Opinion: This morning the Austin City Council unanimously approved the $2.3 Billion biomass project. Apparently, the postponement of the decision was not actually to reconsider, but rather to draw straws on which councilor would step to the front to make the motion. Councilor Cole had the dubious honor of making history with that motion today. (Video to come.)
Her decision contained some interesting language. When Councilor Cole made the motion, she prefaced it with comments requesting more input from the companies that had been shut out. The council agreed to require contracts with the other companies, or at least to require discussions. How much will the settlements be, since several of them made credible-sounding cases that they had been wrongfully shut out of a bidding process? One might think that each company could sue for what it lost: $2.3 billion dollars... but of course this is an extreme thought, not even rational.... right?
Councilor Cole provided some nice "bytes" to suggest to her constituents that she was not going along with this decision, but then she became the one who made the actual motion to approve, placing her own name ahead of the other councilors' in the public record that will re-appear each and every time this episode is revisited.
Does Councilor Cole know to what extent she is taking the fall for the rest of them, considering the well-organized opposition that is sure to impact their political careers for a long time to come? And where was Councilor Martinez? Leffingwell's attention to process? Couldn't Shade be brave enough to oppose? And Morrison.... oh, well, I'm sure she'll suggest food stamps as the answer to those concerned about something so low-class and vulgar as money...that was her answer to successful businesses complaints about losing money to batfest, after all.....
Ah, don't you just love consensus! Not one single councilor will be available to support the citizens when we all have to poney up to pay their bills.
The end result of Cole's decision to combine a request for inclusion with the motion to approve is that now the Austin Energy is actually required to give the other companies the same inflated deal they gave the New Hampshire company (BTW, the Austin Statesman keeps referring to the deal as being with "an East Texas company but, Nacogdoches is only the location. It is Jack Welch/GE/Kennedy country that is coming to Texas to burn the Piney Woods...)
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Thursday, August 28, 2008
Monday, August 18, 2008
Biggest Question: Why The Surprise?
This set of excerpts shows citizens asking the same question several times: "Why the surprise?" It ends with one citizen asking a very pointed question of the biomass company: "Who are you?" and he elicited a very full answer about this tiny, leverage-funded and nameless group of New England-based entrepreneurs with their Bahamas company (a "Delaware corporation", which is something like a tanker sailing under a Liberian flag....)
In the post below we go into our usual connect-the-dots back to New England, and so we were sadly-yet-pleasantly surprised to see the proof in this City Hall pudding. What was NOT said at the meeting: GE is heavily involved in the windpower in New England that this company in Austin refers to as some kind of associated entity (in an obvious attempt to distance itself from its own wood-burning plans), and what is also NOT said is that one of the oil heat companies up there is a community run foundation owned by "Young Joe" Kennedy, the son of Senator Ted Kennedy's eldest brother, Joe, who predeceased JFK.
Really, the citizens of Austin express it best for themselves, and so we refer you to the 8 minutes of video excerpts. No one can blame the business reps for wanting to pitch their game, of course, but we can certainly blame the City Council, especially Councillor Morrison, for not giving the public an earlier "heads up" on this profit-seeking plan to strip East Texas bare.
Oh, and where are all the environmental groups that like to suck up donations and give them to people like Councillor Morrison, hmm? Few of the citizens who spoke claimed any kind of group affiliation at all.
In the post below we go into our usual connect-the-dots back to New England, and so we were sadly-yet-pleasantly surprised to see the proof in this City Hall pudding. What was NOT said at the meeting: GE is heavily involved in the windpower in New England that this company in Austin refers to as some kind of associated entity (in an obvious attempt to distance itself from its own wood-burning plans), and what is also NOT said is that one of the oil heat companies up there is a community run foundation owned by "Young Joe" Kennedy, the son of Senator Ted Kennedy's eldest brother, Joe, who predeceased JFK.
Really, the citizens of Austin express it best for themselves, and so we refer you to the 8 minutes of video excerpts. No one can blame the business reps for wanting to pitch their game, of course, but we can certainly blame the City Council, especially Councillor Morrison, for not giving the public an earlier "heads up" on this profit-seeking plan to strip East Texas bare.
Oh, and where are all the environmental groups that like to suck up donations and give them to people like Councillor Morrison, hmm? Few of the citizens who spoke claimed any kind of group affiliation at all.
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Going up in smoke.....
Austin is considering setting up a giant wood-stove to generate energy.
Yes, I typed this correctly. No, I am not drunk or high or watching the X-Files instead of Channel 6 City TV....
Repeat: Austin is seriously considering building a giant woodstove.
The Public Hearing on August 13th, which will be aired again on Channel 6 on Saturday at 4pm, has interesting euphemisms to prevent the syllabically-challenged from figuring this out. Since most of Texas does not have the kind of terrain that supports individual woodstoves in densely populated areas, which still does exist to a degree in heavily wooded temperate zones, most Texans are not familiar with the heavy presence of "particulate matter" that normally accompanies wood-smoke, a problem that can overcome even the most nostalgic attachment to the aroma of a wood fire on a winter evening....
You know, Austin is not a wooded glen in the Appalachians. And calling the wood "biomass" is even scarier. "Biomass" is a term that has appeared in the modern scientific and political literature referring to the entire "life mass" of all plant, animal, and human life.
It does not make any sense at all for the capital city of one of the oil & gas-producing centers of North America, if not the world, to be considering the erection of this giant BIOMASS-burning facility, unless one is considering some other fuel besides wood....
Of course, in the strange science-fiction-like dystopian world of traditional Nazis, this makes sense. It is an ingenius way for a resurging Hitlerian party to actually get the citizens of Austin to approve and build a crematorium. But of course there are no Nazis left, they were all defeated in WWII, right? And what kind of storuies did they tell the Polish people when they were just building those camps, anyway?
Sure this is extreme-thinking, beyond the fringe, but just the same, let's explore the possibilities just as if the genocidal tenedency of the Nazi party back in the 1940's somehow managed to infest the American political system like a thick-hulled seed that inserted itself into a crack in dry soil and waited years for the right conditions in order to sprout new growth.
