Professor-rat's Blurty

Piece work if you can get it
(chapter 1, part 2 of The
Poverty of Philosophy):

http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/poverty-philosophy/ch01b.htm

In this book, Marx is ridiculing the theories of M.
Proudhon. It is very instructive to read everything
that both Proudhon and Marx say about the concept of
"worth".

First, Marx asks:
"Does labor time, as the measure of value, suppose at
least that the days are equivalent, and that one man's
day is worth as much as another's?"

What do you think Marx's response to this question is
S. Artesian? According to your original paraphrasing
of Marx, it should be "yes". But apparently Marx
disagrees with you - he says "No"!

Marx goes on to ask a second question:
"Is your hour's labor worth mine?"

Before, reading Marx's reply to this question, try and
think of your reply. Got it? Now keep reading Marx's
reply:

"That is a question which is decided by competition."

It is in this context, that Marx, finally says:

"Therefore, we should not say that one man's hour is
worth another man's hour, but rather that one man
during an hour is worth just as much as another man
during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing; he
is, at the most, time's carcase. Quality no longer
matters. Quantity alone decides everything; hour for
hour, day for day; but this equalizing of labor is not
by any means the work of M. Proudhon's eternal
justice; it is purely and simply a fact of modern
industry. " - ( Extract from Marxmail)

As Marx was a free-trader it is probably in relation to issues like this that he said ' I am not a Marxist'.

BTW - Engels scoffed at the idea ( On Authority) the workers could take over and run factories in Barcelona - a few short decades later they did just that!

Lets face facts - this pair were a just couple of bourgeois say-anything ass-clowns.

Cong rats to the WSM
To the extent the Lisbon declaration looked just like an excess power-grab and to the extent the 'anarchists' in the WSM were brave enough to get-out-the-vote against it then they deserve some credit.
Congrats.
I don't see voting or not as any real litmus for being an anarchist ( Btw - I placed the anarchists in inverted commas like that because they are led by known Platformist Borg who are a dangerous parasite and pest) as I saw with my own eyes the effect of voting in an anti-war reform govt after 23 years down here.

Not Barcelona 36 - but worth a few minutes in a booth.

Hasta la victoria maximo leader
'...Che's ideas represent the ideals that we must never lose sight of.
We must build a socialist movement on the basis of the ideals found in the Communist Manifesto.
We are trying to reconstruct a worldwide revolutionary movement...' - Pope Louis

What does the Marxmail vatican have against women?

The Pope could have been cured of this delusion by reading Hannah Arendt's analysis in "The Origins of Totalitarianism," in which she lays bare the distinctive quality of Nazism (and Leninism): that it was not a party but a movement, which could keep itself alive only by constant motion, new conquests, new transformations of society. Today Che's ideas are only alive and well in actually existing Neocon conquests.

' Democracy comes out of the barrel of a gun' - Condi Rice

The save-the-puppies foundation endorse Barry O
"President Bush gave a big speech today in Europe. He says he regrets giving the false impression that he is not a man of peace. But see, that's the problem. You start one or two little wars, and right away, oh everybody jumps to conclusions." --Jay Leno

President Bush is in Europe right now, on a tour of Germany, Italy, France, England, and several other countries that hate him. While he's gone, don't worry, America safe and sound in the more competent hands of Barney, the White House terrier." --Jimmy Kimmel

"And John McCain is campaigning very hard. Every day I pick up the newspaper, he's someplace else. He's got a new strategy. Well John McCain just announced he wants to do a series of town hall meetings where he'll meet with the public. Yeah, it's all part of McCain's 'Speak Up, I Can't Hear You' tour." --Conan O'Brien

"According to the Washington Post, Barack Obama and actress Scarlett Johansson are email buddies. Apparently they email each other back and forth. So, you've got a 23-year-old gorgeous, blonde actress emailing a married presidential candidate. Well, what could go wrong there, huh?" --Jay Leno

"Not to be outdone today, John McCain admitted he had been exchanging flirty emails with Angela Lansbury. And there's talk of Rue McClanahan." --Jay Leno

"There's an old saying in Washington that the nastiest four-letter word in government is c**t. And you know that adage is as true today as it was when the saying was first etched on the side of the Jefferson Memorial. Now, you may be sitting there wondering, a) why you let the kids watch with you tonight, and b) why the dry history lesson, professor? Well, turns out that one of the gentlemen running for president has been accused of dropping the 'c' bomb while engaged in a heated debate on the floor of the living room of his own house. According to a new, unauthorized biography, 'The Real McCain,' one time, after his wife, Cindy, told him his hair didn't look good, Senator McCain responded, 'At least I don't plaster on the makeup like a trollop, you c**t.' ... Okay, seems a little harsh. But in his defense, Senator McCain's a Navy man. It's just salty Navy talk. He's not trying to hide. You've seen his campaign slogan: 'John McCain: Experience You C**ts Can Count On' [on screen: McCain standing in front of the green background, with that 'slogan' written behind him]. ... Is this story true? Who knows. But the important thing is, it's out there. Signaling that we have officially moved into the 'character assassination portion of our presidential campaigns."

But who will stop Obama? Take these two former Clinton supporters and co-founders of 'Women for Fair Politics' [on screen: two Clinton supporters talking on Fox News about how they will support McCain because of the sexism that they say came from the Obama campaign during the primary]. Wow! So McCain has the 'blind spite vote' locked up. 'Because of sexism, we're going to go with C**t McPatriarch.' But Obama's problem isn't just sexism. He's also been charged with elitism [on screen: New York Times' David Brooks saying Obama wouldn't fit in at the Applebee's salad bar]. Can we really afford a commander-in-chief so unfamiliar with Applebee's that he won't know what to do in the event of a 3 a.m. triple-chocolate meltdown? You know why Barack Obama wouldn't fit in at an Applebee's salad bar? Because Applebee's doesn't have salad bars."
"But clearly David Brooks is a man of the people, who knows Barack Obama would never fit in at an Applebee's salad bar, or the McDonald's beer garden, or a Wal-Mart observatory. Not only is Obama too elitist, he's also too radical, as evidenced by this revolutionary gesture [on screen: Fox News coverage of the Obama fist bump calling it a 'terrorist fist jab']. A gang sign? An obscene gesture? A sideways black power salute? A cannibal hand shake? A communist aloha? OF course, that's all hyperbole. The truth of what they were really doing is even more horrible. The move was done to crush someone's tiny, adorable grandmother who just baked a delicious apple and kitten pie." --Jon Stewart

Mr Buffoon to you
DMN's op-ed balance in '08: 39% liberal, 39% conservative
Dallas Morning News
"It doesn't add up to 100% because roughly a fifth of what we publish is considered non-ideological," explains Dallas Morning News editorial page editor Keven Ann Willey. She shares this note from a reader: "I do appreciate you and your staff's attempts at balance. I just disagree with your choice of 'liberals' and, frankly, 'conservatives.' Barry Goldwater was conservative. Bill Buckley was a conservative. Jonah Goldberg is a buffoon. So is the 'liberal' Maureen Dowd. For starters, eliminating both would improve Viewpoints."
Posted at 2:49:28 PM

