Rodent-sitting

The thing I enjoy the most about babysitting is that no one would dare suspect what I do to these defenseless little toad-like creatures.

Left to Right: Zach, Anonymous and Jeremy

I can mash them, crash down on them, trash their toys and carry on like a rampaging Zilla-god among defenseless children.

And yet, the only thing I have to fear is Children & Youth showing up and taking them into custody so as to increase C&Y's funding streams.

And if that happens, the ultimate defender of children the world over, none other than Jim Hayward will file suit against C&Y on behalf of "the children." There is nothing so exulted in the world of child-saving as that prince of fools--Jim Hayward.

Then again, if all that the children had to look forward to was Jim Hayward, they'd probably be jockeying for position at the ad-hoc gallows.

Later

Gas Odyssey

Follow the link.

Here we have another movie about the Marcellus Shale invasion, but we've run into the dreaded "Embedding disabled by request" nonsense at YouTube, so you'll have to follow the link to see the teaser that comes in at 3:43.

From the YouTube page: A film by Aaron Price about the development of natural gas from the Marcellus Shale in the Southern Tier of New York and Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania.

World premier on April 16th, 2010 at 7:00 pm, West Middle School, West Middle Avenue, Binghamton, New York.

Anyway, just to pique your interest, Minority Report.com called this documentary "A Documentary the Left Doesn't Want You To See."

I kid you not.

The link: Gas Odyssey

Hey, before I head off to beat the grandkids, Entercom's Cathy Donnelly, subbing for a vacationing Sue Henry on WILK, had this to say today: "Boy! Is Steve Corbett getting beat up on the blogs."

And then, without skipping a beat, she went on to chastise the offending blogggers.

Cathy, listen to me tell it.

The Great "Corbett" is a self-promoting showman, nothing more. And no matter how this gas drilling brouhaha plays out, just as soon as it's off of Page 1 above the fold, Corbett will be off to the next issue he thinks he can ride to death in the name of Arbitron ratings.

He saves no one and nothing. He changes nothing. He is to making a difference what the Big Bang was to universal solitude. But please don't tell him I said that because his gargantuan ego does not allow for anything other than adulation, real or imagined.

That said, the meandering Cathy Donnelly is, bar none, my favorite fill-in host on WILK.

Bye

The Siniawa Landfill

In early 2004, Daniel Siniawa, bought the long-shuttered and rapidly deteriorating Murray Complex in Wilkes-Barre, and told the Times Leader an “impulse led the Lackawanna County developer to bid on the 16-acre South Pennsylvania Avenue property, eventually buying it for $1.5 million.”

And then two years later we had this…

Posted on Fri, Dec. 22, 2006
W-B Area signs on to Murray Complex plan
Board OKs a tax increment financing plan for condos, shops and restaurants at site.
By JANINE UNGVARSKY Times Leader Correspondent

WILKES-BARRE – Voicing praise for the developers, the Wilkes-Barre Area School Board voted unanimously to approve the district’s participation in a tax increment financing plan to fund renovations to the Murray Complex.

Wilkes-Barre attorney Frank Hoegen, speaking for the Siniawa family – the Scranton-based developer of the $22 million project in the century-old warehouse space – said the condominiums, shops and restaurants would serve as a catalyst for further development.

“The Siniawas are going to borrow $15 million and pledge their properties as collateral. They are taking a huge personal risk to take a blighted area in downtown Wilkes-Barre and turn it into a showcase,” Hoegen said.

According to the resolution passed Thursday, the school district will join with Luzerne County and the city of Wilkes-Barre to develop a tax increment financing plan to fund $2.2 million of the debt for the project’s first phase. That phase calls for 55 condominium units and businesses that will generate an estimated $313,000 in taxes beyond the $20,000 the 480,000-square-foot site now nets the district.