Back in the 1940's the German Nazi Party had its supporters, not only among the Germans of Texas, but also among the Irish, Yankee Wasps, and other race-eugenics-conscious populations. While Hollywood depicted the occasional neo-Nazi group as a bizarrely comic cult int he 1960's and 1970's, the Irish Catholics were waging a terrorist bombing war against the English with most of their financing coming from Boston, Massachusetts and Chicago, Illinois. They were sympathizing with the Palestinians and trading skills with Islamic terrorists.
By the 1980's the Irish quieted down and all was forgiven. The US political party most heavily influenced if not controlled by the Irish Catholics was waging terrorist war against civilians in Massachusetts under the guise of Mafia hits, "random" violence, and openly indoctrinating school-children with blood-curdling images of death and genocide paid for with Federal "art" money. All the while, the Catholic civilian population was silenced by sexual blackmail and torn loyalties in the school-integration fight within its dioceses. During this period and earlier, Massachusetts Catholic bishops dismantled the old free-parochial school system that had supported ethnic diversity, upward mobility and multilingual schools. They replaced that system with a money-driven "ecumenical" parochial model that eradicated all ethnic identities while supporting the establishment of a pseudo-ethnicity called "White" by eliminating one of the most powerful supports of healthy diversity. They initiated the new Catholic/WASP/Interfaith model in which the poor are not encouraged to speak up for themselves and attempt to better their lot in life, but the upper classes instead announce from the pulpits that they now are the "voices" of the "voiceless". Hardly a month in any American Catholic or WASP church now goes by without a well-dressed college student or recent graduate in sociology stepping up to announce the need to deliver services to these pathetic souls who are no longer even allowed to have contact with families within the Catholic church. They are no longer "human". They are voiceless commodities.... BIOMASS.
Alongside this somewhat internal look at the politics of the American Catholic church in the 1980's was the rise of the Clinton faction of the Democratic party as well as the rise of anti-human extremism among the far left/anarchist fringe of youth culture. During this period the Irish Mafia in Boston controlled the FBI office through Whitey Bulger while his brother Wiliam Bulger rose on the ranks of Irish power in the South Boston and Dorchester districts to become head of the Massachusetts Supreme Court. The murder of James Bernardo, a 12-year-old Catholic boy, was a backwoods Berkshire incident with curious threads leading back through the corrupt circles described here. That murder was a terrorist incident and all the families in Berkshire County knew it. During that time FBI agents included one named Townes and one named McLaughlin were switched on the Bernardo task force and evidence tampered with, including one NY State trooper being caught attempting to fake fingerprints. READ THIS and THIS and understand that the victim "Sarah Ann Wood" is a co-victim with James Bernardo. Both were killed by Lewis Lent.
Ah, we have digressed. Back to Austin Texas, today: by way of linguistic politics. "Genocide" became "Ethnic Cleansing" under the Clintons. Bear in mind, Hitlery Clinton led certain American "feminists" to a world conference on women's rights in China during its pre-capitalist, most fully totalitarian, phase. Representatives of other women's groups expressed shock at the American feminists' embrace of Chinese official politics, which include sexual genocide: only "useful" females to be kept alive. It appeared inconsistent on the part of American feminists, but by this time the Clintonites had driven all other women out of the feminist ranks.
So Hitlery Clinton's support of those practices do not appear inconsistent to anyone who knows the history of White Wasp Feminism: the Amercian women's right to vote was won on the argument it would double the "White" vote in the face of immigrants, and few "White" feminists among the suffragettes considered that Black Americans would vote, in any case. "Planned Parenthood" has often been cited as having its roots in eugenics more than in how often women choose to give birth. Alongside that, the left-wing GE Project and the left-wing terrorist fringe of the "Weathermen", the ELF and extreme "Greens" all began to move from clean air & water and sustainable resource management to human species-eradication, a truly delusional and crazy fringe cult belief that is in fact affecting young people to an alarming degree. After you read about ELF, read our post from June 18 concerning the speech at City Council about the Governor's Mansion arson. It was given by a child representing the same group that funded the art-propaganda in Massachusetts and which is now trying to control the arts in Austin.
How can this be happening, this open march to genocide? It can be because the crazy extremists do in fact have the upper hand in Washington DC. There is no one at the helm. The crazy elitists believe that they will survive the planet-wide genocides in some kind of personal bubble, and they are managing to pick and choose the target cities.
Alex Jones and his PrisonPlanet.com have been flogging this immobile if not dead horse with some really impressive documentaries, but we at the Austin Egalitarian do not share his emotionally paralyzing pessimism. Jones does not offer any kind of hope that the crazy ruling class will simply collapse. He plays into their hands by isolating himself and his supporters from the mainstream, reinforcing their delusion of strength. He seems to believe so strongly in the conspiracy that he believes we can all fight "them" somehow, but in fact there is no "them", there is no "conspiracy". There is a tragic comedy of errors on a global scale that has left the ship of state adrift while everyone looks for life-jackets.
Austin is to go the way of Sarajevo, the art-colony Sarajevo of the 1970's. Surely some readers remember those marvelous traveling art festivals that circulated through our college campusses in the early 1970's, all showing cutting-edge animated art by the Sarajevans? Austin is eerily like that city of Sarajevo.
The Clintonites and some other Democrats are at war with Texas, make no mistake about it. They hate Texas, they fear Texas. Austin is a convenient target because Austin probably has one of the largest communities of exiles from New England in Texas. It will be easy for the Democrats to maneuver a martyr-like assault on the one city that does not conform to the official culture of the rest of Texas, because so many Texans in the countryside are completely unaware of the full history of relations between Texas and Massachusetts, and they hate the part of it they see here, the carpetbagging part. And there may be enough actual modern Nazis throughout Texas to help the Clintonites carry it off, turning Austin into another Auschwitz. Over the years Democrats have helped brainwash the American population into thinking Auschwitz was about Germans hating Jews, and Jews have gone along. But the truth is far from it. Auschwitz was all about scientific population control. The "Jews" were nothing more than the current target at the moment of confrontation with the rest of the world. Had there been no confrontation, the Nazis would have moved on to the rest of the population.
