Tuesday, September 27, 2005
Happy Birthday, Wherever You Are!
Happy birthday, Georges, wherever you are, happy birthday, Neal, wherever you are. Georges would have been 68 today, Neal would have been 75 today. You are remembered so much.see also on butterbach.lu
Posted by Christian Butterbach @ 02:11 PM GMT+1 [Link]
Wednesday, September 21, 2005
A Major New Scientific Discovery Just Announced!
[libnetd] ‘A major research institution (MRI) has recently announced the discovery of the heaviest chemical element yet known to science. The new element has been tentatively named "Govermentium."
Govermentium has 1 neutron, 12 assistant neutrons, 75 deputy neutrons, and 225 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 313 . These 313 particles are held together by forces called morons, which are surrounded by vast quantities of lepton-like particles called peons.
Since govermentium has no electrons, it is inert. However, it can be detected as it impedes every reaction with which it comes into contact. A minute amount of govermentium causes one action to take over 4 days to complete when it would normally take less than a second.
Govermentium has a normal half-life of 2 years; it does not decay, but instead undergoes a reorganization in which a portion of the assistant neutrons and deputy neutrons exchange places. In fact, govermentium's mass will actually increase over time, since each reorganization will cause some morons to become neutrons, forming isodopes.
This characteristic of moron-promotion leads some scientists to speculate that govermentium is formed whenever morons reach a certain quantity in concentration. This hypothetical quantity is referred to as "Critical Morass."
at http://www.crazyshit.com/display_lit_c.php?ltid=42’
Posted by Christian Butterbach @ 01:43 PM GMT+1 [Link]
Tuesday, September 20, 2005
"If I die without achieving that goal, I will kill myself."
Just Damn Marvellous column from that writing marathon guy who is called ~~ well here we are right in the middle of the problem. He couldn't kill himself without a name. And he doesn't need to wait for his Methuselah kind of age, even if the quote is classic Jewish humor, or is it from the Marx brothers? Same difference. He is fully achieving right now already. But I saw it coming the problem. I always knew it. Putting an Old Testament male love relationship into one's Christian name, couldn't end well in America for a straight Messianic author, with all those Evangelicals around. Now there is a Father Jonathan David Morris showing up. How confusing. JDM, you should have stopped a long time ago quoting the Scriptures at every suitable and unsuitable occasion, like in "CB's fireplace", thinking that you would please Laura and help her husband convert the world... That's when and where the entanglements had started, gay, religious, employment and otherwise. And the blog hasn't reached Mathusala's age, though it was achieving and had no problems with names, at least none with fictitious namesakes. Dear friends of this site, please find out how animist instead our Jonathan has become these days when fantasizing about "taking powers", like in deepest Africa. Hasn't he escaped from that Aruba cave yet? EnjoyIn Search of Jonathan David Morris
http://www.butterbach.net/jdm/jdm90.htmCongratulations to JDM for his ninetieth syndication on The Exterritorial Imperative's Op-Ed page. If we add to those 90 great columns those several exclusives, we have almost reached a Biblical age!
"Read JDM: It's absolutely superbrilliant!"
PS: If you do not get all the "private jokes" above, blame only yourself. You have not yet read enough on my pages. You have been caught! 
Posted by Christian Butterbach @ 03:47 PM GMT+1 [Link]
Sunday, September 18, 2005
Germany, September 18, 2005
Today upright Germans are immolating themselves on the altar of unequal rights, surrounded by high priests dancing around the golden calf and counting their flocks and blessings.I presume that CNN's announcement on special posters that its embedded journalism will be around and internationally, but with an American eye, watch that election circus from within the beast, will result in somewhat different formulations from mine...
If you prefer to spend your Sunday with some more honesty and intelligence (a dash here and a dash there, and maybe the world will improve), I have some fantastic reading for you:
"I went into St. Petersburg from Helsinki on a train, like Lenin though with less effect, because Aeroflop had lost our reservations in its central abacus. The border Nazis rolled down window shades in case we might have stashed propaganda in them. It was like going into a prison. It was going into a prison. That’s how communism is supposed to work.
