Peer-to-peer currency takes banks out of the picture

A few months ago we looked at Irish CurrencyFair, a peer-to-peer site that effectively removes banks and other middlemen from currency exchange. Pushing the peer-to-peer concept even further into the world of finance, Bitcoin is a collectively managed and open-source digital currency that's completely independent of any central authority.

Now in beta, Bitcoin bills itself as “the first digital currency that is completely distributed.” In essence, that means that it's managed collectively by a global network of users, so no bank or payment processor is required between buyers and sellers in any transaction. Users begin with Bitcoin by downloading its client program for Linux, Mac or Windows, thereby creating a digital wallet and associated Bitcoin address for themselves. Next, very small quantities of Bitcoins are available for free from the Bitcoin faucet, but to get larger ones, users can visit various currency exchanges and sites. They can also accept Bitcoins as payments for goods and services.

Either way, once they have Bitcoins — abbreviated “BTC” — users can spend them at various participating online merchants for a wide variety of goods and services. It's free for merchants to accept Bitcoins, and there are no chargebacks or fees. Currently, there is no charge for processing Bitcoin transactions, but eventually a small fee of about one bitcent will be charged every transaction to one of many competing Bitcoin “miners,” who create Bitcoins in a controlled way by running a dedicated program. A video on YouTube explains the Bitcoin concept.

Bitcoins have rapidly appreciated in value over the past few months, going from USD 0.50 at the end of January to more than USD 1 in early February.

Outlaw: The True Story of Claude Dallas

Jeff Long has written a most interesting story of the last old west type shootout that may ever occur in this country. It is true. Dallas was a guy who came from Virginia and wanted to be a cowboy. He went west and became what he had always wanted to be, and he was good at it. He had a superb work ethic. Along the way, he acquired some of the trappings of a real cowboy. He had a Winchester rifle with an octagonal barrel. He was a good shot, both with the rifle and pistols.

Over time, when he was living in Nevada, he spent his winters trapping coyotes and cats, with an occasional mountain lion thrown in. His last winter season he was trapping right along the Nevada/Idaho line and ran into a couple of Fish and Game officers from Idaho. One of them, Bill Pogue, the senior of the two, had a bit of an attitude problem, according to Jim Stevens, a friend of Dallas's who had brought him supplies. Pogue and Dallas were like kitchen matches and gasoline. Pogue was most likely playing it hard and Dallas most likely was stubborn.

The confrontation erupted in gunfire and Dallas, deadly quick, dropped both Pogue and his backup, Conley Elms. He finished them off, trapper style, with a gunshot behind the ear with a .22 rifle. I know Claude Dallas. The book pretty much portrays Dallas in a true light. Crowded, like he was that day, he would not back down. Later, when he was on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list, he was captured without a fight and without any firearms. I've liked this book well enough to own it and to read it several times. Jeff Long's work is first rate all the way through. Though this book is no longer in print, it is a book to own.

Morgan Stinemetz

NCFIRE- ACTION ALERT!

NCFIRE

We need our members to contact the NC General Assembly on Monday and Tuesday.(Once is not enough) There are several illegal immigration related bills that are stuck in committee and if they are not out within a week or so, they will die! If we don't capitalize on these bills now, they won't be coming back and our chance to get real illegal immigration enforcement in NC will be lost. There is no second chance here folks.

PLEASE, contact the primary sponsors of these bills first. Ask them:
1) What are the chances of House/Senate Bill... getting out of committee?
2) What can you do to assist them in their effort to get their bill out of committee?

Then contact the Chairmen of these committees and explain (be civil):
1) NC is spending over $1.3 billion dollars per year just to educate, incarcerate and give emergency treatment to illegal aliens
2) The majority of NC citizens support immigration enforcement
3) When is House/Senate Bill ... coming out of committee?


On the HOUSE side:

HB343- Support Law Enforcement/SAFE Neighborhoods
It is currently in the Committee on Judiciary Subcommittee A
Chairman:
John M. Blust
Phone: 919-733-5781
Email: John.Blust@ncleg.net

Primary Sponsors:
George Cleveland
Phone: 919-715-6707
Email: George.Cleveland@ncleg.net

John M. Blust
Phone: 919-733-5781
Email: John.Blust@ncleg.net

Mark K. Hilton
Phone: 919-733-5988
Email: Mark.Hilton@ncleg.net

HB351- "Voter ID"
It is currently in the House Committee On Appropriations
Chairman:
Harold J. Brubaker
Phone: 919-715-4946
Email: Harold.Brubaker@ncleg.net

Primary Sponsors:
David R. Lewis
Phone: 919-715-3015
Email: David.Lewis@ncleg.net

