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OAKLEY -- The negative results of a recent survey might upend East Contra Costa Fire District's plans to place a parcel tax measure on the June ballot, which would all but ensure station closures and layoffs.
Board members were dismayed Monday to learn that of those constituents likely to vote in June, only 54 percent are willing to pay more for fire protection and medical aid -- significantly fewer than the number the cash-strapped agency needs to maintain its current level of service.
United Professional Firefighters of Contra Costa County's Local 1230 hired a polling firm to call 300 district residents last month to see if that the same level of anti-tax sentiment that sunk a previous attempt at a parcel tax still exists.
"We were hoping that the board would consider that and work on other options," Local 1230 President Vince Wells said. "If we put all this time into (the June parcel tax measure) and it fails, that's four more months wasted."
After reviewing the numbers, the consultant the district has hired to help inform the public about what's at stake agreed that the chances of a tax measure succeeding don't look good.
"It's risky to think we could get to two-thirds," said Charles Heath, district consultant, of the approval rating that a parcel tax must have to pass. "I do not think you can make up a 13 percent deficit between now and June."
Even after factoring in the margin of error, the most the district could hope for is 60 percent, he said.
Heath suggested that the board instead consider postponing the election until November when more people typically go to the polls or pursue another revenue-generating method that requires only a simple majority to pass.
But Fire Chief Hugh Henderson and some board directors acknowledged that to wait could create other problems.
Time is of the essence because the two-year federal grant that has kept the district afloat will expire in November. Unless the agency can come up with the money to offset that loss, officials say it probably will have to close two of its remaining five stations and lay off firefighters.
East Contra Costa Fire used to have eight stations but shuttered two in summer of 2010. The failure of a parcel tax in 2012 by a 56.2 percent margin forced the district to close three more before receiving a grant that enabled it to reopen two of them.
The district's precarious situation already is taking a toll, Henderson said.
"I'm concerned about the morale of staff," he said, noting that three of his 48 firefighters already have applied for jobs with other agencies.
Board President Joel Bryant noted that if the district held off an election until November, its proposal would be competing with other tax measures on the ballot. Multiple requests for money could prompt voters to reject all of them, he said.
But even if a parcel tax were to pass then, it wouldn't show up on people's property tax bills until August 2015 and it would be another four months before the district would start receiving any revenue, Henderson said.
Where the agency would find the approximately $4.4 million it needs during that intervening year is uncertain, he said.
"Any way you slice it, it's bad," Henderson said.
Board members voiced disappointment that the district's efforts to convey the urgency of its situation haven't garnered more support for the tax.
"I'm so frustrated I could spit!" said Bob Kenny, a board director.
The seven informational meetings that East Contra Costa Fire held last month to explain its position and the tax it was considering were sparsely attended. Moreover, 40 percent of those polled in the union's survey indicated that they were opposed to any tax.
"For whatever reason, this community is not getting behind the district. It's beyond frustrating," said Director Greg Cooper.
Board Vice President Ronald Johansen was incredulous that people would shoot down a tax that would cost them around $98 a year -- or about 26 cents per day.
"Twenty-six pennies a day and we're fighting tooth and nail. I'm just shocked by this," he said.
Diane Burgis, an Oakley City Councilwoman, agreed.
"Twenty-six cents is nothing when you need that service," she said.
Some thought that voters' opposition might be because firefighters are doing such a good job despite the district's limited means.
"My guys are busting their asses and that's why the public thinks they're getting an adequate level of service," Wells said.
Discovery Bay resident and retired firefighter David Piepho suggested that the board start closing stations right now and transfer those firefighters to the remaining ones, noting that the sight of empty firehouses might be what it takes for the district to get its point across to apathetic voters.
"Let the public feel what it's like," he said.
He didn't get any argument from Kevin Graves, a member of the town of Discovery Bay's board of directors.
"People aren't going to feel (the district's financial troubles) until it affects them personally," he said.
In the end, board members rallied around Director Greg Cooper's suggestion that the district conduct its own survey while continuing to prepare the paperwork required for a June election.
They unanimously agreed to have the consultant send a mailer with a response card attached to every one of the district's approximately 44,000 parcel owners asking how they'd vote on a tax.
Depending on the results, the board will decide at its March 3 meeting whether to put the matter on the ballot.
Contact Rowena Coetsee at 925-779-7141. Follow her at Twitter.com/RowenaCoetsee.


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SAN FRANCISCO - More than 21,000 signatures were submitted to San Francisco's Department of Elections today in support of a measure for the June ballot that would impose tighter restrictions on waterfront development, including a proposed basketball arena.
The initiative would require voter approval for any future waterfront development on city or Port of San Francisco property that would require an increase in existing height limits.
The proposal is being brought forth by the Sierra Club and the No Wall on the Waterfront coalition, which last year used the city's referendum process to defeat a luxury waterfront condominium project that was planned at 8 Washington St.
The groups this afternoon submitted 21,067 signatures to the Department of Elections -- more than twice the amount required by the city. The department now has 30 days to verify the signatures and determine whether the measure will go on the ballot.
The projects potentially impacted by the measure include a proposal to build a new 18,000-seat arena for the Golden State Warriors at Piers 30-32, located between the Bay Bridge and AT&T Park, as well as luxury condos across the street, coalition spokesman Jon Golinger said.
Golinger called the measure "a permanent tool to protect the waterfront."
"It shouldn't be about the bottom line, it should be about what's best for San Francisco," he said.
Mark Bittner, a resident in the city's Telegraph Hill neighborhood, was among the members of the group that submitted the signatures today.
Bittner said proposals like the arena would clog up traffic that is already often problematic along the waterfront.
"The Embarcadero is just moving like molasses," he said.
Becky Evans, chair of the San Francisco Bay chapter of the Sierra Club, said the waterfront traffic congestion creates increased car exhaust fumes, leading to higher rates of respiratory problems among neighborhoods like South Beach, where the arena would go.
Arena project spokesman Nathan Ballard said today that the project's organizers do not yet have a position on the measure.
"We're waiting to see if it qualifies, and if so, what implications it might have for our project," Ballard said.
He said the arena plan has been delayed from its initial estimated opening date of 2017 because multiple overhauls of the arena's design pushed back the project's schedule to allow for state-mandated environmental review.
