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Budget Follies. QWERTY on Budgets. Rung-remover, slum-grower, or Sense

2011-04-06T18:49:00.001-04:00

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Qwerty Budget. Fouled Up Letters to Slow Everybody Else Up
QWERTY Bird sets up rung removal budget, for those not up the ladder yet. Slum-growers, rejoice. More will be applying for space. Those behind Gates, stay there, rejoicing.

Budget Sonnet. Ode to the Chopping Block. Budgets on it. RU?
When ordinary speech fails, turn to the classics. It takes time to read a poem about anything. No speed-reading works. Try it. On the chopping block. RU?

Health in National Productivity. Issue shunted.l
Health care chopped. Sure. Cut access to health care from kids to elders. More budget follies. Go, Vermont, with your single payer discussions.

Hitler The Propaganda Meister. Read Mein Kampf for Today.

2011-02-24T18:09:00.003-05:00

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Hitler by Paraphrase. Examine Mein Kampf. Unser Kampf: Our Struggle
Read the Meister, in your own terms. Learn his propaganda techniques. Hitler is too easily dismissed today because of his racist views. Pay attention to how he got as far as he did.

Godwin's Law, that anyone invoking Nazi or Hitler comparisons, thereby stops the discussion, only applies where the comparison is not appropriate. Here, the Hitler information is not furtherance of a "Nazi meme" but rather history calling for an analysis in order to spot the techniques operative now, that worked so well for him then.

Government as Marketer, German WWII, Nuremberg Stadium
If you can take a child to Germany, to Nuremberg, to Bergen Belsen, to Buchenwald, do. Then ask why so many were persuaded of such a pernicious devastating theory for so long.

Propaganda InRoad. The 1920's Speak. Adolf Hitler and Others Look at Today's Minions
What tactic gets inroads into decent people's thinking, by giving perks and position, and avoiding merits of a full discussion. Here, a probably well-meaning minion follows where she is told to go, but seems to have no understanding or desire for independent vetting of the positions she has to get the people to demonstrate for. Sound convoluted? So is the process. Meet Adriana Inman and the Koch-Koch sandwich. Adriana. Call me.

When Roots of Belief are Propaganda. Hitler's Playbook. Goes to Washington.
Read Mein Kampf as a playbook. Go, team. You can do it! Just follow the steps.

Media Complicit in Spreading Propaganda by Refusing to Call It Out
Media wants propaganda to spread, defined as positions without the requirement of examining supporting facts. Is that so? Major broadcast, cable. All appear to act as conduits for propaganda, re-running entire ads, unquestioning interviews, channeling it without critique. Why? Do the owners want it that way?

Timelines. Historical Chronologies, Dates and Commentary

2011-01-25T10:02:00.002-05:00

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Guns NRA Growth Timeline. Presented by Other NRA, With Demise Events
Natural Resource Auxiliary (other NRA) presents the Guns NRA Timeline and History, in order to distinguish itself. See mass shooting events (3+) interspersed with NRA Growth events, and January 2011 updates as to selected January 2011 shootings of police officers (>3)

Western Ethnic Violence Timeline: Against Non-Papal Christians; Non-Christians; Jews
How drive for Empire changes religion as well as politics. Watch the 600-year head start of papal western Christianity spread by violence in persecutions, exclusions, deaths for conformity; before Islam even was born. How did a peaceful, insightful teacher and healer, become a sworded militancy in furtherance of Empire, Papal and Charlemanic. Islam, after founder's birth 570 est. expanded with its own violence, but allowing some coexistence, into rest of Middle East, Eastern Europe, North Africa, Spain until 1492 ousted. Meanwhile, Christian Crusades, more territory invasions, forced conversions, kill "heretics", etc. Then another Islamic empire, Ottoman Empire 1299-1923, spread into Eastern Europe, Balkans, stops at Vienna. Anybody violence-free? No. To be developed.

Harald Bluetooth and Vikings; Papal Christian Invasions of Norse-Germanic Lands
What triggered the Norse, the Viking revenge against Christian monasteries, then broader, to Christian lands. Speculate if the degree of violence is connected to the violence of the Christian invasions, forced conversions, attacks on populations, dispersals. See Charlemagne.

Psychological Operations PsyOps Undermine Democracy

2011-01-24T10:18:00.004-05:00

PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS UNDERCUT DEMOCRACY: PSY OPS, or PsyOps.

Studying Wars: Wars for the Mind. Psy Ops Coming At You The world of strategic reality, deep morality, techniques for sabotaging governments (CIA v. Sandinistas, Nicaragua field manual), separate responsibility for the apple-pie training from the guerrilla-militia-lone wolf. Psychological Operations to hold the system afloat, sell it to the public, watch the whirlwind. Who, me?

Joy of Equivocating: Nate Rudy Asclater Joins the NRA
Psy Ops gets a recruit. Everyman succumbs to commercial psy ops; a banker runs the NRA. Somebody track that bank. Get your training in apple pie group guns here. Then, with blessing, use it in militia, guerrilla work, lone wolfishness, there. Psyops feed malfunctioners

Psy Ops for Everyman. Sabotage a Government. Nate Rudy Gets a Handbook. CIA Manual
Psychological Operations tactics. These are now in the mainstream, published on the Internet, spawning interest groups and other sites developing and honing the concepts. How to subvert. Start here. Right after you. Nate Rudy Asclater gets familiar with it, has questions.

Fodder Site: Democracy's Pitfall Dug by Psy Ops in Politics. Part II
The psy ops whose effectiveness research taxpayers paid for, is now used against them. Deep persuasion at the revolving doors of the Think Tanks, military, commercial sales (the strategic art of advertising) and political power group interests. Shape me, pleads the unknowing voter whose access to full information is crippled. Shape me.Psy ops manipulate voters

Fodder Site: Democracy's Pitfall Dug by Psy Ops in Media. Part I
Media ownership and objective information. Information aired reflects the ownership interests. Give free air time to ads of the candidate of the ownership's choice. Go ahead. Save the candidate millions by being a booster behind the masque. Psychological operations undermine democracy.

Bellwether Haiku: The President's Speech Rehearsal, Hamlet's Soliloquy Redux
Psy ops in history. Young Hamlet weighs, when or if to strike back at what he believes to be a dastardly plot before his very eyes, and seeks just a little more proof before Acting. Scenario: Hamlet's father, the beloved old good King Hamlet, had been surrounded by plotters with unspoken agendas. When the opportunity came, his enemy, his own brother, struck. Issue: How can anyone in power govern without one eye permanently on the plotters who care about the seat of power, not the common good as a priority. Vardels! Vardels! The one bearing the title bears the vardels. Meet the persuasion techniques of the usurping King Claudius. Persuasion techniques: fast, effective. Hamlet's analysis, thought, merit: takes time, thorough review, searching. Follow a President who, like Hamlet, must weigh when and how to move to counter persuasion obstructing merit considerations. The Soliloquy and the Speech Coach. Fardels.Psy Ops. Historical.

Natural Pragmatism. NRA history, timeline, projects, inculcating.
The Natural Resource Auxiliary distinguishes its NRA organization with the Guns NRA, and sees fertile fields being further fertilized. Get with the Program. One easy step from training, concentrating and regimenting child's play at bang-bang, from spontaneity and bop the bunny once in a while to see if you can, to militia-guerrilla-lone wolf land.

Origin of Swedes: Sigge Fridulfson, Odin. Odin Incarnate? Odin Imposter? Norse Legends, Religion.

2011-01-03T15:54:00.004-05:00

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Sweden Road Ways: Swedish History:
The history we find so far. Odin as Man or, in a belief system, a God himself, as other manifestations of the deity in other cultures. How to get at a pre-Christian concept when all the records are by Christians with agendas. Tribe of Dan perhaps. Odan. Wotan. Origins. Note, however, that Godan is from the World of Warcraft, or a Japanese belt rank, but perhaps there was a divine revelation to the commenter on Godan. Enjoy, Godan.

Bogomilia. Sigge Fridulfson. Legend, Odin, Leader? Sweden's Founding
Look to Swedish roots in the Caucasus, and a migration led (it is said) by Sigge Fridulfson. He had fought admirably against the invading Romans; then simply went North, in the persona of the god Odin. Or was he Odin?

Bellwether Haiku. Parthenos, Parthenogenesis, Genesis North
Persuasion of the Swedes: role of myth, meet The Gylfaginning. Norse beginnings Big Innings: and the Deception of Gylfi, who went to the gods to find out how Sigge Fridulfson (Fridulfsson) could be so successful. Was he really a god? Whose view survives. Other beginnings in myth: concept of parthenogenesis.

What Speaks Zarathustra; Zoroaster; Zoroastrianism References

2011-01-03T15:38:00.001-05:00

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Bellwether, Haiku: Zoroaster To Oprah. Well Done.
Good thoughts, good words, good deeds. The Bountiful Spirit. Follow the good, eschew the Lie. Oprah's new Kind Words channel Channeling. Was JC expressing Zoroastrian ideas, see Egypt and East connections. Is that why religious and other authorities were threatened.
KNGDV: Why Lie? The Role of Lies
Zoroaster on lying. Never. Who can do that? Shall we think before speaking, and try?
Vetting Roots: Stuck in N for Nomad; How Culture Uses Religion.
Even after death of pathmaker Zoroaster, successors divide at rules, rituals. Loss of a religion when a culture takes over, as in other religions.
The Fodder Site: Zoroaster. Tolerance. Reconciiation Ground.
Root religion for east and west. Can focus on creeds, rules and laws give way to essential precepts common to all: as in Zarathustra -- truth, help the poor, seek the good. Dualism: can be accommodated. Avoid the Lie, the Meanness.
Plain Meaning. Parthenon, Athena, Parthia, Virgin in Culture, Roots
Parthia -- ancient kingdom, probably Zoroastrian. Discussion in context of roots of Athena Partheneia.

Communications Abuses. Renewed Interest in the Excluded.

2010-12-09T14:25:00.013-05:00

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Role of an Elected Representative: To the Constituent Until the Beltway Lobby Pays More.
I represent you. What to do when your representative is unfaithful; the one you brought to Washington goes off with somebody else.

Middle Class Remedy: Substitute Legislator Act.
By this legislation, the Significant Other replaces any legislator who votes for tax breaks over the Two Fifty, absent real set-offs for the middlers. A Sadie Hawkins idea. Break the gridlock with substitute legislators.

Religious claims to exclusive use of "Christianity". Coexistence in a Time of Partisans
Empire-building in Christianity supersedes religious messages of founders. What is lost by rejecting other views. Nestorian Christians. Coptic. Orthodox.

Twisting word meanings. Capitalism Starts with Welfare; Inheritance as Welfare
Better times began - think Plymouth - with a free dole of land and seed. Welfare can spur activity, or enable dependency. Freebies like inheritances serve the same purpose.

Fact-free Slogans.
Gay and lesbian rights. Is orientation relevant to factors that make a steadfast soldier steadfast.

Immigration: Deportation March; or Rhapsody
Immigrants are bad for America! Out with the undocumented! How long does that little sound bite last, when we see hard working, contributing populations that we let in for years without fuss. Our contribution, our invitation. Two approaches: one punitive and self-righteous after keeping the barn door open for ages, the other practical and recognizing the value of new folks

Concepts for co-existence. Pragmatic Secularism
Keep religious precepts religious, unless they can be framed in a secular manner for valid secular purposes

Entitlements. One size fits all. Inheritance as an Entitlement
The freebies to the well-off such as inheritances, breed dependence and sloth.

Dominion. A Mistranslation leads to Creation Abuse.
The kind of responsibility given to the human as to fellow living creatures is not the dominion the NRA espouses.

Congressional representation. Obligation to constituent, or self.
Transparency in perks, special interest contributions, recuse from voting on the issue dear to the heart of the ducat-giver

Animal Cultural Loans: Animal Totems. Wolf Politics, Wolf Religion

2010-11-23T11:12:00.005-05:00

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KNGDV. Dominion. Worst Concept in the World. The Wolf Totem.
"Dominion" equated with force and entitlement. No. Go back to old transliterations and find words for mild guide, reciprocal coexistence. From that concept, one of responsibility and care, see animal behavior as model for the human. Animal totems. What totem would drive the force-dominion idea. Try the Wolf. But is that necessarily so. What is behind the predatory nature of the human wolf?

Sassafras Tree. Natural Pragmatism. Washington's Majority Wolf Pack. Defenses.
Animal totems, models for human behavior, a globally recurrent cultural theme. Here, use the Wolf's own behavior patterns and rigid social structure to explore how those non-wolves can possibly counter it. Ask: Must a non-Wolf become Wolfish in order to survive; what constructive can be done by non-Wolves to woo the Betas, the lower rung wolves, away; how to better the lot of the picked-on Omegas in the pack. Can nonwolves hope to 1) engage in effective defense, and 2) educate for, and offer, alternative systems to the cyclical predatory Wolf.

Joy of Equivocating. The Lame Duck, Wolf Pack, Bestiary Ball
Meet the guests. Whose Totem is now in charge? Wolf Totem Pack illustrated. A quasi-monster mash in our capitol.

Bellwether Haiku, DC Totems, R-Strategist Predator and K-Strategist; T-Strategist
Animal survival. Human survival. Each has strategies. The R-strategist (not a party designation) means smaller animals in unstable environments, whose way to survival must be the rate of population growth to counter the deaths. The K-strategist means large animals in stable environments whose behavior is not focused on population growth, but turns to perpetuating its power structure by raising only a few high-born babes to compete. There is no altruism from the K's to the R's; but there is altruism, to a degree, within the R's -- to their same group.

Vetting Roots. President's New Banquet Filled by Others; Wolf Pack Declined
When the President invited Republicans to dinner and informal wheel-greasing among all, the Republicans had better things to do, they said. Invitation issued, declined. We hoped the President would hold a dinner anyway, for others -- perhaps the struggling middle class. At least he did not offer a dinner again. A Brekkie at the Blair was all they got.

Studying Wars: Western Ethnic Violence Timeline.
The Wolf Totem mentality in Western religious expansion.

NATIVE AMERICAN -

I Sing a Song of Sitting Bull.

