What Americans need to know about the Real Legacy of George H. W. Bush

by Melinda Pillsbury-Foster 

Today, as never before in our history, Americans need the truth and choices which solve the problems we face.  George H. W. Bush has passed, but the most important imprint he left on American politics remains unknown to Americans.    

George H. W. Bush (HW) had a family who profited mightily from his professional life. Then and today they are joined at the bank account.  As a ‘public servant’, HW was charged to serve us; but his loyalties were with those who have brought Americans to the tipping point of complete disaster, unprotected by the wealth Americans honestly earned.  Instead, we have been rendered increasingly vulnerable through the same actions which enriched HW’s own family at the expense of ordinary Americans.    

If we are to correct course, and save ourselves from becoming a third world nation, we need to understand how disinformation, control of our elections, the media, and public opinion has led us to the precipice in these days before Christmas, 2018. 

In this, HW’s life can serve Americans by providing insights and truths desperately needed.

Read the memorial to HW written by John Fund, a ‘columnist’ for National Review, titled, “John Fund: Why  was  George  H.W. Bush a one-term  president?   Fund is a disinformation agent attempting to continue the cover-up of what happened in 1992.  The National Review was founded by yet another disinformation agent for the same interests, William F. Buckley, Jr..  Buckley served these same interests, Big Oil, by taking the agenda of those then known as ‘Rockefeller Republicans’ to absolute control of the Republican Party; merging the federalization of American government with big business, not free enterprise; consolidation of what we know today as the 99% vs. the 1%. 

From the time he graduated from Yale, Buckley was working for the CIA.  With this we move into the murky world of psy-ops, his assignment to alter the meaning of the word, “Conservative.”  If you read this short article, “Will the Real Conservative Please Stand?” you see how far today’s definition deviates from the ideas which drove a generation of young people to support Barry Goldwater for President in 1964, and then turn their backs on the GOP, leaving it to become libertarians or non-political problem-solvers. 

There was strong opposition to Buckley, because genuine conservatives knew his roots in the CIA and that his opinions were not Conservative towards smaller government, even as he railed against Liberals.  Buckley was an operative, he understood the meaning of the word, “Conservative,” specified a consistent viewpoint diametrically in opposition to that of Rockefeller Republicans.  Therefore, the understanding of the word, “Conservative” needed to be altered so their emerging NeoConservative coalition for federalization could be carried out. 

  I heard about  this  re-branding from Joe Shell, a friend of Barry Goldwater’s in 1990 when he was working on a campaign to elect free-marketeer Dolores Bender White to the 20^th State Senate District in California.  I heard the same, and more, from Connie Ruffley, a life-long member of United Republicans of California (UROC), the same organization which assured the election of Ronald Reagan as governor of California.  

The goal was centralizing government, while talking reduction and lower taxes; and then doing the opposite.  This was possible for Ronnie because his personal charm and charisma made it difficult for people to disagree with his compromises.  He was fast on his feet, and his comebacks routinely neutralized an opponent who could not help liking him as a person. 

I know this because my father, Dr. Arthur F. Pillsbury, a professor at UCLA who ran the Republican Club there, was one of the first people Ronnie talked to after joining the Republican Party.  Dad liked Ronnie – but would not vote for him.  Ronnie often called our house to keep in touch because he wanted Dad in his administration when he went to Sacramento as Governor, and again when he was elected as President in 1980.  Dad refused.  He said Ronnie was not a Conservative.   

The NeoConservative pattern began with Ronald Reagan, who centralized government control in California more than any Democrat could have imagined.  In 1975, UROC, who had ensured Ronnie’s election to Governor in California, passed a resolution begging Americans not to vote for Ronnie if he ran for President or Vice-President.

      Fund’s shallow and unsubstantiated praises of HW, reflect Fund’s career as a disinformation agent, placed in 1984 at the Wall Street Journal to insert the spin, dictated by the same elites which included HW, then vice president of the United States, with Bush’s yet unrealized hopes of becoming president himself.    

Fund’s words are actually intended to reinforce a falsehood he helped create in 1989, that HW, then a sitting president, was more responsible for the strategy which brought about the end of the Cold War than he was; and that in 1992 it was a string of tiny mis-steps which denied HW a second term, for instance, underestimating public reaction to his own negation of his “no new taxes” pledge.   

In 1992, HW lost the presidency because he ignored the offers made to him by PhoneVoter TV Network (PVN), underwritten by Keystone Satellite Communications, to participate in their promotion of satellite and Interactive TV, allowing Americans to move from a passive to active role in politics.  It was nice of the founder of PVN, Brock d’Avignon, to include HW; rude of him to ignore the offer.  It is very possible the Bush Campaign lacked the technological expertise to even understand the offer they received.  This, itself, is alarming and should cause you to question why you think these people are competent to made decisions about your life, suffering no worse consequences themselves than temporary ejection from the government gravy train, if they are wrong. 

Technology was changing.  1992 witnessed two innovations which have transformed the TV industry.  Satellite, using uplinks, could vastly increase name identification for a candidate in weeks.  

Offering voters, a way to be heard with tallies of AGREE/DISAGREE PhoneVotes provided a means for voter participation.  HW ignored both these changes even after receiving the PVN proposal 12 times. Three other candidates, Ross Perot the first of these, began in February 1992 using Capitol Calling Cards supplied to him by Owners of America, Inc. PhoneVoters paid $20 for 20 votes, calling in to listen to Perot’s position on an issue and then voting AGREE/DISAGREE.  The compiled results were supplied to their Congressional Representatives and to the media. 

This is what drove Perot to 39% in June of 1992. 

Then, and even more so today, Americans were hungry to be heard.  Jerry Brown and Pat Buchanan, who each used PVN services, had tallies, but their unedited speeches were broadcast over satellite nationwide. Phone Numbers for PhoneVoting appeared at the bottom of the screen.   Voters came away with a stronger sense of what the candidate thought and who he was.   SEE CLIPS OF SPEECHES

HW chose the far more arduous path of ‘whistle-stop’ campaigning in a nation which had forgotten where the local railroad stations were located, talking to ten people at each stop.   His loss was from no other cause than hubris, ignorance and failure to understand the direction the world was taking.

