A Sensible Plan to Reform Congress Now

Pick a poll, any poll.
Odds are the majority will complain the United States is “going down the wrong path.”
And complaining about the messed up politicians is like complaining about the weather.  “You can’t do anything about it!”
Or can you?
Charles R. Hooper thinks you can do something about it.  Not the weather, but the messed up state of affairs in the United States.
His book “The Next American Revolution: How to Demand Congressional Reform Now” outlines a sensible plan to reform an out of control government that could doom the republic to failure.
Hooper points out Congress seems to listen to itself first.  Not the people.
It also listens to money.  The money thrown at it by self  interests who have placed themselves above the common good.
He calls for restoring the representational aspects of government.  A good start, Hooper argues, is to limit the terms of service in Congress.  Let people serve a few years in government, and then go back among the public to live under the laws and regulations enacted by government.
We now have a Congress that passed the Affordable Care Act - but exempted itself from the act.  It passed and oversees Social Security - but awards itself lavish pensions and benefits instead of applying Social Security to itself after leaving government.  This reviewer adds Congress is so corrupt it even exempts itself from insider trading enforcement.
Hooper also believes the contentious two-party monopoly that again people complain about can be fixed with a simple solution.  He suggests reducing the number of Congressional districts within states and then allowing people to stand election for the same overall number of House seats.  The difference is that the winners would be determined by cumulative voting.  In other words, if 26 people sought to win say 12 seats within just three districts within a state, the winners would be the top four vote getters in each district.  Much less gerrymandering to preserve seats for one party or the other.  It also allows parties with alternative views a chance to have more say in government.
These are just some of the gems of thought in Hooper’s 84-page book (plus a brief  epilogue, the U S Constitution and an index.
But then Hooper becomes “controversial” because of how he suggests reform should come about.   Hooper says an amendment convention to consider these reforms should be held.
Researching history, Hooper points out all 50 states at one time or another in the past two centuries have called for an amendment convention as outlined in Article V of the Constitution.
But The Congress, Hooper argues, has acted unconstitutionally by failing to respond to these calls for reform amendments.
Many of us have already heard the reasons against common people convening to suggest reforms (which Congress would have to vote on to approve).
Fear mongers say an Article V convention would spin out of control and destroy everything.
How?
Hooper points out an Article V convention would simply suggest reforms to make government more workable and honest and representative.
The real threat here is not to the republic, if terms were limited and voting became more representatives and if the polarizing two party monopoly was weakened.
The real threat is to Congressional representatives who think their government job should be for life (presumably because they have the experience to understand things better.  But that is not working out, the reviewer notes.)
Term limits and cumulative voting also threatens lobbyists and arm twisters who get paid a lot of money to make Congress do its will and not that of the people.
Another crucial piece of reform is to greatly restrict if not eliminate campaign contributions.
And this sends up a howl from the television industry, which gorges on attack ads every two years.
And it threatens the concept that faceless corporations are like people.
Except that while corporations and foreign lobbies can use their money to get the U S into a war, the corporations and foreign interests do not die on the battlefields.  American citizens do.
Time to make our foreign affairs truly accountable.
It is now a good idea to blow away the smoke and shatter the mirrors.  And take a real good look at how bad American government now is.  How far off course it has gone since the 1960s.
Charles R. Hooper is not just complaining about it. He has outlined some common sense ways to fix it.
His book is a constitutional way to fix the problem.  Don’t wait until the people in charge resort to more unconstitutional behavior.

Are Current Debt Woes a Death Knell?

Today, David Stockman's latest essay is titled:

"Peak Debt - Why The Keynesian Money Printers Are Done"

http://davidstockmanscontracorner.com/peak-debt-why-the-keynsian-money-printers-are-done/

Deep into his essay Stockman writes:

"Self evidently, all the major economies are saturated with debt."