Sing this to an old hymn melody, the essential points of the life of Sitting Bull, who defeated Custer at Little Big Horn, and in defense of lands granted to the Indians through the Treaty of Laramie. Buffalo totem: follow the footnote for the characteristics of the Buffalo Totem. Compare to the White's long-standing apparent emulation of the Wolf.

Correct history's rewrites. Recognize Forms of Welfare and Their Function

2010-11-21T15:34:00.001-05:00

Capitalism starts with welfare: William Bradford, Plymouth; and getting started.
Thanksgiving. Give thanks for welfare. Plymouth's government started welfare by passing out parcels of land. The freebie got people out working when they could keep for themselves, mostly. But it took the original boon to get it going. Other welfare forms: Inheritance, or the right to change your name for your own economic benefit (choose something less ethnic). Government lets you do that. Something for nothing. Government welfare..

Pragmatic Secularism - A Golden Mean. Law over Revelation

2010-11-13T17:21:00.001-05:00

Isms. Pragmatic Secularism
A golden mean.

Primacy of law over revelation: process of enactment
One group's revelation cannot bind another.

Western Ethnic Violence Timeline
Aggressive religionism has produced disastrous results. Aggressive secularism is equally combative. Apply pragmatic secularism to public life, interactions between people and groups; and religion remains the purview of the individual within his or her own life.

NRA. Fear Theory; Gun Culture. Everyman Nate Rudy Asclater. Diversions for Population Control; Transparency; NRA

2010-08-06T07:05:00.007-04:00

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NRA. Not Really Altruistic.

Second Amendment meets Placemaking: The Gun Speaks.
Fear theory, context of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, with "safety" the dominant focus once basic needs are met. Uses of guns. The place of the National Rifle Association in American culture;

Power of the Statutory Pen: Can wipe out inheritances, even require NRA disclosures.
The legislature has the power to give the tools for people to make informed decisions; but everybody's afraid. Where the will, alas.

Nate Rudy, Everyman. Nathaniel Rudolph Asclater Speaks
Meet Nate Rudy, American. Family man. Still, a spinning compass until he found his gun. Nate Rudy Asclater. Shoot now, ask later, now in his mind. When does fantasy seep out.

A Day in the Life of Nate Rudy Asclater, And Gun
Nathaniel Rudolph Asclater's Wife Speaks. Asks. What is going on here? And update after Nate Rudy joins the NRA.

I Did It! Nate Rudy Joins the NRA and Keeps a Journal.
Nate Rudy has found his voice. He writes, and writes, and writes. What is in his head, how does he see his place in life, how he can get somewhere he wants. Yes, the NRA.

But is the NRA all that Nate Rudy thinks it is? Is Nate duped? If so, How? Not at all? Does it matter, so long as Nate is happy?

Resume Activities (Curriculum Vitae): Transparency in NRA Corporate Connections Act.
Issue: NRA official Ronald Schmeits places obfuscated references on his CV as to financial connections. This draft legislation would ban obscure references, that produce no easy results in a search for a resume entry, or curriculum vitae. Require identification of corporate connections, particularly in banking. Transparency will enable vetting of bona fides of policy and cultural positions. Who are the associates here? See where ambiguity in such leads us and the NRA. An avoidable dalliance - just be clear up front and the issue goes away.

Culture's Abuses. Rights of Voters, Babies, Genders,

2010-08-01T21:11:00.007-04:00

Rights of Voters and Juries

Free speech v Justice in political speech.
Politics is not just a matter of sales, persuasion by tactics. Politics to be just (if we seek just rulers) requires truth in political speech. That means accountability and transparency in political speech. Apply labels to warn of speech that is speculative, and has as its agenda not information, but to polarize, propagandize and demonize. In politics, as in courtrooms, where justice is in issue, apply basic rules of evidence. Protect voters just as we protect juries in their work. No more Robert's Rules of Order as applied in Citizen's United.

Rights of babies.

Babies and Exercise: Car Seat Abuse Ex-Car. Stimulus Package Needed.
Get those babies out of the car seats after you are parked; and hold them when you go somewhere, for heaven's sakes. We are raising turnip-shaped flat-heads out there. And carrying weights is good for weight loss.

Women and Desire: Erotic Rocket Rule: The Elementals of Wanting. Restore rights to her own life.
Then watch her go at it. Restore women to full and equal rights in choice, workplace, education. That is likely to improve her Interests at home, if anyone is complaining. First come freedoms; then, desire. Is that so?

Female circumcision; genital mutilation. Counterweight as a preventive: Do it to the boys as well.
Stopping female mutilation requires a roughly (literally) equivalent step as to the boys. If they had to submit to a similar procedure (circumcision does not qualify unless the male is over 12), to reduce the incidence thereof as to the girls. Stopping a practice may require expanding it elsewhere. How but to apply it to the other, to encourage male empathy..

Power of Naming. Labels. For accountability, aspiration.

2010-04-20T12:57:00.005-04:00

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For transparency in communications, require labels. Name the type of beast about to come at you. The power of naming. A Label or a Name as a tool of control. Power of labels. Power of naming.

Certification of Qualified Newscasters.
Label the news products. Truth in labeling. Label the people disseminating the words. Counter stealth propaganda. Label degrees of objective news from opinion and propaganda; Certify airwaves people on the same scale. What percent of objective fact (protein), or energy maker (carbs, polarize-demonize), or hipspreaders (fat, propaganda). Require documentation of sources and facts relied upon if the product wants a truth label.. .

Naming as Power

Power of Names and Naming
Pay attention to names and labels. Choices in Naming can create the reality that later develops. Take no naming lightly. Its power: Name the cow and it gives more milk. Is that so? Naming a person as an individual: does that promote humanity; or keep the person unnamed, the "other" - with no name ascribed, is he easier to call a "terrorist."

Plain Meaning of "Hutaree" - the Militia Group
Hutaree is a militia group, far-right wing. Parse out alternate meanings from syllables. Any light shed? Go see.

Labeling, naming as a weapon.

R-Word as Fighting Words
Labeling is a means of control. Control is to label by a condition or other attribute. That R_________. Labels dehumanize. Can we stop the use of "reee-tard" to define the intellectually disabled. The differently abled will cheer.

Origins of the Irish: Scota, Judah, Dan?

2010-04-20T12:45:00.003-04:00

Origins of the Irish, from the Mediterranean; and then Spain; before Ireland
What reasonable evidence is there that early Irish originated in the Middle East, and migrated through Spain to Ireland. More than you might think. Legends living. Discard not them all, is that so? or silly?

Scotland: Tradition of Scota, Caledonia.
Scota, and the Scotties, and Scotland. Woman warrior. Ireland was first in settlement by Scota or Scotia; then came Scotland, so they say.

Ireland. Tralee, Queen Scotia, and Slieve Mish. The first kings of Tara stemmed from this Queen. Is that so?

Spain. Zaragoza, and Zahar of the Red Hand .
Sons of Judah. Does this legend tie in: the Old Testament Zahar, whose arm came out first at birth so that the red cord of inheritance was tied to it; but then he withdrew it, and his twin was fully born first, getting it all. Leaving Zahar and his band to find their way elsewhere, which they did, out of Canaan; and cross-country by a choice of routes, or by ship, to Iberia. Interesting. You have to love legends.

Now: check out the Tribe of Dan, and Egyptian connections, at ://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/biblianazar/esp_biblianazar_14d.htm/. O, Danny Boy?

Abortion; Lifestyle Orientation

2009-08-22T19:16:00.004-04:00

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Child support for zygotes, morulas and blastocysts, embryos and fetuses, where defined as "children"
If a state defines a cell cluster as a human being, a child, then the woman carrying it should get child support. Amend the statutes.

Strict Constructionism and Abortion, Orientation: The Conservative Dilemma
Texts accepted into the Canon in the earliest days do not mention this abortion issue, from early days of the Church. All are silent. With good reason. The wisdom of the oldies. Strict construction of the canon. When early religious texts are silent on specific directives, watch institutions extrapolate later as their own agendas direct. Why accept what some institution extrapolate later on its own. Look at the effect. This is the recourse of cultures shaping and controlling the behavior of a sub-group."Inspiration?" Tell that to the dissenters.

Male Performance Enhancers Treated as Abortion Matters: No Abortion for her? No Viagra for him
Fair and balanced. If a state declares that a woman must carry a cluster of cells, even if raped or the victim of incest, then that state shall prohibit the sale of Viagra and its equivalents. And no going over state lines to get it. A woman having choice in how to proceed: why is the presumption that she will not be as moral as a man or disinterested woman in making it? Morality of the decider: between her and whatever she worships, if anything, and that also is her choice.

Military Strategy; Figureheads; Battlefields; Codes, Memorabilia

2009-07-03T18:47:00.049-04:00

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Hatpins Collection, Military Buttons, Insignias
Battle Memorabilia - Battalions on Hats. Souvenirs, mementos, carry the memory with you, on your head. Find history in the long Edwardian hatpins.

JPMorganChase and Code of the Hand.
Military: uses codes to get messages out and past the enemy. So does the corporate world. See JP Morgan Chase and its code. The intended audience gets it. Corporation codes. Believe. Its own form of military.

Torture
Sassafras and Guantanamo: Getting At the Truth:
Military strategy to get information from enemies also included matters that Geneva Conventions and others consider torture. A former president went along. Should he be prosecuted for war crimes? Amnesty International says so. Try another route: to get information from enemies. Explore the relaxer approach, truth serum idea with sassafras, encourage changes of heart and mind. Not torture. We have lots of sassafras in this country. Get busy, labs. Sassafras for truth.

Strategy
Genghis Khan, a model for Planning, Timing, and Follow-Up The virtue of strategic withdrawal when outnumbered. Conquer when ready. See also Liddell Hart: The most effective approach may be the indirect.

Sulking as strategy
Politics of Sulk. When the loser can't think of what to do next, sulk.

Warrior Qualities
Women in War See the warriors of the past. Talent in many forms.
Moscow's BlackWidows, Chechen suicide bombers. Origins of women in warrior roles, the Caucasus and its Amazon traditions.
Warriorism; Warrior Skills; Training Does practicing the skills of war deter, or set the stage for, use. Warrior skills as confidence-builders, psychological crutch.

Auxiliary Troops
Hero Roles: Messenger. Including Carrier Pigeons American Signal Corps and "Cher Ami" who brought news.

Need to Preserve Memory - Keepers of the Artifacts
Curator, Andrew Gregory, Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps Museum, Montreal. Those who house our memories. Meet this overseer of a Montreal learner-friendly military museum. Learn tactics, history, weapons, equipment, strategies of wars. Andrew Gregory: curator,offers personalized interest at the Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps Museum, Montreal.

Persuasion Techniques: Teach to Kill
Crusades: License to Kill Evildoers. Battles mobilized on faith; demonize the enemy. Use of code words to justify killing, suggest religious approval, even mandate.

Tools of Persuasion
Propaganda: The Firing of the First Shots. Verbal. Then the War. The role of propaganda in warming up the populace to support what is to come.

PRE-WORLD WAR I

Specific Battles

Agincourt, in the Somme Area

1389 Battle of Kosovo Ottoman Empire advances; Serbia loses its "heart" - Kosovo.

Myth, and Indigenous Wars Against Incursion. King Philip, Native American; and His War Against Colonists Our history's self-serving myths of glory; and the shabby reality. How we got our foothold. New England's battleground, indigenous tribes against settlers. King Philip, local chief.

American Revolution, Fort Ticonderoga, NY

American Revolution, Saratoga. This is where Benedict Arnold lost his boot. His case is not a simple one. Turncoat, yes, but with reason.

Ireland. Battle of the Boyne Protestant v. Catholic

Austerlitz, The Three Emperors. Find Napoleon here; the Battle of Slavkov. You will not see "Austerlitz" on the map, perhaps. See also Austerlitz and Carl Sandburg's poem, Grass. It covers all.

WORLD WAR I

Vimy Ridge, France, World War I

Citizen Poets While Fodder in the Trenches, Ypres, Ieper, Belgium See Canadian War Memorial here. The Christmas Truce. Poetry.

Vimy Ridge, France; Pegs in the Night. Soldiers told of pound in painted pegs along the German side, if you could. Then, later, if a solder passed in front of it, you could see, and the sniper could shoot.

Flanders Fields, Where Poppies Blow Belgium, France.

Argonne Forest, World War I, France. The Forgotten Cemetery. Overshadowed by Verdun, off the beaten track, near Belleau Wood, also forlorn. Go anyway. They need you.

Soldiers' Mutiny, Verdun, France WWI, Issues, Negotiating During Slaughter Poem. Anthem for Doomed Youth. Soldiers, passing officers, and saying, "Baaah" like sheep, knowing what was coming.

Verdun, France, WWI, Soldiers' Mutiny Worked See original postcards of area at end of the war, fort areas, memorials.

WORLD WAR II

The Netherlands, Arnhem, A Bridge Too Far, British Soldier, John Frost

Normandy, Pointe du Hoc, Arromanches, Rangers. The Rangers scaled these cliffs, but nothing was there of importance.

Unlikely Hartford and Colt Armaments. World War II, Assassination of Nazi Reinhard Heydrich, Prague, by Czech Resistance, a Colt used among their weapons. See film, "Operation Daybreak".

Vietnam Battlefields; US Failure to Encrypt. Inexcusable blunders in war, the conceit, the flawed sense of superiority of the American command, costing thousands of lives. Not even coding messages.The gooks can't read English. Imagine. The gall of it.

Berlin Wall, Germany When problems cannot be resolved, wall them away. Then kill whoever tries to pass over.

IDEOLOGICAL BATTLEFIELDS

Ideological Battleground: Sistine Chapel

Argonne Forest, France, World War I

Aging Issues: Value of a life, Advance End of Life Directives,

2009-07-02T21:39:00.005-04:00

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A view on aging.

Bremen Town Musicians, Euthanasia for Nonprofitability The Reality Tale. Think Bremen. Poor, old Ass. Getting too old to be useful. Can't work for his keep any more. Get rid of him, thinks the farmer. What do to but pack a hasty exit for the poor, old Ass. So he clip-clops down the road. Then, with others deemed equally useless, he indeed manages to be very useful, in his way. Useful after all. Thoughts: How to define value of a life. Is profit the only measure of a life? Wrong, farmer; wrong. Apply anew: Need for transparency, not hyperbole in discussion. There never were "death panels" anyway. Just people telling tales, hoping others would believe. It's end-of-life directives, not ending life directives, Sarah.