“That increase will be created by virtue of the improvement to the property,” Hoegen said, “and the difference will be channeled to the (Luzerne County) Redevelopment Authority to pay the debt service on the loan.”He said the district will continue to receive the $20,000 in taxes it currently receives, as well as mercantile, transfer and income taxes generated by the property.

At the end of the 15-year term of the financing plan, the additional tax revenue will be split between the city, the county and the school district at a rate yet to be agreed upon, according to the resolution.

Luzerne County Commissioners approved participation in the plan earlier Thursday. Hoegen said the city is expected to decide soon whether to join in.

Project architect Alexander J. Belavitz said the plan is to “have the shovel in the ground” to start the project by late spring or early summer.

And then three years later we had this…

June 25, 2009
The walls come tumbling down
Demolition at former Murray complex under way; nearby condo-commercial project planned.
BILL O ’ BOYLE boboyle@timesleader.com

WILKES-BARRE – Demolition began Monday at the former Murray complex between Ross Street and Hazle Avenue.

Robert Sakosky, vice president of Daniel Siniawa & Associates of Dickson City, said he hopes all the dilapidated brick buildings to the right side of Ross Street will be down by the end of the year. The buildings have been deteriorating and the city and residents have expressed safety concerns.

“We are going forward with our project on the other side of Ross Street,” Sakosky said. “Those plans have not changed.”

The estimated $20 million project is multi-dimensional. Sakosky said Siniawa plans to build 55 loft-style condominiums, restaurants and will create 50,000-60,000 square feet of retail space on the site that once housed Murray’s Inn.

Sakosky said Siniawa is offering the Ross Street to Hazle Avenue side of the complex for sale. Once the demolition is completed, the property should attract more interest, he believes.
“If we can’t sell that side, then we will look at developing it ourselves,” Sakosky said.

“But we won’t do anything until we complete our first project, where Murray’s Inn was.”

A “for sale” sign on the property will remain up, Sakosky said.

“We really didn’t think it was feasible to do the main project with those deteriorating buildings sitting there,” Sakosky said.

Mayor Tom Leighton said the project is another improvement in the city. City Council approved an application for a $1 million grant from the state Department of Community and Economic Development for the project.

The Luzerne County Redevelopment Authority and the Wilkes-Barre Area School District have already approved the project and provided financial support. The redevelopment authority will loan $2.2 million for the work. The school district, county and the city have approved a tax diversion for the project to help pay off the loan.

The city entered into an agreement for the project with Siniawa 16 L.P. of Dickson City in July. Daniel Siniawa is the principal owner of the firm.

Sakosky has stated that once demolition ends, construction can begin, and he estimated the entire project would take between 14 to 18 months to complete.

The Siniawa group purchased the entire 16-acre complex for $1.5 million from Thomas Murray at a bankruptcy auction in March 2004.

Here’s my problem.

They’ve been demolishing that building for over a year now. Wait, allow me to expand on that.

They knocked it down a while back. They recycled what they could recycle from among the acres-wide and massive piles of rubble. And then the project came to an abrupt halt as the 2 pieces of heavy equipment working the site were removed from the site.

And since I drive past those piles of rubble at least twice every day, I’m here to tell you that the refuse removal stopped some months ago.

And now, we’re left with this bulldozed eyesore that has replaced the original free-standing eyesore. And a sign that reads: For Sale 570-356-2910.

All of which leads me to a few questions.

For starters, what is the status of this years-old project? 6 years, in fact.

When will the year-long demolition period transition into becoming a construction site?

Or should I say, is this project still on? Or has it been temporarily or permanently shelved?

And if it has been shelved, what is the current tax status of the property?

This “project” is now 6-years in and nowhere near completion. Er, nowhere near it’s beginning.
So, is it still an ongoing project at all?

And if not, what’s up with the Tax Incremental Financing status?

Personally speaking, that pile of rubble is starting to annoy me more than the original idiot magnet ever did.

And that T.I.F. thing is a bit rankling for me as well.

So, as always, V’ger needs to know.

What’s up with the Siniawa Landfill?

