The Path Less Traveled

By Alan Graham with Alfred Lehmberg
AlienView.net

“My woody’s outside
Covered with snow,
…No place to go, now.
New York’s a lonely town,
When you’re the
Only surfer-boy around.”

–The Trade Winds - peaked at # 32 in 1965

OK, forgetting we’re not really talking about those “Woodies” aforementioned -a station-wagon side-paneled in wood to save metal during the second great war- you can, as it happens, still buy 100 different herbal formulas to help with the “other” woody… libido’s woody. Though, in some ways this is sort of like taking “Herbal Viagra.” By that I mean the herbal formulas to which I allude likely do little or nothing to correct the underlying deficiency causing the dysfunction, eh? That’s the real issue.

Consequently, one is encouraged do first things first: cover all the nutritional bases from the start.

See, just like every other ailment or dysfunction suffered, it makes opportune sense to correct whatever deficiencies are causing the problem at its root. This is apart from any peripheral cause, eh? In other words, the reader shouldn’t be satisfied alleviating mere symptoms while ironically facilitating that which causes those frustrating flaccid “symptoms,” to begin with, right? Too, as well, addressing the root causes of Woody’s ailment provides serendipitous protections for heart, brain, joints… everything moving that “woodie” around - and providing for the DESIRE to use it, at all! Remember, as we have said before in many other of these papers: covering ALL the nutritional bases has the potential to fix just about anything adjacent and associated with or even completely disassociated with the malady suffered.

OK… let me “back-pedal” a bit…

I’m likely being a tad unfair when referring to libido enhancing herbs as “Herbal Viagra” - especially in comparison with Dodgy pharmz. Consider that virtually ALL herbs have numerous “side- effects” which are, almost always, very beneficial… unlike Viagra & virtually ALL other pharmaceuticals! These latter, as we have pointed out many, many times, have SIDE-EFFECTS ranging from nuisance to life threatening… does blindness or deafness qualify as “disqualifying side effects,” reader?

Consider instead the popular sex-drive herb, Gotu Kola! This herb also protects your heart, brain, liver, connective tissue & much more. Also, another widely used herb for impotence, Maca Root, increases energy while it boosts your natural immunity. There are many of these “Libido-Herbs” which are similarly multifaceted.

Beware still, reader! It’s smart to read up on side-effects for ANY herb you take because some may be problematic! For example “Yohimbe Bark,” recommended below, can cause an unsafe increase in blood pressure if you are already on the high side. So, obviously, you must be fit & without heart, liver or kidney disease to use it.

Anyway, take the following and remember, even as this list is tailored towards “Woody Enhancement,” it will simultaneously protect your heart, brain & every other organ:

1.. Take a good Multi.Vit/Min avoiding any multi’s with mineral forms which are Carbonate or Oxide - look for: Minerals that are Amino-Acid Chelated, Kreb’s Cycle, Citrate, Malate, Lactate, Gluconate, Polynicotinate, et al. Also if the Vit. E is the “dl” form…PUT IT BACK. Vit.E should be “d” alpha or “Natural-Mixed” Tocopherol.

FYI : It was Mother-Nature’s intention for us to get all 8 forms of Vit.E to achieve complete synergy …so take a soft-gel with the 4 Tocotrienols (a tad expensive) along with the 4 Tocopherols found in the “Natural-Mixed” soft-gel. Or you can get all 8 in one soft- gel. If money is a concern…it is better to take very small amounts of all 8 as opposed to a huge amount of just the one major form, “d” alpha tocopherol.

2.. EFA’s - To get “Complex” Omega-3’s take Krill Oil (more expensive but superior to fish oil) take 2 to 5 grams w. food. OR Fish Oil (cheaper) take 2 to 8 grams daily. Also, to get some “Complex” Omega-6 (GLA) & a synergistic balance with the Omega-3’s - take 2 to 4 grams of Black Currant Oil with the fish or krill oils.

EFA’s help make sperm & seminal fluid while protecting your heart & brain - not forgetting that the Eskimos, who consume mass- quantities of “Complex” Omega-3’s in fish oil, etc. as opposed to “Simple” Omega-3 in Flaxseed, are people famous for being “Frisky” little “Nose-Rubbers”, vital well into old age… which translates into many years of “gittin’ jiggy with it” because the traditionally dieted Inuit live longer than the rest of us.

3.. Vit.C with bioflavonoids - boost testosterone & a million other healthful things.

4.. DMG - take 2 SUBLINGUAL (under the tongue) tablets of Food Science DMG… 1 AM & 1 PM, (it’s cheap). Dilates blood vessels for erection while it pumps up your immune system - reduces BP, reduces cholesterol & triglycerides, while stabilizing glucose.
This is actually a “Libido-Supplement” because there is really no such thing as a DMG deficiency… but it can help you in a multitude of different ways in addition to those above.

5.. Zinc & Copper - always take together! Take 30mg & 2mg in addition to the Z & C in your multi. Z & C boost testosterone & is one of the most powerful free-radical fighting Combo’s out there! And for the Ladies - it is essential for healthy Hair, Skin & Nails.

6.. Selenium - Take 300 to 400mcg of Amino-Acid Chelated form (also called selenomethionine), in addition to the amount in your multi should total 500mcg or less. Does everything good… from fighting impotency to cancer & heart disease protection. Vast areas (along with many people) are selenium deficient & don’t know it.

