The Post Office Tour Continues!

Chris Sare, left, and Bob Wesser set up a table outside town center’s post office on Monday to hand out literature. — in the town of Redding.

“We’re everywhere. We’re going to every post office we can go to,” said Chris Sare, who said he works full-time with the group.

It is a fantastic tour.  See, here they are in Dryden — Bob Wesser and Chris Sare.  What’s even better is that they are going into places that are not used to seeing people standing around post offices with Hitler Mustache images.  I love it when a band that’s achieved some fame makes a point in taking out-of-the-way detours away from the biggest venues.

Also see Winfield.

The woman in the picture was very interested in talking with me up until the second I started taking pictures. I wish I had known that was going to be her reaction because I would have asked more questions before I pulled out the camera. She became even less enchanted with me when I switched to video. I thought it was quite bizarre behavior to get squirrelly when talking to a guy with a camera when the whole point of her protest, petition and information cart was to get her point across to people. You would think she would be overjoyed to have her point of view put on the local news. The people she had at her cart that were signing up for information were alternating between shy and evasive and aggressive albeit through veiled threats. […]

The bottom line is, it pays to be wary of who to hop in bed with politically. These days with the power of a Google search at your fingertips there is no excuse for being uninformed.

A different tour takes a different group through West St. Louis County in Missouri.

As I approached her, I took a photograph. This set her off, and she began a tirade that I had no right to photograph her without identifying myself. (While she is quite incorrect, as she had set herself up in a public place and made herself a public spectacle – thereby becoming NEWS…) I did identify myself. I then attempted to get SOME comment on video.

I have never understood this fascination of people drawing a mustache on Obama to show him as “evil”.

Draw a Vinn Diagram, and in a lot of people’s heads the word “Evil” and the word “Hitler” will morph into one giant circle.
Don’t misquote me on that one.

Anyway, these are a little bit roguish, in the sense that they don’t mete up with the Biggie of the 2010 Electoral Season, and the candidacies of Rachel Brown, Kesha Rogers, and Summer Shields.

Summer Shields’s campaign hit an exciting note.  According to LPAC, the Chinese Press Covered Summer Shields’.  I’ve seen headlines like that one from this news source.  Anyway, it’s the biggest notable reference to the campaign since the endorsement/word of encouragement from Michael Savage.
This week ahead for the Summer Shields campaign, starting right as I post this:

U.S. Army Corp Bay Model Tour – All are welcomed to join us!  Missed it.
Economic Policy Workshop 7: The Historical Development of California with special guest Mark Calney.  No, really: you can hear from THE Mark Calney!!!
There will be an appendix tomorrow — A Conceptual Tour of San Francisco lead by, yes again, Mark Calney!
And keep your eye on Next Saturday, when SKY SHIELDS will host a policy workshop (Workshop Number 8, baby!) on the BASEMENT PROJECT.

Kesha Rogers’s campaign made news this week, as she actually moved beyond broadsides against the President and went on the attack against her opponent in the race that she is in, alleging that Pete Olson is working too closely with the President.

Kesha Rogers Blasts Pete Olson’s “Deal With The Devil”
In a statement issued Saturday, Democratic Congressional candidate for the 22nd District in Texas Kesha Rogers blasted incumbent Republican Pete Olson for his “deal with the Devil,” namely President Obama, around the shutdown of NASA. Rogers’ full statement appears below. […]

“Anyone who still thinks that Pete Olson is serious about saving the Constellation program, guess again. He has already given up the fight, he will continue to ‘go along to get along’, and compromise on principle. As I have said repeatedly, anyone who tries to make a deal with an insane President, is unfit to serve in office; we must force Obama to resign, and reinstate Glass-Steagall protections of our commercial banking system. Over 75% of the population wants Obama out now, and that is why I am unwavering in leading my campaign’s drive to force his resignation, before the November 2010 elections. Nothing short of this could save NASA, or the country.

That’s an interesting figure — the 75 percent mark that want “Obama out now”.  Variously LPAC insists the number at 75, 80, or 85 percent.

Kesha Rogers’s campaign schedule has  Campaign organizer Ian Overton leading “a discussion of LaRouche’s September forecast, of a physical economic boundary condition that will push the world into a hyperinflationary collapse” — see it now at Coffee Oasis.

