Sunday, October 30, 2005
Flip a coin!
Wendy McElroy is writing on the 50 % chance of a medical research result being false and wrong. And the cream-of-the-cream of the studies, at that. The cream is sour! So it's something for gourmets... :-) That crowd unevenly split between those who care for real quality and those who care for taste only.As if I hadn't always known. Some of the basic approaches are wrong here. Big money is one of them.
Another one is that a majority of people delegate their responsibility for their own health to others (the State, the doctors, the pharmacists, the drugs, the drug industry...) and do not make the necessary effort to alleviate their ignorance on the matter, to renounce bad habits, at least somewhat, and to become apostates to the beliefs promoted in the mainstream media.
Read Wendy's
Miracle Cure, or Murky Research?
http://www.butterbach.net/wendy/w123.htmAnd while you're at it, read or reread Ken Schoolland's MEDICAL QUACKERY: GOVERNMENT POLICY IN THE UNITED STATES.
In this important connection, don't miss ISIL's new The Medical Freedom Channel. After all, CODEX ALIMENTARIUS is sitting on our necks. The boots on our necks are the usual ones, of course, and you may have heard of them if you visit this site or related ones... :-) Also very helpful in this connection: The Question Earthority Channel. And since most of the problems of more recent decades have a lot to do with the lack of information and the indoctrinations, the lack of fostering a critical spirit, pandemic in public education, in State schools with their megalomania, I also recommend The Educational Choice Channel.
Flipping a coin might not bring you the desired result. Turn the medal the side you want it!
Posted by Christian Butterbach @ 05:31 PM GMT+1 [Link]
Saturday, October 29, 2005
[~ D ~] Hamburg
Papiergeld regiert die Welt
Einladung ef-Leserkreis
es ist soweit! Referent und Treffpunkt für unsere nächste Runde stehen fest und ich möchte Sie gerne einladen zum
ef-Leserkreis zum Thema
"Papiergeld regiert die Welt"
Referent: Kristof Berking
09. November, 20 Uhr
bei Prof. Wolfgang Deppert
Herr Berking promoviert zu einem Währungs-Thema bei einem der prominentesten deutschen Euro-Gegnern. Er wird uns etwas zum spannenden Thema der staatlichen Schein-Währungen und der Frage sagen können, ob wir mit privaten Währungsstandards nicht besser fahren würden.
Professor Deppert, der beim letzten Mal zu Sokrates referierte hat sich freundlicherweise bereit erklärt, uns sein Zuhause als Treffpunkt anzubieten. Die Wohnung liegt sehr zentral in Hamburg-Uhlenhorst, ca. 8 Gehminuten von den U-Bahnstationen "Mundsburg" oder "Uhlandstraße" entfernt, und sogar in noch größerer Nähe zur Haltestelle Averhoffstraße der MetroBus-Linie 6 (ehemals 108).
Ich freue mich auf kurze Rückmeldung vorab und verbleibe mit eigentümlich-freien Grüßen bis zum 09. November,
Matthias Still
PS: Da es sich hier um eine Veranstaltung in privatem Rahmen handelt, bei der die Teilnehmerzahl ebenfalls im (geplanten) Rahmen bleiben muß, bitten wir diejenigen Freiheitsfreunde, die Interesse an einer Teilnahme haben, vorher Rücksprache mit Herrn Matthias Still zu nehmen über Matthias Punkt Still Klammeraffe Arcor Punkt de oder über Christian Butterbach.
Posted by Christian Butterbach @ 11:15 PM GMT+1 [Link]
Friday, October 28, 2005
"A Letter From The CEO"
Not from Christian Butterbach, but from Kiyoshi Maeda.If you are interested in the official statement of my provider regarding the catastrophe that had taken my websites off the map of the Internet for several days, you'll find it here:
http://dfw-newverio-stage.it.verio.net/wilma/CEOletter102705/Posted by Christian Butterbach @ 04:05 PM GMT+1 [Link]
Thursday, October 27, 2005
Ridicule Does Not Kill ~~ Patriotism Does!