The phone, automobile, television, and then the internet has impacted our expectations and increased the potential for interacting with those seeking public office.  But this potential must be used to work. 

In 1992, PVN supplied four candidates with interactive satellite TV and Telepoll services.  Three of them paid for these, the fourth used PVN services, evading payment.  The four candidates were Ross Perot, Jerry Brown, Pat Buchanan and Bill Clinton. 

Guess which one, down to $50,000 in the old campaign chest and fleeing charges by multiple women of sexual abuse, evaded paying for services?  You got it, Bill Clinton.  Bill rejected free satellite time because you would have gotten to know him, without edits, in advance of the election.  STORY

PVN was the work of a group of apolitical, voluntarist libertarians lead by Brock d’Avignon. who saw how they could give Americans a needed voice in our political process, enabling them to ask questions, get answers, and make better informed decisions on who they could trust to do the right thing as ‘public servants’ or other problem-solvers.

Phone calls tallied at the bottom of mass media TV screens was that first step in 1992. Who has done more to serve you, HW’s NeoConservatives, or these guys? Here they are.  They put in months of work to give you a voice.

The implication that somehow Americans are obligated to re-elect presidents, is also absurd. 

After the Democratic Primaries were over Jerry Brown had missed displacing Clinton by what was calculated as three days of satellite with tallies.  As the Nominee of the Democratic Party, Clinton had access to a flood of funding.  Through the election, and then again for 1996, he made sure the DNC purchased satellite time for him 24/7/365.  If you are a Democrat, ask yourself if your candidates for other offices in 1996 received satellite time or knew about the benefits of Interactive TV.  We can find no indication this was communicated.  Do let us know.

Awake to the power of technology, HW made sure no GOP candidate used either satellite or PVN for the election in 1996.  Interactive TV makes it impossible for politicians and elites to control public opinion and elections.    

HW Bush and the Clintons not only denied interactive TV debates to you, they also ensured Presidential Debates would come under their control with their agreement to establish the private exclusive Commission on Presidential Debates in 1993.  Clinton became the decider for the Democratic Party with his nomination as Democratic Candidate.  HW held the same power. 

Perot was thrown a bone when he came back to avoid having Owners of America, Inc. adopt Bo Gritz.  But what voice did you have?  Here is what PVN offered, which scared the Dems and GOP into a cooperative effort in 1993.  PhoneVoter TV was encouraging the audience to ask questions of 64 candidates running in 1992.  

In 1993, Haley Barbour, a friend of HWs and mega- lobbyist, was appointed Chairman of the Republican National Committee.  Barbour, on orders from HW, forbade GOP presidential candidates from using satellite or PVN services.  See Letter

What had happened was noticed.  France Telecom purchased Keystone Satellite Communications for $100M, ten times its value of $10M, on the order of Bilderberger leader Etienne d’Avignon.  Brock learned this from David Hansford, the General Manager of Keystone a year later.  The deal with PVN for free satellite time ended immediately after the 1992 primaries.  

After Colin Powell and Steve Forbes dropped out, the most attractive GOP candidate for 1996 was Lamar Alexander.  Alexander was not an HW insider.  Mike Murphy, who remains today an HW insider, was tasked to become Alexander’s Media Consultant.  Murphy stopped the campaign from using satellite and blocked PVN proposals over six times.  The HW anointed nominee was Bob Dole.  Dole’s campaign used no satellite and no TV Interaction.  PVN Notes, show attempted contacts with Alexander Campaign, stopped by Murphy. 

HW had ensured Bill Clinton a second term.  It would seem there had been a meeting of minds and motives. 

In 2000, HW campaigned via Whistle-Stop with son, W. again, only this time with a flatcar loaded with an uplink trailer, which connected them to satellite 24/7.  No other GOP candidate for president used uplinks.  PVN founder, d’Avignon, sent out offers to a GOP candidate, John McCain, for an interactive "Straight Talk TV" Campaign On Satellite (COS) and The RepubliCan Channel; because of the obvious cheating of the American people of audience participation in TV and debates by HW and W. as they did not contact PhoneVoter TV Network, just Keystone for uplinks to their Bushco studio and downlinks to TV news directors.

John McCain received 13 proposals from PNV in 1999 – 2000.   Mike Murphy, who had gone after the position as Media Consultant to John McCain in January 1999, intercepted these offers.  2000 Contact with McCain

McCain and his wife, Cindy, learned this had taken place when d’Avignon put the 13^th proposal in their hands as they stood next to the Straight Talk Bus outside the Beverly Hills Hotel as the California Primary closed.  Reading the proposal Cindy exclaimed, “John, with this we could have won!”  

Fund would do his bit by planting the story which claimed McCain had a black love child.  Fund would run the cover-up afterwards as well, but not well enough to avoid McCain running him to ground at the Wall Street Journal, where the courageous Fund hid under his desk. Fund should have received the Brown Badge of Courage.

The PVN insertion of satellite and TV Interaction resulted in the shopping channels you use today.  You can vote on, “So You Think You Can Dance?”  But no one in the Main Stream Media or politics wants you using the potential for TV Interaction to decide who you can trust, what works best, about options for health care, correction of our banking system which provide a stable economy, allowing you to understand the facts and choose for yourself.  Interactive TV makes this possible.  HW and the Clinton’s made sure you would not know. This attempt to control who we elect, and the choices available to us is the real legacy of George H. W. Bush. 

The PVN insertion of satellite and TV Interaction resulted in the shopping channels you use today.  You can vote on, “So You Think You Can Dance?”  But no one in the Main Stream Media or politics wants you using the potential for TV Interaction to decide who you can trust, what works best, about options for health care, correction of our banking system which provide a stable economy, allowing you to understand the facts and choose for yourself.  Interactive TV makes this possible.  HW and the Clinton’s made sure you would not know. This attempt to control who we elect, and the choices available to us is the real legacy of George H. W. Bush. 

