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AlbionMoonlite — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:43:57 GMT

Wyndham Lewis is an interesting writer. In my opinion he has not had much success with the modern reading public since he is not taught in school. Possibly in England he is better known for his art.

Baxter Went Down To the Ukraine and the Devil Went Down To Georgia And No One Fought Back

AlbionMoonlite — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:24:59 GMT

Ingredients in the Swine Flu H1N1 Vaccine; Resources, Risks and Dangers (October 29, 2009) http://yellowstaressentials.wordpress.com/2009/10/29/ingredients-in-the-swine-flu-h1n1-vaccine-resources-risks-and-dangers/ INGREDIENTS LIST: In addition to the viral and bacterial RNA or DNA that is part of the vaccines, here are the fillers: - aluminum hydroxide - aluminum phosphate - ammonium sulfate - amphotericin B - animal tissues: (pig blood, horse blood, rabbit brain, dog kidney, monkey kidney, chick embryo, chicken egg, duck egg, calf (bovine) serum - betapropiolactone - fetal bovine serum - formaldehyde - formalin - gelatin - glycerol - human diploid cells (originating from human aborted fetal tissue) - hydrolyzed gelatin - MSG (monosodium glutamate) - Neomycin - Neomycin sulfate - Phenol red indicator - Phenoxyethanol (antifreeze) - potassium diphosphate and monophosphate - Polymyxin B - Polysorbate 20 and 80 - Porcine (pig) pancreatic hydrolysate of casein - Residual MRC5 proteins - Sorbitol sucrose - Thimerosal (mercury) - tri(n)butylphospate - VERO cells (a continuous line of monkey kidney cells washed sheep red blood cells) CLIP - Much MUCH more THERE! Some of the potential health consequences of having those products in your bloodstream are listed HERE under Toxins in Seasonal Flu and Other Vaccines

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AlbionMoonlite — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:30:39 GMT

... but let Louis Aragon tell it: "At the cafe in the hubbub of voices, in plain daylight, and the elbowing, Robert Desnos has only to shut his eyes, and he speaks, and in the midst of the bocks, the saucers, the whole place collapses with a prophetic roar. ... Let those who question this formidable sleeper merely give him a nudge and immediately prophecy, the voice of magic, of revelation, of Revolution, the tone of the fanatic and the apostle rises to the surface. In other circumstances Desnos, little as he lends himself to that delirium, would become the leader of a religion, the founder of a city, the tribune of a liberated people. He speaks, he draws, he writes. He had a hand in drafting this for example: substitute any national power today like Israel for France, Israel in Gaza having used-not reported by Goldstone I add-flechette weapons designed to wound by flaying the already shred flesh - and white phosporus-the logical end of a World War I, World War II, Cold War, Post-9/11 world is of course human smoke. For centuries the soldiers, priests and civil agents of imperialism, in a welter of looting, outrage and wholesale murder, have with impunity grown fat off the colored races. Now it is the turn of the demagogues, with their counterfeit liberalism. But the proletariat of today, whether metropolitan or colonial, is no longer to be fooled by fine words as to the real end in view, which is still, as it always was, the exploitation of the greatest number for the benefit of a few slavers. Now these slavers, knowing their days to be numbered and reading the doom of their system in the world crisis, fall back on a gospel of mercy, whereas in reality they rely more than ever on their traditional methods of slaughter to enforce their tyranny. No great penetration is required to read between the lines of the news, whether in print or on the screen: punitive expeditions, Blacks lynched in America, the white scourge devastating town and country in our parliamentary kingdoms and bourgeois republics. War, that reliable colonial endemic, receives fresh impulse in the name of "pacification." France may well be proud of having launched this Godsent euphemism at the precise moment when, in throes of pacifism, she sent forth her tried and trusty thugs with instructions to plunder all those distant and defenseless peoples from whom the intercapitalistic butchery had distracted her attentions for a space. The most scandalous of these wars, that against the Riffians in 1925, stimulated a number of intellectuals, investors in militarism, to assert their complicity with the hangmen of jingo and capital. Responding to the appeal of the Communist Party, we protested against the war in Morocco and made our declaration in Revolution Now and Forever! In a France hideously inflated from having dismembered Europe, made mincemeat of Africa, polluted Oceania and ravaged whole tracts of Asia, we surrealists pronounced ourselves in favor of changing the imperialist war, in its chronic and colonial form, into a civil war. Thus we placed our energies in the service of the revolution - of the proletariat and its struggles - and defined our attitude toward the colonial problem, and hence toward the color question. Gone were the days when the delegates of this sniveling capitalism might screen themselves in those abstractions which, in both secular and religious mode, were invariably inspired by the Christian ignominy and which strove on the most grossly interested grounds to masochize whatever people had not yet been contaminated by the sordid moral and religious codes in which men feign to find authority for the exploitation of their fellows.

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AlbionMoonlite — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 06:03:10 GMT

http://marinrealestatebubble.blogspot.com/ http://www.brusselstribunal.org/ 'An affront to human dignity is an affront to me; and to protest against injustice is a matter of conscience. Are human rights of less importance to an artist than to other men? Does being an artist exempt him from his obligations as a man? If anything, the artist has an even greater responsibility, because he has been granted special sensitivities and perceptions and because his voice may be heard when others may not. Who, indeed, should be more concerned than the artist about the defence of liberty and free inquiry? Such fundamentals are essential to his creativity.' Pablo Casals

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AlbionMoonlite — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 04:25:01 GMT

We backwards forward past present future. anthropophagite manifesto by oswald de andrade may 1928 Only anthropophagy unites us. Socially. Economically. Philosophically. The world's only law. The masked expression of all individualisms, of all collectivisms. Of all religions. Of all peace treaties. Tupy, or not tupy that is the question.1 Against all catechisms. And against the mother of the Gracchi. The only things that interest me are those that are not mine. Law of man. Law of the anthropophagite. We are tired of all the suspicious catholic husbands put in drama. Freud put an end to the woman enigma and to other frights of printed psychology. What hindered truth was clothing, the impermeable element between the interior world and the exterior world. The reaction against the dressed man. American movies will inform. Sons of the sun, mother of the living. Found and loved ferociously, with all the hypocrisy of nostalgia, by the immigrants, by the slaves and by the touristes. In the country of the big snake. It was because we never had grammars, nor collections of old plants. And we never knew what was urban, suburban, boundary and continental. Lazy men on the world map of Brazil. A participating consciousness, a religious rhythm. Against all importers of canned consciousness. The palpable existence of life. And the pre-logical mentality for Mr. Levi Bruhl to study. We want the Carahiba revolution. Bigger than the French Revolution. The unification of all efficacious rebellions in the direction of man. Without us Europe would not even have its poor declaration of the rights of man. The golden age proclaimed by America. The golden age. And all the girls.2 Descent. The contact with Carahiban Brazil. Oú Villegaignon print terre. Montaigne. The natural man. Rousseau. From the French Revolution to Romanticism, to the Bolshevik Revolution, to the surrealist Revolution and Keyserling's technicized barbarian. We walk. We were never catechized. We live through a somnambular law. We made Christ be born in Bahia. Or in Belém do Pará.But we never admitted the birth of logic among us. Against Father Vieira. Author of our first loan, to gain his commission. The illiterate king had told him: put this in paper but don't be too wordy. The loan was made. Brazilian sugar was recorded. Vieira left the money in Portugal and brought us wordiness. The spirit refuses to conceive the spirit without body. Anthropomorphism. The need for an anthropophagical vaccine. For the equilibrium against the religions of the meridian. And foreign inquisitions. We can only attend to the oracular world. We had justice codification of vengeance. And science codification of Magic. Anthropophagy. The permanent transformation of Taboo into totem. Against the reversible world and objectivized ideas. Cadaverized. The stop of thought which is dynamic. The individual victim of the system. The source of classical injustices. Of the romantic injustices. And the forgetting of interior conquests. Routes. Routes. Routes. Routes. Routes. Routes. Routes. The Carahiban instinct. Life and death of hypotheses. From the equation I part of the Kosmos to the axiom Kosmos part of I. Subsistence. Knowledge. Anthropophagy. Against plant elites. In communication with the soil. We were never catechized. What we really did was Carnival. The Indian dressed as a Senator of the Empire. Pretending to be Pitt. Or featuring in Alencar's operas full of good Portuguese feelings. We already had communism. We already had the surrealist language. The golden age. Catiti Catiti Imara Notiá Notiá Imara Ipejú. Magic and life. We had the relation and the distribution of physical goods, of moral goods, and the goods of dignity. And we knew how to transpose mystery and death with the aid of some grammatical forms. I asked a man what Law was. He replied it was the guarantee of the exercise of possibility. That man was called Galli Matias. I ate him. Determinism is only absent where there is mystery. But what do we have to do with this? Against the stories of man, which begin at Cape Finisterra. The undated world. Unsigned. Without Napoleon. Without Caesar. The fixation of progress through catalogues and television sets. Only machinery. And the blood transfusors. Against the antagonical sublimations. Brought in caravels. Against the truth of missionary peoples, defined by the sagacity of an anthropophagite, the Viscount of Cairu:-It is the often repeated lie. But they who came were not crusaders. They were fugitives from a civilization that we are eating, because we are strong and vengeful as a Jabuti. If God is the consciousness of the Uncreated Universe, Guaraci is the mother of the living. Jaci is the mother of plants. We did not have speculation. But we had the power of guessing. We had Politics which is the science of distribution. And a planetary-social system. The migrations. The escape from tedious states. Against urban sclerosis. Against Conservatories, and tedious speculation. From William James to Voronoff. The transfiguration of Taboo in totem. Anthropophagy. The pater families and the creation of the Moral of the Stork: Real ignorance of things + lack of imagination + sentiment of authority before the pro-curious (sic). It is necessary to depart from a profound atheism to arrive at the idea of God. But the Carahiba did not need. Because he had Guaraci. The created objective reacts as the Fallen Angels. After Moses wanders. What have we got to do with this? Before the Portuguese discovered Brazil, Brazil had discovered happiness. Against the Indian with the torch. The Indian son of Mary, godson of Catherine de Médici and son-in-law of Don Antônio de Mariz. Happiness is the proof of the pudding. In the matriarchy of Pindorama. Against the Memory source of custom. Personal experience renewed. We are concretists. Ideas take hold, react, burn people in public squares. Let us suppress ideas and other paralyses. Through the routes. To believe in signs, to believe in the instruments and the stars. Against Goethe, the mother of the Gracchi, and the Court of Don João VI. Happiness is the proof of the pudding. The struggle between what one would call the Uncreated and the Creature illustrated by the permanent contradiction between man and his Taboo. The quotidian love and the capitalist modus vivendi. Anthropophagy. Absorption of the sacred enemy. To transform him into totem. The human adventure. The mundane finality. However, only the pure elites managed to realize carnal anthropophagy, which brings the highest sense of life, and avoids all the evils identified by Freud, catechist evils. What happens is not a sublimation of the sexual instinct. It is the thermometric scale of the anthropophagic instinct. From carnal, it becomes elective and creates friendship. Affectionate, love. Speculative, science. It deviates and transfers itself. We reach vilification. Low anthropophagy agglomerated in the sins of catechism-envy, usury, calumny, assassination. Plague of the so-called cultured and christianized peoples, it is against it that we are acting. Anthropophagi. Against Anchieta singing the eleven thousand virgins of the sky, in the land of Iracema- the patriarch João Ramalho founder of São Paulo. Our independence has not yet been proclaimed. Typical phrase of Don João VI:-My son, put this crown on your head, before some adventurer does! We expelled the dynasty. It is necessary to expel the spirit of Bragança, the law and the snuff of Maria da Fonte. Against social reality, dressed and oppressive, registered by Freud-reality without complexes, without madness, without prostitutions and without the prisons of the matriarchy of Pindorama. Oswald de Andrade In Piratininga Year 374 of the swallowing of the Bishop Sardinha. -------------------------------------------------------------- 1 Original in English [T.N.]. 2 Girls: Original in English [T.N.]. Originally published in Revista de Antropofagia, n.1, year 1, May 1928, São Paulo. Translated from the Portuguese by Adriano Pedrosa and Veronica Cordeiro. « back