Later

Reading assignment

"The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing 'God Bless America.' No, no, no, God damn America, that's in the Bible for killing innocent people. God damn America for treating our citizens as less than human. God damn America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme."

Any idea?

"We bombed Hiroshima, we bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon, and we never batted an eye."

Need another clue?

"We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards. America's chickens are coming home to roost."

Hey, those were the words of the preacher who married your current Charlatan-in-Chief, one Jeremiah Wright.

The excerpt: A great part of America now understands that this president's sense of identification lies elsewhere, and is in profound ways unlike theirs. He is hard put to sound convincingly like the leader of the nation, because he is, at heart and by instinct, the voice mainly of his ideological class. He is the alien in the White House, a matter having nothing to do with delusions about his birthplace cherished by the demented fringe.

Still another excerpt: It is no surprise that Mr. Posner—like numerous of his kind—has found a natural home in this administration. His is a sensibility and political disposition with which Mr. Obama is at home. The beliefs and attitudes that this president has internalized are to be found everywhere—in the salons of the left the world over—and, above all, in the academic establishment, stuffed with tenured radicals and their political progeny. The places where it is held as revealed truth that the United States is now, and has been throughout its history, the chief engine of injustice and oppression in the world.

They are attitudes to be found everywhere, but never before in a president of the United States.

And, of course, the link: The Alien in the White House

Yeah, but he's always looking for some "ass to kick" in the private sector. He's always looking for the enemy that lies within the world community...namely, America.

Sez me. And plenty of others.

A resignation is in order. A resignation should follow the biggest lie ever told to the American public. A resignation for the most cleverly crafted, but the most false facade ever perpetrated upon an unknowing but adoring voting public. Oh, and after only 18 painfully inept months in office, that resignation would be long, long overdue.

Bye

Drill the Huntsville dam baby, drill!

This is equal parts sad and predictable. Nah, maybe not. Mostly predictable, I'd say.

Some guy just called WILK's Steve Corbett and tried to relay the experiences of some other guy who trespassed in order to snag some close-up pictures of a natural gas drilling rig. The caller said he read this story at Daily Kos. You know, he read it at a blog.

Being the single rudest host in all of talk radio, Corbett interrupted the caller and told him that he could not trust bloggers. He said you cannot count on the accuracy of bloggers because, as he put it, "we don't know who they are."

He went on to say that the accurate information comes from the print media and...wait for it...here it comes...talk radio. He also said that the caller and Corbett himself would have to be relied upon to stop the invasion of natural gas drilling companies. "You and me together, man."

I've been waiting for this for some time now and, quite frankly, I'm surprised it took this long for Steve Corbett to make this his issue, his fight, as if no one had ever heard of the Marcellus Shale threat before he made it his signature issue.

You can't trust bloggers. There, he finally went and said it. This from a guy who is not allowed to call his wife "my wife."

First of all, as far as the local scene is concerned, it was I, me, Markie the scumbag blogger that fired the very first Marcellus Shale shot in print.

Check the date of that post, Stevie? No, well it was posted on July 26, 2008. Back when you were still rambling on and on and on about being a Mexican.

And being that you've latched on to this issue so, so frightfully late, allow me to fill you in on the pertinent facts.

The oil and gas companies currently setting up shop in our region have been donating tidy campaign sums to politicos, would-be politicos and PA PACs for longer than you've been back from California. And dig this motor mouth, they've been sending contribution checks to both of our gubernatorial hopefuls for a while now.

And since our state legislators care more about their continuing fleecing of he taxpayers than they do those taxpayers, you can expect the lax regulation of the gas drilling industry in PA to continue. You can expect to see as minimal an oversight as possible so long as those campaign war chests continued to be filled by the industry. And you can expect to see a gas severance tax to be enacted immediately after Iran becomes our 51st state completely by choice.

And a moratorium on gas drilling until the environmental ramifications are fully ironed out? Until the infrastructure costs to local municipalities are reasonably assessed? Until emergency management plans are mutually agreed to, paid for in advance and then cemented in place?

