Europe uses drugs to lie to God's people

"I have related in a former chapter, the curious account given by the Delawares and Mohicans of the scene which took place when they were first made to taste spiritous liquors by the Dutch who landed on New York Island. I have no doubt that this tradition is substantially founded on fact. Indeed, it is strongly corroborated by the name which, in consequence of this adventure, those people gave at the time to that island, and which it has retained to this day. They call it Manahachtanienk, which in the Delaware language, means, "the island where we all became intoxicated." We have corrupted this name into Manhattan, but not so as to destroy its meaning, or conceal its origin. The last syllable which we have left out is only a termination, implying locality, and in this word signifies as much as where we. There are few Indian traditions so well supported as this.
How far from that time the dreadful vice of intoxication has increased among these poor Indians, is well known among many Christian peoples among us. We may safely calculate on thousands who have perished by the baneful effect of spiritous liquors. The dreadful war which took place in 1774 between the Shawanese, some of the Mingoes, amd the people of Virginia, in which so many lives were lost, was brought on by t he consequences of drunkenness. It produced murders, which were followed by private revenge, and ended in a most cruel and destructive war.
The general prevalence of this vice among the Indians is in a great degree owing to unprincipled white traders, who persuade them to become intoxicated that they may cheat them the more easily, and obtain their land or peltries for a mere trifle. Within the last fifty years, some instances have even come to my knowledge of white men having enticed Indians to drink, and when drunk, murdered them. The effects which intoxication produces among the Indians are dreadful. It has been the cause of an infinite number of murders among them, besides biting off noses and otherwise disfiguring each other, which are the least consequences of the quarrels that inebriation produces between them. I cannot say how many among them have died of colds and other disorders, which they have caught by lying upon the cold ground, and remaining exposed to the elements when drunk; others have lingered out their lives, in excruciating rheumatic pains and in wasting consumptions, until death came to relieve them from their sufferings.
Reflecting Indians have keenly remarked, "that it was strange that a people who professed themselves believers in a religion revealed to them by the Great Spirit himself; who say that they have in their houses the WORD of God, and his laws and commandments textually written, could think of making a beson (This word means liquor, and is also used in the sense of a medicinal draught, or other compound potion.), calculated to bewitch people and make them destroy one another."
I once asked an Indian at Pittsburgh, whom I had not before seen, who he was? He answered in broken English: "My name is Blackfish; when at home with my nation, I am a clever fellow, and when here, a hog." He meant that by means of the liquor which the white people gave him, he was sunk to the level of that beast.


from~

"HISTORY, MANNERS, AND CUSTOMS of THE INDIAN NATIONS WHO ONCE INHABITED PENNSYLVANIA AND THE NEIGHBOURING STATES."

BY THE REV. JOHN HECKEWELDER, OF BETHLEHEM, PA 1876





This was written when patriots were the colonists of a King

... and still this goes on...

to us all...

from Afghanistan to your streets.

Institutionally, legally, politically...

militantly.




Institutionally. Treasonously.
Shamefully.



http://espn.go.com/abcsports/mnf/s/annotatedmiller/index.html

The trio of cheap, fruity wines is produced by Ernest and Julio Gallo. The Gallo brothers inherited their family's vineyard in the mid-'30s after their father murdered their mother and then committed suicide. In the 1950s, 40-proof port mixed with lemon juice became a popular urban drink, and Gallo set out to emulate the flavor. The result, Thunderbird, became the high-alcohol wine of choice on the street, with an ad campaign to match: "What's the word?
Thunderbird!
How's it sold?
Good and cold!
What's the jive?
Bird's alive!"
Ripple went on to become Fred Sanford's beverage of choice, and many a teenager in the '70s got his or her first taste of liquor from the sickly-sweet fruit flavors of Boone's Farm. In the '80s, Ernest and Julio Gallo went on to create that most insidious of concoctions, the Bartles & Jaymes wine cooler. However, frustrated by this low-rent reputation, Ernest Gallo turned his attention to creating finer wines and today produces a large number of wines under classier names such as Marcelina, Frei Brothers Reserve and Ecco Domani.

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There is another verse to that ad jingle, it has become a sort of folksong at this point...
it changes depending on who you are, i guess... the way i learned it was

"Who drinks the most?
Us white folks."

Money may put bread on your table but why not just bake your own?

In this militant time of border fences, oil wars and terrorist threats...
drug wars, failing economies, record Corporate profits
political lies justified by pacification
and the continued reliance on fossil/nuclear energy
destroying our home, Mother Earth

In the economic context of several plants (a renewable resource) being worth well more than their weight in gold (due to police suppression)

and 90% of the world living so close with the Earth that the only contact they have with the "First World" is handouts and military suppression...

look at the worlds that are being made now... even further from the land and air and water and fire that made us all.

