by Ken Adachi
December 26, 2008

You should get your passports in order if you don't already have them. It's cheap to live in countries like the Philippines or Mexico, but you need some source of money coming in because depending on the local economy is not gong to work. If you have special skills that are needed locally may allow you to live off the local economy, of course, but that's not a likely scenario.

A lot of people on Social Security move to Mexico because it's easy to pass the border and you can live there fairly cheaply. It can be dangerous in Mexico unless you know the ropes and where to live, but if you know what you're doing, it's easy to get there and doesn't take long to learn Spanish. You could move to Canada too. Many people have already done that. It's cheaper than the US, but not nearly as cheap as Mexico. You might have a better chance of getting work in Canada since language isn't a concern.

Central America is another possibility. Many have moved to Costa Rica or Panama.
Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador are extremely poor, so it's cheap to live, but safety may be a concern.

If awakened Americans are hoping to make it in the future, we have to form into communes in which everyone contributes to sustaining the group. Somebody has the land, someone else can swing a hammer (or use a nail gun), some can grow food, some can school the kids, etc. They have Japanese communes in Brazil that are completely self sustaining. I have a friend who bought 120 aces in Missouri just for this purpose.

There are probably web sites already geared towards self sustaining communes. People need to look into this NOW, and not wait for the next "terrorist" false flag operation to provide the pretext for martial law.

Of course, if we help our dumbed-down neighbors and relatives to WAKE UP and smell the chemtrails and see the treason taking place all around them, we could STOP the New World Order takeover agenda and not worry about fleeing the country or living in a hovel.

This applies most to family and friends of American policemen, Sheriff's Departments, U.S. Marshals, Homeland Security, FEMA, etc. who are being turned into black uniformed Nazis with their spiffy TASER guns and Gestapo maltreatment of ordinary citizens who are usually innocent of any real criminal activity, but are treated as if they were mad dog killers. There are now over 400 people who have been murdered by police using TASER guns and not even one indictment has been handed down. You have NWO controlled police chiefs all over this country and in Canada who are defending these murders as if it were perfectly normal and an acceptable aspect of "police work". These people need to be removed from positions of authority and those mayors and city councils who put these NWO Gestapo thugs in charge of the local police department need to be removed from office as well.

Federal and state government will do nothing--other then offer empty and hollow rhetoric--to save you from the planned destruction ahead. Only ordinary citizens are in a position to rescue this country from the tyranny and destruction that lies ahead by pushing back and resisting the dictums of the NWO sell-outs in Washington and in state capitol buildings from coast to coast. Only the wives, lovers, and relatives of policemen and US military personnel can have an effect on their consciousness and awaken them to their role in enabling and facilitating the NWO takeover of America. Only lawyers who still want to live in a constitutional America can network with patriot minded citizens and launch lawsuits to slow down the implementation of the NWO enabling agendas and the "harmonization" of North America.

Ordinary citizens-alone-created the revolt that led to the American Revolution and freedom from British rule. Ordinary citizens in Bolivia created the ruckus that drove out the NWO corporations who were trying to gain control over their water access.

The NWO CAN BE STOPPED.

We just need citizens who are willing to get involved and TAKE ACTION. I'm not talking about rioting in the streets. I'm talking about organizing in your home town and getting rid of police chiefs who are ga-ga over the use of TASER guns, for example. And getting rid of those damn black uniforms, and the military helmets, and the flak jackets, and the riot gear, and the SWAT team, and the high tech crowd control weaponry, and all the other Nazi crap that has now inundated police departments across the land.

Reading these words from me and silently nodding in agreement is not going to stop anything. Only getting INVOLVED and taking action will create a change.

by Lynn M. Stuter
January 1, 2009 

What follows are the undisputed facts concerning the eligibility of Barack Hussein Obama to the office of president. Any U.S. Senator or U.S. Representative is welcome to dispute these yet undisputed facts. In so doing, however, the American people demand that the evidence be produced:

1 - Barack Hussein Obama has not been vetted or certified eligible to the office of president of the United States by any agency tasked to do so or authorized to do so.
2 - Not one American citizen, not one Senator, not one Representative has seen, touched or examined Barack Hussein Obama’s vault copy Hawaii birth certificate. On October 31, 2008, Dr Chiyome Fukino, Department of Health, Hawaii, issued a press release in which she stated that she had “seen and verified” that a Hawaii birth certificate for Obama did exist; she did not state what was on it nor did she state that it showed that Obama was born in Hawaii.
3 - The Certification of Live Birth (COLB) that Obama has been waving about is not a “birth certificate” as he claims, as the mainstream media claims, as FactCheck.org and FighttheSmears.com claims. The COLB is a short form, computer printed document deriving the information printed thereon from a database of information supposedly (See #13 and #14 below) taken from the original long form vault copy Hawaiian birth certificate.
4 - Factcheck.org claims to be a non-partisan organization. Factcheck.org is funded by the Annenberg Foundation on whose board Obama sat. Factcheck.org is about as non-partisan as is Obama. The Annenberg Foundation has never passed up a chance to fund a “progressive” (a.k.a., Marxist) cause.
5 - Hawaii has a law, HRS 338-17.8, which allows for the birth registration of a child born in a foreign country so long as one parent is a U.S. citizen and so long as that parent claimed Hawaii as his or her permanent residence for one year prior to the birth. Stanley Ann (Dunham) Obama met both of these requirements.
6 - If Obama was born in Hawaii, he is, at best, a dual citizen. At his birth, his father was a British subject as Kenya was a British colony. Dual citizenship precludes Obama from eligibility under Article II, Section 1, United States Constitution. Prior cases decided by the United States Supreme Court, involving the determination of “natural born” have used Vattel’s “The Law of Nations” definition which states, “The natives, or natural-born citizens, are those born in the country, of parents who are citizens.” (Part I, Chapter 19, Section 212). Factcheck.org states that Obama was a dual citizen at birth.
7 - If Obama was born in Kenya, he was, at birth, a British subject as Kenya was a British colony. American law, at that time, required that Stanley Ann (Dunham) Obama be a minimum of 19 years of age at his birth to confer to him her American citizenship if he was born outside the United States; she was only 18 years old when Obama was born.
8 - Barack Hussein Obama’s paternal step-grandmother has stated before witnesses, said witnesses signing affidavits, that she was witness to the birth of Obama in Kenya. See here, here, and here.
9 - Michelle Obama has stated that Barack Hussein Obama was adopted by his step-father, Lolo Soetoro, an Indonesian citizen.
10 - When Barack Hussein Obama was registered at the Fransiskus Assissi Primary School in Jakarta, Indonesia, his father was listed as Lolo Seotoro; his citizenship as Indonesian; his name as Barry Soetoro.
11 - When Stanley Ann (Dunham) Soetoro divorced Lolo Soetoro in 1980, the divorce papers show they had two children: one minor child (Maya), one over 18 (Barack).
12 - When Barack Hussein Obama, aka Barry Soetoro, became an Indonesian citizen, his British citizenship would have been terminated; if he was born in Hawaii, also his American dual citizenship. Indonesia does not allow for dual citizenship.
13 - Returning to the COLB. This document, as waved about by Obama, may be authentic on its face (See #14), but it is not accurate. Were it accurate, it would show Lolo Soetoro as his father; his name as Barry Soetoro.
14 - The COLB Obama waves about lists the race of his biological father as “African.” African is not a race any more than American is. This brings into question the authenticity of the COLB Obama is waving about as his “birth certificate.”
15 - If Barack Hussein Obama, aka Barry Soetoro, did become an American citizen, he became a naturalized American citizen which precludes him from eligibility under Article 2, Section 1, United States Constitution. There has been no proof presented that he is even a naturalized American citizen.
16 - Barack Hussein Obama has multiple aliases: Barry Soetoro, Barry Dunham, Barry Obama, Barack Soetoro, Barack Dunham. When he registered with the American Bar Association, he listed none of these as is required by law. Unless he had his name legally changed to Barack Hussein Obama after his adoption, of which there has been no proof presented, Barry Soetoro is his real name and Barack Hussein Obama is an alias.
17 - All his passport records, education records, medical records, birth records have become “not available” to the public. Those records show where he was born, if he applied for or received aid as a foreign student, the country or countries from which he has received passports.
18 - His selective service registration appears to be fraudulent. If he was a naturalized American citizen when he turned 18, and he failed to register with the selective service, he is barred from holding any position in government, elected or otherwise.
19 - If he is not even a naturalized citizen, he is barred from holding any elected office.
20 - If he is not even a naturalized citizen, he is an illegal alien.