Today, Americans can get to know candidates for office long before election day.  Along with candidates, consider what solutions we need and what works best for you.  Interactive TV makes this possible along with other choices denied to all of us. 

Find out at Freedom Interactive TV Networks Association.  Get the facts. Our Presidential Candidate Debate Tournament site is going up now, to begin one of several Round One Debates in January.  It is time Americans had a real choice and real solutions.  Sign up here, our Freedom Interactive TV blog, for updates.  

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What really happened in 1992 – Not Perot or Clinton - but PhoneVoter and the power of Volitional Science

03 August

by Melinda Pillsbury-Foster

A small group of Voluntarists were persuaded by Brock d’Avignon, another Volitional Scientist, to spend time working feverishly on a plan to persuade candidates for President of the United States to sign up for FREE satellite time and participate in a Presidential Debate Tournament.  Sixty-fpur Americans had signed up to run for president in 1992 and most of them remained unknown then and now.   

These stalwart Voluntarists included Samuel E. Konkin, III, Bill Cousert, Ron Fink, Howard Hinman, Robert d'Avignon and Lawrence Samuels and Kent Hastings.

PhoneVoter was a business plan aimed at inserting interaction and dialog into political action and so catapulting candidates, and their ideas, characters, values and such, into public view. 

Of the 64 presidential hopefuls only four candidates responded to multiple offerings of the proposals and the determined calls made by Brock d’Avignon, who at first had focused on  Libertarian and other minor party candidates. 

All were offered the same services, worth between $$400,000 a month, or $500,000 - $800,000 in total for the campaign period.  Keystone Satellite Communications, Inc., was the generous donor for satellite time.  Their hope was to elicit more purchases of satellite time for all sixty-four political candidates. 

Videos of candidates who did participate were Uplinked from Keystone’s Technological HQ at 6430 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, 6th Floor.  

To a person, everyone who Brock managed to contact claimed they did not have the money to pay for the satellite time which it was made clear was being offered free.  This did not change, no matter how carefully Brock explained how easily they could sell advertising. 

Or they did not have a camera, could not make their own video or, the reasons were many.

Brock explained over and over how television works, to no avail, even though in some cases he offered to help sell ads to pay for their shows himself.     

Brock called the campaigns for all candidates for the nomination and only Lee Wrights responded.  Lee was unable to get anyone to believe a real satellite company would offer free services.   

Andre Marrou’s Campaign HQs was called morning, mid-day and in the evening.  Brock or one of the other Voluntarists faxed and snail-mailed the Marrou HQ and the National Libertarian Party HQ continuously.   Despite the fact Michael Emerling Cloud will take anything he can get, no one stirred.  Brock gave up, focusing attention first on Perot. 

The four candidates who accepted some services were, in order of their response to the offer:  Ross Perot, Jerry Brown, Pat Buchanan and Bill Clinton.

Ross Perot, unwilling to pay for anything, had the Owners of America, Inc., running Capitol Calling Card 700 Telepoll.  For $.99 for each call participants would vote AGREE or DISAGREE on the question of the week, which was then sent to the media and their Congresspersons.  Brock was writing the questions and so included a second option of, “Would you favor force of law as a penalty or military action?”

Brown decided to use the UneditedPresidential Candidates Speeches Program in March but it took Jerry some time to get his video tape he owned together.  Brock suggested a visual stunt of having Federal Tax Code Books (70 volumes) tossed into a trash truck.  Unfortunately, the Clinton’s got wind of this exciting event and ensured no trash truck was available.  Undeterred, Brown threw the books into a trash can as he held up his 1040 Postcard Form. 

Bay Buchanan ensured Brock received a copy of an unedited speech which Pat had made so he also availed himself of this service.    

Brock received a call from two voices identified as “Marcus and Greer”, who identified themselves as “Media Consultants for the Clinton Campaign” in the third week of March. It was clear they had read the offer made in detail.   

One of the voices, who Brock identified at Frank Greer, asked about how they could obtain services at a price they could afford.  Greer shared that the Clintons were down to $50,000 and their Bus HQ.  The second voice was not Hillary, but perhaps could have been Bill himself since no one named Marcus was employed by the Clinton Campaign.

Brock sent on more information, recommending they immediately rent the only available satellite uplink truck left in the country at a cost of $35,000 a month.  The voice which-was-not-Greer asked about how they would pay for the gas.  Brock told him with the mass-audience generating money would no longer be a problem as long as news directors were informed it was available.  He told them in detail how to accomplish this.  And so it was. 

On another of several calls Brock also advised Greer and Voice which-was-not-Marcus, that Craig Reese, the Keystone Studio Manager on Sunset Blvd.,  said Bill would be better off handling the mike himself in his jaunts across America.  Craig had seen Bill dealing with an MC and knew he did better when he was in control. 

Brock had faxed them, “Do you want it?”  But he never heard from them again. 

Brock knew they had gone around him to get the Uplink truck because he was told by annoyed folks at Keystone this had taken place.   

The advice so provided proved to be true and the insolvent Clintons were soon rolling in dough and edged out Jerry Brown by about three days.  Brown had taken the time to send videos of the Love Canal, which was a horrible outrage but for which it was not clear he had the rights.

The Unedited Presidential Candidates Speeches ran 16 hours a day for six weeks, alternating between Brown and Buchanan. At the bottom of the screen were AGREE - DISAGREE phone numbers.  This was a TV first.    

For the minor candidates the campaign season went as usual.  No one heard anything about them, saw them, or believed they existed. 

Keystone had seen Brock in action, so trusted him to handle the Master Control Panel for 22 Networks when the regular technician had to leave the studio.  His parting instructions to Brock were. “If you have to interrupt programming for some announcement, make sure it is during the programs and not the commercials.  If  that happens we will not be paid about $33.000 each if even one second of those is missing.” 

