A bill in the Texas House of Representatives would require an embedded RFID tag to be placed on your windshield, within your mandatory inspection sticker. The sticker could be read from over 30 feet away by government reader devices that can function like gestapo-style invisible checkpoints -- ID'ing all Texas vehicles as they pass. Along with requiring this device in your cars, the government could hide reader devices in the roads to monitor all cars entering a given neighborhood, driving into a given parking lot, or even just heading down the open road. [Just imagine, Laura Bush would just need to call the police to know where her husband is!... ;-)] Your ability to travel anonymously is at stake, but you can win this one if you fight it! Source: My San Antonio, 4/8/05 http://www.mysanantonio.com/... Contact your state Rep and tell them you'll be remembering how they vote on this one when election time rolls around again. Better yet, stop by their office and tell them in person. But whatever you do, don't sit idly by and let this happen! Find your Texas state representative here: http://www.house.state.tx.us/members/ My source: CASPIAN Newsletter, 4/27/05 PS: I just got the following news: "Thanks, Christian. It worked! Texas pulled the provision! More in the next newsletter." Of course, I have no merit with this, I had posted the appeal too late anyway. But still, nice to hear. And thanks to those others who apparently had become very active! Christian Butterbach, 04 May 2005, 09:51 GMT+1 [Link] |
Exhibition from 5th to 22nd mai 2005 An exhibition bringing together Luxembourg-based artists Sneja_D, MeltingPol and Ren Schroeder with UK-based artists Justine Blau and Pippa Koszerek exploring the theme of «ASSIEGéR» . «ASSIEGéR» draws up Luxembourg’s complex history as a site of constant invasion, a city of underground tunnels, its one time strategic position as the ‘Gibraltar of the North’ and today as important siege of diverse European Institutions. On another level the theme considers how mass culture, advertising and television constantly create a worldwide siege of ideas and influences. The artists are exploring the theme of «ASSIEGéR» by highlighting historical, political or socio-cultural issues. By playfully intermixing or “invading” each other’s work, the artists also explore each other’s boundaries, creating a visual (an aural) disruption and a dialogue around their diverse approaches. Through sand constructions, video installations, paintings and punctual interventions the artists will invade the inner and outer space of the gallery and transform it into a creative playground where also other artists are punctually invited to respond to the theme of «ASSIEGéR» through dance, poetry and music. In this context, three events are currently scheduled : Programme: Thursday, May 5 from 5 to 10 pm : Saturday, May 14 from 7 to 10 pm : Sunday, May 22 from 12 am to end : ~ I would like to draw your attention to the video installation "Power corn" of Sneja_D, in which the theme of ASSIEGéR is associated with the invasion of our super-market shelves and our daily dishes by genetically manipulated food. In her installation, Sneja_D wishes to cast a critical glance at this topical phenomenon while at the same time treating it with humour. For more information on all this, please go to the website of this event and click on EXHIBITION. Christian Butterbach, 04 May 2005, 08:20 GMT+1 [Link] |
Last month, April 2005, the number of unique visitors per month to my site fell from 25,860 to 18,214. This is still good, but my hope and reasonable expectancy both are rather for further increases... So something has to be done indeed! There are a number of reasons for the brakes having been applied to the further expansion. First of all, for 9 days out of a month of only 30 (extrapolated to 31 days, the figure would have been somewhat better, namely 18,821), my home page had been replaced by a black page mourning Terri Schiavo. This was my decision. And I am still fully standing by my decision ["Stand By Your Man", as the recommendation in Tammy Wynette's famous song, interpreted.among others by Elton John, goes... ;-)], even if, I am sure, a good deal of my audience has a different view on the matter. No one summed the case up better than Christopher G. Adamo in his article America's system of justice is broken on Rational Review: In Florida, based on the testimony of one man, a defenseless woman is starved to death. His "evidence" was so flimsy that it normally would be insufficient to uphold even a parking ticket. The judge who nonetheless concurred and ordered her starvation is so mired in conflicts of interest that he should have been automatically recused from the case. Yet the Governor of the state, whose job it ostensibly is to protect citizens from being deprived of life, liberty, or property absent due process of law, stands impotently by and allows the