The Social Contract’ Exposes Southern Poverty Law Center

David Codrea, National Examiner, November 28, 2010

“In this special issue The Social Contract presents an unsparing indictment, and a timely debunking, of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). Acclaimed expert on America’s political fringes Laird Wilcox skewers the bogus scholarship and smear tactics by which SPLC has successfully sold itself to government and media as an impartial arbiter of “hate,” in an exclusive, keynote interview with Peter Gemma. TSC’s team of accomplished contributors from the left, right, and center exposes SPLC’s unsavory methods, dubious aims, and tawdry fundraising practices with surgical precision and comprehensive scope.”

Indeed. TSC provides a linked index for every article in this issue, covering everything from SPLC’s “ritual defamations,” to their “hidden agenda,” all bearing in mind how immensely lucrative the venture has proven to be for founder Morris Dees and key executive staff.

We’ve covered the defamation/conflation angle from a gun owner perspective many times at Gun Rights Examiner. TSC expands that to show how other groups that the SPLC agenda finds convenient are also smeared in order to advance their agenda and bring in the cash.

A key observation that nicely illustrates SPLC hypocrisy when it comes to money, from an article by contributor Patrick Cleburne, notes “the $PLC now has an account in the notorious tax haven and money-laundering location of the Cayman Islands!” and that SPLC receive $2.9 million from “[t]he Picower Foundation, set up by Jeffry Picower, reliably reported to have been the biggest beneficiary of the Madoff scam.” Cleburne suggests:

“Madoff left many destitute elderly in his wake. The SPLC should return its Picower money to the Madoff trustee for their benefit.”

Don’t hold your breath.

With 17 articles, there are far too many points to effectively summarize here, which means those of you wanting to learn more will need to spend some time reading.

Here’s what strikes me as the most important point I could raise: SPLC is rolling in dough. The people who are bringing us such detailed exposés deserve our support. Here’s how you can give it:

Bookmark The Social Contract website. Share the link, along with the link to this article, with like-minded family and friends.

Don’t just read the articles online—buy a physical copy of this issue that you can share with others. Not only is it nice to own, hold and leaf through, but the price is right:

Note: this item is being offered free, plus a shipping fee of $5, under a special promotion—as long as supplies last.

Also note other offerings from TSC’s bookstore.

In a related development, it happens coincidentally that Mike Vanderboegh at Sipsey Street Irregulars posted late yesterday on SPLC’s Cayman Island account as well as the lavish lifestyle enjoyed by Morris Dees in “The House that Hate Built.”

China, Russia quit dollar

By Su Qiang and Li Xiaokun (China Daily)
2010-11-24

St. Petersburg, Russia - China and Russia have decided to renounce the US dollar and resort to using their own currencies for bilateral trade, Premier Wen Jiabao and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin announced late on Tuesday.

Chinese experts said the move reflected closer relations between Beijing and Moscow and is not aimed at challenging the dollar, but to protect their domestic economies.

 "About trade settlement, we have decided to use our own currencies," Putin said at a joint news conference with Wen in St. Petersburg.

The two countries were accustomed to using other currencies, especially the dollar, for bilateral trade. Since the financial crisis, however, high-ranking officials on both sides began to explore other possibilities.

The yuan has now started trading against the Russian rouble in the Chinese interbank market, while the renminbi will soon be allowed to trade against the rouble in Russia, Putin said.

"That has forged an important step in bilateral trade and it is a result of the consolidated financial systems of world countries," he said.

Putin made his remarks after a meeting with Wen. They also officiated at a signing ceremony for 12 documents, including energy cooperation.

The documents covered cooperation on aviation, railroad construction, customs, protecting intellectual property, culture and a joint communiqu. Details of the documents have yet to be released.

Putin said one of the pacts between the two countries is about the purchase of two nuclear reactors from Russia by China's Tianwan nuclear power plant, the most advanced nuclear power complex in China.

Putin has called for boosting sales of natural resources - Russia's main export - to China, but price has proven to be a sticking point.

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin, who holds sway over Russia's energy sector, said following a meeting with Chinese representatives that Moscow and Beijing are unlikely to agree on the price of Russian gas supplies to China before the middle of next year.

Russia is looking for China to pay prices similar to those Russian gas giant Gazprom charges its European customers, but Beijing wants a discount. The two sides were about $100 per 1,000 cubic meters apart, according to Chinese officials last week.

Wen's trip follows Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's three-day visit to China in September, during which he and President Hu Jintao launched a cross-border pipeline linking the world's biggest energy producer with the largest energy consumer.

Wen said at the press conference that the partnership between Beijing and Moscow has "reached an unprecedented level" and pledged the two countries will "never become each other's enemy".

