Occasionally I have to wonder: what the hell is my point?  For instance, a few weeks ago I really BLEW THE LID OFF of the presense of Lyndon Larouchie at a comic book fan board.  Really, investigative journalism at its finest.  Is it anything?  Well, sure.  Micahel Retour, otherwise known as revenire, drops details of an oh so exciting life working a stream of world historicality.  When asked if he’s under the auspices of Lyndon Larouche, he makes a cowardly retreat and lies, betraying that his mission is a fiction and an illusion and he knows it. 

This one is a bit harder.  It begins with an odd little reference at LPAC. 

As one astute blogger on firedoglake wrote on Sunday, in an item titled “The Glass-Steagall Test,” “As the whole blogosphere knows, the Glass-Steagall Act forced banks to choose between being a commercial bank or an investment house. During the Clinton regime, the despicable Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (also known as the Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999) allowed commercial banks, investment banks, securities firms, and insurance companies to merge… The final vote on Gramm-Leach-Bliley was a gutcheck that most Senators failed.”

Really really strange.  They just referenced obscure blogger.  In the past, they’ve made reference to Jane Hamsher — the main person at firedoglake– for using the word “fascist” and generally opposing Obama’s Health Care policy.  This works hand in glove with their basic attraction to the blog.  It goes on.

The “whole blogosphere knows” about Glass-Steagall because of the radiating impact of the LPAC website, and the other LaRouche points of intervention on this issue, including the impact of the past 14 months’ dialogue with the Stanford Group of leading American economists.

I suppose I should have asked the question based on this statement — “Do you know about Glass Steagall based on the radiating impact of the LPAC website” — instead of a generalized “What?”, but I take his answer to my replacement generalized “What?” to be “No.”  Decide for yourself!  I guess it’s in the eye of the beholder — see: it’s the effect that took things from their activity to various people’s awareness.

So, what we have here, I guess, is that sometime ago the Boiler Room in Leesburg decided that firedoglake would make for a good validator in what political stream they’re swimming.  (They’ll just handily skip the Environmental stuff.)  So they surfed about, looked up “Glass Steagall”, and found that comment. 
Bill Clinton has, of late, been speaking out about policies he undertook during his presidency that he now believes were mistakes.  NAFTA, for instance.  But he stands behind his signing of The Gramm-Leach-Bliley.  Notwithanding whether he is right or wrong to do so, I do believe Clinton knows what it is Glass Steagal.  Lyndon Larouche?  Reading the bulk dump on “Restore Glass Steagall”, I haven’t the foggiest what regulatory policy he refers to — there it is, the words: “Glass-Steagall” — needing to be implemented in some form Worldwide, apparently.  It just does not really appear to connect to anything Senators Carter Glass and Henry B. Steagall pushed and passed and President Roosevelt signed in 1933, and that Paul Volcker proposes in part today… his version apparently follows something like:

The United States must take action to protect itself from the disintegration of the British System, which has already happened. Who cares about the British System? (maybe The British?)  No one in their right mind cares. But, to save the rest of Europe, the United States must act first, by immediately reinstating Glass-Steagall; because, if the United States goes down, the rest of the world goes down.

But it is apparently the topic du jour of what the cult’s followers and travellers stayed glued to, and amped themselves up for last week.:
We are now down to the final five organizing days before Lyndon LaRouche’s next historic international webcast, on Saturday May 8.
Coming on the heels of last week’s private dialogue with leading economists and diplomats, representing the Four Powers nations, only an absolute fool could miss the fact that LaRouche is setting the agenda for the only means to avoid a British-engineered plunge into a global dark age that would wipe out 80 percent of humanity or more. Make no mistake. As events now playing out on the Korean peninsula and in the Persian Gulf make clear, there is a faction in London that is literally Hell-bent on provoking an era of perpetual chaos, in pursuit of their radical Malthusian agenda.
And so it goes.  I don’t understand why anyone would want to wait for a “Historic Webcast” — Larouche has been interviewed by LPAC a ton lately — it appears you can drop by any day and see him as a “Special Guest” to something.  But, there we go.  Appointment viewing for Howie G — good lead in to Betty White’s appearance on Saturday Night Live no doubt.  No word on whether Harley Schlanger checked out a space for a mass viewing in Texas or Utah.  Jerry Pyenson grabbed whomever he could invite.
The world has changed completely now.  That Historic Webcast will always be remembered as a dividing line.  Before and After.