Golinger from the waterfront coalition said the June ballot measure is not just targeting the arena, but would also apply to other proposed waterfront developments, including the San Francisco Giants' plans for the Mission Rock area at Pier 48 as well as plans for high-rises at Pier 70.
He said the voters' response to the 8 Washington development, which was rejected by more than 60 percent of voters, shows "an overwhelming enthusiasm for protecting our waterfront."
Golinger said, "We hope it will encourage more thoughtful development proposals."
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What has happened to the Pax Americana?
Here stands the Pax Americana, the most imposing Empire that ever rose from the short reign of human civilization, responsible for placing the entire manifestation of world citizens at the threshold of perilous danger. It is the Pax Americana that has unwound the stitches holding a volatile world together, the nation that has over the last fifty years caused so much damage to the peoples of the globe. The karma of ceaseless negative energy is coming back to haunt an empire whose actions, while helping enrich its own belly and those residing in its entrails, have decimated untold millions whose only crime was being born in lands destined to suffer the harsh exploitation of
How has a once admired and loved leader of nations fallen from grace in such a short period of time? What has happened to a populace living in the wealthiest nation in human civilization? Why has the
Gluttony and materialism have enveloped all corners of the
The ability to question authority has vanished in a haze of indifference, even as the evaporation of the American mind continues unabated. Government has been transformed right in front of our eyes, becoming not democracy but corporatism, the marriage between the corporate and government elite. Our freedoms and liberties are in shambles, now fragile porcelain being decimated by the thundering herd of bulls in
The government of, by and for the people is now comprised of leaches flourishing in rotten swamps, prostitutes roaming bordellos masquerading as palaces of governance and fecal matter prospering in the nation's sewers. Corporations and their minions we help elect dominate and transform society, leading us into the black holes they easily maneuver us into. We are being used and abused, yet with the dumbing down of
Something eerie seems to have engulfed us in the land of the free and the home of the brave. From the land where all men are created equal has equality disappeared; from a nation espousing freedom has freedom been eviscerated. Once brave dissenters and seekers of accountability have gone missing, allowing free reign to those endowed with power. Free-thinking and analytical minds are as rare as the great apes humanity is making extinct. Rare is the citizen not captive to fear, insecurity and intimidation. The ability to question authority or to seek accountability has collapsed along with the towers of the
Something is amiss in a nation where one would expect the plenitudes of Empire to trickle down into every man, woman and child. To bestow upon its citizens the tools needed to seek true freedom of thought and a path towards enlightenment would be expected of an American utopia that is more often preached rather than practiced. Yet the question arises as to the cause of why hundreds of millions continue to fall downwards into empty wells of promises unkept instead of reaching for the zenith of those fulfilled.
What mechanisms left to erode the citizenry of free thought and freedom of mind have been allowed to linger in American society, and how have they been allowed to remain when the reality of what has occurred continues to degrade the Pax Americana from the inside out?
Conditioned Producers and Consumers
Spawned from the assembly line called human procreation we open our eyes to a world ready to transform our life energies into expendable disseminators of the patterns of production and consumption that will mark our time on Earth, in essence becoming the reason for our existence. To the system called capitalism we become nothing more than a number which will in time be exploited to the full extent envisaged by man. We are given social security numbers, digits that will follow us through the journey from newborn to cadaver. To the system we are this number, easily traceable, easily conditioned.
Television begins to inculcate us with rampant bombardments of advertisements, thereby beginning to condition the young, innocent mind to a life trained for consumption. The foods we eat and the products we buy begin establishing the tastes we will forever enjoy. Associations of pleasure, ingrained tastes and smells, nostalgia of fantasy and perfection enter the young brain. It is because of this that corporations want to hook us from the first moments of infancy so loyal lifelong consumers we become. To the innocent and pure mind television thus becomes the window to a world that is neither real nor easy. The virgin brain sees in the shows it is blitzkrieged with a fiction that in reality does not exist. It sees perfection, fantasy, beauty, consumption and loyal acquiescence, and, with the passage of time, seeks to emulate this world in a false belief that it can be attained. Ingrained in this principle is the belief, channeled by corporations, that to achieve what can never be a person must consume and produce, be obedient to authority, friendly to her corporate masters and eager to embrace what society dictates. The dumbing down of
As television becomes parent, teacher, role model, babysitter and entertainer to the child, given the abandonment of historical parental roles thanks to society's pressure to produce and consume, everything shown becomes everything learned, thus habituating a child to the role corporations have decided to bestow onto him. When everything seen on the screen is created, controlled, manipulated and disseminated by the corporate world the child's perception of what reality encompasses will indeed also conform to the corporate vision. After image after image, fantasy after fantasy, conditioning after conditioning, the young human mind has no choice but to accept the commands of the brainwashing taking place right in front of his or her baby eyes.
It follows that children learn every behavior from their parents as well. From the very beginning entrenched behaviors to produce and consume become ingrained in the young brain. The long hours at work, the short amount of time spent with the child, the abandonment of parental roles and supervision, the incessant drive for consumption, the wasting of money and pursuit of material possessions, the behaviors of stress, depression, unhappiness, anger and frustration are all absorbed by a mind that in infancy acts like a sponge, learning human society from those closest to its environment, whether it is family or television.
In adulthood, these same behaviors will be manifested, thereby helping fulfill the role of producer and consumer the corporate world has reserved for yet one more human energy sprouting from the conveyor belt of procreation. Thanks to the television and parental subservience to the same system of their youth, one's progeny will become the bogged down producer of the same products he or she will later voraciously and seemingly without conscious consume.
The vicious circle that is the virus of American capitalism infects seemingly from birth, inoculating children to the vices of exploitation from which they will forever derive their existence. It is at the height of innocence that the forces of capitalism attack, attaching themselves in the depths of a human brain, dissolving precepts not in tune with its compulsive and exploitive self. Once attached the virus is not easily displaced, thereby becoming personality as well as behavior. From the cradle to the grave, destiny in today's
Consequences of a Controlled Populace
Ask an American
Education in the
The result is the age of corporatism, the age of unfettered and unaccountable power and the control of the masses through media manipulation, societal fabrication and education eradication. As the world slowly passes through the sands of time the people of the United States, those living inside what has become a most hated geopolitical entity, are seeing the result of being dumbed down and of letting incompetents, warmongers, profiteers and deranged zealots run unfettered and unopposed, ransacking the globe, its people and land in the process.
