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1. Hello. I just read the story of Mrs Fitts ordeal and adventures. People ask me
   why do I bother being interested in these things. I think they, like I once did
   still trust in government to do what’s right. I am interested as far as wanting to know where to step and where not to.
   Being smaller than the rest of the kids
   and a gentle person, I was endlessly bullied back in school. I could deal with
   it, I’m tougher than most. back in grade school at Holy Ghost In Omaha Ne. I
   earned some credibility by taking on the bully of the bullies and although I
   got donkey stomped I got some good fair shots in and did some damage against a
   foe all feared. It is a pivotal point of pride in my life. I left that school
   to attend Brian Jr High school. It was a new experience and there were bullies
   there as well but one particular bum must have just thought I was too uncool
   for breathing. He just got right to it and said he was going to kill me. I
   told my counceller but not my folks at the time. The councellor said it was
   probably no big deal and nothing to worry about blah blah blah and just let her know if he says or does anything
   more. He stabbed me. He walked by without saying a word and stabbed me right
   over the heart with a pencil or a screwdriver or something that stopped at the
   rib but it was hard enough of a hit to make a hole and to knock me down. What
   really disturbed me out of it all is that the school wanted to hush it up. my
   parents talked to the police who listened then may or may not have refused to
   make a report. What they did do was to inform my parents that there will be no
   charges filed at the request of the school who put me in inhouse suspension
   for a week. This left me with no depth to my contempt for so called authority. I was
   living dirty and some “freinds” took me fishing which was unknown to me to be
   actually a burgurlary for which I went to jail. Someone in there told me not
   to feel bad. “What’s done is done, dont seek revenge…make things right”. He
   said “some people are destined for great things and that can be either good or
   bad but the direction you take is entirely your own choice”.

