*POLITICAL OVERVIEW*

WHERE THERE IS NO VISION
THE PEOPLE PERISH
Ecclesiastes 29:18

KNOW THYSELF
Socrates

YOU DON'T NEED A WEATHERMAN
TO KNOW WHICH WAY THE WIND BLOWS
Bob Dylan

A lot (oh OK, almost all) of the work on this website is political in nature and
this page and the following is what informs.
I am in the process of updating both images and info so stay tuned.

So let us go then you and I...
Oh do not ask what is it.
Let us go and make our visit.

*US CONSTITUTION*
Online
http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/index.html

Book
A really good primer is
THE WORDS WE LIVE BY:Your Annotated Guide to the Constitution
by Linda R. Monk
Stonesong Press/Hyperion 2003

For any of the books listed on my site...
If you're lucky enough to live in NYC
Http://www.strandbooks.com/
AND/OR check
http://used.addall.com/

Here's a link to my friend Russell's tax protest site
http://www.russelldale.com/tax/
He's got delicacies like The Declaration of Independence on there,
and the John Conyers report "What Went Wrong in Ohio"
Yummy!

Also there is an excellent political artist named Jon Long
http://www.zhibit.org/artist/diemythographer
who has a wealth of info on his site, such as how to file a FOI request.

State of the Union-by the numbers
http://www.ourfuture.org/real-state-union-2008-numbers

*MEMBERS OF CONGRESS*
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=portal:110th_United_States_Congress

Main switchboard # 1-202-225-3121
Toll free (24 hours) 1-800-828-0498
1-800-459-1887
1800-614-2803
Call and call often! Will they find you obnoxious? Who cares???
They're the employees, you're the boss, there's a serious deadline on this job of Democracy that we've taken on and they need to be told what to do.
Or fired, as the case may be.

Corrupt Congress members
http://www.beyonddelay.org/

Congressional Oversight Manual
http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL30240.pdf

IF A NATION EXPECTS TO BE IGNORANT AND FREE
IN A STATE OF CIVILIZATION, IT EXPECTS
WHAT NEVER WAS AND NEVER WILL BE.
Thomas Jefferson

Buying the War
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/btw/transcript1.html
Not that many haven't died trying
http://www.cpj.org/Briefings/Iraq/Iraq_danger.html
But then there's this
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/06/23/al_qaeda/index.html
OhhhhhhKKKKK...so then why are we doing this?
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/US_confirms_it_arming_Sunni_insurgents_0610.html
What's wrong with this picture?
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-saudi15jul15,0,3132262.story?coll=la-home-center
http://www.alternet.org/story/31787/
One man's story
http://www.vqronline.org/articles/2007/summer/gilbertson-last-photographs/

Calling Out Idiot America
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/03/24/49/print/
http://www.whateveryamericanshouldknow.com/

Imminent Crises: Threats and Opportunities
http://www.monthlyreview.org/0607nc.htm

Corporate Personhood
Http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0101-07.htm
The 9th Commandment
Thou shalt not bear false witness
Indeed
http://www.firstuucolumbus.org/corppers/cp.html
http://www.corpwatch.org/
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Corporations/Hx_Corporations_US.html

The Powell Manifesto
http://www.mediatransparency.org/story.php?storyID=21
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6242278.stm
http://www.corporations.org/media/
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2053
Ask yourself...Why do corps like Boeing, API and BASF advertise on TV? Could it be to control content via their advertising dollars?

MANUFACTURING CONSENT
by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky
1988 Pantheon

HELLO!!! CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM!!!
http://www.just6dollars.org/
http://www.publiccampaign.org/
Yes Dorothy...there will always be influence peddlers in Washington,
but that doesn't mean we have to make it easy for them.