I would point out that Western civilization is rooted in the Roman universal church established by the Emperor Constantine. The universal church he created became a repository of Roman values and ambitions. When Rome collapsed, the church carried the seeds of ancient Rome for centuries until they could again flourish.

Usury was always suppressed by the Roman church - though allowed to be practiced by non Christians within its empire. More than three dozen times the usury licensees would eventually be seized by the Roman church after substantial amounts of property had been accumulated by the usury lenders through foreclosure. The church would take over the properties for itself. The non-Christian usury agents would be allowed to retain seed funds and sent on to a new location to do it again. This happened over and over.

About 500 years ago bans on usury for both Christian and non-Christian lenders were relaxed...and interest rates far above the imposed limit of 4 percent have been the rule of the day ever since. Usury has been a free for all ...to be enjoyed by the most rugged and ruthless and alert.

Fractional banking and fiat money - boosted by the tremendous energy expansion from exploitation of petroleum and natural gas - have resulted in an explosive expansion of the economy, far above the traditional rural agricultural foundation supporting a few cultural and economic centers.

But to work usury lending rates demand an ever increasing pool of borrowers plus inflation so that borrowers have a sort of chance to keep up.

This incredible economic and population expansion the past few centuries has caused considerable environmental damage and for a number of additional reasons that include economic and moral decline, the Western birth rate is now collapsing. (The environmental damage is accelerating as India and China adapt Western consumerism and resource development. Carbon emissions are just one of the signs, and by the way, the global climate is still driven more by the sun, orbital angles and cosmic dust and volcanic eruptions. Carbon emissions should be viewed as environmental damage.)

Those living under Sharia law, while not enjoying the illusory wealth of the West, have a still very high birth rate. The Average Muslim woman has six children. Western banks and facilitators have opened the floodgates to foreigners far and wide to come in and provide labor and a base for usury lending... Visit U S cities and you will see those living under Sharia law elsewhere - along with the oppressed indigenous underclass of Mexico - are crowding out locals for subsidized housing and related welfare supplements. It is unknown by me how much they are adding to the commercial lending base.

Stockman is describing what appears to be the beginning death spasms of the West...and its 500 year old Western usury lending culture will likely collapse and be absorbed by the Sharia culture, now 1,400 years old and still explosively growing. Population flow charts should be reflecting this in coming years.

There has been no attempt to contain Sharia culture and force it to deal with its own expansionist population policy...instead, it is being allowed to spill into the West... and the rest of the emerging story will eventually become history.

There is no leadership emerging to save the West with common sense ideas. Pat Buchanan and Ron Paul have been ignored...and suppressed as marginal.

Utah UFO's of long ago.....

At Saturday’s Mufon meeting in Minnesota I was bored and almost napping from the droning monotone voice of Linda Moulton Howe, producer of the film Alien Harvest.  But after an hour I snapped awake as she suddenly got into her probe of  a Palo Alto lab involved in totalitarian secretive black op research into interstellar propulsion and other related subjects.

She also touched on the  more recent conclusions that the mysterious Bentwater Rendlesham Forest UFO sightings in England the day after Christmas 1980 were time travelers from the future gathering DNA from humans to repair something that has gone terribly wrong in the future. But that topic was covered in a book review a month or so earlier.

Anyway, the meeting brought to mind three UFO sightings I had in Utah back in the ‘60s and ‘70s..

1)  Zanna was washing dishes at the sink at our home in Sandy in the 1970s (same hometown for the mythical Big Love family). I stepped out on the deck which overlooked I think it was called Dry Creek Canyon which bordered our backyard.  Looking to the east above Big Cottonwood Canyon, I saw a white cloud.  Five or six small white lights flew into that cloud from the north and did not emerge from the other side.  After a few minutes some more small white lights did fly out of the cloud, heading south.  The cloud appeared to be cloaking a possible mother craft.  The cloud remained stationary at that spot for some time..

