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Alan Watt: Which Hollywood Master Wrote Osama -- Final Chapter?

2011-05-04T09:33:00.001-05:00

May 3, 2011
Alan Watt "Cutting Through The Matrix" LIVE on RBN:
Poem Copyright Alan Watt May 3, 2011:

Which Hollywood Master Wrote Osama -- Final Chapter?:
"Has Osama Bin Goldstein Met Final Fate,
Allowing the Masses Two Minutes of Hate?
Been Resurrected Many Times Before,
Will He Return for a Final Encore?
Perpetual War, Plunder and Destruction
Means Psy-Ops P.R. is in Full Production,
Swaying the Taxpayers to Where They're Led,
After Trillions of Dollars to Be Offered a Head,
No More Lives for that Bogeyman Cat
Military Industrial Elites are Grinning --- and Fat"

© Alan Watt May 3, 2011
* Poem & Dialogue Copyrighted Alan Watt - May 3, 2011 (Exempting Music, Literary Quotes, and Callers' Comments)

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Ray LaMontagne - How Come

2010-09-02T08:45:00.001-05:00

People on the street now
Faces long and grim
Souls are feeling heavy
And faith is growing thin
Fears are getting stronger
You can Feel them on the rise
Hopelessness got some by the throat you can see it in their eyes
I said how come
How come
Everybody on a shoestring
Everybody in a hole
Everybody crossing their fingers and toes
Government man spin his politics till he got you pinned
Everybody trying to reach out to each other
But they don't know where to begin
I said how come
I can't tell
the free world
from living hell
I said how come
How come
all I see
is a child of god
in misery
I said how come the pistol now as profit
The bullet some kind of lord and king
But pain is the only promise that this so called savior is going to bring
Love can be a liar
And justice can be a thief
And freedom can be an empty cup from which everybody want to drink
I said how come
I can't tell
the free world
from living hell
I said how come
How come
all i see
is a child of god
in misery
I said how come
Its just man killing man
Killing man
Killing man
Killing man
Killing man
I don't understand
Its just man killing man

To be governed...

2010-07-22T22:33:00.001-05:00

To be GOVERNED is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so. To be GOVERNED is to be at every operation, at every transaction noted, registered, counted, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, prevented, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished. It is, under pretext of public utility, and in the name of the general interest, to be place[d] under contribution, drilled, fleeced, exploited, monopolized, extorted from, squeezed, hoaxed, robbed; then, at the slightest resistance, the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, vilified, harassed, hunted down, abused, clubbed, disarmed, bound, choked, imprisoned, judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed; and to crown all, mocked, ridiculed, derided, outraged, dishonored. That is government; that is its justice; that is its morality.

— PJ Proudhon

The Universal Soldier

2010-07-10T00:18:00.000-05:00

He's five foot-two, and he's six feet-four,
He fights with missiles and with spears.
He's all of thirty-one, and he's only seventeen,
Been a soldier for a thousand years.

He's a Catholic, a Hindu, an Atheist, a Jain,
A Buddhist and a Baptist and a Jew.
And he knows he shouldn't kill,
And he knows he always will,
Kill you for me my friend and me for you.

And he's fighting for Canada,
He's fighting for France,
He's fighting for the USA,
And he's fighting for the Russians,
And he's fighting for Japan,
And he thinks we'll put an end to war this way.

And he's fighting for Democracy,
He's fighting for the Reds,
He says it's for the peace of all.
He's the one who must decide,
Who's to live and who's to die,
And he never sees the writing on the wall.

But without him,
How would Hitler have condemned him at Dachau?
Without him Caesar would have stood alone,
He's the one who gives his body
As a weapon of the war,
And without him all this killing can't go on.

He's the Universal Soldier and he really is to blame,
His orders come from far away no more,
They come from here and there and you and me,
And brothers can't you see,
This is not the way we put the end to war.

Donovan » Universal Soldier Lyrics

It takes courage...

2010-06-25T23:56:00.000-05:00

"When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things."