But China. If the government had the slightest interest in us, I didn’t notice it. For two weeks we rushed about—Beijing, Xian, Chungking, Shanghai, Guilin, and such like, and spat ourselves out into Hong Kong like a cud. I don’t astound easily, but this time I astounded. Sure, I knew about the vast rivers of vacuum cleaners and calculators spewing out of China into Wal-Mart. But knowing it was like knowing that the Grand Canyon is a large hole. It doesn't convey the reality.
The joint is hopping. China has 1.3 billion people, and 1.5 billion construction cranes."
Or:
"Chungking is what New York would be if New York were a big city."
Or:
"Back then every country with a patch of jungle, two colonels and a torture chamber had a Five Year Plan, efficiently doing nothing."
Appetite wetted? But didn't guess the author? No one else can write and think like Fred Reed. Enjoy the rest of it:
Looking for Commies in China
You'd Do Better in the Harvard Faculty Lounge
http://www.strike-the-root.com/52/reed/reed2.htmlPosted by Christian Butterbach @ 04:00 PM GMT+1 [Link]
Saturday, September 17, 2005
Comment on blog
From Richard Rieben:Justin wrote:
"Americans are an ornery, cantankerous, individualist lot, and always have been.... the determination to be happy, and find individual self-fulfillment, and to hell with the myth of collective "goals" and "national purpose" is, in reality, their greatest virtue. This nation was founded in a libertarian revolution, which was also an anti-imperialist struggle against a colonial master that thought it was the center of the universe...."
It is all very heartwarming and inspiring, however it is the same old outdated horseshit that has been around for a donkey's age and keeps fueling the decline of america into totalitarianism. This is the WORST part of libertarianism in America - the delusion that the people will somehow "come to their senses" and take back any part of their liberty. It ain't going to happen. Justin's drunk.
For a sober outlook, see Butler Shaffer's article. He's not one of my favorite people, but he's got this nailed cold:
"Panglossian optimists continue to hope as they would at the death-bed of a loved one for a miracle to reverse the terminal course.... "In the outpouring of individual compassion and cooperation following the disaster in New Orleans, the state discovered a threat to its existence. Political systems thrive only through division and conflict; by getting people to organize themselves into mutually-exclusive groups which then fight with one another."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer118.html
The citizens of the uSA are under siege by their own institutions - and only a miniscule number of them are aware of this. There is going to be no revival - of dignity or anything else. There is going to be conflict and nastiness ... and concentration camps. Because the government is fighting for its life ... and the vast majority of the people are on the side of the PRINCIPLE of authority, despite all of their pretensions to being ornery, cantankerous and individualists.
Thanks, Richard, for this comment. I may have been drunk too, when I spoke of that dignity, and full of wishful thinking; but, as you know, on Pagode Light coconut juice ("On Pagode Light coconut?! Is that alcoholic? [...] It does WHAT? I want me some of that coconut stuff."), unlike your "minuscule number" above as much on booze as the mainstream... As in democracy frustration rules.
Posted by Christian Butterbach @ 09:10 AM GMT+1 [Link]
Monday, September 12, 2005
"an ornery, cantankerous, individualist lot"
Today Justin Raimondo published a column that should have been included as a link in my previous post, had it existed already then. You like antipasti, tapas, smorgasbord, kaiten-zushi? You will be in for a five star treat here regarding insights, useful reminders, strong statements and great formulations, links, quotations, striking information, fun and arguments to motivate you to become part of the upcoming necessary revolution.Please help yourself:
Katrina, Iraq, and the End of 'National Greatness'
Americans aren't virtuous enough to embrace the joys of self-immolation – and that's the good news
by Justin RaimondoPosted by Christian Butterbach @ 12:21 PM GMT+1 [Link]
Saturday, September 10, 2005
Smash through that meme!
Dire truth about the Katrina holocaust: WE ARE IN DIRE NEED OF A CHANGE!Please read Richard Rieben on Strike the Root ("Katrina Cuts to the Core"), even if the writing style is appropriately arid and dry.
"In other words, much of the reaction is to the failure of the government to perform effectively prior to, during and after the disaster, instead of cutting through this to the essential ineffectiveness of government period, and to the destructiveness of usurping the authority of the individual to any degree or in any situation."
