Hal Womack 3-dan
2008-04-02 18:41:15 UTC
AN HISTORICAL NOTE FOR THE BARON OF LIBERALISM:
LEWIS LAPHAM @ CITY LIGHTS,
WEDNESNIGHT 080402 @ 19:00 o'clock
By Hal Womack 3-dan
http://www.flickr.com/photos/halwomack/
http://www.myspace.com/halwomack
They* tell us that tonight's guest speaker in North Beach fancies
himself a history buff, which's why after his many years of mastership
at HARPER'S MAGAZINE he recently founded a new journal modestly called
LAPHAM'S QUARTERLY**.
Before going on to lay out a short historical sketch on this
occasion, I pause to point out a certain spiritual kinship between
LL and Muhammad al-Durrah, the latter being the twelve year-old boy
whom the Israeli army shot to death in his father's arms in the Gaza
Strip on live French television on September 30th, 2000. (Be it noted
that in later years the Jews have elaborately denied the accusation
which they initially accepted and for which they apologized.) MD's
relation with LL consists in this: Both of them in their different
ways may have played large roles in provoking Henry Kissinger and
Aerial Shaboom to order the staging of the 9/11/2001 false flag
attacks against the WTC and the Pentagon.
LL did his bit by publishing two cover stories in HARPER'S of
February and March of 2000 by Christopher Hitchens*** calling for the
arrest and trial of Henry Kissinger on war crimes charges.
[oops, an important nap came up]
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
* http://www.citylights.com/info/?fa=event&event_id=277
http://www.harpers.org/
** http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/
{Lapham also wrote The American Ruling Class (2005), a movie done in
documentary style and featuring fictional characters and real people,
i.e. Bill Bradley, Hodding Carter III and Barbara Ehrenreich, author
of "Nickel and Dimed", pondering the question "is there a ruling class
in America?" Mr. Lapham makes the rather salient point at the movie's
conclusion that "if you're not in, you're out." The movie aired on the
Sundance Channel, July 30, 2007.--WIKI}
***From the OED for "opportunist":
{1881 Times 29 Sept. 3/6 The opportunist..yields to what he
condemns..but what, as he claims, is justified and forced upon him
by..circumstances. 1889 Athenæum 16 Feb. 205/2 Mr. Gosse..considers
him [sc. Dryden]..to be a sort of literary opportunist. 1928 Amer.
Mercury Oct. xxiv. 11 To the most common charge made against Peel,
that he was a hypocrite and a double-crosser, Miss Ramsay answers that
he was really no more than an opportunist.}
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::;
LINCOLN APPENDIX:
The authenticity of the following quotation BETA attributed
to Abraham Lincoln and used by former VP & Nobel Laureate Al Gore in
his book _The Assault on Reason_ has been challenged by
in a WASHINGTON POST article by a honcho at the WEEKLY STANDARD:
ALPHA {What Al Wishes Abe Said
By Andrew Ferguson
Sunday, June 10, 2007; B05}
http://www.weeklystandard.com/ }
Now a) Ferguson himself made a gross error in his article and b)
if Honest Abe really did utter the remark in question, then William
Kristol's rag = precisely one of the loathsome afterbirths of the
monster whose coming Abe feared and which appears to have assassinated
him less than six months later. So's the attribution valid?
BETA {"We may congratulate ourselves that this cruel war is nearing
its end. It has cost a vast amount of treasure and blood. . . . It has
indeed been a trying hour for the Republic; but I see in the near
future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble
for the safety of my country. As a result of the war, corporations
have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will
follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong
its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all
wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed. I
feel at this moment more anxiety for the safety of my country than
ever before, even in the midst of war. God grant that my suspicions
may prove groundless."
The passage appears in a letter from Lincoln to (Col.) William F.
Elkins, Nov. 21, 1864.