Self-disposition. Lay out directives

Resolution Enacting Federal Healthcare Decisions Day. To promote laying out one's own directives in advance of The Need. If we don't make our own plans, someone else will do it for us.

Complexities of Stereotype in Cultural Tales: Black not always a pejorative

2009-07-02T21:26:00.007-04:00

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Three Little Pigs. Blackie, Brownie, Whitie. England 1890's est In this English version from about the 1890's, the Black Pig is the hero, the handsome one. The Brown pig is the messy one and the White Pig is the greedy one.

White Bride and Black One; Racism Amok
This is a Grimm Tale: The Brothers Grimm. It is not the color that ends up important, however, although the story started out that way. The "black" is highly symbolic; it is the doing of good or evil. We think we know the ending: that the black one was bad, ended up miserable. Is that so? Read the story. Who ends up happy in the tale? Black was not always a pejorative. We added that, to a large degree.

Eve's Various Children: Each to His Place
Handsomes get to idle at the top; the uglies get to work at the bottom. Plus ca change? That stereotype holds true. Pretty children earn more, get hired faster, is that so?

The Jew Among the Thorns
Anti-semitism has long been in the tales. Consider how concepts get transmitted.

Social and Economic Theory: In Cultures and the Kitchen

2009-07-02T21:07:00.008-04:00

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Who Will Bell the Cat? "Piers Plowman" and 14th Century Social and Economic Theory.
William Langland, 1332-1400. Poem: Langland adds to Aesop's Fable about belling the cat. The plan failed because noone would do it. What would have happened if the cat indeed had been belled. Far worse for the community. Find out why.

Rumpelstiltskin
Thinks one: When you don't know the answer, sneak around and cheat. Finds out the other: ha! Bartering with the Mannikin? Never a good idea, but here it leads to a Bad End for the Mannikin.

Sassafras: Industry Opportunity; Social and Economic Uses
Explore sassafras to improve the economic position of some.

Sassafras - Industry Pressure to Call Safrole, a Food Component, an Additive?. Put sassafras back in the kitchen. Re-establishing safrole as useful when used with ordinary care in foods could open up economic benefits, as well as health. Is that so? The FDA exerts jurisdiction over safrole merely because of a label it gives to it, as an "additive." How can something that is itself a food, be an additive? The carcinogenicity of safrole in sassafras is no greater than the the safrole in your spice or herb shelf. Test that. Is that so?

Pruderies, Energy and Piety. Cultural filters. Reinstate the Original.

2009-06-27T18:14:00.004-04:00

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Lange Wapper at Antwerp.
By Steen Castle, Antwerp, Belgium. A natural appendage removed so the good fathers would not be embarrassed; and its use as a bestower of wishes could end. Did it?

Red Riding Hood; and Cake, Wine, Vivisection
Read the original. Little Red and Grandma. Be all that you can be. Red Riding Hood can get in the blood and guts as good as the next guy.

Rapunzel. Pssst. She Had Twins.
Honest. Why is this filtered out? She fared fine, even in the wilderness with them. Tale as old as time and also with a beauty.

Sassafras, Less Carcinogenic than Beer Beer.
And other anomalies of a ban, placed on a food component, because FDA labeled it an "additive". We consume beer, but prevent anybody from using sassafras in the same way. Ban on the buzz.

Religion's Ambiguities. Method of Execution. Why Not Accept the Ambiguity?
Making something nicer by pretending there is no other explanation than the one that is nicer, is a nice way of saying we can't handle reality. Death is death, of course, but why sound so certain about how it was done. Do the requirements of art supersede fact? Crucifixion, impalement, both done commonly at the time, word means either. Art won out. Should it? Vatican, open your libraries. You could tell us.

Cultural : Creation Accounts. Imposing ideology.

2009-06-26T21:19:00.011-04:00

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Bellwether Haiku. Parthenos, Parthenogenesis, Genesis North
Persuasion of the Swedes: role of myth, meet The Gylfaginning. Norse beginnings Big Innings: and the Deception of Gylfi, who went to the gods to find out how Sigge Fridulfson could be so successful. Was he really a god, Odin? Whose view survives. Other beginnings in myth: concept of parthenogenesis.

Dominion: The Worst Concept in the World. The Wolf Mentality
Translations, transliteration, cultural spin. Scripture interpretations can be helpful, but not in the hands of the Wolf Pack. The idea of "dominion" is a far reach by Jerome, a distortion of meaning of the Hebrew by use of "dominamini" where the original concept seems to be a swaying,a taming, a leading towards, gently; and even that sway was only offered by the deity in the context of the first given creation tale, where both M+F were created simultaneously and equally. It has no place in the second, where something sequential is to have happened. has been distorted. Is this an example of another concept in spirituality: that humans are like or take on attributes of a guide animal, here the Wolf -- also showing itself in group behaviors in politics, as well as in institutional religion. Offering a sway. Or down your throat, buster. The Wolf, in politics and other institutions, knows what it will do. And it does.

The Big Birds: The Phoenix, the Turul
Russian, Chinese, Japanese, North American, Egyptian, forms of the Phoenix in all. Magyar and the Turul. The idea of a big bird recurs.

Genesis Before Genesis: Transliteration of Genesis 1-4. Surprise
Read a transliteration of the familiar story. Now read your favorite Bible. How have the interpretations, grammar impositions, dogma and ideologies changed what is there. How does imposing a narrative, an ideology, change original, word-by-word mechanical meaning. Is the slant of the narrative justified? Does it distort? This excerpt from Genesis from Scripture4All, a favorite transliteration site. Moral. Any ideology is a creation in itself.

Themes, Cultural Tales: Repetition and addiction, living with death-dealers, mistranslations

2009-06-25T20:36:00.012-04:00

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Ma Liang and his Magic Brush; and The Red Shoes
Forced repetition of the desired action: it becomes a punishment for the self-centered person who has the desire. But the West adds darkness to it. A simple, logical and straightforward moral consequence to the East, becomes sin to the West.

Who Will Bell the Cat - Piers Plowman.
Ask a question beyond Aesop's tale, where no mouse is man enough to bell the cat. In 1377, William Langtrey's council mouse takes the story beyond that silly later ending. The original council mouse suggests that this inability to carry out the plan to bell the cat -- too dangerous-- may be just as well. What would have happened if the cat indeed had been belled.... as the mice first wanted. Go read. Watch what you wish for.

Grimm: The Peasant in Heaven.
Texts and mistranslations. The theme of the perils of riches. Eye of needle, rich man, cultures repeat. But find here that the "needle" is a mistranslation It should read "rope". In this case, the point of the story remains. Where else, however, does a mistranslation skew the result?

The Bawdy vs. Religion. Lange Wapper, Flanders, Antwerp
Fear of sexuality. Fear of functions. Lop it off. There. That's better, isn't it?

Fitcher's Bird. Grimm Tale. The Clever Girls. Water down the strong girls. Quick. Water them down. They are far too capable.....

Horsemen, Invaders. bup-Bup, bup-Bup, buppity-Bup, Bup-BUP

2009-06-24T20:36:00.006-04:00

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Sinj, Croatia: The Six Hundred Horsemen
Sinj and the Six Hundred. They rode out and defeated the Ottomans at that battle.

Hussars, Winged Cavalry, old Poland, Hungary, other Eastern Europe
A/k/a Husaria, Husarz. Peak 17th-18th Centuries. Hussars saved Vienna from the Ottomans. The frames on the shoulders and backs were lined with feathers that made a hmmmmwhrrr sound as they rode. The sound preceded the sight.

Khazars, Hazars, Huns (Attila), Magyars, Ottoman - Tracking migrations, conquests, cultures
Follow these horsemen over the plains.

Genghis Khan, on Planning, Timing, and Follow-Up
Mongols. See also Liddell Hart: the most effective approach may be the indirect.

Women and History; including Warfare

2009-06-24T18:34:00.007-04:00

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Protest Within Convention: Victorian Marriage. Mary H. Seymour, story in Peterson's Ladies National Magazine 1865.

Germaine Tillion: Nazi Resistor, France WWII No gender gap in courage.
Domination by Diminution: Women Shunted Out of the Loop. Civil War Diminishing roles in order to minimize abilities. Shunt women aside, impose powerlessness.
Moscow's Black Widows, The Tradition of Warrior Women in the Caucasus Warrior traditions among women of the Caucasus. Chechnya.

Individuals - 20th Century to Present. Modern people of distinction. A Little Hall of Unexpected Fame

2009-06-22T18:40:00.016-04:00

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Bronislawa Wajs, Romani poet, singer, inspiration
See the novel, "Zoli" for a fictionalized but roughly close (we understand) rendition of the life of Bronislawa Wajs. Gypsy (Roma) traditions.

Rabbi Shmuel ben David of "Isaac's Torah"
A friend of one also caught in changing times, including the Holocaust. Concept: the Idea, vs. the later System implementing it, and becoming more focused on its own (the System's) survival than the Idea.

Susan Boyle: A Voice for the Lyrics.
The genius of this performer-come-lately is her choice of lyrics for her songs. How she sings what she sings. The "first game" - mere competition. Easy. More important: she epitomizes the course of the "second game" in which a woman competes. The drive to derail her. Find a chink and wedge it open: judges, public, family. Broaden our horizons despite them, Susan. Go ahead.

Wintley Phipps, Program on the Black American Slave
Baritone, story teller, historian.

Germaine Tillion: Nazi Resistor, France WWII
Political resource, intellectual.

Gene Amdahl, IBM's Propaganda Target.
See IBM's successful campaign to use Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt (FUD) to keep consumers from trying the better product of Gene Amdahl. Follow this use of FUD as a propaganda model, used against a competitor's excellent computer product. A victim of propaganda, Amdahl recently died, 2009 . FUD= this has been the rule for marketing and politics to defeat someone without providing a better alternative.

Lack of distinction:
John McCain. Opinion Pap. Overflow is not News.
Opinion takes over the "news". Even venerable politicians like McCain follow opinion polls, not own moorings.

Back to distinction:
Team Critic David Frum gets Fired Pointing Out Losing Coach Made Bad Calls
Why fire the messenger telling truth, that coach blew it?

And, lack of distinction again:
Ahn Joseph Cao is Cowed. Sole republican voter for healthcare reform bows to pressure.

Linguistics as clue to cultural origins

2009-06-22T14:56:00.003-04:00

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Vlachs (found in Roman old Romania area) speaking Romani.
Language roots as clue to cultural origins. Here, the Vlach people, Romania and elsewhere, nomadic herders. It is not clear if the Vlachs speak Romani, a language of the Roma or gypsies, suggesting a connection with them; or a vernacular form of old Latin. Rome settled here in its glory days, and joined with the indigenous Dacians. Could old Latin have seeped into Vlach culture, consider this and Other Roma customs.

Varieties: Healthcare, Remedies, FDA, Vision care, early Hero for Cretins

2009-06-22T14:34:00.016-04:00

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No Glasses Week. An Experiment in Viewpoints
Vet the vision dependence industry. How much do you really need your glasses, or are they now so conditioned you can't do without them? How about your kids? And appreciate, as you experiment, what it is like to be vision-impaired.

Sassafras: Seven Bedbugs in One Blow
Uses of sassafras wood: its rodent and insect repellent qualities. Sassafras repels bedbugs. Are you listening, NY? Investors?

Romani Medicine, Remedies, Healthcare.
How many of these cross borders into the Roma populations of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Austria.

Dr. Christianus Christian, caring for 19th C. Swiss cretins
Early hero to the different, the Swiss Cretins.

Sassafras and the American Slave Tradition: remedies, uses.
Wound healer, gumbo file thickener for stews, poultices, tonics.

Sassafras, Less Carcinogenic than Beer Beer.
And other anomalies of a ban, placed on a food component, because FDA labeled it an "additive".

Sassafras a Purifier, Say the Tales
Explore Cholesterol, Liver Remedy?

Sassafras and remedies: Dosage and Information, Not Ban ban

Sassafras pharmacology list
How it is and has been used, with benefit.

Vision Care

William Horatio Bates, Bane of Vision Industry.
1920's and later, opthalmologist, advocating and developing eye exercises instead of glasses. Died 1931. His work has been refined, new testing bunked some, kept some, but book worth reading. Relax the muscles, your eyes themselves may well be just fine.

FDA

FDA Reorganization Three Ways: PharmaJocks Panic at Accountability
Foodies Dept: inspections and Safety, Druggies Dept: New drugs, and now Woodsies: testing for natural-type ingredients - keep them honest. A Cabinet Secretary of Ingestibles and Digestibles, Overseeing and Providing for Testing of Natural Ingredients to Compete with the Druggies.

Health Reform
Aortic Pregnancy? No? Optimist waits for tests.
Gratitude for coverage, appreciation for those without.

Cultures and Conflict: Minorities that Rule, and Those That Do Not. Absolutism.

2009-06-22T05:40:00.007-04:00

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Abraham and Anti-Absolutism for Dispute Resolution.
Absolutism drives divisions

Roma: The Court (Kris), Expulsion, Shunning
Minority systems for continuity. Systems of law and cultural continuity in minority groups. Enforcement of norms, internal controls is extensive in the Roma culture. Now ask for next class: what role, if any, should Roma law have in a regular civil court? Persuasive? Irrelevant? Dispositive? If both agree? Is that why so few come to court?

"Heretics" - a maligned minority. Nothing to do with good faith and merit. Killed by agenda. Who says who is a heretic other than the ones in power? If so, why adopt so much of what they said? That is, after you killed them off. See cathars.org for a for-instance.

Cathars, Albigensians: Vet the So-Called Heretics.
The Cathars were killed off (so we are told) in the 14th Century. Were their beliefs closer, in affinity, to the Christian Founder than the Roman Catholic church that killed them off?

JP Morgan Chase Says Follow the Hand. Code.
Culture of Profit v. Culture of Decent Life. Codes in Cultural Warfare. Rule by code. Minority -- see corporations as the minority as opposed to citizens -- but their cash and drive for the bottom line rules the roost by code and deception. Is that so? Does JPMorgan Chase mean any of what it thinks it says about putting anything above its own profit? Code of the Hand.