7.. B-25 or B-50 Complex - take 2 (B-25’s) daily w/o food, 1 AM & 1 PM. or take 1 (B-50) in AM. The Riboflavin will make your urine sparkle, greenish-yellow. It’s a good thing… it just means every cell has reached Vit.B-2 “saturation”. If it is more convenient, go ahead and take B Complex with food.

8.. DHEA - *WARNING WILL ROBINSON!*, “Young adults DO NOT need DHEA”… take 25 mg for a month or 2, then stop. If you notice a positive difference while taking the DHEA and if you want to continue taking the DHEA then you should spend about $130 times 2 and have your MD or HMO give you 2 DHEA tests (start & after about 3 months) to make sure you don’t take too much. It is a hormone that if used in large doses for a long time will make your fingers grow longer & other unhealthful things. My military contracted HMO will pay for the DHEA test but most will not.

Keep this in mind regarding DHEA… the so called “normal range” is very wide, like 50 to 500. This is because when you are age 21 your DHEA might be 450 but if you are 50 years old it has likely fallen to about 75 or lower. So this (75) may still be in the “normal” range - but why settle for that “old-man” end of the spectrum when you can take supplemental DHEA (like maybe 25 to 50mg daily) & pump that sucker back up to “Young & Studly” levels… around 400 or so. Mine went from about 50, up to 450 after 3 months of 50mg daily…now I take 25mg most days. “You must get tested or leave it alone”!!

9.. Sun-dried Sea-Salt - to get the 70+ trace minerals, in particular natural iodine for your thyroid…virtually every bodily process uses several, if not many of the 70+ trace minerals as co- factors. Also, don’t fall for the “No-Salt, Low-Salt” crapola… you need a moderate amount of salt to make the stomach acid necessary to digest food, at all, especially protein. Salt is required.

10.. Yohimbe Bark - this is the one herb that gets alot of good press for expanding blood vessels, but be cognizant of the possibility of an increase in BP.

11.. L-Arginine - a powerful cancer-fighter, found in seminal fluid…also increases blood flow (a vasodilator) so reduces BP.
Like ALL amino-acids, take w/o food. Actually if these items were in descending order of “Woody” efficacy, L-Arginine would be close to the top of the list! Some research indicates that you should take a 2 or 3 week break from large doses of L-Arginine every few months.

Questions? alan068@centurytel.net

Also: To insure you have half-way descent absorption of all the items above it would be smart to do the following:

1.. Take a broad spectrum Digestive Enzyme Formula with the start of every meal:

(a)..Other than containing the necessary main 3 enzymes, Amylase (carbs), Protease (protein) & Lipase (fats), I would also want Cellulase (digests cellulose) & Lactase (if you consume dairy).

Some labels might list Pancreatin which actually contains the main 3 enzymes. So if the label listed - Pancreatin & Cellulase, then you have the 4 minimal bases covered. However, why not go ahead & get a formula with 6 or 8 different enzymes…it’s cheap & extremely efficacious!

(b)..If you have no gall bladder then take a formula with Ox- Bile…or take a separate “Bile-Salts” supplement with your enzymes. Bile is needed to digest “Fats”…like the critical Essential Fatty Acids (EFA’s) listed above.
(c)..If you’re over 45 it would be OK to take a formula with some Betaine HCL (stomach acid in a capsule)…as long as it does not burn your esophagus or stomach.

2.. Take a “Heat stabilized” or “Freeze-Dried” Probiotic (good Gut bacteria) every AM on an empty stomach & if you want a very synergistic amino-acid that is dirt cheap, then take a couple of grams of L-Glutamine with your probiotics…this will lengthen your intestinal villi for greater absorption & better toxin protection.

Lastly…Brain Chemistry expressed by that warm & fuzzy feeling directly effects aggregate “Woodiness,” so to speak… and I don’t mean the hazardous way SSRI’s, like Zolof, provide you with “Used” Serotonin, (”has anybody seen the key to the gun cabinet ?”) — I mean do it the way we evolved or the way God made us, if you prefer!

Never consume sugar or flour! This public enemy #1 causes depression & then makes you crave more of the same thing causing the depression… more sugar please. Instead, consume highly digestible (not denatured) protein! This decreases your craving for carbs while it accelerates tryptophan into your brain, in turn stimulating the production of Serotonin. Whey Protein Isolate & raw egg yolks are good sources.

Also get as much sunlight as you can on your skin & in your eyes, short of burning… this also produces Serotonin along with Vit.D’s Skin Cancer-Protection as a result of the sun’s UV manufactured Vit.D-3. Alan, you mean the sun (short of burning) helps protect you from skin cancer… that’s right, Buckaroo - we are being lied to.

Closing, proper nutrition is not a quick-fix to a manly “caber” a burly Scotsman couldn’t toss, like Viagra purports, but the reader would rather, I’m sure, build an erectional skyscraper from the strongest foundation on up -floor by sturdy floor- using materials that won’t make the occupant go blind or provoke a stroke, eh? That’s what Viagra is reader: third rate quick-fix concrete in a substandard construction. I suspect I’m not far off.

