America's Third Party May Newsletter

Every genocide in history has been preceded by gun control!

As you may know, we are against War! Our goal is to bring our troops home to protect our border and end the exploitation of Americans by Non-US citizens.  The North Koreans and Syrian situations are a dismal result of bad foreign policy perpetrated by evil, for-profit War mongers! Obama has mishandled affairs with North Korea by not even talking to their leader, once! He continues to exacerbate the tension by flying Nuclear Bombers over the North Korean Peninsula and engage in War games at their border.  Similarly, Obama has continued supporting rebel troops in Syria, despite a growing backlash to this practice. This continuation of Arab Spring is causing Christians to be kidnapped and held hostage in Syria!  Not to mention the spillover in Jordan from people fleeing this conflict created by the US, French and English involvement. We support humanitarian measures only. As US troops (over 2000) wait for deployment to Syria, our President refuses to answer the tough questions regarding Libya. Why did it happen? Why was CIA Intel grossly inaccurate and why did the US install a former Al Qaeda leader as President of Libya?  This is on the heels of Hamid Karzai in Afghanistan admitting he has been bribed by the CIA for Years! When will the U.S. stop the practices of starting endless Wars? All of this has occurred with little or no checks and balances that would normally be presented in the free press. The reality is ... in America the free press is suppressed. We have found out the hard way how the media systematically ignores any dissent in America. If you are on the blogosphere, you are forgotten or erased. In 2008, we decided to launch the "blackface video" in response to a general lack of interest in questioning a black President. In order to parody the failures of Obama, David impersonated him in blackface. Our goal is still to raise the bar of awareness on racial equality. We will tackle the tough issues like Affirmative Action and find balance. Currently it clearly judges people on the "color of their skin, not the content of their character". We will work toward ending racial profiling and stopping police brutality. In the dialogue that is emerging from the "blackface video", we are seeing the true nature of racism appear on all sides. We are dedicated to integration and free speech. Together all people can discuss their concerns openly, without being denied their free speech. If you want to be heard, chat with us LIVE every weeknight from 6 to 8 pm Pacific. As long as your conversation does not delve into personal attacks against the hosts, we will leave the chat as open as possible. Starting this month, Sarah Hart will be opening the chat early in a pre-show. So, feel free to come in about 20 minutes early to talk with her. We are multicasting on various web channels. You can monitor all our chats and join the conversation by going to www.coolrock.com, which will actually redirect you to one of our pages on www.scrapplet.com which is an interactive site. You can drag any of the windows around if you want, or delete excess windows, to fit your viewing preferences. When you refresh the page it will go back to how we set it up. We think scrapplet is very innovative when it comes to website design. You can also make your own scrapplet page or host your own show on one of the sites we broadcast on. How You Can Help: Print Flyers: www.americasthirdparty.com/Flyers Call Talk Radio: www.americasthirdparty.com/TalkRadio Encourage friends to sign up: www.americasthirdparty.com/Member

Special Thank You to MAST3Rxx MAST3Rxx created great new logos and Artwork for us to use. The preceding poster and the Banner at the top of this email were created by him. Drone Deployment We are officially against the deployment of drones within the U.S.! With Obama signing the FAA Re-Authorization Act in 2012, he cleared the way for 30,000 drones to fly over our heads by 2020! Furthermore Eric Holder alluded to the possible use of drones against U.S. Citizens.  Let us not forget that much of this started with George Bush. We as Centrists, must certainly work to end the USE of ALL DRONES in the United States for surveillance purposes.  To pretend to want commercial use of drones creates a slippery slope.  We don't want commercial contracted workers spying on the American people! Legalization We hope you all had a wonderful 4/20! We look forward to a time when marijuana is legalized on a federal level. Tell your friends that David Jon Sponheim wants to legalize marijuana! The Economy This is a very unusual time in our economy. The stock market seems to be doing fantastic, yet unemployment remains high. Although some economists claim we are "recovering," we have seen many businesses shutting their doors. Some businesses, especially in the health care field, are building new facilities on virgin land. Meanwhile, buildings of a similar size sit vacant just down the street from these new locations. Why didn't they simply move into an existing structure? The banks gave them a loan for new development to pretend to prop up the economy. Also, when these businesses do shutter their doors in a few years, which is likely to happen, the banks can claim ownership of more developed property and charge higher prices for this "prime real estate" which no one will be able to afford. Much of this "new money" is indirectly coming from the Federal Reserve, which is borrowing against our future. We would like to end the Fed and create an infrastructure bank. This infrastructure bank will offer 2% loans to US businesses, hiring US citizens at a living wage. This would be far more effective in stimulating our economy and creating real growth. Post the following on blogs, facebook, twitter, and into the comment's section on news articles: "Have you heard about David Jon Sponheim? He's running for President of the United States in 2016. He's running under America's Third Party, which is a centrist political party - fiscally conservative and socially liberal. One thing that makes him unique is his willingness to chat directly with the American people in a candid manner. Check out his website and click the "Chat" button. He's goes live every weeknight. I hope you like him as much as I do." Copyright © 2013 *America's Third Party*, All rights reserved. Our email address is: *americasthirdparty@gmail.com*

Random Thoughts at the Beginning of 2013

I need to revamp our website for 2016. David has been talking about a complete re-work of at least the main page. I do want to make it more interactive, but I haven't done so before because we had been hit with spammers and trolls.