As for Rachel Brown, stay tuned to learn the details of next week’s “Meet and Greet” in Fall River. Details have not been either decided yet, or relayed.

The press is already writing about her campaign in the past tense.

She recalls her encounter with Frank, which was recorded in a widely viewed You Tube video, as a high point of her record as a political activist. “The occasion on which most of you saw me, was one instance of this activity, when I challenged Barney Frank on his defense of the Wall St. bailout and Obama’s Hitler healthcare policy, both of which policies only further harm the American population, even to death,” she said.

Several Republicans are also vying for their party’s nomination to run against Frank in the fall, calling him “Bailout Barney” for his role as chairman of the House Financial Services committee. But Frank has a firm grip on his party’s nomination and victory in the fall election.

Memories.
Anyway, this Rockwellian political activism has struck other public figures.

He introduced himself as a representative of L-Pac (LaRouche PAC), and launched into a song to the tune of “Funiculi, Funicula.” “Peter Orszag and Larry Summers, they’re fascist pigs, they’re fascist pigs,” he began in a loud, strong voice. The lyrics went downhill from there, quickly veering into the unprintable along with Hitler references – even while William Gale, a senior Brookings economist with the build and look of a professor, not a bouncer, escorted the songster to the exit.

Orszag then turned to a more familiar face, Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus, who steadfastly refused to sing her question about the budget deficit.

Orszag was more gracious than Frank.

“thank you for that”.

This whole array of Post Office Tours and Workshop laden Political causes and choral singing is part of an attempt to affect this Birthday Present for their hero.

On Thursday, Lyndon LaRouche let it be known that the best 88th birthday gift that he could receive this coming September, is the removal of Barack Obama from the Presidency.

All the chips are falling into place.

The LPAC release on Porter Goss’s role in the targeting of Maxine Waters has gone viral on the Internet.  (Interesting. Basil Marceaux’s campaign went viral.  Never heard of this one.  Have to check to see if anything other than some ‘usual suspects’ sent it out.)
It is not only feasible; it is vital, if humanity is to survive by rediscovering the true nature of man. The first step is to get Obama rapidly, and safely out of office. He is a failed personality, and his continued occupancy of the Oval Office is an abomination that cannot be tolerated.
The Obamas are also coming under more and more attack. The latest bombshell appeared in Thursday’s Daily News, comparing Michelle Obama to Marie Antoinette. (Great.)
Eighty-five percent of the American people want Obama out! Let us mobilize to make that a reality, and let us celebrate Lyndon LaRouche’s 88th birthday this September by the reinstatement of Glass-Steagall and the launching of NAWAPA.

Anyway…

Ickes plagarizing Lyndon Larouche?

Reportedly, the staff in the National Committee of the Larouche org believe that the answer is … yes.  Some members have flipped their lid over different items.
And I am not making that up.

Then again, this information has pretty much been validated.  Only Seven narrative plots out there, so says Issac Asimov.

I assume that this is not an elliptical reference to me.

Somebody has revealed that my reference to how often Journolist involved gossip and sportschat was part of a coordinated effort to cover our tracks, since other people from the list have been saying the same thing.

It is very hard to tell.

In fact, all those threads about basketball and the World Cup were themselves part of the grand plot.

Ah hah!  The True Colors of the Liberal Elites are showing.  As everybody knows, Soccer is gay, anti-American, and Socialist.

Also the Campaign for Peace and Democracy is a Communist Front Group.

I bet they were all rooting for North Korea in the World Cup.

Y’know.  There has been news about the North Korean soccer team.  There’s a rule in sports that it is better to be the team that loses the Conference Championships than the Championships — better be third than second, if nothing else the team will be a trendy pick for the sports prognasticators at the start of the next year.

North Korea was essentially the thirty-second best team in a tournament of thirty-two.  In their case, it probably have been better if they were the thirty-third best team in the World.

North Korea’s football team has been shamed in a six-hour public inquisition and the team’s coach has been accused of “betraying” the reclusive leader’s heir apparent following their failure at the World Cup, according to reports.

Hm.
A rising star in political circles, Kevin Jackson has been called the black Glenn Beck.

Wait.  Do people want that?
This is a fascinating little speech.

