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Lots of big talk. I just watched some news on Haiti. They(the people) want to start fresh with uncorrupted elections and officials, but this seems not possible.
The ones in charge have already decided who will win that election, not the people who live there. This is just commonplace in this world, it seems.
Let us not forget though Obama was not the only one pushing this "Obamacare". The late Ted Kennedy was pushing this and they used his name after passing to push it through.
..."The real problem is an "armed resistance" will never work. ...
....Now a remarkable coalition has sprung up to challenge this secrecy as undemocratic, unconstitutional and dangerous. Though organized by libertarian activists, the Fully Informed Jury Amendment movement includes liberals and conservatives, Greens, drug decriminalization advocates, gun owner groups, peace activists, both sides of the abortion controversy, helmet and seatbelt activists, alternative medicine practitioners, taxpayer rights groups, environmentalists, criminal trial lawyers and law professors.
Organized by Larry Dodge and Don Doig, both of Helmville, Montana (population: 26; elevation 4300'), FIJA seeks to require that juries be informed of their nullification rights. Informed jury amendments have been filed as an initiative in seven states and legislation has been introduced in the Alaska state legislature.....
Quote from : Wikipedia : The Grace Commission
he Private Sector Survey on Cost Control (PSSCC), commonly referred to as The Grace Commission, was an investigation requested by United States President Ronald Reagan, in 1982.
The focus of it was waste and inefficiency in the US Federal government.
Its head, businessman J. Peter Grace, asked the members of that commission to "be bold" and "work like tireless bloodhounds.
Don't leave any stone unturned in your search to root out inefficiency."
Quote from : Wikipedia : Agent Provocateur
Traditionally, an agent provocateur (plural: agents provocateurs, French for "inciting agent(s)") is a person employed by the police or other entity to act undercover to entice or provoke another person to commit an illegal act.
More generally, the term may refer to a person or group that seeks to discredit or harm another by provoking them to commit a wrong or rash action.
As a known tool to prevent infiltration by agents provocateurs, the organizers of large or controversial assemblies may deploy and coordinate demonstration marshals, also called stewards.
Quote from : Wikipedia : False Flag
False flag operations are covert operations designed to deceive the public in such a way that the operations appear as though they are being carried out by other entities.
The name is derived from the military concept of flying false colors; that is, flying the flag of a country other than one's own.
False flag operations are not limited to war and counter-insurgency operations, and can be used in peace-time.
Publishers Weekly : Amazon Review :
Entertaining, richly detailed and authoritatively narrated, Zacks's account of the life of legendary seaman William Kidd delivers a first-rate story.
Though Kidd, better known as Captain Kidd, was inextricably bound with piracy and has popularly gone down as a marauding buccaneer himself, Zacks (An Underground Education) argues that he was actually a mercenary backed by the English government and several New World investors to track down pirates and reclaim their stolen wares.
The book is cogent and replete with supporting evidence without the heavy-handed feel of some scholarly work.
What really sets the book apart is Zacks's gift as researcher and storyteller.
He highlights the role of an undeniable pirate, Robert Culliford, in Kidd's tale and pits the two men against each other from the outset, constructing his book as an intriguing duel.
Aside from the tightly constructed plot, Zacks also wonderfully evokes the social and political life of the 17th century at land and at sea, and he takes turns at debunking and validating pirate folklore: while it appears the dead giveaway of a skull and crossbones made it a rare flag choice, Zacks contends that pirates did often wear extravagant clothing and were as drunk, cursing, hungry, horny... and violent as myth would have them.
Augmented by such details and driven by a conflict between Kidd and Culliford that keeps the pages flying, Zacks's book is a treasure, indeed. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
Quote from : Wikipedia : Dialectic : Hegelian Dialectic
Hegelian dialectic, usually presented in a three-fold manner, was stated by Heinrich Moritz Chalybäus as comprising three dialectical stages of development: a thesis, giving rise to its reaction, an antithesis, which contradicts or negates the thesis, and the tension between the two being resolved by means of a synthesis.
Although this model is often named after Hegel, he himself never used that specific formulation.
Hegel ascribed that terminology to Kant.
Carrying on Kant's work, Fichte greatly elaborated on the synthesis model, and popularized it.
