Revolutionary Praxis, “Solidarity with the Greek People”

New post by Revolutionary Praxis out of the UK. I don’t necessarily agree that capitalism has to go as they say, but they are right that the current model is failing badly.

People are saying that social democracy is failing, but social democracy didn’t cause the crisis. Capitalism did. The capitalists did. The more unregulated the system was, the worse your country got hammered. Parasitic financial capital caused a worldwide crash of the entire world capitalist system. This was due to radical neoliberal reforms in the financial sector of the US, which caused a crisis in the US. The crisis then spread from the US around the globe. Europe was particularly hard hit.

When capitalism hits one of its neverending crisis, it’s always the socialist aspect of society that goes to the chopping block. Capitalism blows up the system, and socialism gets executed for the crime. And in this way, critics are correct about the flaws of the social democratic model.

But the flaws are not the problem of social democracy. They are the fault of capitalism.

Capitalism will always tend towards deregulation, and the more deregulated it is, the more crises will result. Radical neoliberalism as tried by the Chicago Boys in Chile and the US since 1980, but especially since 2000, always blows up the system and causes an economic crisis. It’s so regular a part of the model that we might even say it’s a law of the system. And when neoliberalism inevitably blows up as it always does, sure, social democracy gets the ax. So in periods of predictable economic crisis, the social democratic model will get hacked up.

The alternative is a pure neoliberal model.

So this is the error of saying, “The problem is socialism,” when looking at the present crisis. The alternative to socialism of any kind can only be neoliberalism, and that’s horribly unstable, blows up all the time in the worst ways, only works for the top 20% of the population while screwing the bottom 80%, and furthermore is so immoral that it’s evil.

The only alternative for the Greeks is to default on their debt. There’s no other way out of this. The Greek people kept electing politicians who said they would do the people’s bidding, but once they got in, they always voted with the bankers and the 1%. In the UK, we have three parties, of the Left, Right and Center. All three points on the political compass are voting with the banksters and 1% and screwing the 99%. Even socialist parties as in Greece are lining up with the banksters. There doesn’t seem to be any hope.

It seems that under the present model of capitalism, or under any capitalism, the leaders, particularly in times of crisis, will always side with the rich and the 1% and attack the poor, the workers and the 99%. There doesn’t seem to be any way around it. Instead, it seems to be built right into the system itself.

Given that, why is the system worth having or saving? Someone explain this to me.

On Tuesday, February 14, a demonstration in support of the struggle of the Greek people was held in Nottingham, England. A member of Revolutionary Praxis gave the following speech:

The Greek people are under attack from international bankers, EU governments and the Greek government. As a result of the machinations and blundering of bankers and politicians the Greek people are being subjected to massive austerity measures – higher taxes, big cuts in wages and pensions, slashing of social services, record unemployment.

The Greek Parliament has voted for even more severe austerity measures demanded by European Central Bank, IMF and various banks. But the Greek people have had enough. They are rising in revolt as we saw in Syntagma Square. This is just the beginning. There will be more militant protests. The Greeks are showing the way forward for the rest of the people of Europe.

Greece was the birthplace of democracy, which means rule by the people. But in Greece today, it is not the people who rule but the capitalist bankers and their political representatives. The same is true in Britain where all the main political parties – Conservative, Liberal-Democratic and Labour – are imposing massive cuts in public spending to prop up the capitalist system. This is rule by the rich, for the rich.

But capitalism is in trouble. That’s why the political leaders have started burbling about we must have “fair” and “responsible” capitalism, telling bankers to reduce their massive bonuses. Don’t be taken in.

The real problem is capitalism itself, a system of oppression and exploitation. It is a system reaching its end, becoming ever more decrepit and dysfunctional. Capitalism only works for the rich 1% but is no good for the 99%, the rest of us, who do most of the work. If we do not destroy capitalism, it will destroy us.

In Britain, the Coalition Government is holding down earnings, reducing welfare benefits, cutting public services and attacking pensions – all to pay back the bankers the British government borrowed from to prop up the bankrupt bankers. At the same time, Prime Minister Cameron rejects a financial transactions tax claiming that he is defending the British people. In reality he is defending the interests of his rich friends and relations in finance capital. He defends the rich, not the poor.

