Just the Facts, Ma'am

Spinsanity has a little article pointing me to a CBO report on the share of Federal Taxes paid by each quintile.

If one were to read the report, one would learn that in 2005 every quintile except the top quintile will be paying HIGHER taxes than when Bush took office.  I repeat, every quintile except the top quintile will be paying higher taxes in 2005, after the three Bush-signed tax acts, than before Bush took office.

	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005
Lowest Quintile	5.4	5.3	5.2	5.2	5.5
Second Quintile	11.6	11.6	11.0	11.1	12.0
Middle Quintile	15.2	15.0	14.5	14.6	15.6
Fourth Quintile	19.3	19.1	18.5	18.5	19.6
Highest Quintile	26.8	25.4	24.4	23.8	26.3

(from page 18 of 32 of the report)

Fascist C-SPAN

Do you watch it?  Stop.  Listen to Air America Radio instead.  And, if you get it, watch News World International.

Pathetically, to understand what is going on in America, you have to become a C-SPAN junkie.  C-SPAN hosts, unapologetically, every scumbag motherfucking liar that ever assured the American public that Saddam's WMD were a "continuing threat."  Every douchebag, like Thomas Friedman or David Brooks, can be assured a regular spot in front of America's poltically savvy.  C-SPAN covers entire press conferences while newspapers just quote snippets.  It's the horse's mouth.  However, since the horse, in this case, is a Messianic Fascist Oilocrat, you will instantly get sick.  Make sure to use the internet to investigate everything you hear on C-SPAN with which you are unfamiliar.  It took me two years to get a handle on the whole thing, and I think I started out fairly well armed.

Christ in Sudan

The new Evangelical Christian U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, John Danforth...
Religious networks running "news" stories on the battles in the nation of Sudan...
Muslims killing Christians (Dinka)...
The need of a new distraction...
Yes, the US is at it again.  The evangelical christian stations, which run almost no hard news, are regularly crowing about Sudan, a situation where the tyrannical government, Arabic speaking, is cracking down on the OIL RICH Southern region, inhabited by the Dinka tribe, who are coincidentally Christians.  John "Iran-Contra-Drugs" Negroponte, former Bush-junta ambassador to the United Nations, has moved on to greener pastures, getting sweet contracts for the military-industrial-complex in al-Iraq, paved the way for John "Jesus is King" Danforth to say that the United States of Ameerica has no choice but to threaten and intimidate the Sudanese government.  It's in the news all the time where I am now.  Not once have these fuckers mentioned how oil-rich that particular region is, not once has the Evangelical angle been covered.  The news is covering up for a bunch of murderous thieves again, I see.

Sandy Berger

  Is it just me, or does someone deserve to be fired.  A National Archive employee allegedly WATCHED Mr. Berger put documents in his pocket and did nothing?  Could we ask them how many other people she/he allowed to walk out with documents?
CAN THEIR BUTT

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Savior (ASS)

  Is Arnold Schwarzenegger the ressurection of Jesus Christ?  I bet it crosses his mind on a regular basis.  The evidence is straightforward, simply gleaned from his movies.  The truth is that he is a sub-human, thuggish pig-dog.
He has appeared in

Terminator II: Judgement Day	Catchy title, no?
The End of Days	Catchy title AND it is about a Dec 13, 1999 showdown between good and evil AND he appears, crucified, in one scene
Twins	The twins are born of a mother who does not have sex. They are good and evil, ASS is good.

There is no god

There is no afterlife.  There will be a final perception, it's endurance in your mind is a question.
There is no reincarnation.  Greatness will encourage emulators, and psuedo-emulators.
There is no immortality.  Your works and genetics may survive you for a great while.
There has never been a virgin birth.  And so using In Vitro Fertilization to create one is useless.
There is no ressurection.
There is no god.  There is a universe, some of it forceful, almost all of it beyond your control.
There are no ghosts or spirits.
There are no aliens.  Anywhere near this planet.
Yes, I'm certain.

The Da Vinci Code, the Novel

Dan Brown has written a novel in the suspense/thriller mode, pitting an imaginary, ancient, secret society, the Priory of Sion, against a real, rich, and relatively obscure Catholic sect, Opus Dei. Plantard, a Vichy French Fascist, is the real originator of the Priory of Sion.  Dan Brown apparently believes Mr. Plantard's tale, that it actually dates back to 1099CE.  Plantard is a psychotic, anti-semitic French loon who blamed World War II on the Jews.  Josemaria Escriva, founder of Opus Dei, was a Spanish Fascist who supported the murderous Franco regime.   Fascist vs Fascist?  The Church studiously avoids discussion of this nature, while consistently decrying the books "relevatory" passages.  Franco was worse to Spain than Saddam was to al-Iraq, the founder of Opus Dei was in with him.  Fuck every Christian who just wastes their time trying to prove that Jesus never had any children, or that the gnostic gospels are frauds.  Why can't they simply point to worse-than-Saddam fascists on both sides? This murderous, lying insane apologia, courtesy of ????