Besides, remember that Viagra won’t create desire if there is none there to start; it only creates the “Faux-Woody”! No, reader, on reflection I think you’ll agree that a senselessly uninformed consumption of “penis-dope” is decidedly not an intelligent solution to your woody malfunction. Hey! Just say no.

That’s enough.

By Constance Holden
ScienceNOW Daily News

In as little as 5 years, scientists may be able to grow eggs and sperm from ordinary body cells, an international consortium of scientists and ethicists announced in a consensus statement yesterday. The technological advance could be a boon for infertile couples as well as for research on reproduction, providing policymakers don’t ban the tools, the group says.
Last year scientists announced that they had learned to turn back the clock on body cells (ScienceNOW, 20 November 2007). By inserting a select group of genes, they were able to convert skin cells into pluripotent stem cells (PSC)–cells capable of developing into any type of body tissue. This capability has opened up a whole new world of research–and it’s brought closer to reality the possibility of generating embryos from gametes (i.e., sperm and eggs) grown in the lab, bypassing the need to collect oocytes from women.

The consortium, known as the Hinxton Group, warns that “oversight structures” need to be in place before anyone attempts to deploy such gametes in human reproduction. Such a development raises a host of concerns that include safety issues and the specter of the “ultimate incest”–the same person supplying both egg and sperm. At the same time, the group urges policymakers to be “flexible” in regulating the new technologies, not only because of the insights they can offer into human development but also because they could present new options for infertile couples whose eggs or sperm is defective. In legislation currently being considered in the United Kingdom, it would be illegal to use gametes created in the lab to treat infertility.

Both supporters and critics of stem cell research are already talking about the possibility that gay and lesbian couples might be able to become biological parents with these techniques. The Hinxton Group, however, points out that at present scientists see no way to make eggs from male body cells or sperm from female body cells. The obstacles are particularly great in the latter case, because female cells carry no Y chromosome, which contains genes necessary for sperm production.

Even if the work is only confined to research, it will be hard to avoid controversy, says Ruth Faden, a bioethecist at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland, and a member of the Hinxton Group. That’s because researchers will need to create an embryo to test the viability of these laboratory-created gametes–a procedure bound to cause more than a bit of a stir.

Analysis by Ali al-Fadhily and Dahr Jamail*
Inter Press Service

BAGHDAD (IPS) — Many Iraqis have come to believe that Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is just as much a dictator as Saddam Hussein was.

“Al-Maliki is a dictator who must be removed by all means,” 35-year-old Abdul-Riza Hussein, a Mehdi Army member from Sadr City in Baghdad told IPS. “He is a worse dictator than Saddam; he has killed in less than two years more than Saddam killed in 10 years.”

Following the failed attempt by the U.S.-backed al-Maliki to crack down on the Mehdi Army militia of Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, the situation in Iraq has become much worse. Iraq appears to be splintering more widely under this rule than under Saddam’s.

Fierce fighting has broken out between Sadr’s Mehdi Army and Maliki’s army and police forces in Baghdad, which comprise mostly the Badr Organisation militia, the armed wing of the political group, the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council (SIIC).

According to statistics compiled by the U.S. military in Baghdad, there has been a sharp increase in attacks against U.S. and Iraqi security forces, from 239 in February to 631 in March. Most of these attacks are believed to have been carried out by the Mehdi Army.

The Mehdi Army is known to have substantial control of the streets of Baghdad, Basra, and many other predominantly Shia areas in southern Iraq.

But there is also considerable Shia support for Maliki’s effort to disarm the Mehdi Army. “Those who shout loud against Maliki and his legally elected government are all thieves and murderers and must be executed,” says Aziz Mussawi, a resident of Hilla, 100km south of Baghdad, who fled for Baghdad when the clashes started there last month. “These militias will destroy Iraq if left unleashed.”

Many Iraqis feel caught in a cross-fire in what they see as a battle for power between the Shia factions. “Over a thousand Iraqis got killed and more than that number wounded just for a game of chess between warlords,” Mohammad Alwan, a lawyer in Baghdad told IPS. “All of them call for dissolving militias while they keep militias of their own. Most of those in power in the government are militia leaders.”

Sadr and his followers are calling for unity, in an attempt to bring as many Iraqis as they can, Sunni and Shia, to their side. The rival Fadhila Party, that is powerful in many Shia provinces and in cities like Basra where it holds the governorship, has also called for unity.

It is widely believed in Iraq that parties who call for unity are using the issue to get public support against federalism, seen to be supported by the U.S. and Iranian backed parties such as the SIIC and Maliki’s Dawa Party. Many in Iraq see federalism as the break-up of the country.

After five years of occupation and suffering, with no end to it in sight, many Iraqis have become skeptical of all political and religious leaders.

“Sadr is another face of the Iranian project, despite their pretending to be a national movement,” Jassam Hady, a colonel of the former Iraqi army in Baghdad told IPS. “All those in the Iraqi government in the so-called Green Zone have militias that have killed Iraqis under one flag or another.”

Hady, like many Iraqis, believes that the current spasm of violence will worsen as the two main Shia groups, the Sadr Movement and Maliki’s affiliations, continue to vie for power ahead of the provincial elections slated for October.

Division has broken out also within tribes; many have now come to back Sadr, not because they like him, but because they hate the Badr militia of Hakeem’s SIIC and Maliki’s Dawa party.