On May 1, 1992, Brock was in the studio alone as the Rodney King Riots mounted.  He could see an RV on fire, pillars of smoke and microwave video feed was coming in from camera trucks all over Los Angeles.  In the middle of this, it was announced the LAPD was asking Rodney King to address the city.

Brock knew this was going to be tight timing but important.  This was the feed for the entire country.   

After the commercials ended, to the second, Brock intercut into the Rodney King’s speech, so the entire country heard, “People, I just want to say, you know, can we all get along? Can we get along?.....” as the rest of this important speech continued  Brock watched the commercials approach.  The moment King stopped talking the fastest finger in the west made sure not a second of commercials was lost. 

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“Boomers going bankrupt at unprecedented rate”

How Exciting! Another News Release from the National Libertarian Party!

07 August

Yet another revealing News Release issued today by the National Libertarian Party!

We at Freedom Interactive TV Networks Association urge you to read this opining with attention. If you have been living in your hovel in the wilderness, or have the financing to remove yourself from the meltdown of the economy which has been going on for over a decade now this will be truly shocking. 

However, if you hold a job, run a business, thought you could retire, or had some illusion you could follow the Boomers or Greatest Generation to college, obtain a degree or professional training at a reasonable cost and so enjoy upward mobility and security, you probably rolled your eyes and screamed or groaned. 

If you knew all too well that the homeless rate is rising past alleviation, millions of Americans are now living in their cars, rapacious banks, backed by the Federal Reserve are producing homeless families at a great rate and the regulatory burden on Americans now includes small children who want to have Lemonade Stands. 

And in case you did not notice, the cost of health care insurance is prohibitive and the exclusions continue to rise.  If you bought a home you may realize that 62% of homeowners are 2 – 6 months from foreclosure today. 

I could go on but why bother?  You get the idea. 

And the LP continues to ask you to under-write their salaries while they produce no solutions.  How good a deal has the money you write the LP been for you?

Are you investing to increase freedom – or contributing to a home-grown welfare system which sells you promises instead of solutions which move the idea of a free-market from fantasy to reality?  

On our Blog, Freedom Interactive TV Network Association, we are going to give you an analysis of how effective the LP has been with the resources available.  Reading it is free. 

Ask yourself why Free-Market solutions, which have been available for every problem outlined above. 

Start with why Libertarians could not afford to compete with Dem and GOP politicians on TV. PhoneVoter.us and more other links than you can shake a stick at, so to speak.   

PS – People make money on TV if they are not incompetent.  

In 1971 the Western Growers Association wanted Chavez in Federal Prison. They failed.

 by Melinda Pillsbury-Foster 

Today there is an enormous amount of talk about about the divide between Red and Blue, which could be called the Second American Civil War.  But this is not a real divide,  it has been fostered in our minds to make it impossible for Americans to get traction for action, needed to enact real direct democracy.  To perpetuate the Divide we have been manipulated by the .001% using the major media, operatives, and a steady flow of money for payoffs.  They have rewritten history, changing the meaning of what it is to be a Conservative.  

The grape boycott had won in 1970 using non-violent, militant protest as their tool. Started on September 8, 1865, Hispanics joined with the original Filipino effort, choosing the path of non-violence.   Chavez, a student of Gandhi, who was, himself was a student of Alice Paul.

Improved conditions had been hard won. Cesar Chavez had put his life at risk, drawing attention nationally to their boycott with a hunger strike which lasted 25 days.  He had succeeded.

The California Rural Legal Assistance (CRLA), funded by the state and staffed by pro bono attorneys, had assisted with these. 

Before his death, Robert Kennedy had helped solve the problem faced by migratory families to ensuring their children received earned academic credit for their school work traveled with them as the families move on to new harvests.  Before, it had been usual for the laborer’s children to be denied graduation because their records were lost.  The solution was a satellite system to Chavez for ensuring records promptly followed each student to their new school. 

Despite the money and power of the Western Growers, farm laborers had won the right to organize. Their children would find ever increasing opportunities opening to them.  The future held unfolding promise. 

The Western Growers Association (WGA) signed a contract enumerating the list of demands issued by Cesar Chavez, included port-a-potties for use in the fields.  Over those years farm workers had experienced active abuse and harassment by local sheriffs, enduring wretched living conditions, routine job injuries, deaths, polluted conditions, housing which was not as good as a dog house and no running water in many areas. 

But did anyone stop to wonder what the Western Growers Association thought about these recent events? 

In early July 1971, Brock d’Avignon, editor and chief of The New Horizon’s, now in its third issue, published in Los Angeles and Orange Counties decided this was a hot topic.

New Horizon was read by people who supported Young Americans for Freedom; its editorial policy was Jeffersonian Libertarian.  At the time Brock was chairman of the Orange County Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) Chapters.  As the YAF Chairman Brock had recently been in the news, challenging Nixon’s to stay home from China policy and the California State Department of Equalization floor price for haircuts.    They had also protested the murder of 56 million Chinese political prisoners to keep Communist China out of the United Nations. 

Recently, they had done a Free Mark Huessey Protest.  Huessey was held for six months for commenting to a German, as he watch Soviet tanks roll by that their country would be better off without the Soviets.  He was arrested for making the suggestion. 

Brock opened his phone book, located the Western Growers Association on Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles and arranged to go in for an interview.  At the same time, he provided the information needed for them to take out an ad.  1/16^th of a page for $250.

Arriving at the WGA office on Wilshire Blvd., the receptionist in the business-like entry told Brock they were waiting for him upstairs.  The first gentleman greeted Brock as he came up the stairs, introducing himself as the President of the WGA, shaking Brock’s hand.  

Escorting Brock into the conference room Brock, the president, and their communications specialist and an attorney.

They sat down in a semi-circle, away from the conference table.  Brock asked for their point of view.  He said, “I understand that farming is a narrow profit-margin business.”  He told them about his own history picking oranges and lemons and his familiarity with barrios in Orange County. 

Brock expected a discussion of economics.  They immediately told Brock they were all for free enterprise.  But.  They wanted to pass a law against secondary boycotts at the retail level.  Because consumers could pressure retailers.  They were concerned “consumers were being deluded and propagandized,” said their communications specialist.