“My wish to rid black neighborhoods of crime, get black children access to quality education, build the CEO Mindset in black children makes me a Neanderthal, an Oreo, an Uncle Tom, a Sell–Out, a Tool of the White Man, a Sufferer of Stockholm Syndrome, a Cracker-Lover, a Black Man who Dates White Women, Clarence Thomas, and a Race Traitor.  Of what Race?  The Human Race?
One thing the Democrats don’t want to discuss is their history of race and their history of repeating because Democrats have Re-enslaved Americans and this time it’s not just catching Blacks but it’s catching Whites as well.  It’s catching everybody.  That’s why I call 2010 ‘Emancipation 2’.  This time even the White Folks get freed.  […]

The other day Obama appeared on The View and he actually called Black people ‘mongerals’.”  […]

And it goes on from there.

Interesting item, that last “View” reference.  There must be a story behind that.  An item of controversy that will inflate itself in the right-wing sphere, and deflate just about everywhere else.  Sometimes these controversies escape me, and for reference’s sake I think the “two sides” in the American political sphere should be aware of the controversies that enflame the other side.  What does this refer to?  Here:

“When asked about his background, which includes a black father and white mother, Obama said of African-Americans: ‘We are sort of a mongrel people.’
“‘I mean we’re all kinds of mixed up,’ Obama said. ‘That’s actually true of white people as well, but we just know more about it.’
[…] Of course, once again, because Barack Obama is African American, he will likely get a pass for using such a loaded term on national TV. But imagine what would have happened if a white politician had used the term “mongrel” to refer to African Americans, or anyone at all. One cannot doubt that said politician could measure the rest of his or her career in days.

Hm.  Can’t get hung up on too many of these things, can you?   Biden an obvious person.

I will not pass the derogatory comment that Kevin Jackson as a Neanderthal, an Oreo, an Uncle Tom, a Sell–Out, a Tool of the White Man, a Sufferer of Stockholm Syndrome, a Cracker-Lover, a Black Man who Dates White Women, Clarence Thomas, and a Race Traitor, though I’m always fascinated by how strung up spokespeople for Minority Conservativism are with their self-identity and these charges.  My derogatory label for Kevin Jackson is “The Black Glenn Beck”.

While we mutter about the political history and how things change.
Of course, there was the method that the Fourteenth Amendment was subverted — for the next century, court cases that dealt with the Amendment dwelled on Corporate Personhood over the newly gained rights to black people.  So it goes.

But we see Sharron Angle finding different documents more sanchrosant than others — First Commandment over the First Amendment — which figures as she has an odd view of the First Amendment and the “free press”.

Weird news snippets I’ve heard that I don’t really trust.  Call me crazy.

For nearly 3 months the world was mesmerized by watching the live feed of oil gushing from the bottom of the Gulf. Now, only a few weeks after the leak was capped, crews are having trouble finding any of the spilled oil to clean up. Despite hundreds of boats and spotter planes looking for spilled oil, there is little to be found.

[…]
The most logical answer is the cleanup efforts worked better than expected. British Petroleum burned off much of the oil and the dispersants they used caused much of it to break up. The rest, thanks to the large number of skimmers in the area, captured more than anyone realized.

Not as much here:
Shortly after BP’s catastrophic oil spill in the gulf, the New York Times spoke to Quenton Dokken, the executive director of the Gulf of Mexico Foundation, about the environmental impact. “The sky is not falling,” Dokken told the paper, adding “it isn’t the end of the Gulf of Mexico.” ProPublica dug into the Gulf of Mexico Foundation, and reported that the Times had failed to disclose that Dokken and his group are funded by a consortium of oil companies with business in the gulf, including companies involved in the Deepwater Horizon rig, Transocean and Anadarko. Today, the Times reported that the Foundation has been downplaying effects of the spill, possibly because of its funding from oil companies.

As around here:

The head of the American Association of Professors accused BP Friday of trying to buy the silence of scientists and academics to protect itself after the Gulf oil spill, in a BBC interview.
“This is really one huge corporation trying to buy faculty silence in a comprehensive way,” said Cary Nelson.
BP is facing lawsuits after the oil spill, which has destroyed the livelihoods of many people along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico.
A copy of a contract offered to scientists by BP, which the BBC said it had obtained, said scientists are not allowed to publish the research they do for the oil giant.
They are also not allowed to speak about the data for at least three years or until the government gives final approval for the company’s restoration plan for the whole of the Gulf, said the British broadcaster.