“Our problem in the southern parts of Iraq and other Shia dominated areas is that all options are bad,” the chief of a major tribe in Basra who fled for Baghdad, told IPS on condition of anonymity. “Iranian controlled militias killed so many chiefs of tribes because they refused to support these division projects concealed under the flag of federalism.”

Several tribes in the south have formed unions to fight the separation project, but some sheikhs have formed counter unions to support the Badr and Dawa agenda.

Most people seem to oppose any federalism that would separate Shia from Sunni Muslims.

“We will be weak without our Sunni brothers,” says Shamil Mahmood from Sadr City, the east district of two million in Baghdad. “The whole of the south will be swallowed by Iran, that will humiliate us and treat us like animals.”

(*Ali, our correspondent in Baghdad, works in close collaboration with Dahr Jamail, our U.S.-based specialist writer on Iraq who has reported extensively from Iraq and the Middle East)

By Brad Steiger

On a dry, dusty day in 1884, a Texas cowboy named Charlie McCarty was happily drunk in the mud-hut New Mexico town of Frisco. His strong sense of loyalty to his home state, coupled with the whiskey that warmed his insides, soon erupted into yells about the Alamo and wild shots from his six-gun.

Charlie McCarty was one of the Slaughter Ranch cowboys [not the same John H. Slaughter who cleaned up Tombstone], who often frequented the upper plaza of the village of Frisco, and the villagers knew that if any of the Slaughter men were bothered by a mere New Mexican, an entire army of cowboys from the ranch would descend on the town and leave nothing untouched. So they usually tolerated Charlie McCarty and his roughshod compadres shooting up their town and doing whatever it might be that made them contented.

But on this particular day the shots attracted the attention of a lean, fine-featured youth who happened to be passing through town. This nineteen-year-old Mexican sought out the town officials and asked why they let such a rowdy cowboy run loose on the streets.

“He is a Texan, senor,” was their reply. “He works at the Slaughter Ranch.”

“That is not reason enough to let him shoot up the streets,” the young stranger said. “He could kill someone.”

“Who are you to tell us what to do?” the mayor demanded of him. “You are a boy, a stranger to this town. Be on your way.”

“I am Elfego Baca,” the youth announced, “and I am the law.” With that he remove a badge from his shirt pocket and pinned it on his chest.[Some historians say that Baca pinned on a crude badge that he had made on the trail to Frisco; others maintain that he was a legally sworn deputy with a real tin star.]

“But we don’t need the law,” the mayor of the little town protested. “These men are letting off steam, having fun andS”

The mayor’s speech was interrupted as a bullet whined down the street, and the men dived for cover.

Elfego Baca left the cowering crew of New Mexicans and marched down the street. Baca quickly disarmed the whiskey reeling Charlie McCarty and brought the cowboy back to the town officials. “Now you can put him in jail,’” Baca told them.

But the officials wanted no part of McCarty or any other cowboy from the Slaughter Ranch. They knew if they put one of Slaughter’s men in jail, there would be some very unwelcome reprisals.

“You’ve captured him; you’re the law,” they told him, “so you can do with him what you like.”

“All right,” Baca said disgustedly, “but get me a room where I can hold him for the night. Tomorrow I will take him to the county seat for trial.”

When the news reached the ears of the foreman of the Slaughter Ranch, a man named Young Perham, he and a dozen ranch hands were immediately on their horses and heading for town to reclaim Charlie McCarty for Texas. The Slaughter cowboys were surprised to find that the Mexican youth was not cowering away in some back alley hideout, but was waiting for them in front of the door of his temporary jail.

The cowboys reined in their horses, but remained mounted as the steady-eyed youth glanced over them all.

Perham was direct. “You got one of our hands in that building?”

“Si. senor,” Baca replied.

“Well, we’re gonna take him out. Some of you boys get a ram so we can break in that door.”

“No, senor!” Elfego Baca shouted. “He is my prisoner. You will not take him from me.”

The cowboys ignored the words of Baca until a Colt .45 appeared in the teenaged lawman’s hands.

“Better put up that Colt,” Perham warned

“You’d better get out of here,” Baca threatened. “I’ll count to three before I shoot.”

One of the ranchhands snorted his contempt and said that no Mexican could count to three. The other cowboys laughed and added their own derisive comments into the mix.

“One,” Baca announced. The cowboys’ horses, sensing the tension, became skittish.

“Two.”

The Texans’ hands moved slightly for their holstered sidearms.

“Three!” Baca shouted, and his Colt blazed, burning a hole in the knee of one of the cowboys and sending the horses of the others plunging and scattering. Perham could not control his mount, and he fell to the ground to watch with horror-filled eyes as the horse itself landed on top of him, critically wounding him.

The rest of the cowboys beat a hasty retreat back to the Slaughter Ranch, and the village was left in an uproar. The townspeople knew what to expect, and they were not surprised the next afternoon when cowboys from all of the outlying ranches came to Frisco to see that the upstart young Mexican got what he deserved.

The more level heads among the ranch owners realized that there could be real trouble if it once got started. The respected ranchers James H. Cook and the Englishman William French suggested that a trial for McCarty on the charge of disturbing the peace be held at Milligan’s Bar. Baca was given a signed agreement that he would be free to leave Frisco after the trial.