That ain't happening, champ. None of that is happening. None of that is going to happen because it's fast becoming obvious that, except for Rep. Lisa Baker, the elected officials are putting their electoral needs before the needs of the people they are sworn to serve.

So, the natural gas drilling will go forward, it will most likely be a disaster for parts of this area, and then afterwards...only afterwards, will the self-serving politicians spring forth to save us from our newest environmental nightmare as the next election go-round draws near for them.

Sorry Steve, but it seems as if it's too late for you to save the world. Again.

But, if you had not been bashing on, belittling and ignoring bloggers at every availbale turn some 2 years ago when the very first claxon call went out, perhaps you could have latched on to this issue and alerted your vast talk radio listening audience while there was still enough time to stave off what now looks to be inevitable.

You can't trust bloggers.

Yep, that's what Johnny-come-lately had to say today.

What a fu>king maroon!

Later

Ba-roke must go

Well then.

I see that the Party Animal-in-Chief has taken time out from his glitzy, star-studded parties, his nonstop partisan, online organizing, his pro-am (as if) golf forays, his indoctrination-like speeches to high school and college graduates soon to be unemployable in a "jobless recovery," and his hapless hoop dreams to take a tougher tone on all things British Petroleum. Hold on a second.

Yawn.

Yeah, the charlatan, this here pretender of yours, the man with no resume, the ultimate demagogue, the trainee Marxist, your end-all answer to the dreaded Dubya is looking for some "ass to kick."

I know that those of you on the left side of the political divide cannot own up to your egregious error in judgment, but I would dare say that even a 65-year-old Sir Paul McCartney has forgotten more about kicking ass than this imbecilic pretender to the thrown will ever know.

I know, I know. Y'all hated Bush. And after you worked yourselves into a frenzy on behalf of that half-wit Al Gore, you believed all of that pap you read and knew full-well that it couldn't get worse than the idiot bastard son.

Well, guess what. You were wrong. You were dead wrong. You were so obviously wrong, your ability to get much of note right from here on out is now in question.

You funked that up, didn't you?

Change you could believe in? Yes you did! Easily manipulated? Yes, you are. Yes, you did!

May a politically correct god-like figure forgive you.

Your fool told the Russians to reel in Syria's Assad. And then the Russians promptly shipped their most advanced surface-to-air missiles to Syria. And your fool said we could have a dialogue with Iran, even despite their budding nuclear program and their increasing antagonism towards any and all things Israel. And the chuckling Iranians then increased their clandestine shipments of increasingly accurate rockets to Gaza-based Hamas, as well as Lebanon-based Hizbollah. All the while, Oblahblah was still publicly pushing some inane and banal peace accord deal.

And now Turkey, increasingly radicalized, emboldened by Iranian aid and pissed at what they saw as Israeli assistance of a bloody Kurdish probe into their territory has tried to embarrass Israel by provoking a bloody confrontation. And while the world busily and foolishly condemns Israel, Iranian ships are sailing towards Gaza to provoke even more bloodshed in hopes of an escalation of hostilities. And as those Iranian ships sail towards Gaza, Turkish forces with one eye on Israel are currently mobilizing to Cyprus.

And the most trusted intelligence sources available only to paid subscribers are reporting that Osama bin Laden and his closest of terrorist idiots have been sheltered "in the mountainous town of Savzevar in the northeastern Iranian province of Khorasan" for the past five years.

Meanwhile, three German-built and nuclear-armed Israeli submarines are in route to the coastline of Iran, while the Israeli's are boasting that their in-flight refueling enhancements have made long-distance air strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities a distinct possibility.

And then we have the always saber-rattling North Koreans sinking a South Korean Corvette in contested waters while we can't figure out whether or not we need to forward-deploy an aircraft carrier as a show of force to the inferior North Korean show of force.

I could go on, but I'll stop.