I got a link in the mail:2,000: A bogus number, a bitter cause Read it first!
I wrote the sender:
I don't know why you send me that. [The subject line had been simply: Patriotism.]
He answered later:
I sent it to you laughingly. I think Michelle Malkin is ridiculous.
I had continued:
When will we get you weaned from townhall.com? Michelle Malkin may have a few points, I have read her before, but I could tear her article apart, as the arguments rest on so many wrong assumptions that only imperialists and naive American sheeple could fall for. Even if these may be mostly nice folks. The crimes of the world are done with the help of those nice folks everywhere. Everything is always placed on a level of reasoning far from the real basics.
America the country of individualism? Ha! Cindy Sheehan played off [here] against the collective of those mothers proud of sacrificing their sons and daughters (it's always more the sons than the daughters) on the altar of the Cause (which is nobody's but our despots')? And smeared! The pink (McCarthy colour) underwear (the commies at it again to blow up America) and all the other lore of the Left referred to is always better than what goes on at Arlington ceremonies. Michelle should retire to her chic condo looking on Central Park or wherever she is located [I checked: it is Maryland of course; the view is on DC and Arlington combined] and shut up. An alternative might be to sport a battle dress and join the ranks of the poor kids dispatched to the guerrilla front in Iraq. And risk ruining her Shisheido looks. All those Schreibtischtäter (pale theoreticians, woolly academics, brains behind the scenes and persons pulling the levers) of whatever border make me throw up.
Will you join me for a rest in this region not that far from Hamburg?
http://www.vorpommern.de/vorpomm/anzeige/urlbreg/reg.htm
Posted by Christian Butterbach @ 10:49 PM GMT+1 [Link]
Halloween in Hallmarkistan
While people from New York to San Francisco and especially in Cleveland in between, I suppose :-), are busy preparing Halloween and sending those cards (see previous post), people in the southeast of the United States have been suffering and still do. Wilma has been such a shrew. Couldn't be tamed. I was beaten too. This group of websites happens to be on a server located in Boca Raton, Florida, at one of my provider's premier data centers. Due to the weather conditions, on Monday October 24th, the day when the eye of hurricane Wilma was exactly over that area of south Florida which experienced significant damage, the data center lost municipal power at approximately 8:40am ET. An hour later both primary and backup power were lost. The servers had to be shut down to prevent damage and data loss, as the diesel generators did not work anymore and air conditioning could not be maintained. That was the moment when I noticed here in Hamburg, Germany, that something was terribly wrong. But I could not intervene, as there was no contact whatsoever to the server or the provider (no phone, email, http, ftp, traceroute, ping, you name it). A full battery of tests had been conducted on the generators and systems on October 19th in preparation to Hurricane Wilma. But then, when really needed, the generators did not work for more than an hour, when the provider switched to battery backups till those were soon depleted. I spare you all the many further details that would fill many pages, about the generator vendor's technicians flown in and the difficulties to effectively access the backup generators due to extremely difficult weather conditions etc. I am sorry that those who wanted to visit my sites could not do so. Some mail bounced, some was maybe lost while I was several times switching the MX record in the domain name server for the mailboxes at butterbach.net from Florida to Germany and back. If anyone could not reach me by mail, please try again. The big problem is over, though some smaller details still need to be addressed and settled. The essential works again after at least 36 hours total blackout (I have to wait for the final report of my monitoring service at the end of the month)! Whew!On Monday, in the midst of the emergency, I had sent around an email notice [Subject: BUTTERBACH.NET affected by WILMA] to as many on my email list as I could. This brought me some heartwarming nice reactions, not too many though, plus a few less pleasant ones. Among the latter I want to quote one coming from Muffinstan instead (as opposed to bagels in Hallmarkistan), from a former member of the board (and now of its Council) of the London School of Economics' Hayek Society. How (classical) liberal or libertarian can you get!