Every U.S. Senator and Representative has taken an oath of office to uphold and defend the U.S. Constitution. In consideration of the above undisputed facts and the failure of any body, agency, or office so tasked or so authorized, to vet Obama’s eligibility to the office of president; every U.S. Senator and Representative has a sworn duty to write, sign and file an objection in accordance with 3 USC, Title 3, Chapter 1, Section 15.

Another response concerned Americans are receiving from their U.S. Senators and Representatives claims that the eligibility issue has been addressed by several lawsuits which have all been dismissed. It is true the lawsuits have been dismissed, but every U.S. Senator and Representative making this claim also knows that these lawsuits have not been dismissed on merit but rather on standing, which does not mean the lawsuits do not have merit, that the evidence presented in these causes is not true. And what SCOTUS has denied, to date, has been the applications for injunction to stop the certifying of the election until said time as Obama produces the evidence proving his eligibility. If Congress refuses to uphold the U.S. Constitution on January 6, 2009, SCOTUS will then have the jurisdiction to move on the evidence. Whether they will or not is to be seen.

If SCOTUS refuses to deal with the issue before January 20, 2009, refuses to look at the evidence, then the U.S. Constitution will have been effectively subverted, and the only avenue left to the American people to protect their U.S. Constitution is set forth in the Declaration of Independence, in Congress, July 4, 1776,

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

John Adams, 1787,

The people in America have now the best opportunity and the greatest trust in their hands that Providence ever committed to so small a number...if they betray their trust, their guilt will merit even greater punishment than other nations have suffered, and the indignation of Heaven.

Who will stand for the U.S. Constitution?

by Francis A. Boyle
Global Research
December 31, 2008

The United Nations General Assembly must immediately establish an International Criminal Tribunal for Israel (ICTI) as a "subsidiary organ" under U.N. Charter Article 22. The ICTI would be organized along the lines of the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia (ICTY), which was established by the Security Council.

The purpose of the ICTI would be to investigate and prosecute Israeli war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide against the Peoples of Lebanon and Palestine--just as the ICTY did for the victims of international crimes committed by Serbia and the Milosevic Regime throughout the Balkans.

The establishment of ICTI would provide some small degree of justice to the victims of Israeli war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide against the Peoples of Lebanon and Palestine--just as the ICTY has done in the Balkans. Furthermore, the establishment of ICTI by the U.N. General Assembly would serve as a deterrent effect upon Israeli leaders such as Prime Minister Olmert, Foreign Minister Livni, Defense Minister Barak , Chief of Staff Ashkenazi and Israel's other top generals that they will be prosecuted for their further infliction of international crimes upon the Lebanese and the Palestinians.

Without such a deterrent, Israel might be emboldened to attack Syria with the full support of the Likhudnik Bush Jr. Neoconservatives, who have always viewed Syria as "low-hanging fruit" ready to be taken out by means of their joint aggression. If Israel attacks Syria as it did when it invaded Lebanon in 1982, Iran has vowed to come to Syria's defense.

And of course Israel and the Bush Jr administration very much want a pretext to attack Iran. This scenario could readily degenerate into World War III.

For the U.N. General Assembly to establish ICTI could stop the further development of this momentum towards a regional if not global catastrophe.

© Copyright Francis A. Boyle, Global Research, 2008

December 29, 2008

If you belong to ANY Yahoo Groups - be aware that Yahoo is now using "Web Beacons" to track every Yahoo Group user. It's similar to cookies, but allows Yahoo to record every website and every group you visit, even when you're not connected to Yahoo. Look at their updated privacy statement at http://info.yahoo.com/privacy/us/yahoo/webbeacons/

About half-way down the page, in the section on cookies, you will see a link that says WEB BEACONS.

Click on the phrase "Web Beacons." On the page that opens, find a paragraph entitled "Outside the Yahoo Network."

In that section find a little "Click Here to Opt Out" link that will let you "opt-out" of their snooping. Be careful! NOT to click on the next button shown. It is an "Opt Back In" button that, if clicked, will UNDO the opt-out.

