tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-92045582024-03-07T22:52:12.557-07:00JUSTABRIDGE"It is not the function of our government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error." the late Justice Robert H. JacksonUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger76125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9204558.post-38907537645938022002008-11-23T16:02:00.002-07:002009-01-15T19:23:55.998-07:00LEARNING TO LIVE vs EARNING ITIt is time for Americans to define a value system that is not controlled or dictated by consumption. Living daily to earn, find, scam, putting a dollar in your pocket, so that you can eat, pay rent, utilities, transportation, clothes, .. before even considering discretionary consumption like the new TV, is not freedom; rather, it is closer to imperialism, fascism or worse.<br /><br />"Earning a living", is often used as a measuring stick to identify self worth, worthiness, self esteem, or value, as a human in a society plagued by false ideology involving judgement of others according to a standard that even religious believers know that Jesus didn't tolerate. <br /><br /><em>Earning </em>one's life, seems unforgiving, oppressive, and scary. What if one cannot earn one's life, if they do not measure up, if they cannot learn how, or inspite of all they do according to the social norms to prepare to earn to live, to survive, including education and training, they still cannot seem to earn correctly, to live??<br /><br />They die? Yes. Millions of Americans have died over the years, long before their due dates, because they could not learn to earn their life. They may or may not have had the skills required, or the education tools. They might have been mentall ill. Physically handicapped. They might have done all the normal things that others do, but for various reasons, they failed to earn to live. <br /><br />One can assume that 'earning a living' means simply that you work, get a paycheck, and spend that paycheck on life sustaining elements like food and water and shelter and clothing. Unfortunately, this is the total daily activity for many , many people, who are healthy and fit and able to accomplish the deeds of earning a living. <br /><br />The entire economic and financial paradigms in operation in the USA, and much of the western world, now, are stacked against the one who must 'earn to live'. One must fight a system of fraud, corruption, immorality which is legally blessed, in order to survive. ONE misstep or mistake or human failing, can set a stage of intense hardship and struggle that many will not endure. <br /><br />Meanwhile there are those who sit in judgement of others who are not mastering the 'earn to live' motif. It is understandable why one might be resentful or angry if they are working to live and others are not, yet are still allowed to live. <br /><br />I personally believe that life is a gift, and does not have to be earned. Basic life and survival is part of liberty and in that, deserves the resources required to sustain the life once it arrives on this planet. <br /><br />Learning to live, vs <em>earning</em> to live, is a new paradigm of thought, and would alter the system within which this is accomplished. <br /><br />Learning to live involves much more than just learning how to earn to consume. <br /><br />If people were not burdened by the base starting point of earning their life, they would quickly learn to thrive, and with that, they would be able to earn it.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://www.blogtopsites.com/politics/"><img border="0" src="http://www.blogtopsites.com/tracker.php?do=in&id=13845" alt="Politics Blog Top Sites" /></a>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://embed.technorati.com/embed/atecwhaf8z.js"></script></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9204558.post-34762864774366140362008-09-25T16:29:00.000-06:002008-09-25T19:13:11.489-06:00FINANCIAL CRISIS: "ALL HANDS ON DECK"For decades, the public masses have cried for 'more accountability in Washington'; yet, when the crisis of the era arises, as with the financial meltdown, McCain's rally cry of , "all hands on deck", is being derided as a political ploy. <br /><br />It would seem that going to Washington, to take care of or participate in the Senatorial duties of his lifetime, is now the questionable show of public duty dedication vs political <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">strategies</span> for his presidential race. <br /><br />Not only does <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Obama</span> not feel it necessary to be in Washington to tend to Senate matters, as a representative of the state of Illinois, he is making sure Senator McCain's response to Senatorial call to duty is mocked, second guessed and criticized. <br /><br />Not only does this opportunity of addressing the crisis stand as a single most profound opportunity for CHANGE, in action, as the US Congress addresses President Bush's demands for expediency, and ominous fear mongering, it stuns me that <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Obama</span> is not wanting to, nor taking advantage of this once in a lifetime solution process. <br /><br />I keep asking the question, if <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Obama</span> cannot do the work required of the US Senator, however mundane or tedious, nor sit and even observe the work of others as a learning venue for a Junior Senator, or find the discipline to chair a meeting of his Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee, how will he tolerate the stress of the never ending demands on a President. ?<br /><br />The answer I keep getting from people who have full faith and trust in <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Obama's</span> abilities, has consistently been, "<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">Obama</span> wants to change the nation and he will do it". <br /><br />Perhaps they are correct, but no matter how magical a person may be, unless pencil is applied to paper, and unless the person is in his seat when the demand is drawn, the American masses are charged with holding the President accountable, and to date, the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">Obama</span> followers are remiss in their show of <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">trust worthiness</span> on this matter.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://www.blogtopsites.com/politics/"><img border="0" src="http://www.blogtopsites.com/tracker.php?do=in&id=13845" alt="Politics Blog Top Sites" /></a>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://embed.technorati.com/embed/atecwhaf8z.js"></script></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9204558.post-1927321095678926522008-08-26T21:24:00.001-06:002008-08-27T02:41:26.099-06:00DNC DENVER: HILLARY IS EVERYTHING OBAMA WANTS TO BE<div align="left">I won't belabor what everyone already knows: Hillary Clinton won the 2008 Democratic Primary nomination to be the Presidential candidate. Party bosses and media had other ideas, and appointed Barack Obama, who ran an abusive character assassinating campaign against Clinton.