travesty to proceed to its malevolent end, claiming that intervention on her behalf would be contrary to "the rule of law." The second reason for a drop of visitors was that on February 8, 2005, I had lost all my data (and very little is recovered so far), including the opt-in lists of my newsletters, so that I cannot announce new content but to a small number among my audience. Finally, less content had indeed been added, though it was at hand, because I had not enough time for that, didn't feel like it at all, having had to deal with an exceptional lot of red tape imposed by those bad extortionist guys (if you don't know whom I mean, write me a letter), having had some Spring feelings leading to some entanglements (don't ask), having had to deal with my health, my household and my holdings. As nobody is laughing here, they all have to be punished and need to go to this page to get redemption. I forgot a main reason: I absolutely spend the largest part of my days and my nights with correspondence, with e-mail. Not that I dislike it. A lot of the very best texts I write myself and of the very best texts the prestigious authors I stay in contact with write, are in that correspondence, and not on my websites. A pity, but they can always be used later, so that's not the problem, the problem is: it's simply too much for the time of one man alone who has no help whatsoever with anything, except the generosity [and, ahem, the self-interest ;-)] of the authors who send me their great essays. So, something radical will be done:
~ What else is new? [will be added a bit later, as I want the above to be posted on May 1 local time by all means] Christian Butterbach, 01 May 2005, 23:02 GMT+1 [Link] |
Andrea Dworkin may have had an excuse though, for having been born in Camden, New Jersey, which was not an ideal place to develop a more loving personality. As you can read in "Fucking Andrea Dworking[sic!]: Appreciated by Jason Farnon": "Though Dworkin neglects to list the S.C.U.M. Manifesto in her extensive bibliography at the end of Intercourse, the spirit of Solanas's mandate is ever-present. Her anti-Vietnam War protest did not make her peaceful, she was in continuous war, and when with her feminist lawyer friend Catharine MacKinnon she agitated with the result of an infamous Supreme Court decision and even extended her disastrous effect beyond the border into Canada with the same outcome, she blamed "homophobia and sexism" for the result of her own sick activism. She later shed a crocodile tear, saying that she "does not believe in obscenity laws". She was not "highly evolved" enough and did not have "superior consciousness" enough to deserve a monument. Bon débarras! "I want to see a man beaten to a bloody pulp with a high-heel shoved in his mouth, like an apple in the mouth of a pig." (Dworkin, "Ice And Fire") Christian Butterbach, 12 April 2005, 12:34 GMT+1 [Link] |
If this was so (it depends on which files were on the server at that moment; when I recently lost my data and in order to have my full website on my PC again, I had downloaded all files from the server and that particular file was with it; I do not know what exactly I had deleted or renamed in the meantime; if I forget or simply omit to make a backup of each slight variant of a page with its date before overwriting it, I cannot determine the exact date of the previous version later, as my FTP program has already automatically put the date of the latest transfer), I apologize for this disorder to my visitors. I will already have been punished by a downfall of traffic figures... I would like to make a statement regarding my wording on the mourning page, as it may have, if not shocked, at least surprised a few of my readers. I was raised as a Roman Catholic (with some Jewish Orthodox, Masonic Deist, Atheist and other influences thrown in) and I have been a believer till the age of 18, I think, when I definitely turned the Vatican Church my back (my decision doesn't seem to have had much following, considering the brouhaha these days regarding that presumed Pontifex ~~ I can't see THAT many bridges! At least not to the really good, correct and important positions...). So I remembered. And I chose those words on purpose, as they seemed to me to be most apt at consoling Terri's parents and family, to find a way to their hearts. In this context, I want to draw your kind attention to the following columns added to my site: Several of the best links regarding the Schiavo case were previously offered on this site in the following blog posts: I also have saved some more interesting links on the subject on my PC and I intend to add them later, so that you have a larger resource on one spot. As I also have corresponded with friends and authors on the case and expressed my own more private views in email, I will see if I can quote some of it on this same spot too. Christian Butterbach, 09 April 2005, 12:26 GMT+1 [Link] |