With WWIII just one easy-to-make mistake away from breaking out all over the place, Ba-roke Oblahblah, at Spike Lee's behest, is threatening to kick some ass...BP's ass.

Is it too much to ask that he resign and return to his homeland, wherever it is?

Buh-bye

A must-read direct from the wastelands

I've been scouting a few local sites that are this close to being drilled for natural gas. Zosh Road, Soltis Road and Peaceful Valley Road.

Basically, when the fracking gets well underway, I figured I'd slip into the woods, walk for a spell and capture some video from a decent vantage point. And then I'd share it with the lot of you.

Most of these bucolic sites are posted "no trespassing," which is normally meant as a way of warning hunters off of the lands in question. But with all of the negative publicity, and with the public's mood fast souring on Marcellus Shale drilling, I also figured that if I pulled such a stunt, I might be approached by less than receptive gas company employees. And I also imagined that some paid security agents may be thrown into the mix.

With those latter two possibilities thought through by me, I also came to the conclusion that if I were found out and things were a bit too heavy-handed, trouble might quickly ensue with some rent-a-thugs. Never one to back down from a scrum of any proportion, I figured the risks were well-worth the possible rewards.

If you've known me for any length of time, you know that if what you want is a fight, then we will fight. Not a problem.

And today I read this...Major drilling accident in NW PA. Cameras, media banned from site

So, if you're faint of heart, or not one who can handle yourself when the testosterone and adrenaline get to mixing in great quantities, you might want to think long and hard before you go trespassing on any gas drilling sites.

As for myself, I will not be deterred by any of this. Not in the least. And I applaud the guy who delivered this eye-opening report from the field. Or should I say, from the wastelands.

Stay tuned

The Energizer Dude

What's next, Kayak Dude: The Movie?

From the Citizens' Voice: River advocate takes up fight against drilling

The excerpt: An advocate for the Susquehanna River is encouraged by the recent naming of the upper Delaware River to a list of the country's most endangered rivers.

Don Williams, whose love of the Susquehanna and skill in navigating it earned him the nickname "Kayak Dude," hopes the designation will lead to a statewide moratorium on natural gas drilling until its effects on rivers and their watersheds are better known.

If and when they do make that movie, I'm hoping to do a cameo.

Wait a second, they already made an Inflatable Dam Documentary featuring none other than Kayak Dude, so perhaps we need a sequel. Maybe a prequel. Either way, I want some creative input when they recreate that still hotly-debated scene at the site of the Pittston raw sewage massacre. I'll be a technical advisor of sorts.

For the sake of accuracy, the question still begs, did he or didn't he drop the mother of all curse words that day?

Later

Raised on two wheels

Once upon a time, there was this Web site that garnered more than it's fair share of attention only because it dared to go where no one, er, where no Web site had gone before...into the local political scrum.

And during those heady times, this here author, photographer and local political provocateur extraordinaire had this steady sidekick who accompanied him no matter where he went. Well, that is to say, the steady sidekick trailed along behind said trouble-maker on his trail bike, the fabled "Blue Bike."

And the most unique thing borne of that period was that this little boy, Gage Andrew, literally grew up on the Internet, albeit, in pictures.


Left to Right: Taylor Kate, Gage Andrew and Zachary Bryce, June 2005

Truth be told, Wilkes-Barre Online was so widely read in this area, that while out and about on our many, many "bikeabout" adventures, people who had never before met Gage Andrew in person would recognize him and acknowledge him by name, simply because they were watching him grow up on the Internet.

How's that for unique?

But, some 5 years ago, Gage Andrew went and relocated to Knoxville, Tennessee, where he is currently fine-tuning his bicycling prowess. Here he is pictured with his 9th birthday present.

Happy birthday, Gage.

Pedal on, boy!

G'nite

Scratch another one off "The List"

I ain’t felt like writing much of late. So I didn't.