For a reliable pedigree, cite p. 40 of The Lincoln Encyclopedia, by
Archer H. Shaw (Macmillan, 1950, NY). That traces the quote's lineage
to p. 954 of Abraham Lincoln: A New Portrait, (Vol. 2) by Emanuel
Hertz (Horace Liveright Inc, 1931, NY).
"These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece
the people, and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves,
we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the
quarrel." speech to Illinois legislature, Jan. 1837. See Vol. 1, p. 24
of Lincoln's Complete Works, ed. by Nicolay and Hay, 1905)
http://www.ratical.org/corporations/Lincoln.txt
What Lincoln Foresaw:
Corporations Being "Enthroned" After the Civil War and Re-Writing the
Laws Defining Their Existence
by Rick Crawford, ***@cs.ucdavis.edu}
================================
My Hot Links:
Abir Aramin, age 9, murdered by the Jews
on Tuesday, January 16, 2007, her picture:
http://tinyurl.com/2l6ogh
An Israeli mother, a Jewess, comments on the story:
http://tinyurl.com/3amvos
http://www.rafahtoday.org/
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/fiveisraelis.html
...............................................................
Here's the link to what I wrote on the eve of SonnaBush's (fronting
for Aerial Shaboom) invasion of Iraq:
http://tinyurl.com/2xcvdo
(The tag end of the piece was stuck on rather roughly by the HANDSTAND
editor & could profit from a bit of pruning.)
If any reader can find another article from that critical moment which
has better stood the test of time, will she please be so kind as to
tell me about it?
...........................................................................
For Susan Abulhawa's new novel of Palestine, SCAR OF DAVID (2006)
http://www.scarofdavid.com/blog/index.php?page_id=5
OR
http://tinyurl.com/2n77bo
...................................................................
http://www.americanfreepress.net/
FINAL JUDGMENT by Michael Collins Piper, first published in 1994 and
now in its 6th edition, lays out the Jewish background to the JFK hit
in >600 fascinating pages (which badly need editing, evenso --attn:
M&W).
(See the AFP site above also for the moving letter of 29 November 2006
from Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,
President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, directly addressed to
"Noble Americans" --maybe your local jewspaper forgot to pass it along
to you?)
On the AFP site linked above I just now (Tuesday 071211)
found the following Michael More out-take from Sicko about a certain
northern country:
http://tinyurl.com/23zgxu
.....................................................................
Five Principal Joojingo or "JJ" resources:
1. http://www.aipac.org/
2. The Bronfmen @ http://www.acbp.net/
3. http://www.jinsa.org/home/home.html
4. http://www.adl.org/
5. http://www.hasbara.co.il/
Four Righteous Jewish Antidotes:
1. http://www.ostrovskyfineart.com/index.htm
2. http://www.nkusa.org/index.cfm
3. http://www.israelshamir.net/
4. http://tinyurl.com/3c9jm8 OR
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/08/18/136217
........................................................
US Alliance Afghan Genocide -
Six Million Excess Deaths?
By Dr Gideon Polya
08 November, 2007 Countercurrents.org
http://tinyurl.com/36ylq2 OR
http://www.countercurrents.org/polya081107.htm
..........................................................................
All rise,
http://www.counterpunch.org/dolby04032007.html
This clip was the first time I ever saw Marvin Gaye perform. The word
in my mind = "composure".
..........................................................................
Kidz Today:
A) Iron Maiden The Trooper By Gauchos
B) The Impeach Bush Club Parade
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4606006427048738351
...............................................................
http://www.counterpunch.org/
Flag of USrael:
Loading Image...
http://www.ussliberty.org/
http://www.aztlan.net/women_martyrs.htm
http://www.jewwatch.com/
http://margaritaville.com/
[cartoon panel]
http://tinyurl.com/2kyyc9 OR
Loading Image...
