A Dangerous Step Tword International Corporate Hegemony

"You know that creepy Organ music you heard when you met that other guy who looks like me?  That was a warming"  -George Burnes

Mal Evans:  "Oh is that what it was.  I thought it was a clip from Jethro Tull's A Passion Play"

First of all "in case you didn't hear" to quote Bearl Eyves - - I'm officially turning bearish on the stock market at large.  I've been bullish since about July of 2009, which, if you will recall, was one of the reasons why I was against Mom selling the house, because I felt she was selling at the bottom.  So basically I've been gun ho for over four years now, but as they say "all good things must come to an end - - turn out the lights; the party's over.  The game is in the refrigerator".  (That's a Jim Cooper expression)  But I want to talk about this new Pacific Rim trade agreement among a dozen Pacific rim nations including Mexico, Canada, Chile, Viet Nam, Austrailia, and others.   Even a conservative news outlet came out strongly against this agreement.  It ucerpts the role of Congress itself- - and causes Congress to permanently give up perogatives guarenteed it by the Constitution.  This is serious stuff.  It is an ecological nightmare.  It will be illegal now to sell "Dolphin Safe tuna" because some tuna places in Mexico- - don't like this provision and will not comply and so therefore all nations must abide by this lowest common denominator.  Nobody has the right to put "Dolphin Safe' on their product because it would by nature draw business away from the "Non dolphin safe tuna".  Capish?  Likewise- - some Canadian oil company was drilling in El Salvador or something (which I didn't see in the list of nations) but now a corporation has the right to sue LITIGATORS for Loss of Business caused by the adverse publicity.  Do you see what I mean.  Everything is centered around the corporation.  This is the perfect New World Order document.  They wanted it approved in October when the President will be visiting Malaysia then- - - but the deal hasn't been fully worked out.  Some people say there may even be internet ramifications to this bill.  But I'm worried because though the Republicans oppose all else- - they are suckers for a new "Free Trade" agreement.  The word "Free Trade" is kind of those buzz words for "More commerce - - more jobs", kind of like "Less filling - tastes Great".   But this is one Bud you don't want to include in your groceries.  Oh - - that's Schlitz.  This one caller to the Nicole Sandler show - - states that this whole Free Trade thing is one of the major contributors to loss of jobs.  Increased technology therefore productivity per employee has gone way up- as wages go down.  As you know is the minimum wage were at 1968 levels adjusting for inflation the figure would be at around $10.20 an hour.  However this caller says that is productivity were factored into the equation- - the figure would be sixteen dollars an hour- - that employees are really worth now.  As you know it was about forty years ago- almost to the month- that the buying power us US worker's wages was at its peak, and it has been in decline ever since.  Well, now the stock market is going to be in sustained decline for several months.   Of course we could hire back all those government workers laid off in either the sequester, or else the draconian measures instituted by Red State governors.  But we need of course to work on our infra-structure because this was an "economic savings" plan instituted by President Reagan in an unsuccessful effort to make his tax policies look like they made some sort of sense.  So we have bridges and dams, and roads - - perhaps even airports- - in ill repair.  But if we really wanted to get the recovery going we'd institute a massive retrofitting program to bring old buildings up to modern energy efficiency standards.  Sometimes it's just re-caucing things.  