<br /><br />He still lost the popular vote, and his divisive and almost sociopathic strategy was reminiscent of the 8 years of Bush divide and conquer, triangulating and "with us or against us" ultimatums.<br /><br />Tonight, as the final speaker on night 2 of the DNC convention in Denver, Hillary presented a speech which should put to rest the slanderous innuendo about her allegiance and dedication to the Democrat Party, not to mention, reiterating the goals and future ideals for the Americans, which have been part of her daily avocation during 35 years in public service.<br /><br />Her entrance to the stage was preceded by a short video, narrated by her daughter Chelsea, of her humble family beginnings, her 60's era social change participation and her youthful and loving gaze at her then new husband, former President Bill Clinton.<br /><br />The crowd at the Pepsi Center welcomed Hillary, on their feet in a rousing and foot stomping and yelling episode which she was almost unable to break in order to start speaking. The visual was a sea of Hillary signs.<br /><br />Her words were mixed with humor and addressed the need for the party division to heal and the endorsement of Barack Obama was the focus of her high minded, witty and tear jerking speech.<br /><br />Her words were enough to almost convince the most ardent Hillary supporter to unite for defeat of the GOP. Her speech reminded people what they are supporting, not her, but what she stands for, the issues near and dear and now critically unattended to for the past 8 years.<br /><br />The media pundits for Obama, following the speech, once again raised the divisiveness as they criticized her for "not refuting her campaign ads or comments which questioned Obama's experience". They are calling for Clinton to essentially offer an apology to Obama for the campaign, for being an opponent, for raising any light to his weaknesses.<br /><br />The theme continues to be 'blame' Hillary for Obama's shortcomings, and whatever unifying feelings that were present immediately following the speech, vaporize the minute Obama's pundits open their mouths.<br /><br />HERE IS WHAT DEMOCRATS NEED TO HEAR FROM OBAMA, IN ORDER TO HEAL THEIR ANGER AND MOVE ON:<br /><br />1. Obama needs to ADMIT, ACKNOWLEDGE his abusiveness during the campaign, the slurs, innuendo, mocking and alienation aimed at lower and middle income, blue collar, and elderly, the very demographics required for any Democrat to secure the White House.<br /><br />--Needed refutation from Obama for the character assault on Clinton, and the<br />Democrats who support her:<br /><br /></div><blockquote>"..She is the culture of corruption... part of the old establishment and<br />experience we must turn the page on.."<br /><br />"..A vote for Hillary is a vote for Bush, McCain, and the culture of<br />corruption .."</blockquote><div align="left"><br /><br />2. Put duct tape over the mouths of the entire Obama pundit batallion force. They can sit at media stations and look sweet, but silent.<br /><br />3. Obama needs to convince me why he is was worth an appointment for the post, nullifying party rules and principled democracy, and do this without using the word, <em>McCain</em>. One million more people chose Hillary over Obama. It is NOT Hillary's burden to shift my support from principled democracy, over to unprincipled obamatocracy. </div><div align="left"> </div><div align="left">Obama IS the problem, not Hillary. The overt, blatent and insulting hypocrisy permeating the Obama campaign and the DNC party leaders endorsing this corruption, while talking change and admittedly courting the contingiency of democrats founded in the value, 'ends do not justify means', that were ousted by the popular movement, rings hollow. </div><div align="left"> </div><div align="left">Yet, the media asked, 'Do you think she will mean what she says?' prior to her scheduled appearance on stage. <br /><br /></div><p align="left"></p><blockquote></blockquote><blockquote></blockquote><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://www.blogtopsites.com/politics/"><img border="0" src="http://www.blogtopsites.com/tracker.php?do=in&id=13845" alt="Politics Blog Top Sites" /></a>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://embed.technorati.com/embed/atecwhaf8z.js"></script></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9204558.post-2130375186712149092008-08-07T14:34:00.000-06:002008-08-07T17:58:23.657-06:00CHEAT, IF IT HELPS YOU!!!YOU CAN CHEAT ON PRIMARY NOMINATIONS, STEAL DELEGATES AND THEN EMERGE AS THE VICTOR, BUT YOU CAN'T BE A CABBIE FOR OSAMA AND NOT GET FRIED. <br /><br />THE DNC HAS JUST BURNED UP ANY POLITICAL CAPITAL IT MAY HAVE HAD. <br /><br />MANY AMERICANS ARE ANGRY!!!!! Those that are not, SHOULD BE. <br /><br /><br />Bush's crimes were clearly visible. Obama's fraud and willingness to cheat is clearly visible. It's the blatency of these behaviors, that drives the people who object to unprincipled nature, to near insanity, if the hypocrisy, double standards, rules' and laws' violations, are ignored by those who believe they are getting something or some advantage from these unethical practices. <br /><br />"I can break the rules, You cannot"; "If it's there, take it"; I don't want to break the rules. I don't want the advantage by way of fraud or deceit or theft. Call me old fashioned or not progressive enough, I am an old Liberal Democrat who fails to find satisfaction in hurting and lying to others, to feed my personal desires. <br /><br />When others seek advantages and gain them, at the expense of my own comfort or safety zones, I grow resentments. Most often, this resentment comes from my own fears and feelings of being threatened, and if I am in a comfort zone that is not impacted by other's immorality, then I don't need the resentment. The answer obviously, is to not be in a position where others who are in or seeking power, can affect you by their lack of moral compass. It creates grave injustices and unfairness. <br /><br />However, this level of tolerance for other's misdeeds, is not the same as tolerance for diversity, because it speaks to the issue of accountability.