The Swine Flu (aka 'H1N1) That's Not A Flu At All --ACHTUNG BABY

AlbionMoonlite — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:17:46 GMT

Our Advertisers Represent Some Of The Most Unique Products & Services On Earth! The Swine Flu (aka 'H1N1) That's Not A Flu At All Lawrence Broxmeyer, MD ©2009 All Rights Reserved 10-25-9 The current Swine "flu" pandemic began in La Gloria, a pig-farming village in the Veracruz mountains of Mexico. Surely, if any place could unlock the true nature of the cause of the 2009 Pandemic, it would be found in La Gloria, whose villagers were certain that they were sickened by the surrounding pig farms, which they accused of polluting their air and water with pig waste. This is much like what happened in Haskell County, Kansas in 1918, original site of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918. But Enrique Sanchez, top official from Mexico's Agriculture Department, could not find H1N1 in mucous samples taken from the pigs several weeks later, on April 30th. Common bacteria were also tested for. However no studies were done to rule out Swine tuberculosis which is predominantly avian and to a lesser extent bovine, and could have also accounted for the wholesale "respiratory" problems the villagers were experiencing. Mexican health officials, overlooking the La Gloria situation initially, downplayed it, much as health officials everywhere are prone to do. Yet of 43 villagers whose mucous samples were taken, only one, a 5-year-old boy, was confirmed as having Swine Flu. So head investigator from the Biotechnology Institute of the National Autonomous University of Mexico there, Dr. Carlos Arias, told the AP: "I cannot understand it. I could almost bet that there were more infections related to the virus." Soon, more than half of La Gloria's 3,000 residents fell ill with FLU-LIKE illness, etiology unknown. 450 of the sickest of these where treated not with anti-virals such as Tamiflu, but with antibiotics and masks. What was the diagnosis handed out? Why it was "acute respiratory infections", and by the time the mucous results came through in early April, most of the villagers had recovered, the more serious cases on antibiotics alone. The "virus" seemed to have left their systems. But the question lingers: since antibiotics don't cure "viruses" what infectious disease in these purported "Influenza" victims had been cured by the antibiotics given? On June 3rd, 2009 in Global Research, a curious article by F. William Engdahl appeared, entitled "Sarkozy's Secret Plan for Mandatory Swine Flu Vaccination". In it Engdahl plainly stated that "The only problem with the Swine Flu (H1N1) Vaccine, is that to date, neither WHO nor the US Government's Center for Diseases Control (CDC) have succeeded to isolate, photograph with an electron microscope, or chemically classify the H1N1 Influenza A virus". Furthermore there was no scientifically published evidence that French virologists have done so either. Therefore, mentioned Engdahl, "To mandate a vaccination for a putative (supposed or assumed to exist) disease that has never been characterized, is dubious to say the least." Engdahl had done his homework. When questioned regarding the electron pictograph of H1N1 that the CDC recently came up with on their website, he revealed his source, German virologist Dr Stefan Lanka, an expert on the documentation of viruses, attesting to the fact that the H1N1 picture was bogus. The virologist wrote that he had "written the CDC many times as to who made the H1N1 photo's and whether they where scientifically documented as to chemical characteristics and other properties." There was never any reply. He concluded "If CDC refuses to cite the source of the photos, they are fake." Worse yet he said "The photos are merely liposomes, microscopic artificial sacs whose walls are a double layer of phospholipids, used to carry substances such as drugs, vaccines, and enzymes to specific cells or organs of the body. These have been artificially presented by a process where chick embryos or cell cultures are killed, reduced and then centrifuged with some solvent, to then, in a vacuum, be nanofiltered." As if this wasn't enough, the virologist testified that "Such a structure has never been characterized in either an organism or its fluids. Furthermore, if there wasn't for the centrifuge/solvent/nanofiltration manipulation, not to mention the precipitation procedure, such particles could never be presented under the electron microscope. In conclusion, without the isolation of the H1N1, there is no H1N1 infecting virus" Engdahl wasn't finished. "Even more bizarre is the admission by the US Government's Food and Drug Administration, an agency responsible for the health and safety of its citizens, that the 'test' approved for premature release to test for H1N1 is not even a proven test. More to the point", continues F. William Engdahl, "there is no forensic evidence in any of the deaths reported to date that has been presented that proves scientifically that any single death being attributed to H1N1 Swine Flu virus was indeed caused by such a virus." These thoughts were only strengthened when Engdahl looked into "Novavax, a US pharmaceutical company based in Rockville, Maryland, (who) conveniently enough just announced it is developing a vaccine for H1N1 based on 'virus-like particles'". 'Virus-like particles' do not mean virus. Viral-like, cell-wall-deficient forms of tuberculosis, for example, also appear virus-like and apparently.. so also did non-infectious liposomes. Both the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) are fully aware of a far more serious and ongoing tuberculosis Pandemic in the world today. Yet they choose to downplay the link, disregarding the similar flu-like symptoms tuberculosis often begins with. WHO freely admits that there were approximately 1.8 million deaths from tuberculosis in 2007, the most recent year for which data are available as well as that presently about one-third of the world's population, or two billion people, carry the TB bacteria. The "H" and "N" of influenza sub-typing, revolves around two glycoproteins called Hemagglutin (H) and Neuraminidase (N), both of which can be, and are, associated with infectious diseases such as the minuscule, viral forms of tuberculosis, a disease which ought to be high on the differential diagnosis for 'flu-like illness' . An August, 2008 Medline study in the Journal of Clinical Biochemistry showed that sputum neuraminidase levels over 1.0 mU per mL were proven associated with having tuberculosis in 92% of cases. Previous to this, bacteria closely related to TB were shown, through crystallization, to produce the same protein neuraminidase used to subtype 'Influenza'. Furthermore, as of 2006, it has become obvious in Menozzi's study that similar to Influenza, Tuberculosis not only uses Hemagglutin to attach to the lung's epithelial cells it invades, but requires Hemagglutin for dissemination of the disease to the rest of the body. Khomenko's 1993 study, showed that the explosive contagiousness of just such influenza-like forms of tuberculosis are exactly the stuff that previous epidemics and pandemics could have been made of. Khomenko was mentioned by Nobel nominee Lida Mattman in her textbook. That is exactly why, that in response to the present world "flu" pandemic, Japan's Health Ministry's Tuberculosis Infection Diseases Control Division deputy director Takeshi Enami went hand in hand with Yoshio Nanba, director of The Office of Pandemic Influenza Preparedness and Response, to attend a news conference in Tokyo on May 1, 2009. But back in the US, the CDC and NIH seem to feel differently, ignoring everything but "the virus". There was much the same "Influenza" talk when in 1990, a new multi-drug-resistant (MDR) tuberculosis outbreak took place in a large Miami municipal hospital. Soon thereafter, similar outbreaks in three New York City hospitals left many sufferers dying within weeks. By 1992, approximately two years later, drug-resistant tuberculosis had spread to deadly mini-epidemics in seventeen US states, and was reported, not by the American, but the international media, as out of control. Viral forms of swine, avian and human TB can be transmitted from one species to another. By 1993 the World Health Organization (WHO), proclaimed tuberculosis a global health emergency. (1) 1918 AND TODAY No one can deny the similarities between the onset of the 1918 epidemic and that of today, yet a Press Release, issued on August 19, 2008, by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), contains a striking finding and conclusion: The 20 to 40 million deaths worldwide from the great 1918 Influenza ("Flu") Pandemic were NOT due to "flu" or a virus, but to pneumonia caused by massive bacterial infection."(2) Subsequently, a study published in JAMA by Talbot and Moore (3) in 2000 showed that Mexican immigrants to the US have the highest case rates for tuberculosis among foreign born persons. Mexico is the country where Swine Flu deaths were first documented. The research of Lawrence Broxmeyer MD (4) first proclaimed that the 1918 pandemic was due to bacteria, particularly mutant forms of flu-like fowl, swine, bovine, and human tuberculosis (TB) bacteria: ( http://drbroxmeyer.netfirms.com/001pdfBIRDFLUEDITORIALPUBLISHED.pdf ). These forms of tuberculosis are often viral-like, mutate frequently and can "skip" from one species to another. Moreover the antibodies from such viral TB forms react in the compliment fixation and later "viral" assays (5). They also grow on cultures which are supposed to grow only viruses. In a supportive 16-page-paper which appeared in Population and Development Review, University of California demographers Andrew Noymer and Michael Garenne came up with convincing statistics showing that undetected tuberculosis may have been the real killer in the 1918 flu epidemic (6). THE ROOTS OF HISTORY Noymer's TB hypothesis stands sound against history. Few flu "experts" are aware that in medical texts printed circa 1918 "Influenza" was attributed not to a virus but a bacteria called Mycobacterium influenzae, discovered by Pfeiffer and Canon (7) in 1892......not exactly a coincidence since Richard Pfeiffer worked, at one time, for Robert Koch, the discoverer of tuberculosis, a disease also caused by another bacillus called Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Both mycobacteria stained best with carbol-fuchsin, a bacterial stain commonly used in the staining of mycobacteria as it has an affinity for the mycolic acids found in their cell walls. Mycobacteria such as tuberculosis are particularly deadly because they share properties of the fungi ("myco-") as well as bacteria. TB was, not all that long ago, referred to as "captain of the men of death". And it never lost its potential to kill. Mycobacterium influenzae was considered by most to be the cause of influenza until 1933. But there were serious diagnostic problems with Mycobacterium influenza. Stengel and Fox warned (8) about them in their widely quoted W.B. Saunder's 1915 version of "A Textbook of Pathology". Problems with identification revolved mainly in that although the bacterial influenza occurred abundantly in the sputum of flu patients at first, it decreased in quantity as the cases advanced. And when purulent expectoration stopped, whether the disease was still active or not, Mycobacterium influenzae "disappears entirely"(8). In 1933 English physicians Wilson Smith, Christopher H. Andrewes, and Patrick P. Laidlaw(9) removed secretions from the throat of a humans with flu-like symptoms thought to have "influenza", and then filtered out a suspected infectious agent, which by virtue of the fact that it went through a filter was falsely proclaimed, from the onset, to be "a virus". Injecting it into ferrets, the ferrets then developed the same flu-like symptoms which Smith, Andrews and Laidlaw summarily declared as "influenza". In addition Sir Christopher Andrewes suggested, with the help of Burnet and Bang, that the term "myxovirus", meaning "mucous virus", be incorporated into a family name for the Influenzas. This, one imagines, was because the organism came from mucous secretions. But to government pathologist and pioneer physician/researcher William M. Crofton, who by virtue of his office as County pathologist had examined some of Laidlaw's human "Flu" samples, Laidlaw's entire study was flawed. Crofton found Laidlaw's Flu samples to be laced with the bacillus Mycobacteria influenzae, which by then had been renamed Haemophilus Influenzae. To Crofton this bacilli was the common denominator for the Pandemic of 1918 he had witnessed, although the bacteria could be accompanied by an array of opportunistic organisms such as Staph and Strep. Crofton publically and personally confronted and challenged Laidlaw to come to his laboratory for the proof that his Influenza samples weren't viral. Crofton was convinced by the confirmation of scientists like Calmette at Pasteur regarding how certain forms of tuberculosis, appearing both minuscule and viral, could pass through the smallest of filters. Crofton himself then established that tuberculosis could disappear into tissues as viruses did, and then go through filters which stopped cold even most of those "now invariably called viral disease". "Surely, then", Crofton concluded, "Tuberculosis has more right to be considered a true virus than these(10)." So, at a time when viral forms of TB where scantily being documented, Crofton struggled to link H. Flu with the TB it so often infected in coordination with, as historical and political momentum carried Laidlaw's study through for posterity. A great opportunity was missed to correct the record. Frank Macfarlane Burnet was the first to grow "Influenza" in a laboratory setting; in 1940 he grew influenza in embryonated chicken eggs, using the allantoic sac. He obviously considered such a technique "Influenza" specific, never bothering to consider that such an allantoic site might also be an excellent site for culturing the viral or Cell-Wall-Deficient (CWD) forms of tuberculosis and the mycobacteria. Viral TB, in fact grows there as early as 6 hours after introduction into such a place in chicken embryos(11). Furthermore, some of the filamentous forms of tuberculosis mentioned by Corper (12) appear similar to those attributed to ''Influenza'' by biochemist and Influenza guru Burnet (13). It wasn't because Burnet didn't know that bacteria could assume viral forms. The first, and for a time the only virologist in Australia, it was Burnet who discovered bacteria in viral forms of Q-fever (14). And in that same paper, proclaiming Virology as an Independent Science , and after admitting that viruses, including influenza, are composed of the same sorts of material as bacteria, Burnet struggles to differentiate Influenza by the fact that it ''probably has no DNA'' and was therefore exclusively RNA.(Ibid.). But, according to Xalabardar, some cell-wall-deficient mycobacterial forms also are exclusively RNA. Furthermore, points out Xalabarder, such cell-wall-deficient tubercular forms are true antigens, all of which, similar to Influenza, induce the production of specific antibodies detectable by complement fixation tests, such as those originally used to detect Influenza (5). CONCLUSION In a landmark study(15), Dr. Robert Donaldson, working out of the Pathological Society of Great Britain had ruled out that the mycobacteria now referred to as H. Influenza by itself was behind 1918, perhaps because of its disappearing nature. Yet at the same time he quickly added that there wasn't "the slightest shred of evidence" that the disease was due to a "virus" or influenza. Nor was Donaldson ever able to refute Broxmeyer and Noymer's feelings that TB was behind the many deaths in the pandemic, specifically because it is well known that secondary bacterial infections, be they from opportunistic Haemophilus influenza or any other common bacteria, are a common secondary manifestation in TB-infected lungs. During the pandemic, one-third of patients who had Haemophilus influenza were also found to have tuberculosis - keeping in mind, as always, that many other cases with TB went undiagnosed. In order to understand why we have this emphasis by those virologists invested in a 'killer flu' in the US today, one must look back historically at the science itself. Until the late 1940s influenza 'viruses' were studied as infections, which, although filterable, were conceived of as analogous to bacteria, a kind of ultra or viral-like bacteria. Not to be deterred, and still seeing Influenza as a great opportunity for virology, in 1941 virologist Hirst claimed that influenza ''virus'' could agglutinate (or clot) red blood cells of fowl and other animal species(16). Such a hemagglutinin discovery, in turn, led to fast assays of what is thought to be Influenza. The "H" in H1N1 comes to us through Hirst, who showed that ''virus'' particles first adsorbed to the red cells and, after a certain time, eluted again as a result of what could be interpreted as an enzymatic reaction. But 6 years later, Middlebrook and Dubos(17) made this seem nothing more than a cheap hat trick by showing that similarly red blood cell agglutination could be produced by sera from patients with tuberculosis. Takahashi and Ono(18,19) reviewed similar red cell agglutination occurring in the presence of tuberculous serums. As Influenza historian van Helvoort aptly pointed out (20), indeed, in the 1930s and 1940s the concept of 'filterable viruses', including Influenza, were subject to such criticism that Virology's very foundations were threatened. Dogmatized statements like those coming from pioneer virologist Andre Lwoff in 1957 : ''Viruses should be considered as viruses because viruses are viruses''(21) were totally unacceptable, and did little to help the situation. So it was in 1952 that Cornelius P. Rhoads, Director of Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research in New York City, remarked in a conference introduction that the term ''viruses'', such as that of Influenza, had achieved ''a high professional status with doubtful credentials''(22). Perhaps in his authoritative text, The Pathogenesis of Tuberculosis, Johns Hopkin's head of pathology, Arnold Rich summed things up best: "In relation to the question of the effect of influenza upon tuberculosis, it should be pointed out that in many cases in which pulmonary tuberculosis has been thought to have followed an attack of influenza it is altogether probable that the supposed attack of influenza was, in reality, a manifestation of an existing tuberculous infection; for tuberculoprotein, whether absorbed from a spreading lesion or injected into the body, can cause constitutional symptoms (fever, malaise, headache, joint pains, anorexia, prostration) quite like those of influenza." (23) As Professor Hans Rosling ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8bUtbODV-Q http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8bUtbODV-Q) has so aptly pointed out: during the initial 13 days that WHO started gaining data on Swine Flu Deaths, April 24-May 06, 2009, 31 people died of Swine Flu. 29 of these were in Mexico and 2 in the US. During this same 13 day window, 63,000 people, around the world died of tuberculosis. (http://www.who.int/research/en). What we have today, is a pandemic with "flu-like" symptoms. And flu-like symptoms doesn't necessarily mean "Influenza" is its underlying cause. Readers interested in the subject of Influenza/TB can also go to Dr. Ron Paul, MD's take at: HYPERLINK "http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22507.htm \\ _blank"http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22507.htm Other relevant links include:also applicable to the current Swine Flu epidemic include: (http://www.frequencyfoundation.com/2009/07/bird-flu-influenza-and-1918-case-for.html) And: (http://www.frequencyfoundation.com/2009/07/swine-flu-do-we-really-have-right.html#links) REFERENCES 1. Talay F Kumbetli S Altin S Factors associated with Treatment Success for Tuberculosis Patients: a Single Center's Experience in Turkey Jpn. J. Infect. Dis., 61,25-30, 2008. 2. DM Morens et al. Predominant role of bacterial pneumonia as a cause of death in pandemic influenza: Implications for pandemic influenza preparedness. The Journal of Infectious Diseases DOI: 10.1086/591708 (2008). 3. 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Hemagglutination reaction by the phosphatides of the tubercle bacillus. Kekkaku no Kenkyu (Tuberculosis Res) 1957;7:1. 19. Takahashi Y, Ono K. Study on the passive hem agglutination reaction by the phosphate of M. tuberculosis. 1. The reaction and its specificity. Am Rev Resp Dis 1961;83(2): 20. van Helvoort T. History of virus research in the 20th century: the problem of conceptual continuity. Hist Sci1994;32(2):185235. 21. Lwoff A. The concept of virus. The third Marjory Stephenson Memorial Lecture. J Gener Microbiol 1957;xvii:23953. 22. Rhoads CP. Introduction {to a conference on viruses as causative agents in cancer}. Ann NY Acad Sci 1952;liv:8723. 23. Rich, AR The Pathogenesis of Tuberculosis 2nd Printing. Charles C. Thomas Publisher. Springfield, Illinois 1946. 1008 pps.P.627 Lawrence Broxmeyer, MD Whitestone, New York 11357 nyinstituteofmedicalresearch@yahoo.com