It's almost as though I could "feel the presence of the Boston Red Sox" before they ever got here last week- and then they go on and take two out of three games, and make the Dodgers look bad.  Sometimes you just have to know how to interperate psychic impressions.  I mention below I have the "impression" that our President is in more trouble than he even thinks.  He's trying to "wish away this Republican House' thinking perhaps that maybe they have "mellowed out" in the summer relaxing with friends or something.  But it's like what they say about alcoholics.  They claim if you quit alcohol - - if you should return it it- you re enter NOT where you left off- - but rather where you Would have been had you Never Quit.  I always find it curious that when I leave a pack of cigarettes at the room- - as many cigarettes seem to disappear as though I'd been here smoking them for those six hours.  I remember when Frank Olsen made his trip to New Orleans in September of 1987 - - he came back meaner and more abrasive than he was when he left.  It's like a cat with a urinary infection.  You don't see it a few days and you figure "maybe the cat has gone off somewhere to get better" and the next time you see the cat- - it's Dead.  Yes, I'm a regular ball of cheer this evening aren't I?  But I'll tell you this- - E J Di Mira is the only one in the Samantha murder case who is objective about the whole thing.  I say this simply because "you never gain from losing hope".  Anything can and does happen - especially in soap operas.  For one thing Someone stole the murder weapen the assailent was going to used that necessitated Samantha defending Raphael in the first place.  If they find that one it's "Game Over' for Stephano and his goons.  If someone says they can prove a case against you - - Make Them Prove It.  (Selah)   But of course Samantha reminds me of my mother.  She makes a long list of reasons why it would be utterly stupid to do a particular action - - and then she goes ahead and does it.  I just hope the President doesn't fall into the same mental trap when it comes to this Pacific Rim trade agreement.  Now on Eye Witness news they say they have discovered the secret of mind control of one human being over Another.  Don't tell anyone at Metropolitan State!   The chorus of "I told you so's" will prove unendurable!

The most memorable stuff was in the rerun of the Meet the Press show with Laurance Spivac and three other NBC reporters from August 25^th 1963, which apparently was just before and not after the march on Washington.  I was positively amazed at how paranoid they all were about violence.  And it gets some getting re-used to hearing the term “Negroes” spoken of as if were some species of garden pest you weren’t quite sure how to handle.  There were fears of “unification” and starting an “All Negro political national party”, which Dr. King and Whitney Young said would not be advisable- - and he also said that an overall “unification of groups” was not what he was after.  There were questions about how hard you wanted to press or whether the Blacks would riot is no bills were passed in 1964 and King and Young were asked about incidents of violence I was not fermiliar with.  They both get an A plus for staying cool and not veering from their message dispite intense grilling.  One organizer was a professed Communist but Dr King said, “He told me he wasn’t”.   At nine thirty they were going to have a panel of people including Larry Elder discussing race issues but I wasn’t sticking around for that.   There was talk of cloning John Lennon from the DNA of a pulled tooth in the ‘seventies.  We really do need to get a hold of a medium to ask about that.

I had Leo Le Port on after noon.  He says that “fire wire” is on its way out, which Apple promoted.  Last week he said “Nobody buys seventeen inch laptops anymore because they’re just too big.  Leo uses a ten inch tablet.  I thought I heard Leo disparage Windows Office, because they are proprietary Windows products.   They keep changing up this or that - - and in five years things can seemingly do a makeover.  I just don’t see the point in all that planned obsolescence.   They have “first class lounges’ at airports but also “business class lounges” with showers and free booze according to Leo.  But if you have the right premium platinum credit card- - you can get into these “Longue” areas without going through the usual means.  I guess that’s nice to know.  Leo also said that colleges tell students NOT to bring their own printers because they are supplied by the colleges- - but the professors themselves say they do NOT want paper copies of reports but they want E mails.  To me that is real el bizzaro land.  Henry is at the University of Colorado, which doesn’t start till next week.  The birds are tweeting merrily on one of their award winning bird calls.   It’s now just after one and I’ve gotten this far without borrowing a single cigarette or a single dollar from Janet - - at least in the past day and a half.   I did not see a single Martin Luther King commemoration thing on TV.

 
 I just stuck in some personal stuff that I could have just as easily edited out completely.   I went down to the courtyard for one coffee and a half of a glazed donut.  We had tomato soup I got that and the drink myself.  We had a hot dog and potato chips, and Tom let me have his chips.  We had an orange for desert.  Nicole Sandler is against the President taking any hint of military action in Syria.  She’s said the first item on the Republican House’s agenda when they return will be to impeach the President.  She then played two back to back Joe Byden speeches from 2007 and yesterday attempting to show some contradiction between the two speeches.  The President made his speech at the Washington mall just about noon, and it was rather unremarkable.  It was kind of all about the past, when what we need now is leadership for the future.   Laura Ingrem is this conservative talk show host and she played a loud gunshot interrupting John Lewis’s speech on immigration and there was a six second pause.   Since John Lewis is a current congressman- - what Laura did could be constrewed by the secret service as a threat.   Meanwhile Zimmerman’s wife basically walked on her purgery charges after she pled guilty.  There is a question to me how the hell you “plea bargain down” a charge like purgery when there is no question but what you did it and are guilty.  It was bargained down from a felony to a misdemeanor where her sentence was probation and “community service”.  As I was saying yesterday you can’t get justice in Florida courts.  I’m actually more worried about this President now that somehow- - somebody somewhere has something bad planned for him, like having a nine hundred pound safe dropped on your head, or something.