On the other hand, Hegel did use a three-valued logical model that is very similar to the antithesis model, but Hegel's most usual terms were: Abstract-Negative-Concrete.
Sometimes Hegel would use the terms, Immediate-Mediated-Concrete.
Hegel used these terms hundreds of times throughout his works.
The formula, Thesis-Antithesis-Synthesis, does not explain why the Thesis requires an Antithesis.
However, the formula, Abstract-Negative-Concrete, suggests a flaw in any initial thesis—it is too abstract and lacks the negative of trial, error and experience.
The same applies to the formula, Immediate-Mediated-Concrete.
For Hegel, the Concrete, the Synthesis, the Absolute, must always pass through the phase of the Negative, that is, Mediation.
This is the actual essence of what is popularly called Hegelian Dialectics
As the new “enhanced” TSA security screenings continue to spark debate amongst thousands of commercial travelers, Stratos Jet Charters recently reported a noticeable uptick in flight requests from traditional commercial flyers. Our air charter agency has received several requests from first-time charter flyers attempting to avoid the controversial TSA security screenings this holiday season.
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As the new “enhanced” TSA security screenings continue to spark debate amongst thousands of commercial travelers, Stratos Jet Charters recently reported a noticeable uptick in flight requests from traditional commercial flyers. Our air charter agency has received several requests from first-time charter flyers attempting to avoid the controversial TSA security screenings this holiday season.
Sorry, while the Tea Party was an excellent idea, its execution was trash because they failed.
Instead of looking outside of their organization, for leaders, they should have looked inside.
"Caribou Barbie", Sarah Palin, is a part of the bought and sold political problem which is endemic within our American society as a whole, and I'm not calling her by the moniker as a derisive commentary defending the opposite political party, the Democrats, I see her as a non-viable choice, because I'm a Centrist and registered Independent.
What the Tea Party should have done is looked inwards and had confidence in themselves.
Instead, they let other people, like Palin, come right in, openly infiltrating them.....
The Hegelian Dialectic in action completely.
A must read site to understand what is happening and how.... nord.twu.net...
To understand Communitarian Law this book is worth it. If you have noticed changes in your community, your state that you can't quite figure out what is going on this book will explain it. Communitarian Law is the method that is being used to change your individual rights for the "common good"
2020: Our Common Destiny
by Niki F. Raapana
The Delphi Technique is the method being used to squeeze citizens out of the process. This is a must read if you feel being controlled in any meetings. The Delphi Technique is a pre-determined outcome.
How many of these 17 statements fits what the USDA is doing to the NAIS Opponents????
Seventeen Techniques for Truth Suppression
by DCDave
Strong, credible allegations of high-level criminal activity can bring down a government. When the government lacks an effective, fact-based defense, other techniques must be employed. The success of these techniques depends heavily upon a cooperative, compliant press and a mere token opposition party.
1. Dummy up. If it's not reported, if it's not news, it didn't happen.
2. Wax indignant. This is also known as the “How dare you?” gambit....
Perhaps one of the most salient points you make is that we should focus, even if for just a moment, less on the who of 9/11, and more on the why. Understanding the why is infinitely more important than understanding the who, although it is worth mentioning that one of the primary strategies behind terrorism is to force a government, with its superior armies and weaponry, to turn on its own citizens...
Felony Gun Laws
Congress passed the first blanket prohibition on felons carrying guns in the Gun Control Act of 1968, which made it illegal for felons to possess a gun any under circumstances. The Firearm Owners' Protection Act, passed in 1986, reinforced the ban on felons carrying guns, and also banned people who have been convicted of a crime punishable by more than one year of imprisonment from possessing guns....
Amazon Review :
This is the third and final volume of a trilogy describing the role of the American corporate socialists, otherwise known as the Wall Street financial elite or the Eastern Liberal Establishment, in three significant twentieth-century historical events: the 1917 Lenin-Trotsky Revolution in Russia, the 1933 election of Franklin D. Roosevelt in the United States, and the 1933 seizure of power by Adolf Hitler in Germany.
Each of these events introduced some variant of socialism into a major country — i.e., Bolshevik socialism in Russia, New Deal socialism in the United States, and National socialism in Germany.