Holocaust: The Camps, Roma and Jewish Experience, Other "Defectives"

2009-06-21T21:40:00.009-04:00

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The Roma Experience

Gypsies, Roma: Romani and the Holocaust

Germany Road Ways, Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp
There was a special Gypsy Camp there, camp near Celle, near Hanover. See memorial specifying Roma, Sinti, Zigeun.

The Jewish, but also Gypsy, Homosexual, "Defectives" experience

Czech Republic Road Ways, Theresienstadt (Terezin) Ghetto

Germany Road Ways, Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp
A particular memorial notes not only Roma as victims, but also homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, others

Germany Road Ways, Buchenwald Concentration Camp

Poland Road Ways, Auschwitz Concentration Camp

Austria Road Ways, Mauthausen Concentration Camp

Germany Road Ways, Alfred Dube, Survivor
A tribute to a survivor of several camps, and his subsequent accomplishments.

Places of Petr Ginz
The Diary of Petr Ginz 1941-1942, edited by his sister, Chava Pressburger, see ://www.groveatlantic.com/grove/bin/wc.dll?groveproc~genauth~5238~0/

Bogomilia: Rabbi Shmuel ben David of "Isaac's Torah"
Stories of the Holocaust. A friend of the main character in the book, "Isaac's Torah: The Memoirs of Jacob Blumenfeld," transmitter-editor-compiler, Angel Wagenstein; who is also caught in decades changing times, including the Holocaust. Discussions with the Rabbi - includes the Idea, vs. the later System implementing it, and becoming more focused on its own (the System's) survival than the Idea.

Petr Ginz site reference: The Seventh Well,
by Fred Wander. Stories of the Holocaust. Accounts of life in various concentration camps, including Buchenwald, see ://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/20/books/review/Hoffman-t.html

Surnames, Geneologies. Finding surnames, finding surprises.

2009-06-21T21:38:00.004-04:00

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Romney surname, English Gypsies

Romani literature, oral traditions A family with oral traditions to 15th Century

Pantera (Tiberius Julius Abdes Pantera), and Religious Tradition
A persistent but speculative secular explanation for events many see as divine. Keep an open mind, now. Often the simplest is so, rather than the convoluted compled; and need not affect other matters.

Hate Crimes; Persecutions; Genocide, Homosexuality;

2009-06-21T21:36:00.006-04:00

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Theology's Gender-Blending. Would Hate Crimes Diminish With New Information
Old representations of creation show blurred lines in gender attributes. Part of our culture's attack on homosexuality and lesbianism appears due to our own teaching -- erroneous teaching -- of what is and is not "theology".

Cathars, Albigensians: Vet the So-Called Heretics
Killing the "other" in order to entrench the "us"

Roma, History of Persecutions.
Includes concept of Rankism for social control.

Vlachs, Wallachian Gypsies?

"Facing History and Ourselves" - an Online Curriculum to Counter Hate.
Curriculum to focus on the hate crimes of the 20th-21st centuries, including wars, so our children can learn and avoid, we hope. How to apply to urban schools so focused on employment issues.

Bogomils, Deemed "Heretic" and Stamped Out by the Roman Branch of Christianity But were they? Traces remain. Here, Bosnia, graveyard.

For Foodies: Travel's middle benefit

2009-06-21T16:04:00.003-04:00

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Haluski: Cabbage and Noodles, Roma

Sassafras elixir recipes; tea from sassafras
Sassafras tea! Now for the root beer....

Arts, Tales, Music, Authors. References. Minority Contributions; Individuals

2009-06-21T15:47:00.017-04:00

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Themes
1. Ginkgo

The ginkgo and art nouveau forms.
Ginkgo shapes as artistically favored

Goethe and the Ginkgo
Everybody loves the ginkgo, except those who get a female and the fruits-seeds are negatively aromatic.

2. Minorities in theater, film, music
Gypsies: Contemporary performance heritage. Elvis, Charlie Chaplin, Yul Brynner, Michael Caine [ask Mitt - Romney?]

Tales, Song. Johnny Faa. Roma. Find Faa also in song (not do re me)
Ballad of the greatest gypsy of all, say some ladies.

3. Minorities in Books
Gypsies, Roma, Contemporary Authors Also books about the groups, "Bury Me Standing" by Isabel Fonseca; "Zoli" by Colum McCann

4. Jewish faith, authors, in books
James Joyce, Ulysses, On Bloomsday
Citizen Questioning Bloodshed: Isaac Bashevis Singer

5. Minorities in Music
Placeholders, Work in Progress, "Buika" and Fusion Music
Roma composers

Gypsy Harps, group and street musicians also from the Zoli book, section "Slovakia 2003" there. The Roma harps were huge - the Roma would bury them in the woods so they would not be confiscated.

6. Roma in Film, Poetry
Roma, Romani in film Find talent in this persecuted minority. Resilience.
Poetry; Whole or Bits
Poetry, are these from Papusza or Zoli? Arts among the Roma. Poem forms.

7. Are soldiers a minority? Yes. Read the WWI legacy in poetry.
War Poets. Poetry from the Trenches. World War I.

8. Elections redefine minorities.
Haiku's Fifth Season: Election Season. Time to update the seasons for "traditional" haiku theme.

9. Painting - an individual who strived
Artist, Hermann Dahl. Odessa, DE. Multi-media.1960's-1980's

10. When art is in code.
Ideological Battleground: Sistine Chapel
What are Michelangelo's messages about literalism and scripture; why the anomalies, the insults up there. In a monolithic religious system, how do other messages get out?

Black Madonnas; or Sara la Kali (Gdansk)

2009-06-21T12:09:00.005-04:00

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Black Madonnas: Possible Roma Origin for Some - or Sara La Kali
Patron saint of the Roma, Sara la Kali; or a black madonna. See legend, and painting in Gdansk, Poland, with symbolism

Slavery: Legacy of Slavery. Ubiquitous, Apparently; but resistance to slave recovery differs.

2009-06-21T12:06:00.004-04:00

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Enslavement in Romania, 400 years, Gypsy roots
Populations brought in, sold, remain. Resistance to slave recovery. Continuing stigma because of attributes of skin and heritage, not individual merit.

Wintley Phipps, Baritone and Storyteller, on the Black American Slave. Also a narrative and performance, "Amazing Grace" (context of slavery)

Uncle Remus Tales, Translations
Find surprising assertiveness, resistance to being diminished by a formal status, unyielding backbone in presenting the characters of the Briar Patch community. Compare Disney's pap.

In process: checking our travel sites, see Europe Road Ways, Road Trips, for findings of slavery from Scotland and other enslavement of whites; how the legacy of 300 years of preventing an entire group from accumulating wealth from their own labor, from learning how to manage it, is reflected in our culture today.

When Profit Turns Malignant; Corporate Responsibility

2009-06-21T11:02:00.008-04:00

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Private Sector

Private Sector as Fiduciary to Taxpayers and Consumers.
Why should a nation or globe tolerate a system of bottom line profits to owners of stock, recipients of salaries; if the consumer is deceived, short-shrifted. Apply fiduciary law to dealings between corporations and people.

First Amendment

Pierce the Corporate Veil for Abuses of Free Speech; Impose Fiduciary Duty on Corporate Speakers

Pollution clean-up. Income deferral pending restitution.
Pierce the corporate veil to ensure all uses of corporate funds meet test of business judgment, and not personal goals of directors? For another day.

Debt for corporate pollution clean-up not dischargeable in bankruptcy
Pollution as non-dischargeable. Bankruptry should not discharge pollution clean-up costs.

Busted Pelican Law. Income Deferral During Industry Damage Events.
Income deferral until all pollution damages paid.

Unified media ownership undermines democracy.

Unified Media, Newspaper, TV Ownership Taints Neutrality of News

Anti War-Profiteering Act, Blocked Once.
No war-profiteering. Time to resusicate, reshape its still-viable parts. Creative use of Disgorgement, Claw-Backs.

And its foil: When profit is not the focus, rewards come anyway.

The Elves and the Shoemaker, Grimm
The elves, newly rewarded with clothes for their work in finishing the shoes of the poor shoemaker, took off out the door and were not seen again. The shoemaker and his wife, who had clothed them in thanks, prospered anyway. Give, anyway.

Warfare - Plus ca change. Persuasion, Resistance, Special Forces. Architecture. Greed. Codes, Warriors.

2009-06-21T10:49:00.011-04:00

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Persuasion for the cause
War as a Big Game. Condition the Children. Or is it Necessary?.
Personality types, hard-wiring, conditioning, how much is necessary to counter the pathological haters, and how much can be diminished as to conflict, by training.

War Promotion. Fraud and Deception

Resistance
Czech paratroopers, other resistance, WWII Prague Assassination of Nazi Reinhard Heydrich.
First French Resistor

Special Forces
Hussars, Winged Cavalry, old Poland, other Eastern Europe A/k/a Husaria, Husarz. The frames on the shoulders and backs were lined with feathers that made a hmmmmwhrrr sound as they rode. The sound preceded the sight.

Architecture
Castles: Warfare Learning Tool. Strategy and Murder Holes Any castle will do. Defense and offense. Try Blarney. Liddell Hart's WWI work (uses of indirection; upset the enemy's equilibrium); Bunratty's little staircases in reverse.

Role of Greed in Outcome
Otkell, Son of Skarf, Icelandic Saga. From Burnt Njall's Saga, events 900 AD in Nordic-Viking Iceland, written perhaps 1100 AD. A man whose greed was simply circumvented by the group's inspired leader, a tactic of indirection leading to a better result than confrontation

Warrior Types
Moscow's Black Widows: Female Warrior Tradition, Caucasus.

Uses of Code to Rally Sympaticos
JPMorganChase and Code of the Hand. Don't wage war without codes. Where's the fun?

Politics: Accountability, Abuse of Conscience, Poll Abuse, Uses, Abuses, Courses of Change-Seeking, Change-Opposing

2009-06-21T10:46:00.015-04:00

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1. Political Accountability

Candidate Accountability Requirement: Show Up Unassisted for regularly scheduled News Conferences The Palin Plank.

Primacy of Law over Revelation. Religious revelation to some shall not ground laws for the public. Propose pragmatic secularism for interaction areas among humans and groups; religion and dogma fine for the individual's own life, if he or she chooses.

2. Abuse of Conscience

Conscience vs. Constituency. Lieberman's Law. No legislator shall apply values of his or her own conscience in opposition to the desires of constituents absent full opportunity for discourse and vetting of such in his or her home state or district.

3. Politics and Poll abuse. Polling abuse.

Voter Alienation Syndrome: Discounting the Polls Polls only get the landlined, the willing to talk - small portion of total possible voters.

4. Propaganda techniques

Traditional Scapegoat Hunts - Economic Downturns Find the nearest minority, aim and fire.
New Political Parties

Qualities of Wisdom: Global Wisdom Party Global Wisdom Party. The Qualities of their candidate. There is indeed a collection of attributes that many cultures name as comprising a wise leader.

5. Special interests. Abuse by Cash. Money

The Piggle-Wiggle Congress Cure: Let Consequences Happen; Negotiated Agreements Not Always Best
Let the deal speak for itself, the person remain accountable for language, use of persuasion techniques needed where there is merit, because merit alone speaks softly.

Healthcare Legislative Recusal Time. Financial Interest? De-Weight the Vote
Reduce weight of the legislator's vote depending on what money he/she got from the interested parties. Dangers of secrecy.

Explore Election Finance: Humans Only. Qualified to Vote? You Can Contribute
No more corporate contributions, as "legal persons". For accountability, identification, individuals only. They may name the corporation's interest, but funds are out of individuals' pockets. Raise the issue again. Distinguish Citizens United. Keep at it.

6. Disruptions. Force as abuse of process
Political Disruptive Behavior Disorder Tantrums? Apply the DSM-IV conduct disorder diagnoses, usually applicable to children and teens, to adults.

7. Transparency
C Street. When Congressmen Combine to Espouse Secret Religious Allegiances Superseding the Constitution. Keeping real allegiances secret. Do our beloved politicians do that in order to get and stay elected? Do they? What recourse for voters? Ouster? Transparency alert.

8. Abuse by Privilege
Privilege maintainers vs. Risers up
Sotomajority - Escape from the SO Yessir Corral Privilege Maintainers vs. Secondary Others. Long-corralled Majority for Sotomayor leaps the fence. Reject the new PM pledge.

Table-turning
Spigots in Politics: Waterloos. When the Waterloo-er Predictor becomes the Waterloo-ed. Health reform. Obama as new lion of Waterloo. Heart vs. cold.
Can it last?

Arts - No politics here, just the higher calling of arts

2009-06-21T10:43:00.004-04:00

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Inner Dialogues Re-Joyce Externalized
Omphalos nought not won.

Individual Roma poets, composers, musicians

Lifestyle; Societal Roles. Government impact on lifestyle.

2009-06-20T21:11:00.009-04:00

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Qualities of Wisdom: Global Wisdom Party
Superseding the independents in party identification, enter now the Global Wisdom Party

IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST

Public Interest Battlegrounds: Combining Common Good with Property Rights.
Rights to preserve undeveloped spaces.

THE FEY - Societal roles include the fey. They are always with us.
The Fey. Willing Suspension of Disbelief.
Seers, prophets, sellers of the unbelievable, and people believe.

COMPASSION
Dr. Christianus Christian, caring for 19th C. Swiss cretins

ROMA, GYPSY, ROMANI
Roma: Lifestyle defined by the surrounding State, Nation of others.
The role of the State. See life of the Roma under Communism, and, more positively, in Spain. Effect of halting the caravans.

Romani and Horses: An Ancient Tradition. Halting the caravans, taking away the horses. A lifestyle destroyed.

FINDING EVILDOERS

Same gender, cross-gender

Gender- non-specific lifestyles: marplots, alacrans. Who are the real evildoers
Finding fault. Self-definition, group identification as superior by finding fault with others. Who are the Evildoers. Homosexual, transgender, any value judgments arise in the eye of the beholder. Not the beholded.

Living with other truths subsumed
Livin' A Lie When Appearance is not the reality. Find Lawrence of Arabia. Others with secrets. How they cope.

