the Green Party nomination, listed below.  Dr. Stein appears to be the most visible candidate; Cynthia McKinney is obsessing on Libya and probably not in the running for 2012.

Below from Politics1, BOLD is Announced, Italics Possible.

Winona LaDuke (Minnesota) – Native American activist, economist, writer and ’96/’00 VP nominee.
Cynthia McKinney (California) – Ex-Georgia Congresswoman, Ex-State Rep., College Professor and ’08 Nominee.
Kent Mesplay (California) – Biomedical engineer, environmental activist, ’04/’08 candidate & ’06 US Sen. candidate.
Harley Mikkelson (Michigan) – Retired state employee, Vietnam War veteran & frequent candidate.
Rhett Smith (Texas) – Company auditor, Navy veteran & frequent candidate.
Jill Stein (Massachusetts) – Physician, progressive activist, author & ’02/10 Governor nominee.

On January 21, as a part of our Nationwide Day of Action to overturn Citizens United v. FEC and end corporate rule, Public Citizen is working with local activists to ‘apprehend’ corporate impostors posing as ‘people’ with the same constitutional rights as the rest of us.

We’ll be exposing these impostors to the light of day in cities and towns throughout the nation, and together with local activists we’ll be calling on their elected officials to support a constitutional amendment that would overturn Citizens United and end corporate domination of our democracy.

Comment: For those in NYC who are interested, visit this event webpage and this flyer (front & back). This is not just a one day event but will become an on-going effort to publicly expose corporate connections to the political and legal systems and move from protest to reconciliation.

Also See:

Event: Jan 20, 2012 – Occupy the Courts!

History of Corporate Personhood — How Lewis Powell & US Chamber of Commerce Bought the US Supreme Court

Corporationsarenotpeople.com

Story of Stuff Animation of Citizens United vs FEC ruling

Clarence Thomas getting support in the form of $100,000 worth of commercials from Citizens United in 1991

See #10 definition of person in US code and 15A for definition of “United States”

Alecexposed.org

Who’s Who of Top Political Donors

Politicalpartytime.org – Party Time, a blog from the Sunlight Foundation that tracks political fundraisers

Robert Steele

On those rare occasions when two of our contributing editors hold diametrically opposite views, I am asked to come back and blend them.  Here are my premises, followed by a selection of articles that represent both sides of the argument.

1.  Neither Barack Obama nor Leon Panetta have a clue.  They are posturing on the basis of domestic politics both because that is how they want to do things, and because there is no coherent credible intelligence to be had within the U.S. Government.  To Obama’s credit, he is holding fast on vetoing any bills seeking to overturn the hard-fought agreement to trigger automatic cuts in defense co-equal to cuts in entitlements.

2.  It is not possible for the US Government to continue to borrow one trillion dollars a year and to continue to be so corrupt that both political parties agree on one thing and one thing only: that they both love the two-party monopoly privilege of continuing to loot the public treasury in order to enrich themselves at taxpayer expense.

3.  The Pentagon is the most monstrously ineffective organization on the planet, exceeding the fraud, waste, and abuse of any or even all of the dictators by at least one order of magnitude.  The Pentagon has no strategy, no serious operational campaign plan for any region, and is unable to design, build, deliver, provision, and fight a ship or complex aircraft with any semblance of integrity.  The fact that the Department of State is an empty shell and that the Office of Management and Budget cannot spell “management” makes the Pentagon’s incapacity all the more treacherous.

4.  Nothing will change at the Pentagon until the general public goes on strike to demand the Electoral Reform Act of 2012 and to insist that its provisions be upheld.  Absent an honest President and an honest Congress, the Pentagon will continue to remain the biggest slush fund for corruption in the US Government, joined by the Department of Homeland Security and the long-standing energy, health, and prison complexes.

