Uncle Sam protecting his property against the encroachments of his cousin John

Uncle Sam protecting his property against the encroachments of his cousin John
Complete Explanation: Northern fears of European intervention in the Civil War on behalf of the South are manifest here. Uncle Sam, in the form of a bearded Union soldier (closely resembling Abraham Lincoln), unceremoniously routs John Bull from a fenced garden where the latter has been poaching. Grabbing him by the scruff of the neck, Sam warns, "John, You lost your Non-interfering Principle. I'll lay it on your back again." The American wields a large stick "Principle of Non Enterference." John Bull has a handful of cotton plants, more of which appear at right, and wears "Armstrong's Patent" cannon on his legs. (The term refers to a type of English-made gun used by the Confederates.) The artist has hidden several Negro faces in his drawings of cotton plants here. A cock with the head of French leader Napoleon III watches from his perch on the fence at left. At right stands a large scarecrow from whose arms hang the lifeless bodies of Confederate general P. G. T. Beauregard and Confederate president Jefferson Davis. A plaque on the scarecrow reads, "All Persons Tresspassing These Premisses, will be punished according to Law." (click image for source)

American Lambs Subdued by Europe's Demon

American Lambs Subdued by Europe's Demon
For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep to the slaughter. Romans 8:36

The Federal Reserve as Crowned Bloodsucker

The Federal Reserve as Crowned Bloodsucker
Populist preacher William Jennings Bryan was thrice the Democratic nominee for President from 1896 -1908. The central theme of his anti-imperialist campaign was that America was falling into a trap of “financial servitude to British capital”.

Concord Battle-Ground

Concord Battle-Ground
Duty is a Mountain Death is a Feather

POETICAL WORKS: JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL (1891)

This blog is inspired by my grandfather's books from the 19th century. Within these books, are glimpses of a "fire in the spirit" that is all but lost in America today. The mettle/determination of a different era blazes throughout. The grotesque misinformation and disinformation that deluge our sources of knowledge today (the propaganda runs dark & deep), drove me to these 19th century texts. I was searching, desperately, for some unadulterated truths. I do think I found a few precious gems. Below, a few poems and excerpts from poems. The tragedies and injustices we witness today occurred in the past. The only difference is, today, few see. In the early days of the Republic, a disciplined and educated populace actively resisted despotism. This defiance to old world tyranny is readily identifiable in these poems. Dig the title, "crowned bloodsuckers". Do we see anything, even remotely, resembling such a ferocity of spirit today?
To John G. Palfrey ( LINK ) There are who triumph in a losing cause, Who can put on defeat, as 't were a wreath Unwithering in the adverse popular breath, Safe from the blasting demagogue's applause; 'Tis they who stand for freedom and God's laws. And so stands Palfrey now, as Marvell Stood, Loyal to Truth dethroned, nor could be wooed To trust the playful tiger's velvet paws: And if the second Charles brought in Decay Of ancient virtue, if it well might wring Souls that had broadened 'neath a noble day, To see a losel, marketable king Fearfully watering with his realm's best blood Cromwell's quenched bolts, that erst had cracked and flamed, Scaring, through all their depths of courtier mud, EUROPE"S CROWNED BLOODSUCKERS,___ how more ashamed Ought we to be, who see Corruptions flood Still rise o'er last years mark, to mine away Our brazen idol's feet of treacherous clay!
SUGGESTED BY THE GRAVES OF TWO ENGLISH SOLDIERS ON CONCORD BATTLE-GROUND. These men were brave enough, and true To the hired soldier's bull-dog creed; What brought them here they never knew, They fought as suits the English breed: They came three thousand miles, and died, To keep the PAST upon it's throne; Unheard, beyond the ocean tide, Their English mother made her moan.
Stanzas on Freedom MEN! whose boast it is that ye Come of fathers brave and free, if there breath on earth a slave,Are ye truly free and brave?If ye do not feel the chain,When it works a brother's pain,Are ye not base slaves indeed,Slaves unworthy to be freed?They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak;They are slaves who will not choose Hatred,scoffing, and abuse,Rather than in silence shrink From the truth they needs must think;They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three.


The link ABOVE contains one of the Reverend Martin Luther King's most profound but most overlooked speeches. This speech, in all probability, got him assassinated. In it he deviated from civil rights to anti-war. This anti-war stanch upset the Military Industrial Complex.

(Of particular interest to me and relevance to this blog, is the inclusion of an excerpt from a James Russell Lowell poem that MLK so generously and warmly ended his powerful discourse with)



Crowned Vampires in Action (below)

Crowned Vampires in Action (below)
America's First ... and only Real Enemy: not the people of England, but British Monarchy.

Social Engineers Hard at it

Social Engineers Hard at it
“Just look at us. Everything is backwards; everything is upside down. Doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the major media destroy information, and religions destroy spirituality.” — Dr. Michael Ellner

Common Law Common Sense (Fear the Righteous)

Common Law Common Sense (Fear the Righteous)
Martyr's Innocence

Monday, December 21, 2009

Book Review - ‘The Talented Miss Highsmith,’ by Joan Schenkar - Review - NYTimes.com

Book Review - ‘The Talented Miss Highsmith,’ by Joan Schenkar - Review - NYTimes.com:

Patricia Highsmith traveled in very "high" circles. Her NOVELS are highly instructive of how contemporary elites behave.
Yesterday, I was at Dave McGowan's web site . Scroll down to see a menacing photo of Dennis Hopper, who looms large in the chilling activities of the LC saga.
I mention Mr. Hopper because there was a significant synchronicity happening. Hopper played the legendary figure, Tom Ripley, in Wim Wender's film version of Patricia Highsmith's novel, "Ripley's Game", The American Friend.
This movie, captures my experiences in Manhattan's elite enclave of the downtown, SOHO, art scene of the 1970's. I commented on Peter Chamberlin's web site about the NY Times journalist Jane Perlez, who had penned a story about the recent Pakistan troubles. (I mentioned her early writing for the downtown newspaper, The SOHO Weekly News). SOHO, short for south of Houston, (Houston Street) is a neighborhood in lower Manhattan comprised of wealthy people in the arts. There were and still are numerous prestigious art galleries(remember Andrew Crispo from McGowan's, Programmed to Kill?) I can safely say, SOHO has many parallels to Laurel Canyon. SOHO, like Laurel Canyon, has had it's share of strange murders. Heath Ledger's death was just the latest. Ledger died in his SOHO loft space. (Perlez and Ledger both Aussies both associated with SOHO).
Dennis Hopper's Ripley, in the movie "The American Friend", epitomizes SOHO's denizens of the 70's. The film maker, Wenders, captures the SOHO of the 1970's perfectly with Hopper's Ripley.. Highsmith, in all of her novels dealing with Tom Ripley, imparts on the Ripley character, an ambiguous psychological complexity which is a polite way of saying Tom Ripley is the ultimate embodiment of a pure sociopath. This multidimensional "complexity" can be viewed as a metaphor for much of the elite/upper echelon high society. This "aspect", McGowan also documents in LC, albeit in a more cursory manner.
My take, both LC and SOHO are elite compounds where a variety of overlords of organized crime reside(America's version of crowned bloodsuckers). Sometimes they cooperate amongst themselves, sometimes they compete amongst themselves and sometimes the competition becomes unspeakably lethal. Highsmith's novels reveal these truly amazing interactions in a most intimate and substantive style. A style, characterised by her biographer
Joan Schenkar,“She wrote five or six of the most unusual novels of the last century.”

P.S.
I just found a cool web site dedicated to the SOHO Weekly News. Here is link
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