What is "ordained" or "revealed"; and what is culture. Especially, ordained vs. revealed.
God created independent contractors, not groups, not relationships. Lifestyle as cultural, not necessarily "revealed". Example - Eden: no marriage, no vows, no worship, just folks deceiving each other as usual, taking advantage. Groups: a descent down from original idea.

When "inheritance" and property rights define status: the "illegitimate"

Cut out inheritance as entitlement. A budget saver. Why should people get something for nothing?

Shadow Children: Unsung Backgrounds
Find a long list of those originating, as some say, on the wrong side of the sheets. Did it ultimately matter? No sheet?

Philosophies, Criticism Tools, Education Policy

2009-06-20T14:16:00.003-04:00

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Education Initiative Re Persuasion Techniques Each student to be instructed in propaganda technique, analysis and spotting.

Deconstruction: Finding Evil in Sassafras The process of carving away the extraneous, to test a truth. Deconstruction, Jacques Derrida, to simpler applications.

Concisionism: Finding Evildoers Beware the concision; the mutilating abbreviation of thought, the trawler category sweeping everything into its maw - note, this is not "circumcision" although the words have similarities

Find the Evildoer and All Will Be Well Trace the preoccupation with and definitions of evildoing through the centuries , Oh, the marplots! They're everywhere! They're everywhere!

Rankism; other human hard-wirings. Scapegoats, Targets, Outcastes, outcasting

2009-06-12T21:36:00.013-04:00

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Rankism vs. quiet dignity of place, life with choices.

KNGDV: Woman as Guide in Front. Can or Does the Religious Establishment Re-Read Texts
Rankism and mis-translation. Perpetuate a misconception of the original role of woman: created as guide, in front of. Wolf Pack rules theology, see Dominion: Worst Concept in the World

GYPSIES, ROMA, ROMANI

Roma, Forced Settlement Laws halted the caravans, forced settlement, removed vocations, ghettoized.

Gypsies, Roma in Hungary: Still Targeted

Roma in Slovakia

Roma, History of Persecutions Includes hate crimes, the why. The "justifications"

Poverty. Defenses of Any Underclass. Here, Roma. Extenuating circumstances, poverty, not recognized as a defense to crime. System imposing restrictions, fostering prejudice, will not see it. See parallel, American Blacks.

Contemporary Social, Economic Issues, Gypsies: "Bury Me Standing" "Bury me standing, I've spent my whole life on my knees." Book, Isabel Fonseca. Eastern Europe gypsy culture, experience; other references to culture elsewhere

Cycles of Abuse: Migrations of Roma to Ireland Gypsies, Travelers, Romani. Violence in Belfast against Romanian gypsies, or roma. How will traditional Irish Traveler groups respond to new migrations.

Gypsies, Roma: Literary references

JEWS

Games in Analysis

2009-06-12T21:30:00.002-04:00

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Rock, scissors, paper On terrorism and other issues. Boil down the news.

Tag
Can we monitor children and teach them, as grownups are supposed to, instead of banning their games?

Disclosure, Labeling, Transparency

2009-06-12T21:27:00.000-04:00

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Labeling, Food Industry, FDA KowTow

Funding Under The Table

2009-06-12T20:38:00.000-04:00

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Federalist Society Supports Free Legal Work for What Causes?. Pro bono means legal work without charge for the good of the public. What "public" is the Federalist Society supporting in its alleged pro bono program? Pro Bono Federalissimo Societassis?

Immigration, Migrations - United States Issues, Groups

2009-06-12T20:21:00.007-04:00

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Naming. Migration history in names - Romney, Rom'nie, Gypsy

Border Crossing Records Retained in Federal Registries. When does too much record-keeping threaten the individual. How much "record keeping" of past events is really needed for security. Open issue. United States.

Immigration: The Place of the Tishbite Among Us. As with Elijah, the original Tishbite, the foreigner has something of import to tell us. Add equity: other arguments that immigrants can use in favor of remaining, there has been detrimental reliance, where the State has delayed too long, etc.

Federalist Society Proposes Immigrant Testing on "Federalist Papers" Leave no propaganda opportunity unturned. Quick now. Who remembers what that is? Branding here?

Gypsies, Roma, Blacks, "Moors", Whites, Native Americans - Melungeons
Melungeons as a diverse mix, Appalachia, Southern coastal areas

Immigrants Without Documents: Gypsifying. The New "Gypsy" Target Group America creates new group to treat as gypsies

Migrations, more distant past:
Magyars, Khazars (Central Asia Jewish cultures) Hazars - physical characteristic may include epicanthal fold in Norse blonde children, disappears about age 2, traces of past interminglings?

Travels: Fruits and Follies

2009-05-31T21:56:00.036-04:00

By Dint: Countries in photos with comment

Europe Road Ways - Hub for trips, Dan and sidekick. Background to our ventures. Essentially, improvised on-the-cheap road trips, 14-17 days each, cross borders often, no reservations, just a rental car and two backpacks. And a few maps and guidebooks. No tours. Always a clean, safe place to stay. Plan B: If we get stuck at 8 at night and no place, we plan to go to the nearest police station, introduce ourselves, and ask if we can sleep in the parking lot, and do that. Haven't had to yet, but everybody needs a Plan B. Dan has Down syndrome, is a fine, interesting and fun adult, an adventurous eater, and a great travel boss. When lost, he decides the direction. One parent, one child - try it. Egg each other on. Hope to resume depending on economies, budgets.

Europe Road Ways: Themes - Recurrent ideas and topics that cross boundaries - Black Madonnas, migrations, human coping, The Plague, decorative arts

Europe Road Ways - How We Do It Travel overviews and tips, comprehensive listing of countries

Austria Road Ways - Suddenly, from Croatia heading for Slovakia, the highway sign read, Vienna - 70 km. Who can resist? Just go. Later trip delved seriously into Austria.

Belgium Road Ways - Any country is worth its own trip, but here we saw Belgium as part of a larger venture that started in the Netherlands, then looped down into Belgium and Luxembourg, and back.

Bosnia Road Ways - Bosnia-Herzegovina - Driving in the Herzegovina section is dicey, such as in the return from Montenegro - the Cyrillic alphabet is a huge hurdle. Drive by ouija. It worked. Just took a little longer. In other words, aim for the road looking downhill when there is a choice, if you are heading generally back to Croatia and the coast.

Croatia Road Ways We started at Zagreb, the capital, then went on a series of loops - 1) up to Istria and Trieste, then 2) down the Dalmatian Coast to Bosnia and Montenegro, and back, 3) with another loop to Slovenia, and 4) the west of Croatia and back to Zagreb.

Czech Republic Road Ways - A start at Prague, then south Bratislava, Slovakia; Vienna and Budapest; then more Slovakia and Poland, and back to Czech Republic. We do keep moving here. Hit the bricks, as Dan says.

Denmark Road Ways - Part of a regional trip including Sweden, Northern Germany.

England Road Ways - Part of larger trip including Wales. Follow King Arthur, Robin Hood, Peter Pan, King Harold, and castles, castles

France Road Ways - Northern half, Somme area, Normandy, Loire, down to Dijon or so, Paris. Follow Joan of Arc

Hebrides Road Ways - A ferry ride from Skye to Lewes and Harris, and ferry back farther north back to mainland Scotland. There is a bridge now from Scotland to Skye.

Germany Road Ways
We aimed especially for what used to be East Germany - Wittenberg, Berlin, Dresden. Then looped south and back through Bavaria to Frankfurt. Second trip: Northern Germany, as part of Denmark-Sweden regional trip.

Greece Road Ways - Just keep the back of the guidebook open to the driving signs and you'll do fine. When in doubt, keep in the same direction. No fast turns to get what you see too late is your exit. Magnificent country. Menus: order the fourth thing down. In each category. All delicious.

Hungary Road Ways - Mostly Budapest, So Far Suddenly, from Slovakia, the highway sign read, Budapest, 100 km. Who can resist? Just go. Notify your credit card peeps first so they will accept the bankomats.

Ireland Road Ways - Any country: find a relative who hailed from there, or is buried there, and go find the place. Great goal. See whatever you see on the way. Eat local. Fast food: fries, peas, gravy, in a paper cone.

Italy Road Ways - Long, thin country. Hard to plan a driving loop. Land at Venice, take train (get on and off) to Rome, then to Naples and pick up your rental car there. Then take ferry to Sicily, back to Naples and up the coast looping back to Rome. Second trip: northern Italy as part of regional visit including Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Austria.

Liechtenstein Road Ways - Visit as part of regional trip to Switzerland, Austria, Northern Italy

Luxembourg Road Ways - Get there from Belgium, from the Bulge area, for example. General Patton is buried here.

Montenegro Road Ways - Had been part of the former Yugoslavia, and then part of the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro, now independent. Mountains, skiing, fjords.

The Netherlands Road Ways Plan for tulips. Do a figure 8 - A Bridge Too Far area, then loop south (Belgium, Luxembourg if you have time) then bbe sure to go north across the Alfluitsdyke and back.

Orkney Road Ways - A convenient ferry ride from northeastern Scotland

Poland Road Ways - Part of our Czech Republic, Slovakia trip. We did a horseshoe, right side first going up, round north all the way to Malbork and Gdansk, on the Baltic Sea. The middle area will be a flat "run" but a lovely drive. Back down the left side and cross into Poland near Zakopane from Levoca, Slovakia.. We re-entered the Czech Republic at Kudowa Zdroj.

Romania Road Ways II, Vlad Tepes - This is one of two Romania sites. This one focuses on the Vlad the Impaler sites in Romania. Trip was a circle.

Romania Road Ways I -Distinct regions, as in many countries, so do go north east and northwest, Bucovina and Maramures areas. We did not go over the border to Ukraine. Carpathian Mountains - watch the weather, as the Transfagarasan Pass may be closed for snow, storms. Postings on signs before you get near the mountains.

Scotland Road Ways - With those wonderful full Scots breakfasts (as in Ireland and England), why are people not obese like we are. Glasgow, Campbelltown then loop up and around with Hebrides, Highlands, and Orkey areas; and back to Glasgow. Circle trip. Nessie was to be there at 5 but was a no-show.

Sicily Road Ways Easy to visit as part of a trip to Italy - take the ferry from Naples, for example, to Palermo. Greek temples at Agrigento. Stay at the top of Mt. Etna. Don't miss Erice, on a mountaintop near Trapani. Circle trip, but missed the eastern part. Have to go back. Loved the east-central-northeastern.

Slovakia Road Ways This once was part of the former Czechoslovakia. Plan to see the festival at Bojnice Castle - theater by the young people every year for a week, great food. Go east to Banska Bistrica, Kosice, then loop up east to Spis and Levoca, then cross into Poland to Zakopane (beautiful ski area, year-round mountain hiking resort)

Also find the cities mentioned in the "Zoli" book, at Slovakia, Gypsies: "Zoli" (based on life of singer, Papusza)

Slovenia Road Ways This once was part of the former Yugoslavia. Strong Austrian influence. Alpine looking homes, neat and tidy. Lake Bled.

Spain Road Ways - And Gibraltar Gibraltar is British, but convenient to visit as part of a trip to Spain. Figure 8. Madrid to Pamplona for the bulls, then loop back through La Mancha and Estremadura, south and around to Seville, Ronda, Gibraltar, Cordoba, and up again to Madrid.

Sweden Road Ways Sweden Road Ways as part of Scandinavian trip, Denmark and Northern Germany.

Trieste Road Ways - Italian since WWII Straddles cultures, the Balkan - Slovenia - Croatia, and Italy. Convenient to visit as part of a trip to Croatia. Kayaks downtown. Return through Slovenia.

Wales Road Ways
Castles, castles. Go from Cornwall, England, area, drive north and loop back to England at Manchester in time for the races. Do not mark your parking place by the half-timbered houses nearby. The whole town is.

What War Wrought - Battles, Individuals Who Rise Above, Arts

2009-05-31T21:56:00.032-04:00

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Citizen Questioning Bloodshed: Isaac Bashevis Singer
The tale-teller. Read and reread.

Government as Marketer, Taking Over Lilli Marleen. World War I protest song, "Lilli Marleen", becomes German army marching song, World War II.

Verdun, France, WWI. Trench of Bayonets. Accidents, tragedies other than tactics, of history. A trench collapsed, the line of French soldiers caught in line as they stood, so the story goes, bayonets facing the sky. Still do. Americans built memorial, an open-air structure, tips still show.

Dresden, Germany, and Area Bombing. Retribution, revenge fire-bombing of an entire city with no military significance. Just kill and demoralize. Signs there now: "Dresden Lives."

Unlikely Hartford and Colt Armaments. Recycling opportunity. Old Colt arms factory, and possible reuse as arts colony, studios, residential apartments, other residences. But its second floor faces the freeway....

Big Black Tatras; Official Cars. The notoriety of the vehicles used by the oppressor, the secret police, the ones who carried the powerful, or came to take the less powerful away. The Tatra. World War II. Slovakia. Elsewhere. The Commpany. .

War Poets. Poetry from the Trenches. World War I. See also Ypres, Ieper, Belgium. Soldier poets.

The Enemy Becomes the Economic Desirable. Boche to Bosche. The hated soldier in death; to the newest in kitchen appliances. Cultural short memories. We rely on that?

Plus ca change: PTSD. Post traumatic stress disorder. PTSD. Here, World War I. Poem by Wilfred Gibson, with permission of site. He lived 1872-1962.

The Concept of Mutiny: France, Verdun And other instances, circumstances, surrounding mutiny;

1915 Battle of Loos; Missing. Son of Rudyard Kipling "*** Have you news of my boy, Jack? Not this tide. When d'you think that he'll come back? Not with this wind blowing, And this tide. *** "

Petr Ginz: Places, Lens and Legacy. Places of Petr Ginz. The diary of a boy in Prague during WWII; until his transport to Theresienstadt (Terezin) and then his death at Auschwitz-Birkenau.

Studying War: WWI, WWII, Others - Hub site for the concept. Nature and origins of warfare, other conflict. Roles, hardwired? Is it possible to tame demagoguery and violence, and survive, without becoming a demagogue and violent.

Studying Wars: Mindset, Place and Manner Specific battlegrounds, examples of patterns, aggression and agenda vs. common good, history's unfoldings, internal conflicts. Territory, culture, character.

Wars ongoing, conflict, marginalization

Warfare Against Children What are the roots of such disregard. How we transmit the "glory" of war.