The “good News” on the “biggest oil spill” ever should really just end around the news of Massive Savings Discounts.

Today’s electoral universe, with its 100 million member “party of nonvoters”, took shape after 1896 and from its sequel — the demobilization of the mass electorate of the nineteenth century.  The legal barriers to voting imposed then have since come down, but not the major procedural one […]
The party of non-voters haunts democracy.  “The present situation perpetuates a standing danger that the half of the American electorate which is now more or less entirely outside the universe of active politics may someday be mobilized in substantial degree by totalitarian or quasi-totalitarian appeals,” Walter Dean Burnham warns.  Strong attachments to party tend to “immunize” voters against extremist appeals.    Less-partisan or independent voters are more exposed.  Nonvoters are ripe for contagion.  Burnham uncovered that pattern in an analysis of the behavior of independents, weak partisans, and white working-class nonvoters drawn into the electorate in 1968 by the presidential candidacy of the segregationist governor of Alabama, George C Wallace.  Events in another democracy disclosed the same pattern — in the context of social polarization, weak partisans and nonvoters rallying to an extremist party.  In one sample constituency the percentage of nonvoters fell from 43.2 in one election to 28 in the next to 7.1 in the last — a 36 percent surge that went almost totally to the extremists. The elections took place in 1928, 1930, and 1933.   The constituency was the town of Westersteade in Oldenburg.  The democracy was

Oh, you know the rest. From The Age of Betrayal:  The Triumph of Money in America 1865-1900, Jack Beatty, published 2007.

A fun thing to do: go through the archives of the NY Times, looking up “Adolf Hitler”.  People who know their nazi history in any depth  know this, but it fades past most people’s historical awareness.  The funniest articles are those that tell of a split in the ranks, where some nazi publication was taken over by a faction that brandished broadside attacks against Adolf Hitler — a splinter on tactics — the more moderate Hitler wanted to bide his time a little longer, not rush the capital, remain in electoral politics.  Anyway, the more radical (or at least impatient) Nazi Party faction was summarily dismissed, that printing press regained by the Hitlerites, and all Nazi publications all over Germany published lavished praise for the soon to be Fuhrer.
Also amusing to see that the “Third Reich” was originally translated in American press as the “Third Realm”.

[…]

Once upon a time, I posted a reference to the “ghost” of this guy.  I am not going to dare mention his name, as I don’t want to see him pop in again for a comment to clarify his continued pulse.  But this political run passed right by me:
took out an advertisement in the Warsaw Times-Union, in order to announce his intention to challenge U.S. Representative Mark Souder, a Republican from Indiana’s 3rd congressional district. “I’d go to Washington and get into Congress, and have a fistfight every day,”
A publicity stunt.  Gets your name in the news.  Barely.

Meantime, in other news — I think it’s safe to mention Tony Zirkle’s name, as his neo-nazi backer (another person whose re-appearance here I wish to avoid) won’t likely surface:

You may or may not recall the controversy that his 2008 campaign for Congress engendered:
In the 2008 election he garnered national attention by appearing at a Neo-Nazi celebration of Adolf Hitler’s birthday.
Figures.  His personal website currently focuses on this personal strife:
Zirkle’s license to practice law in Indiana was suspended in 2009 for multiple instances and types of misconduct, including counseling his client in a dissolution case on how to evade a court order not to remove the couple’s children from the county, falsely telling the court that his client continued to reside in the county, and many instances of over-billing clients. Zirkle will be eligible to apply for reinstatement in October 2011.
He did run for Congress in 2010 on this platform:
There’s no constitutional right for Porn Pimpery.
Full of bible quotes.
I’M ARGUING THAT OUR PORN-PROSTITUTION CULTS ARE THE MODERN EQUIVALENT OF ANCIENT ISRAEL AND JUDAH’S BAAL FERTILITY SEX CULT WORSHIP.

A steady drop from 2006 to 2008 to 2010 on down to 3 percent of the primary vote.  This is devastating, if you consider in 2010 he avoided giant pictures of Adolf Hitler.
In other news of other candidacies from the Political Graveyard — there’s this item of predictibility.