I’ve been outside and working in this heat day-in and day-out. I think I got some Sun poisoning on my left arm. Either that, or like Poison Ivy or something. And while I could tell you that the heat and the like has drained the life force out of me, that would be a fib.

Truth is, it seems kind of silly to be commenting on anything as practically everything is currently going tits-up. What's the point in ranting and raving, while the edge of the precipice grows closer and closer by the day?

This one cracked me the funk up.

From the Times Leader: Penfield well blowout under control
　
PENFIELD, Pa. — A blowout at a natural-gas well in a remote area shot explosive gas and polluted water as high as 75 feet into the air before crews were able to tame it more than half a day later, officials said Friday.

The gas never caught fire, and no injuries were reported, but state officials worried about an explosion before the well could be controlled. The well was brought under control just after noon Friday, about 16 hours after it started spewing gas and brine, said Elizabeth Ivers, a spokeswoman for driller EOG Resources Inc.

Enron Oil & Gas, anyone?

This here natural gas blowout caused quite the stir on the Internet as well as local talk radio. Interestingly though, while the Gulf oil spill emanating up from 5,000 feet of sea water continues to gush away, the local gas blowout took all of 16 hours to contain.

Why? Because unlike the oil blowout in the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, it’s accessible.

This is what can follow when the enviro-commies* continually get what they want. No drilling on dry land--ANWAR. No, we need to drill 5,000 feet under the surface of the ocean. We need to make it as prohibitively expensive as possible. We need it to be as dangerous as possible. And we need it to be one mishap away from disaster at all times, all by purposeful design.

So, while the beaches turn black in increasing numbers, remember, the enviro-commies saved ANWAR. (???)

What a bunch.

*Communist Goals (1963) Congressional Record -- Appendix, pp. A34-A35 (January 10, 1963)

Ah, the list, originally published in 1958 by Cleon W. Skousen, is as follows. Scroll through it, give it some thought and keep tabs on how they (and now we) are doing. Or, should I say, see how easy it was to conquer us from within.

I recently had a high school teacher telling how he loathed capitalism, and also how he'd prefer some northern European form of socialism. That's a far, far, far cry from what the average high school teacher would be spewing just 30 years ago.

Funny, the U.S. once had the dominant socio-economic system until it started adopting aspects of the European-styled "welfare state." And now, just like "Europe: The Model," now we're going broke, too! Gee, I wonder why.

Sub-prime mortgages, anyone?

Sorry, comrades. But we cannot survive economically unless there are far more producers than takers. Europe is currently being incrementally crushed under it's own entitlement weight, it's open border immigration policy and it's fast-aging indigenous population.

Sound familiar?

The list...

Current Communist Goals, EXTENSION OF REMARKS OF HON. A. S. HERLONG, JR. OF FLORIDA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES (Thursday, January 10, 1963)[Excerpt From "The Naked Communist," by Cleon Skousen]

1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.

2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.

3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament [by] the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.

4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.

5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.

6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.

7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.

8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev's promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.

9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.

10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.

11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)

12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.

13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.

14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.

15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.

16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.

17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks.

18. Gain control of all student newspapers.

19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.

20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policy-making positions.

21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.

22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms."

23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art."

24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.

25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.

26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."

27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity, which does not need a "religious crutch."

28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state."

29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.

30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man."

31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the "big picture." Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.

32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture--education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.

33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.

34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.

35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.

36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.

37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.

38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand [or treat].

39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.

40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.

41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.

42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use ["]united force["] to solve economic, political or social problems.

43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.

44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.

45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction [over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction] over nations and individuals alike.
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They used to call it World Domination by the Soviets and their communist brethren. These days, they call it a One World Government. Sounds kinder and gentler, don't it?

No matter what they may call it, the economic power, the military power and the sovereignty of America has to be systematically done away with.

And just a cursory glance at the recent trends, ass-backwards legislating and our downward economic standing and such clearly suggests that the party is all but over, kiddies!

Embrace the lower standard of living.

Later