2)  Twice while out chasing stories for the Salt Lake Tribune when I was night police reporter in the late ‘60s, I saw a large white glowing light descending from the east at about a 45 degree angle and disappear behind the foothills just north of the cities.  In those days there were no homes on that hillside and I hiked them often, walking along ancient game trails and Indian paths.  The first time I was out of my car and saw the hill back

lit by the intense large glob of light when it got behind it.  The other time I was in my car driving on 5th South toward University Hospital and only saw the light descending.  One night a young kid called me when I was at the Tribune after midnight and we chatted and he said he had seen the same kind of lights also.

Just to the west of this area is Mueller Park in the Bountiful area. One Sunday my brother and I drove there and because a large LDS picnic was underway, we walked over to where a low chain or rope blocked access to a footpath leading from the park and alongside the mountain overlooking the Salt Lake Valley.  A sign said no trespassing. Not being Mormon and being counterculture we stepped over the barrier and walked along the path.  After several minutes we stopped. We could clearly hear machinery in the ground underneath us.  There are storage vaults in the granite mountains just east of Salt Lake City, but I believe the mountain we were on is an alluvial deposit, unless there is a more solid rock reef under the looser covering.

3) One night I drove my father to a store just off 13th East at Sugarhouse Park, a mostly commercial area just south of 21st South.  While he was inside buying cigarettes, the top of my Fiat Spyder was down and settled back to enjoy the warm summer evening.  I was surprised to see a large  black object with no lights flying over 13th East just to the east of me.   Though it had no lights, you could see a shape passing almost overhead because of the bright lights in the large parking lot.   It was traveling maybe 40 to 60 miles an hour and was completely silent.  I thought it was a plane going down.  When my father returned I am sure he thought I was crazy as I drove off and turned north onto 13th and sped along looking for a plane crash.   I remember the dark object and it was about 100 to 200 feet above the road. But I cannot say if it was triangular shaped or oval.  This would have been in the late 1960s or early 1970s.

Liberals Have a Split Personality On Global Warming

While humans weren't around in big numbers to trigger the Big Melt Off that destroyed the miles thick ice cap over North America  20,000 years ago, liberals are blaming the surging human population for a perceived but debatable global warming episode now underway.

 A man gave a talk on over population and global warming just the other day before a Critical Thinkers Club in St. Paul, MN.

 I clearly recall two generations of American women being told to have only two children because resources are finite and have to be conserved.  The women overall complied and the birth rate fell to about replacement level.

 So why are liberals working so hard to bring people from high birth rate countries into the United States...where their surging numbers are using the natural resources that we were supposed to conserve for future generations?

 The numbers are in.  Mexican women have a higher birth rate in the U S than back in their native Mexico which reportedly has the highest per capital number of millionaires in the world, and those millionaires refuse to tax themselves and provide opportunity to their Indian blooded citizens.  Instead, they deport them northward for U S liberals to take care of.

 Muslim women who are married each give birth to  six children on average. Again, they are being welcomed warmly into the U S. In the Twin Cities area they are filling apartment complexes set aside for affordable housing for American Americans originally.

 Environmentalist Frosty Woolridge of Colorado has been shouting about the harm being done to the U S environment and natural resources by the swarming numbers of illegal immigrants.  And yet even tree hugging liberals - showing their inconsistent mindset - turn a deaf ear to Frosty.

 I  don't count liberals as friends of the U S environmental resources. And by moving high birth rate migrants into northern latitudes, to support their higher birth rates, they are obviously contributing to warming the environment - by their own logic. 

In his book The Hidden West, Rob Schultheis wrote how the big octopus Los Angeles reached out and sucked the water out of lakes and rivers and wetlands up to a thousand miles away in the Great Basin.  

 Now that the Southwest is again gripped in a predictable drought, that huge sprawling urban area - made much more populated by the immigrants the liberals recruited - the city has no where to turn but the ocean.  And the current drought is now having a much more serious impact because millions of illegal immigrants were unleashed upon the Southwest landscape.