It is about time that we return to civilization! Please see what I have added at the bottom of my post "Abu Ghraib in the Hospital" and read the essay linked to, save it, print it out and frame it for your children and everyone to see who visits you... Permanent link to the post: http://www.butterbach.net/blogs/net/archives/00000203.htm Christian Butterbach, 28 March 2005, 21:28 GMT+1 [Link] |
This verdict is from America and about the Bush administration, wouldn't you have guessed? :-) I dare add the following: These days? Any day, basically! Possible? It is possible! And it has been going on since a while, since times immemorial actually, and now, thanks to the increased population of the world, it is more visible anywhere than ever, from St. Peter's Place in the Vatican State today till Protestant Sweden all year round and most any other place you could put your finger on on a map of this earth (even the moon included already and soon Mars and Jupiter), with politics and religion intertwined as some may think only fundamentalist Islam could have it. No, those majority "portions" can have it ~~ and are Christian Butterbach, 27 March 2005, 21:31 GMT+1 [Link] |
What is going on here with Terri Schiavo is plain torture. As it is not possible to do such a thing on a dead body, the makers of the laws (perpetrators of the greatest crimes and perpetual traitors to their laws), the executioners [sic] of the executive, the gods, not in white, of the courts, don't just shoot her in the head killing her right away, but prefer to let her slowly wither away under painful inner contortions to get their perverse pleasure of being powerful over others. And one can be powerful only over living people. The dead usually give a damn. This has all the signs of Abu Ghraib: humiliation and physical destroying. The gods in white, with their ignorant and conflicting theories on the case and their total ignorance of other existing treatments, should at least apply a minimum of decency and good sense. As I read in an Associated Press report about the feeding tube removal (the third one so far, and previously followed by a reinsertion), the tube "is removed in a simple surgical procedure". They are not talking about an operation. This sounds to me like saying pacification (or democratization) instead of war. The feeding liquid is sent through the tube with a syringe. There is a drawing on the page! As if they could not simply stop using that syringe to put something down that tube, no, the surgeon gods in white, hooked as they are on their technical sorcery and proud like a Las Vegas magician, but coarse like an auto mechanic who didn't have to swear the Hippocratic oath, prefer to take that whole plastic garbage out and later (maybe) put it in again... Without anesthetics, I presume? And if with, who has ever heard of better means to work in the direction of health improvement?... Imposing on a weak body additional requirements to heal unnecessary wounds, is mindless. Especially considering that this human body has been fed for 15 long years with what those "Bocuses" had on their five star liquid menus. I have not seen the leather-bound printed menu of that restaurant, but I can read it on Terri's face, and the à la carte is as ample as in a prison. In view of the hopeful case that the tube will after all be reinserted, how can anyone in his right mind (but the Florida nutcases seem to be very numerous, like they are all over the place of that fucked-up system America and the rest of the world [though there are a few places with a bit more grip on these things]) be so irresponsible as to irreversably damage that body by withholding water?! Withholding food is not the big problem. It can be even beneficial, especially considering the average fare of the majority of hospitals. Often or sometimes sufficiently good for those patients who do not really need to be there except for their foolishness and the sake of the hospital's revenue, but almost universally well below the quality level needed by those who really need help to recover and escape the clutch of the Grim Reaper. I bet that if during those 15 years Terri had received, in addition to that basic food concocted by the chefs of that diner "At the Tavern of Science", some natural power food according to principles espoused and perfected by people like Ann Wigmore, David Wolfe or Franz Konz (to just name a few at random), parts of her brain would have recovered or have been strengthened and one would see it in her face. As I have decades of studies and experience (and also successes, done the job professionally for years) behind me regarding nutrition and health, I can tell you that Terri's face now looks like many I have seen of people who were not at all in Terri's situation, but obviously nourished wrongly. Telling more about this would require another column, a rather long essay, if not a book. Anyone ever heard