How online protesters are using the GRIPE SITE

AlbionMoonlite — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 06:57:30 GMT

92-year-old's website leaves oil giant Shell-shocked The Guardian, Monday 26 October 2009 Article history At 92 years old, Alfred Donovan is an unlikely online campaigner. But he and his son John, 62, have been a painful thorn in the side of Royal Dutch Shell for more than a decade. The pair run one of the oldest and most effective "gripe sites", and the oil giant's army of well-paid lawyers do not know how to neutralise them. The number of so-called "gripe sites", which exist to criticise, mock, and generally annoy companies, people, and institutions, has exploded in recent years, and the trend is set to continue. Take this month's campaign against the super-injunction obtained by the lawyers Carter Ruck on behalf of Trafigura. Thousands of Twitter users, empowered and astonished at the campaign's success, are expected to look afresh at how the internet can be used to fight against big business. "The anti-Trafigura campaign really brought home – even to someone like me – the power of the internet and new media," says John Donovan, a former marketing entrepreneur. "Once, you could never hope to take on companies that had loads of money and lawyers. Now there is an alternative to legal action. You can make a big impact with very little cost." Last week the Donovans were leafleting outside Shell's London HQ to advertise their website, www.royaldutchshellplc.com. But they hardly need the publicity – the site had more than 2m hits last month – and leafleting was just another way of goading a company they have been at war with since the early 1990s. The site is so successful that Kremlin officials and US investigators have used it. Journalists, knowing that the site regularly receives juicy leaks from Shell employees, search it for stories. Since setting up his first anti-Shell site in 1995, Donovan estimates he has published about 24,000 articles about the company. One early and successful gripe site was www.mcspotlight.org, founded after the celebrated McLibel trial involving McDonalds in 1997. Another site, www.ihatedell.net, carved a niche as a forum for critics of the Dell computer company. Dell's answer was to engage with its critics rather than use legal muscle to close them down. In contrast the investment bank Goldman Sachs failed in a legal bid against www.goldmansachs666.com. Katy Howell, the director of Immediate Future, which specialises in social media, believes Dell made a textbook response to its gripe site. "Dell spoke to its critics and responded to their concerns. They turned a negative into a positive," she says. The Donovans' campaign was prompted by a grievance over claims that Shell stole intellectual property from their marketing company. The legal bills from four court cases in the 1990s almost crippled the two men. Shell fully investigated the Donovans' claims, and in 1999 agreed a "peace deal" under which the pair got an undisclosed sum. However, the payment was far less than the £1m they wanted. The Donovans claim Shell then breached the agreement by talking publicly about the case. Shell denies breaching any part of the agreement with the Donovans. Since then, Shell is thought to have contacted the Donovans at least once, using a middle man, to resolve the dispute. John Donovan will not comment on this but shows no sign of agreeing to mediation. Four years ago Shell was embroiled in a bitter dispute with Russia's environmental regulator over drilling for gas at Sakhalin Island. It was eventually forced to relinquish its majority stake in the project, costing Shell billions in lost revenue. Later, the regulator, Oleg Mitvol, publicly acknowledged the Donovans' help in getting information about alleged claims of environmental abuses by Shell. The company has denied breaking any environmental regulations. Earlier this year the site disclosed plans for thousands of Shell job losses. And now, Donovan says, he is helping US investigators looking into the award of oilfield drilling licenses, providing them with information leaked to his website. The site has broadened its coverage to include other stories about the oil and gas industry. "I knew when I started the site that if it was static – just with the same story – people would visit us once and never again," says Donovan. "So I brought in a news element, mixing negative but also positive stories about Shell." But "kicking" Shell is still the site's raison d'etre, and Donovan has no intention of easing up. "My father is 92. So if I live that long there's still plenty of years to pursue my little hobby." Shell says of the Donovans: "We disagree fundamentally with much of the information and basis on which they make their allegations." The Donovans live in Essex but the website is hosted in Dallas, Texas, and is incorporated in America as a non-profit operation. US laws offer better protection against closure attempts. Shell tried to regain the website name, calling the Donovans cybersquatters, but in 2005 the World Intellectual Property Organisation dismissed the application. Would Donovan stop if Shell waved a large cheque? "It's gone beyond money," he says, but he has no doubt that Shell's lawyers are watching closely, waiting for a slip-up that would give the company a chance to go on the attack.

UFO Researcher Found Dead in Apartment-Mac Tonnies of Posthumanblues

AlbionMoonlite — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 05:31:34 GMT

I do not know if he was killed. I know other researchers have been killed. I know many microbiologists have been killed. I also know that my own work on this subject has brought me to the place Mac Tonnies reached. O'course I am just a doper in San Francisco and not a blogger or anyone at all. I am unread. He was read. Author on UFOs Mac Tonnies found dead in apartment « on: Today at 12:08:07 PM » http://www.sott.net/articles/show/195422-Author-on-UFOs-Mac-Tonnies-found-dead-in-appartment Reading this article made me wonder just what information he had that had to be squashed. His latest book, as stated in the article, is completed and about to be delivered to the publisher. Time will tell if the family decides to do that. What is interesting is the title of the current book he's working on: The Cryptoterrestrials: Indigenous Humanoids and the Aliens Among Us. Here's an excerpt that may give some insight into where he was going with that idea: http://dad2059.wordpress.com/2008/10/08/are-ufo-aliens-really-aliens/ Quote Mac Tonnies, a writer for aboutSETI.com and his own blog Posthuman Blues, posits that extraterrestrial aliens aren’t doing the experimenting, it’s something much closer to home: …the notion that advanced aliens — presumably thousands of years more advanced than us — would rely on kidnapping unsuspecting humans to obtain genetic samples seems singularly clumsy. It’s more likely that a civilization capable of traveling between stars (or burrowing through space-time itself) would possess a knowledge of genetic engineering surpassing our own. Indeed, it’s tempting to speculate that a civilization only a few hundred years in advance of our own would have mastered the fundamentals of nanotechnology, rendering the need for “punch biopsies” and forcible semen extraction — let alone craft with portals and landing gear — obsolete. This leaves us to consider that the “aliens,” instead of hailing from some distant star system, are in fact closely related to us and may originate much closer to home. Their frequent allusions to outer space, such as the celebrated “star map” shown to abductee Betty Hill, may be a subterfuge crafted to further our collective infatuation with “space visitors” — a fascination set firmly in place by the controversial “contactees” who preceded the emergence of the modern abduction epidemic by at least a decade. (Former Ministry of Defense UFO investigator Nick Pope deals refreshingly with the contactee movement in his book “The Uninvited,” questioning the conventional wisdom that all those claiming benevolent contact with human-looking ETs were hoaxers and cranks. Instead, noting the distinct vein of duplicity that accompanies the history of paranormal visitation, he proposes that at least some of the contactees may have been dealing with genuine “others.” That these “others” made their first appearance as space travelers shortly after the creation of nuclear weapons, while typically attributed to social factors, may belie their terrestrial origin: If you lived among savages with increasingly destructive devices at their disposal, it may prove all too tempting to intervene, but in a way than denies your own existence at the same time it propagates your message.) If we share our planet with indigenous humanoids — and I think the case for terrestrial origin is at least as robust as the Extraterrestrial Hypothesis — then it would certainly appear that we’re numerically — if not technically — superior. The “others” would be forced to live at the periphery of normal human perception, perhaps utilizing techniques analogous to recent breakthroughs with brain-machine interfaces and “mind control.” Tonnies goes on to say that these beings often go out of their way to change our perceptions, saying that, ” …so many encounters with apparent aliens involve exposure to chemicals and needles inserted into the victim’s head. Sometimes close encounter witnesses are asked to drink noxious-tasting beverages prior to conversing with the “crew,” or subjected to imagery that can be ascribed to psychedelic “conditioning.” It would certainly seem that the aliens — terrestrial or otherwise — prefer to alter our perceptions prior to establishing contact. Given the selfish motives attributed to UFO occupants by researchers like Hopkins, the most coherent explanation for these techniques is that we’re being compelled to participate without the luxury of trusting our senses… “. He was supposedly posted excerpts on his blog according to his website, but I haven't been able to find them. http://www.mactonnies.com/bio.html http://posthumanblues.blogspot.com/

Who was Walter Benjamin and who is Slavoj Zizek anyhow?

AlbionMoonlite — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 01:48:01 GMT

O what spleen filled rage drives me forward? I think it is the haunting notion that my past life in Poland had me end up as a uselss eater. This time around I PROMIS i will not be so useless. Government by Goldman Sachs bothers me as much as government by Dick Cheney. Even the prozac in the water and the chemtrails in the air can't stop me from chattering on and on like some post-modern Cassandra. O we live in the time of the Mystic Bourgeoise. If you’ve ever read Zizek you know how much he loves to rip into New Age spirituality. Here’s a gem from his article in the volume: Postcolonial critics like to dismiss Christianity as the “whiteness” of religions: the presupposed zero level of normality, of the “true” religion, with regard to which all other religions are distortions or variations. However, when today’s New Age ideologists insist on the distinction between religion and spirituality (the perceive themselves as spiritual, not part of any organizationed religion), they (often no so) silently impose a “pure” procedure of Zen-like spiritual meditation as the “whiteness” of religion. The idea is that all religions presuppose, rely on, exploit, manipulate, etc., the same core of mystical experience, and that it is only “pure” forms of meditation like Zen Buddhism that exemplify this core directly, bypassing institutional and dogmatic mediations. Spiritual meditation, in its abstraction from institutionalized religion, appears today as the zero-level undistorted core of religion: the complex institutional and dogmatic edifice which sustains every particular religion is dismissed as a contingent secondary coating of this core. The reason for this shift of accent from religious institution to the intimacy of spiritual experience is that such a meditation is the ideological form that best fits today’s global capitalism. Slavoj Zizek, “The Fear of Four Words: A Modest Plea for the Hegelian Reading of Christianity,” in The Monstrosity of Christ: Paradox or Dialectic, ed. Creston Davis (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2009) 27-28.