"Biomass" as a fuel is not about burning wood, which in itself is crazy enough. The ultimate confrontation may be that Austin is being set up as a crazy target for the ELF extremists who will bring their violence here, and give the Clintonites the excuse to send in the same kind of troops they sent against the Branch Davidians, but on a larger scale. Don't forget: it was a fundraiser for one of the Clintonite feminist "shelters" who made the hoax call setting off the El Dorado raid. They were hoping for another Waco and they did not get it. Instead, they probably ensured that the actual pedophiles in that community will get off on technicalities while we all know that you can find pedophilic and sexual violence easily in ANY group of 400+, just look at normal crime statistics and do the math. The Clintonites itch for violence, but Texas didn't jump when they scratched that time.
We shouldn't be ready to jump this time, either. All the Austin City Council has to do to yank the rug out from under the deluded Clintonite terrorists is reject the BioMass plant. We can return to realistic sustainable energy plans with that $2.3 billion and spend it on wind and solar alongside better building designs, better mass transit, and more judicious use of oil & gas. And leave the Clintonites to their own devices to try some other way to spark their genocidal civil war.
Yes, I typed this correctly. No, I am not drunk or high or watching the X-Files instead of Channel 6 City TV....
Repeat: Austin is seriously considering building a giant woodstove.
The Public Hearing on August 13th, which will be aired again on Channel 6 on Saturday at 4pm, has interesting euphemisms to prevent the syllabically-challenged from figuring this out. Since most of Texas does not have the kind of terrain that supports individual woodstoves in densely populated areas, which still does exist to a degree in heavily wooded temperate zones, most Texans are not familiar with the heavy presence of "particulate matter" that normally accompanies wood-smoke, a problem that can overcome even the most nostalgic attachment to the aroma of a wood fire on a winter evening....
You know, Austin is not a wooded glen in the Appalachians. And calling the wood "biomass" is even scarier. "Biomass" is a term that has appeared in the modern scientific and political literature referring to the entire "life mass" of all plant, animal, and human life.
It does not make any sense at all for the capital city of one of the oil & gas-producing centers of North America, if not the world, to be considering the erection of this giant BIOMASS-burning facility, unless one is considering some other fuel besides wood....
Of course, in the strange science-fiction-like dystopian world of traditional Nazis, this makes sense. It is an ingenius way for a resurging Hitlerian party to actually get the citizens of Austin to approve and build a crematorium. But of course there are no Nazis left, they were all defeated in WWII, right? And what kind of storuies did they tell the Polish people when they were just building those camps, anyway?
Sure this is extreme-thinking, beyond the fringe, but just the same, let's explore the possibilities just as if the genocidal tenedency of the Nazi party back in the 1940's somehow managed to infest the American political system like a thick-hulled seed that inserted itself into a crack in dry soil and waited years for the right conditions in order to sprout new growth.
Back in the 1940's the German Nazi Party had its supporters, not only among the Germans of Texas, but also among the Irish, Yankee Wasps, and other race-eugenics-conscious populations. While Hollywood depicted the occasional neo-Nazi group as a bizarrely comic cult int he 1960's and 1970's, the Irish Catholics were waging a terrorist bombing war against the English with most of their financing coming from Boston, Massachusetts and Chicago, Illinois. They were sympathizing with the Palestinians and trading skills with Islamic terrorists.
By the 1980's the Irish quieted down and all was forgiven. The US political party most heavily influenced if not controlled by the Irish Catholics was waging terrorist war against civilians in Massachusetts under the guise of Mafia hits, "random" violence, and openly indoctrinating school-children with blood-curdling images of death and genocide paid for with Federal "art" money. All the while, the Catholic civilian population was silenced by sexual blackmail and torn loyalties in the school-integration fight within its dioceses. During this period and earlier, Massachusetts Catholic bishops dismantled the old free-parochial school system that had supported ethnic diversity, upward mobility and multilingual schools. They replaced that system with a money-driven "ecumenical" parochial model that eradicated all ethnic identities while supporting the establishment of a pseudo-ethnicity called "White" by eliminating one of the most powerful supports of healthy diversity. They initiated the new Catholic/WASP/Interfaith model in which the poor are not encouraged to speak up for themselves and attempt to better their lot in life, but the upper classes instead announce from the pulpits that they now are the "voices" of the "voiceless". Hardly a month in any American Catholic or WASP church now goes by without a well-dressed college student or recent graduate in sociology stepping up to announce the need to deliver services to these pathetic souls who are no longer even allowed to have contact with families within the Catholic church. They are no longer "human". They are voiceless commodities.... BIOMASS.
Alongside this somewhat internal look at the politics of the American Catholic church in the 1980's was the rise of the Clinton faction of the Democratic party as well as the rise of anti-human extremism among the far left/anarchist fringe of youth culture. During this period the Irish Mafia in Boston controlled the FBI office through Whitey Bulger while his brother Wiliam Bulger rose on the ranks of Irish power in the South Boston and Dorchester districts to become head of the Massachusetts Supreme Court. The murder of James Bernardo, a 12-year-old Catholic boy, was a backwoods Berkshire incident with curious threads leading back through the corrupt circles described here. That murder was a terrorist incident and all the families in Berkshire County knew it. During that time FBI agents included one named Townes and one named McLaughlin were switched on the Bernardo task force and evidence tampered with, including one NY State trooper being caught attempting to fake fingerprints. READ THIS and THIS and understand that the victim "Sarah Ann Wood" is a co-victim with James Bernardo. Both were killed by Lewis Lent.
Ah, we have digressed. Back to Austin Texas, today: by way of linguistic politics. "Genocide" became "Ethnic Cleansing" under the Clintons. Bear in mind, Hitlery Clinton led certain American "feminists" to a world conference on women's rights in China during its pre-capitalist, most fully totalitarian, phase. Representatives of other women's groups expressed shock at the American feminists' embrace of Chinese official politics, which include sexual genocide: only "useful" females to be kept alive. It appeared inconsistent on the part of American feminists, but by this time the Clintonites had driven all other women out of the feminist ranks.