Even though, scenes like this… took place before… and will take place after:

A small group of protesters stationed themselves outside the Darien Post Office Wednesday to advocate for the impeachment of President Obama, a dramatic reshaping of the U.S. financial system, and other far-reaching proposals from the LaRouche Political Action Committee. […] “If she had given me a chance to speak , I would have told her the reason for the mustache is that Hitler’s rise to total domination and power started with an enforced healthcare system much like Obama just pushed onto America,” Sare said. “I am only here to inform.”

Well, they have Chewbacca1989 agreeing with that one.  And here I always thought it began when Hitler removed Glass-Steagall.  (Incidentally.) That campaign is hitting Germany, apparently — part of this campaign:

Essentially, BüSo’s main platform is the repeal of both Maastrcht and Lisbon, calling for a return to full national sovereignty, and the restitution of sovereign national currencies for all nations currently under the sway of the dictatorship of the imperial Brussels bureaucracy.
This would be more on the lines of the great Treaty of Wesphalia (1648), which establishes, for the first time in recorded history, the universal principle of a harmony of interests, in mutually beneficial co-operation, in a community of principle between perfectly independent — yet interdependent — sovereign nation states.
Standing in rabid and furious opposition to this, is the great fraud and evil of world-empire, a neo-feudal form of world-fascism, just as outlined in the Fabian H.G. Wells’ pamphlet The Open Conspiracy (1928), and elsewhere.

I’ll have to peg this:  Interesting that the key election is in North Rhine Westpahlia, where the BüSo party (Bürgerrechtsbewegung Solidarität = Civil Rights Movement Solidarity) is attracting many new supporters. and see if it translates to a marked increase against previous electoral outcomes.
Hey!  They’ve had some luck in the states — though no thanks to the Main Org.  9 percent for Carol Johnson Smith.  And Kesha Rogers, whose nominating victory the German organization is ready to make hay out of:

One week to go until the elections in Northrine-Westphalia, the largest (in terms of population) Bundesland of Germany. After the Texas primary, Bueso printed new posters “Erst Kesha, dann Kascha” (First Kesha, then Kascha), obviously hoping to gain a 52% landslide victory. Kascha of course is the LYM girl mentioned before who called the deindustrialization of Northrine-Westphalia a crime against humanity (for Helga’s crowd, it was always clear that Germans are the victims of whatever type of fascism).
Theys also seem to run out of money in Germany: The “Kascha”-posters were glued to the backside of their standard posters of Helga claiming to have the patent recipe (“Wir haben Patentrezept”).
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Okay.  Take the good with the bad.  I’ll start by commenting on his youtube videos as this young man is recruited and then rejects Larouche.  As he stands for-square behind the politics of David Duke.  Also he’s black.  I guess what might be interesting is to go back and parse his story and if the org recruited him with his various youtube videos in sight.

1:09:  “Don’t know what the fuck that means”.  PAC = Political Action Committee.
Type “Jeremiah Duggan into youtube, google…” Google = wikipedia, JusticeforJeremiah, Schiller Institute.  Youtube.  Not one LPAC entry.
5:20:  Queen Pushed Drugs.  Depends on which day of the week it is.
6:07:  Hm.  Website of two ex-LYMers.  Anyone know what he’s referring to?
(I’ll ignore my problems with anyone using that word at 6:19.)
7:03: Wikipedia.  Always with the Wikipedia.  Wikipedia is the new Dennis King, which as late as two and a half years ago would be where they’d have accused him of getting his information.
7:12:  I don’t think he knows the definition of “second hand, third hand, fourth hand sources”.  Ah well.

