http://www.kevinalfredstrom.com Writings and Resources Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:52:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [caption id="attachment_1317" align="alignleft" width="270" caption="The bodies are counted just after Valentine's Day, 1945, in the aftermath of the Dresden Holocaust. American author Kurt Vonnegut was there. Emerging from a shelter into the smoldering ashes of the firebombed city of civilians and refugees, he told a fellow survivor "I'll never trust ... http://www.kevinalfredstrom.com/2009/07/the-dresden-holocaust-and-the-numbers-game/ FRENCH TRANSLATION PUBLISHED: Thanks to the 843@rien site for publishing a French translation of my essay Facing Racial Realities, and thanks also to the indefatigable Irmin Vinson for doing the translation. http://www.kevinalfredstrom.com/2009/06/french-translation-published/ ART GALLERY RESTORED: After a too-long absence due to serious damage done by hackers, my art and photography gallery is now back online! Let me know if you experience any glitches or missing images. There are categories for paintings, sculpture, portraits, personal photographs, digital art, and more. It can be ... http://www.kevinalfredstrom.com/2009/06/art-gallery-restored/ OUTRAGEOUS IMPRISONMENT: Two Britons -- Simon Sheppard, a writer and behavioral scientist, and Stephen Whittle, a freelance writer and satirist -- languished a year in American jails though they committed no crimes whatever under American law. They fled to the U.S. seeking asylum because they fell afoul of tyrannical ... http://www.kevinalfredstrom.com/2009/06/outrageous-imprisonment/ MORE WAR RUMBLINGS: It seems that the oligarchs of the so-called "West" (actually, Russia seems to stand for traditional Western values more than America or the EU does these days) not only want to conquer Iran, but to surround and intimidate Russia as well. According to South Ossetian political scientist ... http://www.kevinalfredstrom.com/2009/06/more-war-rumblings/ [caption id="attachment_1252" align="alignleft" width="270" caption="Iran's President Ahmadinejad flashes a victory sign after being reëlected by a wide margin. Before the election, even Western opinion polls showed him winning two to one. What is the real source of the post-election chaos?"][/caption] added commentary by Kevin Alfred Strom ACCORDING TO physicist and writer James ... http://www.kevinalfredstrom.com/2009/06/four-forces-pushing-for-war-with-iran/ [caption id="attachment_1197" align="alignleft" width="270" caption="A montage of Liberty Dollars, which may have been the most successful of all U.S. alternative currencies to date. Despite repeated Treasury assurances that their efforts were perfectly legal, the creators of this truly honest metal-backed money found themselves under arrest."][/caption] by Kevin Alfred Strom I'VE MENTIONED ALTERNATIVE ... http://www.kevinalfredstrom.com/2009/06/alternative-currency-now-a-crime/ [caption id="attachment_1182" align="alignleft" width="270" caption="US navy sailors line up beneath the First Navy Jack flag during the USS Kitty Hawk Departure Ceremony, August 2008."][/caption] by Kevin Alfred Strom PROOF WE ARE ruled and "protected" by dangerous morons can be found in this document, entitled "Crisis Controlled," from the Virginia State Police (VSP), ... http://www.kevinalfredstrom.com/2009/06/dangerous-morons/ THE FOUR FREEDOMS?: Corruption rules modern America. It is a truism, mentioned by Mike Gravel among many others, that both parties and their candidates take in considerable sums of money from hedge funds, oil companies, lawyers' associations, and numerous multinational corporations -- to say nothing of the Israel Lobby. But ... http://www.kevinalfredstrom.com/2009/06/the-four-freedoms/ [caption id="attachment_1160" align="alignleft" width="270" caption="James Madison and the Constitution, portrayed in a sculpture at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia"][/caption] by Kevin Alfred Strom SOME PEOPLE -- most notably lobbyists for the world's wealthiest ethnic group -- would like to see "speech codes," which make it a punishable offense to criticize persons ... http://www.kevinalfredstrom.com/2009/06/free-speech-and-the-constitution/