1 Corinthians 13:11,

Excerpt from "No Foreign Land"

2010-04-29T15:45:00.002-05:00

“Then I took a look around. I saw city halls, courthouses, houses of parliament, churches, schools, and universities by the hundreds and thousands. I saw systems – systems for managing the land, the air, and the water; systems for managing human behavior; systems for managing religion; systems for managing learning; systems for managing food, shelter, clothing; systems for managing love and procreation: a vast complex of carefully engineered systems. I saw millions of people working, not for themselves, but for someone else. I saw millions of people doing, not what they themselves want to do, but what someone else wants them to do. I saw the depressing evidence of a people who have externalized and institutionalized – in fact, have tried to standardize – the very nature of humanity. I saw a whole people who’ve lost the way of life and in its place have built a mechanical monster which does most of their hard work, carries their decisions, says their prayers, transports them, “informs” them, entertains them, and controls the people it serves, absolutely. I also saw that the monster, unable to manage itself, was running wild, totally out of control, ripping the land to pieces, spreading poisons, filling the air with filth, dumping garbage and shit in the rivers and lakes and oceans. I saw all that, and I saw the people, millions of them, crowded together in cities, living side by side in towns, villages, rural areas. But I didn’t see a single community.”

-- Wilfred Pelletier, No Foreign Land: The Biography of a North American Indian

2009-09-18T09:04:00.004-05:00

My mom, a school nurse, writes this little journal every now and then... Here's an entry from Friday, September 18, 2009:

Tell me again why I am a school nurse? “JUNE, JULY and AUGUST.” No sane RN would do this job. It is kind of like having children, no one could prepare you for that long, treacherous journey of birthing them, changing diapers, feeding them in the middle of the night, the terrible two’s, the warm fuzzy moments when they smile at you and your heart immediately melts like marshmallow mush. Not all of us had or have cute children. Some animals eat their young…and that is why if we let them live…they owe us, big time!

Geese Louise; Monday was unbelievably busy. I am trying to stay afloat and they still keep asking for this-is and that’s. You’re killing me.

And then I had to eat humble pie…thought I had done something but didn’t. The wrong person had an A$$ chewing. Humble Pie is good for the soul; keeps me grounded when I have an elevated assumption of myself.

I live in a glass house, I can throw no stones.

All week I have had a heavy heart. I can’t make sense out of this crazy world in which I am finding myself in. It is NOT “Andy of Mayberry” anymore. Maybe it never was.

But I do remember playing outside in the rain, unlocked doors, swimming in the canals, smooching on the levy’s, driving up and down 10^th Street, eating fresh hot corn dogs at Price’s Drive Inn, Bonham’s and Minimax Grocery Stores. I remember how much fun we had going to Klinck’s Drug Store and Hanshaw’s, and having burgers and fries at Faulkners and Mr. Q. All the kid’s in town went roller skating at the Chevy Rink, which was not air conditioned, they just opened the windows and we were fine. We played miniature golf at the Waugh’s on HWY BUS 83, and looked forward to their famous ice cold watermelon. It was common to have your birthday party there. Families loved to swim at the Cascade Pool. The high diving board was a blast. The Cascade Pool seemed so very big, might have been Olympic Sized back then. The deep end and the shallow end were distinctly different. The high dive was the best. Fun filled evenings going to little League ball games, catching the foul ball and receiving a snow cone as the prize. There used to be a small amusement park across from the old McAllen General Hospital, where City Hall stands today. It was a great place to have a birthday party; merry go round, Ferris wheel, little boat rides, a lot of laughter. The Place Theater was a favorite place for families to drop off their kids. A movie ticket cost 35 cents, maybe more to sit in the balcony. Life was simpler then. The lady in the ticket office would not hesitate to call your parents if you misbehaved. Slow pokes and Milk Duds were inexpensive, pickles cost 11 cents. Jones and Jones was known for their Patio Restaurant and style shows and delicious apple dumplings. The Fairway Motel had two swimming pools at either end. If you were one of the lucky kids you could get a burger and fries and charge it to dad. I remember going to church on Sundays, eating family meals, going to my grandmother’s house for holidays and playing with ALL our cousins. There were no cell phones or computers. Ed. Sullivan was our big night to watch TV, the Beatles, Rolling Stones and Elvis were popular then. Every year around Easter you could count on watching The Wizard of OZ. Oh, THAT witch was scary. Playing hide and seek and spotlight outside in the dark, hop scotch, jump rope and jacks kept us occupied. Life was simpler then.

What brought all this on? Revisiting the anniversary of 9/11, the daily news, The 13 year old boy found in a canal, in McAllen. Our school counselor said “no one knew him.” How very sad. Rude and disruptive kids in the classroom.

What is important? Spending time with your family and God. Getting to know your neighbors. Baking a batch of cookies. Walking barefoot in the grass. Have a little fun. Stay in touch with those you love. Make life simpler. Be grateful. Pause more often. Be still in your day. Turn the TV off. Take a walk. Give it all over to God; Repeat if necessary. Notice that there are still parents who care and students that are doing well. There is still goodness in our world. There is.