So Hitlery Clinton's support of those practices do not appear inconsistent to anyone who knows the history of White Wasp Feminism: the Amercian women's right to vote was won on the argument it would double the "White" vote in the face of immigrants, and few "White" feminists among the suffragettes considered that Black Americans would vote, in any case. "Planned Parenthood" has often been cited as having its roots in eugenics more than in how often women choose to give birth. Alongside that, the left-wing GE Project and the left-wing terrorist fringe of the "Weathermen", the ELF and extreme "Greens" all began to move from clean air & water and sustainable resource management to human species-eradication, a truly delusional and crazy fringe cult belief that is in fact affecting young people to an alarming degree. After you read about ELF, read our post from June 18 concerning the speech at City Council about the Governor's Mansion arson. It was given by a child representing the same group that funded the art-propaganda in Massachusetts and which is now trying to control the arts in Austin.
How can this be happening, this open march to genocide? It can be because the crazy extremists do in fact have the upper hand in Washington DC. There is no one at the helm. The crazy elitists believe that they will survive the planet-wide genocides in some kind of personal bubble, and they are managing to pick and choose the target cities.
Alex Jones and his PrisonPlanet.com have been flogging this immobile if not dead horse with some really impressive documentaries, but we at the Austin Egalitarian do not share his emotionally paralyzing pessimism. Jones does not offer any kind of hope that the crazy ruling class will simply collapse. He plays into their hands by isolating himself and his supporters from the mainstream, reinforcing their delusion of strength. He seems to believe so strongly in the conspiracy that he believes we can all fight "them" somehow, but in fact there is no "them", there is no "conspiracy". There is a tragic comedy of errors on a global scale that has left the ship of state adrift while everyone looks for life-jackets.
Austin is to go the way of Sarajevo, the art-colony Sarajevo of the 1970's. Surely some readers remember those marvelous traveling art festivals that circulated through our college campusses in the early 1970's, all showing cutting-edge animated art by the Sarajevans? Austin is eerily like that city of Sarajevo.
The Clintonites and some other Democrats are at war with Texas, make no mistake about it. They hate Texas, they fear Texas. Austin is a convenient target because Austin probably has one of the largest communities of exiles from New England in Texas. It will be easy for the Democrats to maneuver a martyr-like assault on the one city that does not conform to the official culture of the rest of Texas, because so many Texans in the countryside are completely unaware of the full history of relations between Texas and Massachusetts, and they hate the part of it they see here, the carpetbagging part. And there may be enough actual modern Nazis throughout Texas to help the Clintonites carry it off, turning Austin into another Auschwitz. Over the years Democrats have helped brainwash the American population into thinking Auschwitz was about Germans hating Jews, and Jews have gone along. But the truth is far from it. Auschwitz was all about scientific population control. The "Jews" were nothing more than the current target at the moment of confrontation with the rest of the world. Had there been no confrontation, the Nazis would have moved on to the rest of the population.
"Biomass" as a fuel is not about burning wood, which in itself is crazy enough. The ultimate confrontation may be that Austin is being set up as a crazy target for the ELF extremists who will bring their violence here, and give the Clintonites the excuse to send in the same kind of troops they sent against the Branch Davidians, but on a larger scale. Don't forget: it was a fundraiser for one of the Clintonite feminist "shelters" who made the hoax call setting off the El Dorado raid. They were hoping for another Waco and they did not get it. Instead, they probably ensured that the actual pedophiles in that community will get off on technicalities while we all know that you can find pedophilic and sexual violence easily in ANY group of 400+, just look at normal crime statistics and do the math. The Clintonites itch for violence, but Texas didn't jump when they scratched that time.
We shouldn't be ready to jump this time, either. All the Austin City Council has to do to yank the rug out from under the deluded Clintonite terrorists is reject the BioMass plant. We can return to realistic sustainable energy plans with that $2.3 billion and spend it on wind and solar alongside better building designs, better mass transit, and more judicious use of oil & gas. And leave the Clintonites to their own devices to try some other way to spark their genocidal civil war.
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Bat Fest Brouhaha & Police Wanting Blood?
A most interesting discussion emerged around the question of the upcoming Bat Fest. This festival has been going on since about 2005 and has involved closing down the bridge at South Congress for two days of the Labor Day weekend.
Any college professor who teaches Political Anthropology, (if there is susch a thing) should get the full tape of this segment from Channel 6. It has everything: pathos, drama, spin, money, and the question so many want to dodge: is Austin a city with a vibrant and busy population that actually needs the main traffic arteries to be open on big holidays, or a sleepy country village whose economy is made or broken on one great opportunity to sell t-shirts and helium balloons?
Stay tuned, I'll be reviewing my notes and typing more.
The possibility of the Austin Police Department wanting drivers' blood was raised by a citizen during the noon open mike session. Seems there is a rumor floating around that Austin might make blood tests mandatory for drivers who refuse breathalizers. Mayor Wynn denied any knowledge of such a policy being actively considered, but said that he is aware of a number of other Texas cities that have enacted this law. He said that the reason for it is financial, since positive blood tests result in a 100%guilty rate. He added the interesting note that this is due to drivers always pleading out rather than challenging blood tests in court. And that saves thousands of dollars, he said.
In a perfect world, one could see his point, but in a corrupt world, that is a very scary line of reasoning.(Here, let me mention that I am not a native Texan, but I am an exile from Massachusetts, therefore I naturally see corruption as the status-quo.) Whatever the full story is, we owe a debt of gratitude to that private citizen who ventured forth to use the three-minute mike for shining some light on this rumor while it is early enough to think about it.
And let me repeat my invitation to readers who have special interests to become writers on those topics in City Hall. There is too much for one person to cover in one post, and we need someone willing to spend an hour or two every week looking through the police-related topics and plans, someone who can write a column just on this issue. The email here is theaustinegalitarian---at---gmail.com, so let me know if this tugs at your heart-strings. Austin needs you. And if you are a journalism student, this blog will look good in your resume *wink, wink*....
Any college professor who teaches Political Anthropology, (if there is susch a thing) should get the full tape of this segment from Channel 6. It has everything: pathos, drama, spin, money, and the question so many want to dodge: is Austin a city with a vibrant and busy population that actually needs the main traffic arteries to be open on big holidays, or a sleepy country village whose economy is made or broken on one great opportunity to sell t-shirts and helium balloons?