Decadence

AlbionMoonlite — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 05:24:33 GMT

I am as guilty as any I confess. Myra Breckenridge stirred me as a child and I have never recovered. I came to the St. Francis hotel and the Zoo as a child in 1967 and never returned to Sacramento. Like many Queers in San Francisco I have a political agenda around freedom. Unlike most it is not around the freedom to fuck or marry. In a real sense I am indifferent. The State has no hold on me. It may compel but that is it. I do not pay tax and I live cheap. Am I free? O existentially of course I am despite being determined by history: Mom born in 1918, Dad earlier still. Science Fiction and the 60's made me. All else but a footnote to Dad nearly dying when I am 6 at a trout lake in PA; trauma after trauma in childhood forced me to fight back against the ignorant hirelings. Now that In-Q-Tel sold the program to the CIA or NSA or PLA to keep track of my feelings about Obama-Mao I just thought I'd make clear my particular position. Mao was a despot and Obama was born in Kenya. Imagination will come to power, that I PROMIS. Exclusive: U.S. Spies Buy Stake in Firm That Monitors Blogs ... Oct 19, 2009 ... In-Q-Tel says it wants Visible to keep track of foreign social media, ... For Microsoft, the company is monitoring the buzz on its Windows 7 rollout. ... And if all goes well, the company's software will be used in pilot ... www.wired.com/.../exclusive-us-spies-buy-stake-in-twitter-blog-monitoring- firm/ - Cached - Similar CIA Invests in In-Q-Tel to Monitor Blog Posts | The Blog Herald Oct 20, 2009 ... Visible Technologies is a software firm specializing on social media ... I don't think the guys at the CIA In-Q-Tel are all Peter Parker ... www.blogherald.com/.../cia-invests-in-in-q-tel-to-monitor-blog-posts/ - Cached - Similar The CIA's In-Q-Tel venture arm invests in Visible Technologies Oct 19, 2009 ... In-Q-Tel, the venture arm of the CIA and the U.S. Intelligence community, ... " Our software could help to automate that process of collection and sentiment and ... namely an investment in monitoring service Attensity. ... www.techflash.com/.../the_cias_in-q-tel_venture_arm_invests_in_visible_ technologies.html - Cached - Similar US spy agencies invest in Internet-monitoring company « intelNews.org Oct 21, 2009 ... In-Q-Tel, the CIA's venture-capital investment arm, is funding a private software company specializing in monitoring online social media, ... intelligencenews.wordpress.com/2009/10/21/01-281/ - 15 hours ago - Similar

The 900 year old dead alien from Mexico

AlbionMoonlite — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 04:33:57 GMT

In the summer of 2003 the Starchild's DNA was sequenced and analyzed by Trace Genetics, a laboratory dedicated to the recovery of ancient DNA. (At 900 years of age, the Starchild DNA is considered "ancient.") Two types of DNA were sought, its mitochondrial DNA (which contains only the mother's DNA) and its nuclear DNA (the entire genomic package that comes from both parents). Its mitochondrial DNA was easy to recover and proved its mother was human. In six full attempts its nuclear DNA could not be recovered. This was an overwhelming indication that its father was something other than entirely human, but that was all that could be determined by that process. What was needed, but was unavailable at the time, was a test to recover the entire genome so the genetic heritage of both parents could be recovered and studied in detail. In the summer of 2006 a company called 454 Life Sciences (now a Roche Applied System company) announced it had developed entirely new technology that would allow the sequencing of an entire genome base-pair by base-pair, all 3.0 billion (in a typical human). This new technology, called the Genome Sequencer™ system, is capable of recovering and sequencing the entire genome of the Starchild Skull. When this result is obtained, its genome can then be compared in every detail to other known genomes such as human, chimp, and even Neanderthal (which has been sequenced by the 454 technique). Thus, the question of the Starchild's genetic heritage can conclusively be resolved. Unfortunately, the initial cost of this DNA analysis was in the millions of dollars, putting it well out of range for anything other than sequencing the Neanderthal's DNA (a result all of science is anxious to have). While that was bad news for the Starchild Project team, it wasn't devastating. Everyone understood that improvements in 454 technology would drop the price over time, so the team accepted that testing could not be initiated until sometime in 2009 or 2010. Now testing with the 454 Life Science technology is the final hurdle the Starchild faces. It can be done for a price in the range of $200,000. While expensive, it can provide something money can't buy, which is making history on an almost unimaginable scale. It can prove beyond any shadow of scientific doubt that at least once on planet earth 900 years ago an alien being lived....and died. OVERVIEW OF THE SKULL > The skull's bone is about half as thick as normal human bone. > The bone weighs about half as much as normal human bone. > The bone is substantially stronger than any known bone on planet Earth, with a mineral profile more like dental enamel than bone. > The bone was radio carbon dated to be 900 years old (+/- 40 years). > The skull was reportedly found in an abandoned mine tunnel in the Copper Canyon region about 100 miles SW of Chihuahua, Mexico. > The skull is morphologically unique, and does not match the physical profile of any known human deformity. > The bone of the skull contains an as yet unidentified reddish residue that had never been seen before in bone (this is not desiccated bone marrow). > The bone of the skull contains microscopic fibers that have never been seen before in the bone of any animal. > Attempts to recover DNA from the skull easily produced its mitochondrial DNA, which proved its mother was fully human. However, no nuclear DNA could be recovered using human-only primers, which strongly indicates that the skull's father was something other than a typical human.

Think on This O Beings of Light and Darkness: Micro Nuclear Weapons and September 11

AlbionMoonlite — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 18:26:32 GMT

The Recent National Geographic Channel TV Hit Piece on 9/11 Truthers by The Anonymous Physicist The Nat Geo Channel recently aired a 2- hour special on 9/11 Truthers’ objections to the OCT (Official Conspiracy Theory) put out by the U.S. Gov’t, on the WTC destruction. It was clearly a “hit piece” on numerous levels. The show was comprised of a back and forth on the WTC destruction aspects. The “truthers,” and the supporters of the OCT--the 9/11 Commission Report--mostly politely stated their opposing views. However, the only “truthers” shown were all thermite supporters: Architect Richard Gage, young Dylan Avery of the Loose Change film “fame,” the 9/11 thermite hypothesizer himself, Steven Jones, PhD, and the theologian, David Ray Griffin. No mention of what really destroyed the WTC--micro-nukes--nor of the China Syndrome Aftermath was allowed. My readers know well that I have no doubt that the thermite “hypothesis” is nothing but an Intel agency created limited hangout, to desperately try to hide what really destroyed the WTC. I have written three lengthy articles archived here http://bogus911science.wordpress.com/, proving the thorough falsity of the arguments in papers by Jones et al, promoting thermite, or “super nano-composite thermite”, as being the agent for WTC destruction. In fact, there was one very strange “thermite moment” in this show. Now when one of these NGC experiments showed that thermite failed to explode, Steven Jones remarked that nano-thermite has more explosive properties than regular thermite; and he actually said “nano-thermite such as made by Lawrence Livermore Labs--which implicates them [smiling sheepishly]…” So Jones and this show actually leave us with the implication that a U.S. Laboratory was involved in making the alleged WTC destruction agent! Except, of course, “nano-thermite” was not. But what has LL Labs’ primary task been, since the 1940’s? Yes, design of NUCLEAR weapons. Was this another hint by Jones, and the NGC controllers, that LL Labs’ designed NUCLEAR weapons destroyed the WTC? So what else was aired during this NGC/Regime hit piece? Within minutes, Dylan Avery says that the No Planes Theory is ludicrous. This despite the blatantly, obvious proof that all videos are purely nothing but CGI, and that they all contain exhibited behavior of both the South Tower, and the alleged plane, showing Zero Interaction Physics. Then also within minutes, the show flashes two “33’s” one from a poll of New Yorkers, and the other on a flatbed containing WTC evidence--the coveted double 33--often used to denote something nuclear, as I have revealed. Also near the beginning, Griffin calls the towers’ destructions, “implosions.” This despite his “colleagues” calling them “explosions.” Is this a slip-up? And if not, at what level is Griffin’s disinformation? It may be at a superficial level, as all these hidden intel assets really are put in place to destroy their own hangout, and support the OCT. And the regime’s number one stooge for tower “collapse” mechanism “explanation, Z.P. Bazant’s papers claim that 80% of the tower ends up in its footprint--thus perhaps it can be called an “implosion” if that is true. Of course, the vast majority of the towers went variously up in smoke (vaporized), or was flung beyond its footprint. My analysis of Bazant’s work, and calling for his arrest for outright fraud for lying about the crucial smallest dust particle size found by scientists is also here: http://bogus911science.wordpress.com/ But is there a deeper reason for Griffin contradicting himself, and his colleagues, with the “implosion” statement at the beginning? It is possible that the regime’s stooges are ordered to leave little hints all about--like the double 33, already noted. Indeed while the towers are exploding outward and upward (vaporized contents rising), what initiated the destruction and caused the vaporization--and dust particle sizes much smaller than the regime’s stooge alleges--could only have been small nuclear bombs. And these fission bombs are initiated by the IMPLOSION of sub-critical, fissioning components into a super-critical mass. So it is possible Griffin, and the NG Channel, were ordered to include this implosion statement, as an “homage” to what really took out the WTC! Then the several “experiments” depicted, and the “expert” opinions of several pro-OCT people, are hardly even worth noting. The experiments were thoroughly irrelevant to the WTC event! They included shooting a projectile at a set of thin, supposedly concrete slabs (not thick steel as was the outer structure of the towers), and some conventional building demolition. There was also a steel beam softening experiment. Fire in open air was claimed to have reached a temperature of over 2000 degrees F., and led to the beam buckling. Of course, this is irrelevant for many reasons. The open air was not what was happening regarding the towers, where any alleged jet fuel was 1.expended in the outside explosions, and whose smoke color--black--denoted a low temperature fire inside the oxygen deprived area. The claim that the shock of impact took off all asbestos coating on the beams, is also ludicrous; and obviously both necessary for the regime’s position, and an outright lie. Yes, all these “experiments” and the comments made by the OCT supporting stooges were ludicrous and irrelevant to the WTC set of events! As already noted, there appears to have been much included here at a deep level for those who have studied my works as here: http://anonymousphysicist.com At one point, a night-time flyover the new WTC area shows the three largest buildings remaining in a row. They all have pyramids on their tops. And they are aligned similarly to both the Giza pyramids, and what those are modeled after-- the Orion belt stars. Numerous other Intel stooges are paraded out as “journalists or “historians.” These assets claim basically that there has never been a conspiracy, beyond what the Regime states happened. The Pearl Harbor set-up, the Kennedy Assassination, and 9/11 are all stated to only have occurred exactly in the impossible manners that the regime has declared for each one. Of course, one glaring omission by these stooges, in claiming that “Oswald alone did it”--in violation of the inviolable Law of Conservation of Momentum, as Kennedy is slammed backward against the momentum of the claimed incoming bullet from behind him--is the fact that the Regime itself said there was at least another shooter when the House Assassinations Committee, in the late 1970’s, released its report. So basically the Regime jumped on this chance to not only try to shoot down “9/11 Truth,” but also the truth of the Pearl Harbor set-up, and the Kennedy Assassination. Indeed I have noted here before, that even the Pearl Harbor set-up was acknowledged by no less than President Richard Nixon, that President Roosevelt knew ahead of time, and set it up to happen. This was included in a book by Daniel Ellsberg, “Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers.” So these regime “journalists” and “historians,” as well as the “experts” and their “experiments,” did not recite a single word of truth during this 2-hour “special.” Neither alas did the bogus “truthers”: Gage, Jones, Avery, and Griffin. This is standard for the somewhat clever way the Intel agencies work, in putting out several bogus hangouts to appear to be the only possibilities for some dastardly deed perpetrated by the Regime. Then they get them to “war” with each other publicly. But probably they later go out celebrating together at Langley or London. But my “favorite” stooge, who just recited one stupid, ignorant lie after another about 9/11, the JFK Assassination, Pearl Harbor, etc. was David Aaronovitch, who closed the show for NGC. His bio includes the fact that he was awarded the “George Orwell Prize for his political writing in 2001.” Yes Big Brother is proud of this Intel asset for his “journalism.” But despite all these lies, the people are more and more realizing that the World Trade Center could only have been destroyed by micro-nukes http://wtcdemolition.blogspot.com/and the China Syndrome http://wtc-chinasyndrome.blogspot.com/ resulted. And this realization, and the Regime’s fear, are the reasons the Regime put out this ludicrous hit piece on 9/11. And the need for the ludicrous denial of ALL conspiracies, and especially the global conspiracy against Mankind, also indicate that more people are finding out that the Ultimate Conspiracy leads to a set of knowledge http://74.220.219.64/~myhealu9/AP/quarantine.htm that they fear would enrage Mankind so much that an uprising would attempt to eradicate those in control of Mankind, and their agents/lackeys--some dozen or so of which (on “both” sides) were depicted in this risible TV show, posing as “journalism.”

Laugh

AlbionMoonlite — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 03:35:13 GMT

Humor Under Communism East German Jokes Collected by West German Spies By Hans-Ulrich Stoldt and Klaus Wiegrefe DPA The Trabant was a favorite butt of jokes in communist East Germany. Did East Germans originate from apes? Impossible. Apes could never have survived on just two bananas a year. Such jokes were whispered in communist East Germany -- and West German spies recorded them diligently to gain insights into the public mood, according to recently released intelligence files. "What would happen if the desert became communist? Nothing for a while, and then there would be a sand shortage." Jokes like that made the rounds among East Germans during the communist era, and West Germany's intelligence service would collect them, as a way to assess the public mood behind the Iron Curtain but also to amuse its masters in Bonn, the West German capital. Here's another one: "Why does West Germany have a higher standard of living than we do? Because communists can't get work permits there." The ubiquitous Trabant or Trabi, East Germany's legendary plastic car with its clattering two-stroke engine, was a favorite butt of jokes as well. Like this one: "A new Trabi has been launched with two exhaust pipes -- so you can use it as a wheelbarrow." The jokes were gleaned from secretly opened letters and phone conversations that agents from West Germany's Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) would monitor in their quest for East German state secrets during the Cold War. Intelligence services around the world tend to value every snippet of information they get and the BND was no different. It scrupulously collected and filed the jokes and dispatched them to Bonn during the carnival season each year, much to the delight of civil servants. The BND has just released the files it kept on East German humor. Carnival Treat for West German Officials The joke report was by far the most popular service the spies provided. "It was our biggest hit," recalls former BND spy Dieter Gandersheim, whose real name is of course quite different. The Chancellery and the ministries couldn't wait for the file, he said. It wasn't just about livening up the gray civil service routine. The jokes gave insights into what ordinary East Germans were thinking about their regime and about current events. The Chernobyl nuclear accident in 1986 spawned a new proverb, for example: If the farmer falls off his tractor, he must be close to a reactor. Chernobyl, incidentally, wasn't an accident, another joke went. It was just a Soviet program to X-ray its population. East Germans weren't averse to secretly lampooning their political leaders, bureaucracy or the chronic supply shortages that plagued the country, even though it was risky for them. "Political jokes thrive in dictatorships," says Christoph Kleeman, a former official from the Birthler Authority, which was set up after German unification to manage the archives of the East German secret police, or Stasi. "Anyone who tells one or laughs about one creates democracy for a brief moment, and brings the regime leaders down to his level." Playing With Fire Christmas has been cancelled, goes another joke. Mary didn't find any diapers for the baby Jesus, Joseph was called up to the army and the three kings didn't get a travel permit. The BND's joke reports were often preceded by an analysis of the political and economic situation in the German Democratic Republic. In the early 1980s, when the Polish government imposed martial law in response to strikes against food price increases and demands for political reform, the BND reported that some East German workers had also downed tools, and it gave the following analysis: "The GDR leadership believes the population is resilient and ready to make sacrifices but it is prepared to take tough action if necessary to prevent 'Polish conditions.'" It added a chapter on "Political jokes on the supply situation." Like this one: "Why can't you get any pins in East Germany anymore? Because they are being sold to Poland as kebab skewers." "Telling jokes was playing with fire," says Kleemann. The Stasi had 91,000 employees and a network of around 189,000 civilian informants to spy on the East German population of 17 million. It regarded every political joke as a potential threat. Anyone who poked fun at the representatives of the organs of state and society was subject to prosecution. "There were cases of people who were jailed, it was particularly bad in the 1950s and 1960s," says Kleemann. Here's one example about how that risk was lampooned: "There are people who tell jokes. There are people who collect jokes and tell jokes. And there are people who collect people who tell jokes."