Today we see the ramifications of a citizenry that has allowed itself to be made ignorant through its submission to those in power whose purposeful malfeasance continues to destroy the very essence of knowledge that grants freedom to enslaved minds.
Those in power have succeeded in making the masses a herd of sheep following the shepherd straight into the slaughterhouse, unaware of the destiny that awaits them nor of their role in the furthering of death, destruction and violence now gripping the world. Like a deer caught in headlights, the masses are hypnotized, unable to see beyond the sight of their own meeting with a fate conditioned into our brains from infancy that is destroying freedom, knowledge and our ability to question the evils being done in our name.
Ignorance has replaced knowledge, resulting in power running amok, incapable of being restrained, mutating and growing, feeding off our inability to escape the debacle currently gripping our collective mind.
Brainwash Education
Stupid in America
The education system in
In many school districts, mostly poor ones strapped for cash, books can be dozens of years old, lacking modern thought or progress. Many books are tools created by entities with special interests that have as a purpose the teaching of their ideology or the furthering of their goals. The absurd teaching of creationism is one such example. Many corporations now create and donate books to school districts that contain references and examples to their brand names and product descriptions. Even in school children cannot escape the growing omnipresence of the corporate Leviathan which thirsts to program the innocent the way it sees fit.
Indeed, the young mind is needlessly brainwashed with a history of a nation that in many instances contradicts and even subverts the true historical reality of the
The genocide of indigenous Americans is whitewashed; the slavery of blacks that lasted hundreds of years, oftentimes suffering barbaric treatment at the hands of their white masters is easily covered up in a few paragraphs, deceiving readers to the true horrors their ancestors committed or suffered. The subservient role women were placed under for centuries is hardly mentioned, and the great civil rights movement that helped change history for the better never gets the coverage it deserves.
The war crimes and crimes against humanity America has perpetrated worldwide to millions of anonymous people under the rubric of freedom and democracy is never mentioned, rather, they are sugarcoated and glamorized, serving as examples of America's 'great history.' Also, the corrosive and damaging effects of American capitalism disguised as democracy that has condemned untold millions to the dustbins of history is manipulated to look like a chivalrous attempt to save lives and free nations.
Brainwashing unquestioned patriotism into our young one's minds government controlled education furthers the squashing of dissent and the questioning of our sovereign's motives. We are conditioned that our elected leaders are gods walking among men, to be trusted and never to be questioned. Their intentions are always noble, their reasoning pure. Dissent and debate, protest and curiosity are seen not as patriotic manifestations of an informed citizenry but rather as an alien afterthought not worthy of nationalistic pride.
The ingraining of loyalty to flag and country, even when committing evil worldwide, is to be allowed to continue, eventually becoming the means by which the state is allowed to declare war, economic genocide and market colonialism, without so much as a whisper from its constituency. The elite therefore bask in the glow of the radiant bean called patriotic fervor, indoctrinated from childhood, lasting until death.
Preaching the noble deeds yet hiding or disguising the evil ingrained in empire building serves only to alter history and manipulate the young, eroding our future in the process. To understand humanity in past, present and future an entire history must be taught, both good and bad, thereby creating in our future citizens the ability to grow wise to the mistakes of times past in order to comprehend the ever-changing and oftentimes complex conditions of the present. To not teach the truth of what has come before is to leave behind the keys to unlocking the door of the human condition, essentially condemning our children into repeating the errors that continue to bear witness to unnecessary suffering, death, destruction, violence and war.
The fruits of our past mistakes can be seen in our history; the essence of the human condition lies written for all to see. American education serves no purpose if the result of its actions leads to a replay of years gone by; it becomes an exercise in futility when our future repeats the blunders of their ancestors and the follies of those who once led.
Brainwash education is the means to an end, a device that entraps rather than make free. It is a valuable tool to exert hegemony over the populace. When begun from the first years of youth, becoming attached and most difficult to extract, brainwashing to suit the state and the elite's goals is a dangerous device. When combined with the 9/11's of history, it takes on a life of its own, becoming a Molotov cocktail ready to explode in seething rage. The system would not have it any other way.
Made Ignorant to a World Beyond our Borders
American education makes no attempt to expose the wonders of a world existing beyond its borders to its children. The outside world and its plethora of diverse people are hardly mentioned, easily summarized in brief mentions of world history. The ignorance of cultures, religions, ethnicities, nationalities and beliefs that has ensued has made
It is understanding the world and becoming part of it that prevents the
The failure of American education to teach about a world existing beyond the confines of its own grandeur is exemplified today by an
In order to prevent the never-before seen levels of hatred, animosity and anger directed at the United States and the blowback that is now being manifested the American education system must open itself up to the outside world. If it remains isolationist and ignorant, preferring to enclose itself in the bubble it continues to lock itself into, the karma we are witnessing will be but the tip of the iceberg. Ignorance leading to exploitation can only go so far; a world beyond our borders exists, and must be taught, learned and understood.
For if the Empire's people fail to grasp the lands and peoples beyond their borders, preferring instead to live in the comfort of their own existence and the ignorance of their upbringing a world that was never known will be once more forgotten, and the blowback birthed by our ancestors will be made that much more difficult to comprehend.
Separate and Unequal
The purposeful inequality inherent in American education is created by design, fostered by an elite that manipulates in society a separation between rich and working class. It is abundantly clear that education systems in
Maintaining separate and unequal education systems assures the elite, government and corporations of millions of exploitable slaves that through no fault of their own are condemned to a life stuck in the working class, living off low wages, surviving on a day to day basis, uneducated and ignorant to the exploitation they are subjected to. The millions that fate has placed in corrosive school districts starving for pennies from the government are subjected to an education that is shameful at best and a crime against humanity at worst. Unequal distribution of tax schemes makes it impossible for children born into poor neighborhoods from ever getting the education the few elite children of privilege are guaranteed.
With rotting school districts that cannot afford good teachers, books, buildings, administrators and a semblance of hope children receive substandard education levels that forever alter their ability to learn and advance in society. When this is compounded year after year the ramifications are severe, serving to quash all ability and potential opportunity. It is this level of education most American children, both urban and rural, are subjected to, forced to endure the worst inequality of teaching found in the developed world.