.............................................
http://www.hizbollah.org/
http://tinyurl.com/2r3stp
Loading Image...
http://tinyurl.com/3dlhhb
http://www.currentissues.tv/
http://www.waco93.com/
("Nadine Eats Pizza in Ramallah")
http://www.israelshamir.net/Contributors/Contributor47.htm
http://tinyurl.com/yqd75d (Akaber Zaid)
http://www.counterpunch.org/levy03272006.html
http://vcnv.org/
http://www.johnpilger.com/page.asp?partid=1
http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=491
http://www.americanempireproject.com/index.asp
http://www.lucasgray.com/video/peacetrain.html
Loading Image...
http://www.nelsonmandela.org/
Loading Image...
http://www.sf911truth.org/
http://www.documentaryphotographs.com/
http://www.ifamericansknew.org/
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
http://www.aztlan.net/
http://www.valleyofthewolvesiraq.com/high/main.html
http://www.johnkaminski.com/
http://electronicintifada.net/new.shtml
http://dahrjamailiraq.com/index.php
http://antiwar.com/
http://www.veteransforpeace.org/
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/index.htm
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/
http://www.infowars.com/
http://english.wafa.ps/default.asp
http://www.araboo.com/site/arab-aaug-asq-9777
http://www.al-awda.org/
http://www.imemc.org/
http://www.vcnv.org/
http://www.ziopedia.org/content/view/3301/58/
http://antiwar.com/
http://www.cnionline.org/
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=
http://www.honestmediatoday.com/index.htm
http://prorev.com/indexa.htm
http://www.thankyoult.org/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1
http://www.deiryassin.org/index1.html
http://www.marwenmedia.com/index.html
http://english.aljazeera.net/HomePage
http://www.thehandstand.org/
http://www.malaysiasun.com/
http://www.ronpaul2008.com/
http://tinyurl.com/79t3d
http://tinyurl.com/yt4tym ("Let It Be!")
http://www.fuckinggoogleit.com/
Results 1 - 10 of about 1,150 for "free your mind, the rest will
follow".
............................................................................................
Protocol: Top posting in follow-ups 'cause that way makes most sense
to me
and placing the reply at the bottom of the thread as it appears on my
Google newsreader. BTW does some friendly expert want to recommend a
better newsreader aka Usenet access tool,
especially for posting, then I'm all ear.
LEWIS LAPHAM @ CITY LIGHTS,
WEDNESNIGHT 080402 @ 19:00 o'clock
By Hal Womack 3-dan
http://www.flickr.com/photos/halwomack/
http://www.myspace.com/halwomack
They* tell us that tonight's guest speaker in North Beach fancies
himself a history buff, which's why after his many years of mastership
at HARPER'S MAGAZINE he recently founded a new journal modestly called
LAPHAM'S QUARTERLY**.
Before going on to lay out a short historical sketch on this
occasion, I pause to point out a certain spiritual kinship between
LL and Muhammad al-Durrah, the latter being the twelve year-old boy
whom the Israeli army shot to death in his father's arms in the Gaza
Strip on live French television on September 30th, 2000. (Be it noted
that in later years the Jews have elaborately denied the accusation
which they initially accepted and for which they apologized.) MD's
relation with LL consists in this: Both of them in their different
ways may have played large roles in provoking Henry Kissinger and
Aerial Shaboom to order the staging of the 9/11/2001 false flag
attacks against the WTC and the Pentagon.
LL did his bit by publishing two cover stories in HARPER'S of
February and March of 2000 by Christopher Hitchens*** calling for the
arrest and trial of Henry Kissinger on war crimes charges.
[oops, an important nap came up]
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
* http://www.citylights.com/info/?fa=event&event_id=277
http://www.harpers.org/
** http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/
{Lapham also wrote The American Ruling Class (2005), a movie done in
documentary style and featuring fictional characters and real people,
i.e. Bill Bradley, Hodding Carter III and Barbara Ehrenreich, author
of "Nickel and Dimed", pondering the question "is there a ruling class
in America?" Mr. Lapham makes the rather salient point at the movie's
conclusion that "if you're not in, you're out." The movie aired on the
Sundance Channel, July 30, 2007.--WIKI}
***From the OED for "opportunist":
{1881 Times 29 Sept. 3/6 The opportunist..yields to what he
condemns..but what, as he claims, is justified and forced upon him
by..circumstances. 1889 Athenæum 16 Feb. 205/2 Mr. Gosse..considers
him [sc. Dryden]..to be a sort of literary opportunist. 1928 Amer.