Part Two.
1:15 — Has Larouche Planet compiled the Best of these videos into one handy collection yet, or will I have to suck it up and do such a thing?
2:32 — “EVERY PRESIDENT they call Hitler.”  Clinton.  I don’t think they ever called Clinton Hitler.  Bush I — sure.  Reagan — I think they did, eventually.  Kennedy — Maybe not.  (Note: my conception of the start of Larouche’s “Movement” has been backtracked from 1968 over to 1965.)  Johnson — hm.  They’re not messing with electoral politics much at that time.  Nixon?
I am positive they never called Ford Hitler — it was at that time that they joined electoral politics in a way, and Larouche all but supported the election of Ford.
2:53 — Who’d they call Hitler? Ma—huh?

… Interesting guy, I suppose.  My head hurts while watching his support of David Duke, and rattling on regarding the Vast Zionist Youtube Conspiracy.  5:00 for Duke:  You can’t write anything against Israel in the college ’cause then you’d be kicked out — really?
7:53:  David Duke 2013! — I mean 2012
I’m not going to lose sleep pondering this man.  I hope he gets himself adjusted somewhat better, and he’s more likely to do so outside the cult than inside.  Otherwise: Move along.  Ponder the imponderables — “One thing most people don’t know about you”.  Someday he’ll wish to wipe this off the web so people won’t know these past ideas about him.
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An old Chip Berlet (and Joel Bellman) article has been posted to a Chicago news site.  Comments follow about a renewed “GLTF”. 
Then again, from the San Francisco Chronicle in 1986:  Political extremist Lyndon LaRouche believes that many homosexuals support Proposition 64, the AIDS initiative, and those who do not have been duped by a “a little mafia among the so-called gay community.” […] “I think you will find that the average homosexual is much quieter than the people who are vocal. And I think that privately they’re terrified of this disease. They don’t see much hope,” he said. “And I think they think about me, `. . . If this guy is gonna save our lives, more power to him.’ ”
The next thing you’ll show me a black David Duke supporter.

Okay.  Political ads are us.

Notable Ad #1:  Dan Fanielli running against Alan Grayson.  Supporting Racial Profiling.  Memo to Mr. Fanielli at :44, “If a good looking ripped guy without much hair” — you flatter yourself.
Well, the ad did its job.  Partially.  It got the man national attention.  Donors. 
It’s worth noting, and everybody else is noting it with me — this guy looks like a terrorist.  And this guy looks like a terrorist.  Yes, so does this guy.
1:04 :  Thinking of the premise of the ad, it is here that the Arabic man who is playing the part of the Terrorist is really starting to bug me.  It is not even the political implication of supporting your “Racial Profiling”, as reports go, all I can say is — Fine, Whatever.  But I can’t quite understand why he would want to make sure, after his “minor inconvenience” of interrorgation in airport security, be sure that a guy like him doesn’t get near a “thing like this” — the Airplane — isn’t the premise that all Arab looking men will be pulled out, investigated, then Let onto the plane after they are fully checked — butt cracks included? 

Notable Ad #2.  You have to understand that the Carly Fiorni campaign gave the Democratic Party a gift by running this ad against her porimary opponent, Tom Campbell.   Short hand, this is what Carly Fiorni accused Tom Campbell of being:

Well, it grabbed some attention.  I don’t know how many people watching the ad out in cyberspace picked any names out, instead of — say, rolling to staid Internet memes.

Naturally the Democratic Party of  California would be guilty of political malfunction if they didn’t pick up and run with it.
And so it goes.

Noted Ad  #3.  I suspect the Republican Party of Ohio overdid this one.  They had a photograph which they couldn’t resist using.  They dropped the standard campaign bits against it.  I can’t figure out what the point of the suggestion is, and maybe I’m wrong — maybe the suggestive aura of Nero Masturbating while Rome Burns has some traction to it.

Stopping at “See Also”, the wikipedia article for the Conservative Party contains 7,554 words.  The wikipedia article for the Labour Party contains 6,397 words.  The wikipedia article for the Liberal Democrats has 4,242 words.  You can see right there the third party status of the Liberal Democrats — Nick Clegg’s performance a disappointment as for a brief moment in the election campaign, he thought he just might have the stumbling Labourites.