"Facing History and Ourselves" - an Online Curriculum to Counter Hate. Curriculum to focus on the hate crimes of the 20th-21st centuries, including wars, so our children can learn and avoid, we hope. How to apply to urban schools so focused on employment issues.
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Czechoslovakia in the 1930's - Roma. Through a Novel's Eyes ("Zoli") Picture the big black Tatras. This section refers to a portion of the book with this section heading: Czechoslovakia in the 1930's.

Roma: Czechoslovakia under Fascism; also part of the Zoli book section Czechoslovakia 1930's to 1949. The Hlinka Guards.

Mouquet Farm, Somme Area, France Military as fodder, consumer humor - Mouquet Farm became Mucky Farm, the front barely moved for years, tunnels and tunnels. Australian troops.

Ironies; Government Branch Functioning, Rulings

2009-05-31T21:55:00.013-04:00

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Executive Branch

Failure to Vet an Appointee prior to proposed Appointment. This oversight shall be a Class A Felony; such that if embarrassing disclosures are made later, the Appointor goes directly to Jail; or pays a fine, whichever is loudest.

The Legislative Branch

The George Voinovich Unexcused Absence Counts as Pro Rule. An unexcused absence from a roll call results in a Pro vote attributed.

Negotiations tips

Use of the Golden Mean and its Dragon clause in settlements. Good negotiating leaves room for the dragon, and provides for what to do when or if it arrives.

The Judicial Branch

Federalist Society: Activist judges no; activist presidents, yes. Activism by judges is verboten, but expected in the executive, so long as the executive is of a particular party. See use of "white papers" (aptly named) generated to promote positions among the faithful but research-impaired, to provide immediate source material. Why is this a tax-free group? White gets around anything.

Constructive use of judicial dicta

Federalist Society and Judicial Commentary - Garden Variety Dicta becomes Anathema. Why condemn dicta. We expect judges to explain their views in non-binding ways. How else do we move forward with the next case, unless the first is discussed more fully?

Change as part of Executive Branch history

Chester A. Arthur, a president who improved in office Surprise. From patronage to reformer. He set aside his prior history of nepotism and did the right thing.

Molding: Organizations, Tales, Techniques. Cultures, Sub-Cultures, Shaping People

2009-05-31T21:55:00.005-04:00

Uncle Remus Tales, Translations - Informal translations of the stories into more traditional spoken English, with references and footnotes. No substitute for dialect. Go back to it and read it aloud. Get the sound in your ear.

Migratory Patterns of Cultural Tales - Stories change change over time, pulled by cultural values. Where did the strong little girls go, until Disneyed to death. Fairy tales, Faerie Tales. The Fey. Archetypes. Meet them again. Red Riding Hood the vivisectionist? Mostly secular, some religious stories.

Vetting Roots. By the Heater. Martin Luther's Stove. Find original texts in transliterations. Mythological roots. Or ambiguity, inconsistency. Close readings. Then see ideologies get to work: add this, omit that, downplay the other thing, change meaning. Ideas squashed by systems. Sausage into casings.

Heaters in Intellectual Life - Individuals and Groups, Some Forgotten

2009-05-31T21:52:00.003-04:00

Bogomilia, Site for the Unsung Because we forget.

Vetting Roots, By the Heater. Martin Luther's Stove Early post look-ups about use of the heater, the stove, the fire pit, as references in religious and other stories. Transmitting tales. Without a place for warm gathering, how could stories be passed on, memorized. Did the Renaissance really bloom when it did, because somebody spread the idea of central heating? Ducts, pipes, big tiled stoves in the rooms. How creative can you be when you are fed and warm?

Trompe News - DSM Diagnoses Aggression

2009-05-28T16:31:00.001-04:00

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DSM IV. Aggression as Mental Disorder
Fake news here. Duh. What would happen if the fabled, worshipped, also bunked Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders should includes Aggression as a mental illness. Just think of the marketing opportunities for antidotes to aggression's behaviorally addictive qualities. Trompe news: think of all that air going 'round and 'round in the proverbially trumpet. More air.

Need to Know - Huswifery and Thanksgiving and Two Turkeys

2009-05-28T16:26:00.001-04:00

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How to Cook Two Turkeys in One Ordinary Oven.
This Thanksgiving is stacked. Pile two turkeys in one. It can be done. Foodies. Unite. Thanksgiving doup de familie.

Family Planning: Uses of Sassafras. Is that it?

2009-05-28T16:14:00.001-04:00

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How does evildoing figure with sassafras?.
Sassafras as a family planning tool. Nemenhah. Poem by Marge Piercy, a tribute.

Is Safrole Banned Because It Could Be Used as an Abortifacient? Has been for centuries.

Religious Text Analysis, Tools

2009-05-28T14:36:00.005-04:00

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Creation

Creation: How did Evil originate? Not with Eve
A small play that Eden as spun did not see play, but you may.

Translation, Transliteration, what origins of what concepts, and were they agenda-driven? Silly question, Ben.

Context
Mithraism, Religion of Rome and Paul
And roots of the Roman Catholic branch of Christianity.

Characters: Tracing Fact from Elaboration
Sara la Kali, Sara the Black, Roma Saint

Explanations, file under Other

Pantera (Tiberius Julius Abdes Pantera), and Religious Tradition
A persistent but speculative secular explanation for events many see as divine. Keep an open mind, now. Often the simplest is so, rather than the convoluted compled; and need not affect other matters.

KNGDV. Tainted Founts

Migrations, Immigration, Emigration, Exploration. Europe. Global issues, newcomers

2009-05-26T16:39:00.011-04:00

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Myth or real? Migration of Swedish forbears from Caucasus to Sweden, Sigge Fridulfson

Current issues, Migrations: Economic Conditions Follow gypsy migrations from the east to the British Isles, to the US and elsewhere; ongoing; reasons.

Roma groups in Europe: self-identifications, languages, subgroups, specific skill groups, niche

Sassafras in Georgia, Moravian, Jewish migrants Uses of and trade in sassafras. Dr. Samuel Nunez, 18th Century.

Governments; Governing; News Control, Transparency in Reporting

2009-05-25T18:25:00.012-04:00

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Governing is like a bad divorce: both sides tilting Need for neutral fact-finding Install a neutral moderator in legislative committees (not at hearings) to facilitate discussion in partisan times, and ensure all positions are aired objectively at that stage.

Disclose nature of the reporting: interest, bias, financial stake

Disclosure of Financial Stake by News Purveyor or Owner of Media as to Legislation Under Discussion. Requirements for those reporting on governing. The more financial interest the purveyor or owner of the media has in the law, the more the broadcast or other dissemination shall be labeled as propaganda, such rating to be displayed to the public simultaneously with the airing or waving.

The Truth in News Sources Act.
Disclosure shall be required as to the source of news by name of overall owning conglomerate, not merely the name of the newspaper. That is, the same conglomerate may send out its news to seven papers it owns, and people think that is original source. Not.

NATURE OF GOVERNMENTS

Similarity: Sassafras and Governments: Varied at the bottom, sameness at the top.
Those who rise to the top get to look alike. Like dog owners.

GOVERNING SKILLS

Uses of Reverse. Can We Teach It?
Governing skills. People who govern need to know how to drive in reverse sometimes

Who Will Bell the Cat - Piers Plowman. In the 1377 English poetry version by William Langtrey, the council mouse found that no mouse was man enough to bell the cat, as Aesop had originally told. However, Piers goes further: What would have happened if the cat indeed had been belled.... as the mice first wanted. Would it have been worse? Watch what you seek.

FOOLING THE PEOPLE AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE

Propaganda in governing: euphemism, unwarranted extrapolation

FOSTERING PATRIOTISM

Child's Tale: Pledge of Allegiance and the Common Good We knew a piece had been left out.

NEED FOR SUNSET LAWS; ACCOUNTABILITY

Group formation; sunset laws, foundationalism
Political Parties: Who Needs Them After They Calcify. Sunset out the names every 16 years. Everybody rethink who to vote for. Platforms may grab planks from prior party designation.

Justice; Law Enforcement; Civil Justice; Criminal Justice

2009-05-24T19:02:00.012-04:00

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Promoting decorum in debate
Debatus Interruptus, Khalid's Law. Guantamee's behavior at their trials, if disruptive, shall only be criticized by those who did not condone such behavior by our own Tea and other residents, reference Summer of 2009.

Religious views to be excluded from reasons for proposed legislation

JC (Jesus Christ for those who prefer full names) Tradition of Autonomy for All, Voluntary Compliance. Let Those leave who want to, Peeps in Pulpit and Pew Autonomy in personal life over rules, so long as the personal or property rights of individual other residents are not impinged. Try pragmatic secularism in matters affecting others, the community.

Civil Justice and procedure

Parking Lot Attack Light Property Tax Abatement.
Public area design should not sabotage the ordinary user.

Jurisprurience and Strip Searches of Girls.
School days, school daze, fantasize with ghouls days.

No Senate Filibuster Unless Supreme Court Enacts Similar Provision for Its Proceedings
Criminal Justice and procedure

Police Reports: Criteria for Taint. The Cambridge police arrest of the Harvard professor for in-home lippiness against the police officer.

Oaths. Worth Anything? What Else?

Religious and other oaths; Holocausts, Bad Actors. Oaths are a hoax. Do Oaths alter behavior; or does self-interest, institutional interest, prevail.

Leadership - Qualities. Go Ahead. Change your Mind. Things Change.

2009-05-24T19:01:00.005-04:00

True leaders are flexible as contexts change.

State of the Union: Hamlet's Soliloquy on Burdens of Choice in Action. The President's Speech. Follow President Obama's rehearsal in the Oval Office for the State of the Union Address, with his special Speech Coach. Matters of pitch and moment. King Claudius begins with the upper hand in persuasion; Hamlet believes he has the merit, but how to proceed. O, Fardels!

Uses of Reverse. How to Teach It. Can We?.
If you can't shift into reverse, don't drive. Productive uses of Reverse.

Chester A. Arthur, a president who improved in office
From patronage to reformer. He set aside his prior history of nepotism and did the right thing.

Nature. Defenses against encroachment. Sassafras, Ginkgo

2009-05-24T11:02:00.005-04:00

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Sassafras

Allelopathy as a Defense, and Offense.
Learn from sassafras: Some plants prevent others from thriving in their shadow; make potential diners on their root, bark, leaf, sicken. Allelopathy.

Why did the Sassafras Survive - usefulness, fits the food chain, venerated
Its allelopathy enabled it to survive, fill gaps in the food chain. Allelopathy prevents omni-greed; allelopathy is contained.

Ginkgo

Ginkgo in Japan and Korea.
The ginkgo survived at Hiroshima. See Ginkgo, Plant with History. Is it resistant to radioactivity. Some say it speaks.

Ginkgo, Male or Female. Know Which.
Pick before you plant, lest the fruits overwhelm.
Medicinal uses of ginkgo, sources.

Cultures, Religions. Cross-Pollinating Spirituality.

2009-05-24T10:57:00.011-04:00

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NATIVE AMERICAN - I Sing a Song of Sitting Bull. Buffalo Totem.
Put essential points of the life of Sitting Bull, who defeated Custer at Little Big Horn, and in defense of lands granted to the Indians through the Treaty of Laramie. Buffalo totem: follow the footnote

NATIONAL

Afghanistan: How to Learn. Self-Help

ETHNIC

Andaman Water Gypsies "Sea gypsies", Myanmar

"Gyptians" as Gypsies, origins Historical and legendary John Faa, origin of Samoyed dog, migrating groups, steppes; cultural-ethnic mix with indo-gypsies? "Golden Compass" film cultural references, pop culture.

Magyars, Khazars (Central Asia Jewish cultures) Hazars - physical characteristic may include epicanthal fold in Norse blonde children, disappears about age 2, traces of past interminglings?

RELIGIOUS

PROTESTANT

EASTERN ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN

ROMAN CATHOLIC CHRISTIAN

JUDAISM

ISLAM - a best effort at learning more here. Did we get it right?

Historical Islam, Pre-Islam, Women and Roles Hind bint Rabi'a, others. The Historian vs. the Persuader.

DRUIDISM

Sassafras - Widespread Use, Veneration: Druids, Native Americans

GYPSY, ROMA, ROMANI

Roma, popular culture vs. cultural belief Find universal concepts such as shamans, daemons, other guides. Reference: Hollywood picks up some at "Golden Compass" film. This site also references Native American, Judeo-Christian, Greek and other demons ideas in other belief systems.

MITHRAISM
Mithraism, Religion of Rome and Paul

Journalism - National Broadband, expand access to Cable, Pulp. Ranking for Content

2009-05-24T10:41:00.006-04:00

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Ranking for Journalism forms. Promote national broadband, expand access to cable, pulp dissemination of objective information. Is there such a thing as "objective" information? What to include, exclude. Do we die of partisanship, as they say Romans died of lead poisoning in their wine chalices? Aargh.

Federal Journalism Content Classification Commission: Disclose Degrees of Fact; Reward Fact-Based Incentivize a form of journalism that relies on fact, not bombast. Rank content to separate opinion and fantasy from objective information; offer rewards to incentivize reliance on fact, not bombast or voyeurs

Need for national broadband and all access to objective information:

Voter Online Access Debated
Why not support FCC relaxing common ownership of media rules. Let people have online access for independent researching. How else to self-educate? Not so. Why not? Who are they kidding about whose interests are served?

National Broadband: Neshama and Open Access.
A pollination issue. How to transmit information from and to the financially challenged, or in remote areas. Oppose charges for information and access. Compensate those who create works other than by fees to the individual clicker. Wire the country. Broad information is in the national interest. Wealth and location: no corner on wisdom.

PAPER MEDIA TROUBLES. Stealth persuasion.

Outing the Stealth Persuaders: Subscribe Elsewhere
Paper journalism financial problems as largely self-inflicted; increased ideology promotion (by the profit-focused), diminished news promotion in the public interest, separating neutral, more comprehensive news from opinion.

Newspapers as Educators: Common Law Justice, Terminology.

FACT-LESS OPINION SUBSTITUTING FOR "NEWS"

Opinion Implants in News Slots :
Tainted "journalism". Fact-less media news, focuses on churning opinions without laying out what facts are relied upon. Weasel words about "some people think...."