McCarty’s trial took exactly five seconds. He was declared guilty and ordered to pay a five-dollar fine for disturbing the peace. The revolver with which he had been shooting up the town was confiscated, and he was set free.

Baca knew the temperament of the cowboys. The signed agreement which granted him safe passage out of town would mean nothing to the angry cowhands seeking revenge on the smart-aleck Mexican kid. If he started to ride out of town, he knew that he would not get very far before a group of saddle tramps would catch him out in the open.

While the men were bolstering their courage with whiskey at Mulligan’s, Baca sought cover in a mud hut, called a jacal , but the town, which was overflowing with vengeful cowhands, was not big enough to conceal his movements. Soon the word was out where Baca had taken cover, and a group of men, led by a cowboy named Herne, strolled boldly to the door of the jacal and demanded that the youthful lawman come out and stand trial for disturbing their right to have a good time in Frisco. Herne leveled a cocked Winchester at the door.

The cowboy’s demand was not answered with words, but rather with bullets, as Baca’s Colt rang out, sending two pieces of lead through the door and into Herne. The rest of the cowboys scattered, leaving William French to haul away his dying ranchhand.

The shooting attracted others, and soon the hut was surrounded with angry Texans, who poured a steady stream of lead through the plaster and straw walls of the jacal.

After this torrent of lead, a group of cowboys approached the hut with a white flag and demanded that Elfego Baca surrender. Baca told them that he would join them in hell first and the shooting began again.

By late afternoon, a total of 80 men had joined what would come to be called The Frisco War. Milligan’s saloon began doing a big business in cartridges as the Texans continued to methodically knock apart the walls of the hut with .45-caliber slugs.

But the jacal was built with a floor which was sunk several inches below ground level, and while the bullets whistled over his head, Baca lay safely out of the line of fire. After an entire day’s bombardment he remained unscratched.

About sundown one of the Texans downwind of the shack smelled smoke, and several cowboys began to wonder if the little mud hut had caught fire. But shortly after the smell of smoke came the scent of warming coffee and frying meat. Baca was cooking supper!

The young Mexican had begun to take on the status of a superhuman being, and one of the cowboys had the bright idea that if six-guns and rifles could not kill him, then dynamite surely would.

Procuring a bundle of dynamite and a length of fuse, the Texans gathered to watch the fireworks as the lethal package was lofted through the air toward the jacal.

The blast sent everything inside flying, including Elfego Baca. But, miraculously, he tumbled down in the only part of the hut left standing, and he remained unhurt.

The cowboy who had thrown the dynamite proclaimed that the kid had been blown to a thousand pieces, and the entire group of Texans retired to Milligan’s to celebrate.

The next morning the cowboys who moved cautiously up to the shack found it quiet. But when they broke into the open, bullets began whining around their heads. Once again the battle was on.

The cowboys, with an unlimited supply of cartridges, kept pouring lead through the shattered dwelling; but just as the day before, none of them found their mark.

The Texans even constructed a suit of armor out of an old stove and drafted one of their number to approach the remains of the hut using it as a shield. But Baca’s marksmanship found chinks in the armor, and he soon drove the cowboy away.

Every plan the Texans tried, failed, and they were surprisingly receptive to the offer of a truce forwarded by a deputy sheriff named Rose. Rose was sensitive to the temperament of the villagers and realized that they had taken courage from Baca’s one-man stand. If the shooting were not stopped, the Texans might have a real war on their hands with the emboldened New Mexicans. The only problem was how to inform Baca.

Rose and a man named Cook agreed to do this with the help of a friend of Baca’s from the village. The lawman approached Baca with the promise of a truce, and Elfego agreed to leave the hut. He promised, however, to kill both Rose and Cook if the Texans tried to take him on the way out of the village.

With Baca’s guns at his back, Rose explained the deal to the Texans, and the reluctant cowboys talked it over. As a final selling point, Cook pointed out the rifle-toting New Mexicans from Frisco, who had taken up positions on the hill overlooking the plaza.

The cowboys had had enough. If one teenager could give them that much trouble, they didn’t want to take on the whole village. The only thing that men from the Slaughter outfit asked was that some of their hands be allowed to accompany Baca to the county seat where he would stand trial for murder. By their final tally, Baca had killed four of their men and wounded eight. Their request was agreed upon, but Baca rode in the back of a wagon, and the entire troop of cowboys rode in front of him.

As evidence at Baca’s trial the defense entered the door of the hut, which had 367 bullet holes in it. Everything inside the jacal had been perforated. Even the broom handle had been hit eight times. Altogether, the cowboys had expended over 4,000 rounds into the hut, and Elfego Baca had emerged unharmed. The youth, who had withstood eighty armed men for thirty hours, spent about four months in jail and was acquitted at both of his trials.

Baca accepted the tally of four men killed and eight wounded, but some historians have claimed only one man, Herne, actually died during the Frisco War, while another cowboy suffered a painful knee wound, and Parham died from having his horse fall on him.

Elfego Baca later became a lawyer, a superintendent of schools, Sheriff of Socorro Country, New Mexico, a bouncer at a Prohibition saloon, and a candidate for U.S. Congress and the Governor of New Mexico. He died peacefully at the age of 80 in 1945. Twelve movies have been made of the teenaged lawman who fought off 80 men, and one television series with Robert Loggia as Baca.