When the elite that run the nation are deciding futures, however, this is to be expected. Their corporations need low-class workers; their armies need soldiers; their government needs slaves. By maintaining separate and unequal education systems, in essence two completely different systems, one reserved for privilege, the other for future serfs, the elite are assured of control, exploitation, power and growing wealth, mostly at the hands of the slaves they have created. The masses, having been trained from birth to become the slaves of the nation's capitalists, are subjected to years of subservient education mechanisms that encourage and indeed guide us toward exploitation. The dreams and hopes of childhood are thus eviscerated as the reality of the environment and education we are born into collides with once creative talents and utopian goals.
Born into environments offering the worst in American education creates in the masses ignorance to the plight our government is subjecting us to. We are made unaware and become indifferent to the massive crime being perpetrated by government officials who help foster separate and unequal education and even encourage it by their unwillingness to make right what has been made wrong. The continued apathy of our government to the vastly different levels of education is proof that it is complicit in the manufacturing of an entire class of slaves produced to be exploited by the powerful few. To continue a system that is so dastardly in its scope and so damaging to millions is to acknowledge the purposeful disregard our government has in alleviating a reality that in this nation at least does not need to exist. It is shameful, it is wrong, it is a crime.
An assembly line of slaves has been created, socially engineered through years of manipulations and exploitations, breeding ignorance, robbing opportunity, erasing talent and harvesting entire generations of worker bees. For America the beautiful needs slaves to work and enrich the elite, it needs soldiers to wage war in the name of capitalism, it needs ignorance to continue its sovereignty and castes from which to maintain the balance that has kept those in power at the top for generations.
Separate and unequal, the secret ingredients to the American juggernaut; separate and unequal, the oil that assures the mighty engine of capitalism from ever corroding and malfunctioning. Through the backs of the masses the elite survive; through the exploitation of the many the few thrive.
Leaving all Working and Middle Class Children Behind
The dumbing down of
This form of education is leveling critical thinking, analytical skills and free-thinking minds. It is destroying education as we know it, along with the futures of millions of children who are being made automatons lacking a mind to question the world around them. This sinister mechanism is purposefully being implemented to dumb down American children. It is yet another tool those in power are using to create a nation devoid of free thought.
Teaching to the test entails sacrificing all subject matter not included in the test itself. As a result, vital tools such as music, art, languages, social sciences, philosophy, health and other liberal arts are being ignored, thrown away into dark closets of indifference. Worthy teachers now have their hands tied down, unable to bring out the blossoms of talent from their students. Instead, they must partake in the manipulation of
America's teachers, already underpaid and under funded, battling a system eager to destroy youth, must now see the seeds they sow become homogenous crops succumbing to ignorance, eroding all semblance of individuality and wasting away once fruitful and talented lives. All children are being left behind, and American society will pay the ultimate and most severe price.
Fostering Ignorance, Creating Sheep, Cementing Decline
Children are brainwashed at a very early age to follow the dictates of the state, to become the obedient drones the state needs in order to survive. Curriculum programs prevent the free-thinking mind from ever emerging even as such paramount subject matter such as art, foreign language, music and philosophy are being eliminated or never implemented. It is at a very early age when these classes can make a such a vital difference in children, in essence granting an enormous head start towards a long lasting, happy life. It is at early youth that the human brain absorbs everything that is taught, it is at this stage in development when positive and all-inclusive education bears fruit. Yet American children, living in the wealthiest nation on the planet, are being denied the essential tools needed for human progress to move forward, individuals to prosper and for a nation to thrive.
Becoming an exercise in futility, education has become a weapon to militarize millions of children to the tune of the government, robbing them of the free-thinking and analytical mind whose questioning of government and individual thought the elite want eliminated. In today's
As in all state systems, in order to have subservient citizens, the young must be programmed early on to the dictates of those in power. In
The majority of the American people now fail to question authority, debate policy, seek accountability or demand answers. Indifferent we have become to the dangerous ways of our government or to our own plight. Every generation has seen its ability to understand, question and analyze dwindle with each subsequent decade that passes. Soon the day will arrive when complete drones our descendants become, completely subservient to the will of the rulers, shackled in chains of ignorance, transformed into exploitable energies deficient of free-thinking minds.
The only vestige of freedom left is that of the mind, a realm never before touched by the claws of the state and the powerful. Yet this freedom is disappearing, for the state has found a way to annihilate a freedom once thought untouchable. Free-thought is fading fast from an American psyche that once espoused the belief in the power of the individual. In its wake lie hundreds of millions of energies whose minds have been captured in a war we failed to realize we were being subjected to. Free-thinking minds are being made extinct, suffering from years of social engineering and artificial conditioning.
More and more we are failing to understand what is being done to us and our children. With each passing day the corporate Leviathan absorbs more of our collective brain, inculcating us with garbage, conditioning us to its version of what American society should be. The wretched symptoms of capitalism are devouring our very existence, making us the sheeple the system feeds off of. We are being herded to the slaughterhouse, ready to be gutted and mass produced, sold to the hungry wolves and vultures concomitantly ready to feast off our once vibrant energies.
Tell the Children the Truth
The time has come to tell the children the truth. The time has come to tell them that most are condemned to castes, unable to escape, destined to be exploited, destined for modern man's version of slavery. The time has come to tell the children of privilege that they are being trained to become the exploiters of the masses, becoming condoners of subservience, inequality, injustice, corruption and thievery.
We must awaken from this lethargy catapulting us into a future missing freedom and individuality, happiness and a worthy existence. The dumbing down of
The time to retake the American mind is upon us, and this starts with telling our children the truth of what our indifference, subservience and inability to act is condemning them to. For knowledge is power, the kryptonite that weakens the energy leading us to nothingness. They know this, which is why the dumbing down of
It is through the awakening of the masses that mountains are moved and canyons crossed. It is through the slumber of the masses that evil awakens. It is through our collective energy that those in power have no future and no place left to hide. The future of
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Jimmy Montague said:
The end of American education
The end of the system as we know it will come when business (foreign and domestic) stops hiring people with degrees from American institutions. This will come about as more and more knowledge jobs (especially including high-tech R&D) are out-sourced to India, China, etc. We won't have to wait for it much longer because it's already starting to happen.
lionhead said:
a guest said:
Great comment
...and the bastards buried "Idiocracy" too, I guess it hit too close to the homewrecker's agenda.