Except… Compare the Liberal Democrats 4,242 words with…
The Official Monster Raving Loony Party gets 5,476 words.

The Monster Raving Loonies beat the Liberal Democrats.

According to multiple sources, a trader entered a “b” for billion instead of an “m” for million in a trade possibly involving Procter & Gamble [PG 60.75 -1.41 (-2.27%) ], a component in the Dow. (CNBC’s Jim Cramer noted suspicious price movement in P&G stock on air during the height of the market selloff.

Randomness.

This page helps us visualize the difference in typo.

Here’s a lad standing next to a million dollars.  And then he stands before a billion dollars.

Now imagine those aren’t 500 dollar bills, but …

… Wait.  Do Brokerages issue stock units of 500?

The Nasdaq and New York Stock Exchange took the unusual step of declaring that they would cancel some trades that took place during the height of the selloff. Both markets said they will cancel all trades more than 60 percent above or below market that occurred between 2:40 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. New York time.

Drat.  That confuses my entire stock portfolio.  You don’t understand: when I saw Proctor and Gamble plummet like that, I POUNCED!

I petition to change the word “billion” to something else, for a similar difference that you see between “thousand” and “million”.  I suggest “housand”, but only to see what a TRUE bizarre stock fluctuation looks like.  (Actually, we’d go ahead and change the word “million”.  I think my experiment would work out better with that as the variable.)

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I’d be irresponsible if I didn’t mention the other causes cited for today’s stock market volatility.  People are brandishing Communist slogans in the country of Greece.  That fateful day has arrived: Capitalism has collapsed.  We must all now salute Karl Marx.

 

A Georgia man has been arrested in Tennessee–authorities say he headed to Madisonville, armed and prepared to take over the courthouse.

Darren Huff stands charged of traveling in interstate commerce with intent to incite a riot and transporting in commerce a firearm in furtherance of a civil disorder.

The FBI says Huff traveled to Tennessee armed with a pistol on his hip and an assault rifle in his truck, intent on carrying out citizen’s arrests of 24 federal, state, and local officials, and on seeing that another man did not face trial for trying to do the same.

On April 1, Walter Francis Fitzpatrick had tried a citizen’s arrest of Grand Jury Foreman Gary Pettway. Fitzpatrick had previously tried to get the grand jury to indict President Barack Obama on charges of treason, with no success. Fitzpatrick was charged with disorderly conduct, inciting to riot, disrupting a meeting, and resisting arrest.

Indeed.  Type his name in google and this is the first thing that pops up— I guess the background to understand this story and what these people think they are doing.  Second thing that pops up?  Good lord.  But it gets better. And the man can’t accuse of putting his side of the story here.

SOETORO-OBAMA and Tennessee Democrat Governor PHIL BREDESEN are working closely together as chief executives constructing an unspeakable pretend public crisis in Monroe County Tennessee.
Liberal media correspondents are doing all they can to spread their fable.
The chief design of their manufactured crisis is to divert attention away from SOETORO-OBAMA’s TREASON and GARY PETTWAY’s approximate 27-year run as Monroe County grand jury foreman heading 54 or more grand juries (two grand juries in each year).
SOETORO-OBAMA and BREDESEN knowingly and falsely claim various loose collections of American Veterans and Militiamen planned a full-scale armed assault on the Monroe County Courthouse in Madisonville Tennessee.
SOETORO-OBAMA and BREDESEN are terrorizing and paralyzing the local citizenry using draconian, police-state tactics in reaction to their own invented threat. SOETORO-OBAMA and BREDESEN are using military-style force to instill widespread fear ensuring continued public tameness.

Anyway, back to the Mainstream Media.

The FBI said Fitzpatrick had drafted and issued citizen’s arrest warrants for the state, local, and federal officials.Fitzpatrick was headed to trial on his charges on April 20.FBI officials say Huff didn’t want Fitzpatrick to go to trial, so planned to head to Tennessee.The FBI interviewed a bank manager who said Huff told him on April 15 that Fitzpatrick had been falsely arrested, that Huff was in the Georgia militia, and that 8 or 9 other militia groups were headed to Madisonville on April 20 to “take over the city.” The bank manager said Huff told him he’d see Huff’s actions on the noon news.FBI agents interviewed Huff at his home on April 19, and Huff said he would be traveling to Tennessee to help Fitzpatrick get the charges against him dropped. Huff told agents there would be no violence unless they were provoked into violence.
Still, he told agents he planned to travel with his Colt .45 handgun and AK-47 rifle.