By Chuck Missler

There is a book of the Bible that some have attempted to ban from public libraries because it was deemed unsuitable for children: the Book of Judges. It contains some graphic material that is so explicit as to shock many of its readers. And yet it contains some of the most colorful - yet enigmatic - characters in the entire Bible. Frankly, there are few stories anywhere that can compete for color and intrigue.

You’ll wince as you read how Ehud goes to visit the king in his summer palace and slides his dagger between the king’s fifth and sixth ribs so that the flesh closes around it and the knife cannot be withdrawn. You’ll cringe when Jael drives the tent stake through the skull of Sisera and pins him to the ground. You’ll bite your fingernails alongside Gideon as God introduces deep military cutbacks, reducing Israel’s army from 32,000 to 300 - then sends this vastly outnumbered miniature army into battle! Your heart will sink with mine when Jephthah’s daughter comes out to meet him on his return from battle, and he remembers his hasty vow to sacrifice the first person he meets to God - and then fulfills that dreadful vow. You’ll glory with Samson as he wreaks havoc among the Philistines, but wonder at his folly in allowing the Philistine temptress to worm from him the secret of his strength. You will also undoubtedly turn with revulsion from the story of the Benjamite perversion that marks perhaps the blackest chapter in Israel’s history.

Fans of historical romance, military history, soap operas, conspiracy theories, spy novels, swashbuckling adventure, or political intrigue will find it all here in the Book of Judges! But from a broader and deeper perspective, Judges is essentially the story of a deteriorating nation - and it serves as a sober warning against deterioration in our own nation, and in our own personal lives.

During this period in history Israel had no King, everyone did what was right in their own eyes, there was a neglect and disparagement of the Word of God, and Israel was in bondage to their various enemies. The people of Israel would fall into sin and idol worship; this would result in oppression by, and bondage to, their enemies. They would ultimately plea to God for help; He would raise up a deliverer; and, soon after their deliverance, they would again fall back into false worship, and cycle would repeat itself.

The world today is living in a period similar to the Book of Judges. People are “doing what is right in their own eyes.” Value relativism has replaced the rule of God’s law in our land. The Word of God is neglected - even in many of our churches. His Word is the subject of denigration and ridicule by pseudo-scholars and critics. And as a result, we too are in bondage rather than enjoying the liberty available in Christ.

The Book of Judges, spanning the time between the conquest of the Canaan and the establishment of the monarchy, is a colorful, instructive, and prophetically relevant book to study carefully. Click on the link below for a more detailed study of the book of Judges.

This really makes you ask, am I one of them? Of course not… right? Do not be so sure… The Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act redefines what a terrorist is. The Act’s definition of a terrorist is so broad that an protester, for just about anything, could be labeled a terrorist. Also do not fly in and out of the country more than a few times… they may suspect you.

Almost 1 million people will be put on the “watch list” by years end. This is incredible and utterly insane. How can the government expect us as citizens to believe that 1 in every 350 people need to be watched. When I heard this news all I could think was that 1984 is already here. I am afraid just by writing this and posting it online I will be added to the list.

People amaze me how they can still say “Patriot Act” is for our protection. Watching 1 million people is not for our protection! How big must the government be to be able to watch this many people! I already knew I couldn’t enter the city with out being caught on camera 1,000 times but this is incredible. Spying on 1 million people makes the government the biggest terrorist of them all…If your not doing anything wrong why does it matter? That is by far the worst argument I have ever heard!

I would rather vote for a democrat that taxed me more and controls my health care plan than a candidate who supports this. Of course Ron Paul is the greatest proponent of civil liberties alive today. If Ron Paul doesn’t win I will be starting a petition among republicans not to vote for the nominee unless they promise to actively pursue repealing this thing

A “malcontent’s” response to Philip Bobbitt’s call to end America
By Paul Joseph Watson

A recent Austin-American Statesman review of Neo-Con Philip Bobbitt’s new book Terror and Consent features an image of a shredded Constitution under the words “Everything must go,” which acts as a suitable entrée to a disgusting diatribe which praises Bobbitt’s call for the end of America and its replacement with a de facto world government in the name of fighting terror.

The words, “How to Fight Terrorism” are in place of a torn piece of the Bill of Rights.

Reviewer James E. McWilliams describes Bobbitt as “a distinguished lecturer and senior fellow at the University of Texas and a law professor at Columbia University,” but anyone with a basic grasp of what America’s founders envisioned and what Ronald Reagan later termed the “shining city on a hill” would be more apt to describe Bobbitt - nephew of Lyndon Baines Johnson and former State Department counselor - as an enemy of the Republic.

McWilliams’ fawning review of the book is intended to sucker in millionaire pseudo-intellectuals who think they are part of the elite by using mental gymnastics and brazenly contradictory statements in order to justifying the revolting underlying premise of the book.

As soon as we learn that the facade of Bobbitt’s argument is to provide a solution “for fighting the wars that are bound to plague the 21st century,” we’re already safe in the knowledge that Bobbitt represents another chicken-necked warhawk who has already claimed ownership of the next 10 decades for his Neo-Con ideological fetish of imperial bloodletting and brutal domination.

So what exactly is Bobbitt’s solution?