Contemporary academic histories, with perhaps the sole exception of Carroll Quigley's Tragedy And Hope, ignore this evidence.
On the other hand, it is understandable that universities and research organizations, dependent on financial aid from foundations that are controlled by this same New York financial elite, would hardly want to support and to publish research on these aspects of international politics.
The bravest of trustees is unlikely to bite the hand that feeds his organization.
It is also eminently clear from the evidence in this trilogy that "public-spirited businessmen" do not journey to Washington as lobbyists and administrators in order to serve the United States.
They are in Washington to serve their own profit-maximizing interests.
Their purpose is not to further a competitive, free-market economy, but to manipulate a politicized regime, call it what you will, to their own advantage.
It is business manipulation of Hitler's accession to power in March 1933 that is the topic of Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler.
Quote from : Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler : Excerpt
Makes Every Previous Book on World War II Obsolete.
Finally, a distinguished scholar has penetrated the cloak of falsehood, deception, and duplicity that for more than thirty years has protected one of the most incredible secrets of World War II: the support from key Wall Street financiers and other international bankers in subsidizing Hitler's rise to power.
Professor Antony C. Sutton proves that World War II was not only well planned, it was also extremely profitable—for a select group of financial insiders.
Carefully tracing this closely guarded secret through original documents and eyewitness accounts, Sutton documents the roles played by J.P. Morgan, T. W. Lamont, the Rockefeller interests, General Electric Company, Standard Oil, National City Bank, Chase and Manhattan banks, Kuhn, Loeb and Company, and scores of other business elitists.
Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler shows how the bloodiest, most destructive war in history was financed and promoted.
It is sure to spark angry denials and heated debate.
Originally posted by win 52
reply to post by SpartanKingLeonidas
Lots of big talk. I just watched some news on Haiti. They(the people) want to start fresh with uncorrupted elections and officials, but this seems not possible.
Originally posted by win 52
The ones in charge have already decided who will win that election, not the people who live there. This is just commonplace in this world, it seems.
Amazon Review :
A plan to destroy America, a hundred years in the making, is about to be unleashed . . . can it be stopped?
There is a powerful technique called the Overton Window that can shape our lives, our laws, and our future.
It works by manipulating public perception so that ideas previously thought of as radical begin to seem acceptable over time.
Move the Window and you change the debate.
Change the debate and you change the country.
For Noah Gardner, a twentysomething public relations executive, it’s safe to say that political theory is the furthest thing from his mind.
Smart, single, handsome, and insulated from the world’s problems by the wealth and power of his father, Noah is far more concerned about the future of his social life than the future of his country.
But all of that changes when Noah meets Molly Ross, a woman who is consumed by the knowledge that the America we know is about to be lost forever.
She and her group of patriots have vowed to remember the past and fight for the future—but Noah, convinced they’re just misguided conspiracy-theorists, isn’t interested in lending his considerable skills to their cause.
And then the world changes.
An unprecedented attack on U.S. soil shakes the country to the core and puts into motion a frightening plan, decades in the making, to transform America and demonize all those who stand in the way.
Amidst the chaos, many don’t know the difference between conspiracy theory and conspiracy fact—or, more important, which side to fight for.
But for Noah, the choice is clear: Exposing the plan, and revealing the conspirators behind it, is the only way to save both the woman he loves and the individual freedoms he once took for granted.
After five back-to-back #1 New York Times bestsellers, national radio and Fox News television host Glenn Beck has delivered a ripped-from-the-headlines thriller that seamlessly weaves together American history, frightening facts about our present condition, and a heart-stopping plot.
The Overton Window will educate, enlighten, and, most important, entertain—with twists and revelations no one will see coming.
Quote from : Wikipedia : Overton Window
The Overton window, in political theory, describes a "window" in the range of public reactions to ideas in public discourse, in a spectrum of all possible options on a particular issue.
It is named after its originator, Joseph P. Overton, former vice president of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy.
Amazon Review :
Since 9/11, the world has become more and more aware of terrorism. It has become a part of our daily lives.
We are constantly shown acts of terrorism on the news, reminded to fear the terrorists, and that we are fighting a war on terror.
To that end, the US Government has used its official conspiracy theory for 9/11 to substantiate the actions of war and the continued disregard for liberties-all in the name of fighting terrorism.