Related

NYT's Greenhouse honored at US Supreme Court reception
Legal Times
The Supreme Court press corps, joined by Court employees and seven justices -- all but Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, reports Tony Mauro -- said goodbye to New York Times reporter Linda Greenhouse, who has taken a buyout. At the reception, Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. joked that commenting on Greenhouse's work was like "asking a corpse to comment on the work of the coroner."
Posted at 11:37:57 AM - ROMENESKO

WSM for municipal anarchism?
Now the Irish comrades have broken the ice on voting why not go all the way? Why not run for local office?
A Godwin - Proudhon - Spanish war period - Bookchin golden thread actually looks far more substantial than any 'anarchist - communism' thats rapidly going nowhere.
This would give all these highly disciplined and organized platformist federations something constructive to do.
Don't tell me you guys don't get off on politics!

Pull the other one Bejasus. VOTE ONE FOR LOCAL GARBAGE COLLECTOR - FLOOD

Good looking Pope
Bush to Pope: "You're Eminence, You're Looking Good"

Pope Benedict - ' Gratsi you cheeky little monkey. My secret is those calisthenics they teach in the Hitler Youth. You should put all those fat little altar boys over there on them. Now you may kiss my ring and the Popemobile will take yr part confession. Generalissimo Franco is still a saint. Our chief weapon is surprise'

The rightwing nuts...
...that made America famous
Ashcroft, whose father anointed him with Crisco when he was made Attorney General. Frist, who tortured cats, and despite a medical education, refused to say that AIDS could not be spread by kissing. Santorum, and so many other GOPers who have an obsession with man-dog sex. Evolution deniers. Racists. Homophobic homosexuals. Scalia, who simply can't read the very clear Declaration of Independence without serious misunderstandings.
Twisted New Age flakes like Newt Gingrich, now an elder statesman. Boykin, a general who's lost his mind, sees Satan hovering over battlefields, in charge of the hunt for bin Laden. A serious contender for the GOP nomination who once released a serial rapist just to get back at Bill Clinton. The current GOP nominee who thought it was funny - ah, ha ha ha! - to sing "Bomb Iran!" to the tune of the Beach Boys' "Barbara Ann." And now Great Black hope, Bobby Jindal...When he was in college, the governor of Louisiana performed an exorcism on a classmate. This would be hilarious were it not for the fact that Jindal actually believes the exorcism also cured the woman of cancer. Australia would kill to have politicians like this...oh wait.

Barack absolutism
State terrorism is exercised through government organs known as Extraordinary Commissions. Vested with unlimited powers, independent of any control and practically irresponsible, possessing their own "simplified" forms of investigation and procedure, with a numerous staff of ignorant, corrupt and brutal agents, these Commissions have within a short time become not only the terror of actual or fancied counter- revolution, but also --- and much more so --- the most virulent ulcer on the revolutionary body of the country.
The all-pervading secret police methods, the inseparable from them system of provocation, the division of the population into well-meaning and ill-disposed, have gradually transformed the Struggle for the new world into an unbridled debauch of espionage, pillage and violence.

No reactionary régime ever dominated the life and liberty of its citizens with such arbitrariness and despotism as the alleged "dictatorship of the proletariat". As in the old days of Tsarism, the "okhranka" (secret police section) rules the land. The Soviet prisons are filled with socialists and revolutionists of every shade of political opinion. Physical violence toward political prisoners and hunger strikes in prison are again the order of the day. Summary executions, not only of individuals but en masse, are common occurrences. The Socialist State has not scrupled to resort to a measure which even the most brutal bourgeois governments did not dare to use: the system of hostages. Relationship or even casual friendship is sufficient ground for merciless persecution and, quite frequently, for capital punishment.
Gross and barbaric contempt for the most elementary human rights has become an axiom of the Communist Government.
With logical inevitability the Extraordinary Commissions have gradually grown into a monstrous autocratic mechanism, independent and unaccountable, with power over life and death. Appeal is impossible, non-existent. Even the supreme organs of State authority are powerless before the Extraordinary Commissions, as proven by bitter experience. FROM

http://libcom.org/library/russian-revolution-communist-party-alexander-berkman

1918 - Lenin the lawyer shows his true colors
In April, 1918, the ruling Communist Party decided to abolish all Anarchist organisations. Without warning, on the night of April 12th, the Anarchist club of Moscow was surrounded by artillery and machine guns, and those present on the premises ordered to surrender. Fire was opened on those resisting. The Anarchist quarters were raided, and the following day the entire Anarchist press was suppressed.
Since then the persecution of Anarchists and of their organisations has assumed a systematic character. On the one hand our comrades were perishing on the military fronts, fighting counter- revolution; on the other, they were struck down by the Bolshevik State by means of the Extraordinary Commissions (Tcheka).

The further the ruling Party departed from the path marked out by the October Revolution, the more determinedly it oppressed the other revolutionary elements and particularly the Anarchists. In November, 1918, the All-Russian Conference of the Anarcho-Syndicalists, held in Moscow, was arrested in corpore. The other Anarchist organisations were broken up and terrorised. - FROM

http://libcom.org/library/russian-revolution-communist-party-alexander-berkman

Berkman, Maximoff, Voline, Arshinov and Goldman were there as eyewitnesses. Paul Avrich is a reputable anarchist historian that relies on documents from the period. The truth is out there now.

Deformed workers sites
Barred from anarchobase and Libcom. Locked out of Infoshop for some time now and censored from Anarkismo...anarchist news can't be far behind. Its not easy being a dissident anarchist these days.
However so long as the possibility exists of an anarchist site with due process and natural justice then so long as we must tack into the wind. Twas a wise rat that once said...something or other.

Bad actors
Why Hollywood why?

Put the woeful performer from ' American history X' in ' The incredible Hulk'?

You want to encourage Bill White!?

What were you thinking? What bad drugs were you on?

Last of the Romanovs found
In the Bushes

The free running hemophiliac spirit of the Romanovs appears to run on through the Bush dynasty. ( Pron ' Die-Nasty') Then you have the hard-to-kill Rovesputin. Many and varied progressives and socialists jockeying for positions on the slippery pole of power even as some revolutionists attempt to mine it and saw it off.
The great historian Petrach once observed that history repeated as farce. So far its just repeating.