Subject: STOP Spamming CUNT. Hope you drown in Florida
Body: I don't give a shit about you so stop sending me the shit below:
My server in Florida [...]
You are such a gentleman, Mr. ...... ..........
Posted by Christian Butterbach @ 07:58 PM GMT+1 [Link]
Follow-up on this, all you Samuel Langhorne Clemenses out there...
" That’s like having a testicle that you “wouldn’t mind losing.” " Pardon? Well, that's JDM's parlance around Halloween when he tries to stop being possessed like the others by the evil spirit of 'utterly pointless' (JDM) consumerism and flees from the hurdy-gurdy of the possessed crowd. And "this", in the header, stands for the latest column of Jonathan David Morris, which is sort of a milestone, as for the first (?) time the columnist we like so much, the chronicler of American lore, fads and trends, of pop culture and all that pseudo-pop of a type that probably did not exist before the Great Depression, and in love with it most of the time, rides a critical stance. Bravo! Individuals against commercialized group think unite! Instead of hearing all the time, albeit justified, this repetitious and huge amount of Bush and politicians bashing, it is refreshing to once read about, and from the same quill-pen, the mindlessness of mainstream folk drowned in "culture" not of their making, but undergone like a result of so many daily little rapes they accepted from all those ghosts believed in... Here we go:Ten Things I Hate About Halloween
http://www.butterbach.net/jdm/jdm95.htmPosted by Christian Butterbach @ 04:16 PM GMT+1 [Link]
Sunday, October 23, 2005
Martial Law, Military Control, Worms Turning
With the splendid titleGore Vidal, Octocontrarian
a splendid interview by Marc Cooper in "The Nation" in which you can find Gore-geous niceties like the following:"Whatever was behind 9/11 was well worked out. And there isn't a brain in this Administration that could have worked out something like 9/11. Either to prevent it or to do it."
"And if there ever was great cause for impeachment it would be over 9/11. Never been a case of negligence like that."
"[...] we don't have a government. And to the extent we do have one it is not only corrupt but a menace to other countries, to our liberties, to our Bill of Rights."
Gore Vidal is really pulling "the butterfly wings off professional politicians."
Posted by Christian Butterbach @ 01:02 PM GMT+1 [Link]
Thursday, October 20, 2005
Money, money, money!
Money makes the world go round, even the tiny Libertarian or libertarian one... So, I liked the following article:Grassroots! Where have all the Libertarians gone?
by Juanita Ramirezhttp://www.libertyforall.net/2005/oct30/Grassroots.html
What does it remind me of? Well, besides that wealth of Beltway think tanks labeling themselves libertarian [on a special kind of regimen, I suppose; see, Lew, I added a letter to your Regime Libertarians and moved the stress ;-)], of our beautiful people, our libertarian jet set which, when not on some libertarian cruise ship, is jetting around the US and the world to attend all those posh conferences and conventions, summits and fests, exactly like politicians (with the difference that it is not on taxpayer's money, but on their own, or let's hope so at least), with entrance fees that are pocket money to them but not to common folk, with gala dinners, first class accommodation, post conference tours, etc., the whole gamut to feel well and selected. The rank and file can applaud from a distance. Our monarchs dress so well. And are waving from the balconies...
