February 26, 2011 journal, South Carolina State Museum opens a show Uncommon Folk showing art in their permanent collection. I have 8 paintings in their permanent collection and one is of the state of South Carolina which is showing in this show as a history map of the state. The painting is 10 by 12 ft. and everyone seemed to relate to something on it. Thank you Paul for the invitation, thank you Paul for the opportunity to present my art. I enjoyed the day at South Carolina State Museum seeing the show Uncommon Folk. I envisioned the need for a history map of South Carolina and it seemed to develop as I had imagined it to be. I was amazed at how the public related to it and interacted with it seemingly much stronger than when it first opened during your 20th anniversary show. It sure seems that it is in the right place. The artist Mr. Herman Thompson who built the beautiful fairy tale scenes with clothes hangers remarked that the painting About South Carolina was worth a million dollars. I said but unfortunately I do not own it and neither am I out to make a million dollars not anymore in my life. I have come home now after circling the globe many times and putting my feet on the ground in all 50 states. I am satisfied with the upstate as the best place in the world to live. I like Florida and South Texas and San Diego and Honolulu and Thailand and Alaska and Iceland but I like here best my home now that I have spent some time in all those places, I like my home in the same county where I was born and raised. I like to produce art and I have many more mountains yet to climb before I rest. For the first time in my life I feel contended as I am. Everything inside the Beltway is dependent on the U.S. dollar which is dropping by the day to the point the Pentagon will soon abandon the troops in the field and let them go. They are printing money in high gear and when that fails it's all over for states and cities. Once the Arab League of Nations begins to sell their oil in other occurrences it's all over. The secrets are out as the heyday of the Federal Reserve is coming to summary judgment. It may be impossible for the United States to continue to protect Zionist Israel without the dictators on our payroll. How long will America support a roque Antichrist state? Long as can if the money keeps on spending but the days of the dollar are over once and forever. "Gentlemen, It has been a few days since I visited "The world climate has changed dramatically since my last visit. Riots and revolutions are breaking out all over the world as the empire crumbles. This unrest reaches from Egypt to Wisconsin. People are not rioting because they want "democracy" as our media is reporting. Their motivation is they are unable to continue life in a normal fashion due to a collapsing economic structure. They cannot feed their families. That is their real motivation. The world economic structure is extremely fragile which is by design. This is the "change" we heard about. While we are told things are improving all the charts, all the numbers, all the reality around us indicates otherwise. Many of my customers are simply unable to afford essential repairs and are having to do without. The majority of people I know have concerns about their jobs. As Gerald Celente said, "there will either be money or blood in the streets." The money is drying up. This is not an alarmist message, simply an honest evaluation". Author unknown, this is exactly what I have been saying it is here. People know the unemployment figures are phoney because millions have reached their maximum allowed by state federal unemployment insurance and are no longer eligible to draw therefore they are considered employed when they are still unemployed somewhere. Right now there are people in the streets and their blood is running hot ready to boil over. Pakistani and Indian Newspapers Say US CIA Contractor Raymond Davis Is a Terrorist Dave Lindorff, This Can't Be Happening: "Pakistani and Indian newspapers are reporting that Raymond Davis, the CIA contractor in jail in Lahore facing murder charges for the xecution-slayings of two young men believed to by Pakistani intelligence operatives, was actually involved in organizing terrorist activities in Pakistan. As the Express Tribune, an English-language daily that is linked to the International Herald Tribune, reported on Feb. 22: Call records of the cellphones recovered from Davis have established his links with 33 Pakistanis, including 27 militants from the TTP and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi sectarian outfit, sources said." C*I*A agents are the terrorist! Determined protesters are more powerful than standing armies as is being proven by the Mideast and Wisconsin demonstrations. The UK organization Uncut has targeted Grand Ole BankofAmerica for tax dodging and that they are guilty of abundantly and I rejoice at the courage of these people determined to change the banking racketeers and