Churning, repeating what others are reported to say: Why not penalize opinions that do not lay out their fact? What is the grounding?

Commerce, Role of Profit

2009-05-24T07:00:00.001-04:00

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War Profiteering - Resuscitate the blocked legislation against?
Why allow war profiteering? Repeat. Why allow war profiteering?

Education in Consumer Matters, Butchering, Propaganda Analysis, Education Itself, Prop

2009-05-23T21:10:00.007-04:00

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Education initiative in consumer information dissemination

United for Life. Decency in Butchering.
Purveyors of meat products shall display videos of the corraling and rendering of such life dead or nearly dead before further processing, at the place of purchase.

Education Initiative: Persuasion Technique Spotting and Countering At each grade level, training in spotting propaganda techniques in advertising and any area of sales, including politics

Jan Amos Komensky, The Teacher of Nations Czech philosopher, educator, 18th Century. Roots for Montessori - teach so children have fun. Make it natural. A/k/a Comenius. Check different Czech spellings for any name.

Public and Consumer Education Shall Include Propaganda Analysis. See 1937 Institute for Propaganda Analysis, see www.propagandacritic.com.

National Endowment for the Humanities resource
Donate. Now. Saith the bard.

Facing History and Ourselves, Curriculum Developers for a "humane, informed citizenry".
Brutality wins in the short run, kill the humanity in the human in the long run

Montessori for Grown-Ups. The Absorbent Mind.
Let the child learn, offer environments, guide, keep safe, keep out of the way. Education for independence and creativity and self-reliance.

"Facing History and Ourselves" - an Online Curriculum to Counter Hate.
Educate against hate. Curriculum to focus on the hate crimes of the 20th-21st centuries, including wars, so our children can learn and avoid, we hope. How to apply to urban schools so focused on employment issues.

Tax - Issues. Who is fiduciary; what is charity; why not favor repairs, exemptions

2009-05-23T21:04:00.006-04:00

Government as Fiduciary. Review tax exemptions. Need tax overhaul.

Government As Fiduciary for Taxpayer Funds. This means fiduciary obligations and disclosures to taxpayers in all matters.

Supporting the tax deduction for charitable giving.
Criteria for tax deduction / exemption for a donor's charitable giving. Service as well as bucks required.

Relief to modest home dwellers.
Primary Residence To Be Exempt from Property Tax to Assessed Value $350,000. This frees up community money to be spent more widely, and enables ordinary folk to stay in their homes.

Give a deduction for ordinary repairs.
Home Improvement Tax Deduction for Day-to-Day Repairs This provision does not necessarily add to the market value of the home, but the deduction here improves the after-tax disposable income of the homeowner who engages in repairs, much needed in the economy.

Need overhaul. Too convoluted and the middle spine, holding up the country, loses.

Science , Food Supply, Health - Issues

2009-05-23T18:50:00.008-04:00

LABELING

Sassafras and health, with common sense. Information, not ban.

Sassafras, Modern Casualty of Labeling
Evildoing as a label varies with the centuries. Sometimes, like an old lighthouse, the old purpose of the thing is long gone. See Urk.

FOOD SAFETY

Bee Sniff Test To Determine Marketability of Genetically Modified Crops. If bees won't pollinate, the stuff stays off the shelves.

Allelopathy. Concept Gap in the Lab. Sassafras.
Rats. Rodents. "Allergic" to sassafras anyway. The Sassafras Defense against being eaten. Why use rats to test safety of sassafras as to humans? A root beer site.

Thanksgiving Dinner With Featured Carcinogens. t
All that we eat that also contains safrole, and the FDA just leans back and burps. Serve cancer with Thanksgiving

TESTING PROCEDURES

FDA, Flawed Testing, Sassafras, Allelopathy
FDA uses flawed carcinogen testing procedures: ignores the science of allelopathy in coming to conclusions

Fear of Fair Testing. Safrole and Industry Marketing Interests.
FDA use of rats to test safrole, where safrole is a rodent-repellent to begin with, plus the overdosing of it, skews results. Creates the crime. Like "entrapment", perhaps. Whose interests are served if safrole is banned? Industry substitute-makers?

FDA - Abuse of Process
Unwarranted extrapolation.

FDA Permits No Appeal; Ask Politely.
Without an appeal process, we are left with the polite request to reconsider.

FDA used selected anecdotal evidence.
No human testing at all? Just somebody's anecdotes and then the ban? Fie. Glittering generalities make propaganda, not science.

FDA misuse of doses, solubility, nature of test animal, questionable jurisdiction of FDA and gossip as to sassafras
Are we serious about taking the FDA seriously? Maybe now, with a change of administration. Is that so or a pipedream?

NUTRITION, HEALING

Natural or Synthetic; Six of One?.
Without equal testing, who is to say that the injected or pilled lab variety equals the outdoors grown plant extract?

National Interest - Issues; News, Opinion

2009-05-23T18:29:00.010-04:00

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Guantanamo Inmates to Texas by Eminent Domain

Guantanamees to Crawford Texas by Eminent Domain
Eminent domain and Guantanamo. A constructive reversion by deed results with property previously used for White House purposes is sold; a subsequent White House can re-enter.

THE UNIVERSALLY ACCEPTABLE FACT CHECK
Fact Check Channel, Broadband, Net, To be Available 24/7
Any functioning democracy requires an educated, analytical citizenry.

RECORDS RETENTION
Government to retain records for 40 years.
Fine. Who has access during that time, for what purposes, how to monitor, prevent abuse - can't even keep social security records out of prying eyes.

UNLIMITED SURVEILLANCE
Playing at Colisseum: All Aspects of Every Life On View.
Cameras, required hard-drive sign-ins. Then isolate something, blow it up, and see the person shrivel, rightfully or not. True or false?

Library Exposure Week: No Privacy in Some Libraries.
Library surveillance. Pick your library with care. Some don't care about you. How can you be an eloper if your disgruntled ex-boyfriend can track the plans you are making with the elopee?

IMMIGRATION - IMMIGRANTS - REFUGEES. Understanding of

Immigration History in Mortar

PATRIOTISM

Phrygian Cap to symbolize the Five Freedoms Franklin D. Roosevelt's original 4 Freedoms: to speech and expression, to worship, from want, from fear [Is Mr. Cheney paying attention?]. Add 5th - freedom from secrecy, misstatement, deception or exploitation for the profit of another

ENVIRONMENT

Resident Dumping Banned from PublicTrailside View.

Seven Hardwoods Per Acre Real Estate Development Act

FDA Bans Vitriol; Nation in Withdrawal. The national climate is at stake.

IMMIGRATION

Red Card Shall Establish Interim Temporary Residence Authorization, For Otherwise Undocumented Immigrants Pending Resolution of Immigration Status, Issuance of Green Card.
Interim residence red card.

Foreign Relations - Process - Index proposing Mediation

2009-05-22T21:39:00.002-04:00

By Dint:

Preconditions for Mediation in dispute resolution.
Recommendation for mediation - full disclosure before mediation. Require absolute disclosure of relevant facts, and restoration of status quo ante, before process begins

Rights - Personal and Governmental; Corporate, Constitutional - Index

2009-05-22T07:28:00.007-04:00

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SPEECH
Political Speech Shall Be Deemed Equivalent to Commercial Speech This establishes that politics is sales, and provides some protection for the purchaser.

Where there is a conflict between interpretation of speech in politics as commercial or subject to fiduciary duty, see Fiduciary Standard of Care Applicable in All Consumer, Voter, Investor Relationships, the fiduciary standard, as providing more protection, shall control.

CORPORATE
The Bill of Rights Shall Protect Only Human Persons; Not Corporations.
Bill of Rights protects bodied persons not legal persons. A corporation may only enjoy Bill of Rights protection if the Board of Directors, shareholders, and all employed by the corporation assume personal responsibility (no "corporate veil") as to acts of the Corporation. See also Bill of Rights (including free speech) applies to We The People.

With Citizens United, this may take a new case: one to pierce the corporate veil if directors' disposition of corporate funds is contrary to the business judgment rule (which is very broad and slippery) and serves more the director's or directors' personal goals, just couched as corporate.

PERSONAL
Family Matters Privacy

COMMERCIAL, POLITICAL
An Act Establishing the Fiduciary Standard, Governmental, Private, Commercial, All Contractual Obligations.
Why should the fiduciary standard, a legal standard, not apply to government and contracts where the public good is at stake or fair dealing. Would this target venality at least a little? Corruption. How else to get at it.

Cultural, Relationship, Morality, Child-Rearing Issues - Index

2009-05-22T06:44:00.009-04:00

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WELFARE and the morality of the decider deciding everyone else's morality

Welfare Redefined to include All that One Receives in order to Fare Well.
Welfare includes statutory provisions favoring all "freebies" including tax-exempt inheritances and tax tweaks thereof, deductions, subsidies, anything received as a perk. This is to re-set the concept from its current level casting aspersions on those in "need." We all get welfare.

ABORTION

Primacy of Law over Any Group's Claimed Revelation Source: Proposed Legislation

CHILD-REARING

Car Seat Abuse: Overuse of Child Restraints Outside the Car.

Jan Amos Komensky, The Teacher of Nations Czech philosopher, educator, 18th Century. Roots for Montessori - teach so children have fun. Make it natural. A/k/a Comenius. Check different Czech spellings for any name.

MARRIAGE, CIVIL UNION, HOOKING UP

Definitions: Civil Marriage, Religious Marriage

Uncondomized Activities Prevention Act

UNDERSTANDING KINDS OF PEOPLE
Good Group Dies for Inefficiency: Web vs. Linear Thought. The Selfish Gene, book by Richard Dawkins 1989 - there is altruism hard-wired, would you believe.

Propaganda Techniques, Communications, Persuasion, Psy Ops, Disinformaton; and Information

2009-05-21T18:31:00.025-04:00

When Roots of Belief are Propaganda. Hitler's Power Playbook. Goes to Washington. By Dint

PSY OPS IN MEDIA AND POLITICS - Psychological Operations, from Military and Diplomatic, to Political, Guerrilla, Militia, Gun Owners

Studying Wars: Wars for the Mind. Psy Ops Coming At You Population viewpoint control. Psychological Operations as persuasion without reference to merits.

Psy Ops for Everyman. Sabotage a Government. Nate Rudy Gets a Handbook. CIA Manual
Psychological Operations tactics go mainstream; arms training manual, guerrilla tactics to insinuate saboteurs into the population.

Fodder Site: Democracy's Pitfall Dug by Psy Ops in Politics. Part II
Psy ops in political operatives. Avoid debate on the meritsl

Fodder Site: Democracy's Pitfall Dug by Psy Ops in Media. Part I
Media news coverage lets psy ops in without comment.

Bellwether Haiku: The President's Speech Rehearsal, Hamlet's Soliloquy Redux
A President's practice session, and internal debate about the difficulties of choice. The Soliloquy and the Speech Coach. Fardels.

OPINIONS use and abuse

Opinions over wars. Analytical Tools of Gates-Crowley Cultural Opinion Groups.
Opinions as weapon, as propaganda tool. When the report is by one of the actors. Here, skepticism over a police report concerning the arrest of Harvard professor who was treated as a hoodlum in trying to get into his own house.

GROUP COMMUNICATIONS

Gypsies, Roma: Use of Runes in the Woods.
Finding your way, who else was there. Look to the trees.

MEDIA "FREE" REPETITION OF CANDIDATE ADS TO BE CONSIDERED A POLITICAL CONTRIBUTION

Repeat ads is a campaign contribution.

Media Shall Not Proliferate Candidate Advertising as "News".
Repeat ads on media "for free" shall be treated for tax purposes as campaign contribution. Media repetition of candidate ads, without contractual purchase of time as an ad, shall be deemed to be a political gift where the exposure exceeds a single still-frame or a single 5 second snippet.

PROPAGANDA TECHNIQUES

Government as Marketer, German WWII, Nuremberg Stadium
Hitler's presentations before the crowds. The spectacles.

Propaganda InRoad. The 1920's Speak. Adolf Hitler and Others Look at Today's Minions
What was in the water in the 1920's? Watch communications "Greats" look at a minion doing the bidding of covert propagandists today, Adriana Inman and FreedomWorks.

When Roots of Belief are Propaganda. Hitler's Playbook. Goes to Washington.
Discussion of the propaganda steps of the 1925 Mein Kampf, Chapter Vi, Propaganda. And use of the techniques today.

Hitler by Paraphrase. Examine Mein Kampf. Unser Kampf: Our Struggle
Chapter VI of Mein Kampf. Take it sentence by sentence. What did Hitler say? If we read it closely today, will we be better able to spot his ideas under the radar now?

Media Complicit in Spreading Propaganda by Refusing to Call It Out
CBS, MSNBC, CNN, PBS, NBC, act as conduits for propaganda, channeling it without critique. Why? Do the owners want it that way?

Edward Bernays and the Engineering of Consent. Three ways to persuade: technique in delivery, spin in interpretation, and persistence.

Edward Bernays, "The Science of Ballyhoo"
Focus attention and then shape behavior. Get their attention, readied, primed for persuasion, focused. Second zoom in with your great logical explanation! Repeat! Emote! There! Got 'em. Woodrow Wilson's Committee on Public Information (WWI)

Edward Bernays: Persuasion as to the Distasteful (theories in practice) The chaos of public opinion is to be scientifically manipulated.

Mother of All Labeling Matches: Civil and Military
Iraq. Labeling as propaganda. Convince as to a label, and the consequences flow, regardless of truth. Institute for Propaganda Analysis.

Hyper-Negative Labeling: Gingrich, GOPAC
Even you can memorize the spin words, the positive and the negative, to show off to your friends and beat up on your enemies. GOPAC. List here.

Rovism: Persuasion Focusing Techniques. Fact-Avoidance

FUD as propaganda technique

FUD and Gene Amdahl, IBM's Propaganda Target.
See IBM's successful Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt (FUD) propaganda model, used against a competitor's excellent computer product. Amdahl recently died, 2009 . FUD= this has been the rule for marketing and politics to defeat someone without providing a better alternative.

DISTRACTION AND DISPLACEMENT

Jack the Giant Killer on St. Michael's Mount
Distract, divert, overcome the old tradition with the Christian overlay. Presto conversion.