Then, on April 20, officers in Madisonville reported numerous individuals in possession of openly displayed and concealed firearms, in the area around the courthouse.

FBI agents had observed Huff leaving his home around 6:15 that morning. Tennessee Highway Patrol troopers pulled him over in Sweetwater for traffic violations of traffic control device, registration law, and following too closely.

Wait.  Wait.  I think the man may have something here.  The police were looking for any excuse to pull him over.

The troopers said Huff volunteered that he planned to travel to Madisonville to take over the courthouse, to arrest the people on Fitzpatrick’s warrants–who he termed “domestic enemies of the United States engaged in treason”–and to turn those arrested over to state police to place in jail.The troopers said Huff told them if they didn’t have enough people on April 20 to do all they planned on that day, they’d be back in 1-2 weeks.The troopers said Huff also told them he was ready to die for his rights and what he believed in, and that he would not consent to a search of his truck.
Then on April 21, Huff recorded a radio broadcast, talking about his traffic stop and saying he did have weapons and ammunition with him.

Figure this story out?

Interesting. Now why Madisonville, Tennessee of all places needs to be the origin of treason charges against the Mr. Obama, I am really having trouble figuring out. Further, putting the grand jury of said are under citizens arrest to push the matter of indicting Obama for treason is another step further away from anything I would call rational.

Now I do appreciate the man’s honesty. You have to give him that.

I wonder if these folks ever sat down and studied what it actually takes to pursue treason charges in the US. There have only been 15 people ever convicted of treason in the history of the US. The last one was in 1952. If they ever bothered to research that on statemiltitiamembers.org or cliffsguidetotheconstitution.net or wherever they are getting their information, they might resolve themselves to be upset and try to do something about it from within the system. If the grocery store stops carrying their brand of chewing tobacco, do they plan on burning it down as well?
I’m not completely convinced the man is crazy. To say he is uninformed or ignorant would be unquestionable.

Problem right there: they don’t think his real name is “Obama”.

Two cases.

One state legislator is in session for voting on an Abortion Related measure.  And as this takes place, he is watching a row of topless women on his computer screen.
Do you believe him?

I was just sitting there, bored as they were debating the abortion bill,’ Mr Bennett said. ‘I opened it up and said holy s***! What’s on my screen? and clicked away from it right away,’ he told the Sunshine State News.

Nobody seems to believe him.  Don’t know why.
Comments I see center around a defense, of sorts.  No hypocrisy is present because he voted against the Abortion Restrictions.  This is largely a matter of political culture cluster, I say.  For instance, theoretically there is nothing stopping an Atheist from being an opponent of Abortion.  Or a proponent of Funding for contraceptives.  Or someone who advocates against Restrictions for Porn.  A bit rare in political practice, though.

More overtly hypocritical is this guy.

His alibi is interesting.

Reached by New Times before a trip to Bermuda, Rekers said he learned Lucien was a prostitute only midway through their vacation. “I had surgery,” George Alan Rekers said, “and I can’t lift luggage. That’s why I hired him.” (Medical problems didn’t stop him from pushing the tottering baggage cart through MIA.)

Do you believe him?  Nobody seems to.  A hole in the story is present right from the start — he’s pushing his luggage himself.  Also, who goes to a website called “rentboy dot com) (They can’t buy publicity like this!) to get someone to push their luggage?

Dodged a Bullet.  Interestingly, I can not say that of the last instance of Failed Islamic Terrorism — the “Captain Underpants” caper, because that was a case of “Can’t Hit the Broad Side of a Barn” and mostly just showed the infeasibility of a particular terrorist tactic (though, I guess it holds a particular attraction as it’s the nearest re-creation of 9/11 available.)  With Faisal Shahzad’s botched attempt, I am back to my long-held thought: “I’m surprised we haven’t seen this already” — the “Car Bomb” is an oldie.  Then again, I may be missing something here — it’s not like I am ever going to sit down and sort through the logistics to this end.  The man apparently took classes in Pakistan that lead up to this attack.  He was not at the Top of His Class, apparently.