Iran War Underway: US and Britain Funding Right Wing Terrorists For Regime Change
The Long history of British and American covert provocation and action in Iran
Infowars.net | March 30, 2007
Steve Watson
The US and Britain are already at war with Iran, have been at war with Iran for a number of years now and are funding anti-Iranian terrorist groups inside Iran in preparation for the fallout that will occur after overt military action is commenced.
Not my words, the words of high ranking CIA officials, Defense department officials, former UN officials and retired US air force Colonels.
SOURCE FOR SURVIVAL - http://www.infowars.com/articles/ww3/ iran_war_underway_us_uk_funding_right_wing_terrorists_f
a guest said:
The dumbing down of America, this idiocracy we are creating disgusts me. We are the country our parents used to warn us about. We need compassion for our neighbors in the world and we need to stop buying into this artificial economical growth system that rejects the reality of finite global resources such as oil. What our creator has ordained to be fruitful we have made sterile and vice versa.
a guest said:
this is all due to the failure of the relious/spiriual ideals that this country was founded on Consumersm is now God
avatar singh said:
it is england which is the main evil influence behind america making its foreign and economic policies.
it is england which is the main evil influence behind america making its foreign and economic policies.
31st jan.2007.
What so called democracy really mean for the rapacious anglosaxon race(yes it is a race war by parasitic Anglo-Saxons against the rest of the world)
it is very important to realize and understand the trickery of the english race in manipulating usa to wage wars on behalf of britain which gains most from Iraq war and any war that usa imposes on the third world and even on Europe.
Here are some of the writings done years ago to give a global picture of what is REALLY happening in the world and by WHOSE agency.
The modus operandi of Britain is to make country and regions unstable and install british stooge with explicit instruction to bring the money -looted ones -to Britain from where it is not going to go anywhere else.
Some oligarch Jews (like thee criminal U.K.-based fugitive oligarch Boris Berezovsky)
were the stooge of British in Russia and they brought so many ill gotten money to uk. So did the Kuwaitis-who brought 4 billions of pounds within a week of first Iraq war problem in august 1990 -so has continued the massive loot of the rest of the world by the English .race through this money protection racket . It is money protection racket in the sense that those eliete's money is protected only when it is made to be lodged in British London banks. The witness, who appeared on the Rossiya channel with his face hidden and was referred to as Pyotr, accused 61-year-old Berezovsky of killing Alexander Litvinenko because the former security officer knew how the exiled tycoon had obtained political asylum in Britain in 2003. This thief boris berezosvky is a terrorist as well who calls for violet end to Putin-the president who is one of the most loved of his countrymen compared to any in the world.
As someone said "We live in a world where criminals are good guys and patriots are villains: where Berezovsky is a liberal "human rights" activist and Putin is a moral monster." that putin who is one of the most popular leader of any in the world.
say even if Russia destroys usa then if Britain or rather england is allowed to exist then the english parasitic dog race will ,by very parasitic nature, will try to disrupt Russia or other countries' existence. therefore instead of attacking usa or poland it is best policy of Russia to attrack and destroy to the whole of england which must be evaporated to a rubble.
IN '88 when Dalai lama, at the height of Tibetan disturbances, visited west, the then british prime minister refused to meet Him. Later on with the demise of Russia and usefulness of China gone and with manipulation to keep power in Hong Kong somehow intact, the same british media and government ,like dog, started barking at China. It is interesting that amnesty international selectively targets those very countries( as it did china after cold war) who are out of favour (because they would not be a british stooge) of the british media and govt. This is not surprising as amnesty international is the creation of british govt, and british media. england with the most appalling record of human rights in last 200 years of her evil rule, needed some organisation to keep the others from charging england off her past and current evil practices. In other words it went for aggressive posture in propaganda war so that others can be demoralized and stopped from pointing out the real evil which is england. That is why amnesty international is one armour of the british lies to exploit the rest of the world. Amnesty international must be ignored and an independent human watchdog (which england will simply ignore) created. One purpose of amnesty international is to create an atmosphere for hatred towards the would be victims of british exploitation so that a victim could be blamed to have deserved the consequences. That is why ,now amnesty international sometimes threatens China, sometimes India and etc.
Mrs Margaret Thatcher, Britain's so called iron Lady, refused to receive the Dalai Lama during his UK visit in the late-1980s for fear of offending his Chinese oppressors. Perhaps the iron in her was wrought iron, much given to bending in the heat.
In fact Britain is running a protection racket in the world through the help of american army-(because Britain is a third rate country with fourth rate army so it cannot do it on its own).
What Britain does is let the other countries be made instable (Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan etc) then let the british stooge be installed there-those people who have no following in own country and with strict instruction to those stooges that they will bring the money to britan,-that is how London has enriched itself in last 15 years after fall of soviet union. Billions of soviet money have flown illegally to London and the british court -kangaroo court if ever there was any -have not let the money go citing "it will harm england's balance of payment"?
That is why british media gets incensed if the traitors like soviet spies are not left safe in Britain -because then the whole business of protection money racket and money that Britain gets is in jeopardy. That is what explains influx of foreign money to London and how London has overtaken new York in stock market. Forget about service industry -british are the most ill mannered race what service can they provide except protection racket on back of american arms? Britain is looting even usa. Through it is usa which has worked hard (through illegal invasions ) to make other countries unstable so that Britain can get money from protection of stooge elites of those countries..
the modus operandi of Britain is to make country and regions unstable and install british stooge with explicit instruction to bring the money -looted ones -to Britain from where it is not going to go anywhere else.
Some oligarch jews were the stooge of British in Russia and they brought so many ill gotten money to uk. So did the Kuwaitis-who brought 4 billions of pounds within a week of first Iraq war problem in august 1990 -so has continued the massive loot of the rest of the world by the English race through this money protection racket . it is money protection racket in the sense that those elite's money is protected only when it is made to be lodged in British London banks.
This is how the british and Americans now conduct their battle for "hearts and minds" – by making local satraps so widely and deeply despised that they are totally dependent on their Washington overlords for their sheer physical survival. The real "benchmark" the Iraqis have to display to the Americans' satisfaction is an infinite capacity for obedience."