Stay tuned, I'll be reviewing my notes and typing more.
The possibility of the Austin Police Department wanting drivers' blood was raised by a citizen during the noon open mike session. Seems there is a rumor floating around that Austin might make blood tests mandatory for drivers who refuse breathalizers. Mayor Wynn denied any knowledge of such a policy being actively considered, but said that he is aware of a number of other Texas cities that have enacted this law. He said that the reason for it is financial, since positive blood tests result in a 100%guilty rate. He added the interesting note that this is due to drivers always pleading out rather than challenging blood tests in court. And that saves thousands of dollars, he said.
In a perfect world, one could see his point, but in a corrupt world, that is a very scary line of reasoning.(Here, let me mention that I am not a native Texan, but I am an exile from Massachusetts, therefore I naturally see corruption as the status-quo.) Whatever the full story is, we owe a debt of gratitude to that private citizen who ventured forth to use the three-minute mike for shining some light on this rumor while it is early enough to think about it.
And let me repeat my invitation to readers who have special interests to become writers on those topics in City Hall. There is too much for one person to cover in one post, and we need someone willing to spend an hour or two every week looking through the police-related topics and plans, someone who can write a column just on this issue. The email here is theaustinegalitarian---at---gmail.com, so let me know if this tugs at your heart-strings. Austin needs you. And if you are a journalism student, this blog will look good in your resume *wink, wink*....
Saturday, August 9, 2008
Summer Break is Over!
City Council is back in action and so is the Egalitarian. I've added video and hope to start bringing some original tape, as well. For now I grabbed a piece off the City's own service and got permission from Dave Matustik over at Channel 6/City Hall to use this video-quote of Mayor Will Wynn making a very important point for all Texans. This clip was originally produced by City Hall Channel 6 and is being used with their permission. Other uses of City Hall tape will be under normal "journalistic use" standards, which allow use of short clips (less than a minute) to illustrate or document original material.
Thursday, July 24, 2008
Shades of Art Mafia Behind City Council Meeting, July 24
Good news and bad news. Good news is the Renaissance Faire, artisans, artisans are reborn from the ashes of a near-death experience. Bad news is, they seem to be uncritically accepting control of the new "Culture Commission" structure that is being imported from Massachusetts (with a strong Seattle contingent). But one has to hope there are enough independent artists and independent arts groups, as well as a strong enough local economy, that the kind of control the Massachusetts-based activists are trying to win is not going to be handed over without a fight.
What I am talking about was not up front on this week's agenda, but it came up during the Citizen Communications at the June 18 meeting, (see link in sidebar).
I haven't got the emotional energy to footnote the following history all at once. I'll add links by & by. If you can't google up the proof of what I am about to tell you, please post your comments or questions and I'll reply with details. To really describe what is happening in Austin, it is necessary to tell you what happened with the same crew ten years ago in Massachusetts. When you read it you might not want to be identified as agreeing, particularly if you have a public job, and so I won't require log-in to post and I will delete only unnecessary obscenity.
Control, Not support, of the Arts
This incoming Culture Commission is not a "new" direction, although it may be new to Austin. It is as old as tyranny. The truth is never told about what the NEA (National Endowment for the Arts) did in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, in the 1980's and 1990's, when it helped one of the first and most powerful culture commissions get set up: The Berkshire Artisans. It moved into a vibrant arts community and virtually destroyed it. It is hard to describe the setting of the Culture Commission's "death-art" project that had been set up in an abandoned department store in the center of that small city, and which the mayor finally bulldozed. The lies that covered this sequence of events are a testament to the incredible gullibility that cripples modern society.
That project was part of a massive activist effort that was responsible for a spike in teen suicides across the region, and it was also part of a genocidal hazardous waste spill, a deliberate dumping, that resulted in a 25% miscarriage (not abortion) rate because of PCB pollution of the soil and water-table all through the Housatonic valley. It was the GE Housatonic Superfund site.
It was unbeliveable. People like Steve Spielberg moved in to suck the blood from the corpse: he's just one big name among the imported Hollywood and New York artists who replaced the natural community that once thrived in those hills. (Governor Weld, by the way, had signed exactly the same agreement with the media gliterati on behalf of unaware Massachusetts that Governor Perry signed last year, on behalf of unaware Texas.)
Texans don't know the bloody history of the Culture Commission because it didn't happen down here, but now the "Artisan" project is down here, and it is about to bite Texas in its collective ass, which appears to be Austin.
Austin is to become America's Sarajevo, Texas's own death-ridden Pittsfield. I am not speaking figuratively. The same terrorists who referred to the genocide of the artists of Sarajevo as "Ethnic Cleansing" and who are moving into position around Austin have already shown up in City Hall, last month, whith their falsified "statistics" and their heavy-handed threats of dire consequences if the City Council does not hand them control of all the Arts funding in this city.
Brazen Abuse of Public Trust
Councilor Shade bragged during her campaign about her use of Americorps volunteers. She should be impeached for election funding fraud if indeed she did that, but that is a digression and, to me, not a battle worth fighting when the problem is so much bigger than that. Yet her willingness to brag so brazenly about her use of Americorps, and her part in setting it up in the first place, speaks volumes.
Americorps "volunteers" are an important part of the coming genocide that will involve the City Hall arts commission, because the first thing they are trained to do, is to lie. They are not "volunteers", they are students who are recruited to get college money for acting as temp labor in social service agencies all over the country. They are paid the same as any other unskilled laborers and they are taught not to respect either themselves or the working people in the communities they serve, because they are taught that a little money is not real money. So if their agencies steal a little, how is it different from what each and every Americorps volunteers does each time he or she uses that term? An honest person whose honesty has not been compromised has a much easier time resisting corruption than an honest person who has, through confusion and inexperience, been persuaded to lie.