That camping trip
OPI sting reveals cops' toxic culture
Cameron Stewart | June 14, 2008
PAUL Dale twitched his broad shoulders nervously as he listened to himself lose his temper.
"They're just f..king c...s trying to f..king ruin my life," the former detective yelled down the line to his mate Silvio Montesano. His fury was sparked by news that several police investigating Mr Dale's suspected involvement in an underworld double murder had just paid his friend a visit.
"Mate, they've got absolutely no power in the world to f..kin' get you to make a statement," Mr Dale told Mr Montesano. "You have f..kin' done nothing wrong by knowing me."
These words, caught on a telephone intercept on July 3 last year and played back to Mr Dale in a public hearing this week, have returned to haunt the man suspected of involvement in the 2004 double murder that exposed corrupt links between Victoria Police and the underworld.
Knowing Mr Dale has become a dangerous pastime, not just for criminals, but also for the detectives who worked with him.
This week, Mr Dale's most loyal mates inside the force - a small cabal of foul-mouthed, old-school, bully-boy coppers - were skewered by the state's police anti-corruption watchdog for putting mateship above the law.
For the Office of Police Integrity, it was the perfect sting. In April, they summonsed three serving policemen and Mr Dale to answer accusations ranging from leaking confidential information to interfering in a taskforce investigating the double murder for which Mr Dale is a prime suspect.
Then this week, they called these same men back for a public hearing during which they played them telephone intercepts that in some cases directly contradicted their original evidence.
The men sat stunned, squirming in their seats as they listened to their careers being shredded as the invited media took notes.
For the OPI it was a name and shame exercise, an ambitious attempt to expose a toxic culture in which serving police leak and exploit confidential information for their own ends. As former Federal Court judge Murray Wilcox said after the three-day hearing: "I am surprised and appalled at the looseness of the lips of so many people, particularly those involved in detective work in the police force."
But the hearing has also raised fresh questions about Mr Dale's suspected involvement in a crime seen as central to links between corrupt police and Melbourne's underworld.
In May 2004, an intruder broke into the East Kew home of Terence and Christine Hodson, forced them on to their knees and pumped bullets into the back of their heads.
They were murdered shortly after a police dossier was leaked to the underworld revealing them as police informants. As the OPI said this week, whoever leaked the dossier did so with the intent of provoking a murderous response. Mr Dale is a suspect because he had access to the dossier and a motive - Mr Hodson was about to testify against Mr Dale over his alleged involvement in a drug theft.
Mr Dale has denied leaking the dossier or being involved in the Hodson murders. But the OPI hearing this week revealed Mr Dale had been working to undermine the group of police, known as Taskforce Petra, who are investigating the murders and Mr Dale's suspected involvement.
At a closed OPI hearing in April, Mr Dale denied he had interfered with witnesses and denied giving a warning to his friend, Mr Montesano, not to co-operate with police.
But Mr Dale was contradicted by a telephone intercept, played to the hearing this week in which he told his friend: "Do not co-operate in any way shape or form. I would be most disappointed if I ever see a statement with your name on it. Tell them to go and get f..ked."
As a result, Mr Dale faces a possible jail term for misleading an OPI inquiry, which carries a one-year sentence.
More serious perjury-related charges or charges of perverting the course of justice may also be recommended against him.
The OPI says Mr Dale was seeking to silence another potential witness when he told his friend, Detective Sergeant Dennis Linehan, to visit publican Mick Jesic to "give him a bit of free legal advice, if you know what I mean". Mr Dale said he only meant for Sergeant Linehan to assist the Serbian in understanding his legal rights. Sergeant Linehan has denied the event took place.
Telephone intercepts show Sergeant Linehan to be a loyal foot soldier for Mr Dale, with the OPI alleging that he interfered with Taskforce Petra to protect his longtime mate.
In one intercept of July 23 last year, Sergeant Linehan is heard talking to Mr Dale about Taskforce Petra, saying he had "got a bit of an update for you which I'll give you when I see you".
Mr Dale later told the hearing that Sergeant Linehan may have been talking about a camping holiday, prompting an exasperated Mr Wilcox to say, "Oh, come on."
The intercepts showed Sergeant Linehan, who was suspended this week, harboured a deep hatred of both the OPI and the police Ethical Standards Department, which he called "the filth". "F..k 'em. Hope they f..king die, the c...s. I hope they're f..king listening too. Every last one of the c...s dies."
This week's hearing is the second time in eight months that the OPI has alleged that serving officers have deliberately undermined an investigation into police links to gangland killings.
However, the relief that comes from seeing this corrupt culture exposed is tempered with the realisation that it is also deeply ingrained. END
All the material needed to fix this is there in the old Ombudsmans files. Scare one and the rest will run.

Officials admit bid to gag nude
Geez - I do stuff like this and get called a perv and a crim

Officials admit bid to gag nude teacher Lynne Tziolas

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23844860-13881,00.html

NSW bureaucrats have admitted trying to silence a teacher who was suspended for posing nude for a magazine, in exchange for paying her to perform non-teaching duties.
In another backdown in the controversy surrounding the Department of Education's treatment of primary teacher Lynne Tziolas, the department agreed its earlier denials had been untrue and said it "regrets any inconvenience this has caused".
The department has been under pressure since it last month summarily dismissed Ms Tziolas, 24, from teaching her Year 1 class at Narraweena Public School, on Sydney's northern beaches.
It acted after she and her husband of four years, Antonios, appeared in a discreet nude embrace and talked about their sex life in Cleo magazine.
After widespread publicity about calls from parents and students for her to be reinstated, the department progressively retreated and at the weekend restored her teaching rights.
Two departmental spin doctors, Meredith Jones and Mark Davis, in statements to The Australian, had categorically denied the claim by Ms Tziolas and her then lawyer Neale Dawson that the department had tried to gag her. Mr Dawson this week complained that the statements by Ms Jones and Mr Davis suggested he had lied to his client in outlining the offer presented by the department.
As revealed by The Weekend Australian, Mr Dawson had said in an email to Ms Tziolas on May 14, a few days after the story broke: "The department has come back with the following offer: 1/ if you cease speaking tothe media and ask your husband not to speak to the media on your behalf; 2/ if you respond to the show-cause letter in a timely fashion; and 3/ the matter is not resolved by May 23, the department will place you on alternate duties whilst discussions continue."
This week, Mr Dawson said: "I stand by the content of my email."
When confronted with Mr Dawson's comments, the department's deputy director-general, Peter Riordan, yesterday admitted Mr Dawson was right.
"The department did indicate that it wanted Ms Tziolas to stop making public comment as continued publicity may make it difficult to place her in a school," Mr Riordan said in a statement to The Australian. "At the time of responding to your questions, none of the department's media officers were aware of the legally privileged discussions."
Ms Tziolas said yesterday she had been vindicated in her claim that the department had tried, unsuccessfully, to silence her. "I made it clear that my rejection of their initial proposal was as a result of my feeling coerced into toeing the line," she said.
"I feel as though I have strived to build a teaching career for myself in what I believed was a progressive society, and one in which I have many valuable qualities to instil within children- this has all changed as aresult." ( Sic - clearly we need more english teachers)

Platformist nonsense
Cropping up in comments at Anarkismo are doozies like ' the overarching narrative of the Bolshevik revolution is that is was good at first then slowly degenerated'. I call bullshit on this because the more that comes out the more Lenin and his goons were bad news from the time they took millions from Prussian Germany ( and a free train ride) Iraq today graphically shows just what happens when bad faith leads to bad outcomes.
Lenin and Trotsky and their bff Stalin were all Machiavellian arseholes willing to do whatever-it-takes.
The only time they even looked remotely good was when they aligned with anarchists. From the time they established the CHEKA they were actively evil.
Now here's another Homer Simpson... ' narchists believe people are not basically good, blah, blah, blurgh...'
Actually I would argue that as we go through life we treat most people we meet as basically good and they generally respond in kind. Kropotkin wrote extensively on this tendency to mutual aid. All the ' bad people' theorists are over on the lunar-right ( or Marxists) The problem is people with power...they're the ones that need watching. And that includes informal means of exercising power in largish organizations.