As i write this i listen to a radio. A light is on next to me. My digital mouse is being powered through my plasma widescreen laptop. A t.v. is muted in the background. A window A.C. unit is keeping the room cool during the hottest part of this day. A cellphone rests charging at my side.

this is how i relax (or pretend to)... enveloping myself in electricity... http://www.magelo.com/eq_view_profile.html?num=742086
this has been my digital persona for more than 5 years.


http://www.flatrock.org.nz/topics/info_and_tech/game_theories.htm

...

As Castronova stared at the auction listings, he recognised with a shock what he was looking at. It was a form of currency trading. Each item had a value in virtual "platinum pieces"; when it was sold on eBay, someone was paying cold hard American cash for it. That meant the platinum piece was worth something in real currency. EverQuest's economy actually had real-world value.

He began calculating frantically. He gathered data on 616 auctions, observing how much each item sold for in US dollars. When he averaged the results, he was stunned to discover that the EverQuest platinum piece was worth about US1¢ - higher than the Japanese yen or the Italian lira. With that information, he could figure out how fast the EverQuest economy was growing. Since players were killing monsters or skinning bunnies every day, they were, in effect, creating wealth. Crunching more numbers, Castronova found that the average player was generating 319 platinum pieces each hour he or she was in the game - the equivalent of US$3.42/hour. "That's higher than the minimum wage in most countries," he marvelled.

Then he performed one final analysis: The Gross National Product of EverQuest, measured by how much wealth all the players together created in a single year inside the game. It turned out to be US$2,266 per capita. By World Bank rankings, that made EverQuest richer than India, Bulgaria, or China, and nearly as wealthy as Russia. It was the 77th richest country in the world. And it didn't even exist.

Castronova sat back in his chair in his cramped home office, and the weird enormity of his findings dawned on him. Many economists define their careers by studying a country. He had discovered one.

...To figure out precisely who was playing EverQuest, Castronova persuaded 3,500 users to fill out a survey. As one might expect, the average age turned out to be 24, and the players were overwhelmingly male. The amount of time spent "in game" was staggering: over 20 hours a week, with the most devoted players logging 6 hours daily. 20% of players agreed with the cheeky (if alarming) statement "I live in Norrath but I travel outside of it regularly"; on average, each of these "residents" possessed virtual goods worth about US$3,000. "When you consider that the average real-life income in America is only, like, $37,000," Castronova tells me, "you realise these people have a non-trivial amount of wealth locked up inside the games."

When he finished his research, Castronova assembled it in a paper called "Virtual Worlds: A First-Hand Account of Market and Society on the Cyberian Frontier." He submitted it to an academic website, the Social Science Research Network, that distributes working papers free for anyone to read. The site has 43,982 papers, by more than 37,000 authors. He didn't expect too much. "I thought maybe 75 people would read it," he recalls, "and that'd be great." He was wrong. The paper sent a shock wave through the on-line world. EverQuest players pounced on it and wrote up excited descriptions on game-discussion boards. That led to a flurry of posts on popular blog sites. Soon, academics and pundits in Washington were rushing to read it. Barely a few months later, Castronova's paper became the most downloaded paper in the entire database - beating out works by dozens of Nobel laureates. Today, it's still in the top three.

Why the rush of interest? What can a game filled with elves and warrior dwarves tell us about the real world?

Quite a lot, if you believe the economist Edward Chamberlin. In 1948, Chamberlin admitted that all economists face a critical problem: they have no clean "laboratory" in which to study behaviour. "The social scientist ... cannot observe the actual operation of a real model under controlled circumstances," he wrote. "Economics is limited by the fact that resort cannot be had to the laboratory techniques of the natural sciences." Instead, classical economics tries to predict economic behaviour by theorizing about a completely fair marketplace in which people are rational actors and all things are equal.

The problem with this - as plenty of left-wing critics have pointed out - is that all things aren't equal. Some people are born into rich families, and blessed with great opportunities. Others are born into dirt-poor neighbourhoods where even the most brilliant mind coupled with hard work may not forge success. As a result, economists have warred for centuries over two diverging visions. Adam Smith argued that people inherently prefer a free market and the ability to rise above others; Karl Marx countered that capital was inherently unfair and those with power would abuse it. But no pristine world exists in which to test these theories - there is no country with a truly level playing field.

Except, possibly, for EverQuest, the world's first truly egalitarian polity. Everyone begins the same way: with nothing. You enter with pathetic skills, no money, and only the clothes on your back. Wealth comes from working hard, honing your skills, and clever trading. It is a genuine meritocracy, which is precisely why players love the game, Castronova argues. "It undoes all the inequities in society. They're wiped away. Thomas More would have dreamt about that possibility, that kind of utopia," he says.

Virtual worlds have produced some surreal rags-to-riches stories. When the on-line world Second Life launched, the players were impressed to see a female avatar industriously building a sprawling monster home. An in-game neighbour stopped by to say hello only to discover she was a homeless person in British Columbia, logging on using her single remaining possession, a laptop. Penniless in the real world, she belonged to a social elite in the fake one.

and then what????????????????