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://www.blogtopsites.com/politics/"><img border="0" src="http://www.blogtopsites.com/tracker.php?do=in&id=13845" alt="Politics Blog Top Sites" /></a>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://embed.technorati.com/embed/atecwhaf8z.js"></script></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9204558.post-25701963775304202962008-06-13T21:10:00.000-06:002008-06-13T21:15:41.268-06:00OBAMA'S CALL TO REDUCE AMERICAN'S TO INFANCYI have tried to remain very objective about all of this. I find my frustration level and fear growing daily, feeling more and more powerless, in real ways, as tho all the dramatic predictions are actually unfolding... the sky really is about to fall. <br /> <br />The GOP plan didn't start with Bush. This chapter started at least 35 years ago, and to be very technical, it started 150 years ago. It's the same chapter and it includes themes of : <br /> <br />-rise of capital markets over capitalism, the ultimate return to sticks and stones<br />-removal of Americans as a production commodity value, over to a debt instrument securitized by the land itself, and the debt itself<br />-completed infantalization of the american core values and principles. <br /> <br />Washington, DC, has little power in the story where the citizens of the USA have not been reduced to infants, totally dependent on the events in DC,to determine the outcomes of daily lives. But in that story, Americans are true consumers, with the power to go without, in order to effect change, and are not delusional nor brain damaged, such that their beliefs are reflected in Washington. <br /> <br />The nation can wipe GWBush off the map, 50 million fundamentalist remain, and continue to be represented in the 2nd branch of government, the US supreme court. Likewise, as many far left newbie neocons who claim the flag of liberal, are also now rising to power. <br /> <br />The fight does not belong in Washington. The changes required for optimum constitutional governance, must happen in each of us. FIRST. No change in the Washington 'culture of corruption' until I LOOK IN THE MIRROR and ask, what am I consuming of the spoils of this corruption, of wars, of theft? Why am I paying 4.00 for gasoline? Someone holding a gun to my head?? Perhaps, culturally, but I determine the American culture and norms, as a member of a group.<br /> <br />Americans are not a family. But we have been reduced to the dynamics of the sickest of families with DC seen as parent and like usual, kids rebel. The obvious reality, however is I am not DC's child, and I have nothing to rebel, I simply need to stop consuming what they sell. It's called liberty, and with that comes great sacrifice and great reward. The 2 exceptions to this are Health care and legal representation. <br /> <br />Americans chose to become addicted to materialism, until it became a vital part of survival, as opposed to remaining convicted to standards of quality and principles, the core values of humanity that create goodness, and our own choices as a group culture dictated loss of freedoms. <br /> <br />Now, Americans are forced to be primary consumers, however without power or control, over the principled primary role of being Citizens, first. <br /> <br />Obama cannot fix anything in Washington, because he rode to this level of power on the backs of the broken paradigm that must be fixed. He took the risk of people being predictable within this culture of "they need to change, not me", and leveraged the future of the nation, in order to win. The win he wanted, he might figure out what to do after or if he gets there. <br /> <br />Why did Obama not show better judgement in demonizing Hillary Clinton? He was so sure he would win? But he didn't actually win, did he. Not without masterful display of hypocrisy and double standards, which the Americans didn't disappoint him in being willing to embrace. <br /> <br />I am just an "old, ignorant, blue collar, uneducated, Hillary hag" , who sat on college campuses 35 years ago, helping to change the face of the nation, and we called ourselves, Liberals. <br /> <br />We manned the soup kitchens, we wrote proposals for US reps to take to Washington, we organized and opened coffee houses filled with government documents and literature to make it easy for common folks to get the FACTS FROM THE SOURCE, (before internet), we boycotted Florida orange juice to reduce the outcry against gays, we took the fight to Reagan to help jump start research on HIV, we opened Hospices for people dying of AIDS, raised money to fund the research, we went on work strikes for Nurses, to try to equalize the pay scales without passing the burden on to the patient....... <br /> <br />But according to Obama, I am part of the CULTURE OF CORRUPTION, since Hillary has experience he doesn't have, and this is why I WILL NEVER ENDORSE THIS LEVEL OF ABUSE, by voting for Obama. <br /> <br />His arrogant but poor judgement will continually back him and the nation into a corner. This is not new stuff. Those of us old folks have seen the cycles and understand the one missing piece is 'what can I do, what must I change', that is more than pulling levers in voting booths. <br /> <br />If GWBUSH stole 2 elections. Obama stole the primary and it was wrong for bush and it's wrong for obama. My principles don't change when faces or corruption drama changes. Corruption is corruption and when a person rides in on the corruption that is the focus of needed change, I protest. <br /> <br />There is not one theme from obama that is logical or without hypocrisy. fine. but he made his platform on Hillary's 'evil ways' using language and inuendo and direct assault, that evoked shame, rage, and was more divisive and more abusive than Bush was to muslims via the right wing. <br /> <br />I don't feel compelled to vote for the GOP 's plan of financial surrending of the US, nor for the one who proves he cannot, has not, will not walk a talk, at a time the nation sits on a cliff. <br /> <br />It's time for the nation to grow up and deal with consequences of it's infantile posture. I won't be voting. Once again, I'll be saying, "I told you so" either way this election goes. <br /> <br />The stakes are and were much too high to play this game of 'feel good' and not look at consequences., nor reality. <br /> <br />Newt Gingrich is laughing himself to sleep these days. I don't blame him.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://www.blogtopsites.com/politics/"><img border="0" src="http://www.blogtopsites.com/tracker.php?do=in&id=13845" alt="Politics Blog Top Sites" /></a>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://embed.technorati.com/embed/atecwhaf8z.js"></script></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9204558.post-76982665741266740482008-06-04T17:17:00.002-06:002008-06-09T00:28:02.501-06:00HILLARY CLINTON REPELS THE ABUSETURNING THE PAGE..ABUSE IS IN, CRYBABY IS OUT....AND TRYING NOT TO GET CAUGHT... JUST BLAME 'THE CLINTON MACHINE'<br /><br />"Turning the Page", a now branded Obama tag line, along with, "Yes We Can", can be interpreted in very positive and inspiring themes. <br /><br />However, as the pro Obama media, pundits, and fan club have demonstrated over the past few months, ends will justify means. "Yes we can" make one Barack Hussein Obama, the 44th President of the United States, even if it means using the corrupted model that is the center of focus for change. <br /><br />The underlying agenda for many of the screaming fans, is they now have a hero, an advocate in their corner to defend them not against the ills of the right wing powers and Bush regime, rather, redacted to what is popularly called, the 'Hildebeast'. Bush was all Hillary's fault. <br /><br />"Hillary represents the past, the Corrupt Washington Culture of abuse and inuendo, the Master of the broken Washington, and we must not move backward, we must Turn the Page ..."