Note that Yahoo's invasion of your privacy - and your ability to opt-out of it - is not user-specific. It is MACHINE specific. That means you will have to opt-out on every computer (and browser) you use.

Please forward this to your other groups. You might complain, too, but I'm not sure if anyone is listening..

Related article:

Yahoo Web Beacons Igniting Controversy Yahoo's current privacy policy is causing consternation among some users who object to their use of so-called 'web beacons'. Known in most circles as web bugs, these invisible images are embedded in websites and email and used to track your surfing - and even tell whether you've opened a particular email.

by Mike Whitney
February 26, 2007

On 29th June, 1934, Chancellor Adolph Hitler, accompanied by the Schutzstaffel (SS), arrived at Wiesse, where he personally arrested the leader of the Strum Abteilung (SA), Ernnst Roehm. During the next 24 hours 200 other senior SA officers were arrested on the way to Wiesse. Many were shot as soon as they were captured but Hitler decided to pardon Roehm because of his past service to the movement. However, after much pressure from Hermann Goering and Heinrich Himmler, Hitler agreed that Roehm should die. At first Hitler insisted that Roehm should be allowed to commit suicide but, when he refused, Roehm was shot by two SS men. (Spartacus.schoolnet.co)

Later, Hitler delivered a speech at the Reichstag in which he justified the murders of his rivals saying:

"If anyone reproaches me and asks why I did not resort to the regular courts of justice, then all I can say is this: In this hour I was responsible for the fate of the German people, and thereby I became the supreme judge of the German people. It was no secret that this time the revolution would have to be bloody; when we spoke of it we called it 'The Night of the Long Knives.' Everyone must know for all future time that if he raises his hand to strike the State, then certain death is his lot."

The Night of the Long Knives is seen by many as the turning point where Hitler made it clear that he was above the law and the supreme leader of the German people.

Operation Falcon: Blueprint for removing dissidents and political rivals

The Bush administration has carried out three massive sweeps in the last two years, rolling up more than 30,000 minor crooks and criminals, without as much as a whimper of protest from the public.

Operation Falcon is the clearest indication yet that the Bush administration is fine-tuning its shock-troops so it can roll up tens of thousands of people at a moment’s notice and toss them into the newly-built Halliburton detention centers. This should be a red flag for anyone who cares at all about human rights, civil liberties, or simply saving his own skin.

Operation Falcon was allegedly the brainchild of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and his counterpart in the US Marshal's office, (Director) Ben Reyna. But its roots go much deeper into the nexus of right-wing Washington think tanks where fantasies of autocratic government have a long history. The name, Falcon, is an acronym for "Federal and Local Cops Organized Nationally." It relates to the more than 960 state, local and federal agencies which are directly involved in the administration’s expansive criminal dragnets.

Typically, law enforcement agencies are protective of their own turf and wary of outside intervention. The Falcon program overrides these concerns by streamlining the information-sharing processes and setting up a chain-of-command structure that radiates from the Justice Department. This removes many of the traditional obstacles to agency interface. It also relocates the levers of power in Washington where thy can be manned by members of the Bush administration.

Dictatorships require strong centralized authority and the Falcon program is a logical corollary of that ambition. It creates new inroads for Bush to assume greater control over the nationwide police-state apparatus. That alone should be sufficient reason for alarm.

The first Operation Falcon took place during the week of April 4 to April 10, 2005. According to the US Marshal’s official website, "The emphasis centered on gang related crimes, homicides, crimes involving use of a weapon, crimes against children and the elderly, crimes involving sexual assaults, organized crime and drug related fugitives, and other crimes of violence." More than 10,000 criminal suspects were arrested in a matter of days. It was the largest criminal sweep in the nation’s history and, according to U.S. Marshall chief Ben Reyna, "produced the largest number of arrests ever recorded during a single initiative." The Washington Times noted, "The sweep was a virtual clearinghouse for warrants on drug, gang, gun and sex-offender suspects nationwide."

The emphasis was clearly on quantity not quality.

Still, this doesn’t explain why state and federal agencies had to be integrated with local law enforcement simply to carry out routine police work.