Brock said, “As far as I can tell the farm workers want two things Port-a-Potties and a raise in pay for things like housing.”  Blank looks from the Growers.  “It seems to me that consumers would like to know their strawberries and food are not being pissed on.  For a couple of pennies a pound you could provide that and look good.”  The Growers all laughed or chuckled at this, looking at each other.    They then sobered. 

The attorney said they were being denied the opportunity to be confronted by their accusers.  Brock, continuing, asked about the demand of farm workers for contracts.    Western Growers did not want to make contracts with the workers or to give their workers benefits. 

If you don’t get what you want what do you plan to do?

They told Brock they wanted to put Cesar Chavez in the Federal Penitentiary for the illegal use of the Migrant Farmworker Student School Record Satellite System which Robert F. Kennedy had put in the care of Cesar Chavez.  The system cost $250,000, this being from a Federal Grant for education. 

Brock had asked several times about the cost to growers for raising the wages paid to farm workers.  No answer was forthcoming.  During the interview the attorney slide the check for $250 across the table to Brock.  It was to be a display ad with their name, logo, slogan, address and phone. 

Brock asked when they planned to get their lawyers to do this.  Pretty soon, pretty soon, they said, handing him a sheaf of papers with lots of statistics. 

 After returning to the YAF office d’Avignon called information and obtained the phone number for the United Farm Workers.  Dolores Huerta answered.  Brock told her he was doing a feature article for New Horizon, the largest youth newspaper in Southern California and asked to talk directly to Cesar, saying, “I have some important information for Cesar but I can only talk to him.”

When Cesar came on the line Brock said, after providing his name and publication, “I’m looking at a headline I do not want to publish.  It says, “Cesar Chavez thrown in Federal Pen for illegal use of the Migrant Student School Records Forwarding Satellite System (MSSRFSS).”  Brock paused.  “What I would like to write is, “Cesar Chavez leases the MSSRFSS to UFW for $1.00 a year.”

There was silence on the line for a long while. 

Cesar said, “Thanks, kid,” and hung up.

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Today there is an enormous amount of talk about about the divide between Red and Blue, which could be called the Second American Civil War.  But this is not a real divide,  it has been fostered in our minds to make it impossible for Americans to get traction for action, needed to enact real direct democracy.  To perpetuate the Divide we have been manipulated by the .001% using the major media, operatives, and a steady flow of money for payoffs.  They have rewritten history, changing the meaning of what it is to be a Conservative.  

Will the Real Conservative Please Stand?

The Costs of 9/11 Continue to Moun

by  Paul Craig Roberts

This is the 17th anniversary of 9/11. During the years that have passed large numbers of experts have established conclusively that the official government account of the event is false. Every year fewer people believe the unbelievable conspiracy theory that a handful of Saudi Arabians outwitted the entirety of the US National Security State and attacked with hijacked airliners the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Nevertheless, the official story still stands, just as the official story of President Kennedy’s assassination still stands despite majority disbelief, just like the official story of Israel’s attack on the USS Liberty still stands despite all evidence to the contrary. In the US the government never corrects its proven lies.

People all over the world are amazed that Americans could witness videos of the two towers blowing up floor by floor and the obvious controlled demolition of Building 7 and conclude that they were witnessing buildings collapsing from asymetrical structural damage and limited, short-lived office fires.

The 9/11 fabrication and the Osama bin Laden myth were used by the Cheney/Bush regime to destroy the civil liberty protections in the US Constitution and to elevate the executive branch above both domestic and international law. This has culminated in yesterday’s declaration of US lawlessness by President Trump’s National Security Advisor, John Bolton, who stated that the US government will use any and all means to protect US and Israeli war criminals from prosecution by the International Criminal Court. https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/10/politics/us-bolton-icc-plo-intl/index.html

The cost of 9/11 far exceeds the WTC buildings and the lives that were lost.
The real cost is the US Constitution, the separation of powers, civil liberty, and the rule of law.

Privateers' PAYE Financed Defense of Free-Market America

(We couldn't have done it without them!)

Excerpt from HI: Human Investment

Historical Examples of the Free Market utilizing Percentage As You Earn (%AYE) Finance & Finansurance for solving major problems and with large numbers of individual agreements. 

Written by Brock d’Avignon, 1978; Edited by Melinda Pillsbury-Foster, 2017

Historical Probe #2

Privateering Goes to War 1775 – 1782, & 1812 - 1815

Privateers' %AYE Financed Defense of Free-Market America

Once upon a time, 792 stock-share owned and privately armed rebel warships set sail against their government's barriers to free trade. Over 3, 100 of His Majesty's vessels were captured or destroyed by American Revolutionary warships, each entirely outfitted and operated with Percentage As You Earn (PAYE) finance. Joining the fray to end the Crown's legalized monopolies, the Colonial Burgesses and later Continental Congress taxed or printed enough money to finance in a similar manner, 64 republican warships.

On 15 April 1775, four days before the Lexington Commons and Concord Bridge Battles, the Massachusetts State Ship Tyrannicide hoisted anchor. Congress requested dividends from its U.S. Navymen of 66% percent of any captured prize-ship and cargo. By contrast, typical American investors, such as little old ladies with 20-dollar gold pieces, who were interested in thwarting subsidized tea monopolies; invested into capitalist cruisers.  The investors in Privateer ships, requested dividends of only 33% percent, leaving to the crew the two-thirds of whatever enemy vessels the Privateersman boarded and brought to ports' maritime title company courts' condemnation hearings, or government Admiralty courts to verify they were actually British ships that were captured. Not surprisingly, the skilled seamen signed aboard the instruments of war that would be loaned to them at the much lower rate:

Comparative List of American Armed Vessels:  Years 1776 - 1782

                                                         

Class of Warship	1776	1777	1778	1779	1780	1781	1782
Continental	31	34	21	20	13	9	7
Privateer	136	73	115	167	228	449	323