This morning I had Bill Press on and then Stephanie Miller.  I think we had Cheerios this morning followed as yesterday by scrambled eggs with stuff in them, but today I remembered to use the Picante sauce.  I had one of the pieces of toast dry, and the other one with butter and jelly getting Augustine’s attention.  I became drowsy after breakfast.  Denise had returned the laundry basket.  I didn’t begin to put the clothes away till ten to three.   I had ideas for my next blog this morning but I have decided I don’t want to go any more in that direction right now.  Once again Mario was on.  Mario believes we should intervene in Syria and Moe Kelly believes that we should not.  The people against it have the same time-worn list of reasons.   This is an update later in the evening (though the sun is still shining)  REASONS ARE TRICKY THINGS  People it seems don't DO things for Reasons- - they act on FEELINGS and psychological "Needs" to "Prove Something".   So spouses go running off to have an affair with an old lover- - and care not that such action is suicidal.  A lot of people HATE "reasons".  They believe things such as 'All Reasons are really Rationalizations.  I hate Rationalizations.  There having Reasons for or against doing something mean nothing to me.  President Obama is more afraid of how Nicole Sandler or Rand Paul will react to his decision on Syria than he is where the decision is actually Right or Wrong.  Few politicians, I'm convinced DON'T EVEN BOTHER to consider whether a decision is Right or Wrong.  All they care about is "What makes them feel safe, and what is least likely to cause them to do any real Thinking.  So people like Obama and that ninety percent of the American public- - view ignoring the Syrian problem as the "Safe" decision.   People don't really care either about the long term consequences of any Decision they make in politics.  All they are worried about is their numbers in the next oppinion Poll.  If I were to call myself a Christian- - I would be saying something like "I don't see how God can honor the reputation of any politician who thinks like this".

President Obama to Act On Syria Any Day Now

Our lead story has to be “shall I or shant I” when it comes to President Obama deliberating on whether he’ll follow through with his long standing threats against Assad.  And no I’d never get the name mixed up.  I know all the arguments for NOT going in.  Ronald Reagan pulled out of Lebanon and yet did nothing when Saddam Hussein gassed the Iranians in the ‘eighties, and then the Kurds.  And how many dead people are there today in Samalia today because we didn’t intervent.  Yes, and I know about Darfore in the Sudan.  But the thing is all of these “wrongs” can’t” be corrected by yet another “wrong” of not intervening in the Syrian slaughter by Assad.  Mario and I were definitely on the same page this morning because he articulated my views quite well.  People have this tendency to be “traumatized” by a mistake we made ten years ago when we were “beating the drums for war”.   It’s rediculas to compare apples to pomigranates.  We need to look at each problem we face, and psychologists will even tell you this - - you see it as “here is the problem and here are the circumstances, and I need to know what I need to do to solve the problem.  How do I get the tools to solve this problem that I have?”   The idea of “what about that guy over there?” or the endless roster of “If only’s” will do nothing twords solving your present delema.  I have bored my blog readers endlessly as they read with bleary eyes the long laundry list of reasons why Syria is a completely different situation from either Iraq or Afghanistan.  John Kerrey yesterday brought the matter to national attention- - in case some of you were sleeping.  This Seran gas slaughter is not a “false flag operation” or whatever else they’re calling it.  The battle ships are all in position now to fire their missiles.  Joe Byden is now making the pitch for an air strike.  We knock out the fortresses and crater the air fields- - and hopefully even get Assad himself.  We know how this President loves to take out suspects with Drones.  How here is an opportunity for his crowning glory.  People like Nicole Sandler say “What’s the big deal” and yet chemical weapons such as these have been taboo in war for nearly a hundred years, and neither Stalin nor Hitler used these weapons in a theater of war.  The Dow Jones Industrial fell 176 points.  Not to brag or anything but I have been way out in front of the learning curve with my comentery on Syria.  Just like I was way out front on the learning curve on the “Days” plot.  It’s gratifying to see that Gabrial, one of the characters on the show- - is voicing sentaments now that I spelled out months ago.  Sometimes your internet speed is really good- - and you look at the podcast and it’s two-thirds buffer and only one third elapsed play time.  That’s getting way out ahead of the game.