There are a lot of these “Flavor of the Moment” candidates.   Some a bit more sympathetic than the three I just passed out.   Here’s the one well talked about last week.  The Internet is hyping them up and giving them national exposure.
Most notable is he stands against the “Gold Fringed Flag” problem, which is a fringe position that floats out there — next time you’re in court, try to argue that the case against you is illegitimate and this court has no jurisdiction over you because it’s being held under the “Gold Fringed Flag”, and see where that takes you.
Had the South Carolina television media run these profiles, the Democratic Senate nomination would have turned out differently.

I can’t say whether they provide a decent enough spark against Extremism.  I want to note something, though.  This book — Mark Halperin and  John Heilemann’s Game Change?  First, wade through the pure cynicism of politics and the mass marketing that makes policy meaningless and turns everything into “signifiers” for politicians to appease blocks of the electoral market.  Then go to the index page.  Look up “Mike Gravel”.  John Heilemann and Mark Halperin have erased Mark Gravel out of the 2008 election campaign, those bastards!
Hypothetical Presidency here.

On July 14, I posted the following regarding the nominating process of the “Independent Party of Oregon”:

They’re going to get John Kitzhaber on the ballot.  Which is a little odd, considering that John Kitzhaber is already on the ballot, which means that the original founding purpose of this party is either void or a ballot line in waiting.

I’ll be sure to put up a blog post on the accuracy or inaccuracy of my prediction that John Kitzhaber will win the Independent Party nomination, and the startling repurcussions and meaning of such a thing.

Well here we are.  Kitzhaber has won the nomination for the Independent Party of Oregon.

Sal Peralta says: 
This was the first binding statewide election held in the United States to be conducted entirely over the internet.
This was easily the largest election ever held by a minor political party in Oregon.
More people voted and more candidates participated than for any other minor party election in Oregon history.

As opposed to Kurt Chapman:
I think it very difficult to draw any statewide conclusion from a 4% voter turnout. I’m glad that this party (reluctant to call them ‘Independent’) is trying something new. However let’s get serious, the vote is hardly representative.

Dan Meek says: Notably, candidates NOT identified with any major party often did quite well. For example, Scott Reynolds defeated Lee Beyer (D nominee) in Senate District 6 by 46-18. Kevin Prociw defeated Val Hoyle (D nominee) in Representative District 14 by 26-16. Both Reynolds and Prociw are new to politics, having cut their teeth on the recent “Randy Pape Beltway” controversy in Lane County. In Representative District 45, Laura Bell came within one vote of denying the nomination to Kitty Harmon (R nominee).

And Kitzhaber won by name recognition.

The question of the moment, not knowable:
The endorsement for governor clearly went to Democrat John Kitzhaber, but a little context is necessary too. Republican Chris Dudley didn’t seek the nomination, so his name wasn’t listed. So: Kitzhaber got 850 votes, but two little-knowns, Jerry Wilson and Richard Esterman, got a total of 738. Were some of those de facto Dudley votes?

I suppose it increases the chances for all these candidates.  If the top ballot position is worth some percentage of the vote, if the South Carolina Democratic Primary results are any indication then in a complete absence of information to a 6 to 4 margin — then you figure that people who’s impulse bias is down ticket will snatch behind Kitzhaber.

Dan Meek again:
The actual candidate receiving the highest number of votes in each race was the winner, even if “None of the Above” got more votes. Including “None of the Above” as an option was an experiment.

In the future, will “None of the Above” winning nab a blank position on the ballot?

Linda Williams:
We will definitely do a comprehensive review which will be publicly available on demographics of the voters, campaign techniques, etc. For example, there is great variablity in turnout by district. In the 4th Congressional District (Eugene, Southern OR coast), which accounts for about 20% of state population and our own membership, the turnout was close to 7%.

KJ on the socioeconomic situation:
One thing that is completely overlooked in all the hoopla about internet voting in Oregon is the fact that internet access is not spread evenly across the state. In fact, there are places in Oregon that can only access the internet via the installation of expensive satellite systems. No DSL, no broadband, not even reliable dialup.

Hm.   I guess the Independent Party of Oregon will skew away some older voters and some poorer voters.  It’s like the upper caste Mugwumps all over again.