<br /><br />This theme was the mainstay of his platform. Meanwhile, the media in all formats, from magazine to radio, including cable news entertainment and network news, polished the package and programmed themes of "Obama, the Clinton killer, hip hip hooray, the wicked witch of the east is dead, Obama won....she better not try to steal delegates, and rob the people of their votes....", they would declare as they threatened mass riots in the streets, and even though it was only March, and neither was projected to win without super delegates. <br /><br />It was brilliant. It was also immoral and abusive. It was very,very old politics. All was fair as long as long as Obama killed the 'Clinton Machine'(a Newt Gingrich GOPAC design creation). <br /><br />The nation's moral compass once again took a turn in the wrong direction, in the name of 'Yes we can'!!! The Hillary hating was palpable, and the Obama camp became dangerously frenzied, on the streets or online, it was high pressure tactics using simple minded people as the echo chambers. <br /><br />Didn't we just spend a decade in political debates trying to confront the GOP, the right wing delusions, as they skillfully deflected to and blamed Bill and Hillary Clinton for the immorality and illegality of the Bush White House? Why did Barack Obama use this horse to ride in on, then expect no backlash? <br /><br />The list of contradictions, double standards, hypocritical demonstrations from the Obama camp/Leftwing?, were frustration testers at a minimum and mega shock waves at full volume. I, personally had not yet recovered from the Bush era of political hallucinations, to be ready to withstand the next wave from my own party. <br /><br />BUSH STOLE THE ELECTIONS.... OBAMA WAS ANOINTED, ORDAINED AND CROWNED, ...RIGHTFULLY. <br /><br />Senator Clinton was trusting of Americans perceived grasp of the problems, enough to introduce 'inevitability' into the initial formula. The mistake was that trust in Americans' ability to be responsive to adult, direct, common sense, logical, truthful, and compassionate campaigning. <br /><br />"WHOAAA...", said those that see the 'Hildebeast'...approaching. <br /><br />How dare Hillary intrude on this special bonding between Senator Obama and his fan club of youth, intellectual neophyte neocons, soulfully emancipated black community, and Oprah. "Why is she still in the race?" Well, maybe because any lag was less than 1/2 of 1% behind Obama, and her electoral map wins were totalling enough to wipe the floor up with John McCain. <br /><br />But this only matters if one is being truthful about wanting to defeat the GOP, vs defeating the 'Hildebeast'. <br /><br />I wonder what would have happened if Obama had won Fla and Mich, and Hillary was handed his delegates. Blood in the streets??<br /><br />JUST GET OVER IT.... SURELY THE DISDAIN FOR THE GOP IS ENOUGH TO BURY THE SOUR GRAPE HATCHET AND EMBRACE OBAMA....???<br /><br />The abuse continues... and so does the rage. It is not about Hillary losing a primary run, rather about 'how' and 'why' and the continuing culture of corruption and blame and deflection. <br /><br />The Super Delegates were under the gun not only from the Obama camp, but the DNC Convention Host Committee in Denver, to wrap it up so they could start the fundraising which they were months behind in starting. As a result of Democracy, and Hillary's insistence on standing for us with no voice, the DNC Convention has had to cancel activities, missing the June 16 $40million deadline. <br /><br />Shucks!<br /><br />My hat, and my sunglasses are off to Senator Clinton, who was able to repel this abuse and stand by her abuser to demonstrate her sincerity in dedication to the national interest for which the evidence is mountains high. <br /><br />Unfortunately, Hillary is a much bigger person than most of us, and we will have a very hard time ignoring the absence of validation of how we were disrespected, ignored, mocked, and made subject of off color jokes. <br /><br />"With us or against us....just come home and STFU"...If you love your country, you will swallow the abuse and believe you are just crazy. <br /><br />OBAMA AND THE MEDIA CAN START UNITING THE PARTY IF THEY OWN UP TO THE MISCONDUCT AND OFFER AN APOLOGY. <br /><br />That about sums it up. The balls rests with Obama. Not Hillary. A natural fall out of abuse is obsession with validation, justice, retribution, retaliation. It doesn't go away on command, it worsens. <br /><br />It's called abuse reaction, post trauma, transference, and these psychological events do not happen in vacuums. They are induced by events experienced, witnessed, and then not validated as having happened. <br /><br />Losing an election does not produce trauma unless the process is so frustrating it traumatizes the people involved. <br /><br />...More later on solutions and healing..... and the specific frustrations ....<div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://www.blogtopsites.com/politics/"><img border="0" src="http://www.blogtopsites.com/tracker.php?do=in&id=13845" alt="Politics Blog Top Sites" /></a>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://embed.technorati.com/embed/atecwhaf8z.js"></script></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9204558.post-11795783900992745302008-02-26T14:17:00.001-07:002008-04-30T11:14:36.890-06:00READY ON DAY 1, I HOPE SO, YES WE CAN, WE MUSTIt is hard to keep score with the massive hype and push for 'feel good', when the issues facing Americans are far from 'good'.<br /><br />Facing both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are the faces of Americans who have been sent to the limits of their tolerance with demands to accept florid delusions as normal, popularized reality, economic chaos, and a sense of powerlessness that the general public feels, but can't quite put their finger on.<br /><br />Finding comfort zones, in the rhetoric fed to the masses by the popular media, provides some structure for thoughts and emotions, otherwise too wandering to corral<br /><br />The impacts of the over arching and over reaching power of the GOP held hostage by the extremist right wing, for over 20 years, with a self destructive responsiveness from the left wing, are obvious, evident, if you know what you are looking at.<br /><br />To fully appreciate the nation's apparent responses to both Obama and Clinton, one can look at the nation's historic 'American Revolution' and events that followed.<br /><br />The current state of affairs did not start with GWBUSH, nor the Right Wing's rise to power, nor from a Democratic Party Minority holder's deficits. The failure of the Americans to stay vigilant against the rise of an Oligarchy, that the early states and the founders feared as they transitioned from Articles of Confederation to the US Constitution.<br /><br />Americans traded liberty for conveniences, and freedom for comforts, eventually arriving at a sense of feeling pride and 'priviledged' for spending slave wages on new products of industrialization. This was and is, defined as "Freedom".