"In the aftermath of President Abraham Lincoln's defeat of the London-backed slave-holders' Confederate insurrection, the London-linked New York faction of U.S. finance unleashed a predatory looting of the physical assets of the territory formerly ruled by the defeated Confederacy. That operation, which was described then as "carpet bagging," is a term that pointed to the style of the personal baggage, in which the travelling, locust-like predators carried their personal effects."
A very famous news mogul-Mr.Rudolph Hearst (Jewish proprietor of he the Hearst newspaper chain ))- had been stopped from running for American presidency in 1916 because he was suspected by the English that
might not have been inclined to rescue england in the 1st world war. Anyway, the southern constituency was pressing hard for america to come to rescue england who was staring defeat and thus loosing the prospect of enslaved nations who would have been feed from defeat of england. America did come to aid of england and it was called end of isolationalism. But this end of isolationalism would be tolerated only when it suits english interest against others and not in case of others like freedom for Irish people in northern Ireland (an occupied part of Ireland).and that British agent Wilson intervened on side of Britain in name of spreading democracy at point of gun! Woodrow Wilson was re-elected in 1916 on a promise to stay out of the Great War.
Think of that-Britain was looting two third of the world at the time and killing starving millions of people-and this Wilson comes to Britain rescue in name of protecting democracy! And that is exactly what these bastards mean when they utter democracy-that is a code word for them to attack other countries for furtherance of british interest. Then if two millions Iraqi are killed -starved -it is price worth paying. Somebody can legitimately ask than what to do with 60 millions English people and then it would be worth the price to save the world from English rapacity.
"The First World War was by far the bloodiest conflict in human history up to that time. Schwartz and Skinner noted, "Woodrow Wilson proclaimed a war for democracy against 'Prussian dictatorship,' but that was propaganda. Germany had civil rights, an elected parliament, competing parties, universal male suffrage, and an unparalleled system of social democracy." Germany was far more democratic than either the British or French empire."
"The significance of the revived promotion of Marx's name is located in the process, directed from London, by Prince of Wales Edward Albert, for clearing the way for "A New Seven Years War" on the European continent, through a series of measures, including the ouster of Germany's Chancellor Bismarck, the assassination of France's President Sadi Carnot, the Dreyfus case, the British launching of Japan into wars against China, and the London-steered assassination of U.S. President William McKinley. The McKinley assassination had the crucial function of shifting control of the U.S. Presidency from the U.S. traditional orientation of friendship toward both Bismarck's Germany and Russia, by putting the U.S. Presidency in the hands of a dutiful nephew of a Confederate spy, Theodore Roosevelt, and, a bit later, a fervent champion of the Ku Klux Klan, London's asset Woodrow Wilson. It was only with the election of President Franklin Roosevelt, that the U.S. Presidency fell again into the hands of a true U.S. patriot, as the death of Franklin Roosevelt put the Presidency back into the hands of a Wall Street tool and Churchill accomplice, Harry S Truman."
An Anglophile to the core, ku kulx klan stooge Wilson didn't care about the fate of the Russians. His concern was in keeping German forces split along two fronts. The payoff worked: Russia's provisional prime minister Aleksandr Kerensky kept the Russians involved in the war.
In 1916, Woodrow Wilson was re-elected to the presidency chiefly on the strength of a slogan: "He kept us out of war." By 1917, the peacenik prez was leading the charge against Germany, jailing antiwar activists, and exhorting Americans to fight a "war to end all wars." In 1940, Franklin Delano Roosevelt told the voters: "I have said this before, but I shall say it again and again and again: your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars." Behind the scenes, however, he was maneuvering to do just that – and by the end of 1941, we were fighting a two-front war, embracing "Uncle" Joe Stalin as a fellow "anti-fascist," and planning the internment of the Japanese-American population.
" When this English edition of Professor Stanislav Menshikov's book has been printed, Russia's President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin will have delivered his landmark May 10, 2006 "state of the union" address. The President's address will have marked the probable close of what had been the demographically murderous, greatest carpetbagging swindle in history. The carpetbagging which Professor Menshikov's book describes, is the post-1989 looting of the territory of the former Soviet Union, a looting that, in fact, has also been the predatory ruin of most of the East European territory of the Comecon outside Russia then and now."-from


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MOUNT PLEASANT, Mich. – Terence Jones' two free throws with 1.7 seconds left iced the victory for the Texas A&M – Corpus Christi men's basketball team, as it knocked off Central Michigan 49-47 at McGuirk Arena on Saturday night. Trey Zeigler scored 22 points for the Chippewas in a losing effort.
Jones' nine points led the way for the Islanders, who won despite not having a single player finish in double figures. But all nine players who played in the game scored in the win for A&M – Corpus Christi, and five different players scored at least six points. The Islanders held CMU to 16-of-48 shooting on the night and forced 11 Chippewa turnovers in the win.
In addition to Zeigler's 22 points, Derek Jackson added 15 for the home squad. John Morris led all players with six rebounds in the contest.
Early on the two teams traded baskets for a 4-4 score, but the Islanders opened up a bit of a lead with a 7-1 run to make it 11-5 at the 12:41 mark. From there, the Islanders pushed the lead to 16-7 on a three by Hameed Ali and a nice drive to the hoop by Jordan Pope-Didier. CMU cut into that with four points in a row, with the score 16-11.
The Islanders cut into that mini-rally with a beautiful alley-oop from Jones to Nate Maxey, making it 18-11. The Chippewas battled back, though, cutting it to 18-16 with a 5-0 run engineered mostly by Zeigler, before the visitors got a three from Jake Kocher to put the lead back to 21-16. The two teams traded points into the half, with the Islanders getting a foul-line jumper from Pope-Didier to take a 23-19 lead into the break.
CMU scored the first five points of the second half to pull into the lead, 24-23, as the Islanders started 0-for-2 from the field with four turnovers. But Jones got the visitors off the schneid, burying a three from the right elbow to put the Islanders back ahead 26-24. Zeigler scored the next six points for CMU, with the Islanders scoring four, and the teams were knotted at 30 with 11:30 remaining.
At that point, the two teams started going blow-for-blow, with neither able to open up much of a lead. The Islanders got a clutch three from Ali to go ahead 38-36, and that started a 7-1 run that gave the visitors a 42-37 lead. The teams traded free throws to make it 44-39, then CMU scored three straight at the line to pull it to 44-42 with 2:07 remaining.