   Currently I am trying to be sucessful in trucking which is a worsening
   situation for the semi independant trucker. I am disgusted in the ways that
   The FHWA and the insurance companies construct policies to put the independant
   at the mercy of wall street connected companies. the wallstreet financed
   corporations tag the majority of the market cap with their brand locking the
   independant out, grab the gravy accounts for their own interests and put the
   rest up for bid stripped of profit. You might say it’s just business but
   actually business in a free country is supposed to be honest and equitable.
   What they do and call business really isnt business.
   The government is to maintain free and open markets but they do not. These
   are known as “STANDARDS” and they are to apply equally to all parties. There
   is no “freight neutrality” in the trucking industry, it is not a fair and open
   market. The rates were once regulated.
   Fuel surcharges per mile vary in reimbursement for the fuel costs from company to company.
   For example my gross revenue per mile has increased from 80cents/mile with 10cpm surcharge to 90cpm with 45cpm surcharge. Fuel is costing me 75cpm more over this time frame so my
   gross after fuel has gone from 70cpm to 35cpm before taxes and the 20cpm that
   maintenance costs.
   there is no “STANDARD” for what anyone may call a fuel
   surcharge.
   For every nickel of fuel cost increase, the sucharge needs to go up 1 penny
   to cover the cost. This formula is accurate from 4mpg to 7mpg which is the
   range that the industry operates in.
   Gas stations are not allowed to define the volume of a gallon it is a set
   standard. a surcharge can be anything but a “fuel surcharge” is based on the
   cost of a regulated substance at a common and calculable consumption rate in a
   regulated industry. it should be standardized.
   That is a fight worth fighting. I also think I can help the Independant
   trucker like myself. where the big companies are weak, we can be strong. What
   have you ever bought that needed to be delivered and did not have a shipping
   charge? The big conglomerates keep shipping costs down between themselves but
   gouge the ultimate customer. Nestle Purina to Walmart loads pay very little to
   the carrier with little to the broker and at a bargain to walmart. The
   truckers make bottom dollar regardless of the customer but if YOU bought a
   truckload of something and you dont have the clout of volume prchases to get you a better
   deal, the shipper you buy from is going to gouge you on shipping and still
   chintz the broker who has to lowball the carrier who pays the trucker the
   least amount he will haul it for.
   If you had access to the trucks and the tools to book your own loads
   bypassing the brokers and the shippers it would be for the benefit of you the
   ultimate customer and the independant trucker. All of the websites “advertised” by the search engines on the internet are broker owned or underwritten undr their authority to a 3pl “third party logistics”. 3pl’s do not own trucks and do not haul freight they are brokers who shuffle the paper and keep the profit. there is currently no public open market on freight. Part of this prob;lem is that everyone is out for them self. even the tax protesters arent about ending your taxes they are out to end theirs. Really has anyone ever paid the taxes as they were protesting them?
   A corporation even with its connections and abuse of the public trust cannot compete with a person or company out to do something only for the benefit of the overall market or the trade.
   I got to thinking about it and you just cant beat the game. the die is cast.
   But the little guy following the rules cant beat the game right?
   THE LITTLE GUY CAN BUST THE GAME!
   and thats good business for eveyone. If someone wont pass the gravy around
   the table you might just have to spill the gravy. If you let them Hog the
   gravy whatt-a-you think their gonna do with the turkey?
   I’m calling for standardization of “fuel surcharges”
   I’m calling for “freight neutrality”
   I’m calling for annexation of the federal reserve by the U.S. Govt. and siezure of it’s assets under R.I.C.O with an interpretaion that past legislators were acting in good faith but unlawfully in shopping out the federal powers which must reverse to the state and to the people if not exercised. The law of the land is the law ON THE LAND, not ON THE MAN. The individual is innately free from ownership or duress of being under orders by the protection of the law. Public servants and lincensee’s of privelege are under the “rule of law”, not the free persons and that rulership of law only imposes upon their office of public trust and their license to operate in the unlawful activity. The legal jeopardy for violating the regulations of office and license are only supposed to apply to the office or license and Incriminate the individual. There is a distnct difference between crimes and offenses of regulation and that line has been smeared over time buy corruption and professional illiteracy. It’s unconstitutional for our government to impose debt upon our persons. Our government is supposed to be loaning the money it manufactures and collecting interest on it for the public good, not borrowing it from crooks.
   I’m calling for the obsoletion of the personal income tax. The taxation powers of government only apply to what the government rules over by license of the constitution. The people are not under rule we are under protection. The law of the land is on the land not on the man and “the flag does not follow”.
   I support constitutional taxes on commerce and privelege. Something like the FAIR TAX can be a good and lawfull alternative if it is a SALES AND USE TAX. A value added tax or just a sales tax will only move company tax obligations to the individual at the consumer level while the rich would enjoy tax free use of anything purchased through their companies.
   I must also say that SERVICES must be exemted from a national sales and use tax not just by declaration but in how the legislation is crafted. If not, then a retail tax on services would become a defacto income tax.
   I am calling for the elimination of private property siezure by authorities in connection with legal jeopardy. Siezure of private property for the public good by condemnation is lawfull if the person is equitably remunerated for the deprivement. This practice of criminal siezure is a legal conflict of interest and promotes abuse. The one thing worse than a thief who steals for sustinance is a theif who steals just to take. Property rights are an inalienable right and cannot be removed. Punishment for statutory crimes apply to an individuals person by incarceration and fines. punishment for regular offenses apply to a persons license to operate in the regulated activity and not to the body of the person directly. Some will say “this not how the law is”. This is true, it is how the law was and was designed to be. The law is not a god, it is what we make of it. WE MAKE THE LAW and if we don’t someone else most surely will. What truely is conservative of rights and liberal in practice and “progressive” is that as technology increases… the burdon of government on each person should diminish.
   I would even go so far as to call for a plea of “no harm no foul” considering that if a person is confronted by law enforcement and forthwith offers any evidence he may be in posession of that would lead to a conviction of a victimless crime or misdemeanor; that the person may not be charged with a crime or misdemeanor material to that evidence however the evidence would become part of public record and the officers would still be allowed to detain and investigate.
   The variety of commercial and social Institutions, Companies, Governments, They come and go and not one has any divine right to be for they are created of man. Any aggregation of men cannot be greater than any one man for it is the single soul which is divine in it’s license. Even in a fallen imperfect mortal state the precious temporal whisp of a person’s being is the foundation of everything corporal in this world and ought to be respected by all.
   I don’t know if I will ever get a chance to run for office but at least a person should develop a platform that you believe in. I’ve always been pretty self centered. I’m working on my “platform” and it draws me to think of others more than, or at least as much of as myself. You and I can’t be free untill as a people we all are free and you have to hunt for the pack if you want to live with the pack. We all want to live don’t we?

2. I need to make a correction. I meant to say “The legal jeopardy for violating the regulations of office and license are only supposed to apply to the office or license and NOT Incriminate the individual.” I forgot to add that what makes a license a “privelege” is that it “Allows the license holder to engage in an illegal activity under the rules regulating that activity”. For example; It was once a right for anyone to operate a motor vehicle in private or on a public highway. For the public good it became necessary to remove this right from some people. The mechanism is that it was made a crime to operate a motor vehicle on a public highway… unless you are issued a license to engage in this illegal activity and violating the regulations of this license can lead to fines aliened upon the license or by loss of it. Rights are not priveleges. Priveleges can be regulated. Regulations are not crimes. Crimes are violations of rights by a perpetrator upon a victim. The State or a person can be either the victim or the perp.