"Government is a cancer. What do you put in its place after you cut out a cancer? Nothing, folks. Nothing."
Strong words for strong feelings for the rights and the happiness of the individual.
Exactly a week earlier, Lew Rockwell had largely taken the same line in his article The State and the Flood, which you should read also (and it would not be too difficult to quote several other similarly good columns among the mass of more erroneous and futile ones), even if that smiling god of the libertarian establishment and a believer in God, though not in Government, has like the latter not too much regard for even more fundamental and radical and highly valuable ideas not developed by the saints in his own Bethlehem stable. 
While I am plugging his essays now and then, he never plugged, he stubbornly and silently ignores comparable quality on my site, doesn't even answer email or submissions (about a dozen by Richard Rieben that were then published elsewhere, on an as great and famous site). Individuals can sometimes be such a threat to the market and a nuisance, if one places the market, not above everything else, but considers it the only thing having a right to existence.
To quote philosopher Rieben: "Sovereignty is the base; reciprocity defines how to make it work." If only governments and gods had a different concept of reciprocity...
Be it as it may, on the subject of
Hurricane Katrina
my site has the following to offer:- Katrina: Worst Hyperbole Ever? by Jonathan David Morris
http://www.butterbach.net/jdm/jdm88.htm
The views on this one went the full spectrum from crap to pure, unadulterated genius. Judge for yourself!
- Iraq, Katrina, and Industrial Hemp: A Discussion That Needs To Be Had
http://www.butterbach.net/mainfare/jdm-iraqkatrina.htm
The above by the same author is daring too and pinpoints aspects often cowardly neglected. It's in my "Main Fare ~" rubric on my home page I warmly recommend, for what it offers so far and for what will come soon.
In connection with the above second article, I would like to draw your kind attention to Justin Raimondo's Katrina, Iraq, and the Know-It-All Syndrome. He is in a side-barn of Bethlehem 
, but has at least once put a link in one of his columns to my site. Though it had to do with one of the so many tragic events in Iraq, it was to the picture of a cute Iraqi man. What will Hoppe think?
From Lew Rockwell's article above I would like to quote the following: "What was missing that made the looting rampage possible was the bourgeoisie, that had either left by choice or had been kicked out. It is they who keep the peace." So, don't miss this article from the more luxurious than a barn wider Mises Institute! Even if in some ways it seems to be a gated community...
If personally so far I have kept silent on Katrina (if I except the following two sentences in a blog entry of August 30: "Hurricane Katrina fortunately did not do any harm to our bastion Attorney Rex Curry in Tampa, Florida, nor to the server of this site in Boca Raton, Florida. My sympathy though goes to those who were severely hit by that killer."), it is due to shock, to helplessness, to anger and amazement and to the too many things that could or maybe need to be said. Out of respect for the victims I preferred to restrain myself for the time being and remain relatively speechless, like with 9/11. And this is a much much bigger catastrophe and tragedy! Even if the winds started blowing from outside the borders of the uSA, the real catastrophe entirely originates from within the borders, no foreigners involved, unlike with 9/11, when the foreigners were a sort of personnes interposées, third persons fraudulently replacing more than one of the interested parties. Looking closer, we are again inside the borders, only more indirectly...
In a private correspondence, not meant for publication, I had recently uttered the following: "It is not that each victim of 9/11 or Katrina has to be represented by one word. On Katrina one could write volumes and almost volumes have been written already, but one should boil it down to three or four basic sentences cut in marble. Out of respect for those poorest victims. In my view what happened is a total final indictment of that shabby nation the United States have become. Nobody seems to notice. It's good that so many simple folks are nice and helpful people and do now what need to be done. Low brow practical help, that is what is needed. No talk. Silent mourning. Prayers don't help. They didn't. After the worst shock will be over, action is required. During the next local, state and federal elections. And some kind of revolution, chasing politic(ian)s into the desert, where there is no water. They could always take the polluted one with them or a few corpses for food, the only one they deserve. So that the American people may regain their dignity. It took four days before authorities STARTED to give some weak help. Such a thing never would have happened here in most European countries, even from our bastards of politicians. If the average American citizen does not grasp, without the help from libertarians, what kind of bastards those politicians like Bush and Condi are, I am sorry, they are bastards themselves. And I am thinking also of my American relatives over there."
