The Declaration of Independence..
The U.S. Constitution..
The Bill of Rights..
Weapons of Mass Deception..
http://libertyOrMayhem.com
www.opensecrets.org
http://www.crystalinks.com/bilderberg.html
- You don't know shit! Do you think you do? (http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/add_english.htm)
The only kind of music I can't get into is country and electronica. I love way too many artists to name but here's a few you should check out. Reuben Wilson, Grant Green, Billie Holiday, Al Green, Luther Vandross, Brian McKnight, Earth, Wind & Fire, early Kool & the Gang, Chaka Khan, George Benson, Marvin Gaye, Donny Hathaway, Al Jarreau, Bob James, De La Soul, KWest, The Mary Jane Girls, Erykah Badu, Stevie Wonder, Pete Rock & CL Smooth, etc. I was raised on classic soul and was turned on to hip hop the minute it came on the scene. Douggie Fresh & the Get Fresh Crew, U.T.F.O., Kurtis Blow, Run-DMC, Africa Bambatta & the Soulsonic Force, The Rappin' Duke (Da-Ha), The Real Roxanne Shante, Digital Underground (remember w/Pac & Humpty?) I got turned on to the Wu when I was out in N.Y. about 6 mos. before they blew up worldwide, all Gangstarr or DJ Premier blessed shit(although N.Y. cats didnt dig him since he isnt from N.Y. but reps it) Jeru Tha Damaja, Brand Nubian, Common Sense & De La, all the Jungle Brothers, Tribe, The Roots(SINCE DAY 1!!!) Consequence, Sublime, Fred Wesley & the J.B.'s, Maceo & the Macks, Willie Bobo, Tito Puente, Mongo Santamaria, Deodato, Cymande, Doors, Jimi, Herbie Hancock, Muddy & the Wolf, and the first original pimp that started it all, the one, the only Mister Frankie Sinatra ladies & gentlemen, Goapele, The Meters(Just Kissed My Baby), George Duke, George Clinton, George Benson..whoops I said him twice, basically just smoooth shit. I usually play smooth ish that flows through the speakers and oozes out onto the floor. Nothing too repetetive or meaningless. I still like soul music, R&B, blues, afro-cuban/latin jazz and some current hip-hop. I was around since day 1 of MTV and when hip hop was young and EVERYONE (and their mothers) said it wouldn't last and it was just a fad. Hmmmmmmmm...
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Movies
Scent Of A Woman, The Godfather Trilogy, Scarface, Bronx Tale, Reservoir Dogs, Once Upon A Time In America, The King of New York, Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas, It's All Gone Pete Tong(CRAZY, must see), Anything with Will Ferrell, Half Baked and all Cheech and Chong movies are a must see. Most anything with Robert DeNiro, Joe Pesci or Al Pacino.
http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/main.htm
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Television
Rescue Me (on FX), Family Guy, Squidbillies, The Chappelle Show, Iron Chef, Boiling Points, Sportscenter, THE ORIGINAL Ren & Stimpy, Lucy: Daughter of the Devil, The Office, Upright Citizens Brigade, and most Philly sports.
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Books
Smoke and Mirrors by Dan Baum, ABC Guide to Real Estate, Hagakure, The Essence of Shaolin White Crane, The Book of Five Rings, and most Stephen King stuff.
Heroes
Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Ron Paul, Wang Lang, Clinton Eugene Curtis, Daniel Dennett, and Batuo.
Gloria: "65 percent of the people murdered in the last 10 years were killed by hand guns"
Archie Bunker: "would it make you feel better, little girl, if they was pushed outta windows?"
"George Bush says he speaks to god every day, and christians love him for it. If George Bush said he spoke to god through his hair dryer, they would think he was mad. I fail to see how the addition of a hair dryer makes it any more absurd."
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I hope most Americans know that it's not Obama running the country (or representing the people for that matter - GM gets all those billions of $$ in bailout funds, then they declare bankruptcy (c'mon)). It is the group of private banks that make up the private Federal Reserve (which is has no reserves, and is most definitely NOT federal). Wall Street robbed the U.S. in broad fu@$ing daylight, and there isn't one "electable" president that is going to do a g0ddamn thing about it as long as the Republicans and Democrats continue to fool a shrinking majority of people that actually believe they're on "different teams". Ever wonder who is in charge of the debates between the two "god chosen" parties? They are. It's been that way since 1988 - "The League of Women Voters is withdrawing its sponsorship of the presidential debate scheduled for mid-October because the demands of the two campaign organizations would perpetrate a fraud on the American voter," League President Nancy M. Neuman said today. - Don't get tricked into believing that Obama has control over what the Council on Foreign Relations decide. Look into what the Trilateral Commission and the Bilderberg Group are all about. If Obama wasn't so blatantly obvious about continuing the "Bush agenda" (or plan for the New World Order), which he has mentioned on numerous occasions already - I would have "Hope" for "Change".
Selection bias in politics
There was a lawyer, an engineer and a politician...
Apr 16th 2009
From The Economist print edition
Why do professional paths to the top vary so much?