Mercury Oct. xxiv. 11 To the most common charge made against Peel,
that he was a hypocrite and a double-crosser, Miss Ramsay answers that
he was really no more than an opportunist.}
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::;
LINCOLN APPENDIX:
The authenticity of the following quotation BETA attributed
to Abraham Lincoln and used by former VP & Nobel Laureate Al Gore in
his book _The Assault on Reason_ has been challenged by
in a WASHINGTON POST article by a honcho at the WEEKLY STANDARD:
ALPHA {What Al Wishes Abe Said
By Andrew Ferguson
Sunday, June 10, 2007; B05}
http://www.weeklystandard.com/ }
Now a) Ferguson himself made a gross error in his article and b)
if Honest Abe really did utter the remark in question, then William
Kristol's rag = precisely one of the loathsome afterbirths of the
monster whose coming Abe feared and which appears to have assassinated
him less than six months later. So's the attribution valid?
BETA {"We may congratulate ourselves that this cruel war is nearing
its end. It has cost a vast amount of treasure and blood. . . . It has
indeed been a trying hour for the Republic; but I see in the near
future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble
for the safety of my country. As a result of the war, corporations
have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will
follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong
its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all
wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed. I
feel at this moment more anxiety for the safety of my country than
ever before, even in the midst of war. God grant that my suspicions
may prove groundless."
The passage appears in a letter from Lincoln to (Col.) William F.
Elkins, Nov. 21, 1864.
For a reliable pedigree, cite p. 40 of The Lincoln Encyclopedia, by
Archer H. Shaw (Macmillan, 1950, NY). That traces the quote's lineage
to p. 954 of Abraham Lincoln: A New Portrait, (Vol. 2) by Emanuel
Hertz (Horace Liveright Inc, 1931, NY).
"These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece
the people, and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves,
we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the
quarrel." speech to Illinois legislature, Jan. 1837. See Vol. 1, p. 24
of Lincoln's Complete Works, ed. by Nicolay and Hay, 1905)
http://www.ratical.org/corporations/Lincoln.txt
What Lincoln Foresaw:
Corporations Being "Enthroned" After the Civil War and Re-Writing the
Laws Defining Their Existence
by Rick Crawford, ***@cs.ucdavis.edu}
================================
My Hot Links:
Abir Aramin, age 9, murdered by the Jews
on Tuesday, January 16, 2007, her picture:
http://tinyurl.com/2l6ogh
An Israeli mother, a Jewess, comments on the story:
http://tinyurl.com/3amvos
http://www.rafahtoday.org/
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/fiveisraelis.html
...............................................................
Here's the link to what I wrote on the eve of SonnaBush's (fronting
for Aerial Shaboom) invasion of Iraq:
http://tinyurl.com/2xcvdo
(The tag end of the piece was stuck on rather roughly by the HANDSTAND
editor & could profit from a bit of pruning.)
If any reader can find another article from that critical moment which
has better stood the test of time, will she please be so kind as to
tell me about it?
...........................................................................
For Susan Abulhawa's new novel of Palestine, SCAR OF DAVID (2006)
http://www.scarofdavid.com/blog/index.php?page_id=5
OR
http://tinyurl.com/2n77bo
...................................................................
http://www.americanfreepress.net/
FINAL JUDGMENT by Michael Collins Piper, first published in 1994 and
now in its 6th edition, lays out the Jewish background to the JFK hit
in >600 fascinating pages (which badly need editing, evenso --attn:
M&W).
(See the AFP site above also for the moving letter of 29 November 2006
from Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,
President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, directly addressed to
"Noble Americans" --maybe your local jewspaper forgot to pass it along
to you?)