3. Dear Solari,

   Here is an idea that I have been presenting
   to academics and the media for some thirty years.

   I think it is important since no one of the
   “yellow journals” has taken it up as a ‘cute’
   article. Not one. No response from any one,
   and it has gone out, via emails like this, to
   literally thousands of the media and professionals
   like yourself.

   What I’m beginning to appreciate is that this
   idea is so powerful that people just don’t want
   to accept it until someone they trust will validate
   it.

   I think it deserves a hearing.

   Thank you.

   David H.Bromberg, Chico, CA, USA
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   The GULLIVER Hypothesis

   They tell us to think out-of-the-
   box. Here’s a new idea about the human condition that fits
   the bill.

   CULTURE CHAKRA
   We posit that each cultural group is patterned on an actual
   physical part of the human body. Admittedly it’s farfetched,
   but if you give it a chance, you might find that there is some
   logic to it.

   We specify twelve body parts – they go from the head
   down to the feet and we’ve borrowed a catchy name for
   them … chakras. There are societies that are associated
   with the head, the jaw, arms & shoulders, bosom, heart,
   tummy, tush, sex, thigh, knee, shin and feet. Naturally all
   of the body is needed to run a society, but usually one
   part provides the national character, and it’s this public
   quality that we want to target.

   For example the English are head people. The accent
   in that country really is on the pate. They wear powdered
   wigs and those big bearskin hats, are ruled by the crown
   and they like to call each other governor and squire –
   meaning headman.

   The Japanese are ruled by the tummy. Their speech
   comes from the gut, they bow from the waist, and they’re
   preoccupied with ‘hara’, Japanese for stomach. When
   they want to end it all they take the spirit – ki – out of
   the stomach and commit ‘hara-kiri.’

   American culture stems from the arms, shoulders
   and lungs. Big muscled arms have always been our
   totem. We hold most of the boxing titles, our football
   players sport huge shoulders and, with our rulership
   of the lungs, we “write the songs that make the
   whole world sing.”

   There’s one more notion on humanity that, we think,
   brings it to a genuine out-of-the-box level.

   GULLIVER
   Many believe that all the people of the world are
   really one. They feel a strong kinship to everyone
   else on the planet. We believe this too and we have
   a model that ties the world together.

   If you start at England, move west in an up-and-
   down wave, and assign the body chakras to major
   cultural areas, you get a huge form stretched around the
   globe that resembles the human body. We call it Gulliver.
   We associate the body chakra parts to signs of the
   zodiac because each chakra follows closely the
   characteristics of one of the twelve astrological signs.

   Let’s begin our voyage with Gulliver’s head – England.
   It’s ruled by the sign Aries, is associated with the head,
   as we said, and is the start of the globe’s longitude.
   We’ve redrawn the world map to better show the model.

   FERDINAND THE BULL
   The next zone is the jaw and neck. The sign is Taurus
   and it includes Ireland, New England and South
   America. A look at the map shows them to be in line
   as the next body part.
   The Irish are the proverbial
   silver-tongued talkers and drinkers, both qualities
   of the jaw. They are often referred to as ‘Harps,’
   an allusion to the vocal chords. New Englanders
   are traditionally the most stubborn of Americans,
   a characteristic of Taurus. In South America we
   can visualize the Pampas with contentedly grazing
   bulls, the Taurean totem, as far as the eye can see.
   Taurus is fixed and stable earth; no army has ever
   marched out of South America to menace any other
   part of the world. The sign also rules childhood and
   governments in South America are usually headed
   by, what can best be described as, a gang of school
   yard bullies.
   AMERICA
   Gemini rules the arms, shoulders and lungs, and
   its age level is adolescence. Its place in the world
   lies in the northeast of the United States. Here is
   the domain of energy, innovation and youthful culture.
   Sports accent upper body strength. America’s
   government is topped by a set of Gemini twins –
   President and Vice-President. As a teenage society
   we can’t stand to bow to authority figures, so for
   problem solving we choose up sides and play out
   every issue as a game. Our adolescent culture
   marks us overly optimistic, so we go into debt
   easily always thinking that tomorrow will be better.

