One of the 60 previously unpublished Abu Ghraib photographs that the U.S. Government has been fighting to keep secret in a court case with the American Civil Liberties Union. From the Sydney Morning Herald, Australia.
A READER WRITES that, in his opinion, the questions Jesse Ventura asked about waterboarding were the least uncomfortable that could have been asked. And, he adds, we can’t “descend to the moral level” of Saddam Hussein, since we’ve already passed that point:
“Why is the subject of torture being confined to waterboarding? Other forms were used in Iraq, as everyone knows.
“And in terms of increasingly ‘resembling Saddam Hussein,’ he was convicted for the murder of 148 people committed a year before the U.S. began supporting him.
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James Madison, father of the United States Constitution. He opposed democracy, saying democracies are "as short in their lives, as they have been violent in their deaths," and sought to protect us from the tyranny of an omnipotent legislature. Sadly, with the demise of the Tenth Amendment, Madison's dream has died.
by Kevin Alfred Strom
THE MAIN DEFENSE the Founders set up to protect Americans from the tyranny of kings — and the tyranny of the majority — was the Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
It says, in effect, that the central government possesses only those powers expressly granted by the Constitution and no other powers whatever. And that is how it was understood and applied until the second Roosevelt demanded and received Lenin-like economic power (“for our own good,” of course) and supine judges allowed it despite its obvious illegality.
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JESSE VENTURA ASKS UNCOMFORTABLE QUESTIONS: Former Governor Ventura has managed to ask the obvious questions on the subject of U.S. government torture — questions that should have been asked a long time ago: “If waterboarding is okay, why don’t we let our police do it to suspects to learn what they know?… If waterboarding is okay, why didn’t we waterboard McVeigh and Nichols, the Oklahoma City bombers, to find out if there were more people involved?… We only seem to waterboard Muslims. …Have we waterboarded anybody else? Name me someone else we’ve waterboarded.”
Government nabobs and Fox News liars won’t respond truthfully, Jesse. As we biologically descend to the level of a Third World state and become ensnared in Mideastern religious wars, our government and morals and culture will increasingly resemble those of Saddam Hussein, Idi Amin, and Menachem Begin. Torture included.
NEWSPAPER DEATH SPIRAL: Ryan Chittum in the Columbia Jou
rnalism Review openly uses those words to describe the recent huge circulation declines of the top 25 major papers, and attributes the Wall Street Journal‘s 1% increase — the lone exception — to the fact that the Journal charges for access to its Web site. Chittum’s recommendation to other papers? Charge for Web access too. Brilliant idea — sure to increase readership all around! Sure, that is, to increase readership for alternative media not controlled by the billionaire media elite — and that is a good thing.
ISRAEL AND AMERICA HAVE THE SAME PROBLEM: According to physicist and writer James Miller, Israel’s demographic Waterloo is rapidly approaching: Jews will become a minority in the Zionist state by 2016. As Miller notes, ‘Arab-Israelis have 3.1 times the birthrate of Jewish-Israelis. It’s just a matter of time before the so-called “Jewish State” is no more.’ Israeli Jews who see this peril are willing to give up territory to have a more ethnically pure state and assure their survival as a people.
We need to heed the lesson here — European-Americans will meet our demographic Waterloo soon, too — I predict by 2030. Here’s what I said about the birth rate time bomb in 1996: “Most non-White groups here have a higher birthrate than White Americans, a fact that guarantees that they will inherit this country in a few generations even if all immigration is halted tomorrow and never resumes. What is really needed is a repatriation program. It would even be worth giving up some territory, if necessary, to achieve a peaceful negotiated separation. It would be worth any cost in money and labor.”
UAE PAPER DISCUSSES WHITE DECLINE: The Khaleej Times is an English-language daily published in the United Arab Emirates. Yesterday it published an opinion piece by the prolific ethnically-Jewish Muslim convert Karin Friedemann which gives Professor Kevin MacDonald and Tom Sunic of the Occidental Quarterly some friendly ink. She criticizes Jews for the Bolshevik and other massacres, and also gives some credence to anti-White conspiracy theorizing, as might be fitting for someone associated with the “Green Rainbow Party.”