suffering of people. The bank's are the terrorists. I never dreamed it could happen all over the world. I do not care who is behind it or is involved if they can do the world a flavor to expose the tyrant banks and shame American corporations into paying their fair share of income tax. They need to show up at BMW and demand they pay income tax to Greer, the state and the federal on every car they make and sell with the calculations being determined by the demonstrators. Let them line Wall Street top to bottom and the foreign Federal Reserve. Communications with the powerful demonstrators have moved on from antiquated media propaganda & television hypnotizers to direct global face book and other communication. the building blocks of the fallen body alone and not the pyramid are being undermined. Branded as a tax evader demonstrators from Uncut are demanding BankAmerica pay tax. "Protesters participate in a US Uncut action on Bank of America in Washington, DC. US Uncut is a new movement that has sprung from a UK-based anti-austerity group and they have chosen Bank of America as their first corporation to target. Anna Becker looks tired. Becker is leaning against the brick wall beside the entrance to Bank of America's Pearl District branch in Portland, Oregon, where one of over 50 nationwide protests by US Uncut has been underway for nearly two hours. But Becker, a retired teacher, is just as energized as the protesters at the front of the crowd of about 60, who spill into the street and draw long, loud honks from the stream of cars driving toward the Willamette River. "I have been waiting for 20 years for something like this to happen in America," says Becker. The words she has spoken in private for years are now plastered onto the canary yellow poster board she holds up like a shield: "B of A is al-Qaeda: financial terrorists." Bank of America (B of A) is the first corporation to be targeted by US Uncut, the transatlantic offspring of the United Kingdom-based anti-austerity group UK Uncut, which held its first demonstration to protest corporate tax evasion in late 2010. As a voice at the megaphone of the Portland protest said, "The United States does not have a deficit problem. The United States has a revenue problem." According to a 2008 report by the Government Accountability Office , 25 percent of the biggest corporations pay no federal income tax. B of A, the recipient of $45 billion in bailout funds , shuttles its would-be tax dollars into 115 offshore tax havens . Meanwhile, budget deficits are cited as justification for pay freezes for public workers and cuts to heating assistance programs, Social Security, and other social safety nets. "The $3 in my wallet is more than ExxonMobil, GE and Bank of America paid in taxes last year, combined," said Carl Gibson, founder of the first American Uncut group, US Uncut Mississippi, in a release prior to the February 26 protests. "There is a direct connection between corporate tax dodging and what's happening to real people's lives," said Gibson. "Because of overseas tax havens and other tax loopholes, US corporations are making profits in America but barely paying taxes here. If we close those loopholes, we wouldn't have to be cutting back on firefighters, library hours and student loans." In its first weeks, the movement remains small but is already getting noticed. In Washington, DC, about 100 Uncut demonstrators closed down the B of A branch where their protest was staged. Boston organizer Chris Priest estimated turnout there at around 50". We must bypass American media to Russia to get the truth of whats going on in America. "One of our comments asked "has it really come to this?" where we're seeing a report on Russian television on how the US media has collectively ignored what's going on in Wisconsin? Sadly, yes we have. Our corporate media in America have done their best to ignore these protests and Russia Today has not. From Russia Today -- The Other Story: Home Made Uprising in Madison Wisconsin : The turbulence in the Arab world has drawn the full attention of the American media. Riots and demonstrations in Libya and Bahrain are dominating the news channels' at primetime, and the newspaper front pages. As Lauren Lyster reports, while U.S. leaders fly the flag for popular uprisings thousands of miles away, it's a very different story at home. I'll just add that the only thing I'll give the US media credit for as opposed to this coverage by Russian TV is that the US media didn't give Alex Jones any coverage. They're not doing themselves any favors by putting him on and just giving the media here an excuse to marginalize their coverage by doing so. That said, it's pretty pathetic that our foreign media is doing a better job of covering the protests in Wisconsin and speaking out for the rights of working people, while our press here is all but ignoring the protests and running celebrity gossip stories to fill their time instead of getting out to the state