This theory concludes that nineteen suicidal Middle Eastern Muslim hijackers, their hearts full of hatred for American freedom and democracy, hijacked four airliners.
Reportedly, two planes were crashed into the Twin Towers of New York City's World Trade Center, a third into the Pentagon, and the fourth crashed in rural western Pennsylvania after its passengers fought with the hijackers.
This whole "Mission Impossible" operation, able to defeat the United States' four-hundred-billion-dollar defense system, reportedly was under the total control of a zealous Muslim cleric using a computer while hiding in cave in Afghanistan.
In The Terror Conspiracy: Deception, 9/11 and the Loss of Liberty, the world's leading conspiracy theorist, Jim Marrs, unmasks the facts about 9/11 and the New World Order.
Using primarily mainstream media and government reports, Marrs offers a more realistic and better-supported conspiracy theory.
He has crafted the definitive journalistic account of these events, describing the full history behind the overt and covert causes, and exposing the likely complicity of the Bush administration in the 9/11 attacks.
Jim Marrs asks those question few have been willing to discuss since that fateful day.
His analysis goes far beyond 9/11, enabling us to understand the motivation behind American foreign policy that resulted in war in Afghanistan and Iraq, our now perpetual War on Terrorism, and the continuing loss of freedom in America.
The book also contains the explosive essay The Pentagon Attack Papers - Seven Hours in September: The Clock that Broke the Lie, by Barbara Honegger, M.S.
Barbara Honegger is Senior Military Affairs Journalist at the Naval Postgraduate School (1995-present), the Navy’s advanced science, technology and national security affairs university.
Honegger served as Special Assistant to the Assistant to the President and White House Policy Analyst (1981-83); was the pioneering Irangate author and whistleblower on the October Surprise.
Start observing where cameras are, many are being hidden better and better every year and are strategically placed so your every movement can be tracked........ie: you are never out of range.
would set up to one-half of America into core wilderness reserves and interconnecting corridors (red), all surrounded by interconnecting buffer zones (yellow). No human activity would be permitted in the red, and only highly regulated activity would be permitted in the yellow areas. Four concerned conservative activists who now make up the board of Sovereignty International were able to find UN documentation that proved the Wildlands Project concept was to provide the basis for the UN Convention on Biological Diversity. They used this information and this map produced by Dr. Michael Coffman, editor of Discerning the Times Digest and NewsBytes and CEO of Sovereignty International, to stop the ratification of the treaty an hour before its scheduled cloture and ratification vote. (See Congressional Record S13790)
Originally posted by Jean Paul Zodeaux
reply to post by SpartanKingLeonidas
My most noble SpartanKingLeonidas, and friend;
Once again you have provided the members of this site with yet another thought provoking, and well researched thread. Perhaps one of the most salient points you make is that we should focus, even if for just a moment, less on the who of 9/11, and more on the why. Understanding the why is infinitely more important than understanding the who, although it is worth mentioning that one of the primary strategies behind terrorism is to force a government, with its superior armies and weaponry, to turn on its own citizens. Usually it is the citizens who, at first, demand their government implement stronger security protocols in order to protect them from the terrorist attacks. This is the purpose of the use of terror, to terrorize the citizenry to the point that they favor security over liberty.
Originally posted by Jean Paul Zodeaux
The why behind using a strategy of terror to force the people to demand a more intrusive government is two fold. First of all, terrorists rely on this strategy because they don't have a large enough military, or enough weaponry to fight the government they are attacking, so instead of attacking that governments military directly, they use the strategy of attacking the unsuspecting civilian population. The consequences of these attacks are the aforementioned calls for tighter security protocols, even at the expense of liberty. Of course, governments, no matter how benign they may believe they are, are only to happy to comply with demands of an expanded government with authority to decide which liberties will be respected, and which liberties will not be respected.
Quote from : Wikipedia : Project for the New American Century
The Project for the New American Century (PNAC) was an American think tank based in Washington, D.C. that lasted from early 1997 to 2006.
It was co-founded as a non-profit educational organization by neoconservatives William Kristol and Robert Kagan.
The PNAC's stated goal was "to promote American global leadership."