The lies are an important part of Americorps training because nobody can lie to another human being without at least partially dehumanizing that other human being. It is basic training in corruption. It is also "stage one" genocidal training: dehumanizing the other people one serves. "Cleansing" the city of such people is stage two genocide. The churches are already leading the way in that regard, with their increasing efforts to build isolated "leper colonies" (to quote one protesting citizen who spoke at today's City Hall meeting) that will serve to involve the rest of the citizens in pogroms within another year or so. The pogroms may not be against Jews, and that only serves to underline a near-forgotten part of the history of modern genocide: The Jews were the last group to be systematically isolated and killed by Hitler's German followers. They began their genocide on the poor, the disabled, and the homeless, and as they ran out of victims, only then did they begin to openly home in on the middle-class Jews. The Jews were only 60% of the victims of that genocidal German nation. For some reason, the American nation does not want to remember that.
Randi Shade Exploits Homosexuals
Once the first part of that Americorps training has been accomplished, then it is easy for people like Councillor Shade to sic the hate-based gay-lesbian brigades on the rest of the community without facing much opposition. Just exactly like Nazi Germany did in their own famous exploitation and betrayal of the homosexual community in the 1930's. It is easy for Shade to pretend the lies she told about Jennifer Kim were not hate-based and racist because no one in her circle will resist or expose her. Liars are not famous for resisting other liars. The whole gay-lesbian poltical culture is a culture of lies. They have no redeeming qualities and the only redeeming quality of the Americorps volunteers is that their youth may empower at least some of them to outgrow the training and reclaim their integrity after their uncomfortable year of "service".
The Original Culture Commission: Lies, Greed, & Americorps/Vista
The original Culture Commission that is entangled with Mass MOCA ("Museum of Contemprary Art) in North Adams, Massachusetts was headed by a former Americorps/Vista volunteer Dan O'Connell. Dan O'Connell was the son of a former Pittsfield, Massachusetts mayor and also of a family that owned an oil heating company, O'Connell Oil. He took office as the Culture Commissar just as Jack Welch was pulling the plug on the GE workers. He managed all the money that was being sent to Pittsfield from Washington DC via the Kennedy conduit of the NEA money. Tiny Massachusetts, the size of a Texas county, took 20% of the national arts funding, and most of that did not stay in Boston but was shipped west to tiny Pittsfield and then given not to Massachusetts artists, but to New York artists who came in for the kill as soon as O'Connell sent word.
Picture it: a city smaller than Austin, certainly less important, and most of the working class works at one plant, GE. Highly paid, secure. Around them the old small-town industries of the papermills were turning out the finest art paper and wallpaper, even the US treasury currency paper was made there, and all scattered among idyllic dairy farms, boarding schools, and millionaires' summer camps.
The Truth About Jack Welch
Jack Welch arrived there in the late 1970's. Just about that time the PCB disposal was becoming a problem. The local hippies were doing ok, but the political Left was looking for new blood, since the Vietnam War was over and the Persian Gulf had yet to heat up. There was a commmittee in Boston called the "GE Project" that had focussed on weapons made in Pittsfield during the Vietnam War. Those of us who participated in the anitwar effort were busy embarking on our individual lives while the bored Leftists played around with way-out-firnge feminism (not the equal-rights feminism for which many of us fought so hard, but the weird man-hating stuff that no one really took seriously.)
Christina Hoff Sommers, a Clark University professor, wrote about the awakening of that radical fringe group in her book, "Who Stole Feminism?" She describes a lot of what happened, but while wearing academic blinders. She was too polite to point out that what she identified as unscientific and politicized false data that was used by the fringe-feminists to steal millions of dollars of art money was fraud: it was organized crime. And it was done during the years the FBI office in Massachusetts was being run by a man who later became one of the FBI's 10 most wanted: Whitey Bulger. Yet she described the scheme accurately, including some of the violence against professors and students, and that, too, was right out of a Nazi scene from 1939. She described it all clearly enough for anyone to see. They used art, and psychological terror on school-children, not just physical assault, to attack all of the families and artists in Massachusetts.
"Needs Enhancement"
While Jack Welch was sowing his seeds of destruction all through the new nonprofit arts commission groups in Pittsfield, all of it was headed by the same Dan O'Connell who has his fingers in Austin's pie right now. The new group of artists who moved into Berkshire county and helped run the native artists out of town were setting up "death art" as part of the gay-lesbian "needs enhancement" campaign. That was the campaign to increase teen suicides by challenging high school students to identify themselves as "gay" so that the funding Sommers describes would be approved. It was openly discussed in activist circles in Boston, particularly among Unitarians, some of whom spearheaded direct assaults on teenagers at Pittsfield's Taconic High School in the 1990's. Strategically, the Unitarians played into the game because it was a rule in Massachusetts that any special school funding had to serve at least 10% of the population, but the actual, scientific incidence of gay identity among teens is far lower than 10%.
Pink Floyd & Whitey & The IrishFBI Mafia
Bill Weld, aka "Pink Floyd", was governor. Whitey Bulger was not yet on the lamb. He's the notorious Irish mafia thug who got the Boston field officeof the FBI to participate in hits, even intermarry with the Southies. Whitey's brother, State Rep William Bulger, was head of the Massachusetts Supreme Court. Some sons of a few Kennedy associates got involved in drowning two men by shoving their car into a lake just south of Pittsfield in 1981 and got away with it. They served 30 days, for fighting. They were let out for Christmas holidays and there were demonstrations in the town against it. One of the two victims was the son of one of the most influential union stewards GE faced: Barry Griffin, who'd gone down to the GE plant in Houston to a leader in the only unionized machine shop in all of Texas. Griffin knew about the PCB's and he knew who worked for Jack Welch. Whitey Bulger's brother William stood against the Griffin and Retzel families in the Massachusetts Supreme Court and helped set an important legal precedent against due process.
That is when O'Connell threw the Culture Commission into high gear. Soon after, William Bulger had moved from Boston to Western Massachusetts where he became president of the University of Massachusetts, keeping the money conduit flowing.
By the mid 1990's, the lesbian fringe-feminists had moved into military-style marches, complete with butch-like sergeants commanding the women, most of whom were clients of a rape-crisis center who were told to join the demonstrations in order to keep their shelter services and get their welfare checks. By then Jack Welch had closed GE down, having presided over the deliberate disposal of the PCB's into the Housatonic Valley, including distributing some of the contaminated soil to the ethnic & Black neighborhoods as "clean fill", which contributed to the 25% miscarriage rate.