Here in Nottingham the Labour City Council is about to bring in its second cuts budget, knocking £20m off public services while raising Council Tax by 3.5% (Should we pay it?). It is services for vulnerable groups such as the old, disadvantaged children, young unemployed and the homeless who are particularly hit. Also 195 council workers will lose their jobs.

People have been protesting about both national and local public service cuts but we must do more. The politicians don’t care if all we do is sign petitions and demonstrate. More direct action is necessary and the Greek people have shown the way forward. We need to confront politicians and administrators who are implementing the cuts. We need to give them a hard time, make them feel nervous, to become afraid to face the people they are attacking.

Sometimes a Cigar Is Just a Cigar

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. Sometimes a cock is just a cock. The only reason you think a cigar is a cock is because she’s hot and you’re dirty minded.

Check out the female degradingly reduced to sex object by male pigs in the photo below for an extrapolation on this type of chauvinist stinking thinking.

Is that a cigar in your mouth honey, or are you just happy to see me?

Bigfoot News February 26, 2012

New photos of and information on the Melissa Hovey photo available. There are new high definition blow up pictures of the Melissa Hovey Bigfoot pic. They show excellent detail that seems to beyond what any costume designer would think up.

New blown up photo of Hovey's Bigfoot pic with anomalies circled. Photo enhancements by Charles Middleton posted on Jennifer Caywood's Facebook page. Photo enhanced by both darkening shadows and raising the pixel % to 3000 per square inch. Permission granted to reproduce for educational use only. Commercial copying, hiring, lending is strictly prohibited.

I can see the white bumps in the photo. This looks like some sort of skin condition. Perhaps someone with dermatological knowledge can chime in.

At first I thought I could see the tick, but now I can’t. Perhaps someone can point it out for me.

I saw the bloody looking sores/scrapes at first, and now I am seeing even more of them. I have heard that a lot of the older Bigfoots are pretty beat up looking. That stands to reason, I assume.

I do think that is an ear on the right. This looks a lot like the Harley Hoffman Bigfoot video. About the Bigfoots’ ears: they look rather small compared to human ears, but this stands to reason if they evolved in the north. Humans from the north have smaller ears than humans from near the equator. The smaller ears are to protect them from the cold. Some witnesses have also noted what they called pointy, elf-shaped ears on the Bigfoot they saw. I have seen these elf ears before, possibly in the Hoffman video.

The question about the photo being too high quality for a gamecam has been resolved. This was a homemade gamecam set up with a 35mm camera set with a zoom lens. These homemade setups were pretty popular a few years back. The photo quality makes good sense for a 35mm camera with a zoom lens.

The tree is a loquat tree. They are common in Florida, Texas and southern California. Hovey is a Texas researcher. It stands to reason that as she was chosen as the person to release the photo to, the photo may have been shot in Texas. Loquats have fruits that wild animals love to eat. Perhaps the Bigfoot was eating off the loquat tree. Perhaps since the Bigfoot was often seen eating off the loquat tree, a camera trap was set up to snap a photo of it while it was doing so.

There has been much speculation that this is the same costume that was used in a Bigfoot movie shot a while back called Clawed. However, I have seen the Clawed costume, and it looks nothing like this photo. I have also seen other costumes that this photo is said to resemble, and it looks like none of them.

Hovey Bigfoot photo looks like the Sierra steak! Someone who has seen photos of the Sierra steak from the Sierra Kills says that the Hovey photo looks much like it. The white skin, often criticized in the Hovey photo, is also present in the Sierra steak. And in the steak, you can see right through the hair all the way to the skin as you can in this photo. The hair on the steak is shorter at about four inches. The color of the Hovey photo is similar to the color of the hair on the steak (a pale yote), but with more brown mixed in.

Dr. Melba Ketchum freaked out when she got the Sierra steak. We reported earlier that Ketchum freaked out when she got the steak. She got on the phone to others and tried to get them to take it off her hands because she was so afraid of having it in her possession.

The reasons why she was freaked out are confused. On the one hand, the steak looked so human that it freaked her out. She said it looked like flesh from the thigh of a human cadaver. This is in part because if you look at the steak from the underside, it looks “white” like human “white skin” (my skin, for instance) looks.