This latest news with George Zimmerman is just the sort of bizzare extreme of credulity we expect from him.  We hear he's touring the gun factory and publicizing the gun model he killed Trayvon Martin with.  This man truely has no shame.  But now we hear the State of Florida has to reemburse Zimmerman for all the expences he put out for his defense.  This raises some interesting questions.  Since Blacks don't win nearly as often, we can conclude that few Blacks profit from this law because they are in prison.  And it also seems to reward the richest people and the biggest spenders.  George Zimmerman is thus reembursed for that totally ficticious 3 D display of "The Crime" as Zimmerman wants to imagine it.  This bit of theater was barred from the trial as not constituting 'evidence" but it was allowed in the sumation- - where it was sure to have Maximum Impact on the Jury.  It's like the little girl who was playing on the monkey bars in a dress and her mother said "Somebody might have seen your underwear".  And the little girl says, "That's OK because I wasn't wearing any".  So George Zimmerman not only is reembursed expenses for shipping witnesses in that a Black defendant might not be able to afford, but Zimmerman gets the money paid back in full.  But another more glaring ethical problem exists the news media hasn't even touched.  We know his wife lied about how much money they raised for his defense.  That's right.  Zimmerman just needed to hold out his tin cup and there would be a flood of biggots out there ready to assist.  So will Zimmerman have to pay all these people back the money they thought they gave because Zimmerman needed it?  When in fact he never needed it at all because he knew the more he spent the more he'd be reimbursed by the state of Florida?  Whoever came up with this absurd law doesn't have the intelligence or logic of a pencil neck Geek.

We have the story of Robby Riggs throwing the historic “battle of the sexes” match in tennis- and event that was hyped like a historic event- - that I personally remember.  Bobby Riggs first had a match with Margerete Court “two months earlier” as Mario remembers it, and that jives with my memory of it.  Mario says “that was kind of like the pre event”.  Bobby Riggs did not win a single set, and afterwards - - Billy Jean King refused to have a rematch with him “even though it was in the contract they signed”.  The new story now is that Bobby Riggs was deep in debt to the Mafia and he worked out this deal with the Mafia to pay it back, where the Mafia would bet against Riggs in the match, if he would throw the match and “make it look like she was really overwhelming him”.  He was fifty-six; she was thirty.  But if you ask me I don’t believe a word of it.  If anything of this sort had happened- - there would have been all sorts of press stories about it at the time.  There were none.  Nobody questioned the victory.  Both the Federation and the Regelus V Romulans- - think the very idea is an absurdity.  As a man you might think I would welcome this news.  But I’m not that petty.  Obviously this victory boosted the status of women tennis player with such stars as Chris Everett.  

Jerry Brown announced today that he would NOT release a single prisoner, as mandated to do by the US Courts.  But supposedly Jerry Brown had “another plan he’s implementing to relieve overcrowding”.  Apparently the state is going to “lease out cells in Federal Prisons” by way of compromise.  I’m inclined to support Brown on this one.  After all this is the US, in fact it’s California.  How bad can conditions be?  My philosophy I would like to see the numbers declines because crime convictions are truly down- - and not because I have a legal gun to my head, which means John Q Public, knowing how they are, will become apprehensive.