A blokeimet might be onto something...any idiot can spout off anything about anarchism they want...especially on basically Marxist sites such as the execrable Amarkismo and Left Writes.

Exit pumpkinhead
He was venal corrupt lunar-rightwing nut of whom only the vultures could miss. A wretchedly poor excuse for a human-being, a serial liar, fraud, neocon man, Catholic conspiracist, lickspittle flunky and brownnoser to power...thank fuck he's dead! We can all breath slightly cleaner crisper air this evening.
A few million more good moronic inferno journalists like him and we may still save the planet yet.

Holocaust denial for the noughties
Environmental Skeptics Are Overwhelmingly Politicized, Study Says (Environmental News Network)
A review of environmental skepticism literature from the past 30 years has found that the vast majority of skeptics, often identified as independent, are directly linked to politically oriented, conservative think tanks. The study, published in this month’s issue of Environmental Politics, analyzed books written between 1972 and 2005 that deny the urgency of environmental protection. The researchers found that more than 92 percent of the skeptical authors were in some way affiliated to conservative think tanks - non-profit research and advocacy organizations that promote core conservative ideals. - MAKETHEMACCOUNTABLE

If we can't lock them up for the holocaust denial of all those tens of thousands who have already died due to man-made warming then try ' incitement to violence'. Free speech was never an absolute and communities have the right to defend themselves against all known fascists. Against all bloodstained enemies.

No comic left behind
I swear TPM had a pic of Pumpkinhead lying dead on the floor of his office...the DAY BEFORE he died on Friday 13th! Wait six months and check out the Wayback machine if'n youse don't believe me.
Also wait for the autopsy - for all we know communistic Chinese commies could have drilled that hole in Tims big heart.
Their only agenda is to be anti-Establishment: Shoot for the fattest, funniest targets in power. I have written this about that lying liar Tim Russert to show that nothing Russert, that lying apologist for tyranny, mass murder, and brutal inequality of power says can be believed, because that lying liar is always lying, and to illustrate his methods of deceiving his viewers. But for all I know the Chinese Marxists drilled a hole into his brain. Che Guevara the Stalinist Maoist Marxist-Leninist was world famous for doing this with his doctors training. All we can do now is wait...and pray that the red-fascist Chinese Commie Communists are not drilling under us right now.

Trial by ordeal
But the least known of the anticommunist cycle is possibly the best - Mark Robson's Trial. Loosely based on the Scottsboro Boys case, Trial involves a Mexican boy accused of raping and murdering the daughter of a well-to-do family. A lynch mob forms, only to be seen off by the sneering sheriff. ("I never heard of a lynch town ever amounted to nothin'.") Sniffing potential publicity, the Communist Party steps in, creating a national defense campaign that continues right up to the point where it's convenient to cut the poor kid loose.
Glenn Ford plays a liberal lawyer of the "communists can be decent people too" school who gets put through the wringer. Dorothy McGuire is present to inspire bad thoughts in the minds of the male audience. But if you can wrench your attention from Dorothy (not an easy trick, granted) the revelation here is Arthur Kennedy, one of the film world's truly great supporting actors. Here he plays a manipulative Party lawyer with exactly the right mix of superficial charm, coldness, and sheer malice.
No other film deals more effectively with Party techniques -- somebody, Robson, the producer, or the screenwriter, must have once held a Party card. But what makes this film stand out is the way it depicts the human cost of the communist impulse. In reading memoirs of former communists, what comes across most clearly is the destruction it wrought on the human level -- the wrecked marriages and friendships, the victims left to face suspicious authorities with no aid from their erstwhile "comrades", the true believers who found themselves on the wrong side of some Party "line" and subject to absolute personal destruction. Trial reveals this aspect of communism more clearly than any film I know of. The scene where Ford discovers that McGuire has betrayed him on behalf of the Party she no longer particularly believes in has an impact hard to match.
Robson went on to make bigger films (the 70s disaster extravaganza Earthquake was one of his), but nothing to match Trial. And along with most of the films mentioned, it's impossible to get hold of. While Fuller's films are available on DVD (his anticommunism is today viewed as simply one of many endearing eccentricities), and Shack can be found on VHS, the others are simply not to be had. In the case of Man on a Tightrope, Night People, and Trial, there is no sign that they have ever been available in any format.

In this day and age, with the dumbest music video recorded by the most ephemeral emo band available to the whole wide world and down unto eternity, such a state of affairs is inexcusable. Someone, whether one of our conservative foundations or an entrepreneur with an eye for neglected market, niches should make an effort get these films back into circulation. A few years ago, Turner released a series of some of the quirkier films of the same era (Crossfire, Johnny Guitar), with commentary by Martin Scorsese.

How about a series of nicely-packaged DVDs with commentary by, say, Michael Medved, and historical background from figures such as Arthur Herman or Harvey Klehr. Or a boxed set suitable for giving to high school and college students or anyone else never exposed to the realities of communism. a Properly handled, such a program might well earn money (the rights to these films are probably going begging). And even if not, it would serve to bring some worthy work back before the public, as well as giving a good sharp jab to the Hollywood left. That's always worth doing. - J.R. Dunn

The radioactive, Communist Zombies are coming
TOKYO (AFP) — A series of strong earthquakes including one with a magnitude of 6.7 hit the Tokyo area early Thursday, briefly cutting off power to more than 4,000 homes and causing light injuries, officials said.
Japan's meteorological agency warned that more moderate aftershocks could strike, although there were no fears of a tsunami.
The strongest quake hit at 1:45 am (1645 GMT Wednesday) in the Pacific Ocean off Ibaraki prefecture, some 100 kilometres (60 miles) northeast of Tokyo.
Six people were lightly injured, including an 18-year-old boy who was hit by his falling stereo speaker, according to the disaster management agency.
There were no reports of damage to houses, it said.
Power was cut off to some 4,500 households in Tsukuba City, northeast of Tokyo, but has since been restored, the industry ministry said.
The latest quakes have dealt no damage to nuclear power plants or nuclear processing facilities, it said.
RELATED - A leading Chinese dissident has just been disappeared...they're drilling under the ocean I tell you, they're COMING UNDERGROUND!