More importantly, it doesn’t explain why local police ignored their duty to protect the public just so they could coordinate with outside agencies. According to one report "162 accused or convicted of murder" were picked up in the first sweep. That means that the police knowingly left murderers on the street and put the public at risk while they orchestrated their raids with federal agencies...

research courtesy: Tim White

We searched Porter Goss and found 12 records nationwide
	Name	Age	Previous Cities	DOB	Phone	Address	Avg. Income	Avg. Home Value	Relatives
1	Porter J Goss View Details	-	Rapidan, VA Sanibel, FL Washington, DC Fort Myers, FL Portland, OR						Porter J Goss Gerrit Johnston Goss P J Goss Mary Robinson Goss Johnston G Goss R Mason Goss Leslie Oliver Goss Florence J Goss Chauncey P Goss Robinson M Goss
2	Porter J Goss View Details	-	Fishers Island, NY						Porter J Goss Peter J Goss
3	Porter J Goss View Details	-	Groton, NY						Porter J Goss
4	Porter J Goss View Details	-	Mc Lean, VA						Porter J Goss
5	Porter J Goss View Details	-	Middletown, CT						Porter J Goss
6	Porter J Goss View Details	70	*, *		-				Porter J Goss
7	Porter J Goss View Details	-	Portland, OR						Porter J Goss Robinson M Goss Mary R Goss Lesile O Goss
8	Porter J Goss View Details	-	West Babylon, NY						Porter J Goss
9	Porter Us Con Goss View Details	-	Punta Gorda, FL						Porter Us con Goss Peter Goss Congressman Goss
10	Porter Goss View Details	-	Sarasota, FL		-				Porter Goss
	Name	Age	Previous Cities	DOB	Phone	Address	Avg. Income	Avg. Home Value	Relatives
11	Porter J Goss View Details	-	Fort Myers Beach, FL		-				Porter J Goss
12	Porter Goss View Details	-	Cape Coral, FL		-				Porter Goss

by Zin Linn
December 16, 2008

The Article 9 of International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)says: “Everyone has the right to liberty: any detention must be lawful and should be used only as a last resort”. But the article seems strange to people of Burma. In this military ruled country, even possessing of a UDHR booklet may send a citizen into jail for several years. To people’s disappointment, it still lacks of human rights education and practices in Burma, although the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was adopted by the member countries 60 years ago on December 10, 1948.

Thet Zin and Sein Win Maung, respectively editor and manager of the privately-owned Myanmar Nation Journal, were sentenced by a summary court on 28 November in Rangoon under the Printers and Publishers Registration Act for being in possession of dissenting documents, including a UN Special Rapporteur’s Human Rights report on Burma. A young female journalist who made an effort to cover a protest by a group of Cyclone Nargis victims was sentenced to 2 years in prison on 14 November. Eint Khaing Oo, 21, was arrested on June 10 when she tried to cover a rare protest in front of the head office of United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Rangoon by a group of Nargis-victims from South Dagon Township, a new satellite town for the poor. A Rangoon Summary Court made a decree on Eint Khaing Oo damaging the importance of national security.

Burma’s best-known comedian, Zarganar, and two journalist friends were given additional prison terms by a special court in Rangoon’s Insein Prison on 27 November. His journalist friend and associate in a mission to deliver aid to cyclone victims, Zaw Thet Htwe, who had earlier been sentenced to 15 years imprisonment, received a further four years and Video journalist Thant Zin Aung, who had also been sentenced earlier to 15 years imprisonment, received an additional three years and video journalist Thant Zin Aung, who had also been sentenced earlier to 15 years imprisonment, received an additional three years. No one is under any hallucination over how ruthlessly Burma’s military regime is prepared to take action against its challengers who got bored with the military dictatorship. Nonetheless, the sentences handed down on 14 protesters on 11 November 2008 are shockingly harsh. The 14 protesters were found guilty of four cases of using electronic media without permission and given 15 years on each impeachment, plus five years for forming an unlawful organization - 65 years in total. The sentences were handed down at a closed-door hearing in villainous Insein prison. On the same day the authorities made harsh verdict on several dissidents for their participation in 2007 August-September protest.

The sentences are a lucid archetype of Burma's military regime which has been ignoring calls by the international community to approve its human rights record. The retributions also contradict the junta’s claims that its new constitution and procedure for elections in 2010 are proper efforts toward political change. The release of all political prisoners is a vital step in the process of national reconciliation, but the regime’s stance is backward-looking move...