I don't understand why lawmakers didn't allow the Bush-era tax-cuts to simply expire in 2010 or now. The last time we did not have a deficit was under Clinton; so, why not go back to the tax rates that were in place whenu he was President? Then, Congress could focus on ways to cut spending. For instance, we could build less multi-million dollar military equipment and use our military personell to guard our bases and maintain military housing, rather than hiring contractors to do this work.

I believe that government should think about new sources of revenue. This is exactly what we propose in our book "Hybrid Capitalism." Then the government can compete in the capitalists system.

I also think that our government isn't pursuing domestic oil in order to save it when the rest of the world's oil runs out. Then, the powers that control the oil can get the most money out of it that they can and be seen as saviors somehow.

As far as Hurricane Sandy victims go, I need to research it more before I can say whether or not $60 BILLION in aid is merited.... As I suspected, there was Pork in that bill, which I'm glad to hear the House cut. 

As school is going back into session, some veterans may choose to stand guard outside of schools.
http://www.facebook.com/VeteransOnWatch I am not opposed to this. I do want to tell everyone that you can and SHOULD ask to see their identification. This is especially true since the Supreme Court has ruled that people can lie about serving in the military.
http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/dotmil/2012/06/28/high-court-free-speech-trumps-insulted-war-heroes

Thank you to those of you who have truly served. By the way, it is against the law for some military personell to wear a uniform in public:
http://www.examiner.com/article/marine-corps-threatens-charges-for-marine-dad-guarding-school
The government has this rule in place so that the American people do not feel like we live in a war-zone.

What I would like to encourage is for EVERYONE to volunteer in schools. Many school districts require that volunteers have a background check done and kept on file at the district.
For Veterans involved in Veterans On Watch, I suggest you ask the school permission before standing guard, and volunteer to get a background check done and submit it to the school. This is another measure to protect
our students. Then, volunteer to help in classes and especially reach out to kids who appear isolated.

I believe with LOVE we can help heal our nation.

J programming language

Have you heard of the J programming language? It is based on APL and closely related to K. As a novice, I find this very easy to work with. Here is a link to their chapter on learning Object Oriented Programming: http://www.jsoftware.com/help/learning/25.htm
It is definitely different than C++ and Java, which I plan on learning as well to better participate in the lingua franca most programmers have developed. Yet, in many ways, I feel that C++ and Java have become some big that it is difficult for a novice like me to dig in. Plus, I feel they have strayed far from machine code so much that they become bulky and take more processing to implement.
If you look into solving problems on www.projecteuler.net, J takes much less written code to solve these than does C++. So, my plan is to study J and C++ and Java. I have a feeling my favorite will be J.

Perspective Based Reality

My father used to say, "The world does not revolve around you." I realize he was trying to teach me empathy, to walk in someone else's shoes and see things from other people's perspectives.

I believe reality is based on the perspective of each individual based on where they are situated on the time-space continuum. Some scientists say that the time-space continuum is like a fabric and all potential pasts and futures are already laid out on this fabric. If that is the case, then life is like one giant choose your own adventure book; the story has already been written and we are limited in our choices. Plus, each choice we make limits our future decisions.

I prefer to think about the time space continuum as a series of interconnected crystals, or better yet, torus shapes. We tral along a path like along the edge of a crystal. When we come to a vertex (a point), we have to make a decision on which way to proceed. That decision puts us on the edge of a different side of the crystal until we come to another vertex where we make a decision.

When I think of this as interconnected overlapping torus shapes it makes even more sense (at least for me). Almost even single minute in our lives are filled with decisions, but these decisions are not as limited as an "If...then...else..." statement. Indeed, our daily decisions are only limited based on our physical location on the time space continuum.

Many factors affect our decisions- whether we've had sufficient sleep or enough food to eat, for instance, affects whether or not we get out of bed for a midnight snack. What kind of snack we get (if at all) affects our physical body and th future decisions we make.

Each atom is a torus shape with the electron cloud. These connect and overlap, creating the very fabric of the time-space continuum, which itself if a torus shape or overlapping torus shapes. The thing you need to know about the torus is all lines are curved. So, we are not traveling in a straight line. Instead, we are spiraling through space. I like to think of this as the Fibonacci spiral. Yet, at any point on the spiral, we can choose to enter onto another Fibonacci spiral - multiple spirals interconnected three dimensionally.

Some of the things that have affected my thinking in this process are: www.thrivemovement.com - which introducd me to the torus shape in their video, www.larouchepac.com/rteimann1 - which describes some of Reimann's theories and another video or two from youtube on the time-space continuum.

A friend of mine (SymbolicCenter from our chatroom) got me into thinking about making decisions and other people as well. Some people pray to be "in the right place at the right time." This depends on the decisions they make to position themselves there. I pray for the best possible outcome for myself and all those involved. I believe positive energy and light can ensure this happens, or at least helps us make positive decisions.