5.  Worse, while the Pentagon maneuvers to hype the China threat, it is also supporting an Israeli-led endeavor to start a regional war with Iran.  This degree of irresponsibility is in my view impeachable treason.  It betrays the public trust in every possible way–our civilian and uniformed “leaders” are in my judgment in direct violation of their Oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States  against all enemies domestic and foreign.  They should be fired en masse along with every dual US-Israeli citizen holding clearances, and every former Wall Street executive now serving in the US Government.  This is not rocket science.  All it takes is INTEGRITY; cf Journal: Politics & Intelligence–Partners Only When Integrity is Central to Both as posted 13 October 2009.

Below the line are the relevant headlines with short comments.

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NYC Port Authority Terminal, November 25, 2011
Jason Liszkiewicz

Returning from a bus trip, I walked passed a man with a machine gun outside of a “bakery” (pastry-type cafe). I walked up to him and asked why was he outside of a bakery with a machine gun. His only reply was “9/11.”

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The Department of Defense spent and spends how many Billion$ (and Rumsfeld admitting he could not account for $2.3TRILLION on September 10, 2001) that did not prevent the September 11 attacks and this man with a machine gun is outside of a pastry shop telling me it’s because of 9/11.

Is insane the “new normal?”

Many weeks ago I was given a flyer at Liberty Plaza by someone from the War Resisters League that had many links about war tax boycotting:
+ Wartaxboycott.org
+ 3o minute documentary “Death & Taxes”
+ National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee
+ Peacetaxfund.org
+ IAVA.org
+ girightshotline.org (877) 447-4487 for military who refuse to fight

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|Also on the flyer:
+ Defundwar.org
+ Newprioritiesnetwork.org
+ mfso.org (true cost of war)
+ Bringourwardollarshome.org
+ wwfor.org
+ Peaceeconomyproject.org
+ 25percentsolution.com
+ Smartsecuritypa.org
+ 25teachersalaries.org
+ Ourfunds.org
+ Demilitarize.org

Also See: NYC People’s Life Fund who redirects donations from war tax resisters into “life-giving activities.”

DefDog

From the folks at Skilluminati…….see also the long pieces on James Angleton, counterintelligence, and CIA leadership as liars (in Angleton’s own words).

Notes on the #Occupy Media Teams

Posted Nov 12, 2011

So far, Occupy has thrived as a prototype rather than a program: an open-source laboratory for activism. What follows is a collection of research notes on how #Occupy collectives have evolved media teams, with a special focus on the original group in Zuccotti Park, NYC. Apologies to the authors pilfered here, but no repentance…after all, this is for Science.

Read full piece.

        The Small Wars Journal Blog has a post previewing a new book by Andrew Mackay and Steve Tatham. Behavioural Conflict: Why Understanding People and Their Motives Will Prove Decisive in Future Conflict considers how the West’s Post Cold War conflicts have been fought amongst people rather than between armies. From publisher’s description:

“These people, amongst others, have been Mendes, Kissis and Konos (and the 13 other tribes of Sierra Leone), they have been Serbo-Croats, Bosnians, Kosovars, Albanians, Unizzahs, al-Ribads, al-Zobaids, Kurds, al-Montifig (and the other tribal groups of the nearly 40 that make up Iraq), Pashtuns, Hazaras, Uzbecks (and the other 6 ethnic groupings that make up Afghanistan’s rich tapestry of population), they have been Sunni, Shia, Orthodox, Agnostic, Christian, Catholic; they have been farmers, politicians, police, administrators, businessmen, narco khans, war lords, men, women and children. In fact you can divide them in any one of a hundred or so different ways but the only certainty is that all of these groups and people will exhibit behaviour, that may appear utterly irrational but for better or worse will have profound effects upon the manner in which military missions are conducted.” 

The book is based on a paper written in 2009 for the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom. The tale of the lone Afghan farmer sowing seeds in a field near the Kajaki Dam should be a warning to those from the developed world who underestimate the intelligence of people just because they don’t speak English or have grown up without electricity and running water.

This book will have utility for anyone working in military, peacekeeping, policing or any other other cross cultural situation.