of Civil Disobedience? No? How strange, I thought you over there (I am here in Germany and hail from Luxembourg) read Thoreau in high school. But this author is probably on the curriculum of state schools to instill a disgust of it. Compulsory reading is not like freely chosen reading. Finally, I am glad to notice that after the flood of commentary coming from all sides, and largely from libertarian columnists and bloggers, that used this case to toss and turn with great intelligence all kind of philosophical and political issues, especially the aspect of federalism versus the sovereignty of the federal states, we start to get now more common sense articles, as loving and simple as a glass of water.It is after all an individual case and a case for individualism. [This editorial can be freely reposted if unaltered and the source is given with the correct URL and including this note.] Christian Butterbach, 25 March 2005, 15:28 GMT+1 [Link] |
"In Bushite theology, any injustice is pardonable so long as, in retrospect, some good can be attached to it." "The Bush administration is less clever than the merest child, for it believes it has discovered "something better than truth, and justice, and universal law." The deplorable achievement of Fields and her fellow travelers is to have persuaded Americans to adopt the same conceit." From Ilana's long essay (a true major broadside) I chose the above short quotes, as they are important statements and conclusions I agree with as they are fully compatible with my own views as expressed on my sites, even if I would prefer to go "somewhat" [rather a lot! ;-)] further in individual-anarchist radicalism than the conservative or classical liberal (or Randian minarchist) position expressed in the first quote. But the promised real delight, the real insights, the real moral strength (like fresh out of a wellness center) will come from her unsurpassed language (smiling or laughing because of her language trouvailles will no doubt cost you less than some wellness resort and you escape the risk of maybe meeting there the neocon lady folks she describes) and from the brilliant developments leading to those statements and conclusions. You will see that "Genghis Bush", taking a war for a spin, nekkid (like that child did in the story of the emperor's clothes) or, why not, in a fashionable abaya "of his making". The rank and file over there will have to buy it for $49.99. So much for fashion and freedom. Christian Butterbach, 23 March 2005, 10:57 GMT+1 [Link] |
SHAME ON YOU, COLD-BLOODED FLORIDA JUDGE MURDERER!!! Don't walk by my server in Boca Raton, Florida, or this server might get the idea to transform itself into a thousand tasers. The State kills. As I always said and will continue saying. Till the last moron maybe understands it. Taking the life of a brain damaged woman who speaks, smiles, has communication and pleasant contact with her parents. Laws are no excuse. Laws are bad by themselves. They kill manifold all the time. As they are despotically imposed on all individuals born or residing or travelling in a gratuitously determined piece of land by congenitally criminal people, government people who think that they are worth more than you, that they have a right to be slave holders, that you do not belong to yourself, but to them. Perverse sick people! And laws that gave a husband more rights than it gave the parents. And the whole legal farce took 15 years and all that long time did not succeed in implanting some kind of decent natural feelings into that judge and all those governments thugs. Those thugs know that they deserve to be killed in self-defense. That's why they want to disarm people, so that they can continue their addiction to their perversity. Read the following: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=594440 http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=594090 http://knappster.blogspot.com/2005/02/tampering-with-witness-or-destroying.html http://www.haloscan.com/comments/thomaslknapp/110918948045508795/#79173 http://knappster.blogspot.com/2005/03/congress-versus-axis-of-evil.html http://www.butterbach.net/epinfo/qualegevivis.htm
I even hate to mention Michael Schiavo, as disgusted as I am by him. He did not want his wife, but also did not want to give her back to those people, her parents, he took her from in the first place and now. But the money he took. Christian Butterbach, 18 March 2005, 23:40 GMT+1 [Link] |
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A comment today by John Zube: The Communist Regime of Mainland China still claims Taiwan as part of China. Couldn't France and Germany similarly e.g. claim England? Or could not the "united" European mainland people similarly claim "England" and Ireland as their "own"? The territorial unity, collective sovereignty and "representative" power spleen is still in full swing. Taiwan, I wish you luck against IGM, International Government Machines... Christian Butterbach, 16 March 2005, 10:19 GMT+1 [Link] |