On the AFP site linked above I just now (Tuesday 071211)
found the following Michael More out-take from Sicko about a certain
northern country:
http://tinyurl.com/23zgxu
.....................................................................
Five Principal Joojingo or "JJ" resources:
1. http://www.aipac.org/
2. The Bronfmen @ http://www.acbp.net/
3. http://www.jinsa.org/home/home.html
4. http://www.adl.org/
5. http://www.hasbara.co.il/
Four Righteous Jewish Antidotes:
1. http://www.ostrovskyfineart.com/index.htm
2. http://www.nkusa.org/index.cfm
3. http://www.israelshamir.net/
4. http://tinyurl.com/3c9jm8 OR
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/08/18/136217
........................................................
US Alliance Afghan Genocide -
Six Million Excess Deaths?
By Dr Gideon Polya
08 November, 2007 Countercurrents.org
http://tinyurl.com/36ylq2 OR
http://www.countercurrents.org/polya081107.htm
..........................................................................
All rise,
http://www.counterpunch.org/dolby04032007.html
This clip was the first time I ever saw Marvin Gaye perform. The word
in my mind = "composure".
..........................................................................
Kidz Today:
A) Iron Maiden The Trooper By Gauchos
B) The Impeach Bush Club Parade
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4606006427048738351
...............................................................
http://www.counterpunch.org/
Flag of USrael:
Loading Image...
http://www.ussliberty.org/
http://www.aztlan.net/women_martyrs.htm
http://www.jewwatch.com/
http://margaritaville.com/
[cartoon panel]
http://tinyurl.com/2kyyc9 OR
Loading Image...
.............................................
http://www.hizbollah.org/
http://tinyurl.com/2r3stp
Loading Image...
http://tinyurl.com/3dlhhb
http://www.currentissues.tv/
http://www.waco93.com/
("Nadine Eats Pizza in Ramallah")
http://www.israelshamir.net/Contributors/Contributor47.htm
http://tinyurl.com/yqd75d (Akaber Zaid)
http://www.counterpunch.org/levy03272006.html
http://vcnv.org/
http://www.johnpilger.com/page.asp?partid=1
http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=491
http://www.americanempireproject.com/index.asp
http://www.lucasgray.com/video/peacetrain.html
Loading Image...
http://www.nelsonmandela.org/
Loading Image...
http://www.sf911truth.org/
http://www.documentaryphotographs.com/
http://www.ifamericansknew.org/
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
http://www.aztlan.net/
http://www.valleyofthewolvesiraq.com/high/main.html
http://www.johnkaminski.com/
http://electronicintifada.net/new.shtml
http://dahrjamailiraq.com/index.php
http://antiwar.com/
http://www.veteransforpeace.org/
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/index.htm
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/
http://www.infowars.com/
http://english.wafa.ps/default.asp
http://www.araboo.com/site/arab-aaug-asq-9777
http://www.al-awda.org/
http://www.imemc.org/
http://www.vcnv.org/
http://www.ziopedia.org/content/view/3301/58/
http://antiwar.com/
http://www.cnionline.org/
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=
http://www.honestmediatoday.com/index.htm
http://prorev.com/indexa.htm
http://www.thankyoult.org/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1
http://www.deiryassin.org/index1.html
http://www.marwenmedia.com/index.html
http://english.aljazeera.net/HomePage
http://www.thehandstand.org/
http://www.malaysiasun.com/
http://www.ronpaul2008.com/
http://tinyurl.com/79t3d
http://tinyurl.com/yt4tym ("Let It Be!")
http://www.fuckinggoogleit.com/
Results 1 - 10 of about 1,150 for "free your mind, the rest will
follow".
............................................................................................
Protocol: Top posting in follow-ups 'cause that way makes most sense
to me
and placing the reply at the bottom of the thread as it appears on my
Google newsreader. BTW does some friendly expert want to recommend a
better newsreader aka Usenet access tool,
especially for posting, then I'm all ear.