Swine Flu Links

2009-08-19T21:12:00.003-05:00

"Swine flu jab link to killer nerve disease: Leaked letter reveals concern of neurologists over 25 deaths in America" by Jo Macfarlane (dailymail.co.uk) - Aug. 15, 2009.

"One in three nurses 'do not want swine flu vaccine' " by Owen Bowcott (guardian.co.uk) - Aug. 18, 2009.)

"Diseased African Monkeys Used to Make Swine Flu Vaccines; Private Military Contractor Holds Key Patents" by Mike Adams (naturalnews.com) - Aug. 5, 2009.

For commentary on the above topics, visit Alan Watt's site.

Tuesday, March 24th, Links of the Day

2009-03-24T12:38:00.002-05:00

Border security

Global society

Global currency

Meatless society

Expanding nationalized banks to include non-bank financial companies

A link from yesterday, but still important: Sustainability and population reduction

From the department of potentially dangerous and probably under-planned experiements...

2009-03-23T14:29:00.003-05:00

Is this the first of many silly experiments to come?

Article link

We still have our right to free speech...

2009-03-17T22:49:00.008-05:00

...or do we?

Check out this article from the Wise Up Journal about a man who was arrested for mailing a DVD he produced and narrated to a UK court...

His documentary on YouTube: 7-7 Ripple Effect

Update: Support John Anthony Hill -- Transcript Excerpt from Alan Watt's Show

Tracking Travelers

2009-03-16T23:26:00.005-05:00

I'd rather take my chances on another terrorist attack than be tracked to and from my personal and private destination.

Link: All travel plans to be tracked.

UW-Milwaukee Study Could Realign Climate Change Theory

2009-03-16T16:36:00.009-05:00

Scientists Claim Earth Is Undergoing Natural Climate Shift - a WISN.com news story

Quote from article:

MILWAUKEE -- The bitter cold and record snowfalls from two wicked winters are causing people to ask if the global climate is truly changing.The climate is known to be variable and, in recent years, more scientific thought and research has been focused on the global temperature and how humanity might be influencing it.However, a new study by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee could turn the climate change world upside down.Scientists at the university used a math application known as synchronized chaos and applied it to climate data taken over the past 100 years."Imagine that you have four synchronized swimmers and they are not holding hands and they do their program and everything is fine; now, if they begin to hold hands and hold hands tightly, most likely a slight error will destroy the synchronization. Well, we applied the same analogy to climate," researcher Dr. Anastasios Tsonis said.

Legislation Alert: Food Safety Act

2009-03-14T12:43:00.001-05:00

From my local Farmer’s Market in Austin, TX… Edited only for grammar and spelling…

From Fred & Jackie Pomrenke
Flintrock Hill Farm
Kingsbury, Texas

Friends,

I don’t normally get too worked up about stuff, but if HR 875 & S 425, referred to as “Monsanto’s Dream Bill” (coming out of committee soon and set to fast-track through without debate), are passed we may be well on the way of becoming “Dogs on the short leash of our Government Masters.” While not so evident in Texas, small Farming and small Agribusiness, Farmer’s Markets, etc. are a “Bigger Deal” in other parts of the country. They have been competing successfully in the marketplace and the “big boys” don’t like it. If you are a consumer of food, and who isn’t, then you need to be informed. This will affect some of us much more than others but will affect anyone who eats at some point. They call this a “Food Safety Act,” but it is really a “regulate and harass the little guy out of business act.” This could create trouble even for the Backyard Gardener or anyone who raises food for their own consumption, including raising game animals. This legislation is vague, ultimately resulting in a chosen few controlling the supply. The rest of this email is information I have acquired from other people.

Links:

HR 875 Would Essentially Outlaw Family Farms In The United States

Educating Congress: Do Not Suppress Organic and Small Farmers and Ranchers; Natural Food Products

Didn’t Stalin nationalize farming methods that enabled his administration to gain control over the food supply? Didn’t Stalin use the food to control the people?

HR 875: The food police, criminalizing organic farming and the backyard gardener, and violation of the 10th amendment

HR 875 link: Go to: http://thomas.loc.gov/home/c111query.html and then search for “HR 875.” You should hit on: “Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009 (Introduced in House)” and a temporary link will be provided.