While you and I might see all this as arguments against the licensing, I suppose just about any of the conservatives might say – Wow, we hadn’t thought about all those unintended consequences. Perhaps we were wrong? After all, think of all the work the license would create! Such is life an ordinary Friday morning in Sweden. The ordinary Friday above was last Friday, when Richard C.B. Johnsson, Ph.D. in Economics, was musing for our delight. Christian Butterbach, 14 March 2005, 12:06 GMT+1 [Link] |
In the main newspaper of my city of residence, in the German language "Hamburger Abendblatt", their correspondent in Washington, Cornel Faltin, in the issue of February 24, states that the visit of U.S. president Bush is hardly "taking place" in the U.S. media: no pictures in the papers, short clips at CNN. Therefore, as it is not "happening" there, I feel that my little additional reporting may be justified. "Bush in Brussels: How much does it cost?" Our inquisitive journalists on the far left state that, when leaving, Bush forgot to pay the bill. And the bill may be astronomical, like N.A.S.A. bills, at least compared, I guess, with the budget of our leftist little newsletter. The Belgian minister of the Interior, Patrick Dewael, has already presented a first estimate according to which the Belgian federal police alone is left with an unpaid balance of €621,969. To this you have to add the expenses of the local police of Brussels and of the boroughs of the Belgian capital, which should also be situated around €600,000. All in all, the bill should be something like €1,200,000 (= US$1,588,800). Just compare this with what the security of an European summit costs: €132,000. To this, we hear on our left, one has to add the cost the economy of the capital has to suffer because of the slowing down during the visit. And they add that the German authorities will surely increase this figure substantially, if we consider the gargantuan security measures around and in Mainz during the visit of "the criminal" in Germany. Indeed, the "Hamburger Abendblatt", not at all on the left, reports the following (my translation): "Security first. Rhine and Main closed for navigation, the sliding shutters of the shops of Mainz down -- public life in the whole Rhine-Main area was paralyzed." On the Luxembourg far left we only hear "and to think that the dough for 'le social' (the Social State) is cruelly missing". May I conclude? Dear Americans, we Europeans do not want to hear anymore from you that we do not do enough against terrorism. Didn't we spend a nice wad on one terrorist alone? Christian Butterbach, 06 March 2005, 21:46 GMT+1 [Link] |
Now at close to 60 this reads: And my chauffeur is riding a Cadillac, taking these many sheep, you know, from America to Iraq and I said OK, fine, and a big limo, a Rolls, stops. And another chauffeured man got off and with a British accent said, 'look at the big cute Texan boy.' At that level it's only fair, as people might say, let's say, in Blair, E Nebraska, or Blairsville, central Pennsylvania, two towns of which the second, in 1960, had 4930 inhabitants, only one less than the former. Did he move east by any chance? Or maybe even much further east than even Iraq? And never returned. Killed like a sheep, if we look at the calendar... PS: Now really, my innuendos above indicate that my intuitions are again not of that worst sort that needs a recall action like those car companies so often have to engage in. You must read this: Little Bo Creep and the Pulling of Wool by Eileen Smith. I discovered this link only a good hour after having posted "Mungo Bush", thanks to Brad who emailed it to me. Christian Butterbach, 20 February 2005, 10:12 GMT+1 [Link] |
Right now I am sitting in one of those temples, as the catastrophe has hit again, three days ago. At the very worst moment, of course. And I am working here only to code and upload the most urgent and important texts. As I am starting to get an headache from all that smoke, I'll make it short. You can read more in "The Exterritorial Imperative" blog at panarchism.info, where I had posted ahead of this. The sensation you will discover there and your further musings on that discovery are very likely to make you think of two things mentioned in this blog: (a) the comment just preceding regarding Ayn Rand and Objectivism and my comment "Shame on you, Lindsay Perigo!!!!!!" a few entries earlier (b) Wendy McElroy's column of this week On Handcuffed and Felonious Children. With the advent of the legal revolution I am alluding to, peace and tolerance and individual choice will have done away with those conflicts and those never ending battles to impose one's own political truth upon all fellow men... Christian Butterbach, 11 February 2005, 19:37 GMT+1 [Link] |
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