The other reason was that she thought it was from a Bigfoot, but she believes, as most of us in the Bigfoot community do, that the government confiscates Bigfoot specimens as part of a coverup conspiracy. She thought they were going to raid her and take away the steak. She tried to pawn it off on others to take the heat off of her, but no one would go for it.

Ketchum denies that Yeti samples are part of the DNA study. This is more Ketchum speaking in half truths or lawyerese she so excels at.

She does this for different reasons.

First of all, this is simply the way that this scheming yet generally diplomatic woman operates. And when are diplomats or attorneys known for giving you the straight up? See where I am coming from? Ketchum was not known for being forthright in the past, and things are going to continue on like this. So take her words with a grain of salt.

The other reason she does this is because she is a woman, and women, especially if they are being crafty as they often are, do often speak in half truths. Insistence on terminal (even to the point of being fatal) honesty is a male fetish.

Make love to make rules. Women love to break rules.

There are genetic and cultural reasons for these dichotomies.

Our word is that the Josh Gates specimen is what started the whole DNA study going. Ketchum obtained an anomalous and interesting reading from the Gates specimen, which is recorded for all posterity on the show itself. So she has worked on Yeti DNA. We all know that.

My information goes further and says that she ran the Yeti DNA and obtained a result of no known animal, not human, unknown primate. She was also able to determine that the Yeti is closely related to the Bigfoots, but possibly not the same species or subspecies. The Yetis probably migrated over the Bering Straits and turned into the Bigfoots.

In addition, I can now report that another “excellent” Yeti sample was turned in to Ketchum as part of this study. We do not know the results, if any, of this specimen.

I believe what Ketchum is saying in her roundabout and sneaky way is that the Yeti samples and results are not being used in this paper. That’s probably the case. As we reported earlier, Ketchum plans multiple papers on this subject. One could conjecture that one of those papers, after the one about the Bigfoots, will discuss the Yeti.

Multiple and very different Bigfoot steak photos exist. There are quite a few Bigfoot steak photos floating around. However, people are not willing to give them up. At the very least, I have not been able to get a hold of one. Apparently the parties involved want to use the photos in the upcoming book about the Sierra Kills.

Some of the photos have coloration that looks like the juvenile Bigfoot. Others have coloration that looks like the adult male. Perhaps the adult male had radically different coloration on different parts of its body. That’s possible, but I think the most parsimonious view is that there are photos of steaks from both the juvenile and the adult floating around. Although we have no proof, I think that slices were probably taken from the juvenile Bigfoot at some point. The full story on this mess may never come out.

Erickson Golden Ears samples in Ketchum study were from a Bigfoot family unit. These samples were gathered in Golden Ears Regional Park in British Colombia by Randy Brisson. There are five different samples, and they all tested positive. Are they from five different individuals? No one quite knows, and Brisson is a hostile and belligerent person who is not easy to talk to. I have been told that the five samples are from a family unit of three Bigfoots – a father, a mother and an offspring. So right now it looks like five samples from three Bigfoots.

Ed Smith floats rumors about Ketchum DNA project. Ed Smith, who I don’t get along with at all, is floating a couple of rumors about.

One says that people are threatening to pull their samples from the study if it doesn’t come out soon. I can’t verify that rumor the way he phrased it, but I can confirm that some submitters are getting very angry and frustrated at the delays.

Smith also says that there is pending litigation between three of the major parties involved, who he won’t name. He says if this litigation doesn’t get settled, hopefully out of court via arbitration, the study could be held up for a long time, possibly years. I can’t confirm any of this.

There were lawsuit threats between Ketchum and Erickson in the past, but these seem to have been patched up due to the recent reconstituted alliance between the parties, which I believe involved a lot of the usual demands, underhandedness and skullduggery that we have come to expert regarding such matters. Some think the legal threats were part of the agreement tying the two together again.

Ketchum removed from Erickson project website. That’s all we know right now. Ketchum is removed from the Erickson Project. She’s not a part of it, whatever that means.

To muddy the waters as is her style, Ketchum recently posted that Erickson is still very much a part of her DNA project.

As our sources close to the Erickson Project are dead, we can’t tell you what is going on here. Some think that Ketchum’s (apparently false) comment that there will be no Erickson Project movie may have upset Erickson. But no one knows.