My father once said, "You can do anything you want in life, you just have to be willing to accept the consequences." The consequences will happen, whether or not you accept them, based on the decisions you make. Choose wisely and good luck.

American People Not Ready to Seize Power

The American people do have the power to change the political process and affect real change. Yet, it seems they are not quite ready to seize that power. For the past four years, I have been helping to form America's Third Party. We have been using social media to spread our message. Every week night, we host a video chat show at blogtv.

Recently, I volunteered for Americans Elect, an organization that wanted to move beyond the two party system and put America's choice for President on the ballot. People had the opportunity to draft anyone they wanted, including the current President and people running under the Republican party. The only caveat was that the person must choose a VP that was different than themselves ideologically in order to "balance the ticket."

Unfortunately, people did not show enough interest in Americans Elect for any candidate to advance into the primary round. Perhaps, the American people just aren't ready for this kind of power.

The American people are content commenting on social media sites, REACTING to what is in the news, but they are not comfortable actually steering and guiding the conversation. Plus, a key factor is their desire to stay anonymous on the internet. Americans Elect asked people to verify their real identities and they were registered voters before they could support candidates on the site. This is primarily where efforts broke down. People prefer to remain anonymous as much as possible in this digital age, including many of the donors to Americans Elect.

Americans Elect Afterthoughts

Americans Elect offered a huge opportunity to the American people, yet we failed to seize it. Therefore, their efforts to influence the 2012 Presidential race has come to an end.

Perhaps a lot of people were hesitant to get involved due to the account security verification process. There is a huge difference between clicking a support or like button and the complex account security on the AE website.

I tried to tell AE to just use a "Like" or Facebook coded "Support" button to show candidate support during the primary process, and they could even limit it to people over 18 living in the US, like Votocracy did. I truly tried to connect these two organizations early on.

However, AE insisted on high security in the support process. I felt the security was definitely needed in the voting process (which never happened), but not needed to show support.
Many people were turned off by the process when they were asked to reveal the last 4 digits of their Social Security numbers, not to mention the questions that AE seemed to know personal info. About the person getting verified. This information came from Aristotle- an informational database aggregator.

From the perspective of the end-user, it seemed personally intrusive, especially in the digital age of phishing emails and scammers. We are told not to reveal personal information over the internet for fear of potential identity theft. Yet AE asked for this information simply to support a candidate.

Maybe next time, AE will hire more programmers (maybe the ones from Votocracy) so the support process will be easier, but the voting rounds will still be secure. It would definitely help to have more Facebook integration.

Perhaps many people just didn't know about Americans Elect. During the last month or so, I started calling television stations across the country and newspapers in my state. Many of these press people had never heard of Americans Elect. If I had started this process sooner, or if the paid Press Team had taken on this effort, the organization may have gained more traction. Oftentimes, we wait for the press to discover us, when we need to do the work of putting ourselves out there. Plus, if we do as much work as we can for the press, the more likely they will run a story about us. I hope that the negative press of AE not succeeding in this election prevents us from moving forward in the future.

AE volunteers developed "Rapid Response" teams to try to respond to negative press. In the future, I think more effort can go into developing positive stories. In addition, I think money should be spent on cable television advertising. I tried sending information about this to Americans Elect. I know they may have been hesitant to do so because of FEC regulations that require donors to be revealed who engage in electioneering communications. We should have more clarity about this from the courts by the next election.

I do believe a lot of people who would have otherwise gotten involved with Americans Elect were hesitant to do so because the donors were not revealed. I understand their desire to remain anonymous, even though we were asked to reveal our identity through the account verification process. To see where I stand on Anonymity, read my poem at www.americasthirdparty.com/NotAnonymous

I just hope the Ackermans and other financial backers did not become disheartened for the future. The American people are not ready yet, but I really think they could be ready in 2016. I look forward to working with the organization in the future.

I am switching gears and starting to reach out more to media. You might want to join me in this effort. You can get the phone numbers for newspapers and TV stations at www.usnpl.com - I started in Wasington State on Monday. A lot of times they are busy. So, I get their email addresses and send them a press release. On Monday, I sent 20 out. Every little bit helps.

I'm campaigning for Sponheim, and bringing people to AE, which will help America's Third Party and Americans Elect organizations become more viable. I am going to focus on TV stations and push the May 8th Online Caucus that all Americans can participate in.

Even if we have some overlap in our efforts, it's not bad. As a teacher, I was told studrnts have to hear a concept aboutt 5 times before they get it.

Here's what you can say when you call, "I have a great news story for you." At this point, they will usually transfer you to the newsroom where you have to make a pitch. Here's what I said, "I have a great news story. Washington State resident, David Jon Sponheim is running for President of the United States. He is working to get on the ballot in all 50 states through an organization called Americans Elect, which will be holding an Online Primary on May 8th to choose their Candidate. Any US citizen can participate."

For non- Washington State I'll say, "On May 8th, Americans Elect will be holding an Online Primary to choose their Presidenttial Candidate. All Americans can participate in this process. I personally support David Jon Sponheim from America's Third Party."

If they want more information, offer to send tham a press release. Get their email address and send it to me and I will send them a Press Release.