Edgar S. Maclay, A History of American Privateers, D. Appleton & Co. , New York & London, 1899, p. iv,

                                   

Circa 1775, Americans calculated the return-on-investment in the quite literal removal of the British Roi's taxation-subsidy cycle. Idle ships were bottled up in harbors and were thus useless to the owners. Their " opportunity cost" was no less beneficial in risking the equal loss of the ship at sea, while enlistee privateersmen loaded a gesture of defiance at the Crown's enforced protectionism. Since blockaded shipowners were often broke, the outfitting of the vessels was usually underwritten by a popular stock offering to other colonial rebels who had seen the strategic wisdom of a unilateral declaration of free-trade. The number of American stockholders grew:

Comparative Number of Guns Carried By the American Vessels:  Years 1776 - 1782

Class of Warship	1776	1777	1778	1779	1780	1781	1782
Continental	586	412	680	462	266	164	198
Privateer	1,360	730	1,150	2,505	3,420	6,735	4,845

Edgar S. Maclay, A History of American Privateers,D. Appleton & Co. , New York & London, 1899, p. iv,

                           

According the author of Pirates, Privateers, and Profits, by James G. Lydon. Introd. by Richard B. Morris, both owners and operators floating on percentages, decided to structure privateering's merit pay incentives aboard ship in three ways:

 1) Smugglers like John Hancock had early defined 18 basic jobs in high-risk operations plus 2 incentives; so aboard Privateers the 2/3rds "earnings" of the crew were formally divided into brackets of 20ths by shipboard tasks.      

Custom was established aboard square-rigged ships that cabin boys, for instance, no matter how many, received a sub-bracket of 1/5th of 1/20th; still a sum enough on some voyages to place a boy into the middle class economically. If seven or eight cabin boys were optional, then they decided if they wanted more hands-on task, or cut their numbers down to seven so as to receive a larger payout per cabinboy.  The same 1/20th bracket concept applied, no matter how many occupied that bracket, all the way up to the First and Second Mates who split a full 20^th each.  Sometimes the ocean-crossing privateers captured six ships and manned them. 

2) The "captain's purse", however, was a notably outsized 3/20ths or 15% of crew booty. There were two good reasons for the size of the captain's purse, and they were encouraged by the crew. It was widely recognized by these sea-going mercenaries that no one dies for money. 

Tactical ideas counted as did obligated duty; but risking death more than other crewmates were willing to risk, had better account for something more than the thrill of a fight. The captain allotted merit pay percentages from his purse based on sub-bracket percentages according to any specified success totaling 1/20th of the booty, equaling a third of his purse.   Examples: for gallantry (the first man to board an enemy vessel would receive an extra meritorious wage, or his widow at home would); for marksmanship (the first Kentucky Rifle up in the marines' "fighting tops" to pick off the enemy captain); for a lookout's eyesight from the crow’s nest; or for an excellent cook.  The captain usually kept 1/20th for his own.

3) The last third of the captain's purse merit pay incentives was a 1/20th designated by the captain and the owners for the crew if they achieved some extra-un-ordinary feat. This action might be the burning of a specific revenue cutter or capturing a patrolling frigate.   This 1/20th or third of the captain’s purse was often nailed to a mast, and the impossible became the routine. For instance, Privateer Captain Jonathan Haraden captured over 1, 000 British naval cannon during the Revolution. Never heard of him, hmmm.  

The Revolution's sea-power became self-financing within 3 years, which attracted more participants, Unlike most forms of capitalism that make money, privateering set out to take money back as a reprisal for financial suppression and impressment servitude. Privateers went to sea with an overload of men and materials for the purpose of re-outfitting and skeleton crew re-manning several captured prize vessels. Fortunes rose or sank in prize vessels on their way to American or French ports, Prisoners-of-war often rose to recapture prizes back from the skeleton crew; sometimes a ship changed hands and navigation several times.

For this reason of disparity of luck among the same original privateer crew, the admiralty courts judged that all hands who sailed off together would be entitled to their agreed portion of wages and dividends in the overall venture. This trend concerning reprisals was standard throughout the former colonies. All previous and future reprisals, accrued to the privateersman no matter where they are now, "in heaven, in port, at sea, in hell, or worse as prisoners in Britain" dank hulks. If the original Privateer ship was lost, it was not usually deducted from the crew's pay but from the stockholders'  “capital gains"; although a refundable insurance bond accumulated from prizes sent in, until the original ship's return. The admiralty courts clearly sided with the sailors since they were in fact risking their lives on the high seas whereas the stockholders were not. Many sailors became "men of property" and could vote in the title company maritime courts  or State admiralty courts to sustain judges on their bench.

During this era, through the Revolution and the War for Free Trade and Sailors’ Rights, there were two female privateer captains who inherited their ships at sea.  The daughters and wife of Captain Uriah Sears, returning from China trade, were surprisingly attacked by French privateers in the Caribbean on their way back in 1803, and sunk the French ship.  My ancestors’ armed merchantman wommaned by Chloe, Keziah, and Hannah Sears sunk the French ship. The French had cracked the hull of their prey, allowing water to expand silks and tea to burst their planking.  A British frigate out of Jamaica rescued both crews. 

When a prize vessel came in, it often carried financial instructions from some of the privateersmen who captured it regarding investment in it to create yet another Privateer. Some privateersmen

used their wages from the prize to buy or barter stock shares in its venture or re-outfitting.  This practice aided cash flow in the war effort and became known as "waging war" against England's not-so-commercial empire.  Several such wage warrior stockholders in a prize vessel, for some reason, made the best watchful prize crew imaginable. Thus, whenever a spyglass sighted a convoy of the Crown's mercantilistic “business" underway with a warship, eyeing it was referred to as “taking stock" in the situation.  Indeed, the word “enterprise” means to enter a captured prize. It has come to mean more peaceful ventures since yet still requiring courage to be creative.