Almost Right Now

AlbionMoonlite — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 03:28:15 GMT

I am lucky and get to attend the show from NYC regarding Futurism at Brava. Fascism arose from Futurism so I am naturally interested in the performance of the Manifesto and short Futurist pieces. Yet really, thanks to Amor de Cosmos, I realize and understand that before Italy was France. SCENE II The great hall of the palace. Papa Ubu, Mama Ubu, officers and soldiers ; Lap, Battery, Cotice ; nobles in chains; financiers, magistrates, clerks. SUBTERRANEAN NOISES. Kneading the glottises and larynges of the jaw without a palate, How fast the printer prints! The sequins tremble like the windmill's vanes, The leaves fall, in the teasing of the wind. The jaw of the skull without brains chews up the strangers brain, Sundays, on the hill, to the sound of fifes and drums, Or on red-letter days, in the endless cellars of the palace. Unfolding and explaining, the Debraining Machine, How fast, how fast, the printer prints! PAPA UBU. Bring in the noble crate and the noble hook and the noble knife and the noble book! And then - bring in the nobles! The Nobles are brutally shoved in. MAMA UBU. Restrain yourself, Papa Ubu, for goodness' sakes. PAPA UBU. I have the honour to inform you that to enrich the kingdom I'm going to kill all you nobles and take your possessions. NOBLES. Horror! To us, people and soldiers! PAPA UBU. Bring the first Noble, and pass me my Noble hook. Those that are condemned to death I'll put through the trapdoor and they'll fall into the basement of Pinchpork and then into the room below where their brains will be removed by the debraining machine. (To the 1 st Noble.) Who are you, you buffoon? FIRST NOBLE. Count of Vitepsk. PAPA UBU. What's your income? FIRST NOBLE. Three million rixdales. PAPA UBU. Condemned! He grabs the Noble with the hook and puts him down the hole. MAMA UBU. What base ferocity! PAPA UBU. Second Noble, who are you? (The Noble says nothing.) You going to answer, dirt bag? SECOND NOBLE. Grand Duke of Posen. PAPA UBU. Excellent! Excellent! That's all I want to know. Into the hole! Third Noble, who are you? You have a dirty head. THIRD NOBLE. Duke of Courlande and of the cities of Riga, Ravel, and Mitau. PAPA UBU. Very well! Very well! Don't you have something else? THIRD NOBLE. Nothing. PAPA UBU. Into the hole then! Fourth Noble, who are you? FOURTH NOBLE. Prince of Podolie. PAPA UBU. What's your income? FOURTH NOBLE. I am skint. PAPA UBU. For using foul language, you go in the hole. Fifth Noble, who are you? FIFTH NOBLE. Margrave of Thorn, Palatine of Polack. PAPA UBU. That's not much. Don't you have anything else? FIFTH NOBLE. It is sufficient for me. PAPA UBU. Hey well!. It is better to have little than nothing. Into the hole! What are you snivelling about. Mama Ubu? MAMA UBU. You are too ferocious, Papa Ubu. PAPA UBU. Hey! I'm becoming richer. I'm going to have them read me MY list of MY possessions. Herald, read me MY list of MY possessions. THE HERALD. Earldom of Sandomir. PAPA UBU. Begin with the principalities, you dickhead! THE HERALD. Principality of Podolie, Grand-Duchy of Posen, Duchy of Courlande, Earldom of Sandomir, Earldom of Vitepsk, Palatinate of Polack, Margraviate of Thorn. PAPA UBU. What else? THE HERALD. That's all.

DADA or COBRA

AlbionMoonlite — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 04:10:32 GMT

COBRA COBRA's origin is dialectical, lying as it does in surrealism, but more specifically in the rejection of surrealism's spurious doctrines. There was a 'surrealist' group in Belgium from 1926, but it developed in a different direction from those who fell under the influence of Breton in Paris. In Belgium, there was little interest in mysticism or automism. Christian Dotrement (1922-1981), a key figure in the COBRA movement,(1) became involved with the Belgian surrealists following the publication of his first pamphlet 'Ancienne Eternite', a long love poem. He established contact with Breton in Paris, but was eventually forced to break with him over the questions of mysticism and the Communist Party. On returning to Europe after World War II, Breton wanted nothing to do with the Communist Party and tried to make 'magic' the focal point of surrealist de activity. In 1947, Dotremont responded by forming the 'Revolutionary Surrealist Group' to "renew surrealist experimentation, to affirm its independence and the simultaneous necessity for common action". In his lectures and theoretical writings, Dotremont always stressed the need for collective activity. At the Revolutionary Surrealist Group's first meeting in October 1947, Dotremont made use of Henri Lefebvre's recently published "Critique Of Everyday Life", and emphasised that 'surrealist' experiment must take place within the context of everyday life. The Danish painter Asger Jorn (1914-1973) was an immediate supporter of Dotremont's group. Jorn had already met Breton and dismissed the Parisian group of surrealists as 'reactionaries'. At this time, Jorn was a central figure in the Host group. This was a union of painters, writers, and architects, who had originally gathered around the magazine "Helhesten" ("House Of Hell"), which was published in Copenhagen between 1941 and 1944. Its members included the painters Jacobsen, Alfelt, and Bille; the writers Schade and Nash (Jorn's brother); and the architect Olsen. "Helhesten" contained an eclectic variety of material, ranging from imagery critical of consumer society to texts on jazz, from poetry to writings on negro art, from cinematic criticism to surveys of nordic culture. Dotremont and Jorn had been introduced to each other by the Dutch painter Constant (born Amsterdam 1920).(2) Jorn fIrst met Constant at a Miro exhibition in Paris in 1946, and again by chance in a cafe later the same day. Constant was to prove vital in the formation of COBRA. In 1948 he founded the Dutch group Reflex, whose membership included Appel and Corneille. In their magazine, also called Reflex. the group published literary texts, poetry, studies in popular culture, and theoretical elaborations of their experimental platform (which included opposition to the standardising influence of De Stijl). The fIrst issue of Reflex contained two texts by Constant, one a manifesto, the other a Declaration of Freedom in which he states: "In the unprecedented cultural emptiness that has followed the war... in which the reigning class increasingly pushes art into a position of dependence... We find established a culture of individualism which is condemned by the very culture that has produced it; because its conventionality prevents the exercise of imagination and desire, and impedes vital expression... There cannot be a popular art, even if concessions such as active participation are made to the public, while art forms are historically imposed. Popular art is characterised by vital expression, which is direct and collective. "A new freedom is about to be born, one which will allow people to satisfy their creative desires. As a result of this process, the profession of artist will cease to occupy a privileged position; which is why some contemporary artists are resistant to it. In the period of transition, artistic creation finds itself at war with the existing culture, while simultaneously announcing a future culture. With this dual aspect, art has a revolutionary role in society". In this tract we can read what would, more or less, become the COBRA platform. The COBRA group was constituted in November 1948, after six delegates walked out of a conference at the "International Centre For The Documentation Of Avant-Garde Art" in Paris, protesting at the facile level of debate. The six met at a cafe on the Quai St. Michel, where they formed a dissident group. A short statement was drawn up by Dotremont ("the only reason to maintain international activity is experimental and organic collaboration, which avoids sterile theory and dogmatism") and signed by Constant, Appel and Corneille, on behalf of the Dutch group Reflex; by Jorn on behalf of the Danish group Host; and by Dotremont and Noiret on behalf of the (mainly Belgian) Revolutionary Surrealist Group. Dotremont invented the name COBRA (made up from the first letters of the cities COpenhagen, BRussels, Amsterdam) a week or two later. The first COBRA manifestation took place within weeks of the group being formed. This was as a part of the annual Host co-operative exhibition in Copenhagen. At this time the individual groups that made up COBRA had yet to amalgamate fully, and were thus semi-autonomous. From its initial formation, COBRA grew to number about fifty painters, poets, architects, ethnologists and theorists, from ten different countries. The number might have been larger, if the Iron Curtain hadn't cut through the cultural and political life of Europe. In its early days COBRA was in contact with the Czech group Ra, and works sent from Prague by Josef Istler were shown as part of COBRA's 1949 exhibition in Amsterdam. Unfortunately repression in Czechoslovakia ended these contacts. COBRA's activities covered meetings, exhibitions, exchanges, and the production of the magazine "COBRA". Most of this activity was directed by Constant, Dotremont and Jorn, although the magazine was to be published by different groups, using French as a common language. Although COBRA worked as a collective, the group was not without tensions. Constant, Jorn, and their wives took a holiday on the island of Bomholm in summer of 1949. It was here that Jorn started an affair with Constant's wife Matie, whom he later married. This met with disapproval, particularly on the part of various Danish COBRA members, who felt that Jorn should not have taken up with another painter's wife while the painter was a guest in their country. There were also political problems to be faced by the movement. Dotremont, Jacobsen, and a number of others were forced to break with the Communist Party over its support for social realism. This did not weaken the movement's political conviction ("He who has the experimental spirit must necessarily be a communist" - Dotremont). However, although it was glaringly obvious that the CP would never accept Dotremont's dictum that "the patch of colour is a scream in the hands of a painter... a scream of its very substance", the break was preceded by a good deal of soul searching. The movement was, from its inception, critical of surrealism. In the text "Le Discours Aux Pingonins", published in "COBRA 1", Jom analyses Breton's definition of surrealism as 'pure psychic automism' using materialist dialectics. Here, by referring to his conscious experimental position, he demonstrates that individual creativity cannot be explained purely in terms of psychic phenomena. Explication is itself a physical act which materialises thought, and so psychic automism is joined organically to physical automism. In a letter to Jorn, Dotremont warned of the three dangers to the autonomous development of COBRA - surrealism, abstract art, and social realism. One of the movement's major projects was the creation of a new urban environment - which would manifest itself in opposition to the rational architecture of Le Corbusier. Michel Colle, in an article in the first issue of "COBRA" writes: "...buildings must not be squalid or anonymous, neither should they be show pieces from a museum; rather they must commune with each other, integrate with the environment to create synthesised 'cities' for a new socialist world." It was the painter Constant who was to develop the COBRA concept of unitary urbanism(3) and take this conception with him into the Situationist International (SI). It was also Constant, in the 1949 editorial to the fourth issue of "COBRA", who elaborated a number of theses concerning desire, the unknown, freedom and revolution, which would later become central to the SI: ".....to speak of desire means to speak of the unknown, of the desire for freedom... The freedom of our social life, which we propose as a first commitment, will open the door to a new world... It is impossible to know a desire without satisfying it, and the satisfaction of desire is revolution... Today's culture, being individualistic, has replaced creation with 'artistic production', and has produced no more than signs of tragic impotence... To create is always to discover what one doesn't know... It is our desire that makes revolution".(4) Internal and external pressures caused COBRA to disband in 1951. In "Ce Que Sont Les Arnis De COBRA Et Ce Qu'ils Representent", published in the second issue of "Internationale Situationiste" (December 1958), Jorn and Constant sum up the legacy of COBRA with the following words: "In '51, the International of Experimental Artists broke up. The representatives of its most advanced tendency continued their pursuits in new forms; but others abandoned experimental activity, and now use their 'talent' to make the COBRA picture style, the only tangible result of the movement, fashionable" .

5770 C.E.

AlbionMoonlite — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 01:53:39 GMT

Circe Offering the Cup to Ulysses is an oil painting in the Pre-Raphaelite style by John William Waterhouse that was created in 1891. The painting depicts a scene from Greek mythology, the sorceress Circe offering Ulysses a cup containing a potion with which she seeks to bring him under her spell as she has his crew. The crew have become swine as you know. So here we are in 5770 C.E. and much murkiness has been banished from the world. We know for instance one African epic about a hero named Mwindo. This epic is told in many parts of Africa. The most complete and poetic version of the Mwindo story is heard in Myanga country which is in the eastern part of Zaire, The Mwindo epic has all the characteristics of a Greek or Roman epic. This epic could be compared to Homer's Odyssey or the tales of Hercules. The hero, Mwindo , has a miraculous birth, and he is a great hunter. His story depicts supernatural beings and the metamorphoses of human beings. Mwindo's travels take him to the underworld. Mwindo has a celestial journey where he is lifted into the sky and returned to earth by lightning after an adventurous year. The hero also possesses magical powers which enable him to perform Herculean tasks. All of the elements of the Mwindo epic can be discussed and compared to the trials of Odysseus or his son, Telemachus. And the feats of the African hero Mwindo can be compared with those of Hercules. We also know in some respects with more explicatory power the rise and fall of civilization than the Greeks-we are their children after all as they were the children of Africa once upon a time. This exponential die-off has failed to kill sufficent numbers to enable the system to assure itself of being Ulysses making it out of the hallucination in the bawd house of Circe.