Over the past year, "our strategic cooperative partnership endured strenuous tests and reached an unprecedented level," Wen said, adding the two nations are now more confident and determined to defend their mutual interests.

"China will firmly follow the path of peaceful development and support the renaissance of Russia as a great power," he said.

"The modernization of China will not affect other countries' interests, while a solid and strong Sino-Russian relationship is in line with the fundamental interests of both countries."

Wen said Beijing is willing to boost cooperation with Moscow in Northeast Asia, Central Asia and the Asia-Pacific region, as well as in major international organizations and on mechanisms in pursuit of a "fair and reasonable new order" in international politics and the economy.

Sun Zhuangzhi, a senior researcher in Central Asian studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said the new mode of trade settlement between China and Russia follows a global trend after the financial crisis exposed the faults of a dollar-dominated world financial system.

Pang Zhongying, who specializes in international politics at Renmin University of China, said the proposal is not challenging the dollar, but aimed at avoiding the risks the dollar represents.

Wen arrived in the northern Russian city on Monday evening for a regular meeting between Chinese and Russian heads of government.

He left St. Petersburg for Moscow late on Tuesday and is set to meet with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Wednesday.

Agencies and Zhou Wa contributed to this story. 

 

Oppose Food Safety Legislation

Via: The John Birch Society

  The Senate voted to approve a cloture motion today, November 17, with a 74-25 vote, well above the 60 votes required to limit debate on S. 510. This sets a dangerous precedent and is a momentum builder for passing even more controversial legislation as the lame duck session continues. Clearly, many Republicans crossed the aisle for this very unconstitutional bill.  The Food Safety Act can now be brought to the floor any day now for a final vote by the Senate. Only a simple majority will be required for passage.

 The Food Safety Modernization Act, S. 510

S. 510 calls for enhanced expansion of FDA authority over small farms, ranches, and other food producers, establishes burdensome administrative requirements for large and small operations, and an arbitrary legal authority to recall “unsafe medications,” the definition of which is not clearly established. Under S. 510 more power would be granted to an unaccountable agency, hyper-regulating small producers out of business, leaving the industrial food system that currently has the highest number of food safety problems, to commandeer the marketplace. 

This massive expansion of government regulation of the food industry, completely unauthorized by the Constitution, would limit the right to produce, distribute, and consume the foods of one's labors and choice. The constant refrain of "safety" is no excuse for granting practically unlimited authority to an unaccountable bureaucracy.

For more details on the specifics of the bill see the JBS legislative alert.

If you believe food safety is best achieved at the local level, contact your senators immediately to express your opposition to such plans. Have them do everything in their power to defeat S. 510.

Egyptian papyrus found in ancient Irish bog

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Irish scientists have found fragments of Egyptian papyrus in the leather cover of an ancient book of psalms that was unearthed from a peat bog, Ireland's National Museum said on Monday.

The papyrus in the lining of the Egyptian-style leather cover of the 1,200-year-old manuscript, "potentially represents the first tangible connection between early Irish Christianity and the Middle Eastern Coptic Church", the Museum said.

"It is a finding that asks many questions and has confounded some of the accepted theories about the history of early Christianity in Ireland."

Raghnall O Floinn, head of collections at the Museum, said the manuscript, now known as the "Faddan More Psalter", was one of the top ten archaeological discoveries in Ireland.

It was uncovered four years ago by a man using a mechanical digger to harvest peat near Birr in County Tipperary, but analysis has only just been completed.

O Floinn told AFP the illuminated vellum manuscript encased in the leather binding dated from the eighth century but it was not known when or why it ended up in the bog where it was preserved by the chemicals in the peat.

"It appears the manuscript's leather binding came from Egypt. The question is whether the papyrus came with the cover or if it was added.

"It is possible that the imperfections in the hide may allow us to confirm the leather is Egyptian.

"We are trying to track down if there somebody who can tell us if this is possible. That is the next step."

O Floinn said the psalter is about the size of a tabloid newspaper and about 15 percent of the pages of the psalms, which are written in Latin, had survived.

The experts believe the manuscript of the psalms was produced in an Irish monastery and it was later put in the leather cover.

"The cover could have had several lives before it ended up basically as a folder for the manuscript in the bog," O Floinn said.

"It could have travelled from a library somewhere in Egypt to the Holy Land or to Constantinople or Rome and then to Ireland."

The National Museum in Dublin plans to put the psalter on public display for the first time next year.

(c) 2010 AFP

SPLC attacks the Sovereign Citizen Movement

SPLC attacks Sovereign "Citizen" Movement, SEE VIDEO HERE.