These are clear words. As you know, here on this site you are not with the lackey media in the case of tragedies. Remain well-disposed to it and let's start going steady. Since Justin and a few others are visiting my site too.
Posted by Christian Butterbach @ 07:17 PM GMT+1 [Link]
Libertarian Lawyers fight price gouging allegations & government harassment
A new Legal Defense Fund is ready to fight laws that ban price gouging during disasters such as the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The Pro Price Gouging Legal Defense Fund (PPGLDF) will provide aid to people who are harassed or charged under anti-gouging laws. News media are asked to inform the public that pro bono help is available to buyers or sellers whenever law enforcement interferes with their commerce.Criminal defense lawyers are organizing to end shortages caused by the laws. The laws frighten citizens from offering goods and services to disaster victims, and the laws frighten disaster victims from negotiating for needed goods and services.
PPGLDF attorneys are arranging seminars to train lawyers in attacking laws that ban gouging and to train lawyers to assist defendants in court.
The spokesperson for the PPGLDF is attorney Rex Curry, a Tampa lawyer who was inspired by personal experiences with price gouging laws after recent hurricanes in Tampa, Florida.
"Florida's Attorney General Charlie Crist created gas shortages where there were no shortages," said Curry "After Katrina, Crist created a fear of accusation that caused stations to stop selling gasoline that they had on hand. Crist created shortages, misery and suffering. His behavior could have killed people."
Anti-gouging laws are another example of how the USA's police state is growing. The anti-gouging mentality causes deaths, suffering, shortages, misery, and poverty as it did in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (62 million dead) and the Peoples' Republic of China (35 million dead).
Government schools do not teach basic economics, nor economic freedom, individual liberty and property rights. It is another reason why government schools must end. And Charlie Crist is the poster child for ending government schools.
Curry also argued the motion to suppress in another victory against Florida Attorney General Charlie Crist and against drug dogs. The dog case is presently before the United States Supreme Court. The Court recently asked for an official response and transcripts in the case, peaking interest in the case. Playboy Magazine's September issue quoted Curry stating "drug dogs are natural libertarians - without constant retraining they lose interest in the war on drugs. Let's return them to protecting people from violence and theft, which is the only proper purpose of law enforcement anyway."
"All anti-gouging laws should be retired for the same reason that all drug dogs should be retired," according to Curry, adding "Attorney General Crist is crucifying Floridians. Crist shows that socialism starts shortages. He gives lawyers a bad name."
Curry is a member of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL). Curry helps educate NACDL members, the legal community, and the general public that price gouging is good.
The NACDL is hosting a conference "Defending the White Collar Case: In and Out of Court" at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, DC on September 22-23.
"There is a misconception that price gouging is only a white-collar crime," said Curry "Many poor people who desperately need money to buy food, medicine and other necessities are harassed and threatened if they try to sell anything they have to raise needed funds for purchases. The poor are also prevented from buying necessities when police harass and frighten away providers.
Curry speaks against anti-gouging laws on the following upcoming shows:
September 13th 9:00 p.m. - 9:40 p.m. Freedom Works! Radio with Paul Molloy
September 16th at 11 p.m. on AM-1350 WDCF & AM-1400 WZHR
(This show might include a debate)
November 20 at 1:00 p.m. Liberty Watch Radio with Charles Heller
For more information or to schedule an interview contact: lawyer@ij.net
~~~
Bite the hand that prevents you from feeding yourself!
Posted by Christian Butterbach @ 02:42 PM GMT+1 [Link]
Tuesday, September 6, 2005
APPD Won against Public TV
So the German courts are better than the public media. The latter are closer to power.The APPD TV spot was aired UNCENSORED last night at 10:28 PM, just before the beginning of the main news feature ("tagesthemen", of that man who is a famous German or European institution: Ulrich Wickert, anchorman, author, philosopher, francophile and thus a gourmet; but last night anchorwoman Anne Will had been in charge), as the Higher Administrative Court in Münster had decided in an summary proceeding in favour of the party, stating that an evident violation of human dignity and an infringement of the protection of young persons regulations were not present, that although the people in the spot are showing animalistic-instinctive behaviour, the boundaries beyond which there would be punishable pornography and similar had not been transgressed by the mere depiction.