Humans are locusts.  We can and do destroy our landscape.   So why do liberals want more and more locusts?

Why don't the liberals  move to the Mideast...to Central America...to all the places where the birth rate is surging out of control.   And take their message to what is the very source of global warming.

 Bring  this up to most liberals and watch them go emotional.  Not logical. 

Thus their split personality.

 Personally, I think the sun and other factors control temperatures more than people do, except in urban areas where development does raise temperatures.  But without a doubt our surging population is having serious environmental impacts. 

Vladimir Putin Traitor to the New World Order.

Immigration should be reversed, not reformed....

My letter to Senators Bennett and Udall today.


Though a Democrat, I am a moderately conservative one who loves his country.  Passage of the bill to block Homeland Security from delaying deportation of illegal immigrants was a good move.  The U S. is now almost bankrupt from fighting two phony misguided wars that were triggered when - according to U S intel and military agents - foreigners murdered 3,000 Americans by bringing down a high rise office complex of three or more buildings with burning jet fuel. (I am not making up the burning jet fuel causing the towers demolition, that is the official report by intel and military elites now retiring on fat pensions for their duplicity..)

That one act of alleged foreign savagery should have been enough to seal the borders and stop giving anyone in the world free passage into the country.

So many illegals are in our prisons, so many good lawmen have  been killed by these foreign invaders.  I just watched the movie Savages, which again details the brutal criminal behavior of Mexican criminals - which our open borders allow into our country.  Along with the Russian mobsters who came into Chicago after the Justice Dept. rounded up the Italian mobsters.

Enough is enough. We have tens of millions of unemployed Americans to put back to work. We don't need any more cheap labor. Silicon Valley can go without foreign whiz nerds.

The total lack of border security  did not screen out who could and could not get in.  Now, you in Congress are demanding all Americans lose their freedom and Constitutional rights because anyone was allowed in.  Citizenship is not the answer. Illegals are home invaders and they have and are denying us the use of our property.

You liberals told two generations telling U S women to have only two children - to preserve U S land, water and air resources.  We have achieved that zero growth rate for environmental stability. But unrestrained illegal immigration is destroying our environmental quality.

On our continent the real racism  originates in Marxist Mexico, which has the highest per capita number of millionaires in the world.  The blue dog socialists refuse to tax themselves to create healthcare and opportunity for Indian blooded Mexicans and are instead deporting them to the US.

This mindless charade has gone on long enough. Let the foreigners dream of a new future where they come from - and make these foreign leaders do the responsible thing and take care of their own.

Hagel nomination consistent with what is going on

When the L A Times ran a story about Hagel being nominated for Secretary of Defense and how people were already shrieking at his views on Israel and Iran,  I submitted to the Times an online background story so the clueless media at least is shown what is going on ... of course these types of comments quickly disappear...

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This story accurately reflects one phase of what the 2012 presidential election was all about.  While some viewed the candidates as just two shades of darkness, Obama was the paler shade for those who agree with the covert attempts to distance the U S from Israel.  Foreign Policy Journal got from  the CIA a study supposedly funded by 16 intel agencies that was titled A Post Israel Mideast Policy.  General Ramsey told the Air Force Chiefs of Staff - just as Petraeus told the Joint Chiefs of Staff - Israeli interests and U S interests do not necessarily coincide.  In October Henry Kissinger was reported in the New York Post saying Israel will not exist in ten years.  

Also in October we saw Netanyahu throwing a tantrum because Obama would not see him and receive orders as previous presidential seeking candidates have routinely done as a ritual right of passage.

I for one would like to see the U S follow a more rational foreign policy that is good for the U S and the western world.  

Hagel's nomination - and the screaming that is already reacting to it - is further evidence of this truly needed shift as the U S emerges from Israeli domination.

The entire puzzle was never put together by the media, but the individual elements were all found on the Internet, here and there, for the cognescenti.  If this plays out, I assume Israelis will just be moved to the U S at our expense.