Robert David STEELE Vivas

After four years constructive unemployment, largely due to the illegal and abusive practices of DIA and DOHA that are being taken to court–I feel called to focus on Electoral Reform.

Here is the short URL for a campaign to raise $10,000 to take Electoral Reform hand-outs and stimulate electoral reform dialog across America, visiting each of the Occupy sites and where desired, stopping to help organize new Occupy sites.

http://tinyurl.com/ER-RoadTrip

The calculated cost per state is $200 for gas and oil and very occasional repairs, using a 1964 MGB for visibility and because it is my remaining car and daily driver.

I think we can do this.  My objective is to achieve a Statement of Demand from across the Occupy movement, with a 15 February 2012 deadline for passage of the Electoral Reform Act of 2012, in time to assure open ballot access  and other Phase I reforms for November 2012.

In passing I will try to inspire a BigBatUSA, where every eligible voter contributes $10 a year to protect the Electoral Reform Act, elect non-partisan honest citizens, and move toward a Constitutional Amendment that takes electoral corruption out of the realm of possibility into the future.  Basic Math:  100 million x $10 = $1B a year.  200 million x $10 = $2B a year.  300 million x $10 a year = $3B a year.  Not extrapolate that out to the rest of the world paying $1 a year for Panarchy with Autonomous Internet, OpenBTS connecting the five billion poor, and it is GAME OVER on predatory capitalism, virtual colonialism, and unilateral militarism.

In passing, where there is an interest, I will discuss my concept of demanding a Coalition Cabinet and a balanced budget as preconditions for candidates desiring to be elected President–anyone who cannot choose a Coalition Cabinet and come up with a semblance of a balanced budget at least 60 days prior to Election Day is simply not qualified to be President–at the same time that any average American willing to do this is qualified–better qualified even–by virtue of integrity combined with collective intelligence.

Here is are some short URLs that I hope all of you — good people trapped in corrupt system — will pass on and or take independent action on.

The short URL for this introductory posting is:

http://tinyurl.com/PBI-Road-Trip

See Also:

Robert Steele: Electoral Reform in a Box (DIY Kit)

http://tinyurl.com/ER-DIY

Anne Kadet

The Occupy Economy

Anne Kadet

Wall Street Journal, 15 October 2011

Say what you want about the assorted professionals, philosophers, bums, radicals, students and wage slaves comprising Occupy Wall Street, but they’ve managed to pull off the impossible. In the center of one of the world’s most expensive cities, a place where the average tourist family of four spends roughly $3,500 per visit, they’ve accomplished something even the guidebooks wouldn’t dare promise: New York living on less than $10 a day.

. . . . . .

In less than four weeks, Occupy Wall Street managed to erect what looks and functions like a cross between a high-tech folk festival and a Canadian logging camp. At least for now, there’s a lending library on one end and a man doling out cigarettes on the other. There are stations for first aid, phone charging and poster-making. There’s even a guy who walks around handing out, yes, free money.

. . . . . .

The whole operation runs on donations, of course. More than $5,000 in cash comes in every day through the park’s contribution boxes, and supplies flow in from around the country. Kim Heines, a Bensonhurst office manager volunteering on the storage committee, opened her composition notebook to display records of the morning’s 90-odd shipments: soap from Winnipeg; rain ponchos from Keller, Texas; sleeping bags from Indiana; gluten-free snack bars from Santa Monica.

Read full article.

Phi Beta Iota:  This is a stellar piece of work, riveting detail, economy of words, just an utterly spectacular communication of the logistical essence of Occupy Wall Street.

 3 examples:

IBM is working with DARPA

IBM Testing Biometric Technology for Retail Advertising

How IBM Tech Helped Jump Start the Holocaust

Comment: I would be cautious+keen of the “smart planet” vision of those running IBM, they have made the brand popular for spreading to all cities. Keep an eye on them (biometric pun, sorry) and be friendly.

Also see:
Carnegie Mellon Univ project PittPatt (facial recognition) spun off into a company post 9/11 funded by DARPA, purchased by Google