Sovereign "Citizen" Jonathan explains his philosophy.

RT interviews  a Sovereign "Citizen".

Anarcho-Gnosticism: Golgotha of the Absolute Mind

by Wayne John Sturgeon  Originally published by Synthesis-Jounal Du Cercle De La Rose Noire IN his book, ‘The Essence of the Kabbalah’, Brian L. Lancaster (Chapter 8, pp.205-10) writes of the attempt in this ancient Jewish mystical and magical tradition to create an artificial human or humanoid called a ‘golem’ in the ancient Kabbalah accounts. The idea being that dead matter is not really dead but can be brought back to life, and Lancaster is keen to stress the point that ‘What are the computers and robots of our time if not golems!’ One here immediately thinks of the classic horror novel (and very much an influence on popular culture ever since) ‘Frankenstein’, which actually translates in the German as ‘Eye in the Stone’, perhaps a reference for conspiracy theory buffs to the eye in the Pyramid on the American dollar bill. Especially when read in the context of St. John’s ‘Book of Revelation’, which appears to give an account of a ‘golem’ being created in Chapter 13, Verse 15: "He was permitted to give a spirit to the image of the beast so that the image could both speak and cause whoever would not worship the image of the beast to be killed." According to Talmudic sources, the mastery of creation alluded to by the production of a golem is viewed as the ultimate act of imitating God and perhaps a goal promoted throughout genetic engineering? It would appear here that we have a demonic reversal of the ‘Book of Genesis’, which speaks of God "breathing life" into the original prototype "image" of man (2:7). The current popular cultural model of the Frankenstein mythos is being portrayed in recent sci-fi classics such as the ‘Terminator’ and ‘Matrix’ trilogies, where computers becoming ‘self-conscious’ actually rebel and overthrow their ‘creators’ and in one version bring about a nuclear war and, in the other, create a completely artificial and computer-simulated illusory world in almost classic ‘docetic’ Gnostic terms. Interestingly, the esoteric Christian theosophy of Rudolph Steiner talks about the advent of ‘Anti-Christ’ being not so much the coming of any particular individual or movement, but rather the tendency in an ever-expanding human culture of materialism and all-embracing technology to reach a penultimate phase whereby such artificial intelligences would become invaded by a spirit that, in actuality, would be nothing more than the collective negative shadow or ‘thought-form’ of humanity incarnating within mass communication systems. This would reach the apocalyptic stage whereby through becoming self-conscious this ‘ghost in the machine’ would imprison humanity in a technocratic, materialist and reductionist nightmare. This would also bring about a mass schizoid breakdown for humanity, an ‘inner apocalypse’ or ‘unveiling’ when suppressed complexes and neuroses will emerge into visible form and cause ever-increasing fragmentation and chaos within society and civilization; a kind of ‘black magic’ computer virus being transmitted into the human psyche and biological system. Perhaps the most notable and remarkable sci-fi writer of this bleak tradition would be Philip K. Dick and novels such as ‘Blade Runner’ (also entitled ‘Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep’) and his excellent ‘VALIS’ trilogy. Dick writes of this world and its systems as being a black, iron prison; a world of ‘dialectics’ duality; a network of interpenetrating control systems; a matrix established, controlled and manipulated by Gnostic ‘archons’ (or ‘rulers’, see Ephesians 6:12) who feed off and are fed by the negative emotions and desires of humanity that surround us in the ‘etheric’ atmosphere situated around the earth in classic ‘spiritualist’ terms. These archons can manifest themselves in a variety of forms, being inner- and ultra-dimensional but also pan-interpsychological and manifesting as internal psychoses and ‘addictions’ to the ‘hyper-normalism’ and neurotic conformism of government officials etc. In Dick’s worldview human civilization is an external manifestation of archonic control systems, whether good or bad. Indeed, they can even be humanistic and appear as ‘Angels of Light’ preaching love and peace. To escape this, Dick envisioned time as being ‘caught’ between the moment of Christ’s birth and the destruction of Jerusalem and that on a profound ontological basis the Roman Empire hadn’t ended; a bit like an Anarcho-Gnostic version of ‘Back to the Future’ or ‘Groundhog Day’ meeting eternal recurrence). And so a ‘virtual Christ’ had descended into this world almost like a hologram or counter-computer virus (an ‘actualised’ mythic ritual of the dying/rising god system from outside ‘time’) coded into the recently-discovered Dead Sea Scrolls. Interestingly, a close friend of Dick’s was the controversial Episcopalian Bishop Pike and the inspiration for Dick’s classic ‘The Transmigration of Timothy Archer’ (being the third part of the ‘VALIS’ trilogy). After the sad death by suicide of his son, Pike engaged in mediumistic sources to contact his son in the spirit world live on American TV! The Bishop would also meet a sad end by dying when he became lost in the Jerusalem desert whilst trying to research the alleged shamanic magic mushroom origins of New Testament Christianity. He even contacted the British medium, Ena Twigg, in order to broadcast his demise sometime before this was actually confirmed by the discovery of his body. Proof, indeed, that reality is often stranger than fiction! In truth, Dick’s worldview was to provide the much-needed insight that in reality the archons act as a mirror to teach us to be more ‘authentically human’ and to throw off our enslavement. In a sense, being where Zen meets Situationism! From a sci-fi perspective, please watch John Carpenter’s ‘They Live’ to get a feel for this. In essence then, Dick’s ‘Christian’ Gnostic vision was and is teaching us not to internalise archonic control systems be they political, economic or religious; ‘religion’ being nothing more in the Gnostic sense than the ‘politics of spirituality’, which is why organized religion spoon-feeds us doctrines and dogma whilst Gnosis offers us the chance to actually ‘know’ or experience that to which all rituals, dogmas and doctrines can only point to (in the Zen sense the Parable of the Finger and the Moon’ or the Tao that ‘can be named not the eternal Tao’). This is the essence of all things and not just their ‘form’; it is intuitive ‘knowing’, rather than intellectual knowledge. I think that Philip K. Dick was one of the most significant and prophetic figures of 1960s and 1970s counter-culture and it is no surprise that many of his novels are being turned into films or, in the case of ‘Total Recall’, ‘A Scanner Darkly’ and ‘Blade Runner’, have already become so. As society enters the early twenty-first century, many of the themes Dick anticipated are becoming more and more relevant both to process and deal with. I think Dick would have been happy to carry the label Anarcho-Gnostic, although not in any rigid sense of the world, but it does signpost his creative and innovative worldview and one finds an echo here with the Anarcho-Synarchy of the French Cathar movement. This is another ‘action replay’ of Dick’s vision of the time-loop superimposing itself upon the libertarian impulse to be authentically human and the authoritarian impulse to imprison that humanity within matter and form by way of dialectics. Remember comrades, the Empire never ended!