Tim Moore
Phone: 919-733-4838
Email: Tim.Moore@ncleg.net

Ric Killian
Phone: 919-733-5886
Email: Ric.Killian@ncleg.net


On the SENATE side:

HB33- State Law to Provide for Acceptable ID's
It is currently in the Committee On Rules and Operations of the Senate
Chairman:
Tom Apodaca
Phone: (919) 733-5745
Email: Tom.Apodaca@ncleg.net

S204- Public Entities & Contractors/Use E-Verify
It is currently in the Committee On Rules and Operations of the Senate
Chairman:
Tom Apodaca
Phone: (919) 733-5745
Email: Tom.Apodaca@ncleg.net

Primary Sponsor:
Austin M. Allran
Phone: (919) 733-5876
Email: Austin.Allran@ncleg.net

S205- No Benefits For Illegal Aliens
It is currently in the Committee On Rules and Operations of the Senate
Chairman:
Tom Apodaca
Phone: (919) 733-5745
Email: Tom.Apodaca@ncleg.net

Primary Sponsor:
Austin M. Allran
Phone: (919) 733-5876
Email: Austin.Allran@ncleg.net

S352/S595- "Voter ID"
They are currently in the Committee On Judiciary I
Chairman:
Peter S. Brunstetter
Phone: (919) 733-7850
Email: Peter.Brunstetter@ncleg.net

Primary Sponsors:
Senator Wesley Meredith (S352)
Phone: (919) 733-5776
Email: Wesley.Meredith@ncleg.net

Ralph Hise (S352)
Phone: (919) 733-3460
Email: Ralph.Hise@ncleg.net

Debbie A. Clary (S595)
Phone: (919) 715-3038
Email: Debbie.Clary@ncleg.net


James Johnson
President-NCFIRE
North Carolinians For Immigration Reform and Enforcement
www.NCFIRE.info
www.Facebook.com/NCFIRE
NCFIRE@ncfire.info
NCFIRE Hotline: 1-888-885-0879
cell # 910-286-3022

Wartime Virginia

Virginia Historical Society

Pvt. Henry Bird of the Petersburg Grays

================================

"A number of museums and historical groups are commemorating this year's 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War. Among the best exhibits: "An American Turning Point: The Civil War in Virginia." Assembled by the Virginia Historical Society in Richmond, the show features more than 200 objects (among them: Gen. Stonewall Jackson's pocket watch), interactive technology (can you text faster than a telegraph operator from the 1860s?) and 17 audio-visual programs (including an all-too-vivid battle scene)."

Via Ann, Belle Grove

Ulstermen march with Confederate flags in County Tyrone

Via Southern Nationalist Network

"Flying the colours in Northern Ireland

Proud sons of Ulster took to the streets of Newtownstewart in County Tyrone on 6 May, 2011 to show the colours and their loyalty to their country. For this son of Dixie it was especially stirring to see that they marched with the Confederate and Bonnie Blue flags, symbolizing the cultural and ethnic ties between the Ulster-Scots (“Scots-Irish”) and the people of Dixie."

========

Confederate Army mural in Northern Ireland

Sons of Ulster who led the Confederate Army during the War of Northern Aggression.

IRS: The Biggest Scam in History, by Sheriff Richard Mack

IRS-probably the three most frightening letters in the English language. This deep-seated fear and loathing serves a very specific purpose. It serves to keep the People of America in submission to an illusion, a lie.

The IRS has a horrible reputation and has earned every bit of it, has by their own admissions committed crimes against innocent Citizens, and continues today to be the “Gestapo” of America . They confiscate more homes, destroy more families, take more money, ruin more lives, and commit more crimes than all the street gangs combined. They are indeed vivid proof that the greatest threat we face, as a nation, is our own Federal “Government.” [The County Sheriff : America ’s Last Hope. Author Richard Mack].

Here it is in a nutshell. The IRS is a private, debt collection agency for the private banking system known as the Federal Reserve Bank. The IRS is not a government agency. I repeat, the IRS is not a government agency. Never has been, never will be.

African Monopoly and King Mussa

MANSA KANKAN MUSSA
KING OF MALI (1306-1332)
==========================

African Monopoly and King Mussa:

“The first West African state of which there is any record was called Ghana. The people were farmers and traders and metal-smiths. Their capital city, Kumbi-Kumbi, was an important trading center during the Middle Ages. From the Arab countries came caravans of wheat and fruit and sugar and textiles and brass and salt. They went back loaded down with rubber and ivory and gold and another product the Africans were able to turn out better and in greater quantity than any other people. As a matter of fact, they had monopoly. We refer to Negro slaves.