Illustration by David Simonds
WHEN Barack Obama met Hu Jintao, his Chinese counterpart, at the G20 summit in London, it was an encounter not just between two presidents, but also between two professions and mindsets. A lawyer, trained to argue from first principles and haggle over words, was speaking to an engineer, who knew how to build physical structures and keep them intact.
The prevalence of lawyers in America’s ruling elite (spotted by a Frenchman, Alexis de Tocqueville, in the 1830s) is stronger than ever. Mr Obama went to Harvard Law School (1988-91); his cabinet contains Hillary Clinton (Yale Law, 1969-73) as secretary of state, Eric Holder (Columbia Law, 1973-76) as attorney-general, Joe Biden (Syracuse University law school, 1965-68) as vice-president and Leon Panetta (Santa Clara University law school, 1960-63) as director of the CIA. That’s the tip of the iceberg. Over half of America’s senators practiced law. Mr Obama’s inner circle is sprinkled with classmates from Harvard Law: the dean of that school, Elena Kagan, is solicitor-general; Cass Sunstein, a professor there, is also in the administration.
President Hu, in contrast, is a hydraulic engineer (he worked for a state hydropower company). His predecessor, Jiang Zemin, was an electrical engineer, who trained in Moscow at the Stalin Automobile Works. The prime minister, Wen Jiabao, specialized in geological engineering. The senior body of China’s Communist Party is the Politburo’s standing committee. Making up its nine members are eight engineers, and one lawyer. This is not a relic of the past: 2007 saw the appointments of one petroleum and two chemical engineers. The last American president to train as an engineer was Herbert Hoover.
Why do different countries favor different professions? And why are some professions so well represented in politics? To find out, The Economist trawled through a sample of almost 5,000 politicians in “International Who’s Who”, a reference book, to examine their backgrounds.
Some findings are predictable. Africa is full of presidents who won power as leaders of military coups (such as Sudan’s Omar al-Bashir) or as guerrilla chiefs (Ethiopia’s Meles Zenawi and Rwanda’s Paul Kagame). Naturally, they rely on old comrades-in-arms. The army’s influence can outlast its direct control. In Indonesia, military rule ended in 1998 but generals are still big in politics because, in a country of 17,000 islands, the army is among the few nationwide institutions. But selection bias in politics (the tendency of people of similar backgrounds to cluster together) goes far beyond the armed forces. Many countries, including America, have political dynasties; in Britain, networks are formed at Oxford and Cambridge universities. Personal ties matter in China (Vice-President Xi Jinping is the son of a Long March veteran). Vladimir Putin, Russia’s prime minister, has an inner circle dating from his time at St Petersburg city hall and his career in the old KGB.
Different countries—because of their history, or cultural preferences, or stage of development—seem to like particular qualities, and these qualities are provided disproportionately by only a few professions. Lawyers and business executives are common; economists, academics and doctors do surprisingly well (see chart 1).
Countries often have marked peculiarities. Egypt likes academics; South Korea, civil servants; Brazil, doctors (see chart 2). Some emerging-market countries are bedeviled by large numbers of criminals, even if this doesn’t usually show up in their “Who’s Who” records.
In democracies, lawyers dominate. This is not surprising. The law deals with the same sort of questions as politics: what makes a just society; the balance between liberty and security, and so on. Lawyerly skills—marshalling evidence, appealing to juries, command of procedure—transfer well to the political stage. So, sadly, does an obsession with process and a tendency to see things in partisan terms—us or them, guilty or not guilty—albeit in a spirit of loyalty to a system to which all defer. In common-law countries, the battleground of the court is of a piece with the adversarial, yet rule-bound, spirit of politics. Even in places with a Napoleonic code, lawyers abound. In Germany, a third of the Bundestag’s members are lawyers. In France, nine of Nicolas Sarkozy’s first cabinet of 16 were lawyers or law graduates, including the president, the prime minister and the finance minister, an ex-chairman of Baker & McKenzie, an American law firm.
In China, the influence of engineers is partly explained by history and ideology. In a country where education was buffeted by the tempests of Maoism, engineering was a safer field of study than most. In fact, communist regimes of all stripes have long had a weakness for grandiose engineering projects. The Soviet Union, which also produced plenty of engineer-politicians (including Boris Yeltsin), wanted to reverse the northward flow of some great Russian rivers, for example.
The presence of so many engineer-politicians in China goes hand in hand with a certain way of thinking. An engineer’s job, at least in theory, is to ensure things work, that the bridge stays up or the dam holds. The process by which projects get built is usually secondary. That also seems true of Chinese politics, in which government often rides roughshod over critics. Engineers are supposed to focus on the long term; buildings have no merit if they will collapse after a few years. So it is understandable that an authoritarian country like China, where development is the priority and spending on infrastructure is colossal, should push engineers to the top.