The Islanders got a free throw from Chris Hawkins-Mast to put the lead at three, but Zeigler hit on a drive to the basket to make it a one-point game with 49.4 seconds left. A&M – Corpus Christi was unable to convert on the other end, but CMU was whistled for a critical charge at the other end, and the Islanders took the ball with 5.3 seconds on the clock.
The Chippewas sent Johnathan Jordan to the line with 1.7 seconds on the clock, and the freshman hit both. Jones followed with a pair more at the stripe to ice the game, and Jackson's three at the buzzer proved irrelevant, as the Islanders emerged with the two-point win.
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An inmate died in the Terrebonne Parish jail Friday, a day after he was arrested, the Sheriff's Office said.
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The Sheriff's Office is withholding his name pending the notification of family. He is not originally from Terrebonne.
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A year ago, then-Cal coach Jeff Tedford predicted Richard Rodgers could become the best tight end in college football.
It didn't happen, but Rodgers decided that he will enter the 2014 draft, the Cal football office confirmed Thursday.
A 6-foot-4, 245-pound junior, Rodgers caught 39 passes for 608 yards in Sonny Dykes' offense this season. A year ago, under Tedford, he struggled with a hand injury and caught 20 passes.
He's the son of Richard Rodgers Sr., who was part of The Play in the 1982 Big Game.
According to sources outside the Cal football office, Rodgers already has signed with an agent. Cal also said cornerback Kam Jackson, who announced earlier in the week he intends to enter the draft, has told the coaching staff that's his plan.
Meanwhile, Palo Alto native and Fresno State redshirt sophomore wide receiver Davante Adams also will enter the draft, the Fresno Bee reported.
The 6-2, 216-pound Adams set a school record this season with 131 catches for 1,719 yards.
He also scored 24 touchdowns in 2013 and had two-year career numbers of 233 receptions for 3,030 yards and 38 TDs.
Adams received a third-round evaluation from the NFL Draft Advisory Board.
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Centennial-Corona's Tre Watson, who ran for 3,734 yards and 50 touchdowns this season, was named the Los Angeles Times' Back of the Year.
The 5-11, 195-pound running back has orally committed to Cal. Watson also was named first team along with Narbonne-Harbor City lineman Owen Roberts, a San Jose State commit; and Foothill-Tustin linebacker Bobby Okepeke, a Stanford commit.
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Jockey Juan Hernandez, who will begin a seven-day suspension Friday, rode four winners on opening day of Golden Gate Fields' winter/spring meeting. He won the first race with Lil Angelina ($7), the third with Defying Logic ($26), the fourth with God Of War ($7.60) and the sixth with Frank and Go ($7). Hernandez received the suspension (to be served Dec. 27-29 and Jan. 1-4) from the board of stewards for causing interference aboard Mark a Star in the second race on Dec. 13.
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Friday August 12, 2011
Augusta, Ga--Now in their second year of football Westminster would love to eventually have some division one prospects on their team. They've had them in soccer, but football, that might be down the road.
This is still a very young team that only has one senior and five juniors. It's still a work in progress. Last year, they did win a game and showed signs on the offensive side of the ball, but defense, was not a thing of beauty. Right now though, it's about turning the school onto the sport and building from there.
"Yeah, there was a foundation even before last year," says new Coach Andrew Bryan. "They started with some middle school and worked their way up to JV and the guys did a good job last year of teaching fundamentals and things like that. Again, it's just continuing to create a culture of football here at a school that hasn't had it for many years."
"Defense is always a focus seeing you can't win if you can't stop people," says the lone senior Patrick Mosley. "We found that we have a good linebacking corp. The line is getting better this year, and we're working on our secondary and it's starting to get there.'
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This is a post that came as a comment on the cemetery Query: https://woodtxgene.com/2011/11/09/query-private-cemetery-in-wood-county/. I thought I would make it a separate post for more visibility. It could probably use some followup to get all the names and dates by some member near the cemetery.(the editor)
my name is billy shamburger would like to say that a military stone in libbert cemetery at the head of edwin shamburger is his son that was killed in france is there because i could,t find a place to put it if amy one can help thanks billy shamburger ps e mail firstname.lastname@example.com
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Happily ever after ends on the honeymoon in "Hundred Days."
This unconventional musical, part indie rock opera, part tragic romance, will take your breath away from the first pounding chorus to the last plaintiff wail. Astutely directed by Anne Kauffman with a deft book by Kate E. Ryan, "Hundred Days" is ablaze with the ephemeral nature of life and love.
While the two-hour rock concert-cum-play may have its flaws, it's still one of the most electric fusions of music and theater in recent memory. If you don't fall a little in love with the Bengsons, the young couple at the core of this folk-rock musical, something may be wrong with your heart.
An heir to the kick-ass tradition of "Passing Strange" and "Striking 12," this raucous world premiere sets fire to the stage through April 6 at Z Space in a co-production with Encore Theatre Company and Piece by Piece. The score is an alt-rock gem that will linger in your head long after the curtain falls.
Abigail and Shaun Bengson fell for each other immediately, and that attraction spun their lives in a whole new direction. The intensity of that experience is what inspired this gem of a story in which a couple learns their days are numbered.
Sunny Sarah (played by Abigail) and sheepish Will (played by Shaun) meet at a party in Queens, bond over the desire to see the salt flats of the West and find themselves married three weeks later.
Their courtship is so fast and hard that Will's best friend Max (a magnetic Jo Lampert) feels slighted, and Sarah's knitting circle has to work their fingers to the bone to be on time with the wedding gown. The unadulterated bliss of that romance is shattered when Will learns he has a terminal condition that will lay waste to his body in less than a "Hundred Days."
Stung by the tragedy of knowing how little time they have left, the newlyweds cocoon themselves in their house and try to pack a lifetime into a few months. Abigail radiates the electricity of first love in the infectious title song, and she summons up the despair of letting go in the haunting "Three Legged Dog." Guitar-playing Shaun suffuses Will with warmth and passion as he goes from the narcissism of youth to the powerlessness of facing death.
Kauffman makes the transcendent themes of the play manifest in the staging. The show starts out as a rock concert, but shifts into a more theatrical realm as the narrative deepens. Rivers of salt pouring from the ceiling represent time's shifting sands as well as the salt-flats adventure that will never unfold. Shadows dance in windows of the rear wall as the outside world tries to intrude on their fleeting nirvana.