"VOICE OR NO VOICE, THE PEOPLE CAN ALWAYS BE BROUGHT
TO THE BIDDING OF THE LEADERS.
THAT IS EASY. ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS TELL THEM
THEY ARE BEING ATTACKED
AND DENOUNCE THE PACIFISTS FOR LACK OF PATRIOTISM AND
EXPOSING THE COUNTRY TO DANGER.
IT WORKS THE SAME IN EVERY COUNTRY"
Hermann Goering

"WHEN FASCISM COMES TO AMERICA
IT WILL BE WRAPPED IN THE FLAG
AND CARRYING A CROSS"
Sinclair Lewis
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0828-23.htm

*THE TEACHER AND HIS STUDENTS*
http://www.alternet.org/story/15935/
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5010.htm

THE BBC DOCUMENTARY (there are 3 parts)
THE POWER OF NIGHTMARES
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=881321004838285177&q+The+Power+of+Nightmares&hl=en
A couple of small things caught my attention in part one of the documentary. First was the statement by Kamal Habib that "In the liberal era that simply accepted reality, psychologically we thought we were superior to reality. We despised the everyday vision of the world"
I heard that and thought...Hmmm, why does that sound sooo familiar? And then I remembered the NY Times Magazine article by Ron Suskind in which he quoted an unnamed G.W.Bush aide thusly..
The aide said that guys like me were "in what we call the reality-based community," which he defined as people who "believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality." ..."That's not the way the world really works anymore," he continued. "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality-judiciously, as you will-we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors...and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."
WHEW!!! "AND YOU. ALL OF YOU." Well I posit this judiciously of course, but what a little fascist putz!
Here's the whole article
http://www.cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/sloth/2004-10-16b.html
The other thing that struck me was the fact that Richard Pipes chaired the B3 group. Look up his son Daniel Pipes to see someone in the cast who's stoking the fire this time around.
Speaking of father/son tag teams there's also
Norman and son John Podhoretz who would have us in a war with Iran.

BLINK
by Malcolm Gladwell
2005 Back Bay books/Little, Brown and Company

Frank Luntz
http://www.commondreams.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/views05/0226-27.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Luntz
http://mediamatters.org/items/200706270006?f=h_top

Terror alert time line
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Olbermann_The_Nexus_of_politics_and_0815.html
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/071307J.shtml
And don't forget the Cheese...just when the dung is hitting
the fan for Gonzo.

New World Order
http://www.whatsmells.com/ADA398504.pdf
http://educate-yourself.org/nwo/

The Carlyle Group
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/print/0,,4434515-110648,00.html
http://www.nationalreview.com/york/york091102.asp
http://www.judicialwatch.org/6322.shtml

The Federalist Society
http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/1466

Project for the New American Century
http://www.newamericancentury.org/index.html
"The process of transformation," the plan said, "is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event --
like a new Pearl Harbor."

Unitary Executive
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Unitary_Executive_Theory
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Continuity_Policy

And then there's Karl
http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/04/08/con04361.html

A Clean Break
http://www.iasps.org/strat1.htm
http://www.amconmag.com/2006/2006_09_11/taki.html

Bohemian Grove
http://www.sonomacountyfreepress.com/bohos/bohoindx.html

Recently released CIA documents
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB222/index.htm

IT IS EASY TO BE BRAVE FROM A DISTANCE
(attributed to both) Aesop and the Lakota Sioux

http://presentdanger.irc-online.org/pd/443
http://www.awolbush.com/whoserved.html
and that includes Fred Thompson

*WAR! WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR???uhhhh*
"Money trumps peace"
G.W.Bush

Iraq Time line
http://thinkprogress.org/iraq-timeline

Ahhh "BENCHMARKS"
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/06/12/news/bench.php
http://thealliancefordemocracy.org/html/eng/2402-AA.shtml
http:www.platformlondon.org/carbonweb/documents/PSAs_privatisation.pdf
http://priceofoil.org/

Armed Madhouse
by Greg Palast
2007 Plume

Ahhhh PROFIT
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=War_profiteering
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v27/n13/print/harr04_.html
http://www.counterpunch.org/zeese05102006.html
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2007/06/20/justice_dept_opts_out_of_whistle_blower_suits?mode=PF
Gee, You think it's possible anyone in the JD gets fired
for TRYING to pursue it?
http://www.halliburtonwatch.org/about_hal/chronology.html