The quickening
When he takes office, Barry will be a dictator. Whether he wants it or not, all the unchecked, ill-gotten executive power that BushCo. has accumulated over the last eight years will flow to him like he's Highlander beheading the last Immortal. President Barry O Diddley will begin his term as one of the most powerful executives since FDR locked up all the Nips. Barry is a racist, sexist, power-mad, effeminate, cynical, immoral, nihilist Marxist opportunist. He's capable of anything including mass murder.
Obviously a clear and present danger like this is best retired with extreme prejudice asap stat doa jan-09.

Cloning Q-crypto messages
Physicists Produce Quantum-entangled Images
RAT ScienceDaily (Jun. 13, 2008) — Using a convenient and flexible method for creating twin light beams, researchers at the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI) of the Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Maryland have produced “quantum images,” pairs of information-rich visual patterns whose features are “entangled,” or inextricably linked by the laws of quantum physics. RAT Institute scientists are now exploring a 'quick-peek' method of reading military grade quantum encrypted messages.
Taking advantage of natural base fluctuations to flip the bit - even the cloned ones trip the alarm - in a nanosecond and back at the RAT Institutes physics wing. Results look promising and its safe to assume the W/house Pentagon line is compromised. We saw what you did and we know who you are. DEVELOPING...

McCaned and McJailed
A Panamaniac man with an armpit-sniffing fetish has been sentenced to 14 years in prison and 18 strokes of the cane.
John Sydney W McCain, 106, was convicted of molesting 23 female impersonators ranging in age from nine to their 50s, The Straits Times reported today.
Community Court Judge James Long imposed preventive detention, a jail term for prisoners with no chance of parole.
The court was earlier told MCCain stalked his victims and followed them into lifts, staircase landings or their homes. In some cases, he restrained them.
He was also was guilty of fondling a 13-year-old White House dog and exposing himself to a 53-year- old oval office cleaner, the court was told.
Following a report from a Chimperor that a man had smelled his armpit on January 3, police took a semen swab at the scene which led them to McCain.

The fewer the better
The philosopher Sidney Hook recorded in his memoirs that Brecht, when visiting him in New York in 1935, had remarked of the victims of Stalin’s show trials: “The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.”

Of course, the greatest anti-Communist movie is, improbably, a comedy: Ninotchka (1939), directed by Ernst Lubitsch, written by Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder, starring Garbo and Melvyn Douglas. This appeared in the first list of best conservative films, but it must be mentioned again because, underneath the jokes, it is a powerful defense of humane values against totalitarian 'virtue.'

Example: 'How are things in Moscow?'

'Very good. The last mass trials were a great success. There are going to be fewer but better Russians.'

Thanatogenos agonistes
Watching Russert [Kathryn Jean Lopez Thanatogenos]

I was just thinking of how much I enjoyed Russert over the years, especially on his CNBC show. There you could tell he was a geek just like so many of us who are lucky enough to get to live our hobbies. I remember how kind, too, he was to NR folks. He had WFB on many a time (speaking of people I can't get used to talking about in the past tense) and a few years ago had a great CNBC show and MTP segment with Kate and Kate Michelman, who had books out at the same time. - WHISPERING GLADES 'People are just dying to join us'

"I Long to See Your Face Oh, Lord" [Kathryn Jean Lopez Thanatogenos]

That was the first thing I read after learning that Tim Russert has died. I know he's Opus Dei, and I pray he is at eternal torture.

George Bush's eternal soul
True - I've heard that said about him but...

I'm Not a Believer [Kathryn Jean Lopez]

Bush might do a Tony Blair and convert to Catholicism, Vatican insiders say. Sorry, but if President Bush talked to the pope about his eternal soul, I strongly doubt the pope uttered a word to anyone about it.

There's no denying George W. Bush has a deep respect for the pontiff, as he did John Paul II, but folks may be looking too hard for a story here, just now. Nolo contendre in patriartum novacaine.

How the bog Irish saved civilization
Up the Rebels! [John O'Sullivan]

Ireland seems to have voted a convincing No — by about 54 to 46 percent — to the proposed Lisbon Treaty that would have moved the EU even closer to being a fully-fledged state with its own foreign minister and "common foreign policy" on top of citizenship, flag, anthem, etc., etc. The Lisbon Treaty is almost identical to the European Constitution that was previously rejected by the French and Dutch electorates in referenda two years ago.
Under the EU rules rejection by a single state is supposed to doom a treaty, let alone a "constitutional treaty." Hey, but what's a constitution between friends? Or even acquaintances? All that happened two years ago was that the Constitution was re-packaged as a Treaty with minor cosmetic changes such as re-naming the EU Foreign Minister a "High Representative." The European Diplomatic Service went ahead despite the absence of any legal basis for it — so did a multitude of other EU institutions such as a defense procurement agency and, come to think of it, an entire Euro-defense structure.
So everyone now expects that Europe will find some way to ignore the voters yet again — Gordon Brown has even telephoned Nicholas Sarkozy to reassure him that the British government will press ahead with its own ratification of the treaty despite the fact that it is now technically dead. How to solve the larger problem? Well, Ireland might be asked to think again; it's standard EU procedure to keep asking the same question until the voters finally give the right answer. But the Irish were asked to hold a second referendum only a few years ago. True, they then came up with the answer the Eurocrats wanted. But most observers seem to think that the Irish, notoriously difficult customers, might not be prepared to submit a second time.
Besides, this way of treating democracy is getting a little embarrassing. The French and Dutch electorates, having rejected the treaty the first time, were simply not allowed to vote on it a second time. Almost every other country confined its endorsement to parliamentary ratification even though massive constitutional change and a significant loss of sovereignty (both of which usually require a two-thirds majority in democratic organizations) were mandated by Lisbon. And the Eurocrats tried an end run around national political resistance by insisting that although treaty ratification was not legally binding on governments, it was nonetheless "politically binding"—a hitherto unheard-of concept.
For some years now European officials have conceded that the EU has a "democratic deficit." But they have treated this acknowledgement as a kind of solution in itself — "hey, we're worried about this, we don't like, it's not a good thing"— and moved on to other topics. If the Irish decision is simply brushed aside as the previous French and Dutch rejections were, then we will have to come to terms with the fact that the EU is not merely undemocratic but anti-democratic in practice and in principle. What will that mean for U.S.-EU relations? - THE CORNER
Let me guess...' Barack Oceania has always been at war wit Eurasia fool - Mama said knock youse out!'