<br /><br />Americans were handed one expectation in daily activity: to become a prime consumer<br /><br />The Americans can identify generally, the dangers posed to the nation by a right wing who has now officially identified themselves as the 'Evangelical Christian Party',(Conservative) for short vs the Republican Party.<br /><br />Americans fail, however, in seeing the destruction from the inadequate response to same, when it rises to power as it has done. One might be inclined to summarize that ignorance of relevant subject matter is to blame, yet, looking to the Washington Government as a the source of repair and healing, is also a core element of the ills facing the nation.<br /><br /><br />While there are many subject specific experts in America, generally, most Americans are ignorant about current events, political science, economics, that are required to totally understand the total relevance or significance of what they hear, or read about in the course of a normal day. This deficit is the void filled by beliefs that can now fit the delusional category, or at least, political hallucination.<br /><br />Thoughts and beliefs are a natural human right, widely promoted as part of an acceptance of diversity package, in the US. However, when talking about concepts of Liberty, the question has always been, how much liberty to stop your liberty from hurting me, does one have?<div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://www.blogtopsites.com/politics/"><img border="0" src="http://www.blogtopsites.com/tracker.php?do=in&id=13845" alt="Politics Blog Top Sites" /></a>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://embed.technorati.com/embed/atecwhaf8z.js"></script></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9204558.post-74928924844465551952008-02-08T16:07:00.000-07:002008-02-08T18:49:32.863-07:00IF WASHINGTON IS "BROKEN", WHAT DOES THAT SAY ABOUT AMERICAN SOCIETY?As a new study from international mental health experts will show when made public next month, the American masses, generally speaking, including the 'well educated', are the most mis-informed, mis led, and indoctrinated national population in the industrialized world. <br /><br />A well kept secret, the authors of the scholarly paper are intending to 'shake the American public out of a 200 year long trance, which has been recently exacerbated by the ease of developed propaganda echo chambers within the realm of the World Wide Web'.<br /><br />The citations are long and plentiful, targeting the US popular media venues and the normative popularism of myths, legends, biased perceptions and interpretations, as 'realism'. What once was a role relegated to commercial advertising, has been adopted by the growing sophistication of the political 'Think Tanks', NGO's and social, political non profits, and critically, the American Fundamentalist leadership.<br /><br />Facing difficulty in getting a green light for peer review in America, the study cites as an example, popular news entertainment media, such as CNN, presents a recent polling of the American's 'dissatisfaction', with the present Congress and Bush Administration. The editorial inference being, that both are one in the same, and the viewers respond accordingly. <br /><br />The SANE comprehension comes with factual information. The Fundamentalist, known as 'conservative', 'evangelical' Americans who dislike or disapprove of GWBush, do so for reasons INCOMPATIBLE with the reasons the moderate, liberal American have for criticizing Bush. Yet, in summary expose, the national masses believe that everyone dislikes Bush, which must be for the same reasons they personally hold. <br />I continue to be stunned by the American short memory and infantilism. I didn’t hear the media nor the public outcry against the GOP CONTROLLED congress, who are responsible for this mess, only after the Democrats won back a few seats in both houses, but still do not have a 2/3, 3/5ths majority in Senate, did the American public assign the sins of Bush and the GOP to the newly seated Democrats. ??<br /><br /><br />If the masses are indeed sane, logical, informed and open minded, then what happens to individuals between the time of sanity as a member of general public, and the time they arrive in their newly elected seats as representatives of this public they hailed from?<br /><br /><br />If the masses are delusional, and the US FEDERAL GOVERNMENT's 3 authoritative branches represent these masses, as in our Constitutional Republic, then why does one expect demonstrated sanity and logic in the public policies that are born in Washington, DC??<br /><br />Washington cannot change, until the American psychological phenomenon is healed. <br /><br />The prescription for this malady is a simple one. The masses must be re-educated and taught a new form of popularizing how and where to find the facts. Then, the masses will learn how to comprehend the information they are exposed to, what to filter and what to absorb. <br /><br />Bias is now thought to be hard wired. Generational belief systems that form the basis for how one conjugates surroundings, experiences, are inherent parts of genometrics, as genes are modified or adapted according to stressors and responses, the modified gene is communicated to offspring. <br /><br />There can be no liberty of thought, free thought, free speech, constructive debate, healthy diversity, until all people launch from the same set of basic facts. <br /><br />The same media who failed to confront the GOP or the Bush Administration, regarding war policies, privatization of government and theft of the federal treasury, or the pulverizing of the US Constitution is the same media who demonizes the Clintons, Praises Barack Obama, and blames the Democrats in Congress for not 'fixing' the problems that took 7-16 years to gestate and will take 75 years to repair, if repairable. <br /><br />But, for many, the media is 'liberal bias'??<br /><br />It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see how the use of linguistics has been used to wage a war against the Americans' hard wired cerebral centers of world perspectives. <br /><br />Washington is indeed broken, because the American society is broken. "Christian Values" is now a political platform. Itemized, these values include: aggressive foreign policy, protection of the capital markets at the public's expense, pro life through gestation only, nationalistic supremacy and iconization of military, low taxes in order to eliminate the domestic public programs, isolation and dividing the world into labels of <em>friend or foe</em>. <br /><br />There are roughly 40 million identified fundamentalists, who use the term, 'conservative', dividing the GOP, into traditional moderates and 'religious' fascismnow a political party faction, who have been operating as registered republicans. candidates evaluated by the perceptions<div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://www.blogtopsites.com/politics/"><img border="0" src="http://www.blogtopsites.com/tracker.php?do=in&id=13845" alt="Politics Blog Top Sites" /></a>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://embed.technorati.com/embed/atecwhaf8z.js"></script></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9204558.post-26955008135974283792007-09-27T11:17:00.000-06:002007-09-27T12:01:04.096-06:00US TROOPS PROTECTING IRAQ FROM GW BUSHWe all realized something was very wrong when the <a href="http://www.cpa-iraq.org/government/press_packet.pdf">Coalition Provisional Authority</a>, headed by Dr. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Ayad</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Allawi</span>, was put in charge of Iraq interim governance. While Dr. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Allawi</span> is a distinguished medical professional, and author, his association with <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">SCIRI</span>, (Supreme Council of Islamic Revolution, a political resistance party to Saddam Hussein, founded in Tehran, in 1982), rang bells for me.<br /><br />Besides ignoring all the <a href="http://www.icrc.org/web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/html/634KFC">International Occupation laws</a>, and which if implemented, would have prevented most of the strife currently ongoing in Iraq, the US commanded military force proceeded to systematically identify and label <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Suni</span> resistance, as 'terrorist' activity, or '<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">al</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">qaeda</span>', and a campaign of extermination was implemented.<br /><br />The <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">Shi'i</span> led government, either by appointment or by <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">faux</span> election, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">Maliki</span>, has been supported by the militia groups, known for their alliance with Iran, and now conducting a proxy war against the Iraqi secular community.<br /><br />The US troops have been put in the egregious position of now protecting Iraqis from the US supported <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">Shi'i</span> fundamentalism which is waging the assault on secularism, mirroring the American fundamentalism and their war on secularism.<br /><br /><em>The US troops are <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">understandably</span> confused, many of them facing their own belief structures as the enemy, and the unquestionable conflict of protecting Iraqis from the effects of the Commander' s policies, they were sworn to obey</em>.<br /><br />The numbers of clinically traumatized troops returning to their homes, is <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">unparalleled</span> by any previous foreign military campaign, combined with the survival rates and closed head traumas from constant bomb concussions, the US faces rehabilitation needs that it is not capable of providing .<div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://www.blogtopsites.com/politics/"><img border="0" src="http://www.blogtopsites.com/tracker.php?do=in&id=13845" alt="Politics Blog Top Sites" /></a>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://embed.technorati.com/embed/atecwhaf8z.js"></script></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9204558.post-75548959444096232982007-05-11T12:32:00.000-06:002007-05-11T12:40:41.849-06:00HUMANITY IS A PREDATOR, ITS JUST GOOD BUSINESSIt is about ignorance. In a perfect world, Opinions, debates, diversity.... happen freely when people start from the same basic information, launch from the same page. >>> Fact: the earth rotates; Debate: what does it mean.<br /><br />Our political paradigm is stunningly geared to entertain the ignorant masses, while the real theft and oppression occurs. This may be an elementary understanding that all people think they are aware of, but they fail to finish the thought. Our politicians didn't drop from Mars, they come from the American people... Political parties are the people, just as the politicians are. If politics is dirty, then so are the American people.<br /><br />It is business 101. What do people demand? You provide the goods. For example, the American right wing, replacing the traditional GOP, is a huge body of Americans who have reached the level of cultism, in the clinical frame. If you have a growing body demanding products that meet their delusional beliefs and needs, then you have a delusional government. The standard rules or norms of social conduct, suddenly shift, justifying the aberrant values<br /><br />It's not about gun control, abortion, god, gays, and the 2nd coming.... but that is what 50million Americans believe it's about. Blaming AI PAC or whomever, for example, only validates the presence of the ignorance that powerful money can exploit. Don't blame AI PAC, blame ignorance. If people were informed, then no exploitation would occur.<br /><br />Racial hatreds and fears are taught, conditioned and reinforced because that has become a self fulfilling product sold to a demanding constituency. Freed slaves were just about the scariest thing to some people, and instead of grabbing these boys and sitting them down for some education 101, they let them form a constitutional reconstruction lynch mob eventually called the KKK, that had grown into a political paradigm.<br /><br />The slaughter of the American Indian, or any group of people "native" to a land where powerful conquering tribes land, is a course of history, and again, ignorance is the culprit. It is natural for the human being in societies who use their power to conquer lessor powerful people. And when these more powerful groups reflect back, they see the victims as subhuman, its a natural human event. It shows lack of emotional evolution.<br /><br />Societies simply haven't learned how to introduce this concept of compassion as a marketable product. It's not profitable.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://www.blogtopsites.com/politics/"><img border="0" src="http://www.blogtopsites.com/tracker.php?do=in&id=13845" alt="Politics Blog Top Sites" /></a>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://embed.technorati.com/embed/atecwhaf8z.js"></script></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9204558.post-1165054906486812222006-12-02T03:21:00.000-07:002006-12-02T03:21:46.890-07:00IT IS GOPAC, STUPID! Memo on Language 1990<strong></strong>Newt Gingrich is on a campaign, to preach the lessons of the "GOPAC Gone Awry" mantra. While he professes contrite insight telling the faithful that they failed in their mission to hold the control in Congress, he masterfully is laying down the new linguistic template for the GOP's 2008 assault on this nation. And you can bet your empty pension, that "assault" is what it will be. <br /><br />While speaking at a <a href="http://www.gopac.org/gopac_training.php">GOPAC</a> conference last week, he laid out the mistakes that the GOP and GW Bush Public Relations program had made, in attacking liberals and John Kerry, while not offering an alternative 'plan' to the public. In the midst of this confession, he listed his new strategy, which included, "pushing the core values of Americans, like, "blocking secular education". It was clear that the next wave of attack on the Americans and especially the liberals was about to begin. <br /><br />Without a unified counter plan, the general masses will once again be saturated with mass media productions, compliments of GOPAC and right wing Think Tanks, like American Enterprise Institute and Heritage Foundation, working to convince the ignorant public that the Democrats are responsible for everything from Global Warming to the Iraq disaster. Nancy Pelosi will their new lamb for sacrifice, aiming to isolate and demonize Hillary Clinton. <br /><br />The 'base' for the GOP, is a growing population of fundamentalists, who were targeted in the late 70's, as a 'ripe', yet 'unpicked' market which was waiting to be cultivated. .....to be continued....