The last spot will be aired on Monday, September 12, at 09:40 PM on ZDF before the "heute-journal" (which is the counterpart of ARD's "tagesthemen"). Again at a time when children, that are not punks, are in bed already. Or their parents... ;-) The typical mainstream family man looks at the news at 08:00 PM, not at the later more elaborate editions!
This good news might make my mirroring of the uncensored spot obsolete, but not everyone interested will have seen it on TV or could record it to have a closer look, so I keep it till further notice. Also, the visitors reading the previous post at a later date will not want to find a broken link in it. Other sites have mirrored the spot too (see full list). This helps to reduce the excessive traffic load for the site of the party. A load balancing device has been installed. I's like with power in democracy as opposed to more outright dictatorship. :-)
Posted by Christian Butterbach @ 11:23 AM GMT+1 [Link]
Monday, September 5, 2005
In Germany Constitutional Rights Only for the Bourgeois Class
Not totally unlike elsewhere of course, but a present censorship case shows the petty spirit (if you can call that spirit) of that conglomerate of the conservative political establishment (both right and left) with the State media. A small political party will participate in the upcoming elections on September 18. But only in the Lands (federal states) of Hamburg and Berlin. The numerous and heavy restricting conditions put on the participation in elections for non-established parties had seen to this. The party in question, as the initiator, followed by several other parties and members of parliament, had vainly applied to the Constitutional Court to have PM Schröder's premature dissolution of the parliament declared unconstitutional, as not sufficiently warranted. It was claimed that the participating parties had not enough time left to prepare and lead their campaigns and gather the required signatures from voters. It was too short notice. Also, members of parliament had claimed that, though rightfully elected for the intended number of years, they were spoliated of part of that time for no good enough reason. Poor members of parliament! I hope you shed a tear for them here. Unless you are aware that the elections are not meant to bring about a real change, or else they would be forbidden altogether, as one famous anarchist maintained.Now, this small party sees itself as representing the interests of the lowest social classes of society (the homeless, the long-term unemployed persons, pensioners [I raise my hand! ;-)], addicts [I quickly take my hand back again!], victims of domestic [I wonder if my cat is reading this; he is often violently preventing my work for you on this computer!] and sexual violence) and is denouncing social evils, abuses, disgraces, like the pauperization of ever larger parts of the population and the increasing redistribution from the "bottom" to the "top". Its political aim is a fundamental reshaping of society.
Now I can name the beast: It is the APPD (Allgemeine Pogo-Partei Deutschlands). They are pogo anarchists, an international punk movement, but as far as Germany and in particular Hamburg is concerned, there is more to it. And you would be astonished to meet its brain trust. Doesn't look very punk to me (see this picture; the one in the middle is not part of the brain trust, it is the pensioner...). Voters and the elected always move in different circles of friends, didn't you know?
Now the scandal. Political parties are entitled in Germany to get free time for several TV spots on the two government chains (ARD and ZDF), financed by mean fees imposed on the electorate and non-electorate, by a typically German totalitarian organization called GEZ, a device that has now spread to other EU countries like the plague in less electronic times. The spot submitted by the APDD was refused. It could only be shown in a censored version, leaving not much of it. As a protest against this censorship, this site is letting you see the full uncensored version of the spot. You may not like it, it is not that much my kind of cake either, but if you are lucky to know German, read the excellent commentary of the spot I document in my German blog (the part in italic) and which the party had sent to the TV stations and uses in the temporary injunction it tries to obtain from the courts. The administrative court of Cologne will decide today whether the spot will be shown tonight at 10:28 PM on ARD. Here is the spot, uncensored:
- for Windows Media Player:
http://www.butterbach.net/mirrors/appd/wahlspot.wmv - for Quicktime Player:
http://www.butterbach.net/mirrors/appd/wahlspot.mp4
Posted by Christian Butterbach @ 04:15 PM GMT+1 [Link]