CONTINUOUS JEOPARDY

AlbionMoonlite — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 23:26:23 GMT

I am not a web-bot. Yet, using only the internet and math, I found this article on 7 "TOP" CIA bottom feeding men going back to Nixon who say like patriots-"HANDS OFF THE CIA." Even in the censored reports provided to us we know of techniques outlawed by civlized nations who prefer to butcher innocents from afar with bombs and soldiers. Civilized standards apply I know to H-bomb warfare where only military targets will be found by the precision cruise missiles, but not our torture chambers which we subcontract out to Poland or Egypt or Syria if we need to keep up with the flow of detainees. It is admirable then in a sense Eric wants to do something to make torture happen under rules akin to Boxing. Perhaps he can provide a list of vaccine ingredients in the native language and have the CIA interrogator with a syringe ready to go. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder last month named a prosecutor to examine whether criminal charges should be filed against Central Intelligence Agency interrogators or contractors for going beyond approved interrogation methods, including using a power drill and death threats to scare detainees. The former CIA chiefs countered that the cases had already been investigated during the Bush administration and lawyers had declined to prosecute all but one contractor. "This approach will seriously damage the willingness of intelligence officers to take risks to protect the country," they said in the letter. "In our judgment, such risk-taking is vital to success in the long and difficult fight against terrorists who continue to threaten us." The letter to Obama was signed by three CIA directors under President George W. Bush -- Michael Hayden, Porter Goss and George Tenet -- as well as by John Deutch, James Woolsey, William Webster and James Schlesinger, who dates to the Nixon administration. Obama has said he wants to look forward beyond the Bush administration, which civil liberties groups have accused of using torture to coerce information from suspected militants in violation of U.S. and international law. But Obama has also said the matter was up to Holder, who decided in late August to reopen the cases because "it is clear to me that this review is the only responsible course of action for me to take." The White House declined to comment. The Washington Post, citing two sources briefed on the matter, reported on Friday night that the Justice Department review would focus on only a very small number of cases, including one in which an Afghan prisoner died at a secret CIA facility in Afghanistan seven years ago. 'CONTINUOUS JEOPARDY' Bush administration officials, including former Vice President Dick Cheney, have repeatedly defended their actions and said the interrogations yielded valuable information. The former CIA directors warned that Holder's decision "creates an atmosphere of continuous jeopardy" for those involved and that there was no reason to believe the investigation would be narrowly focused. They also warned that releasing more details about interrogation methods could help al Qaeda operatives elude U.S. intelligence efforts and plan operations. "Disclosures about CIA collection operations have and will continue to make it harder for intelligence officers to maintain the momentum of operations that have saved lives and helped protect America from further attacks," they said. Cheney, who has called the investigation "political," has made similar points about the interrogation tactics having saved lives and protected the country, although his critics say there is no proof of that. A CIA's inspector general's report detailing the harsh interrogation techniques noted that they did not succeed. A spokesman for Holder said, with the recommendation of the Justice Department's ethics office and other information, the attorney general decided to name a prosecutor to investigate. "The attorney general's decision to order a preliminary review into this matter was made in line with his duty to examine the facts and to follow the law," said spokesman Matt Miller. "As he has made clear, the Department of Justice will not prosecute anyone who acted in good faith and within the scope of the legal guidance given by the Office of Legal Counsel regarding the interrogation of detainees."

Prague: Principles of pleasure, coup d’état of dreams

AlbionMoonlite — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 06:18:20 GMT

http://www.surrealism1968.net/ My intention is show how surrealism responded to and participated in the electric events of ’68, and to suggest how an understanding of the movement’s past can help instigate the next tremors to run through the atmosphere. To paraphrase Lautréamont, it is only a matter of having the awareness and insolence to accept them. Prague: Principles of pleasure Pro-Moscow Czech Communists seized control of the country in a coup d’état in February 1948; anti-Stalinist communists and socialists were arrested, imprisoned, or sent to forced-labor camps. In the Stalinist purges that followed in Cold War Eastern Europe, it has been estimated that the number of Marxists viciously persecuted by their own in the 1950s far exceeded those victimized by anti-communist forces in the 1930s and early 1940s. Not surprisingly, this “hollowing out” helped the Soviet puppet-masters exert greater control over the day-to-day affairs of life in the satellite states, and Czechoslovakia was certainly no different in those respects, but when Khrushchev’s de-Stalinization program was instigated in the mid-1950s, many Czech apparatchiks found themselves in increasingly untenable positions. By 1963, controls had relaxed enough to allow for surprisingly sharp criticisms of the Stalinist old guard that frantically scrabbled to hold onto Party power in Czechoslovakia, and these attacks became more vigorous as economic, educational, housing, and healthcare policies collapsed in the mid-1960s. Students and workers battled police and the military in the streets; as the Czech Stalinists wrestled to regain control over the growing voices of dissent that were coming to dominate cultural, artistic, and intellectual life, they were outflanked by reformist Slovak Communist Party members who resented forty years of Soviet-directed Czech Communist hegemony. By January 1968, the reformist Communists were in control. As the political and cultural climate in Czechoslovakia thawed, surrealists emerged into the light and warmth of spring. Czech and Slovak surrealists had been active since the late 1930s, thanks in no small part to the efforts of the brilliant graphic artist and theorist Karel Teige but were forced into the shadows by the Nazi occupation of the early 1940s. After the war, Stalinist watchdogs reviled surrealism as “perverted” and “monstrous”—Teige was branded as a “Trotskyite degenerate” and died in 1951 before he could be arrested and tortured like his friend and surrealist fellow traveler Záviš Kalandra, a Marxist critic who had been hanged after confessing to a ludicrous litany of espionage charges forced into his mouth by Czech secret policemen earlier that same year. Obviously, the opportunity to interrogate and condemn twenty years of police-state Marxism had surrealists openly engaging in agitation to push the new “socialism with a human face” reforms towards more libertarian dimensions. Vratislav Effenberger, Ivan Svitak and other Czechoslovak and French surrealists (including Vincent Bounoure, Claude Courtot, and José Pierre) organized s a major International Surrealist Exhibition called “The Pleasure Principle” in April 1968 that traveled from Brno to Bratislava and then to Prague. The exhibition orbited around four key themes: play, the truth of automatism, law-breaking, and the laws of the night. In conjunction with the show, a series of dialogues took place between the principal figures in both groups on the challenges of creativity in contemporary society and the histories and futures of surrealism. A forum series on these issues was even organized at the Socialist Academy of Prague where people from outside the inner workings of these groups could observe and participate. Special publications of these meetings were planned, but because of the Soviet crackdown, not all of them were ever fully materialized. The title of the exposition derived from Freud’s writing but aspired to terms well beyond the rarified confines of psychoanalytic theory. As Freud explained, the Pleasure Principle was that set of psychic impulses that drives children to find happiness, entertainment, enjoyment, and satisfying indulgence at all times for all needs and wants. As children mature, Freud postulated, “the ego is educated to become reasonable”—to avoid the anxiety resulting from unfulfilled desires, the quest for pleasure must be tempered by a rational understanding that reality requires the individual work, suffer, sacrifice, put off, or otherwise deny gratification. In short, a person grows to understand that she or he must “obey the Reality Principle, which also at bottom seeks to obtain pleasure, but a pleasure that is assured through taking account of reality, even though it is pleasure postponed and diminished,” Freud wrote. But the surrealists were not inclined to resign themselves to the grim inevitability of Freud’s schema—borrowing from the works of renegade Freudo-Marxists like Wilhelm Reich and Herbert Marcuse, the surrealists argued that the “rational understanding” of the Reality Principle was more likely a “rationalized understanding” that conditioned us all to accept repression in the name of what was realistic, practical, logical, responsible, and efficient. In other words, the smothering of the Pleasure Principle by the norms and forms of the Reality Principle was an attack on freedom at the most primal and intimate level; all institutions of domination and control manipulate the sly vocabulary of the Reality Principle in order to thwart desires of those being oppressed “for their own good.” Marcuse’s Eros and Civilization (1955) is crucial to understanding surrealist explorations of the Pleasure Principle: “The history of man is the history of his repression,” Marcuse says. “Our civilization is, generally speaking, founded on the suppression of instincts.” (The French surrealists first explored some of these ideas in their 1965 exhibition, “Absolute Deviation.”) Theories of the Pleasure Principle, surrealism, and Marcuse’s socialist blueprints for a “non-repressive civilization” built on “non-alienated libidinal work” are absolutely central to understanding surrealism in 1968, but more complete explanations are best left for a separate study. Suffice it to say that that the dialectical jiu-jitsu between the Pleasure Principle and the Reality Principle in the realm of the social were not without relevance for Czechoslovakians in 1968. As Party bureaucrat Alexander Dubcek struggled to steer his reformist regime through a post-Stalinist minefield between April and August of that year, the energies of pleasure and possibility of long-repressed people delightfully destabilized the nation. But the renaissance of the Prague Spring was being sharply criticized by anxious Communist governments in other East European states that feared such a outbreak of liberty among their own serfs. Just after sunset on August 20, Czechoslovakia was invaded by 250,000 troops from the USSR, East Germany, Poland, Hungary, and Bulgaria. Insurgents battled the invaders but to no avail—Soviet tanks reduced neighborhoods to ruins and an unknown number of resistance fighters were killed in the fighting. Dubcek was abducted by Soviet secret police commandos, tortured, and made to publicly renounce on Czech national television all the changes that had begun to take place since January. Within months, a savage crackdown on all cultural, intellectual, and social experimentation in Czechoslovakia was in full effect. When the Czechoslovakian surrealists’ periodical Analogon was denounced as “a Trojan horse of Western imperialism” on the state-run radio network, the surrealists disbanded and scattered, some fleeing into exile while others disappeared into the shadowy world of secret meetings and hand-circulated samizdat. The Reality Principle had returned to Czechoslovakia with a vengeance. Paris: All power to the imagination While some of the French surrealists were in Czechoslovakia to help with “The Pleasure Principle” exposition, a chain reaction of revolt crackled throughout Paris. In March 1968, following a string of bombings against the Paris offices Chase Manhattan Bank, the Bank of America, and Trans-World Airlines for their involvement in the Vietnam War, dissatisfied university students at the Nanterre branch of the University of Paris organized demonstrations against the De Gaulle regime, demanding changes in curriculum, employment regulations, and campus infrastructure. Throughout April, the protests increased in intensity and scope; parallel to this, unrest was growing among workers against the government as well over issues of minimum wages, a forty-hour work-week, and retirement benefits, but these, too, grew to accommodate much larger themes, such as Taylorist assembly lines, trade-union bureaucracies, capitalist exploitation, the artificial consumerist desires of commodities, and the rule of political elites. By the beginning of May, the anger of Nanterre had spread to other Parisian campuses, notably the Sorbonne, where the university administration invited French police to forcibly break up the on-campus protests. Within a week, the student uprisings had braided together with the striking workers, creating a kind of revolutionary resistance to the government whose demands went well beyond reforms to schools and the workplace. It was the largest strike wave in the history of the industrialized West, fueled by a decade of simmering radical working-class discontent; in addition to walk-outs, ad-hoc workers’ councils occupied factories and workshops against the wishes of their union stewards and Communist Party parliamentary representatives. Barricades went up on the streets as students, workers, and others joined hands against French security forces. Widespread police brutality brought others out into the streets in protest, and by mid-May 1968 the nation’s capital (and some cities in outlying provinces) was paralyzed by wildcat general strikes. In a premonition of what would happen in Prague three months in the future, army tanks and armored troop carriers began appearing on the ring roads around the city. After securing the allegiance of the French Fifth Army for possible action against the French people, De Gaulle appealed on television for the patriotic silent majority to take to the streets in counter-protest of the rebels. Off-camera, he caved in to many of the workers’ and students’ demands and in effect defused the situation. By July, the revolts were over and a parliamentary coalition of conservative nationalists faithful to De Gaulle had control of the government. The surrealists in Paris were tuned in to the situation and were prepared to assist in any way they could—they were aware of the troubles smoldering on the campuses and made mention of them in statements from early February and March, 1968. When the protests erupted in late April, they were quick to back them unequivocally. Their May 5 pamphlet “No Pastors for this Rage!” urged the streetfighters to reject any attempt to centralize their rebellious efforts under the direct control of any clique of leaders. The special June 1968 issue of their paper L’Archibras was little more than an urgently-compiled collection of short, seething declarations in support of the rebels. “Let’s systematically insult all lovers of flags, ribbons, crosses, and medals until they might finally be ashamed of being inscribed on the honor roll of a rotten society,” one essay howls. “Let’s defile all monuments to the war dead and turn them into monuments of ingratitude … We owe no one anything … Down with national heritage! Down with patriotic and patronal patrimony! ... The only just war is a civil war because it is only then that one knows the enemy one is killing. Men and women of France, we appeal to your rage.” Another inspired and accurate text was “A Portrait of the Enemy,” which described the dangerously toxic precepts inherent in the terms “realism” and “realistic” and which, for the most part, continue to be accurate in 2008, such as “Realism is the occupation of all reality by just the reality of policemen”; “All political parties and all trade unions are realist institutions motivated by fear of consciousness that develops from the imagination and by the fear of the desire to changes reality”; and “Anything realist is senile. Everything senile is realist.” Much has been said about the wild, utopian joy that sprouted unexpectedly among the insurgents that spring. As had been the case in Prague in April, the surrealists saw this as a historical moment when the forces of individual desire could be mobilized and dialectically advanced to the tipping point of all-out social revolt. And if the wall-posters and graffiti art is to be believed, then some of the insurrectionaries were very consciously invoking and evoking radical social theorists during their struggles. Quotes attributed to Breton and other surrealist slogans peppered the streets: “Imagination is not a gift—it must be conquered”; “To the great outrage of some, and under the watchful, less punishing eye of others, raising its wings’ weight, your freedom”; “Down with socialist realism! Long live surrealism!”; “Long Live the Surrealist Revolution!”; “Art Does Not Exist!” Surrealist tracts from before World War II were reprinted and re-contextualized in the flyers, pamphlets, and newspapers of the strikers, such as Artaud’s “Open Letter to the Rectors of European Universities” that was reprinted by the radicals of March 22nd Movement. Surrealists such as Mimi Parent, Jean Benoît, and Roberto Matta were conspicuous and contributed agitational-propaganda to many meetings and protest marches. In 1984, surrealist Claude Courtot—one of those most active in L’Archibras—recalled that the events of 1968 not only presented “surrealism in the streets” but also demonstrated how unexpectedly that surrealist theory and action had far exceeded what the group had imagined. “We were almost marginalized by it. We felt we had been surpassed,” Courtot explained gleefully. Small wonder, then, that the disillusionment that followed the failed May revolt contributed substantially to the sharp splintering of the French surrealist group that occurred in 1969. Just as the Czechoslovakian surrealists’ magazine Anagalon was attacked by Soviet censors following the invasion in August 1968, L’Archibras was similarly outlawed by the State’s reactionary forces when the Paris revolts collapsed. The surrealists involved in producing the publication were charged with public incitement to crime, offenses against the office of the President of the Republic, and the slander of police officers. Nevertheless, the group managed to reprint documents from the Czechoslovakian surrealists starting just three weeks after the Soviet invasion and continued to distribute them throughout the fall and winter of 1968-69. One of these was the most significant surrealist declarations of the time, if not the entire history of the movement: The Prague Platform. The Prague Platform: On the possible against the current Led by Vratislav Effenberger—the most important surrealist theoretician since Karel Teige—The Prague Platform emerged from the discussions, disagreements, and collaborations among and between French and Czechoslovak surrealists during the process of “The Pleasure Principle” project and partly in commemoration of the 9 April 1935 publication in Prague of The International Surrealist Bulletin. The platform had been assembled between April 5 and April 18, 1968, and it had been originally signed by twenty-eight French, twenty-one Czechoslovakian, and eleven other surrealists (when police attacks against the surrealists began in late summer and the early fall in both Prague and Paris, many of the names were deliberately removed to confound law enforcement efforts). In unexpectedly straight-ahead (“anti-confusional”) language, The Prague Platform sketches out the a series of ambitions and possible goals for the international movement, but insisting all the while a commitment to preserving the spontaneity and non-dogmatic openness to any and all sensitive, critical, and independent theoretical readjustments. Of particular interest are the ways in which the surrealists identified and characterized the enemies of human liberty in 1968, definitions that today’s freedom fighters have lamentably forgotten in the absurdly overheated ideological world of today. Rather than succumbing to the easy binary thinking of the Cold War years, the surrealists associated the common elements between the unfreedom of the “Free World” and the despotism of the “Popular Democratic Republics”; they astutely assessed the conventions used by all contemporary repressive systems, namely the technocratic mechanisms of social control that ultimately rely on the hypnotic dazzle of more consumer goods and the internalized fear of police violence. On both sides of the Iron Curtain (and everywhere else where the state dominates the lives of individuals), the surrealists pinpointed the systematic enervation of language and images by governments, bureaucrats, propagandists, advertising agencies, and entertainment industries. Bleached, tamed, utilitarianized, regulated, standardized, and homogenized, the symbolic building-blocks of expression and creativity are garbled to the extent that “people are deprived of the real powers of their own thought.” (As a recent example, consider how the word “freedom” has come to mean laser-guided missiles and protracted military occupation and “security” has become a euphemism for censorship and surveillance.) This disfigurement of words, images, and symbols forces people to rely upon a hierarchy of “cultural agents” whose job it is to compel them to “conform to the proper functioning of the system” and thereby reinforce its rule. In response, the surrealists pledged “to refuse to admit as definite the categories of psychic, social, and natural reality” as defined by these technocratic regimes. They also reaffirmed their efforts “to tear language from the repressive system and make it an instrument of desire” that could help restore it to its purpose “as indicators of subjective reality and the essential intersubjectivity of desire as it is reflected in the public mind.” Six other positions were raised by The Prague Platform, including offering to align with any other non-surrealist individuals and movements anywhere in the world that sought to stymie and attack these same repressive systems. The third position demanded a complete reformulation of Marxist-Leninist anti-capitalism away from the authoritarian, statist interpretations and towards an infusion of more poetic thought in its theory and practice, and they pointed towards a number of struggles (including Black Power revolutionaries in the US and various student uprisings around the world) as possible first steps. This was followed by a renewed commitment to experimental dialectical thought (especially in the realms of dreams and sexual freedom) and a position on the relationship between art and revolution that dismisses both art-for-art’s-sake and expressly politically-engaged artistic creation in favor of explorations into “the most obscure zones of psychic reality” and the “emancipation of the powers and desires lying dormant in the unconscious.” Point Six declared unmistakably and without qualification the primacy of play, games, and experimental activities within the core of the surrealist project: “We place all of our intellectual hopes in them,” the text reads simply. “Surrealist games are a collective expression of the Pleasure Principle.” Such actions “animate the life of groups,” “exalt friendships,” and “integrate exchanges of the mind” in the spirit of a utopian intersubjective state. The final plank in The Prague Platform was an expression of recognition of and solidarity with other surrealists and surrealist groups around the world, including New York City, Buenos Aires, Havana, Brussels, and Chicago. The platform was distributed to these cities and more, where they were translated and published; in France, the Platform appeared in the special “Czechoslovakia” issue of L’Archibras in September 1968. A 1969 collective statement by a dozen Czechoslovakian surrealists called “The Possible Against the Current” should be read today as a provocative addendum on The Prague Platform, which they viewed as “a broad outline of a program proposed to the surrealist movement the world over” that was not intended to be “constraining, constitutive, or institutional in character.” The document opens with the idea that “permanent and reciprocal revalorization of the subjective and the objective, the rational and the irrational, the individual and the collective” was the first step towards a surrealist “resolution of antimonies” that would clear the way for a profoundly revolutionary consciousness that can “allow for the establishment of a new kind of relations between people.” Keeping with the powerful influence of Freudo-Marxist readings, the Prague surrealists underlined sexual activity as one subset of these relations that needed to be overhauled to such an extent that the existing social structures would be demolished. “What is so mysterious and fascinating in these relations is that struggle between intellect and imagination takes place in a world where the so-called ‘laws of positive reality’ are thwarted.” While the dominant repressive system falsely emphasizes harmony, the surrealists countered that the secret of dynamic sexual congress and physical love came from a dialectically “intimate union of thought and instincts” that “somehow accomplishes the impossible” in welding together the fundamental existential contradictions between partners. Alluding to the splintering of the Paris group earlier that year, the Prague surrealists went on to say that the emphasis on conflict rather than harmony should also be the engine for surrealism as well as lovemaking, both in terms of other international groups and in terms of the movement’s own history. Erecting “a sentimental cult” around the late André Breton’s surrealist theories would bitterly betray Breton’s own insistence on the creative power of dialectics. Rather than bowing before “legend, dogma, personality, or authoritarian dominance,” surrealists should stitch together a dynamic “community of opinion” formed of “permanent critical conflict” that is necessary for the movement’s perpetual evolution, all the while “welcoming various external tendencies and contributions” to the surrealist mix, particularly “certain manifestations of youth (psychedelia, the underground, etc.) which all more or less respond to Rimbaud’s appeal to ‘the derangement of the senses.’” The tract ends with a five-item agenda for activities to which the Prague group was committed and it was hoped that others would adopt, including the liberation of the unconscious against civilization, continued analyses of the growing systems of repression, the pursuit of new forms of knowledge based on analogy and dialectic, the hijacking of “commercialized sexual cynicism” for use against the hypocritical “rationalist exploitation” of sexual relations, and finally the development of guerrilla tactics of “play activity” that will subvert “lives governed by utilitarian principles” for the purpose of deconstructing notions of identity through the free-play of analogical thought. As a summation of the history of surrealist concerns since 1919 and an invitation to the future, both The Prague Platform and “The Possible Against the Current” are outstanding and quite beneficial surrealist texts whose continued urgent relevance remains, unfortunately, obvious to this day. Chicago: “Of course you realize that this means war!”—Bugs Bunny “We salute our comrades, Franklin and Penelope Rosemont, who publish Surrealist Insurrection in Chicago,” proclaimed The Prague Platform of April 1968. At the time, the Rosemonts had been synthesizing Beat poetry and Industrial Workers of the World anarchism with surrealism in the Windy City for about five years; in the spring of 1966, they met with Breton and the rest of Paris surrealists and were encouraged to contribute to L’Archibras and to expand and extend their surrealist activities; in a series of collective letters with the Paris group, the Chicago surrealists shared their interests in the revolutionary potential of Marcuse, Malcolm X, Melville, and Thelonious Monk. They proceeded to plug into surrealist experiments happening in São Paulo, Athens, Brussels, Amsterdam, Prague, Tokyo, London, Lisbon, Copenhagen, and Buenos Aires. In addition to revisiting many of the central ideas and approaches of the international surrealist movement, the Chicago surrealists gathered a group that brought with them an entire arsenal of new weapons, tools, and tactics. The agit-prop wallposter/broadsheet Surrealist Insurrection was one of their endeavors, first appearing on the streets of Chicago in late January 1968 and asserting their allegiance to poetic thought “in our criticism, as well as our very lives, in the service of the total liberation of man.” In the issues of Surrealist Insurrection that followed, the Chicago group rallied for the support of Black Panther Huey Newton, American Indian militants, anarchists in New York City, Japanese student revolutionaries, and “surrealism in the service of the revolution in 1968!” Just prior to the day when the first Soviet tanks rumbled into the streets of Prague to face angry stone-throwers, a wide spectrum of protest groups began to converge onto Chicago in anticipation of the Democratic Party’s National Convention for the nomination of a presidential candidate to run against Republican hopeful Richard Nixon (Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson had announced that he would not run for re-election in March). Many of the protestors were first and foremost opponents of the US war in Vietnam and of other dissident movements included a number of more expressly revolutionary and counter-cultural organizations whose criticism stretched beyond the Johnson regime to the entire rotten system of institutionalized political, social, and economic power. The ghetto revolts following the April execution of Black civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. haunted Chicago Mayor Richard Daley as his police reported on the convergence of movements planning to shut down the Chicago DNC. Perhaps inspired by the Red Army’s urban counter-insurgency operations in Poland and Czechoslovakia, Daley repeatedly boasted a guarantee of “law and order” and authorized the use excessive force by police and of paramilitary violence by the National Guard and Army (including an order to shoot to kill), first against dissidents camped out in Lincoln Park and then later against demonstrators marching from Grant Park to the convention arena. As liberal delegates within the convention hall brawled over the refusal of Democratic Party commissars to recognize the candidacy of a very popular anti-war politician from within their ranks, the crackdown on anti-war and pro-democracy demonstrators in front of the Hilton Hotel was savage, bloody, and televised around the globe. Nightly news footage of the convention delegates’ shenanigans and of the Chicago police’s riot against the unarmed youth of the USA was sandwiched between the latest images of carnage from Vietnam and Czechoslovakia, poignantly underscoring for many television viewers how the systems of repression and realism chose to run the world.