Many privateersmen who didn't invest in gambling that prize vessels would reach port, retained their bloody hard-won hard silver specie while sailing the currents of war.  A Privateer captain could rely on his crew's stout self-interests down in the holds of captured ships; much in contrast to the U. S. Navymen who were paid in ever-inflationary paper currency.

While subsidized British commerce lobbied in the lobby of Parliament for more restrictive laws, sail, and cannon to inflict more economic woe on the untaxable colonials---American seaboard political pressure in October 1776 rose with the tide of Congress' inflation of money. Congress acquiesced to lower its 66% "rePAYEment" from Navymen to 50% on cargo craft captured. Congress would forego revenue if the crew captured an enemy man-o-war or British Privateer; and would pay in paper money a bounty for the destruction of any British vessel of half its adjudged value in a governmental admiralty tax court. For the Continental Navy then, the policy to attract volunteers was translated into the orders: burn, sink, & kill. To an American Privateersman's point of view, it seemed as if Congress had institutionalized the bloodthirsty failure to bring capturable ships of any sort to any port.  Glance again at Maclay's table to see how well regarded these measures of vague "national interest" were, and how few signed aboard USN warships in the name of "national security”

Navy Captain John Paul Jones wrote Congress decrying, "the impossibility of manning a government vessel whenever a Privateer was outfitting and recruiting in the same harbor, which is most all the time. Alas without a Navy!" Some republican navy captains became desperate enough to try involuntary servitude, which crossed against the individualist grain of most other revolutionaries and what they thought they were fighting for.  Congress was dominated by Privateer interests; the man they chose to command the fledgling U.S. Navy was Commodore John Barry due to an incident of principle on the Delaware River. He was selected because as Privateer Captain Barry, he had been already primed to fire a broadside into a Continental sloop commanded by a USN lieutenant under Navy Captain Seth Harding. The Navy ship had sent an impressment gang to Barry's Privateer to conscript his privateersmen. Barry piped the would-be draft board aboard and simply pointed to a gunner's mate holding a lighted fuse and silently saved the Revolution. It is Commodore Barry's statue in front of Independence Hall today that stands as a testimony against upholding the sins of governance with efficient PAYE finance. 

Barry knew that State mis-determinations will cause tax-revenue over-reliance, causing inept use of bonds, causing a desperate need for inflated printed money.  As government loses its power base to the free-market using the same financial method: governments will excuse their lack of insurance liability on its "good faith & credit" based on its tax-supported military's ease in killing and enslaving to "man" its programs of "national service' -- all ironically in the name of" national defense education acts for liberty.  Perhaps we won't get fooled by that line anymore than the Commodore. 

Freedom makes living worthwhile, and a living worthwhile. Percentage As You Earn (%AYE) finance is determined by both "worth" and "while". Its PAYEment systems are relevant to only those tools and services that increase a borrower's erratic yet ever-increasing capability to be more productive. Freedom itself, in this case was the service sought, the tools were gun platforms. PAYE finance was well suited to build freedom's defensive infrastructure in 1775, again, in 1803, as Jefferson cut the Navy budget in order to encourage privateer action against the Barbary Pirates. Six United States Marines, two US Navy ships, along with six hundred ship-wrecked Greek sailors and a Libyan army under the command of a 7-foot tall, black, Egyptian Republican Revolutionary in Haiti and a future American privateer named King Dick, captured Tripoli after sweeping across the desert.  Declaring a constitutional sultanate of the United States of North Africa, its victory was given away in diplomacy to save the sensibilities of US southern states.  How different American history would be if there were neither a Pentagon today nor slavery yesterday. 

     

Thus, the investors' strategic orders were very precise: raid only British commerce, since that was the raison d'etre of the Royal Navy blockades and its influence in Parliament. American Privateers' orders were aimed at protecting the salubrity of all vessels in a fight, making the resale of enemy vessels profitable. Privateers captured 16,000 well-equipped "redcoats" on the high seas during the Revolution, as compared to the 8, 000 not-so-well-equipped Kingsmen that George Washington captured on land, until Yorktown. Prisoners were worth $20 at the exchange rate in America. The investors' orders translated into: capture, extinguish fires, minimize loss of life, and run blockades to port with prize vessel, cargo, and exchangeable prisoners, Thus, new Revolutionary warships returned to sea flying the 13 gold and black striped Privateer ensign emblazoned with an American rattlesnake proclaiming, "Don't Tread On Me^”.

 American Privateer's revolutionary success in comparison to their U.S. Navy compatriots was of little note as compared to their practical success against the formidable foe of the Royal Navy. His Majesty's incentives to gain enlistments were lumps on the head, lump sum fixed bounties, pension installments, and occasionally an insurance company's salvage reward for recapturing a formerly British cargo ship.

The British Navy was embarrassed by American Privateer tactics being blatantly concerned with retaliation against their commercial empire. Instead of a suicidal nationalistic urge to go up against the King's majestic ships-of—the-line with three times their armament; the American's lightweight, fast, shallow-draft, 16-gun platforms would dart from Merchantman to Merchantman. Privateers found themselves capturing several 36-gun frigates anyway, as they turned the Merchantmens' carronades upon King George's folly.

The only desire the Americans ever had to dare attack the even larger "hell ships" manned by the impressment of Americans enslaved for years, was to show-off gunnery skills. The Royal Navy did not practice gunnery as did the pecunious Privateers who had to make every shot count; but relied on massive multi-decks of firepower. The Americans would quickly capture and sail away the dreadnought' s little cargo convoy, leaving the lumbering slow warship without a purpose.

The British taxpayer quickly grew tired of paying for such worthless objects of nautical art.  Lloyds of London ship insurance went up 6,000% and was the major contributing argument in the House of Commons for making peace with their break-away cousins. 