Why Farenheit 9/11 is wrong

  The various reasons to invade al-Iraq were mostly mentioned, but, for example, Colin Powell's reason was totally ignored.  He simply wanted to fight North Korea and al-Iraq, because those were the two aggressor nations of the last fifty years who still survived (he doesn't count US aggression).  The scary fuck considers Kim Jong-Il, the current ruler of North Korea, and Kim Song-Il, his father, who invaded South Korea for the Korean War, the same person, I guess.  A whole "let the sins of the fathers be visited upon the sons" schpiel, which works perfectly well with the overall religio-monarchist ouevre of this administration.  A chart will be made here showing how each administration "in" person (Bush/Cheney/Rove/Rumsfeld/Powell/Rice) had their own reasons to go to war.  Mr. Rove, for instance, knows war presidents are popualar, and his only interest is election politics.  I actually have no idea why Ms. Rice went along with them.  The most glaring omission, perhaps, was the lack of a religious aspect.  Bush's supporters HATE Islam, and probably weren't even paying attention, or though it was all a "wink and a nod," when Mr. Bush spoke that it wasn't a war on Islam.
  Mr. Moore also got the sound of the planes going into the buildings wrong.   I got a good listen to the second plane crashing in, and the whine of the engines was the most significant feature.

Ireland and Rwanda

For the last few weeks I have been explaining the real roots of terrorism and how to fight it.
Ireland should be in the table below, I'll enter it later.  I would not be surprised to learn, as is asserted in some places, that the roots of Irish and Welsh are not from the Germanic branch of Indo-European, and not Indo-European at all

Rwanda must be brought up because it is the only example on the African continent of a country whose borders roughly match a single language.  A bunch of racists in America, all Americans in the media, called the Hutu-Tutsi conflict "ethnic."  They were speaking out their asses.  There is no such thing as an ethnic Hutu or Tutsi.  It's all a colonial legacy from when the Belgians ruled Rwanda.

In other words, the Rwanda crisis, like the terrorist problem defined below, is, in fact, a legacy of imperialism/colonialism.

You Only Need Bombs To Make Democracy

If any member of the intellectual classes of al-Iraq are unhappy with Iran-Contra-Drugs-John Negroponte, or see Allawi and Yawer as CIA tools, and decide not to help al-Iraq, democracy will still flourish, because we can simply kill anyone who resists. Forever.
There is no chance anyone could be offended by this, and that is why it only takes bombs to make a democracy.

There are no counter-examples

     One may have examined my last two posts and scratched their head and said to themselves "Well, what about..."  I can only find one serious counter-example, which I address here.  I will now address the most obvious examples which might lead one to wonder if there is a linguistic base to terrorism.  Before I get into the examples, please simply imagine how easily negotiations fall apart over small miscommunications, even when both sides are speaking the same language.

Country	Issue	Language
Israel	Palestinians	Most Palestinians speak Hebrew.  Few Israelis speak Arabic.  Palestinians have to know two languages just to get by in their "own" country.  Imagine having to understand a Russian immigrant in the IDF yelling orders in his accent-ridden Hebrew.  Remember, your life is on the line.  A tribe from Peru was also made honorary Israelis.  Their Hebrew must also be interesting.
Colombia	FARC & ELN	This case is mostly about the drug war, however, the concerns of indigenous populations, speakers of Native American languages, have been adopted by the "terrorists."
Mexico	Chiapas	Again, the Chiapas rebels adopted the concerns of local Native American speakers, who are most numerous, of all Mexican States, in terms of percentages, in Chiapas.
Switzerland	Four languages	The first three, and next eight, Swiss Cantons, spoke German. All but one of the non-German speaking Cantons were conquered by Switzerland, or attached by outside powers.  The law in Switzerland is published in German, French, Italian and Rhaeto-Romansh.  This is one of the more stable countries on Earth.

The Legitimacy of Government

  Following what appears below, we are left with the question "What makes a government legitimate?"

  The Universal Declaration of Human Rights attempts to solve this answer by creating a list of fifty items that all governments must follow.  This list is quite flawed, and includes many ideas which no government can support.  Was it designed with a one world government in mind?  Perhaps, but they still spent a long time crafting these rules, and their rules can be looked at for inspiration on these matters.  As an exercise, you can try to prioritize all fifty for yourself.