What I actually want to admonish only, is that prevailing and pervading mentality in the heads of our activists, gurus and pundits in office that totally ignores that there must be more than scholarships for students in the former Soviet Union ~~ in order to have in the future new markets and friendly regimes for the United States mainly, a funny improvement, considering how in the States and the European Union everything that should be dear to a libertarian heart is for the most part crumbling. Some surface "neo-liberalism" (as it is called names by the Left) introduced here and there with a parallel strengthening of the State and the EU Super-State will not bring about what we want and need, what every individual really needs, if, like governments, we effectively exclude those young (or even old, like me) and economically underprivileged from participating in those summits. It can be done differently. Let's compare Gummersbach (ISIL's World Freedom Summit, 24th World Conference, 2005) and Kerpen-Manheim (Freenetwork's Open Mind Festival, 1986), BOTH NEAR Cologne, Germany. As many can testify, Kerpen-Manheim was the better formula (regarding fees, accommodation, food, entertainment, wide range of audience etc.). I think that Stefan Blankertz, attending both, would not contradict me. Nor John Zube, who attended both Kerpen-Manheim and Rotorua (ISIL's World Freedom Summit, 23rd World Conference, 2004). Though Kerpen-Manheim was not a world conference, but "only" a German one, it offered in many ways more with less, and continues to catalyze some still now, 19 years later. It was above all much more daring in many fields.
If an elite we are, we should nevertheless not become elitist and discard the not moneyed intelligentsia. Or the moneyed pack might do better retiring to (though a lot of talent attracting) Versailles (that pioneer of a gated community Hoppe style). But they should take their Cokes and Burgers and Marlboros with them, to the new Versailles, in Alma-Ata, Ulan Bator, Hick(s)ville or wherever.
Posted by Christian Butterbach @ 02:30 PM GMT+1 [Link]
Bravo, well-done, dear anonymous! Attaboy!
From [RRND] Rational Review News Digest of yesterday: New York: Student ad triggers debate
Times Herald-Record
"If creating a buzz is rule No. 1 in advertising, then an anonymous Warwick Valley High School sophomore has a bright future. Set on a backdrop of neat rows of tombstones, a full-page ad in October's The Survey, Warwick Valley High School's monthly student-run newspaper, reads: 'You can't be all that you can be if you're dead. There are other ways to serve your country. There are other ways to get money for college. There are other ways to be all you can be. THINK ABOUT IT. Before you sign your life away.'" (10/18/05)
Posted by Christian Butterbach @ 10:41 AM GMT+1 [Link]
Tuesday, October 18, 2005
JDM's latest column made me cry.
Rocky VI: Don't Call It A Comeback
by Jonathan David Morris
http://www.butterbach.net/jdm/jdm94.htmPosted by Christian Butterbach @ 02:14 PM GMT+1 [Link]
Thursday, October 13, 2005
Blood. Wait. Download!
Thanks to Ilana Mercer's yesterday's great blog entry WORDLESS ABOUT THE WAR with, as always in her writing, amusing, striking, insightful formulations and comparisons like "Mess-opotamia" and "The Fedayeen Papers" ~~ and I am passing over some, for which we can be as grateful as for grated cheese on the right dish [sorry for the tasteful but tasteless comparison, I am not Ilana ;-)] and as happy about, I learned of something, a flash animation of 7893711 bytes exactly, that you must watch, at the risk of having to wait (during the long download, if you are not on broadband) and of weeping, as Ilana warns, suggests, recommends. I didn't (I was particularly well rested and strong this morning) or only on the sly, muted by the angry clear visions of my intellect.The animation is extremely well done and builds up to a climax that will surprise you. Be concentrated on the many pictures, the larger ones and the very many small ones of identical size. I only wish that the number of the latter was not such a round one, 500, but exactly 522, so that this Prez and Cabinet Sauvage, instead of Cabernet Sauvignon would at long last taste blood and sand. Some more reckoning anyone? Well, isn't it striking that the Congress of the United States has 435 Representatives and 100 Senators? Add those up and you have 535 Responsibles (an expression from Theater) or Irresponsibles, whatever you prefer. Deduct the 22 above, already cared for. You now have 513. Take off Dr. Ron Paul and a few others and with a bit of luck you might come up with 13 Upright Ones (I know, that is a lot, more than the Upright Seven of Gottfried Keller, republican-minded master craftsmen united in their hate of aristocracy and clerics). That leaves us with exactly 500. Nice balance of cause and effect...