The complete obliteration of sovereignty and the nation state and its replacement with a new “order that takes its structural cues from multinational corporations and nongovernmental organizations” that will have the power to pursue “more aggressive tactics of preclusionary warfare,” meaning more pre-emptive invasions of broken-backed third world countries to expand the creaking pax-Americana empire.

Despite terse and contradictory promises that we will still have some semblance of freedom in Bobbitt’s technocracy, he admits that there will be “no obvious answer to many of the human rights issues that are bound to arise,” as a result of his plan to completely eviscerate God-given freedoms enumerated in the Constitution and Bill of Rights.

The reviewer cites Bobbitt’s justification to impose world government as a means of combating,”The accessibility of weapons of mass destruction, the globalization of international capital and the “universalization of culture” have eroded the conventional borders that once legitimated national security,” all problems that were created by globalists’ drive to impose centralized systems of control in the first place by creating crises and then posing as the saviors.

This is another classic example of problem-reaction-solution. Use the pretext of the problems you have created to then offer a solution that befits your ultimate agenda - global government.

“Bobbitt believes that the UN Charter should be amended to allow the preemptive use of force without a Security Council authorization,” and “In cases in which the use of non-lethal chemical weapons could be used to prevent terror, be able to redefine such methods as “counterforce measures,” writes McWilliams.

The “use of chemical weapons,” where have we heard that one before?

It was Paul Wolfowitz, Dick Cheney, William Kristol, Donald Rumsfeld and the rest of the Neo-Con collaborators that formed the Project For a New American Century - the ideological framework of the Bush administration, who proposed the use of “…advanced forms of biological warfare that can target specific genotypes (which) may transform biological warfare from the realm of terror to a politically useful tool.”

A leaked British Ministry of Defence report last year also envisioned a nightmare future society in which the population are forced to accept brain chips, immigration and urbanization ravages communities, class warfare ensues, and biological and neutron weapons are used to combat overpopulation.

Since Bobbitt cites “non-lethal chemical weapons” as a means of “preventing terror” what exactly does he mean? Mass-medicating Americans’ drinking water with sodium fluoride to keep the population docile and subservient to the new international order, absent of traditional constitutional rights, that Bobbitt seeks to impose? The vagueness of the reference suggests Bobbitt and in turn the simpering reviewer McWilliams are attempting to carefully dance around the true scale of the horror that they are advocating.

Mandating a false choice between the acceptance of terrorism as a routine cancer upon society or the imposition of a brutal warmongering world government and the obliteration of sovereignty and the constitution, the book advises us to progress, “not by choosing good over bad, but — as is usually the case in war and politics — the lesser of evils.”

And the lesser of evils in this case is to allow Bobbitt and his salivating Neo-Con cronies to have their way with the 21st century while they posture and insist their global government is our savior against a terrorist threat that they created in the first place.

As Bobbitt would no doubt agree with the CFR’s Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., the globalists are “not going to achieve a new world order without paying for it in blood as well as in words and money,” and as H.G. Wells proclaimed, “Countless people… will hate the new world order… and will die protesting against it… When we attempt to evaluate its promise, we have to bear in mind the distress of a generation or so of malcontents…”

We are those “malcontents” that the globalists fear so much, we are the representation of everything that is good about the human spirit - love, hope, the yearning for freedom and a kindred bond with our fellow man, along with the shared promise of a peaceful and prosperous future for our children.

Bobbitt and the rest of the Neo-Con turds who have already decided to condemn us to a century of warfare, tyranny, and centralized control may be surprised to learn that the resistance to their agenda is accelerating and that the true essence of humanity, the “malcontents,” will rise up and condemn them to the only place they belong - on the scrapheap of history.

By Phyllis Schlafly

Ever since Hillary proclaimed the Clintons as the victims of a “vast right-wing conspiracy,” conspiracy has been the hot word used to ridicule your opponents. When President Bush wanted to avoid answering questions about whether the Security and Prosperity Partnership is the prelude to a North American Union connected by a three-country superhighway, he accused SPP critics of believing in a conspiracy. By definition, conspiracies are usually secret. There’s nothing secret about right-wingers organizing to criticize the Clintons and their goals, and there’s nothing secret about plans to morph the United States into a North American Union.

The elites, however, must be feeling the heat. Following the Hudson Institute’s helpful suggestion to change the name of the Security and Prosperity Partnership, the fourth annual SPP meeting to be held in New Orleans on April 21 will now be called the North American Leaders Summit, and the promoters of the TransTexas Corridor are trying to change its name to “regional loop.”

To see what the elites are planning, you don’t have peek through keyholes or plant a spy under the table. Just read their published reports.
The words most frequently used to describe their goals are “economic integration,” “labor mobility,” “free movement of goods, services and people across open borders,” and “harmonization” of regulations.

The Council on Foreign Relations published a major report on May 17, 2005, only two months after the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) was announced by President Bush, Mexico’s Vicente Fox, and Canada’s Paul Martin in Waco on March 23, 2005. The CFR document explaining SPP’s goals and methodology was posted on the U.S. State Department website, thereby confirming its authenticity.