<div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://www.blogtopsites.com/politics/"><img border="0" src="http://www.blogtopsites.com/tracker.php?do=in&id=13845" alt="Politics Blog Top Sites" /></a>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://embed.technorati.com/embed/atecwhaf8z.js"></script></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com23tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9204558.post-1153092652094889072006-07-16T17:30:00.001-06:002006-07-25T12:33:12.476-06:00THE AMERICAN DREAM: THEOCRACY OR BUST ... Part 1 in a multipart seriesTHE LEFT IS BLINDED BY THE OBVIOUS<br /><br />The American Political and Ideological Left, as one body, is making a world changing error in judgment. Free people don’t let malevolent regimes rise to power.<br /><br />Blackmail and Coercion are the value principles, which have guided the UNITED STATES 3 Constitutional branches, political parties and coalitions, since the dawn of this nation.<br /><br />The rise of the Theocratic Right has been a movement that simply seized control of the existing vulnerabilities in this flawed system. One might ask, so what, if the Christian Right is gaining controls? Next election cycle will cure this, or facilitate the return to corrected normal status. CRITICAL ERROR.<br /><br />The Theocratic Right is the power and force controlling the current affairs of government, acting as the shield for the current administration’s global bank heist, and in return, being given free access to deliver money to Israel, and vilify the Muslim world.<br /><br />The Theocratic Right is willing to ‘absolve’ the Bush administration’s obvious breeches of status quo normalcy and common morality standards, if Bush remains their poster child for <em>salvation, </em> and hands them the keys to the piggy bank, as well as the nation’s standards of cultural norms. The Theocratic leaders are themselves, scamming their congregations, however.<br /><br />To grow this mega monster movement, the Theocratic Right has needed a common theme to bind the believers together. Politicizing Sermons and promises of salvation, to be released from the struggles of life in America, has drawn 10’s of millions to the alters to be ‘born again’, and in exchange, these masses have handed over sometimes, their last $.10. They are given Certificates of “Friend of Israel”, and told that this has purchased their ticket to the 2nd coming, assuring them a front row seat on the “rapture flight”.<br /><br />In return, they have been handed marching orders to destroy the political and ideological left. The conditions are rigid and their motives are ambiguous, with one exception: Their perceptions that their own salvation rests on meeting the conditions.<br /><br />The rise of the Theocratic Right.. 20 years of focused and fund driven planning, they have sailed to, through and over the battle field, with the Left watching the sunrises and sunsets, batting away this sect as if it were a nuisance gnat on a summer afternoon.<br /><br />Thus far, the Left of Center masses have volumes of evidence that point to the rise of the evangelical movement, and its influence on the 3 branches of the US Government, yet, are quick to disregard the significance of this evidence, returning focus to more reachable targets, such as the Bush administration’s dishonesty or corruption. It is understandable why this focus is so prevalent. It is much easier to target a common perception of enemy governments, than it is to target neighbors and friends.<br /><br />From “Impeach Bush” movements to “Revolutionary” new political party creation, the dissatisfied Americans are not seeing the boulder sitting in the road…. they already tripped over the elephant in the living room and are still hunting for the smoking gun. The elephant wasn’t smoking and neither is the boulder, so, they keep exploring.<br /><br />The common misperception is that if the Bush administration is removed, replaced, or otherwise evicted, that the nation can recapture a time less filled with Constitutional breeches and violations. Yet to mention the reality of the history of the American process, as being anything but fairy tale romance, is to be labeled as Anti American by the Right, or Pro Bush justifier, by the Left.<br /><br />Yet, without the Theocratic Right, G W Bush and cabal, would not be in the White House. Any campaign strategy or discussion which leaves out this component is going to be asking on Nov. 3, 2006, “what happened?”<br /><br />AMERICANS REQUIRE TOOLS FOR FREEDOM AND TRUTH<br /><br />Let me be perfectly clear here, I believe the Bush administration is the most dishonest, corruptible, and malevolent administration in our history as a nation. But let me also be clear, they represent America. They were not hatched on an alien planet, nor did they drop out of the sky into positions of power. Americans put them in those positions of power and they did so as the result of 400 years of enculturated myths and false beliefs about America and the US Government.<br /><br />And let me also be clear, that one faction or sect, or party or coalition will rise to power, if no opposing power is present.<br /><br />The required mass population milieu elements for the rise of totalitarianism or dictators usually include at least some, if not all of the following ingredients: ignorance, large working poverty class, working class idealism/apathy, disproportionate military / defense budgets, and abundance of national / natural and economic resources. The American public was ripe for the picking.<br /><br />Neither the Right nor the Left have common knowledge regarding the <em>source, or access methods </em> to documents of facts, often-public records and in plain site. Both sides depend on re-circulated articles and proven discredited journalism, as echo chambers and amplifiers for non-facts and myths. This provides the perfect medium for propagandists and analysis of it.<br /><br />For the Left, attempts to make sense out of the ‘dumb’ng’ and numbing down, or willingness by so many to subscribe to the voodoo political messages seemed surreal, unbelievable, shocking. How could so many Americans be duped by this administration? The answer is in plain site and the Left is unable, unwilling, "what's in it for me", to see it. <br /><br />If they do see it, they find themselves in positions without necessary tools, to do anything about it.