La nefasta utopia di potere operaio.

AlbionMoonlite — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 05:58:20 GMT

http://www.jgballard.ca/non_fiction/jgb_reviews_surrealism.html The techniques of surrealism have a particular relevance at this moment, when the fictional elements in the world around us are multiplying to the point where it is almost impossible to distinguish between the "real" and the "false" -- the terms no longer have any meaning. The faces of public figures are projected at us as if out of some endless global pantomime, they and the events in the world at large have the conviction and reality of those depicted on giant advertisement hoardings. The task of the arts seems more and more to be that of isolating the few elements of reality from this melange of fictions, not some metaphorical "reality," but simply the basic elements of cognition and posture that are the jigs and props of our consciousness. Surrealism offers an ideal tool for exploring these ontological objectives: the meaning of time and space (for example, the particular significance of rectilinear forms in memory), of landscape and identity, the role of the senses and emotions within these frameworks. As Dali has remarked, after Freud's explorations within the psyche it is now the outer world which will have to be eroticised and quantified. The mimetising of past traumas and experiences, the discharging of fears and obsessions through states of landscape, architectural portraits of individuals -- these more serious aspects of Dali's work illustrate some of the uses of surrealism. It offers a neutral zone or clearing house where the confused currencies of both the inner and outer worlds can be standardised against each other. At the same time we should not forget the elements of magic and surprise that wait for us in this realm. In the words of Andre Breton: "The confidences of madmen: I would spend my lite in provoking them. They are people of scrupulous honesty, whose innocence is only equalled by mine. Columbus had to sail with madmen to discover America." http://www.generation-online.org/p/fp_bifo3.htm In the end, the inhuman appears as the dominant form of human relations: reaction devolved to a development of capital that, even as it proceeds triumphantly, excludes and crystallises growing sections of the planetary nervous system, and secretes inhumanity. After having subordinated the working class variable, capital readies itself for its new, titanic enterprise: subordinating the entire cycle of human cognitive activity into an automated system that is cabled on a number of levels: the economic, technological, psychochemical—and perhaps in the future, also the biogenetic. But the residues that this enterprise leaves along its course are immense, corresponding to the majority of the human population. After having incorporated working class autonomy in technique, and after having eliminated every alternative perspective, capital imposes itself as the accumulation of automatic processes that are no more governable nor opposable. Techno-social interfaces progressively connect towards the transformation of the global economy into a hive mind that functions according to prescribed goals and cabled in the techno-linguistic garb of its human terminals. At this point, the bio-computer super-organism reads the human and discards it as noise. This process goes towards the creation of a super-identity completely indifferent to identities of origin (of sex, race, faith, nationality). But in the process of this super-identity’s formation, an enormous quantity of human material is discarded: the majority of humanity, which remains outside the cabled circuit of the globalised techno-economy. This material residue identifies itself through aggressive cults, founded on the illusion of an originary authenticity in need of restoration. Only the affirmation of an identity makes survival possible in a world increasingly dense with conflicting territorial projects, in a world dominated by the paradox of growing wealth that produces an expanding misery. In the horizon of evolution, the problem of collective happiness and liberation comes to be posed in terms that are completely asymmetrical to those we have known in the past. How will the human singularity reproduce itself in the sphere of the posthuman? Harmony, happiness, awareness: how can these be singularised in the sphere of the cabled global mind? The universality to which dialectical thought aspired was the result of the very process of the particularities’ capacity to constitute themselves as a conscious subject, and therefore to surpass the particular. The abolition of wage labour by the class of wage labour ably represented this process of inverting the whole starting from the negative affirmation of the parts. What is instead determinate is another type of universality: the abstract universality of code that semiotises every fragment of the existing without respecting any pulsation of living human particularity. The century is ending under the sign of an inhuman universality, the universality of Code, of abstraction that manifests in money, in the circulation of information and finances. Therefore an abstract and disincarnated totalitarianism takes the place of the machine of universal semioticisation. Facing it, the massive return of the residual human, of the body, of blood and soil, of tradition and identity: the rancorous and aggressive reaffirmation of particularity against every other particularity in the name of no universality. Translated by Steve Wright *This text is an extract from Franco Berardi's La nefasta utopia di potere operaio. The original in Italian can be found here.