This bill is sitting in committee and I am not sure when it is going to hit the floor. One thing I do know is that very few of the Representatives have read it. As usual they will vote on this based on what someone else is saying. Urge your members to read the legislation and ask for opposition to this devastating legislation. Devastating for everyday folks but great for factory farming ops like Monsanto, ADM, Sodexo, and Tyson to name a few. I have no doubt that this legislation was heavily influenced by lobbyists from huge food producers. This legislation is so broad based that technically someone with a little backyard garden could get fined and have their property seized. It will affect anyone who produces food even if they do not sell but only consume it. It will literally put all independent farmers and food producers out of business due to the huge amounts of money it will take to conform to factory farming methods. If people choose to farm without industry standards such as chemical pesticides and fertilizers they will be subject to a variety of harassment from this completely new agency that has never before existed. That’s right, a whole new government agency is being created just to police food, for our own protection of course.

Do not take my word for it, read this legislation for yourself.

The more people who read this legislation the more insight we are going to get and be able to share. Post your observations and insights below. Urge your members to read this legislation and to oppose the passage of this legislation.

Pay special attention to:

Section 3 which is the definition portion of the bill – read it in its entirety.

Section 103, 206, and 207 – read them in their entirety.

Red flags I found and I am sure there are more:

Legally binds state agriculture departments to enforcing federal guidelines effectively taking away a State’s power to do anything other than being food police for the Federal department.

Effectively criminalizes organic farming but doesn’t actually use the word organic.

Affects anyone growing food even if they are not selling it but consuming it.

Affects anyone producing meat of any kind including wild game.

Legislation is so broad based that every aspect of growing or producing food can be made illegal. There are no specifics which is bizarre considering how long the legislation is.

Section 103 is almost entirely about the administrative aspect of the legislation. It will allow the appointing of officials from the factory farming corporations and lobbyists and classify them as experts and allow them to determine and interpret the legislation. Who do you think they are going to side with?

Section 206 defines what will be considered a food production facility and what will be enforced upon all food production facilities. The wording is so broad based that a backyard gardener could be fined and more.

Section 207 requires that a State’s agriculture department act as the food police and enforce the Federal requirements. This takes away a State’s power and is in violation of the 10th amendment.

There are many more but by the time I got this far in the legislation I was so alarmed that I wanted to bring someone’s attention to it.

I haven’t read any of the Senate’s version of the bill as I have been poring through the House’s version. Here is the link and I hope some of you can take a look and post your observations and insights below. One thing I am pretty sure of is that very few if any Senators have actually read the legislation and when it comes up for a vote they will more than likely take someone else’s word on how they should vote. The other thing I am pretty sure about is that the legislation was probably written by lobbyists and industry experts.

Link to S 425: Go to http://thomas.loc.gov/home/c111query.html and search for “s 425.” You should get the hit “the Food Safety and Tracking Improvement Act. (Introduced in Senate)” and a link should be provided.

Things you can do:

Contact your members at 202-224-3121 and ask them to oppose HR 875 and S 425. While you are at it ask them if they personally have read the legislation and what their position is. If they have not read the legislation ask them to read it and politely let them know that just because other Representatives are not reading the legislation and voting on it does not mean that they can do the same.
Get in touch with local farmers and food producers by attending a local Farmer’s Market and asking them how business is.
Attend a local WAPF meeting. This is a good start to learning about what is going on in farming and local and state initiatives. The website is: http://www.westonaprice.org/localchapters/
Check out the Farmers Legal Defense Fund at http://www.ftcldf.org/
Find out who sits on your State’s agriculture and farming committee and contact them with your concerns.
Continue to contact your elected officials and let them know your position on legislation and why.
Get active at the local and state levels. This is the quickest way to initiate change.

Quote of the Day

2009-03-11T19:29:00.000-05:00

"Life's tough... It's even tougher if you're stupid."
--John Wayne

Suggested Reading: The Underground History of American Education

2009-03-11T15:34:00.002-05:00

The Underground History of American Education, by John Taylor Gatto

Read the entire book online and/or buy a copy to support Mr. Gatto.

Prologue excerpt:

Bianca, You Animal, Shut Up!

Our problem in understanding forced schooling stems from an inconvenient fact: that the wrong it does from a human perspective is right from a systems perspective. You can see this in the case of six-year-old Bianca, who came to my attention because an assistant principal screamed at her in front of an assembly, "BIANCA, YOU ANIMAL, SHUT UP!" Like the wail of a banshee, this sang the school doom of Bianca. Even though her body continued to shuffle around, the voodoo had poisoned her.

Do I make too much of this simple act of putting a little girl in her place? It must happen thousands of times every day in schools all over. I’ve seen it many times, and if I were painfully honest I’d admit to doing it many times. Schools are supposed to teach kids their place. That’s why we have age-graded classes. In any case, it wasn’t your own little Janey or mine.