houses across the country where protesters were showing up." You Have More Money in Your Wallet Than Bank of America Pays in Federal Taxes-Zaid Jilani, ThinkProgress: "It wasn't teachers, fire fighters, policemen, and college students that caused the economic recession that has devastated government budgets - it was Wall Street. And as middle class workers are being asked to sacrifice, the rich continue to rig the system, dodging taxes and avoiding paying their fair share. In an interview with In These Times, Carl Gibson, the founder of US Uncut, which is organizing some of today's UK-inspired massive demonstrations against tax dodgers, explains .... you're paying more than the "combined income tax liability of GE, ExxonMobil, Citibank, and the Bank of America.'" Read the Article "Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates bluntly told an audience of West Point cadets on Friday that it would be unwise for the United States to ever fight another war like Iraq or Afghanistan, and that the chances of carrying out a change of government in that fashion again were slim. That reality, he said, meant that the shirt Army would have to reshape its budget, since potential conflicts in places like Asia or the Persian Gulf were more likely to be fought with air and sea power, rather than with conventional ground forces." Read the Article I did manage to order a copy of the 13th tribe book second hand. It seems the author Arthur Koestler published 3 versions within 3 years in the mid-70s just before his unfortunate untimely death of him and his wife in a London hotel room. I was happy to attend the opening of the new show Uncommon Folk at the SC State Museum showing my painting About South Carolina map of history. The response was super and more than the painting received in the original opening it was in on their 20th anniversary. It is now in their permanent collection, show is up until January 15, 2012. 14 states are cleaning up from devastating storms over night with tornadoes and flooding. Human demonstrators are stronger than standing armies. The amazing people of Egypt and other Mideast countries at the same time of Wisconsin. 5 percent of the people can overthrow any government in the world. They said only 5% of the Russian people were Communist or that only 5 percent of the German people were Nazis. I believe only 5 percent of the American people are gen-u-wine Christians even though 60% of American people claim to be Christian of the Protestant faith with their name on a church role as members. 5 percent of American men are Freemasons and most of them have a good second religion for society sake. America is 24% Roman Catholic. The abomination healthcare bill is already falling apart so states can opt out. Individuals should have been able to opt out. It was the insurance companies that created this awful mess of unaffordable health care. Hard for unemployed people to pay health insurance. There is one group organized from the U.K. that is targeting corporate tax dodgers like BankAmerica and organizing demonstrations which has caused a temporary closing of some branches. The group called Uncut are determined to flush out tax cheats that leave the tax burden and debt to the poor. Leona Helmsley was telling us something when she said to her maid "The rich do not pay taxes, the poor pay taxes". Even though she & her husband paid $29 million in taxes they may have still owed another million or so as they were probably the largest taxpayers in the world at the time but she went to jail I believe because she was a woman and the same as Martha Stewart went to jail for what was considered a crime committed by thousands. She was/is a Woman in a man's world. Wal-Mart has the largest lawsuit against them for pay discrimination against women. Finally, here is another visionary of a kind who says the Mideast uprising is coming to America. He caught my eye by saying the same thing I am saying about civil unrest but, I do not advocate his religion. Reported in The Chicago Tribune this week. This guy hopped up on a UFO for a ride with Elijah. http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/news/local/chibrknews-farrakhan-mideast-uprisings-will-come-to-us-20110227,0,1665375.story The riots are about food, not independence, people are hungry-another link to Mideast. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/the-price-of-food-is-at-the-heart-of-this-wave-of-revolutions-2226896.html# When I see the brave young people occupying the Wisconsin State House 24/7 in the face of police standing idly by, I remember that Martin Luther's life was spared because of his daily public speaking when the Pope was actively trying to kill him for insubordination. It is reported that the Pope became afraid to kill him fearing a reaction from the people. Meeting neighbor to neighbor on March 12 to stop the foolish savage Afghanistan war. http://by130w.bay130.mail.live.com/default.aspx?wa=wsignin1.0&rru=inbox