Fundamental to the PNAC were the view that "American leadership is both good for America and good for the world" and support for "a Reaganite policy of military strength and moral clarity."
The PNAC exerted influence on high-level U.S. government officials in the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush and affected the Bush Administration's development of military and foreign policies, especially involving national security and the Iraq War.
Quote from : Wikipedia : Project for the New American Century : History and Statement of Principles
Statement of Principles
PNAC's first public act was releasing a "Statement of Principles" on June 3, 1997, which was signed by both its members and a variety of other notable conservative politicians and journalists (see Signatories to Statement of Principles).
The statement began by framing a series of questions, which the rest of the document proposes to answer:
As the 20th century draws to a close, the United States stands as the world's pre-eminent power.
Having led the West to victory in the Cold War, America faces an opportunity and a challenge: Does the United States have the vision to build upon the achievements of past decades?
Does the United States have the resolve to shape a new century favorable to American principles and interests?
In response to these questions, the PNAC states its aim to "remind America" of "lessons" learned from American history, drawing the following "four consequences" for America in 1997:
* we need to increase defense spending significantly if we are to carry out our global responsibilities today and modernize our armed forces for the future;
* we need to strengthen our ties to democratic allies and to challenge regimes hostile to our interests and values;
* we need to promote the cause of political and economic freedom abroad; [and]
* we need to accept responsibility for America's unique role in preserving and extending an international order friendly to our security, our prosperity, and our principles.
While "Such a Reaganite policy of military strength and moral clarity may not be fashionable today," the "Statement of Principles" concludes, "it is necessary if the United States is to build on the successes of this past century and to ensure our security and our greatness in the next."
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Quote from : Wikipedia : Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter : Article 51
Article 51 provides for the right of countries to engage in military action in self-defense, including collective self-defense (i.e. under an alliance).
This has been cited as support for the legality of the Vietnam War.
“ Nothing in the present Charter shall impair the inherent right of individual or collective self-defence if an armed attack occurs against a Member of the United Nations, until the Security Council has taken measures necessary to maintain international peace and security.
Measures taken by Members in the exercise of this right of self-defence shall be immediately reported to the Security Council and shall not in any way affect the authority and responsibility of the Security Council under the present Charter to take at any time such action as it deems necessary in order to maintain or restore international peace and security.”
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Article 51 has been described as difficult to adjudicate with any certainty in real-life situations.
Originally posted by Jean Paul Zodeaux
As is evidenced nearly a decade after 9/11 is that no amount of security protocols will satisfy the beast, (Golem), tasked with protecting the people. Just as obesity creates a scenario where the body continues to make demands of more and more calories, even at the expense of its own health, governments tasked with keeping a nation secure from "common enemies", make demands of less and less liberty, even at the expense of their own credibility. The obese body will consume more and more calories, the obese governing body will consume more and more liberties.
Quote from : Wikipedia : Golem
In Jewish folklore, a golem is an animated anthropomorphic being, created entirely from inanimate matter.
The word was used to mean an amorphous, unformed material in Psalms and medieval writing.
The most famous golem narrative involves Judah Loew ben Bezalel, the late 16th century chief rabbi of Prague.
Amazon Review :
From 007 to 2001, from Dealey Plaza to the Apollo Moon Flight, from the barrel of a Bulldog .44 to the corridors of the pyramids of Sirius; from the secret symbolism of Jack the Ripper to the public symbolism of the first atomic bomb blast, this work illuminates the crimes and command ideology of the masonic Cryptocracy, where ground zero meets the zero hour in a bestial crucible of ritual murder, human alchemy and demonic invasion. Secret Societies and Psychological Warfare takes the reader to the core of a cosmic cryptogram, a dark Oz where the ancient fables become modern memes for the psychological contagion and devastation of humanity, and where the stratagem the author terms "Revelation of the Method" becomes the key to the finale of the mysteries of the ages.
Originally posted by Jean Paul Zodeaux
There is a fable about a frog who is about to cross a river when a scorpion approaches the frog and asks that frog if it would be all right to hop up on the frogs back and hitch a ride. At first, the frog answers with a resounding no, explaining that it is just too dangerous to let that scorpion ride upon his back because the scorpion will no doubt sting him. However, the scorpion, being a reasonable soul, explains the folly of such an act, and that if he did sting the frog while crossing the river, that both would drown, and the scorpion assured the also reasonable frog that he was not suicidal. Being reasonable, the frog accepts this answer as valid reasoning and agrees to taxi the scorpion across the river.