Most of us tacitly accept the pragmatic terms of public school which allow every kind of psychic violence to be inflicted on Bianca in order to fulfill the prime directive of the system: putting children in their place. It’s called "social efficiency." But I get this precognition, this flash-forward to a moment far in the future when your little girl Jane, having left her comfortable home, wakes up to a world where Bianca is her enraged meter maid, or the passport clerk Jane counts on for her emergency ticket out of the country, or the strange lady who lives next door.

I picture this animal Bianca grown large and mean, the same Bianca who didn’t go to school for a month after her little friends took to whispering, "Bianca is an animal, Bianca is an animal," while Bianca, only seconds earlier a human being like themselves, sat choking back tears, struggling her way through a reading selection by guessing what the words meant.

In my dream I see Bianca as a fiend manufactured by schooling who now regards Janey as a vehicle for vengeance. In a transport of passion she:

Gives Jane’s car a ticket before the meter runs out.
Throws away Jane’s passport application after Jane leaves the office.
Plays heavy metal music through the thin partition which separates Bianca’s apartment from Jane’s while Jane pounds frantically on the wall for relief.
All the above.

You aren’t compelled to loan your car to anyone who wants it, but you are compelled to surrender your school-age child to strangers who process children for a livelihood, even though one in every nine schoolchildren is terrified of physical harm happening to them in school, terrified with good cause; about thirty-three are murdered there every year. From 1992 through 1999, 262 children were murdered in school in the United States. Your great-great-grandmother didn’t have to surrender her children. What happened?

If I demanded you give up your television to an anonymous, itinerant repairman who needed work you’d think I was crazy; if I came with a policeman who forced you to pay that repairman even after he broke your set, you would be outraged. Why are you so docile when you give up your child to a government agent called a schoolteacher?

I want to open up concealed aspects of modern schooling such as the deterioration it forces in the morality of parenting. You have no say at all in choosing your teachers. You know nothing about their backgrounds or families. And the state knows little more than you do. This is as radical a piece of social engineering as the human imagination can conceive. What does it mean?

One thing you do know is how unlikely it will be for any teacher to understand the personality of your particular child or anything significant about your family, culture, religion, plans, hopes, dreams. In the confusion of school affairs even teachers so disposed don’t have opportunity to know those things. How did this happen?

Before you hire a company to build a house, you would, I expect, insist on detailed plans showing what the finished structure was going to look like. Building a child’s mind and character is what public schools do, their justification for prematurely breaking family and neighborhood learning. Where is documentary evidence to prove this assumption that trained and certified professionals do it better than people who know and love them can? There isn’t any.

The cost in New York State for building a well-schooled child in the year 2000 is $200,000 per body when lost interest is calculated. That capital sum invested in the child’s name over the past twelve years would have delivered a million dollars to each kid as a nest egg to compensate for having no school. The original $200,000 is more than the average home in New York costs. You wouldn’t build a home without some idea what it would look like when finished, but you are compelled to let a corps of perfect strangers tinker with your child’s mind and personality without the foggiest idea what they want to do with it.

Law courts and legislatures have totally absolved school people from liability. You can sue a doctor for malpractice, not a schoolteacher. Every homebuilder is accountable to customers years after the home is built; not schoolteachers, though. You can’t sue a priest, minister, or rabbi either; that should be a clue.

If you can’t be guaranteed even minimal results by these institutions, not even physical safety; if you can’t be guaranteed anything except that you’ll be arrested if you fail to surrender your kid, just what does the public in public schools mean?

What exactly is public about public schools? That’s a question to take seriously. If schools were public as libraries, parks, and swimming pools are public, as highways and sidewalks are public, then the public would be satisfied with them most of the time. Instead, a situation of constant dissatisfaction has spanned many decades. Only in Orwell’s Newspeak, as perfected by legendary spin doctors of the twentieth century such as Ed Bernays or Ivy Lee or great advertising combines, is there anything public about public schools.

Global Warming (or Climate Change) Links

2009-03-01T11:43:00.004-06:00

"Rise of sea levels is 'the greatest lie ever told'"

"Nobody listens to the real climate change experts"

"The world has never seen such freezing heat"

"Reuters: China promotes abortion to reduce CO2 - People are enemy #1 "

"74 years since October snowfalls - Deprogramming global warming"

"Skeptical scientists urge world to 'Have the courage to do nothing' at UN conference"

"We overlooked 193,000 square miles of ice"

"Japan's boffins: Global warming isn't man-made"

"The Green Agenda" - Overview of the agenda, major players, and quote references