   With manifest destiny and a civil war the northeast
   was able to impose its Gemini will on the rest of the
   country. However, other signs are still intact.
   DIXIE
   The bosom of the world is in the southeastern part
   of the United States. The south has a distinct culture
   of its own, ruled by the sign Cancer, that accents
   home and women in general. Songs are mostly
   about the love of a woman, and although men are
   as brave as anywhere, the emphasis is on ‘down
   home’ values.
   The world’s heart lies in the
   zone from Los Angeles to Micronesia. It is the Leo
   area of the world and houses the stars of Hollywood
   and the blazing sun of the Pacific islands.
   Moving on we encounter the
   tummy of Gulliver in Japan and Australia. Countries
   in this zone are ruled by Virgo. A listing of the
   attributes of this sign and those of Japan would be
   identical. Neatness, attention to detail, hard work and
   uniformity of action are guide-book descriptions of
   that country and the sign. The Japanese are governed
   by politeness and conformity. Australia, though not
   identical, has definite Virgo qualities.
   A CLINICAL VIEW
   We allocate the world’s hips and spine to Libra; the
   place is China. We hate to say it, but we think that the
   dragons in Chinese parades are totems of the human
   derriere – no other explanation seems to fit as well.
   The dragon’s head comes at the end of an intestine-
   like body, snorting fire from its ‘mouth.’ Chinese
   astrology lists a bunch of low-life animals – pig, dog,
   rat, snake – that correspond to some of the signs,
   but for their own sign, Libra, they use Dragon. Their
   ‘seat of power’ is the Chairman. Libra rules art, beauty
   and up and down balance, which is a key feature of the
   Chinese language.
   Scorpio is to be found in
   Southeast Asia. It rules the organs of reproduction.
   Not only is sex a national industry in Thailand, but
   the iron will, characteristic of Scorpio, was evident
   as Vietnam withstood Chinese, Japanese, French
   and American conquests to finally achieve its
   independence.
   MONGOL HORSEMEN
   The thigh is the Sagittarian part of the body.
   Without Sag you can’t run very fast. The galloping
   warriors of Genghis Khan, and now the Trans
   Siberian Railway, attest to the Sagittarian grip on
   this part of the world. The upper leg, having the
   longest bone in the body, extends the Sag culture
   all the way to Arabia, where machismo, their so-
   called honor, and swift action flourish.

   India is the knee zone.
   It is ruled by the Capricorn goat, ever climbing in
   consciousness but also mindful of the hierarchy
   of the caste system. Capricorn rules old age.
   The aged are revered in India, and usually are an
   intrinsic part of the government.
   MORE VODKA, COMRADE?
   Russian dance and military high stepping is
   focused on their calf-length boots. They are
   the shin-Aquarian part of the great body.
   Aquarians are the booze-guzzling, party-goers
   of the zodiac and they tend to be a tad lazy.
   This idiosyncrasy is probably the reason that
   crops in Russia often rot in the fields. They also
   champion equality, definitely an Aquarian trait,
   evidenced by the 70 year socialist experiment there.
   Finally, the Piscean feet are to
   be found in Africa, where the best Olympic runners
   come from, and Europe, which held such importance
   during the last two thousand years of the Age of Pisces.

   ONE WORLD
   Gulliver then, resembles a big body and consists of
   the major cultures around the globe. It’s a powerful
   model for understanding the interaction of the world’s
   societies. It also tells those of us who are aware that,
   yes, we are all part of one great being.

   © 2008 – David H.Bromberg

4. I was grateful to hear a brief segment of your interview on AM 960 out here in the High Desert of California.

   My wife and I lost all of our savings on a home we never should have been approved to buy. Our lack of communication between each other places the responsibility on us, but the banks should have seen we were not ready to own.

   I will take your information to heart in order to lay a good road to our future prosperity and happiness.
   Thanks with blessings,
   John Hill
   http://www.littlemeteorcircle.net

5. Catherine,

   Excellent interview, thank you. I listened to the previous c2c show 3 times to get it all, this one I got in 2 hearings. It is so important that you are able to lay things out clearly in simple English, you do it well, and your ideas are well thought out, original, accessible – revelatory. And vcry important.

   Hearing your story for the first time was a revelation, and an affirmation of my sanity. While you were at HUD trying to build for less so you could build more, I was just starting my career, working for NYC Housing Dev Co., first lending proceeds from mortgage backed securities to build affordable housing, then channeling HUD rent subsidies to developers to pay the mortgages. Like you, I got the brilliant idea that if we tightened the programs and all the certifications, rules, etc, we could build lots more housing!!! My staff and I designed a very complex (for the time) program to do this, puffed out our chests, and proudly presented our brilliant plan for saving MILLIONS a year to the right people, and you can imagine the rest…..