By Cliff Kincaid

December 16, 2008
NewsWithViews.com

Doing the kind of investigative reporting we should expect from the major media, a financial research and consulting firm has released a major analysis of the “credit crisis” that concludes that the claims made by Treasury Department Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke to justify a socialist takeover of the financial industry were demonstrably false.

The analysis, Flawed Assumptions about the Credit Crisis: A Critical Examination of US Policymakers, concludes that the result of the unjustified massive federal intervention in the economy could be similar to the economic crisis in the Weimar Republic of 1922, where disastrous hyperinflation made the currency worthless and threatened the nation’s political system and stability.

The analysis was released by Celent, a Boston-based firm that provides independent information and advice to financial services companies. The 30-page report, made available to Accuracy in Media, does not accuse Paulson and Bernanke of lying about the “credit crisis.” But it does say that “It is startling that many of Chairman Bernanke’s and Secretary Paulson’s remarks are not supported or are flatly contradicted by the data provided by the very organizations they lead.”

Using charts and graphs of data from the Federal Reserve and other agencies, the Celent study says that statements from Paulson and Bernanke about a “credit crisis” affecting businesses, real estate, banks, and state and local governments were just not true.

The report says there is “a contradiction” between what Paulson and Bernanke have said and the reality of the situation, as demonstrated in the official data. It calls these “discrepancies” and says that some of their remarks are “puzzling.”

Asked for comment on why he was able to uncover this information while the major media have not, Octavio Marenzi, founder and CEO of Celent, told AIM, “What we need from the media is more skepticism and more engagement. Too frequently statements are taken at face value. Also, most journalists are under such tight time pressure that they do not have the time to reflect and to dig deeper. They are on a conveyor belt and just trying to keep up with the required level of output.”...

Future generations will wonder why the U.S. and South Korea did nothing about human rights abuses in North Korea, the Washington Post said in an editorial Sunday comparing North Korean prison camps to concentration camps in Nazi Germany. American children "may ask, a generation from now, why the West stared at far clearer satellite images of Kim Jong-il's camps, and did nothing." It said, "Many Koreans don't want to hear about human rights abuses in the North."

Titled "Three Kernels of Corn," the editorial recounts the torture and human rights abuse of Shin Dong-hyuk, a 26-year-old refugee and former inmate of a concentration camp. The title alludes to Shin's experience at the camp, where he found three kernels of corn in a pile of cow dung, washed them off and ate them.

Shin was the first North Korean refugee who escaped from a concentration camp. "The casual, routine brutality of the camps is, as the article noted, almost unfathomable," it said referring to a feature on Dec. 11.

"It's horrifying, on another level, that only 500 people in South Korea, where Shin lives, have bought his book. Many Koreans don't want to hear about human rights abuses in the north; they're worried that the Communist regime might collapse and leave the more prosperous South with a costly burden of rehabilitation."

It said the U.S., meanwhile, is more concerned with containing North Korea's nuclear ambitions. "High school students in America debate why President Franklin D. Roosevelt didn't bomb the rail lines to Hitler's camps. Their children may ask, a generation from now, why the West stared at far clearer satellite images of Kim Jong Il's camps, and did nothing."

(englishnews@chosun.com )

having taken place on Facebook a coupla days ago:

(former lyricist, The Grateful Dead) John Perry Barlow:  "John is delighted to learn that he is no longer subject to the laws of physics."

(novelist and Dead head) Todd Brendan Fahey: "Lemme guess: You shot yerself playing William Tell, whilst standing on your head after an apple fell on it?"

John Perry Barlow, to Fahey: "Correct Sir. None of that faggy quantum shit."

The Chosun Ilbo (South Korea)
December 12, 2008

Some 400,000 tons of food aid the U.S. government had promised North Korea through the UN World Food Programme this year have been on hold since August because it is impossible to monitor where the food goes, the Washington Post reported on Tuesday.

In May, the U.S. announced a plan to give 500,000 tons of food aid -- 400,000 tons through the WFP and 100,000 tons through U.S. NGOs -- to help starving North Koreans. The food aid through the NGOs, including a shipment of 25,000 tons of corn and beans that arrived in the North on Nov. 23, has been underway.