And here we go:
Do You Ever Wonder What 2000 Looks Like
http://theunitedamerican.blogs.com/Movies/2000A/2000.htmlAnd that's four times 500 and still only a fraction of those, so hesitantly mentioned, numerous wounded ones who often might have preferred to be dead. In The Declaration of Independence the syllable In has since long been dropped, in the Pursuit of Happiness the word Pursuit has changed its meaning and Happiness has now become the Persecuted. Death replaces Life. And the deep sorrows of families and friends are ignored. They too often do not even dare to have them openly. The loss for us all and the future generations of all that human talent thrown away is unbearable. Blood for oil cannot bring about culture and civilization (only demockracy). Not here, where they are crumbling since a good while, not there, where, just for the sake of the fall of that one dictator, a former "friend" of one's own construction and with inbuilt obsolescence, they are being massively tumbled by the New Romans. While insane Nero is grinning on his balcony.
NB: Sauvignon is the wine most subject to inflationary climb, as fans, collectors, and the Nouveau Riche bid the supply ever upward. [Jim LaMar]
Posted by Christian Butterbach @ 02:02 PM GMT+1 [Link]
Wednesday, October 12, 2005
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Sunday, October 9, 2005
A Nobel Prize for Depleted Uranium
As long as it is only the USA (or an ally, read vassal) which use it, it's okay! Apparently.The Nobel Peace Prize this year is shared by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and Mr. Mohamed ElBaradei, its Director General, "for their efforts to prevent nuclear energy from being used for military purposes and to ensure that nuclear energy for peaceful purposes is used in the safest possible way." The Nobel prizes being all largely political prizes, it is of course very clever and should certainly be backed, that right now this prize goes to a gentleman from a Muslim country, as this may clearly further a policy of détente in the nuclear field in that part of the world, unfortunately so much in the limelight. Also, it hardly can be denied that the efforts mentioned by the Norwegian Nobel Committee have indeed led to commendable results. After all, humanity as a whole or in very large parts has not yet been blown off the surface of this earth. That very real danger of extinction of life and resources and of the accompanying great suffering, where extinction was not immediate, has provisionally been escaped, the extinction and suffering not been made come true. Only relatively few (though any single individual is numerous enough!) have suffered so far (from Hiroshima to the recent wars in the Balkans and the Near East). But this partial success of the efforts has above all been only in the interest of the United States, and not so much of its people as of its power crust, that bad smelling gratin done with plastic cheese. How many rotten eggs do you need for such a soufflé?
Nuclear energy for peaceful purposes (how peaceful can you get!) is not used in the safest possible way. The recent scandals in the Hamburg, Germany, area, where I live, alone are enough to disprove that. And we are here in Germany, not in Russia or the equally technically and morally incompetent United States in matters nuclear.
Nuclear energy has been used, is being used for military purposes. Or are weapons with depleted uranium bouillon cubes (stock cubes) used in kosher cooking or Hallmark cards sent to friends? And if you use such cubes in your kitchen, it's your sovereign decision (albeit one not earning you many toques or the wrong ones, the Nobel prize for cooking maybe?), it's not flying into your garden or through the window into your tureen, coming from your friendly neighbourhood invader (a suspiciously distant kind of neigbourhood) or pacification franchiser. You do not need to run...
Thus the Nobel Peace Prize 2005 headlines in the news these days are more hypocrisy and lies than anything else and just the usual political cosmetics to make the average John and Jane Doe continue to think that their destiny is in the best possible hands with our over death and life deciding despots.
Posted by Christian Butterbach @ 02:48 PM GMT+1 [Link]
Wednesday, October 5, 2005
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Zero Spychips!
Spychips hits the bookshelves -- and the bestseller lists!Read this passionate and fascinating appeal by Katherine Albrecht. As it may be a bit long for this blog, I put it on a separate page.