On the Lamb In Texas
When Whitey Bulger went on the lamb, he came to Texas. For years he was able to "hide" all along the Route 10 corridor between New Orleans and east of Austin. He murdered at least nine people in Massachusetts. His cohorts around Dan O'Connell and the bizarre fringe cult inside the feminist movement murdered close to that many more, but only a few of their crimes got prosecuted, and those of course were supposedly "random".
We may be as doomed as those Jewish passangers of a cruise ship that nearly failed to make it out of Hitler's nightmare, but we must cling to some hope, just as they did. There is an important difference between Texas today and Massachusetts ten years ago. The Culture Commission up there was able to set itself up in an economically devastated death zone with very little opposition. The Catholic Church played a prominent role is silencing critics and whistleblowers, but that is important only in-so-far-as the Catholic Church as an organization is corrupt and its role in politics is largely unexamined. That role has nothing to do with theology, sex, & faith, and it not unique to the Catholic Church. Austin is still vibrant and alive. Texans have their own way of doing things, and the incoming carpetbaggers from New York, Boston and Seattle (there is a real history to Seattle being part of that, too, going back to 1972) are not going to find it as easy a kill as they found in Pittsfield.
What I am talking about was not up front on this week's agenda, but it came up during the Citizen Communications at the June 18 meeting, (see link in sidebar).
I haven't got the emotional energy to footnote the following history all at once. I'll add links by & by. If you can't google up the proof of what I am about to tell you, please post your comments or questions and I'll reply with details. To really describe what is happening in Austin, it is necessary to tell you what happened with the same crew ten years ago in Massachusetts. When you read it you might not want to be identified as agreeing, particularly if you have a public job, and so I won't require log-in to post and I will delete only unnecessary obscenity.
Control, Not support, of the Arts
This incoming Culture Commission is not a "new" direction, although it may be new to Austin. It is as old as tyranny. The truth is never told about what the NEA (National Endowment for the Arts) did in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, in the 1980's and 1990's, when it helped one of the first and most powerful culture commissions get set up: The Berkshire Artisans. It moved into a vibrant arts community and virtually destroyed it. It is hard to describe the setting of the Culture Commission's "death-art" project that had been set up in an abandoned department store in the center of that small city, and which the mayor finally bulldozed. The lies that covered this sequence of events are a testament to the incredible gullibility that cripples modern society.
That project was part of a massive activist effort that was responsible for a spike in teen suicides across the region, and it was also part of a genocidal hazardous waste spill, a deliberate dumping, that resulted in a 25% miscarriage (not abortion) rate because of PCB pollution of the soil and water-table all through the Housatonic valley. It was the GE Housatonic Superfund site.
It was unbeliveable. People like Steve Spielberg moved in to suck the blood from the corpse: he's just one big name among the imported Hollywood and New York artists who replaced the natural community that once thrived in those hills. (Governor Weld, by the way, had signed exactly the same agreement with the media gliterati on behalf of unaware Massachusetts that Governor Perry signed last year, on behalf of unaware Texas.)
Texans don't know the bloody history of the Culture Commission because it didn't happen down here, but now the "Artisan" project is down here, and it is about to bite Texas in its collective ass, which appears to be Austin.
Austin is to become America's Sarajevo, Texas's own death-ridden Pittsfield. I am not speaking figuratively. The same terrorists who referred to the genocide of the artists of Sarajevo as "Ethnic Cleansing" and who are moving into position around Austin have already shown up in City Hall, last month, whith their falsified "statistics" and their heavy-handed threats of dire consequences if the City Council does not hand them control of all the Arts funding in this city.
Brazen Abuse of Public Trust
Councilor Shade bragged during her campaign about her use of Americorps volunteers. She should be impeached for election funding fraud if indeed she did that, but that is a digression and, to me, not a battle worth fighting when the problem is so much bigger than that. Yet her willingness to brag so brazenly about her use of Americorps, and her part in setting it up in the first place, speaks volumes.
Americorps "volunteers" are an important part of the coming genocide that will involve the City Hall arts commission, because the first thing they are trained to do, is to lie. They are not "volunteers", they are students who are recruited to get college money for acting as temp labor in social service agencies all over the country. They are paid the same as any other unskilled laborers and they are taught not to respect either themselves or the working people in the communities they serve, because they are taught that a little money is not real money. So if their agencies steal a little, how is it different from what each and every Americorps volunteers does each time he or she uses that term? An honest person whose honesty has not been compromised has a much easier time resisting corruption than an honest person who has, through confusion and inexperience, been persuaded to lie.
The lies are an important part of Americorps training because nobody can lie to another human being without at least partially dehumanizing that other human being. It is basic training in corruption. It is also "stage one" genocidal training: dehumanizing the other people one serves. "Cleansing" the city of such people is stage two genocide. The churches are already leading the way in that regard, with their increasing efforts to build isolated "leper colonies" (to quote one protesting citizen who spoke at today's City Hall meeting) that will serve to involve the rest of the citizens in pogroms within another year or so. The pogroms may not be against Jews, and that only serves to underline a near-forgotten part of the history of modern genocide: The Jews were the last group to be systematically isolated and killed by Hitler's German followers. They began their genocide on the poor, the disabled, and the homeless, and as they ran out of victims, only then did they begin to openly home in on the middle-class Jews. The Jews were only 60% of the victims of that genocidal German nation. For some reason, the American nation does not want to remember that.
Randi Shade Exploits Homosexuals
Once the first part of that Americorps training has been accomplished, then it is easy for people like Councillor Shade to sic the hate-based gay-lesbian brigades on the rest of the community without facing much opposition. Just exactly like Nazi Germany did in their own famous exploitation and betrayal of the homosexual community in the 1930's. It is easy for Shade to pretend the lies she told about Jennifer Kim were not hate-based and racist because no one in her circle will resist or expose her. Liars are not famous for resisting other liars. The whole gay-lesbian poltical culture is a culture of lies. They have no redeeming qualities and the only redeeming quality of the Americorps volunteers is that their youth may empower at least some of them to outgrow the training and reclaim their integrity after their uncomfortable year of "service".