But after 118,270 tons of food aid was delivered until August, further shipments through the WFP have been suspended due to dispute with the North over the distribution monitoring system...

I have never believed that there is a secret United Nations plot to take over the US. I have never seen black helicopters hovering in the sky above Montana. But, for the first time in my life, I think the formation of some sort of world government is plausible.

A “world government” would involve much more than co-operation between nations. It would be an entity with state-like characteristics, backed by a body of laws. The European Union has already set up a continental government for 27 countries, which could be a model. The EU has a supreme court, a currency, thousands of pages of law, a large civil service and the ability to deploy military force.

So could the European model go global? There are three reasons for thinking that it might.

First, it is increasingly clear that the most difficult issues facing national governments are international in nature: there is global warming, a global financial crisis and a “global war on terror”.

Second, it could be done. The transport and communications revolutions have shrunk the world so that, as Geoffrey Blainey, an eminent Australian historian, has written: “For the first time in human history, world government of some sort is now possible.” Mr Blainey foresees an attempt to form a world government at some point in the next two centuries, which is an unusually long time horizon for the average newspaper column.

But – the third point – a change in the political atmosphere suggests that “global governance” could come much sooner than that. The financial crisis and climate change are pushing national governments towards global solutions, even in countries such as China and the US that are traditionally fierce guardians of national sovereignty.

Barack Obama, America’s president-in-waiting, does not share the Bush administration’s disdain for international agreements and treaties. In his book, The Audacity of Hope, he argued that: “When the world’s sole superpower willingly restrains its power and abides by internationally agreed-upon standards of conduct, it sends a message that these are rules worth following.” The importance that Mr Obama attaches to the UN is shown by the fact that he has appointed Susan Rice, one of his closest aides, as America’s ambassador to the UN, and given her a seat in the cabinet...

Todd Brendan Fahey made the Digital Leap at the close of 1994. Mired to innumerable rejections of his psychedelic thriller Wisdom's Maw: The Acid Novel (Far Gone Books, 1996), pal Gerard Martin offered to place portions of the unpublished manuscript on something called "the Web."

"Sure," Fahey said. "Whatever."

The struggling novelist had played around on GEnie, mostly to gain access to the Grateful Dead tape-trading community, but The Internet remained an enigma. So, when on a cold Louisiana winter evening, in the Educational Technology Resource lab at University of Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette, he was shown Levi Asher's Literary Kicks beat pages, the experience, for Fahey, was as profound as his first acid trip, beachside Santa Barbara (green windowpane gel: 500mic, it was).

Recalls Fahey, of his tour through the fledgling Web: "I `got it' instantly. I looked at Gerard and said, `Fuck, this is bigger than TV.' And all he could do was smile."

As a Ph.D. Teaching Fellow in English at USL, spring semester 1995, Fahey hijacked a Technical Writing course and began using his junior-year students as the guinea pigs of Web-page design, calling the class "Technical Writing Across the Internet." The offering raised little more than eyebrows and complaints from USL's English department; by fall, the Internet had exploded across the pages of Time and Newsweek, spawned a dozen NY slicks, and Fahey's Web design course was no longer an anomaly.

Fahey's own Far Gone Books/Wisdom's Maw Web site would quickly gain Magellan's 4-star rating, and through long nights of shameless e-mail self-promotion, he began to receive friendly notes from Grateful Dead lyricist John Perry Barlow, Mondo 2000 co-founder R.U. Sirius and other digital hardcores.

The synthesis of psychedelic drugs and the Internet has not been widely written of by the mainstream media, but Fahey and others believe the relationship to run deep.

John Perry Barlow remarked to Fahey, in an as-yet unpublished interview: "I'll go so far as to say, if the government succeeds in its War On (some) Drugs--if everyone who used marjiuana and LSD were to really be put in jails--America would not have an operational computer left."

This remark mirrors Timothy Leary's assertion, to Fahey in 1992, that "Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak were barefoot, long-haired acid freaks" and that Bill Gates was known to use LSD while at Harvard.

A nonlinear mode of thinking accompanies the psychedelic experience, as anyone who has ever used acid knows. ...but this is another essay.