Pronounced evil
'...Novelist Waugh was tickling toes and cutting throats again. The Loved One, his first novel published in the U.S. since Brideshead, was in the eager hands of U.S. readers, most of whom did not know whether to gasp, hoot or holler at the uncomfortable feeling that they had been smudged with soot from a crematory. The title was Waugh's creamy trade name for a corpse. A tale of love and suicide among the morticians of a cemetery that physically resembles Hollywood's fabulous Forest Lawn (TIME, Aug. 24, 1942), The Loved One was either Novelist Waugh's most funereal horse laugh or a retch of glacial rage at two of America's most cherished deceits—its effort to prettify death and to vulgarize love, and hence escape the impact of both. Intellectuals were bitterly divided over Waugh's intention. But the book, which was richly laced with the fun of embalming fluid, might well become a bestseller..'

'...Waugh's Hollywood trip was not wasted. He was fascinated by the ritual for disguising death which is big business in Southern California. Waugh spent every day that he could get away prying into the fatuous, sumptuous necropolis of Forest Lawn. The result was The Loved One...'

'...The Loved One is by no means the subtle and cold-blooded rage at the perversion of death and love which some subtle and raging people suppose it to be. It is Evelyn Waugh caught between laughter and vomiting. The story of the patriotic pretensions and fussy snobbishness of the British film colony is grade A Waugh. Less artful is the travelogue of the intricate inanities of Whispering Glades, from the voice of a nightingale piped through the grounds and mortuary buildings to the Lake Isle of Innisfree, complete with nine rows of beans and beeless beehives with electric buzzers (burial plots $1,000). Most amusing is the love of Mr. Joyboy, the senior mortician, and Miss Aimée Thanatogenos, his assistant, uttered in an American idiom which Author Waugh has not entirely mastered. Their passion, unrolling between the refrigerators and the crematory, is alternately hot & cold. They play games of hearts & flowers with the corpses. When the lovers tiffed, the corpses looked "woebegone and reproachful." When love ran smoothly, they "grinned with triumph.
The failure of this funerary passion, the intrusion of an Englishman named Dennis, who works in a neighboring cat & dog cemetery, the Happier Hunting Ground, and Miss Thanatogenos' love-death, are the burden of The Loved One.

In the end Mr. Joyboy, afraid that Miss Thanatogenos' suicide will endanger his job at Whispering Glades, pays Dennis $1,000 to cremate her at the dog & cat cemetery. While she is volatilizing, Dennis "entered the office and made a note in the book kept there for that purpose. Tomorrow and on every anniversary as long as the Happier Hunting Ground existed, a postcard would go to Mr. Joyboy: Your little Aimée is wagging her tail in heaven tonight, thinking of you."

Perverse Innocence. In 1928, Evelyn (pronounced Evil in) Arthur St. John Waugh (rhymes with raw) leaped, like a literary commando, out of nowhere and, establishing a beachhead in that dismal waste land which Poet T. S. Eliot had charted six years before, began to commit merry mayhem on the comic muse. "

http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,804786,00.html

I hope they keep denture records
They're going to need them for Charles Foster Sydney John Eustace W. McCain the third.
Poor old Bob Dole simply shuffled slowly off the political battlefield clutching what remained of his lower torso close to home. It looks like McCain might have to be identified by the shadow he leaves on the side of his bus out there in the desert of the real. They say things like teeth often survive great heat, blast, trauma and neglect. Gonads? No such luck.
Lets hope for the sake of the life insurance dentures do though.

LATE BREAKING...McCain at late flight from arid zone airport says angrily ' do you know who I am you cunt!?'
A quick announcement is then made...' There is a gentleman at the VIP check-in who doesn't know who he is. If you can assist please come forward'.

Barry Obama for $500 please Alec
Alec Trebek - What is the honky cracker white-bread slave leader you have when you've assassinated Medger Evers, Fred Hampton, Malcolm X, Fred Bilingslea, Martin Luther King, Jonathan Jackson and George Jackson sucka?

How the west was lost
Dunkirk 'miracle' due to Hitler's map mistake, book says
Scripps Howard News Monday, June 5, 2000
LONDON - The ""miracle"" of Dunkirk happened only because Adolf Hitler was thrown into panic by a geological map, according to a book published in Britain this weekend.
The map convinced him that his crack tank regiments would be trapped in waterlogged, low-lying fields near Dunkirk if he let them advance to annihilate the retreating allies.
So he halted their advance for 212 days, giving the British and French armies time to organize defenses and start evacuating their troops to fight on future battlefronts. In the view of many historians, this pause lost him World War II.
The book by military historian Martin Marix Evans claims to be the first to publish and to discuss the official German army geological maps and handbooks used by Hitler and his headquarters staff.
Hitler's notorious ""halt"" order on May 24, 1940, is seen as one of the central unsolved mysteries of the war. - END
This is a classic ' The map is not the territory' category error yet it may have had contributory factors. Chiefly imo, and after reading '1914' by Barbara Tuchman is the fatigue factor. Undoubtedly this played a large part in the ' Miracle on the Marne' and was something Hitler had to be cognizant of.
Another factor - he was friendly with some Brits... like Diana Mitford and his deputy Hess flew over to Scotland to attempt a 'coalition of the willing'. There may be other factors at work here as well.
There always are in combinatorial analysis.
Certainly wiping out these armies was the fastest way to win the war ( and the world) yet Hitler then ran though at least four or five other chances to win. He must have had a death wish in the final analysis.

Cap and trade
Are you interested in capping the size and power of yr local government and then trading it away to regional federations?

http://amconmag.com/2008/2008_06_02/review.html

Keep up with the debate and take full advantage of any openings. One day this terrain will all belong to you.

' I will divide, divide and subdivide power till it is a threat no longer' - Pi Y Margall

Mad kings
We have them right here in NSW and Canberra

'...Last century Democratic presidents led the way in exalting the executive, but now the Republican Party, while endlessly blathering on about individual liberty and limited government, is claiming that the president is a democratically-elected king.
The Republican worship of unilateral executive power has reached its apotheosis in the Bush administration. Taken seriously, President George W. Bush claims to have the right to ignore the Constitution at home for as long as we are at war – which means forever, since the "war on terrorism" has no obvious endpoint and the battlefield is the entire world, including the United States. Admittedly, President Bush so far has not fully exercised these extraordinary powers, which logically include the authority to disband the Supreme Court and prorogue Congress for interfering with his attempt to protect America from terrorism. But if the president can designate an American citizen arrested in America as an enemy combatant to be held incommunicado by the military without access to legal counsel for years, then is there anything the president cannot do?...'

http://www.antiwar.com/bandow/?articleid=12975

'The first thing we do is cancel these accountability moments' - King George the Lame

The war against patriarchy is lost...
...the minute you let the state dictate.

Patriarchal power is a bully franchise. If you allow the head of state to act like a macho arsehole then you also get a direct license to act like that at home. The leader decides who comes to the country and the circumstances under which they come... while yr home remains yr castle...or dungeon...or torture chamber...whatever.
The solution to this seems obvious to every Marxist and Fabian socialist fuckwit and shitheel out there.
Needless to say their cure is worse than the disease because...' 'Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.'