This is after dinner and David Cruise was on a topic I’d like to expand on at length.  I actually share one trait with conservatives in that I, too get annoyed with certain segments of people who live their whole lives with this “sense of entitlement”.   But the topper of the topper was the news that lobbyists actually are entitled to pensions from the people they work constantly on to corrupt.  Lobbyists not only get pensions in twenty states including California, but they also have been granted health care benefits.  Keep in mind that normally a lobbyists job is to BRIBE government officials with money and perks, and not Receive them.  It makes absolutely no sense.  Other examples come to mind.  As you know in soap land I’m not only bugged by the fact that the two biggest stars are gay “characters” who flaunt it in public, but also this growing sense of ‘entitlement” that pervades their very souls.  Rush Limbaugh once talked about people placing bottles of Sparklettes water out in the Arizona desert for all the illegal aliens crowing the border getting into this country.   You heard the story about this owner of a mansion who was going to have all the rose bushes from his yard removed because his grandkids might get pricked by the thorns.  Next thing you know- - they’ll be giving out miniature sombreros to all the red ants in your yard, so that the ants don’t get sunburned.  One of the most annoying people was the teenage deaf girl in that movie ‘Children of a lesser God”.    How any sane person could tolerate more than about ten minutes of her “attitude” I don’t know.  Then you have J W Serrell around here.  He was yelling at someone today for bumping his chair.  He sticks so far out into that path that often you have to be an acrobat to get around him.  And is brushing against his wheels the same thing?  Yet wheel chair people love to run you over with those same wheels and think nothing of it.  That’s what I mean by entitlement.   At times even I get a little edgy at these Arab terrorists who demand every last “nicety” of our legal system and hire slick attorneys to insure that they receive them.  Yet if you were to be arrested in their home country for a much lesser offense - - you’d be rotting in some prison somewhere without air conditioning or maybe even food, and if you’re lucky in one week they’ll let you make a phone call.   And then they have this issue proposed on an old TV show called “The Advocates”, which was “Resolved:  Union strikers should be allowed to receive government unemployment checks”.  Oh no they don’t.  Because they can go back to work any time they want- - and are an insult to the “Truly needy” as Reagan used to call them- - who had pounded the pavement for weeks looking for a job.   Partially disabled older people have to keep on working after age 65 now.

 
This whole "Ben and Jerry's" story about printing things on our money that weren't put there by the government, seems to me to be a really iffy notion.  Ben of Ben and Jerry's has this "stamp" program where you can chose from one of four stamps to stamp messages right on your money, that supposedly won't wash off or land you in prison for defacing the currency.  Like I say it seems really iffy.  The most popular choice if "This tender is not legal for buying elections".   Others are "money is not speech" and "Get the money out of politics" and "Corporations are not people, my friend".  I don't know.  The print would have to be so tiny to fit on the meager blank spaces on US bills the print would be too tiny to read- - especially is it's done in hand script- - without really good reading glasses.  But just think of all the people that would see your message!

And now we have one of those concluding paragraphs where we get into “Lively Libations” or whatever.  As you know they have a “kill switch” they can use in new I Phones you can activate if someone else steals your I phone so they can’t use it.  But Apple is working in a finger print device, they hope to have perfected for the October release.  But knowing how Apple was under Steve Jobs, they often hype more than they can deliver.  Of course the copy protection in the original generation of DVD’s - - was hacked within a few short months by a high school student, who will be turning thirty soon now.  I wanted to talk a little more about Romulan cloaking.  The term for cloaked objects being solid to each other is in fact a familiar one “congruency” or sometimes “co congruency”.   The term “physiognomy” is used, and I see that’s an actual word.  Holy Mackerel.  That is it’s matter with the same incryption altorithm in use.  We said two years ago that there were Romulan cloaking devices available for sale in the Federation, and the instructions are in Federation print.  This is sort of a squarish style of letter- - not exactly like Korean- - maybe a few diagonal jags thrown in.  As you know Lanian script looks very much like Iranian.  And Reigelian script to me resembles the small letter Greek lettering.  And you know about the all caps Sirius letters- almost identical to English.  I was told two years ago that - - “It can’t be established as a fact that the Romulan cloaking method has never been reverse engineered”.  But if it has been- someone is keeping it “unofficial”.