About halfway across the river, the scorpion stings the frog instantly paralyzing the frog, and as the frog is sinking helplessly he asks in confused horror; "why have you done this? Now we will both drown!" The scorpion, still being reasonable, answered as any reasonable scorpion would; "I'm a scorpion. It is in my nature to sting."
I respectfully submit that we the people are the frog of this fable, and the government is the scorpion. As all fables come with a moral, the moral of this tale is that scorpions can not be trusted, and given that governments are, for all intents and purposes, scorpions, it is the height of folly to allow that government on your back.
Quote from : Wikipedia : 9-1-1 : History
In the earliest days of telephone technology, prior to the development of the rotary dial telephone, all telephone calls were operator-assisted.
To place a call, the caller was required to pick up the telephone receiver and wait for the telephone operator to answer with "Number please?"
They would then ask to be connected to the number he or she wished to call, and the operator would make the required connection manually, by means of a switchboard.
In an emergency, the caller might simply say "Get me the police", "I want to report a fire", or "I need an ambulance/doctor".
It was usually not necessary to ask for any of these services by number, even in a large city.
Indeed, until the ability to dial a phone number came into widespread use in the 1950s (it had existed in limited form since the 1920s), telephone users could not place calls without operator assistance.
Quote from : Wikipedia : Project for the New American Century : Signatories to the Statement of Principles
* Elliott Abrams
* Gary Bauer
* William J. Bennett
* John Ellis "Jeb" Bush
* Richard B. Cheney
* Eliot A. Cohen
* Midge Decter
* Paula Dobriansky
* Steve Forbes
* Aaron Friedberg
* Francis Fukuyama
* Frank Gaffney
* Fred C. Ikle
* Donald Kagan
* Zalmay Khalilzad
* I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby
* Norman Podhoretz
* J. Danforth Quayle
* Peter W. Rodman
* Stephen P. Rosen
* Henry S. Rowen
* Donald Rumsfeld
* Vin Weber
* George Weigel
* Paul Wolfowitz
Originally posted by Jean Paul Zodeaux
What is to be done, then?
Frankly, I am surprised so many people continued to use commercial airlines when it was just a matter of being told to remove your shoes. I guess I hold more faith in the people than is prudent. What is to be done? Stop flying on commercial airlines, for one thing.
Originally posted by Jean Paul Zodeaux
There are ways to minimize the high cost of charter your own jet for air travel. Well coordinated sharing methods can organized where several people going in the same direction can charter the same jet to help reduce the expense. If even that is too expensive, then just stop flying. Take the trains until the TSA intrudes upon that method of travel, or drive to where you going. Do not comply with the tyranny of administrative agencies.
Originally posted by Jean Paul Zodeaux
Non acquiescence is the key. Do not comply, and if non compliance means detention and arrest, as in the case of airports, then stay the hell away from the airports, and take a page from those terrorists who used their terror tactics to force you to demand an out of control government. Instead of using terror as the strategy, use the economic boycott as the strategy, (and boycotts tend to create their own terror to the corporations you boycott) and force the commercial airlines to demand the governments back the hell off.
Originally posted by Jean Paul Zodeaux
Be the David to the governments Goliath, and use well aimed slings of rocks, and sling those rocks at those most likely to fall. In the case of the TSA, throw the rocks at the commercial airlines who have acquiesced to this horrible intrusion. Refuse to spend another dime of your money to facilitate this tyranny.
Be ever vigilant, and use your own personal power of non acquiescence to thrust that scorpion off your back. Starve the beast! Of course, the best and surest way to starve the beast is to understand that the vast majority of you who read this are not in any way liable for the so called personal income tax, (outside of the fact that by filing a valid tax return and signing under penalty of perjury that all of the above is true and correct), and if you are not liable for that tax, then why in God's name are you paying it? Stop paying taxes you do not owe, and starve the beast. Alas, the matter of the so called income tax is another topic altogether, so I will leave it at that.