Reclaim New Yorkers homes stolen by banks

During the farm crises of the early 80s the Militia group known as Posse Comitatus helped farmers to physically reclaim and secure their farms after foreclosure or eminent domain. Today in the wake of the usurious banker engineered foreclosure crisis, there are county Sheriffs who are refusing to evict  people following foreclosure procedures.  NATA-NY  stands in solidarity with all county Shreiffs refusing to evict who understand that they are beholden to the people and not the international bankers, and we will  pick up the baton were true patriots like The Posse Comitatus and Gordon Kahl left off.   

NATA-NY will be available to assist families reclaiming their homes from banks. We can provide on site assistance/security, document and educate police, and help with the move in process.  For us to help with this, NATA-NY will have to evaluate prospects on a case by case basis.  We cannot provide any legal or mortgage advice.

Anyone interested in getting involved, who is or knows someone who has or is in danger of loosing their home due to foreclosure! Please send us information about your situation and contact details at natlanarchisttribalalliance@gmail.com  and we will get back to you.

Evicted family breaks locks, reclaims home. See Video here.

SIMI VALLEY, Calif. (KABC) — A battle over a foreclosed home is shaping up in Simi Valley.

A family claims they were illegally evicted, and Saturday, they broke the locks and started moving back in even though the home has already been sold.

Jim and Danielle Earl, along with their nine children ranging in age from 3 to 23, returned to their house of nine years on Mustang Drive.

The family was evicted from their home in July after they fell behind on payments.

Their bank, GRP Financial Services, foreclosed on the home, but since then the house has been bought by an investor, remodeled and sold to someone else.

The new owners were expected to take possession of the home in a few days, but the Earls and their attorney hired a locksmith to open the doors so they could reclaim the house.

“This is a really exciting day, a day we’ve been waiting for,” said Danielle Earl. “My kids have been begging to go home and we’re finally home.

This comes at a time when some banks are halting foreclosures across the country due to flawed paperwork. The family and their attorney said the bank used fraudulent paperwork to force them out.

The Earls said they had been working with the bank to catch up on payments, but discovered a $25,000 difference between the amount they thought they owed and what the bank claimed they owed so they stopped making payments.

“This is only the beginning of this,” said the Earl’s attorney, Michael Pines. “I chose this family because we needed to get back in before the investor and the real estate broker defrauded a new family by having them move in, which would have created a bigger mess. (The Earls) have done absolutely nothing wrong.”

Police arrived at the home Saturday but did not take action to make the family leave.

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