A Gallic compromise
France, you might say, has elements of both American and Chinese political cultures: it is a democracy with a strong, centralized administration and a predilection for state planning. Its politics is influenced by super-civil servants: the graduates (only about 100 a year) of the Ecole Nationale d’Administration, or ENA, based in Strasbourg. ENA has a quasi-monopoly over many top civil-service jobs, which, in France, serve as stepping-stones to politics. Seven of the last 11 prime ministers and two of the last four presidents have been énarques. Though Nicolas Sarkozy is not one of the breed and has only one énarque in his cabinet, he has eased the institution’s hold only at the top; ENA is still a fast track to political success. A tenth of the French politicians in the sample are énarques.
The second most common “profession” is that of businessman. Silvio Berlusconi in Italy and Mitt Romney in Massachusetts are only two who parlayed business experience and a supposed toughness of decision-making into political office. The credit crunch has made financiers more prominent: in Britain, a former boss of Standard Chartered bank is now minister of trade; a former adviser to UBS Warburg, an investment bank, is competitiveness minister. In America, Hank Paulson, a former treasury secretary, and Jon Corzine, the governor of New Jersey, are both former chief executives of Goldman Sachs, a bank apparently blessed by Midas.
Though it might seem as if rich democracies are most susceptible to managerial charms, the suits are in fact more significant in emerging markets. Anek Laothamatas, the former leader of the Mahachon party in Thailand, argues that businessmen have played a decisive role in his country since the 1980s. Thaksin Shinawatra, the fugitive ex-prime minister and fomenter of the “red protests” that are now congesting the streets of Bangkok, is only the most prominent example.
In local elections in Russia between 1997 and 2003, 38 businessmen (all men) ran for governorships, of whom ten won. Scott Gehlbach and Konstantin Sonin, of the Centre for Economic and Financial Research in Moscow, argue that three factors have influenced businessmen to go into politics in post-Soviet countries. Politics helps them harm competitors; in new democracies, robber barons are often the only ones rich enough to finance election campaigns; and business people do not trust politicians to keep campaign promises because there is no real party discipline, so they go into politics themselves.
One might add a fourth consideration: parliamentary immunity has enabled some corrupt businessmen to ward off legal investigation. This clearly matters because, when the Kremlin started to extend its control over parliament, overriding claims of immunity, politics went out of fashion among business people. Considerations of immunity may also help to explain the remarkably large number of legally challenged politicians in India: according to the Public Affairs Centre, a think-tank based in Bangalore, 23% of members of India’s parliament have been served with criminal charges.
Some mature democracies, especially Britain and America, are seeing a new phenomenon: the rise of politics itself as a profession. In the old days, politics was something you went into after doing a real job. In Britain, Tory MPs were stereotypically squires of independent means or retired businessmen; Labour ones, trade-union leaders or university lecturers. No longer. David Cameron, the Tory leader, went from university into the party’s research department and, apart from a few years studying the dark arts of public relations, has been in politics all his adult life. Gordon Brown and Tony Blair, Britain’s current and former prime ministers, became members of Parliament at the tender ages of 32 and 30 respectively, their other careers (journalist and barrister) having been merely useful preludes.
The emergence of politics as a career choice has been made possible, argues Peter Oborne in his book “The Triumph of the Political Class”, by a penumbra of quasi-political institutions—think-tanks, consultancies, lobbying firms, politicians’ back offices. They have increased job opportunities for would-be politicians. Increasingly, therefore, the road to a political career leads through politics itself, starting as an intern, moving to become researcher in a parliamentary or congressional office, with a spell in a friendly think-tank or lobby group along the way.
Mr Oborne says this is producing an inbred class that lacks proper connections to the outside world. Perhaps. But the trend is unlikely to stop. The intrusive demands upon aspiring members of any American administration make it harder for outsiders to enter politics. (The Obama team asked applicants, “If you have ever sent an…e-mail, text message or instant message that could…be a possible source of embarrassment to you, your family or the President-Elect if it were made public, please describe.”) For good or ill, politics is becoming its own profession.
Another thing we must all look at is how the "Committee on Presidential Debates" was formed. The League Of Women Voters used to sponsor televised debates, until the Republicans and Democrats joined forces to basically kick them out. Now we have scripted answers to the scripted questions. There used to b follow-up questions, but we all know how much politicians like surprises. Ask any Obama or McCain supporter what their favorite policy is of their favorite candidate, and watch the smoke pour from their ears. It really is sad that we let people vote, who have no idea whom or what they are voting for.
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This next link was "old news" but it still astonishes me, that an entire nation can look away from the fact that "the Doc" was swept under the carpet. This corporate-sponsored president is already appearing not to be working out too well. If there were ever to be an honest president, then kick-backs would begin to dwindle for the rich & powerful. It's all that money and power at work to ensure that never happens. Keep the change, Huessin. You're a salesman for this New World Order that so many are still unaware. Informed citizens are on to you. Unfortunately (for you), we're growing. _____
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thank you! Yeah, I figured the "911 truth for dummies" couldn't get much simpler but I'm sure you aren't surprised that it's still way over the sheeples' heads. Thanks for being a friend. I love your page. Great pics and music!
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