Further Criticism:

What actually transpired was more like an online convention, but without the glad-handing by politicians and after-hours socializing — in other words, it was not a lot of fun for most people, which may help explain the extremely low participation rate of 4 per cent by the 57,000 or so voters registered as members of the Independent Party. Those who chose to participate in the online nominating process were required to complete the ballot in one session, all the while wrestling with an unfamiliar website – a tough challenge for all but the most computer-savvy and committed voters.

Whatever — it’s not an entity that is for me.  I’ll wait for the rebirth of the Whig Party.

I don’t know why google decides I want to see this.  My blog aggregation leans decidedly liberal.  Maybe it’s a sign of who has the money?

Is this mocking us, suggesting that they are not even trying to get public support for such measures in a post- Citizens’ United world?  Even if you deign to advocate for “Keeping the Bush Tax Cuts”, is Bush the right spokesperson for the sell?  You know that if the election were held today, Obama would beat Bush in the election?

Things get even stranger when you click the ad.  What you see is a video image of Fred Thompson.  “Sign Fred Thompson’s Petition to Renew the Bush Tax Cuts.  Click Here Now.”  Is Fred Thompson the right spokesperson for this cause?

Chuck Norris, maybe?  Political pundit who has exposed the whole sale Obama assault on the Boy Scouts.  To be fair, Norris solves the problem:

One 1980s Eagle Scout recipient, Keith Ryan Brafford, Troop 910, Winston-Salem, N.C., posted on a blog with a photo of his Eagle Scout certificate, “Who wants Obama’s signature anyway? … Obama is doing the Scouts a favor [by not signing the certificates]. The president who signs it was so important to me that when I got mine, I insisted on a Reagan-signed award even though he wasn’t president anymore.”

Just as the desire to avoid the signature of Carter in favor of Ronald Ray-gun, anyone upset about such an issue would probably be demanding either George W Bush’s or Sarah Palin’s signature — not Carter or Obama’s.

Circuitously, and having to shuffle past a tedious series of exchanges with the author of this Fine study, I found my way to clues to an answer to the questions that hover in the background for me — “What will become of the Larouche org after the man passes away, and what lasting memory will he leave?” — the same question.  It comes out of the question “Where in the world is Howard Scott”, as of today — in the year 2010? 

Wikipedia is an uneven and rough reflection of public historical memory.  Look into it and we see this spectacle of people ready to defend his character.

It is well known that Howard Scott was smeared in the press. You are republishing old information. Did you read the link I directed you to? I gave you a link that provided evidence. Why are you wholesale reverting everything ?
Why be a continuing part of a smear effort? Why try and assassinate this persons character. It is unseemly and really uncalled for. skip sievert (talk) 16:15, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

User Johnphos… Scott was smeared in the press, and you are dredging up that material now again, please do not use the Times link in this article on Scott. It is not sourced in the article. The article is a known designed attack on Howard Scott and includes things like this How this transformation from dollar economy to energy economy is to come about, Howard Scott never explains. Says he at times: “Technocracy proposes no solution.” At other times he silences questions with a pontifical belch That is the level of this unsourced anon article. Along with the Hearst corporation there was a concerted effort to make a fool and chide Scott in the press. skip sievert (talk) 04:02, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

Obviously the article is meant to be a satire and not a serious piece. It has no author and came out after the Hearst corporation and others put out a directive to discredit the group. His early career is not notable at least the way you have measured or portrayed it. Obvious to see where the piece is aimed. Please do not add this again. Johnfos I have asked you previously not to disruptive edit or trail my edits. skip sievert (talk) 01:32, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

I imagine the wikipedia article on “Technocracy Inc” clashes with Hyzoloic Hedgehog’s piece round about where it places the organization in the present day and fails to concur with a split.

Technocracy Incorporated’s headquarters were originally situated in New York. It has moved several times through its history, and is currently located in Ferndale, Washington. Howard Scott became the first Director of Technocracy Incorporated in 1933, a position he held until his death.[citation needed]

From “Monad Man”:  In spite of the majority’s adherence to Scott, the split devastated the movement. In 1951 Technocracy’s CHQ had to leave its offices in Manhattan and relocate first to Lambertsville, New Jersey, and then to a farm in Bucks County outside Philadelphia. Although some local Technocracy chapters continued to publish small journals, Scott’s CHQ issued its last pamphlet in the late 1940s. Scott sank into even deeper historical obscurity and when he died in 1970 his passing did not even merit a note in the New York Times.