Today, Todd Brendan Fahey is at work on A String of Saturdays: The New Southern Romance, a digital novel which he estimates will top out at 800pp, and which will feature innovations on font, sound, texture, streaming video, remote-location Web cam placement, and possibly even scent. He envisions a book which will carry one into a Lewis Carroll-like world, a phantastic fantasy, not unlike the LSD experience itself.

Having mused thusly for Carbon 14: "Is America ready for me? Can I make this gig pay? If so, I am the luckiest bastard alive."

Not yet (says his latest Citibank statement). A pauper visionary. Or, as Timothy Leary remarked, speaking to Fahey of "Captain" Al Hubbard, in 1992, "Nobody ever understands what a pioneer is doing."

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Fahey's creative magazine work includes: "Fear & Loathing in Amsterdam: The Smoke Abortion," for Carbon 14 (having been "killed" by NY cigar magazine Smoke), Ken Kesey: Comes Speak the Cuckoo and Timothy Leary: Twentieth Century Neuronaut, for Far Gone; The Original Captain Trips, for High Times; and Hunter S. Thompson: The Champion of Fun, for Fling. His poetry has appeared in Atom Mind, The Dominion Review, Beat Scene Magazine (UK), and George Garrett's Poultry: A Magazine of Voice.

He has served as Moderator to the Original Poetry panel of the National Undergraduate Literature Conference at Weber State University (1992-93), Creative Nonfiction panelist at Deep South Writers Conference (1994), and fulfilled in May of 1992 a writing residency in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, by invitation of the Jackson Chamber of Commerce. As an active participant in the little magazine arena, he also edits and publishes Far Gone.

Todd Brendan Fahey is a Ph.D. candidate in English at University of Southwestern Louisiana, holds the Master's in Professional Writing from University of Southern California, received his Bachelor of Science, cum laude, in Justice Studies from Arizona State University and studied in 1985 at The University of London-Union College. He began graduate coursework in The Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State, before his acceptance into the prestigious Professional Writing Program at USC.

Fahey has served as aide to Central Intelligence Agency agent Theodore L. "Ted" Humes, Division of Slavic Languages, and to the late-Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) chief Lt. General Daniel O. Graham; to former Arizona Governor Evan Mecham (R-AZ), former Congressman John Conlan (R-AZ) and others. He is currently stationed in South Korea as a strategic writer.

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by Frosty Wooldridge
December 10, 2008

Never in the history of the world has one country, the United States of America, absorbed so many immigrants from around the world—into the tens of millions.  However, no other country ever tolerated or survived over 20 million ILLegal alien migrants like the U.S. in the past 20 years.  Finally, U.S. citizens find their country filled up, out of water, lacking energy and suffering unsolvable problems.

You may discover a website that encourages what Americans want to see changed in the Obama administration.  They speak up from all over the country and so can you: http://www.change.org/ideas/view/enforce_our_immigration_laws

“Never in the history of mankind has a massive horde of 25 million plus foreigners, illegally no less, marched into a nation demanding rights which by all common sense should not be afforded to them? This is sheer madness! Amnesty? Go back and come in the legal way like others have done, better yet, don’t come back at all.” Paul D.

“As the mother of four, whose father, grandfather and great-grandfather all fought overseas to defend freedom and the American way, I am insulted and offended by all those who would seek to give amnesty to illegal immigrants. They are causing bona fide Americans to lose their businesses because honest business people can't compete with dishonest ones. I find it incredible that anybody could support illegal immigration, given the widespread damage that it is doing to our country. What did our ancestors fight and die for, if not freedom and justice under law? The waves of illegals are causing us to be less free, and causing less justice to characterize our land. Illegals are wiping out opportunities left and right, especially for low-income Caucasian and African-American citizens. Please, think of our children and our ancestors, and uphold our laws and our existing American families, by deporting all illegals NOW!” Susan W.

“Country first and foremost!  Stop pandering to the illegal alien by agreeing with them that the ICE raids must stop.  ICE must keep doing their job and they need to deport all illegal aliens who are working here illegally and breaking other laws in America. The vast majority of voters want our immigration laws enforced and our borders secured.  You may also be smart to get ready for the coming drug wars by the Mexican drug cartels.  They will be fighting for turf in our communities the same way they are in Mexico, and that fight has taken over 4 thousand lives, it is a real threat and amnesty will only make it worse.  No path to citizenship, enforce our laws and let the illegal alien go home.”  Joan T....