OTHER PROPAGANDA TECHNIQUES

Euphemism, Unwarranted Extrapolation: Food Insecurity instead of Hunger.
Agriculture Dept. use of propaganda techniques, euphemism, unwarranted extrapolation

Federalist Society, Use of White Papers to Persuade under Guise of Issue Education
Propaganda: persuasion unawares; malicious use of "authority"

DISINFORMATION as PROPAGANDA

Theft of Consent, an Impeachable Offense.
Proposed legislation

Navigation, Scope of Cultural Tales Site: Cultural Filters Distort

PERPETUATING PROPAGANDA

The Big Grip: Sunset Provisions vs. Group Perpetuation,
Edwin Bernays' propaganda techniques, developed and applied for emergency (WWI), become our national handbook for marketing anything. Need sunset provisions to rein in groups using it.

DEFINITIONS OF TERMS
Glossary: Terms
Terms appearing herein with an asterisk * signifies a definition at this location.

NEWS DISCLOSURES

Required Fact Disclosures by Purveyors of News Products

Requirement for Fact Disclosure Shall Not Violate First Amendment, Prior Restraint.

Force - Uses and Abuses; Torture

2009-05-21T16:16:00.006-04:00

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TORTURE

Petr Ginz, Heightened Awareness of Torture
Value of reading a WWII Prague child's diary prior to his transport to Terezin (Theresienstadt) and then Auschwitz-Birkenau

Roles: Punisher, Enforcer, Harpy Could we have wars if there were not people willing to take on the role of forcer, enforcer. What is the draw. Are we they.

ALTERNATIVES TO PAIN INFLICTION

Narcoanalysis as truth serum: MDMA or traditional hospitable sassafras?
Sassafras - direct use or derivatives; use as truth serum? See also MDMA, Safrole as Nature's Truth Serum

FACILITATORS
Testosterone Marching. Steroids. Brain death with excess testosterone (study), other sources. Addictive?

ENTITLEMENTS
Ethics in Pain Infliction, Animals. Who is entitled to inflict pain and death on others for other than getting needed food? On what ground?

Books - Index of favorites, roughly. An ongoing project.

2009-05-21T16:03:00.011-04:00

WORLD WAR II

The Holocaust:

Rabbi Shmuel ben David of "Isaac's Torah" A friend of the main character in the book, who is also caught in decades changing times, including the Holocaust. Discussions with the Rabbi - includes the Idea, vs. the later System implementing it, and becoming more focused on its own (the System's) survival than the Idea.

The Seventh Well,
by Fred Wander, accounts of life in various concentration camps, including Buchenwald, see ://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/20/books/review/Hoffman-t.html

The Diary of Petr Ginz 1941-1942, edited by his sister, Chava Pressburger, see ://www.groveatlantic.com/grove/bin/wc.dll?groveproc~genauth~5238~0/ and Petr Ginz, Places, Lens and Legacy, Acknowledgement; Petr Ginz, Places, Lens and Legacy.

HUMANS

The Selfish Gene, book by Richard Dawkins 1989 - See ://www.simonyi.ox.ac.uk/dawkins/WorldOfDawkins-archive/Dawkins/Work/Books/selfish.shtml/ There is altruism hard-wired, would you believe.

GYPSIES, ROMA

John Updike, "Drawn to Gypsies: Six Years in the South of France"

"Zoli" by Colum McCann, Random House 2007; based loosely on the life of Papusza, a gypsy singer who was shunned by the community for her work, and lived in Slovakia, before and during the time of the Fascists. See Reviews of "Zoli"

Jewish History - Index

2009-05-21T16:02:00.002-04:00

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DISRAELI - Benjamin Disraeli, 19th Century Twice Prime Minister, Britain; and Dark Horse Family migrated probably from Spain, Jewish heritage, Mr. Disraeli became Episcopalian. Diaspora roots.

Petr Ginz, Prague, Jewish Quarter

Petr Ginz, When Your Roots are Mischling

Films - Index. Get a flick

2009-05-21T15:57:00.005-04:00

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Petr Ginz, "Operation Daybreak" - assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, Prague, WWII;
event referenced in the child's diary; see also Unlikely Hartford and Colt Armaments. World War II, Assassination of Nazi Reinhard Heydrich, Prague, by Czech Resistance, a Colt used among their weapons. See film, "Operation Daybreak".

Government as Marketer, German WWII, Nuremberg Stadium Hitler's presentations before the crowds. The spectacles. Film: "Triumph of the Will" by Leni Riefenstahl. See Hitler's effect, the display, the heils, in the stadium right here.

World War II, Concentration Camps, Diarists

2009-05-21T15:56:00.007-04:00

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Auschwitz, Poland

Poland Road Ways, Auschwitz Concentration Camp

Buchenwald, Germany

Germany Road Ways, Buchenwald

Jasenovac, Croatia

Croatia Road Ways, Jasenovac Concentration Camp

Mauthausen, Austria

Austria Road Ways, Mauthausen Concentration Camp

Theresienstadt, Terezin, CZ

Places of Petr Ginz, Theresienstadt, or Terezin, CZ

Places of Petr Ginz, Terezin, Stage Play, "Way to Heaven"

Places of Petr Ginz, Auschwitz - Birkenau (Osweicim) Poland

DIARISTS Diarists, WWII

Petr Ginz, Finding Others Who Wrote
Petr Ginz and Anne Frank, Emoting in Diaries

BOOKS - The Seventh Well, by Fred Wander

Religious - Multi - Index

2009-05-21T15:19:00.009-04:00

By Dint:

Religious marriage and Civil marriage defined

Civil and Religious Marriage Defined; with Civil Marriage Controlling as to all Laws

THEORY
Foundationalism: A Backup. Test Belief. Searching For Some Reality At the Inception

FAQ. Who Took Christ Out Of Christian. Original inspired Idea, vs; later System.

BASIC WESTERN CHRISTIANITY-TYPE OR SPINS

Proposed Legislation for Primacy of Law over Revelation
Definitions: Civil Marriage, Religious Marriage

TEXT CRITICISM TOOLS

WESTERN CREATION ISSUES

Sassafras and Choctaw Indian Legend, the Flood. Sassafras raft saves the day.

Seven-Day Edenism Frees Lilith. Genesis I idea of a chronology underlying Creation supersedes Genesis II idea of cultural narrative incorporated in Creation.

MULTI-DEITY RELIGIONS AND WHAT THEY OFFER US

Mithraism: Religion of Rome and Paul's Early Years Exposure

Individuals - Index, History (Pre-20th Century)

2009-05-19T13:59:00.022-04:00

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Domestic
Protest Within Convention: Victorian Marriage. Mary H. Seymour, story in Peterson's Ladies National Magazine 1865.

Politics
Chester A. Arthur, a President Who Changed in Office: From Patronage, to Reformer

Benjamin Disraeli, More to be Known For The dark horse.

Born out of wedlock
Shadow Children - The "Illegitimate"

Health
William Horation Bates, Ophthalmologist, bane of the vision industry

Compassion
Dr. Christianus Christian, caring for 19th C. Swiss cretins

Pre-Christian, Sagas
Otkell, Son of Skarf, Icelandic Saga. From Burnt Njall's Saga, events 900 AD, written perhaps 1100 AD. A man whose greed was simply circumvented by the group's inspired leader, a tactic of indirection leading to a better result than confrontation. Pre-Christian morality

Beowulf: Hwaet! Power of the Written Word
Beowulf, figure in a culture without writing: how much is lost until someone records; how much is lost, changed, when someone does record. Beowulf, Scandinavian, recorded centuries later by proto-Saxon.

BURNT NJALL - Otkell, Son of Skarf, Skarphedinn, Burnt NjalI - Icelandic saga on greed, leadership, human relations before Christianity

Education, Philosophy
COMENIUS - Jan Amos Komensky (Comenius): Educator Valuing, Harnessing Student Enjoyment, "Teacher of Nations"

Religion
Sara la Kali, Sara the Black, Roma Saint

GUGGENBUHL - Dr. Louis Guggenbuhl, Befriender of Cretins, Switzerland

KOMENSKY - Jan Amos Komensky (Comenius): Educator Valuing, Harnessing Student Enjoyment, "Teacher of Nations"

PANTERA - Tiberius Julius Abdes Pantera. Pantera, Speculative Pater of the Son - Traditions that do not go away

PHIPPS - Wintley Phipps, Conjuror of Black Slave Experience through Song, Story behind "Amazing Grace"

SALOME - Beowulf, Alaskans, Salome: Power of the Later Written Word, to Augment, or Distort

SARAH - Sara la Kali, Sarah the Black, Gypsy Patron. And Mithra?

SEYMOUR - Mary H. Seymour, Protester, Victorian Marriage

TILLION - Germaine Tillion, French Sage, Nazi Resistor, Anthropologist, Intellectual

Hermann Dah, Artist, Delaware. Attention deserved

Religion, including speculation
Pantera (Tiberius Julius Abdes Pantera), and Religious Tradition A persistent but speculative secular explanation for events many see as divine. Keep an open mind, now. Often the simplest is so, rather than the convoluted complex; and need not affect other matters.

Education
Jan Amos Komensky, The Teacher of Nations Czech philosopher, educator, 18th Century. Roots for Montessori - teach so children have fun. Make it natural. A/k/a Comenius. Check different Czech spellings for any name.

Political Issues - Index; Political Process

2009-05-19T13:55:00.027-04:00

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The Executive

An Act Moderating Midnight Regulations by Outgoing President. No midnight regulation by an outgoing president signed on or after November 1 of his final year, shall be final until 90 days shall have passed from the time of the successor's inauguration.

PARTIES
Political Parties: Who Needs Them, or These A brief history of R's and D's.

PATRONAGE
Chester A. Arthur, a president who improved in office From patronage to reformer. He set aside his prior history of nepotism and did the right thing.

PHILOSOPHIES
Pragmatism: If It Works, Keep It Up A natural, evolution-based concept: sound policies can be properly fluid over time.

TACTICS
Earmarks, Replevin and Trover. Special interest inroads under the fence? Try Trover. Below the radar? Bonus excesses? Clawback time. Old equity theories: Replevin (for wrongful takings, get it back); or trover (for rightful taking, but wrongfrul conversion to one's own use),

INFORMED LEGISLATURES

Legislation Literacy Requirement for Legislators

FINANCING

Standing to Vote Required for Standing to Contribute. No Contribution Shall Be Made by any entity not qualified to vote, to Any Candidate, Political Party, or Candidate or Party Promotional Group.

Campaign Contributions By Candidate to His or Her Campaign Shall be Deemed "Irrevocable Gifts" and not Loans; and
Candidate Gifts to Own Campaign to be Taxed As Such

Candidates Receiving Public Funds And Who Are Subjected to Swiftboat Tactics [as defined] May Use Private Funds For Countering Such Tactics.

ACCESSIBILITY, ACCOUNTABILITY, DISCLOSURE

Candidate Financial Disclosure To Occur Simultaneous With Declaration of Candidacy

Candidate Accountability, Accessibility Requirements Candidates must be accessible to voters and news media by means of unscripted news conferences and similar means

Pre-emptive Laundry Disclosure Week. Candidates to disclose all personal linen issues in timely and complete manner.

POLITICAL PROCESS
Super-Delegates Shall Be Financially and Beneficially Independent of Any Candidate

GOVERNING

Lobbying Activities Shall Be Conducted Publicly

ACCOUNTABILITY AND FAIR DEALING; ACCOUNTING PRACTICES
Economic Fraud Prevention
Uniform Accountability, Fair Standards Act. Shipwreck Prevention. Too late for this one.
"Welfare" concept to expand to include whatever someone receives free from the government, in any form
Failure to Vet Credentials, Political Felony
Need for Factfinders in Committee

Government as Fiduciary for Taxpayer

Moderation of Presidential Rules-Making Power, "Midnight Regulations" Before Leaving Office

"Welfare" Redefined; Perspectives on American Ubiquitous Giveaways

Cultures, Groups, Western, Central Europe

2009-05-19T13:54:00.025-04:00

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CULTURES WITHOUT WRITING
(until outsiders wrote)
Hwaet! Power of the Written Word. Beowulf; saved by the ABC's Value of cultures who did not, or could not, create their own writing system; how much lost. Aleut, Eskimo, Celts, even Vikings, women's histories

VLACHS - CROSS BORDER, GREECE, EASTERN EUROPE
Vlachs: Gypsy Roots? Or earlier - areas of Roman influence Linguistic roots to Latin, some say. Romania area?

Vlachs: Nomads, Shepherds Gypsy roots; Greek tradition; Romania; enslavement

GYPSY, ROMA

Survey Sites, Roma
Romani law, culture, religion; includes references to Vlachs, as a separate people; and Vlachs (found in Roman old Romania area) speaking Romani. Not clear if the Vlachs speak Romani, suggesting a connection, or a vernacular form of old Latin. Other Roma customs.

Origins, Romani; Myths, Linguistics
Genius of the Survivor - Gypsies, Itinerant, Un-Propertied Rome fell; Gypsies survive. The genius of a targeted culture.
Romney or Cant, Gypsy Language
Bogomils, Deemed "Heretic" and persecuted, thought killed off, by Roman branch of Christianity, Balkans, Bosnia
This group was persecuted by the Roman branch of Christianity, thought killed off. Some traditions remain, it is said, despite the assimilations

POLAND
Hussars, Winged Cavalry, Poland

Khazars, or Hazars, Central, Eastern European Culture

CROATIA
Sinj, Croatia: The 600 Horsemen
Uskoks, Croatia

ASIA, EUROPE, UNITED STATES

Gypsies, Roma, Romani
Includes the "Travelers" of Great Britain, different heritage, language, but similar roots?

Melungeons Cultural, ethnic mix, Appalachia, Southern coastal areas, US

Women's Role, Western Culture
Women Restricted in Civil War to "grieving" Death of Abraham Lincoln - participation of women limited to grieving, see Godey's Lady Book, no discussion of policy, impact.

RESISTANCE - The First French Resistor, An Ordinary Man, On His Own

RESISTANCE - Czech Republic Paratrooper Resistance WWII; assassination of Reynhard Heydrich, Prague

THE IGNORED - Women - Roles Left Out of the Civil War

CULTURES - Gypsies, Roma, Romani

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