Looking at the citations for the wikipedia article, I have no idea why the current website for “Technocracy, Inc” would delete its founding principles of 1933.  I suppose that you have to be pragmatic and can’t be ideologically driven to your principles in a society you did not create — even if you favor a “No Money Society“, you still have to sell stuff to pay the bills.

I have seen the future of the Larouche org.  It is a website where this is the most popular page — where predictions for 64 years ago are still rationalized away, and the main Ferndale, Washington branch has a sister locale in Vancouver, British Columbia.  It is a loop of appeals to the Youth to the FUTURE!

Technocracy is not a political movement. It is an organization with a dynamic plan for the future–a non-monetary system of distribution, managed by the people most qualified in their particular fields, not by politicians or financiers–we’ve already seen what they do.
We owe our standard at living to science and technology–in the hands of those who know how things work. In the wrong hands, we face an uncertain future. You owe it to yourself to look into Technocracy’s design. After all, that is where you will spend most of your life–in the future.

There are three wikipedia pages that directly concern Howard Scott and “Technocracy, Inc”.  Larouche enjoys a much larger wikipedia tree.  Absent the mass of Larouchites tacking away at wikipedia, I suspect the apparatus would collapse — not quite to the Scott and Technocracy, Inc — but only due to the fact that there are more outlets of information today than there was in the hey-day of the 1930s and 1940s, and more available.  Meantime, the wikipedia team of one for Technocracy, Inc appears to have faded.  A battle lost:

Skip, You’ve said here that “…Technocracy Incorporated and its program.. is perhaps the most important social movement of the 20th. century in my opinion… it influenced and continues to influence many… and was the fastest growing social movement of the early to mid 1930’s.” skip sievert (talk) 14:51, 6 April 2008 (UTC) And this is the general position presented in this article.

But where is the actual evidence that TI has been so important and influential? Perhaps there are some New York Times articles and scholarly books by disinterested historians about TI? Many more third party publications are needed to support what is being said in this article. Sources close to the subject are not very helpful and I’ve tagged the TI Publications section as being an advertisement. Johnfos (talk) 09:27, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

Skip Sievert has failed the Herschel Krustofsky test — he has not kept at it with new names, with a new tag-team (perhaps because the org only consists of one person in Ferndale?), from different isp locales, etc. to badger and bug the wikipedia editors.

In Larouche campaign news:
Summer Shields held an all day press conference in Chinatown on the 29th.  I’m sure it filtered into LPAC press releases.  The Summer Shields for Congress Chorus held a concert at St. Mary’s Square Park.  And this week, all are welcomed to join the U.S. Army Corp Bay Model Tour, and an Economic Policy Workshop on The Historical Development of California with special guest Mark Calney on Saturday, followed by a Conceptual Tour of San Francisco lead by Mark Calney on Sunday.

The Kesha Rogers campaign held a “Save the U.S.A. Layoff Obama!” Intersection Rally, and Ian Overton will lead a discussion of LaRouche’s September forecast on Saturday at Coffee Oasis.

The Rachel Brown campaign has received a bit of press, and a columinist calling for a debate with Barney Frank, here:
You may remember her as the person Frank likened to a dining room table at a Dartmouth town meeting last summer. According to her campaign website, Ms. Brown favors the impeachment of President Obama, in part because of what she calls his “Hitler healthcare policy.” She also advocates the American colonization of Mars. That’s Mars, the planet — not the candy company. I hope Frank debates her on live television.

But she will appear alongside the two Republican challengers to Barney Frank on Newton radio station NECN’s program “Broadside”, on Monday, August 2nd at 6pm.  For a suggested 25 dollar donation you can go to the Brookline Main Library to “participate in an evening of beauty, dignity, and joy in honor of the 200th birth year of Robert Schumann and the beautiful culture he fought to create” in fighting “the Obama administration and lackeys such as Barney Frank, are degrading and killing off the population.”  On Saturday, you too can meet Rachel Brown and dine on some pizza.