What’s interesting is that he is apparently co-operating in full.  It’s a ponder of some lines of Psychology.  I remember a “This American Life” episode with Israeli Interrogators asking failed Suicide Bombers, and marking one confession of Remorse as completely insincere and another as sincere.  Well, it’s a thought.  It may be that had he managed to escape, as we see he didn’t, he would have had a harder time to answer for his Great Failure.
… Did he have his heart in this?

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Worth noting:
“I thought I should call 911, but my English is not very good and I had no credit left on my phone, so I walked over to Lance, who has the T-shirt stall next to mine, and told him. He said we shouldn’t call 911. Immediately he alerted a police officer near by,” said Mr Niasse, who is originally from Senegal and who has been a vendor in Times Square for about eight years.

Muslim Immigrant.

An interesting observation from a Mississippi Congress-critter.

He described the spill as a light, rainbow sheen with patches that look like chocolate milk.

 

William Ames Curtright.
Occupational Background […] Termed “Renaissance Man” […]  I don’t care how accomplished you are and in how many fields, you are not allowed to drop a citation of “Renassiance Man”.
Prior Governmental Experience […]  Descendant of Ames Family of Massachusetts which includes Representative Oakes Ames who was appointed by Abraham Lincoln to build the Union Pacific Railroad [Wait.  Can I pull something like on a resume?  Reference my great-grandfather’s career?]
EDUCATION: First principles. We need to return to the first principles of our country; God, Patriotism, Flag, and Honor. Our Children should recite the Pledge of Allegiance in our schools. Young minds are learning. Let’s teach them the proper respect for our country.
His educational platform is the Recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance?

Shane G Dinkel
I guess I’ll highlight two things, some standard bombast.:
Why I am Running: Our Republic is being dismantled before our eyes.
And this “does not follow”:
While others have gone to Washington promising to bring back billions of dollars, I’ll go there to keep your money in your pocket by lowering taxes (follows), controlling spending, (follows) dismantling bureaucracy, (follows) securing our borders, (does not follow) promoting life, (does not follow) and improving the health care system (without destroying it). (Maybe; maybe not.)

Pavel Goberman
Tell me this doesn’t amount to a commercial.  Occupation: Founder/Provider of physical/mental fitness program “Get Energized!” – book, video and exercise classes for governments, businesses and public: may prevent many illnesses, diseases (including cancers) and slow down the aging process. I’m in excellent health. (503)6-GET-FIT www.getenergized.com/vote.html
Hm?
Stop bribery, corruption and political/media prostitutions. I’m running against Wyden because he is not honest, corrupted, useless, ignores, violates, doesn’t support and criminal contempt the Constitution of the USA He bailouts banks, AIG, GM and represents their interests.
Car Insurance is a Street Robbery. If no accident – 50% money back.  (I don’t understand how that system would work.)
I will make peace on the MiddleEast.  (Wrong Preposition?)
Support AARP, WillamWriters, Elks and NRA. (Eclectic?)

Tom Stutzman
I have never been a politician, nor been someone interested in being a politician. I have never been very skilled at speaking out both sides of my mouth, or saying one thing and doing something totally opposite. Those traits don’t get you very far when you are self employed or a business owner.
Really?  Those skill sets don’t go with “Real Estate Broker”.
Does it make sense to:  -and others
No.  It does not make sense.

Now, to Multnomah County.  I will have to check out the other counties on a later date.
Wes Soderback
Resent tax increases will help but, as the recovery money dries up we could be in for another budgit crisis.
Almost sounds like a Tea Party Activist with that typo.

Christopher Gorsek
For more information please see my website at http://home.comcast.net/~chrisgorsek/site/
Okay.  That’s home dot comast dot net slash that little squiggley sign chrisgorsek — one word — slash site.  I’ll remember that!