Ultimately, she blames declining “Caucasian” numbers on “personal choice” and the unwillingness of Whites to be more pro-natal, such as by sanctioning early marriage and parenthood. An interesting read.
Mexican girls of European descent, from Wikipedia.org. Throughout Latin America, there are substantial White populations; Mexico's may be more than 10%, and in some other Latin nations it is a plurality or majority of the population.
by Kevin Alfred Strom
WHILE I WAS in a restaurant the other day with a few friends and their children, I saw another group enter the establishment and take a table nearby. It was a handsome-looking White family, a father and mother with a teenage son and daughter. I was close enough to hear parts of their conversation.
The father was almost a double for a writer I know personally, a rugged-looking brunet of medium height with piercing eyes and ruddy complexion, about 50, with a tall, fine-haired slender blonde wife perhaps ten or twelve years younger. The children were well-behaved, good-looking, and intermediate in appearance to their parents, to whom they bore an obvious family resemblance. They weren’t speaking English.
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What is money, really? What is wealth? And what do ‘economic stimulus’ and war and foreign aid do to our wealth?
by Kevin Alfred Strom
based on the American Dissident Voices broadcast of July 10, 2004
IN 1957, Julian Huxley wrote about the dangers the world might face in 2007. He told of a world wracked by environmental destruction, falling standards of living, the despair and desperation of the hopeless, and a decline in the creative spirit that makes all culture and science possible.
He glimpsed the future in racially-mixed India, where he saw the streets teeming with the homeless in such numbers that one had to pick one’s way carefully along the sidewalks at night to step over the sleeping bodies, wrapped in a few filthy rags and nothing else — hundreds of thousands living their lives, voiding their wastes, and making their hopeless, pathetic yet fecund love right in the open on the pockmarked pavement, and sharing that “home” with dirty, starving, roaming cattle.
One evening he saw a policeman directing traffic at a busy intersection as twilight fell. As the darkness deepened, he saw a man and a cow approach the policeman from opposite directions, curl up at his feet and begin to compose themselves for the night, right there, almost touching him — with the officer taking no notice whatever and continuing with his duties. It was what was ‘normal.’ It was what was expected. It is where we’re headed unless something is done.
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‘WHO RULES AMERICA?’ IN NEW TRANSLATION: Thanks to the Czech Republic-based newsmagazine Zvedavec, my research report on the near-monopoly media control that prevails in the United States — ‘Who Rules America?’ — is now available in yet another language. Zvedavec looks to be an active site for Czech-speakers, with daily updates and a rich article archive going back ten years.
A screen shot showing the free crossfading and audio processing plugins in use. The meters shown are separate software used for comparison of input and output levels.
by Kevin Alfred Strom
I’VE RECENTLY BEEN EXPERIMENTING with two plugins (for the popular audio player Winamp) which can create superb music mixes for personal listening, and can even form the core of an Internet or over-the-air broadcast station. As many of you know, I’ve been involved with broadcasting and radio in one way or another for four decades now, so these virtual devices really caught my eye.
The first add-on is Sqrsoft’s free Advanced Crossfading (ACF) plugin, which not only eliminates gaps between songs, but also takes out the several seconds of silence that sometimes plague the beginning and end of downloaded mp3s that you might get from iTunes or Shareaza or your friends’ thumb drives, and that’s not even mentioning its main function — mixing the very last seconds of one track with the first few seconds of the next track, just like a radio station disc jockey might do.
The second is the Sound Solution (SS) v1.1 audio processor by Alessandro Tomassini, a truly amazing piece of free software which can do almost anything that $5,000 FM broadcast audio compressors and limiters can do. One of the main problems with listening to downloaded mp3 and wma files is the wide variation in level that one encounters — one track will be so soft you have to turn the volume nearly all the way up, while the next is recorded so hot it might cause permanent hearing loss at the same setting as the first. SS solves this, and can also make your audio stream more consistent for broadcasting over the ‘Net or via an FM broadcast transmitter large or small.
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