The CFR report explains that the three SPP amigos at Waco “committed their governments” to “Building a North American Community” by 2010 with a common “outer security perimeter,” “the extension of full labor mobility to Mexico,” allowing Mexican trucks “unlimited access,” “totalization” of illegal aliens into the U.S. Social Security system, and “a permanent tribunal for North American dispute resolution.”
The prestigious Center for Strategic & International Studies published a report in 2007 called “North American Future 2025 Project.” It advocates “economic integration,” the “free flow of people across national borders,” and “policies that integrate governments.”
The CSIS report even calls for “harmonizing legislation” on intellectual property rights with other countries. That’s a direct attack on our U.S. patent system, which is the key to U.S. leadership in inventions and innovation.

The Hudson Institute published a 35-page White Paper in 2007 called “Negotiating North America: The Security and Prosperity Partnership.” It states that SPP is the vehicle “for economic integration” with Mexico and Canada and even “combines an agenda with a political commitment.”

The Hudson White Paper explains that SPP’s “design” is for the executive branch to exercise full “authority” to “enforce and execute” whatever is decided by a 3-nation agreement of “civil service professionals” as though it were “law.” That means evading treaty ratification and even congressional legislation and oversight.

Don’t forget the importance of the Wall Street Journal and its longtime, very influential editorial-page editor, the late Robert Bartley. When Mexico’s Vicente Fox called for NAFTA to evolve into something like the European Union, Bartley wrote: “There is one voice north of the Rio Grande that supports his vision. To wit, this newspaper.”

One of the most influential business writers, Peter F. Drucker, wrote in his book, Post-Capitalist Society, that “The economic integration of the three countries into one region is proceeding so fast that it will make little difference whether the marriage is sanctified legally or not.”
When Larry King asked Mexico’s Vicente Fox about plans for a “Latin America united with one currency,” Fox answered in the affirmative. He said that one currency was part of the “vision” of the Free Trade Area of the Americas that Bush agreed to in the Declaration of Quebec City in 2001.

So now we know why the Bush Administration won’t build a fence to interfere with “labor mobility” across open borders. Now we know why Bush won’t pardon Ignatio Ramos and Jose Compean, while winking at the prosecutor’s deal to give immunity to a professional drug smuggler.
Now we know why Bush thumbed his nose at the overwhelming congressional votes (411-3 in the House and 75-23 in the Senate) to exclude Mexican trucks from U.S. roads. Now we know why Bush has been more persistent in pursuing “totalization” to put illegal aliens into Social Security than to promote his proposal to privatize a small part of Social Security for American citizens.

This is no conspiracy. It’s all part of the “economic integration” of the North American countries that’s been openly talked about for years.

By Chuck Missler

Following a series of very public and very appalling scandals, the United Nations has come under increased scrutiny. In recent years it has promised to clean up its act, and has enacted new policies and procedures meant to restore its credibility. Unfortunately, it would seem those reforms have done little to purge the international organization of corruption and waste.

Last year, in an attempt to reform its corruption-rife procurement system, the UN blacklisted a number of vendors. Among them was an Italian company called Corimec, which gave bribes to UN officials in exchange for lucrative contracts. However less than one month after it was removed from the UN’s list of approved vendors the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) purchased several million dollars worth of goods from Corimec. According to FOX News, the UNDP knew that Corimec had been blacklisted, but decided to use them anyway: “…UNDP officials declared that as a legally separate UN agency, they were not bound to honor the Procurement Service sanction…[this is] particularly significant, because the UNDP is the premier agency through which the UN operates on the ground in most of the 160 countries that it services.” These events prompt us to wonder if the UN is really serious about cleaning up its act.

The procurement service scandal is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg. The pattern of corruption in the UN is widespread. A recent internal audit of the UN mission in Sudan, conducted by the UN Office for International Oversight Services, found that the organization has wasted tens of millions of dollars over the past three years. Auditors found “potential fraud indicators and cases of mismanagement and waste” as well as “dozens of irregularities” in how the money was spent - money that should have been used to help the people of Sudan. According to a recent article in the Washington Post, “UN officers in Sudan have squandered millions by renting warehouses that were never used, booking blocks of hotel rooms that were never filled, and losing thousands of food rations to theft and spoilage.”

Hundreds of thousands of people in the Darfur region of Sudan have been slaughtered, and millions have been forced to flee their homes. The Islamic government that controls Sudan has been accused of genocide, but the United Nations has yet to take decisive action to stop the bloodshed. For the past five years they have done little but deliberate, procrastinate, and make empty threats.

The United Nations was created to maintain international peace and help solve the world’s economic and humanitarian troubles, but the UN has failed time and time again to accomplish its primary objectives. The UN is plagued by scandal, widespread corruption, favoritism, and financial mismanagement. Furthermore, through its misconduct, negligence, and complacency the UN has aided terrorism and oppression worldwide.

It should come as no surprise, that amidst the scandals that have engulfed the UN, the organization has announced plans for a massive overhaul. The huge reforms will be unlike any changes made since the organization was founded in 1945. Historically, government never downsizes voluntarily; it always increases its power and minimizes accountability to its citizens. Government reinvention is frequently an effort to avoid the consequences of failed policies in the past, or to justify a government’s continued expansion by posing solutions to the problems it has created.

Over the last decade, the United Nations has unabashedly pushed for what it calls “global governance.” The UN is positioning itself for real global power and it has become evident that they will use the scandal and the ensuing “reforms” to advance closer to that goal.