The next Negro kingdom of any consequence was called Melle and comprised roughly what is now French West Africa. It was ruled during the first thirty years of the 14th century by a free-wheeling fellow by the name of Gonga-Mussa.

A good Moslem, King Mussa made a pilgrimage to Mecca in the year 1324. He travelled in style. There were 60,000 people in his party, including 12,000 slaves. Five hundred men [were] marching at the head of the procession bearing staffs of pure gold. To finance the trip, King Mussa took along eighty camels loaded down with gold valued at more than $5,000,000!

(My Old Kentucky home, Good Night! W.E. Debnam, The Graphic Press, 1955, page 19)

Via Bernhard
========
African Monopoly and King Mussa

No Emancipation of the Wage Slaves

It is often remarked that the Northern climate led to slavery’s demise up there, though it is more accurate to say that Massachusetts inventor Eli Whitney, New England cotton mills, and a plentiful supply of wage slaves had more to do with it. The South had great expanses of cultivated land to produce raw cotton for those Northern mills, Manhattan banks provided financial lubricant, and New England slave ships continued to ply the Gulf of Benin for dusky laborers to work the plantations.

Bernhard Thuersam, Director
Cape Fear Historical Institute
www.cfhi.net
========
No Emancipation of the Wage Slaves:

“Negro slavery was a flop in the North.

The accent there was on manufacturing and the Negro was at his best when teamed up with a hoe and a cotton patch. The thrifty manufacturers of New England had a cheaper and more efficient labor supply readily at hand in the white wage slaves already there and the immigrants from Europe who came flooding in.

The chattel slave [in the South] had to be fed and clothed and taken care of in sickness and in health. When he got too old to work he had to be provided for. Some States made it illegal for slaves to work on Sundays under pain of a fine of five pounds. The average work day was about eleven hours [and] The slave was given a holiday between Christmas and New Year’s. Louisiana prescribed by law that every slave had to be given a minimum of 200 pounds of pork a year.

The New England white wage slave wasn’t nearly as expensive and a lot more efficient. He represented no capital outlay. He worked for starvation wages. Laborers in the North in 1860 were earning 60 cents a day, and a day was often 14 to 16 hours.

The plight of women workers was even more appalling. In New York city, during the Civil War, women umbrella workers, after laboring 18 hours from six in the morning to midnight, earned three dollars a week. Seamstresses in the underwear crafts got seventeen cents for a twelve-hour day. When the wage slave got sick he went off the payroll. When worn out by age and hard work, he was discarded like an old shoe.

Bells rang at daybreak in most factory towns. The wage slaves – men and women, boys and girls – had to report at the factory gates in fifteen minutes. An hour later they were allowed twenty-five minutes for whatever breakfast they had brought. They got another twenty-five minutes at mid-day. The gates opened again at 8 o’clock that night to let the wage slaves go home.

In the Eagle Mill, at Griswold, Conn., the work day lasted fifteen hours and ten minutes. At Paterson, New Jersey, women and children began the day’s work at 4:30 o’clock in the morning. Overseers in some textile mills cracked a cowhide whip over the backs of women and children. That isn’t to say that chattel slavery was to be preferred to wage slavery........

(My Old Kentucky Home, Good Night! W.E. Debnam, The Graphic Press, 1955, pp. 30-31)
========
No Emancipation of the Wage Slaves

Geert Wilder's Final Court Statement

... Geert Wilders made his final statement in court yesterday where he is still on trial for telling the truth about Islam. This, as often noted, is a judicial outrage, a public nightmare, and an existential threat to liberty as we have known it which doesn't end because bin Laden is dead. There is a raw, ugly fear of Islam in the non-Islamic world, and the grotesque reflex of the frightened power classes is to side with the raw, ugly power of Islam, which, never let it be forgotten, is derived solely from their own fear. The results are to be seen in the travesties around us from the Netherlands' campaign to silence, penalize and make an example of the courageous Wilders, to the USA's grotesque staging of a dignified, Islamically correct "funeral at sea" for a mass murderer whose corpse should have been disposed of as the human trash that it was.

Reading Geert's words is a sobering experience, spoken as they are in the face of a thoroughly craven but still powerful establishment-machine. In this desperate hour for free speech, they sound an SOS we seem powerless to answer. But they are inspiring, too, for the example they set. Here in the 21st century is a man whose allegiance to liberty is paramount.

Geert Wilders:

Via Sarah Maid Of Albion

Reclaiming Our Free Society, by Judge Andrew Napolitano

Via Green Mountains Homesteading