Whenever a British fleet actually nabbed an American Privateer that wasn't quite quick enough downwind, the British sailors couldn't handle the amount of sail crowded on them because it wasn't Navy Regulation. "Going by the book" they cut down masts and spars, and then after filling the hull with rock ballast; they wondered why it couldn't catch other Yankee designed vessels.  Meanwhile, Yankee Privateer Captain Jonathan Haraden invented the “jackass brig” air rudder to run circles around enemy ships; as well as the swinging plumb-bob to order level broadsides.  When out of ammunition Haraden loaded his cannon with silverware and crowbars, tearing an English Privateer to shreds off the Spanish coast.  This inspired a Spaniard named Farragut to join the American Revolution, his son would command the Union Navy in the Civil War.

Thomas Paine's 1776 challenge to Americans was to build with their forests enough Privateers to deny British business the fruits of its Navy's tyrannical canvas and cannons. Paine had been in America one year before he gave this advice. He was probably not expecting ocean-crossing Privateers to dare attack English cities in the Thames, nor sink the Dover fishing fleet for being loyal to the royal's protectionism. After such actions, Ben Franklin personally financed three Privateers from France with Irish crews to raid the English Channel. These too were PAYE financed and PAYEment operated.

The Royal Navy could not fathom the lack of concern American Privateers had for not carrying permission of a government to attack them; a ”letter of marque and reprisal" or in modern business license parlance, a " certificate of public need". The British Admiralty always referred to their own few Privateer ships as "letters of marque" and hoped they would envelope something. Fortunately, the British did recall the Elizabethan principle of a stock market deciding on the number of warships at sea instead of a maritime bureaucracy, so only early in the Revolution were any rebels hung as pirates. Yet as monarchists they could not comprehend people contracting on their own as sovereign individuals without a Sovereign authority. To Americans of the era, corporations were not creatures of the State; to the British they were chartered by the Crown. British political pressure at sea ironically caused the legitimacy of the Congress to rise, at least in the subjective eyes of the British sailor. 

The Continental Congress and the various United States were happy to remedy the difficulty in gaining Royalist and Loyalist respect by issuing letters-of-marque like they were licensing the waves of the sea, 3, 000 marque "coasters" from Massachusetts alone kept their ports and sea lanes open before they returned to peaceful pursuits of happiness.  

The British mind was satisfied, but to Americans such national permission was a sham.  Investors were interested in eventual free trade with England. When the Crown recognized its loss by surrender and treaty, only 2 American Privateers remained at sea to become pirates in 1783. Seaboard America defined them as rebels without a cause and sent a fleet of Privateers with one Navy ship to end their aggression.  Only three US Navy ships were left operable in 1782.

Most muskets and gunpowder that General Washington had to use, came from intercepted royal vessels. The General lamented to Congress for supplies for years, yet they came not from Congress but Privateers -- often given him or a severe discount for mere transport to his ever retreating army. Little was said in the "London Times" about Washington or Congress; the news was all maritime disasters. When Lloyd's of London insurance rates rose 6000%, it was time to tell the Royal Navy that the war for mercantilism's empire in the Atlantic was over. They decided to send Cornwallis to India to impose intolerable acts upon a different set of Indians -- who didn't use such savage PAYE finance incentives against their imperialism. The British merchant-adventurers has used %AYE finance to send dissident emigrant religionists to America. It was no surprise the new Americans used this successful business model against their forceful arrogance not allowing them a voice in counter-productive government policies.

Such lessons did not go unheeded 29 years later during the War for Free Trade and Sailors’ Rights, according to Privateer Captain Coggeshall’s  History of American Privateers, published in 1856; and Theodore Roosevelt’s War of 1812.  This time 517 ocean-crossing American Privateers again captured over 3, 100 vessels from the British Navy and Merchant Marine. The U.S. Navy's 23 ships didn't do too bad either.  The Navy honors names like Jones, Preble, Decatur and Rogers.  However, tax-supported history books in schools do not tell the amazing tales of Privateer Captains like Haraden, Crowninsheild, and Boyle, nor commodores Barney and Barry who believed in popular defense instead of centralizing it. 

Perhaps the most valuable lesson taught us by American Privateers was their keen insight into how to motivate employees within wide-spread sophisticated, contractual enterprises that floats on a percentage-of-income. Their activities were deadly yet hold managerial lessons for those into constructive pursuits of Human Investments in collegiate education for all in the free market, medicine for all in the free market, subscription anti-ballistic missile systems, mortgages without fixed installments nor repossession, and craftsperson tooling today allowing retail sales to expand. These lessons are: an objective view of organizational co-operation with individual contracts, pay scale identification by function, merit pay for both individuals and the crew, and benefits recognized for brave souls whose buckle got swashed. These were ordinary beings who could calculate the odds of risk that today we call econometrics, and gambled with their lives on improving those risks with commensurate rewards. Heroism increased their capacity to "earn" beyond the stockholders' investment in rigging masts with “green hands”. Freedom isn't free; yet it can have its rewards in peace.

Brock d’Avignon -  has been a student of privateering issues since 1977 as it was relevant to providing as example for paying employees in a hospital empire that would use Percentage As You Earn (%AYE) finance & medical finansurance for all to provide finance of pre-existing conditions and insurance for unexpected events. William E. Simon Sr., then recent Secretary of the Treasury asked him about how this could be done when he was advising 11 medical empires while with Booz Allen and Hamilton Management Consultants as a actuary. William H. Donaldson, Chair of the New York Stock Exchange, couriered Brock's research to the Clinton Economic Summit to Vernon Jordan who had endorsed PAYE finance for collegiate tuition at Duke and Yale to get minority and female faces into the Ivy League, for relay to a former Yale Law School student who had once used PAYE finance to get through college. Jack Kemp, Secretary of Housing and urban Development, used Brock's research to sell all government housing to the people with erratic incomes that were living in them, never fearing repossession and gaining pride of ownership with no defaults. This at one time eliminated homelessness. Kemp later used Brock's research to raise $596-million for Habitat for Humanity for fixer-uppers that could be sold to people with inconsistent income. Brock is today a credentialed Social Sciences teacher in California, and economist and Adjunct Professor with the Women's Institute for Individual & Political Justice, when not ramping up a PhoneVoter Interactive TV Networks.  He describes himself as an individualist feminist.