And buy the book!
Spychips: How Major Corporations and Government Plan to Track Your Every Move with RFID
"The pen is mightier than the sword -- or the spychip, in this case -- and this book has the potential to change the direction of our future."
Posted by Christian Butterbach @ 09:55 AM GMT+1 [Link]
I forgot!
I forgot to mention in this blog that besides the previous "E PLURIBUS UNUM" (and its largely different version in German in the blog "AKTUELL" on BUTTERBACH.DE) I have added that same day, and somewhat along the same line, a larger and more fundamental editorial to my less frequently updated blog "The Exterritorial Imperative" on the PANARCHISM.INFO site, which visitors of this blog may not visit and thus have missed, as they are not subscribing to my
feed.I have been reminded now by the following in my mail yesterday:
"Hi Chris!
I received two brilliant texts today in my RSS feed. You really should write more texts like that. I remember you told me that you are at your best when you write a bit aggressively, and that seems to hold true. But it’s the topic of panarchism that gives you the edge, that explains why the punches land so well in the face of all monopolists, including libertarians. Great! More, please!"
Shall I also reveal, at the risk of drifting off to the left 
, what else there was in that message? Let's take the plunge!
"Here’s a link that might interest you, http://www.juancole.com/...."
And when you are through with all that, you can catch forty winks. I'll wake you up soon enough for more...
Posted by Christian Butterbach @ 08:36 AM GMT+1 [Link]
Monday, October 3, 2005
E PLURIBUS UNUM
“The fact that no religion has been able to give a satisfactory reason for the existence of evil has certainly kept human beings on their toes during the brief respites that we are allowed between those ages of faith which can always be counted upon to create that we-state which seems so much to intrigue Lessing and her woollies, a condition best described by the most sinister of all Latin tags, e pluribus unum.”This quote is taken from an essay by Gore Vidal published on December 20, 1979, in The New York Review of Books under the title Lessing's Science Fiction and thus does not refer to the German Gotthold-Ephraïm Lessing of the 18th century, but to the British Doris Lessing of the 20th.
What's the occasion? The following!
Happy Birthday to you, Gore, greatest man!
Gore Vidal is becoming 80 (eighty) today! As it happens, exactly on the German national holiday Tag der Deutschen Einheit (Day of German Unity)! He is neither responsible for this nifty coincidence nor for that fatal e pluribus unum, that has led the Germans and their foreign victims repeatedly into evil..., nor the EU taking over from the Germans in promoting that wrongful principle.Unity of the Individual, Not of the Nation!
Instead of gluing all individuals together into the straitjacket of a forced collective on a monopolist national territory and thus separate them from all their natural rights, their happiness and good fortune, their hopes, and also their material possessions, one should respect the sovereignty of the indivisible individual that belongs only to itself, owned by no one else. To allow freedom, responsibility, creativity, possibilities for experimentation and finally true prosperity. By introducing panarchism those who would prefer to remain with the old system (but only for themselves!) could live peacefully next to those intent on rushing forward into a different and better future. To each the government of his/her dream! Introduced in some country, it could then become an export hit. Just think what a good solution it would be for Afghanistan or Iraq.Even Texas could profit from it. ;-) The great imperialist warrior Bush could follow in Napoleon's footsteps. Like that Bonaparte he invades countries in the name of revolutionary, sorry, democratic ideas, gets his slow but sustained Waterloo Retard in Iraq and as for the island of Elba he could always find a cell in a well-publicized corner of the island of Cuba. Dressed in fancy clothes, his hand on his weak spot (whichever it is these days; Laura, can you help us maybe?), he could, when his term is over, become the permanent Emperor of his incorrigible Neocon Republican Fan Club, but most definitely only at the risk and expense of that Crawford panarchy and its voluntary monarchist members. What a relief!
Posted by Christian Butterbach @ 05:04 AM GMT+1 [Link]