Only three sequences out of nearly 100 successful Ketchum DNA samples have had their entire DNA genomes run all the way through. This is a rumor that has been posted on the web from someone who has been very accurate and careful in the past.

Does Bart Cutino have Smeja’s boots? There is a rumor that the boots with the blood from the juvenile Bigfoot shot by Smeja on them were given by Smeja to Cutino. We cannot confirm this, and as of quite recently, Smeja retained possession of the boots.

There was also a lot of blood from the juvenile on some of his clothing, but it’s not known whether or not he washed the clothes (it appears he may have washed the clothes, but we don’t know this for 100% certain). He was holding up the little one as it was dying, and it was spitting up blood on his shirt and pants.

But the boots have not been washed, definitely have blood from the juvenile Bigfoot on them, and have not yet been submitted for testing.

Some of my personal views on Bigfoot biology. I think Bigfoots live to be about 45-50 yrs old (about 50% of the human lifespan), but that’s just a guess of mine. Cut everything human in half. A Bigfoot walks by age 7 months, talks by 1 yr, mates by age 7-9, dies at age 45-50 and may have perhaps 2-3 offspring in a lifetime.

They mate for life, or at least they try to. They don’t engage in incest – instead they pair-bond. If you believe the Janice Carter story, and I do for the most part, there are some BF single Mom’s out there.

Once they hit adolescence, the Bigfoot teen hotties get knocked up right quick. What red-blooded Bigfoot male could resist such a prime specimen of prehistoric human womanhood? Keep in mind that Bigfoot males don’t watch pornography, so they are not averse to hairy women.

Some Bigfoot teen sexpots seem to get knocked up by some random Bigfoot male who then takes off, and then you have a BF single Mom. It’s just like the ghetto, except it’s the forests of North America instead! The only thing is lack of the grills, rims, Cadillacs and gangster rap in the deep woods.

The males who knock up these females seem to come from somewhere out of the area (seemingly from out of nowhere) to mate with gravid young females.

Apparently sometimes Bigfoots do divorce or separate, and Bigfoot males sometimes try to steal females from other males. This can result in fights over females, which can be brutal and sometimes deadly, but at any rate, don’t last long.

I think Bigfoots live in small family groups of 3-4, a male, a female and 1-2 subadult offspring.

A defense of Matt Moneymaker. We have posted some things unfriendly to Matt in the past, but on one subject, I disagree with the critics. Matt has posited some silly theories about Bigfoots, but I do think that he knows a Hell of a lot about them. Matt must be listed among the world’s leading Bigfoot experts if only due to many years of deeply studying the matter.

Rundown of samples in the Ketchum study. This will be updated every time it changes.

Bigfoot samples submitted: Over 200
Presumptive for Bigfoot: Almost 100
# of Bigfoot individuals represented: 20-28

Details of successful Bigfoot samples:

5 hair samples from Golden Ears Provincial Park in British Colombia, representing 3 separate creatures, a male, a female and a juvenile from a family unit, gathered by Erickson Project.

1 toenail from Larry Jenkins in the Grand Canyon area of Arizona.

1 blood sample from JC Johnson in the 4 Corners area of New Mexico (skunk in a drainpipe sample).

1 blood sample from Crittenden, Kentucky, gathered by Erickson Project. Sample was obtained by gluing glass shards on a feeding plate.

1 hair sample from David Paulides’ NABS known as the Ulibarri sample from Hoopa Valley, California.

1 hair sample from Larry Surface in southern Ohio. Surface shot the controversial nighttime Bigfoot video that was pulled from the web recently.

1 hair sample from Joe Black in the Great Smoky Mountains, Eastern Tennessee.

1 slice of Bigfoot flesh from Mount Haskell, California from the adult male Bigfoot shot dead by Justin Smeja.

1 large sample of saliva from the Olympic Project obtained via a Bigfoot licking a camera.

1 hair sample from SE Oklahoma collected by TEXLA Cryptozoological Research, whoever they are. Description here.

1 blood, tissue and hair sample from a nailboard trap at Snelgrove Lake, Ontario, Canada (presumably successful).

That is only 15 of nearly 100 successful Bigfoot samples. I have no idea about the rest.

Best Bigfoot samples: Smeja’s Bigfoot steak and JC Johnson’s skunk in a drainpipe Bigfoot sample.