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Perhaps that was the subject of the last one. But why keep a good COG secret from the people they represent? Shouldn’t continuity of government plans reassure us all?

btw- the convicted criminal from that episode (Poindexter) had his conviction erased by one George W. Bush and was put in charge of some new secret agency inside the Pentagon. How nice for him.

Suddenly I wish I were the son of a Congressman.

The actual legislation - Declaring English as our National Language - accomplishes nothing constructive. It only makes it more difficult for non English speakers to assimilate into our culture, while pushing a damaging political agenda forward.

Notice that English has remained our common language for centuries, in spite of waves of immigration that has defined our identity as Americans. You and I are Dutch and Italian, but we can’t speak Dutch or German or Italian. The perception that English is in danger is an illusion. (I do think that if they passed legislation that required Americans to speak English with a common ACCENT, then that would properly frame this debate, as there are certain parts of this country that whose clear English is unintelligible to other parts.) Immigrants want to learn English. Their children inevitably do learn English, and always have. Which is why they attend schools where the common language is English. In academics we have a practical solution to the language question, and it’s been the solution for years without inflamatory legislation to force it along.

The main practical result of this legislation will not be to “protect the integrity of our Christian Nation and it’s God given language’ - or some such nonsense, it will be to make it impossible to require that services like health care and the drivers license registration, and the various other forms, licenses, taxes and etc that we require for legal participation in our system of law, be published in other languages. It is already very difficult for new immigrants to participate in our society. It’s hard for any adult to learn a second language, and more so in addition to working constantly and managing the impoverished conditions that they find themselves in more often than not. The message of legislation like this to people who hope to come and thrive here, and to those already here, is that you’re not wanted, move along.

The result will be more disenfranchised immigrants, with less sympathetic feeling towards their adopted nation, and a greater ideological gap between the wealthy and established and the poor and aspiring. People will still come here, but more than ever because they want money or things, and less because they want to opportunity to participate in our system. And, as you well know, disenfranchised populations increasingly participate in shadow economies and black markets, which in turn feed crime, prostitution, poverty, drug trade, and terrorism. The long term political payoff comes from middle class anxiety which helps elect Republicans as well as fund police, security, various wars against different perceived threats with associated machinery, production, etc.

In other words, the corporate powers are using disenfranchisement and fear to fuel their production cycles - sound familiar? It should, it’s the reason we’re in a manufactured war in Iraq on trumped up charges. It’s the method that the greedy and immoral have devised to keep Americans in a constant state of disorder and confusion. These are the powers that believe that the only sustainable and profitable economy is one that revolves around a constant state of war. If you don’t believe me, then take a good look at our current state of affairs. We’re living in the outline of that kind of world view already, and it’s only begun to hurt as much as it could.

The immediate payoff for such legislation is of course to provoke the public, and play on its fears, and to scare up votes. Read the comments on this topic in the blogosphere: “How could the Democrats VOTE this way? Don’t they LOVE American? I have ALWAYS loved America. Land where my Father died. God BLESS America. Home of the FREE. And the BRAVE.” It’s called a hot button topic when it instantly gets everyone’s attention, and is instantly framed as a referendum of whether a politician loves this country or not in the most childish terms, instead of whether he or she is a pragmatic leader engaging in practical legislating. In other words, grandstanding and depending on the trusting but ignorant public not to see things clearly until after you’ve got em in the bag. This is the repugnant method of the Republican party of recent years.

Meanwhile the US looks ever more xenophobic to the rest of the world. Every civilized nation besides the US is bilingual at the very least. They have their own languages AND teach English. We continue to stagnate to run the hamster wheel of overconsumption and overstimulation, never daring to question our own prejudices, or the policies that allow us to enjoy an unprecedented opulence in the history of the planet. Meanwhile, our hegemony is unsustainable and soon it will be time to pay the piper. If we’re smart we’ll put aside these unsavory nationalistic postures and invest in our locality by being politically engaged, and we’ll make our judgments according to the logic of expanding global awareness instead of the narrow minded smears of political vipers.

I’m very interested in this because so much has happed in this country that I thought never would. Not in my wildest dreams, yet it’s happened. Really what I’d like to do is ask someone like a DK or RP if it’s true - I’d imagine that if it wasn’t true they would address it quickly and say so. If on the other hand it is true they would have a legal reply. You know one of those wink once if by land and two if by sea things.

The people of this country have been lied to so much, force fed half truths and crap for so long now that the truth is unrecognizable to them. I think that much can be said of the politicians today as well. I think they believe their own lies. I realize the things that I allow people to post here about often seem off the wall - many have turned out to be accurate. Of course I don’t have the time to check every article that those guest editors post for accuracy and many times I wish I could have. On a personal level - I think things will get a lot worse, I can’t say when because I have no idea and I don’t think anyone else does either - those are just my personal feelings based on my specific trade experience. So when someone gives a date i.e. late 2008 it doesn’t sit right with me personally - however I’ve learned I’m not always right and don’t have all the answers so — I just sit back and watch the world go by. A lot of these posts here get people to at least think critically and thats the only way this country can effect any real change - by education. So if they at least look into some of the posts made out there - you’ll not only gain knowledge on that particular subject but you often bump in to other things you didn’t know were happening under your very nose. Which was your point in the beginning no?

I actually did ask someone that has contact with RP to try it .. don’t know if he will.

Still waiting for B.A. Brooks update…

The hosting company (being godaddy in this case, using ns5.secureserver.net and ns6.secureserver.net for their DNS servers) owns the subnet 64.202.160.0/19 which their IP falls in. So basically, yes, while their actual physical website is located in the US, due to hosting with a US company, the actual company that runs the website according to their contact information is in Australia.

Another good example of this is your actual domain. The website polidics.com is hosted on a server at the IP address 74.53.87.226, which is in IP space owned by ThePlanet.com in Houston Texas (who owns 74.52.0.0/14), however… the IP actually falls in a smaller subnet within the /14 according to ThePlanet (74.53.87.224/28) which is owned by HostGator out of Boca Raton Florida… One single IP out of that smaller subnet may be leased to another company too. Who knows..

Anyway….back to the original topic…. I hope someone soon provides proof of that newspaper article so we can see what it actually say.

I have a couple of .uk addys here in the states so the extension really isn’t a good go by in this case. I know their owners are from AU and they also have some connection with a company called “Pirate island” whatever that is…

I don’t know about the meetings yet still waiting for Bert Brooks to get back - he said he was going out and would give me the info when he got back. Other then that I’m still digging. I’m really interested in what info he has to share - hopefully that will shed some light on this?

The .to TLD is from “Tonga”. Unfortunately the whois server for .to domains hosted by tonic.to is not returning much information on the actual domain. Also their website http://www.tonic.to is not up at the moment (bleh).

Their contact us page lists a phone number and address in Australia, so they are most likely in Australia

By mail - P O Box 5 Fingal Head NSW 2487
By email - news@australia.to
By phone - 0431 455 339 anytime
Office and Newsroom International 61755241290

Anyway..does anyone have actual proof of a reputable Australian newspaper running and article making the same claims about the meeting?