Money Is Paper: Sotheby's auction house burst into applause

AlbionMoonlite — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 05:42:12 GMT

André Breton's Surrealist Manifesto sold at auction in France The only known complete copy of André Breton's Surrealist Manifesto, which defined one of the great art movements of the 20th century, is to stay in France after a museum bought it along with eight other manuscripts for 3.2 million euros (£2.57 million) in a Paris auction. By Henry Samuel in Paris Published: 12:08AM BST 22 May 2008 A packed Sotheby's auction house burst into applause as the manuscripts by the founder of surrealism reached four times the expected price. The result came as a great relief to art historians and critics; they had feared the 21-page manifesto, which influenced the work of artists such as Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dali, would be parted from the eight other linked manuscripts and had argued they should be sold as a single lot. After selling the nine documents separately, Sotheby's then offered the whole lot to any bidder prepared to put down more than the sum total reached. Following a battle with several telephone bidders, they all went to French collector Gérard Lhéritier, founder of the privately-owned Museum of Letters and Manuscripts in Paris. Mr Lheritier said he was "very, very, very happy" to have won the bid. "I was afraid the nine manuscripts would be dispersed," he said. "They are staying together, are not leaving France and will be on public display in our museum from June in a specially-designed case," he said. Several collectors and patrons had contributed to the final bid, he said. Mr Breton, who died in September 1966 at the age of 70, defined surrealism in the manifesto as "psychic automatism in its pure state". It is the "transcription of thoughts without any form of control by reasoning and without any reference to aesthetic or moral considerations." His manifesto was published in 1924, in the same volume as other pieces including a collection of 32 instant poems called "Poisson soluble" or "soluble fish" – also up for auction yesterday. The remaining seven pieces were exercise books containing scribbles and examples of the artist's "automatic writing" or stream-of-consciousness style. The documents were sold by the family of Mr Breton's first wife, Simone Collinet, who died in 1980. The auction also sold off manuscripts by other celebrated French writers, including Simone de Beauvoir, Gustave Flaubert, André Gide and Paul Verlaine.

A thin line between love and hate

AlbionMoonlite — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 02:00:39 GMT

Depending on where you are in relationship to the line you experience Mad Love or you have only hate. Andre Breton in exile had no interest in timid change. France could be liberated one Frenchman at a time. Liberation of the soil, the fatherland, returned France to the cretins who ruled before the Occupation. Surrealism in the service of revolution. More revolutionary than Trostsky the butcher and based on a Leonardo like view of the field of human affairs, Andre Breton and the Surrealist implulse shouted for passionate life and down with the shell of the mundane work-a-drone world. To overthrow Fascism but rebuild on the same foundation is folly. The consequences of the folly we see around us--a world of ruins, of shopping mall slums. A world of Orange O machines always rebuilt. Resistance is all we have left. Taste, our private energy converted to polemics and energetics, our Praxis becomes Surrealist by recognizing the human imagination. Do you see all we have is our vision of our life and in the era of the statistical average drone who works to earn money to pay bills to live it is our personal responsibility to live free.

Death by Vaccine

AlbionMoonlite — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:47:20 GMT

Many believe surrealism is dead. Many have declared it so in writing. What childishness! Surrealism's activity today extends throughout the entire world, and it remains livelier and bolder than ever. . . . Surrealism lives! And it is young, ardent and revolutionary. . . . But surrealism, further proving its vitality, has evolved—or rather, blossomed. When Breton created surrealism, the most urgent task was to free the mind from the shackles of absurd logic and of so-called reason. But in 1943, when freedom herself is threatened throughout the world, surrealism, which has never for one instant ceased to remain in the service of the largest and most thoroughgoing human emancipation, can now be summed up completely in one single, magic word: freedom. . . . We know how things stand, here in Martinique. Dizzyingly, the arrow of history points to our human task. A society corrupted by crime at its foundations, currently propped up by injustice and hypocrisy, and, in consequence of its unhappy consciousness, terrified of its own becoming: such a society must perish morally, historically, and necessarily. And from the powerful bombs and other weaponry of war the modern world has placed at our disposal, our boldness has chosen surrealism, which in our times offers the surest chance of success. . . . Far from contradicting, diluting, or diverting our revolutionary attitude toward life, surrealism strengthens it. It nourishes an impatient strength within us, endlessly reinforcing the massive army of refusals. And I am also thinking of tomorrow. Millions of black hands will hoist their terror across the furious skies of world war. Freed from a long benumbing slumber, the most disinherited of all peoples will rise up from plains of ashes. Our surrealism will supply this rising people with a punch from its very depths. Our surrealism will enable us to finally transcend the sordid antinomies of the present: whites/blacks, Europeans/Africans, civilized/savages—at last rediscovering the magic power of the mahoulis, drawn directly from living sources. . . . Surrealism, tightrope of our hope. In the same insurgent spirit, Aimé Césaire (interviewed by Dépestre) invoked surrealism as "a liberating force" as well as "a process of disalienation." German Man Injured By Swine Flu Vax Trial Talks Dr. Niman Shatters Media Myths - Swine Flu IS Swine Flu Scotland Plans Mobile Morgues For Swine Flu (Vax) Dead Tens Of Millions Could Get Swine Flu In China Cornell University Hit With 'Flood' Of Swine Flu Cases 20 Year Old Cornell Student Dies Of A-H1N1 Swine Flu Vax - 1 Dose 'May Be Enough' (To Poison You) US Hospitals Urged To Force Hand Washing - Huh? Squalene Loaded Swine Flu Vax 'Works In One Dose' Swine Flu Vax Should Target Children First NY Times Beats Drum For Untested Swine Flu Vax Docs Refusing Swine Flu Vax 'Put Patients At Risk' Critical Care Doubled For Return Of Swine Flu Tens Of Millions Could Get Swine Flu In China Scientists Warn About Swine Flu Extra Potency Students Not Complying With H1N1 Preventive Measures Transmission Of Tamiflu Resistant H1N1 Blaylock - Swine Flu Vax More Dangerous Than Flu Blaylock On 1976 Swine Flu And Current Outbreak More Tamiflu Resisatnce Showing Up In US Tamiflu Resistant Swine Flu Cluster In Hong Kong Maine Governor Declares Swine Flu Civil Emergency Nurse Refuses Mandatory Swine Flu Shot Refuse And Resist Mandatory Flu Vaccines

Imagination to Power

AlbionMoonlite — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 05:12:42 GMT

Andre Breton prods US to end 'hopeless' Afghan war (AP) AP - Andre Breton said in a new audiotape that President Barack Obama's strategy in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Georgia are "hopeless" and called on Americans to resolve the conflict with al-Qaida by ending the war there and breaking the U.S. alliance with Israel. Breton defined the imaginary as being that which "tends to become real and stated the aim of Surrealist activity as being "to cast a conduction wire" between the waking and dream states. Americans 8 years of your prevailing, bourgeois forms of consciousness as exlemplified by the bankrupt New York Times express the tyranny of what is, in other words, the acceptance of the accomplished fact, and are inimical to the development of class consciousness. On the plane of individual psychology, in the subjective experience of each person, a similar process takes place: conscious thought contains the adjustments, compromises and frustrations imposed on the individual by the demands of the external world, which means above all the denial of human need and desire. Though blocked to a large extent from fulfillment in reality, these needs and desires do not disappear: they find an outlet in the unconscious, i.e., in dreams and imagination. I do not know why I should abstain any longer from saying that your muses America—childish, declamatory, unnecessarily cretinising—celebrated by an unreadable newspaper, utterly unworthy of the role of cultural sophistication it claims to assume. Beneath these quickly read articles, clinging to the most abject superficial actuality so closely that there is no perspective to be had ... it is impossible not to remark in those who have written them an extreme weariness, a secret resignation to what exists, with the concern to keep the reader in a more or less generous illusion as cheaply as possible. From where we stand we maintain that the Surrealist activity of interpreting the world must continue to be linked with the activity of changing the world. We maintain that it is the poet's, the artist's role to study the human problem in depth in all its forms.... the Surrealist must avoid thr veritable cultural bath of useless repetitions, infantile considerations, and toadying those claiming to be saving culture choose. J'Accuse the opportunism of the intellectuals who accepted Stalinist dictates of mass media around 9/11: Whether in the field of politics or in the field of art, two forces—the spontaneous refusal of the conditions of life offered man and the imperative need to change them, on the one hand, and enduring fidelity to principles or moral rigor on the other—have carried the world forward. Americans after September 11, 2001 have you not woken to find yourselves in a situation that has become an event unfolding again and again.

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

AlbionMoonlite — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 23:31:16 GMT

TIME TRAVEL occured today in the Heimat, on the Potomac, and the life of a President was saved. Time travel cannot be ruled out after all since we do not know why Buddhas come into the world. All things appear and disappear because of the concurrence of causes and conditions. Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everything else. On September 11, 2001 I WOKE UP. Not like I had been asleep before. I woke up to the firsty plane and KPFA with Amy Goodman. Although not as gung ho for Pacifica as I had been in 1987 when I dedicated my life to the Surrealist gambit I was a donor. I had my radio on and as I woke from a night of drink and drugs in my two bedroom on Folsom street in the Mission I asked why did Bush attack and then I knew it was for Empire. The great sci-fi dream come true. Bush failed but can Obama not also fail? And Obama's failure, after Bush, might that trigger civil war? And if the 9/11 story were told true - -- 9/11/2009 -- Eighth Anniversary of New York's Production/Directio n of the 911 StockPlay -- stealing $50 Trillion in ~Ownership~ of property and people/workers/ slaves. Courtesy the SEC, Securities Exchange Commission, on behalf of David Rockef....eller, the Rothschild Empire, and the Monarchies ... http://www.sec. gov/about/ commissioner/ pitt.htm SEC Biography: Chairman Harvey L. Pitt Source: www.sec.gov On August 3, 2001, President Bush appointed Harvey L. Pitt as the 26th Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. Chairman Pitt had previously served as an attorney on the staff of the Commission from 1968 until 1978, the last three years of... which he was the Commission's General Counsel. would this not hasten the fall?

Resumo de Travel To The Term Of The Night -Swine Flu

AlbionMoonlite — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 05:32:22 GMT

French Judges Protest Secret Pandemic Decrees By Linn Cohen-Cole 9-10-9 Re: LeMonde: French Judges And Lawyers Fiercely Protest Secret Pandemic Plans Dear Governors, Certainly, you have been getting anxious calls from constituents about mandatory vaccinations, people who are not reassured by being told there won't be any. It seems important for you to see that there are secret government plans for just that. See below that scientists and legal experts in Canada are having a conference this Saturday and broadcasting world wide that the pandemic was artificially created by the military and the pharmaceutical industry which controls the WHO. And people's fear of an unknown, untested, forced vaccine are not idle. AUSTRIAN HEALTH MINISTER LIED TO PARLIAMENT BAXTER STILL HAS THE 72 KILOS OF LETHAL VACCINE MATERIAL CONTAMINATED WITH BIRD FLU Meanwhile, here - * Obama bioterrorism nominee hides work for big pharma biodefense black op programmes http://www.theflucase.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id =532%3Aobama-bioterrorism-nominee-hide-involvement-with-big-pharma-and -black-op-programmes&catid=41%3Ahighlighted-news&Itemid=105&lang=en Knowing you care about the well-being of your state's citizens and of your own family's life, it seemed important for you to have this information. The plans left by Bush and Cheney for suspending the Constitution using an emergency as a pretext is beyond unconstitutional. It is treason, as is any attempted implementation of it. We are grateful for our states and their standing as a bulwark between the people and overwhelming federal power, as the Constitution arranged. http://www.lemonde.fr/web/imprimer_element/0,40-0@2-3224,50-1237329,0.html French judges protest secret pandemic decrees Last Updated on Wednesday, 09 September 2009 11:45Wednesday, 09 September 2009 10:08 News - Highlighted News. The union óf judges and lawyers in France has written a letter of protest to the French Justice Minister over plans to strip people of their civil liberties during the swine flu pandemic, which were made "in the greatest secrecy." According to a report in Le Monde on Tuesday, the lawyer's union has fiercely criticised the decree which would dismantle the civic rights of the people of France in the name of a pandemic emergency and which was issued without any "democratic debate". http://www.lemonde.fr/web/imprimer_element/0,40-0@2-3224,50-1237329,0.html Forced Vaccination NightmareEmmanuelle Perreux, president of the judge's union said that it was "unacceptable" for the government to remove people's fundamental liberties by secret decree on the pretext of a pandemic emergency. She said that she hoped that parliament would intervene after the revelation on Tuesday that the French Minister of Justice Michele Alliot-Marie had circulated orders in secret in July instructing judges to allow children to be put on trial in adult courts and detentions without any court order in the name of a pandemic emergency. Alliot-Marie denied that there was "any secret plan" and claimed the secret orders were a provisional working document as outrage in France over the secret vaccination and detention plans that are now attracting widespread coverage in the mainstream media mounts. http://www.lemonde.fr/web/imprimer_element/0,40-0@2-3224,50-1237329,0.html Grippe A : "On ne peut pas accepter une justice d'exception" LEMONDE.FR | 08.09.09 | 13h47 · Mis à jour le 08.09.09 | 16h01 According to the AFP, http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jihcuQZGxzOxy-juB4s17dZ5-VtQ France's daily Liberation reported Tuesday that documents provided by a judges' union show a French government plan, coinciding with the "pandemic" and vaccinations, to "extend the period police can keep a suspect in detention without charge or a hearing before a judge to up to six months. Suspects would also not be able to contact a lawyer until after spending 24 hours in custody. Under the plan, children could be tried in adult courts and more trials held behind closed doors." - Linn Cohen-Cole