The Original Culture Commission: Lies, Greed, & Americorps/Vista
The original Culture Commission that is entangled with Mass MOCA ("Museum of Contemprary Art) in North Adams, Massachusetts was headed by a former Americorps/Vista volunteer Dan O'Connell. Dan O'Connell was the son of a former Pittsfield, Massachusetts mayor and also of a family that owned an oil heating company, O'Connell Oil. He took office as the Culture Commissar just as Jack Welch was pulling the plug on the GE workers. He managed all the money that was being sent to Pittsfield from Washington DC via the Kennedy conduit of the NEA money. Tiny Massachusetts, the size of a Texas county, took 20% of the national arts funding, and most of that did not stay in Boston but was shipped west to tiny Pittsfield and then given not to Massachusetts artists, but to New York artists who came in for the kill as soon as O'Connell sent word.
Picture it: a city smaller than Austin, certainly less important, and most of the working class works at one plant, GE. Highly paid, secure. Around them the old small-town industries of the papermills were turning out the finest art paper and wallpaper, even the US treasury currency paper was made there, and all scattered among idyllic dairy farms, boarding schools, and millionaires' summer camps.
The Truth About Jack Welch
Jack Welch arrived there in the late 1970's. Just about that time the PCB disposal was becoming a problem. The local hippies were doing ok, but the political Left was looking for new blood, since the Vietnam War was over and the Persian Gulf had yet to heat up. There was a commmittee in Boston called the "GE Project" that had focussed on weapons made in Pittsfield during the Vietnam War. Those of us who participated in the anitwar effort were busy embarking on our individual lives while the bored Leftists played around with way-out-firnge feminism (not the equal-rights feminism for which many of us fought so hard, but the weird man-hating stuff that no one really took seriously.)
Christina Hoff Sommers, a Clark University professor, wrote about the awakening of that radical fringe group in her book, "Who Stole Feminism?" She describes a lot of what happened, but while wearing academic blinders. She was too polite to point out that what she identified as unscientific and politicized false data that was used by the fringe-feminists to steal millions of dollars of art money was fraud: it was organized crime. And it was done during the years the FBI office in Massachusetts was being run by a man who later became one of the FBI's 10 most wanted: Whitey Bulger. Yet she described the scheme accurately, including some of the violence against professors and students, and that, too, was right out of a Nazi scene from 1939. She described it all clearly enough for anyone to see. They used art, and psychological terror on school-children, not just physical assault, to attack all of the families and artists in Massachusetts.
"Needs Enhancement"
While Jack Welch was sowing his seeds of destruction all through the new nonprofit arts commission groups in Pittsfield, all of it was headed by the same Dan O'Connell who has his fingers in Austin's pie right now. The new group of artists who moved into Berkshire county and helped run the native artists out of town were setting up "death art" as part of the gay-lesbian "needs enhancement" campaign. That was the campaign to increase teen suicides by challenging high school students to identify themselves as "gay" so that the funding Sommers describes would be approved. It was openly discussed in activist circles in Boston, particularly among Unitarians, some of whom spearheaded direct assaults on teenagers at Pittsfield's Taconic High School in the 1990's. Strategically, the Unitarians played into the game because it was a rule in Massachusetts that any special school funding had to serve at least 10% of the population, but the actual, scientific incidence of gay identity among teens is far lower than 10%.
Pink Floyd & Whitey & The Irish
Bill Weld, aka "Pink Floyd", was governor. Whitey Bulger was not yet on the lamb. He's the notorious Irish mafia thug who got the Boston field officeof the FBI to participate in hits, even intermarry with the Southies. Whitey's brother, State Rep William Bulger, was head of the Massachusetts Supreme Court. Some sons of a few Kennedy associates got involved in drowning two men by shoving their car into a lake just south of Pittsfield in 1981 and got away with it. They served 30 days, for fighting. They were let out for Christmas holidays and there were demonstrations in the town against it. One of the two victims was the son of one of the most influential union stewards GE faced: Barry Griffin, who'd gone down to the GE plant in Houston to a leader in the only unionized machine shop in all of Texas. Griffin knew about the PCB's and he knew who worked for Jack Welch. Whitey Bulger's brother William stood against the Griffin and Retzel families in the Massachusetts Supreme Court and helped set an important legal precedent against due process.
That is when O'Connell threw the Culture Commission into high gear. Soon after, William Bulger had moved from Boston to Western Massachusetts where he became president of the University of Massachusetts, keeping the money conduit flowing.
By the mid 1990's, the lesbian fringe-feminists had moved into military-style marches, complete with butch-like sergeants commanding the women, most of whom were clients of a rape-crisis center who were told to join the demonstrations in order to keep their shelter services and get their welfare checks. By then Jack Welch had closed GE down, having presided over the deliberate disposal of the PCB's into the Housatonic Valley, including distributing some of the contaminated soil to the ethnic & Black neighborhoods as "clean fill", which contributed to the 25% miscarriage rate.
On the Lamb In Texas
When Whitey Bulger went on the lamb, he came to Texas. For years he was able to "hide" all along the Route 10 corridor between New Orleans and east of Austin. He murdered at least nine people in Massachusetts. His cohorts around Dan O'Connell and the bizarre fringe cult inside the feminist movement murdered close to that many more, but only a few of their crimes got prosecuted, and those of course were supposedly "random".
We may be as doomed as those Jewish passangers of a cruise ship that nearly failed to make it out of Hitler's nightmare, but we must cling to some hope, just as they did. There is an important difference between Texas today and Massachusetts ten years ago. The Culture Commission up there was able to set itself up in an economically devastated death zone with very little opposition. The Catholic Church played a prominent role is silencing critics and whistleblowers, but that is important only in-so-far-as the Catholic Church as an organization is corrupt and its role in politics is largely unexamined. That role has nothing to do with theology, sex, & faith, and it not unique to the Catholic Church. Austin is still vibrant and alive. Texans have their own way of doing things, and the incoming carpetbaggers from New York, Boston and Seattle (there is a real history to Seattle being part of that, too, going back to 1972) are not going to find it as easy a kill as they found in Pittsfield.
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