   Believe me, at the time, I was completely baffled, and it took years before I could figure it all out. I think you can imagine how I felt upon hearing your story, and learning I had not been alone in getting this negative, threatened response…

   A year later, being out of a job, I started Housing and Services, Inc, a private, NFP development company to build affordable housing, and we built over 1,000 units for community based organizations, charities, the City, etc, in NYC.

   Finally shying away from bureaucracy, I now own a very small, private real estate company, and do all kinds of real estate work needed in my community. We make our contribution now by being honest, ethical, doing pro bono work and only making win/win deals, large or small. The big guys constantly come in and try to crowd us out, but eventually, realize they like working with us, and that they benefit. The community knows us, and they always come back. It takes new staff people a while to catch on and see that honesty and ethics are the best PR, but they always do.

   And, we are always “waiting and working for the next wave.” And that’s another of the many reasons why you and your work are so inspiring, and exciting. We will “stay tuned”, you are helping us grow, and we wish you the best.

6. WOW what an interesting and positive group.
   I Listened to Mrs Fitts on C2C again after the news on the Bank Of America buyout. I’d like to share something else olong the topic. In a book co-authored by Robert Kyosaki of RICH DAD POOR DAD fame and Sharon L Lechter titled RICH DADS PROPHECY, they outline a HUGE coming market stress that no media is covering.
   During the Clinton administration, retirement investers were given the option of the ROTH IRA in which taxes are paid when funds are invested instead of when funds are disbursed. In accelerating the U.S. government’s tax revenue generated by IRA accounts from future disbursements to present day levies, Congress traded a higher future return on the IRA tax shelter for CASH-IN-HAND. This is how they balanced the budget after the cold war and eliminated the national debt.
   When Bill Clinton announced the end of the national debt I wondered Who that might offend and how long that would last and the government has done a fine job of getting us back in hock to the FED over the last 8 yrs.
   Congress has refused to allow corporations to write off money or DIVIDENDS paid to the stockholders as an expense. It is this double taxation on income that causes corporations to keep equity in the company driving the GROWTH STOCK trend.
   A GROWTH STOCK pays little or no dividend to the investor and the payback for the investment is in selling the stock later at a higher price instead of taking cash. The problem is in that the cash isn’t really there anymore.
   Equity makes a corporation ripe for gutting after a hostile takeover by Milliken Type “investors”.
   If an IRA account must give a disbursement to the investor and there are no cash dividends to pay out then the investor must sell those stocks when the law says so, not when the market says it’s best.
   Well coming soon In the several years that the plurality of the BABY BOOMER generation reach retirement age, retirees MUST BY LAW take payouts from their retirements accounts. These accounts are mostly invested in GROWTH STOCKS.
   What do you logicly think will happen over the next 5 yrs when a quarter of the population is required by law to sell their stocks no matter the price?
   The big money knows this is coming and it was forcast in RICH DADS PROPHECY before the big money began to cash up by raiding the market which is what is happening now.
   Michael Savage tonight proposed his theory that the reason for the value of the dollar not falling along with the market as it ought to have is that the major players manipulating the market need a vehicle to carry the value pirated. If the dollar tanked they would have gained nothing.
   I propose that if this is all true then the pirates gaming the market would most likely work to keep the dollar up until after the markets’ IRA BOOMER CRASH yet to come. Then they will re-invest the pirated dollars into the artificially devalued stocks from the IRA BOOMER CRASH.
   They could still move the equity to another more stable currency and they could also be gamed themselves if China or some other outside power player were to tank the dollar before they could reinvest in the yet to be undevalued bargain sale investments.
   I’m not sure but I think Communist states and Russia have their own central banks and currency independant of the IMF’s domination over that of the “capitalist” states.
   It could be one of the greatest malevolent transfers of wealth in our history. Its possible that some other foreign interest could end up beating the house and reaping the gain of the pirates work. It’s also quite possible it will all be as much of an issue as Y2K.

   My email is goodf2 at yahooDOTcom. I dont want any junkmail but like to talk about things.

7. I read a book about Hollywood some years ago with a chapter about the market crash preceeding the great depression. It claimed that back when the fledgling movie industry was based in New York, there was a little bank in New York owned by Jews and that the antisemites in the banking industry wanted to take them out. All banks in a fractional reserve system must borrow money themselves as the market waxes and wanes. A plan was concocted by the antisemite bankers to temporarily deny credit to this little bank under false pretences which would cause it to fail, and it did. What they supposedly did not know was that this little bank held notes on many of the other banks around the country and those banks fell as well in a cascading landslide of bank failures. What is amazing is that although this little bank died, the people running it moved out west as far from New York as possible and founded the BANK OF AMERICA. These bankers also were the first great patrons of film and this why Hollywood and not New York became the Mecca of the movie industry.

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