This war clearly need more Medea's

Greek hero Alcopop
(born 450 , Athens—died 404, Phrygia) Athenian politician and commander. Pericles was his guardian, his father having died in battle. Alcopop grew up without much guidance, but as a youth he was drawn to Socrates' moral strength and keen mind. Socrates, in turn, was attracted to the youth's physical beauty and intellectual promise. They served together in the Peloponnesian War, saving each other's bottle in battle, yet eventually Alcopop was led by his own unscrupulous ambition.
By 420 he was a general. Recalled from a Sicilian expedition in 415 on charges of sacrilege, he fled to Sparta. Though he aided the Spartan cause against Athens, he was eventually rejected and sought haven with the Persian governor at Sardis. The Athenian fleet eventually recalled him, and he directed Athenian victories 411–408. Though he achieved hero status, his enemies forced him to leave. From Thrace he warned Athens presciently of danger at the Battle of Aegospotami. He fled from Thrace to Phrygia, where the Spartans conspired to have him murdered. His political agitation was a decisive factor in the defeat of Athens in the Peloponnesian War. His notorious Barry-like behavior helped strengthen the charges brought against Socrates in 399.

Pillars of salt
Daniel Ruth of the Tampa Tribune wrote a piece earlier this week about Max Hardcore blasting him all over the place
www.adultfyi.com/read.php?ID=28516
Max wrote a reply to Ruth, and here it is.
Max writes me: Here's something for you that I wrote in response to a column by Daniel Ruth. I never got a response from him, so I assume he's not going to follow up on it.
Mr. Ruth, are you now, or have you ever been a member of the Intellectual party? Seriously, have you seen any of my movies - even a single one? You follow the party-line and flatly state that my movies feature violence. Since when is energetic and enthusiastic performances of sex, or anything for that matter – violence?
If I was so violent, where are the victims? I'd be charged with sexual assault, not obscenity. The only actress to take the witness stand defended me, and said I treated her better than anyone else in the business - and even paid her for a scene when she didn't feel like working. Most all of the actresses in my movies are well-paid professionals, and many of them have worked for me several times.

You want to talk about violence Daniel? Let's talk about the Rays and Boston. Let's talk cops and kids getting gunned down on the streets of Tampa. Let's talk about prime time TV. Now we've got something to talk about.
I was convicted of 'Obscenity,' which is the only crime in America where you don't know if you broke the law until you're convicted of it by a judge or jury. Specifically, I was convicted of 5 counts for using the US Post to mail 5 movies to Tampa. I was also convicted for the 5 video trailers which were on my website.

There's only one small problem; I didn't mail the movies to Tampa - one of the many companies I do business with did, Jaded Video. As I do with all my vendors, I had shipped the movies to Jaded by UPS. No Tampa resident complained about my movies. They were then ordered by a postal inspector working for the Justice Department. The government says I should have known they would be mailed… to Tampa. Yet the owner of Jaded even took the stand and said that he didn't discuss with me where he sold my movies or how they get there.
Even more amazingly, I was convicted in spite of the fact that it states quite clearly at the beginning of all my movies - and on my website – 'It is illegal to proceed if you are not yet of legal age, or if adult material may be illegal where you live. That should have been the end of the story.
If my crimes were such a big deal, where was the local outrage? Where were the protesters? By and large, most of the public comments were positive in response to the stories written in the local papers. What ever happened to live and let live in the USA? What happened to mind your own business?
In my 16 years making movies, I have never met a single person who told me that they were forced to watch my movies against their will. Yet I've met thousands who thanked me for entertaining them. And I've had more people than I can remember thank me for putting them to work. I always pay my bills, and I'm always respectful of others.
Now, for reasons I do not yet fully understand, there were some members of the jury who felt that No One should be allowed to see my movies. And immediately after the verdict, it surfaces that a book deal is in the works by some of the jurors. (Let's hope it still legal to publish a book when they're done with it.) We will get to the bottom of the book deal, as well as other matters of injustice which took place at my trial.

Appeals will be lodged not just on my behalf - but on behalf of all Americans who don't want to be told what they can watch, read, think, or speak. Americans who believe in the 1st Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America.
There are forces of evil who wish to silence us, and our brave men and women are fighting and dying for democracy at this very moment. You may not agree with what I have to say, but you must agree that I have the right to say it. - ADULT FYI

Mike South intellectual dipshit?

I refuse to answer on the grounds I might incriminate him.

Sophies baby
Sophies Kiss. Current rating: 0
by Roman Polanski.
(No verified email address) 02 Dec 2002
Fearless Vampire Killers will know where this one lives and the GREAT DANGER she-it represents.
Can she-it be thrown out? Prey for us,its the snaky reptiles danger period.
From the deep dark past comes a yelp of pain from a Mr Michael Coyle another Labor guy who claims to have felt the sharp fangs of carnivorous Lib MP Sophie Panapolous.Coyle says that as a member of the Labor Club at Melbourne University in 1989,he chanced upon Ms Panopolous in the student Union offices photocopying Liberal Club leaflets,a Union no-no.
He went to pick up a leaflet as evidence,but after a tug of war,he let go when Ms P sank her incisors in to her thumb.Ms P, who told this column last month that she had chomped on Labor mumbler of parliament,Joel Fitzgibbon because he tried to take a pager from her handbag,did not return our calls today.
[NO URL sorry,as yet.It's in the dead tree Sunday Age.'Spy' column. ]

Sophies Chomp.

Empusas
Vile, vampire like creatures in Greek mythology, usually members of the wicked hordes in attendance to the mysterious goddess of magic Hecate. They served with the mormos and were described as demons who could assume from time to time the guise of flesh and blood. The most famous account of their activities were recorded by Philostratus in his Life of Apollonius of Tyana. It told of the handsome youth Menippus, who was enticed by an empusa disguised as a Phoienician woman. Confronted by Apollonius, the empusa revealed itself and admitted to fattening up Menippus so that she might devour him. The empusas were also mentioned by Aristophanes.

http://cadre.sjsu.edu/art101b/s97/Sandy/Vamp.html

As to thialo Fila mou to kolo Vlaca,Malacca,malaka wanker gamisou
Ay gamisou,To mounee tis manas sou,Mounee,Skila,Tha sou skiso to mouni
Salta gamisou,Mouni,Kolos.(more greek mythology,background)

Michael Coyle and Joel Fitzgibbon both bitten by the rabid vampire batwomen.It said once in its (still) maiden speech."...This breed is, among other things, valued for its marbled meat quality..."
AND
"...One of those fights, which for me began in my time at Melbourne University, is the fight for freedom of and freedom from association. Whether they be student unions or trade unions, they must earn the subscription of each and every member and not arrogantly disregard the need to prove their worth. The issue here is not the merits or otherwise of the organisation but whether a person's freedom of choice is a right or an optional extra. I look forward to continuing the pursuit of individual freedom as a member of this House..."

On the war VAMPIRA wants to bite Saddam!