There are some missteps. It's confusing that other actors (Reggie D. White and Amy Lizardo) sometimes play Sarah and Will while Abigail and Shaun concentrate on the white-hot vocals. While the ensemble shifts through numerous roles with ingenious efficiency, there is no point in pulling our attention away from the stars of this show, whose personal chemistry is key to the intensity. The secondary actors feel tacked on to an otherwise intimate tale.
It's also hard to figure out exactly when the story is set. References are made to the 1940s, and there's a gramophone at the ready, but little else about that time period seems to inform the story. Finally, the ending, while explosive, feels a little rushed.
But these are all quibbles in terms of the tearful euphoria the musical sparks. The raw spontaneity of the music and the performances more than makes up for its failings. "Hundred Days" makes every minute count.
Contact Karen D'Souza at 408-271-3772. Read her at www.mercurynews.com/karen-dsouza, and follow her at Twitter.com/karendsouza4.
'Hundred Days'
Concept and music by Abigail and Shaun Bengson
Through: April 6
Where: Z Space, 450 Florida St., San Francisco
Running time: two hours, one intermission
Tickets: $10-$70, 866-811-4111, www.zspace.org


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12 Habits of a Highly Recruited Softball Player
Across America on any given weekend, in any given sport, tens of thousands of teen athletes are performing at showcase tournaments, camps or other special events in front of dozens of college and/or professional scouts and coaches designed to give them the opportunity to "be seen." Every player (and their parents) hopes for a stellar game or games to standout in some way, shape or form from all the rest of the players. And while playing well is the ultimate goal during a showcase type event how to prepare for that day is the topic of this article.
If your athlete aspires to play ball in college (or professionally) and receive a partial or full athletic scholarship it is never too early to start havingher/him focus on developing the kinds of habits and traits that top athletic recruits possess that both catch the eye of the scouts as well as allow them to play at a consistent peak level on game/match day.
Here are the Top 12 Habits and Traits of Highly Recruited Athletes:
1. They Have a Great Work Ethic - These peak performers have a crazy work ethic, and are self-driven to get better each day. No one ever out-prepares them. They are constantly pushing themselves in training and practice to be their best. They are the ones flying all over the field/court, and when they make a mistake in practice they immediately ask for another rep. Every coach would love to have an entire roster of these kids!
2. They Love the Game - Their work ethic is propelled due to their love of the game. Playing the game brings these elite athletes joy; they love the way they feel on the field/court and even smile after a mistake. It's all good to them whenever they cross the white line and their love for the game is infectious!
3. They Possess Great Mental Focus - These are true competitors who have cultivated the ability to stay in present moment awareness during crunch time. They have the unique ability to get into the zone and block out all distractions. These athletes are the ones who consistently play poised under pressure and seem to have ice in their veins in the biggest moments of competition.
4. They Expect Success for Themselves and Their Teammates - These immensely positive athletes recognize the tremendous investment they and their teammates have made into the game and as a result expect success come game day. They have a consistent "can do" attitude and it is contagious on their team. Their presence on the field/court makes everyone around them better.
5. They are Students of the Game - These top recruits never stop being a student of the game. Each game and each practice they observe what their teammates and the opponents are doing, always looking for ways to improve their game. They master the little things in their game and constantly look for waysto gain the edge, like recognizing the umpire's strike zone or finding a defensive weakness and exploiting it. Coaches both love and respect these players!
6. They Focus on Effort, Not Outcome - These are consistent peak performers in part because they have learned to focus on the effort they give and not solely on the outcome of each play or game/match performance. They recognize that the game is a tough one to master, filled with adversity. By focusing on putting forth maximum effort in the moment and not being concerned with how others judge their outcomes they are able to frame mistakes as a learning opportunity and a challenge to get better!
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Jane O'Connor, New York Times bestselling author, editor, and creator of the Fancy Nancy books for children presents Almost True Confessions, a mystery for grown-ups starring Miranda "Rannie" Bookman whom we met in Dangerous Admissions.
What could be more fun for a freelance copyeditor than a juicy exposé about one of Manhattan's most beloved society doyennes?
But when Rannie arrives at the east side apartment of reclusive author Ret Sullivan, she finds more than the final draft of the manuscript waiting for her: tied to the bed and strangled with an Hermès scarf is Ret's half-naked body.
Was this merely a case of rough sex that got a little too rough, as the police believe? Or was Ret murdered because someone didn't want her to meet her deadline?
Once again, the heroine of Jane O'Connor's Dangerous Admissions proves that her mind is just as sharp as her blue pencils in Almost True Confessions: Closet Sleuth Spills All, a mystery full of sly humor and romance.
This comic mystery set in the elite zip codes of Manhattan will leave you breathless . . . literally
What could be more fun for a freelance copy editor than work- ing on a juicy tell-all about one of Manhattan's most enigmatic society doyennes? But when Miranda "Rannie" Bookman arrives at Ret Sullivan's tony Upper East Side apartment, she finds more than the final draft of the reclusive author's manuscript waiting for her—there's also the half-naked body of Ret herself, tied to her bed and strangled with an Hermès scarf.
Was this merely a case, as the police believe, of rough sex that got a little too rough? Or was Ret murdered because someone wanted to make absolutely sure she didn't meet her deadline? Once again, Rannie must prove that her mind is just as sharp as her Col-Erase blue pencils—or risk getting rubbed out too.
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With today's news that BioShock Infinite will include a special old school difficulty mode, commenter Blessrok is curious about what difficulty setting you play on by default? Are you an easy-going gamer, or do you like to be punished? Tell us in today's Speak Up on Kotaku.
I don't know about anyone else, but for me I just like to play a game on whatever the default difficulty setting. My reasoning has always been "Because this is the difficulty they intended me to play it at", but certain instances I'll bump it up. Those cases were more a fact of the last game in that series on "normal" was a bit too easy. I played Uncharted on default, but bumped Uncharted 2 and Uncharted 3 up to "hard" (if "crushing" was available at the start I'd put it there. I never replay a game on a harder difficulty level. It's just not me) and felt that I had a bit more fun.
So what about you? Do you knock it down on your first play, turn it up, or play as I refer to it, the developers' intended difficulty level?