  I argue that there is one item, that does not appear in the Universal Declaration, that comes, for me, before any of the others, and it speaks directly to the issue of governmental legitimacy.

  If your government does not even bother to publish its laws in your language, can it expect you to follow them?

  If the judges, lawyers and jury, in your trial, do not speak your language, do you think you should expect justice?

  If the ultimate authority of your nation, for example, JP Bremer in al-Iraq, does not speak your language, do you expect them to hear you?

  There are, sadly, roughly 7,000 languages on Earth.  European imperial/colonial expansion has resulted in a system where only a dozen or so languages are, currently, particularly useful.  Science, which I believe is crucial now, is mostly done in my language, English.  Carving up nations based on linguistic (NOT ethnic, NOT "racial") groups is not going to create world peace.  But, it is important to note that the borders which carve up Africa, the Middle East, Southwest Asia, India, China, and Oceania, are all borders imposed by the ruling powers with NO consideration of local interests.  By comparison, when Europe redivided itself (Treaty of Westphalia (1648), Congress of Vienna (1815)) it was a SLAVE to the linguistic groups.

If it is good enough for "us," dammit, it is good enough for "them."

The Solution to the Problem of International Terrorism

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     PLEASE DON'T READ THIS VERSION This post has been updated and can be found here.

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   To pull up terrorism by the roots, we must know those roots.  Terrorism has three roots, injustice, phantom injustice, and insanity.  Thankfully the insane ones have an impossible time relating their insanity, but even one person can wield considerable life-threatening power nowadays, a la Ted Kaczinski.  Phantom injustice can easily be defeated with truth, but people don't always want to hear the truth, or might not trust the source.
  Instead of discussing categories of terrorists, I shall discuss actual terrorists, since the current incarnation of terrorism can not be solved until it is understood from all angles, in general and in particular.

  First, we shall focus on some of the world's largest nations internal terrorism problems, then pull the focus back, to show that their problems are, in fact, precisely analagous to our own.  Of less interest to the powers that be are why these problems exist today, so maybe you should just try a flurry of guesses.
NOTE: Not being a linguist myself, and understanding that the field is in flux, I sometimes link to information that will disagree with other linked information.  I can't say which is right, I don't know who can.  Ethnologue.com is fairly complete, so I regularly referred to it (Logue).  List of source web pages, giving full contexts, at end, and later.

	Terrorism	Languages	Maps	Trees	Random
China	Uyghur (*) One, Two, Three
		Chinese:	One, Two, Three	Logue, Humphries	Word Comparison
		Uyghur:	One, Two,, Three?	Logue	Uyghur History, Historical Map, Learn More
Russia	Chechen (*) One, Two, Three
		Russian:	Indo-Euro, Slavic, Slavic2	Logue
		Chechen:	One, Two, Three	Logue, Humphries
India	Tamil Tigers One, Two, Three
		Indic:	Indo-Euro, Indo-Iran, India	Logue, Creighton,	Comparing Languages, Ignore Religion
		Dravidian:	One, Two, Three	Logue
Spain	Basque Separatist (*) One, Two, Three
		Spanish:	Indo-Euro, Romance, Romance2	Logue
		Basque:	One, Two, Three	Logue	ETA Demands

(*) indicates alleged al-Qaeda connection I know about.
I found this page to be one of the best overall web pages on the topic, in English.  Unfortunately it is missing some maps, having split Indo-European into four parts, and only mapping three, for example.
I-E Global Map

  Easy then, I hope, it is to see how this parallels with the tension between the English and Arabic speaking worlds.

After Action Report

I didn't have any plan, but I started posting on Olasky's blog.  For those who don't know, in 2000, Mr. Olasky wrote the book Compassionate Conservatism, and the president wrote the forward.

They brought up their usual boogieman, George Soros
Banning gum, a liberal conspiracy?!?
biodiesel
Reagan's death and misogyny
All of us die
The gossips
What do you know, and who told you?
Turkey I
Schwarzenegger, frontman for another scam
Turkey II
Adam Smith is supressed, today
A sideblog, with some guesses on the origins of man
The Olympics
A sideblog, what to do with your eyes
Real Analysis I
Turkey III
I'm not saying you should skip to the end, but I liked the way it turned out.

The comments I made are as JSN, Hi, Josh Narins, and finally Joshua Simeon Narins.

Five days in June.

Bad News for Democrats

Did I already blog this?

Charlie Rangel, and some other leading Democrats, have decided to sign a letter declaring that Sun Yung Moon is the Messiah.

The Bad News for Republicans is that GHW Bush and RW Reagan have been linked to this guy for years.