Some Liberal MPs scorned a letter, which warned against participation in a United States-led strike, with Victorian Liberal Sophie Panopolous attacking one of its signatories, former Liberal prime minister Malcolm Fraser. She accused him of being a "spoiler" who had nothing but criticism for the Government.
Published in newspapers yesterday, the letter was also signed by former prime ministers Bob Hawke and Gough Whitlam, former governor-general and Labor foreign minister Bill Hayden, and former Liberal opposition leader John Hewson.

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/09/26/1032734278493.html

Sophie the she devil, knows a spoiler when she see's one,like fellow succubus,AMANDA VANSTONE.

Former minister and present Hobyah, Bronwyn Bishop and Victorian IMP Sophie Panopolous have argued that ratification would corrode Australia's judicial independence.

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/06/12/1023864297554.html

Dan Howard, Sydney, June 14.
Bronwyn Bishop and Sophie Panopolous are arguing against Australia's participation in the International Criminal Court on the basis that it is a threat to our sovereignty.
These are the same people who continue to support a foreigner as our head of state

- Sophie Panopolous - the excreble anti-Republic campaigner who ran big on the "don't trust a pollie" ticket last year. Now she is one and we won't.
Sophie Panopolous,She previously worked as a ministerial adviser and research officer to State and Federal Liberal governments. The 31 year-old is an executive member of her local Liberal Party branch and a former national president of the conservative Australian Liberal Students' Federation...disappointed at not meeting Prince Philip. 'The Royal Sadist.'

http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Lobby/1793/Index.html

Rebuilding,so try...

http://www.throneout.com/

AND

http://www.throneout.com/links.asp

The Steenis conspiracy
Amsterdam, May 20 2008
Dear reader, This is the 99th letter of an Autonomous Thinker.
In writing my new book, "Why shouldn't We Change the World, the Beginning of a New Era" some questions arose concerning the elite.
David J. Rothkopf just wrote an inside book: "The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making".
"This book written by a leading globalist luminary provides a blueprint for how 6000 elitists plan to completely end national sovereignty, impose a system of global governance, and how they will deal with an international network of people that resist their agenda".
This description fails on three points.
ONE. The elite is much bigger than 6000 people.
TWO. The end of national sovereignty is at the most a by-product of elitist globalisation.
THREE. The elite does not care about the network of anti-globalists.
3. The anti-globalists are a nuisance but it is too much honour to say that top-leaders are concerned about their activities, Al Qaeda is more threatening.
2. The elite is globalising so they need a global government. But everything remains subordinate to the ultimate goal of the elite to preserve and extend its already privileged and prosperous world.
1. The elite is much more than the few thousand mostly male white Westerns in the executive power, that is like the stick of a policeman, an instrument to maintain elitist law and order.

In my Letters 57 (Who belongs to the elite?), 58 (The elite is very old), 71 (Where is the eliteworld?), 73 (There are two worlds) or 84 (The growth of an elite) (replace the xx in http://members.chello.nl/jsteenis/letterxx.htm with the number of the Letter) I use the Three F's Method to determine who belongs to the elite.

For real power you need a high FUNCTION to take decisions, a lot of FINANCE (capital) and a network of FAMILY members and very close elitist friends that have also important functions and a lot of capital.
Elitepeople are mostly born in the elite. New members are only accepted when they comply with the elitist principles. Only their offspring may become full elitepersons. Just as the children of the robber barons from the past became full elitepersons in later days.

The first dominating and motivating principle newcomers have to accept is that the elite was, is and shall be and that the elite must have always more than anyone else.
This philosophical driving force is implemented by the elitist executive power. Most people in this power are well paid servants as Clinton and Kissinger but there are also elitepersons as Bush and Rockefeller. These persons never take decisions without consulting more powerful elitepeople in the centre of the eliteworld who have special connections through their family-network and their financial surplus. Power is not restricted to functions, that are only needed to carry out decisions that are taken elsewhere.

In the background is the legislative power that safeguards the principles that give the elite its dominating power. There is decided if the war in Iraq is important for the own position, if an Allende should be replaced by a servant as Pinochet, if oil must be replaced by environmental friendly energy sources, etceteras.

The legislative power is much bigger and more powerful than the executive power, it comprises all elitepersons, all persons that live in the privileged and prosperous eliteworld where they are born. Many of these people have no obvious power position but they have influence, especially as they hammer on the principles that guarantee the continued existence of the eliteworld.
Belonging to the elite demands a special way of living and a special way of thinking, focused on the simple elitist principle that elitepersons are more important than other people. The slavery system was typically elitist as was the abolition when former slaves were needed to perform more complicated tasks than the picking of cotton in the American South. The Northern elite had the same distance to the freed slaves as the Southern landowners to the black slaves. You use them and when they cannot be used anymore you throw them away.
The book of Rothkopf emphasizes the wrong people without considering why these people take certain decisions. Rothkopf (and many leftists) look at the wrong place.
The ultimate elitist power is in the centre of the eliteworld and not on the border between elite- and massworld where the executive power reigns over the massworld.
A fourth problem is the conspiracy syndrome in which an closed elitist group is deceiving the People.
According to my Oxford Dictionary it can never be a conspiracy because to conspire is "to combine privily for unlawful purposes". The executive power has made such laws that they can lawfully do what they are doing. (And only non-elitist clowns as Nixon disregard those laws).
Leading bodies of all organisations make plans. The elitist executive power is only implementing principles that are lurking in the background. I agree with Rothkopf that the elite is a "loose combination" of some influential people. Not secret, no conspiracy, just the way it works when powerful people are not being pressurised by the people over whom they reign.
This book is just a study about how and from what material the stick of the policeman is made and neglects elitepeople in the centre of the eliteworld.
These powerful elitepeople are educated with the help of a silver spoon with the idea that their world must be preserved and improved. It must always remain better than the massworld.
The ultimate goal of my New Book is to break the power of this elite.
I will elaborate the ideas in this Letter in that book as one of the arguments why and how the power of the elite can be broken.
Because We have to Change our World!

Yours truly, Joost van Steenis

Musharraf a Go-Go
Islam a bad ass?
Pray tell, how else are we to get rid of the riff-raff?
ISLAMABAD, June 14 (Reuters) - Pakistan's former prime minister Nawaz Sharif stepped up his attack on President Pervez Musharraf on Saturday, suggesting he could be hanged while addressing thousands of protesters outside the presidency.
"We asked you to quit with honour after the election but you didn't," Sharif told the crowd, referring to U.S. ally Musharraf, who overthrew him in a 1999 coup.
"Now people have given a new judgement for you ... they want you to be held accountable," he said in the early hours of Saturday.
The crowd, officially estimated at up to 20,000, chanted "hang Musharraf" as it listened to the two time former prime minister's fiery speech.
"Is hanging only for politicians?" asked Sharif, referring to former prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, hanged by a military dictator in 1979.
"These blood-sucking dictators must be held accountable."