<br /><br />LIBERAL IDEOLOGY<br /><br />Recent polls that reflect apparent growing dissatisfaction with the Bush administration are touted as evidence that the nation’s masses are less than 40% satisfied and as low as 28% satisfied. For many, this signals a significant shift in public opinion, and gives comfort to those who wish to believe that American values are aligned with ‘truth wins’ ideology. Nothing could be further from the truth, itself.<br /><br />The debates continue to roar, however, in forums, chat rooms, email lists, over topics like Iraq War- WMD, Abortion, Gays, Guns and God, and for many involved or observing, the debates are circular and minus any logic. How can people debate what color the watermelon is, if the object at the source of the debate is actually a banana?<br /><br />But, the debates continue with the Left believing all they have to do, is “show” the evidence of the watermelon, and being perplexed by what their opponent keeps insisting is an object on the table that is colored, yellow.<br /><br />THE 3RD FACTOR<br /><br /><em>The Left seems to not understand the most basic factor of conflict resolution, or reality testing, lies in determining how each side perceives the other side, vs., the object of the of the debate itself.</em>. This becomes the <em>3rd factor. </em><br /><br />And critical to the debate, is the understanding that the opponents are both locked into the ideologies of the same enculturation of the past 400 years. Both sides are stuck with legends and myths about America and the US Government that factor in this 3rd element.<br /><br />Among some of the most debilitating myths, for all of the American public, is the belief that the American people have had power over their elected officials. Depending on the next cycle of elections to hold their representatives accountable,, for example: if the elected rep doesn’t hold to his promises, then he/she is not re-elected. In the meantime, the damage was done via written laws and amendments that take mountains to correct. The recipients of the bad laws have been, are currently, the working poor and middle.<br /><br />And for centuries, the masses have focused blame on each other, vs. risking being marginalized, by standing up and pointing the accusing finger at the ‘parent’ in power, worse, to the person in the mirror. As if life was not hard enough, we have to add the crimes of our society to our plate?<br /><br />How can any American resolve the notion that their elected officials are not representing the American public’s interest, nor have they ever? The wonderful candidates that the grassroots communities labor to move through the system, become aliens to the American public interest when they walk through the doors of the US Congress. All magical thinking that involves ‘best interest’ and Americans are, in reality, oxymoronic notions. <br /><br />Yet, as most children believe, parents are powerful and will altruistically behave in a benevolent manner with regards to children’s needs.<br /><br />The candidate becomes obligated to forces included campaign contributions, lobby, and foreign bankers, with the home community being a last session dealmaker. The campaign trail begins when the final vote is counted and the name on the door is changed. .<br /><br />One cannot overstate the power of magical thinking.<br /><br />Part 2…. The Formula for Changing…. . Rests not in the changing of the guard, only, but more importantly, in the change of paradigms that most Americans call ‘normal’.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://www.blogtopsites.com/politics/"><img border="0" src="http://www.blogtopsites.com/tracker.php?do=in&id=13845" alt="Politics Blog Top Sites" /></a>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://embed.technorati.com/embed/atecwhaf8z.js"></script></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9204558.post-1150658518962218042006-06-18T13:21:00.000-06:002006-07-18T14:38:14.580-06:00PATRIOTISM: THE MAC ATTACK<span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;">I just want to address this notion of patriotic fervor, that the Left denounces, yet keep returning to it out of fear.</span><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;">Folks mention they do not want to think that their duty in the military was for </span><em><span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;">not</span></em><span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;">, when in fact, it was. Until Americans can learn the true history, and not the selective history, much will stay the same, get worse, and destroy this nation, this planet and this species. </span><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;"> </span><br /><span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;">Here is what true courage would look like today: Americans stand up and revolt. NOT with guns; with sacrifice and self-discipline. </span><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span><br /><ul><li><span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;">Stop driving, STAY HOME*</span></li><br /><li><span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;">* Form community co-ops to help feed the ones who depend on outside incomes </span></li><br /><li><span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;">Stop ALL Discretionary spending, not hard for some of us. </span></li><br /><li><span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;">Stop paying taxes to the government, put it into escrow accounts; there is a clause in the IRS that states you don't have to pay taxes if money is being used to wage war</span></li><br /><li><span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;">Pay only the balance on the phone bills, MINUS their fees and taxes, with a statement that you oppose this war. </span></li><br /><li><span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;">Stop turning on the TV, the radio. Unplug them. (That alone would shut down the corporate conveyor via the ratings system, although sweeps weeks only happen at scheduled times, but now with interactive TV, they know who and what .... </span></li></ul><span style="font-family:Arial;"> </span><br /><ul><li><span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;">Stop paying your credit card interest rates, pay only for what you purchased, on the balance sheet... the principle</span></li><br /><li><span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;">Stop paying the interest on your mortgages; pay only the principle...</span></li></ul><span style="font-family:Arial;"> </span><br /><span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;">NEVER in a million years, would Americans be able to show this type of strength and courage. It is much easier to pick up a gun and go blow the brains out of an innocent pregnant woman and then label her part of the axis of evil. .... Remain in the quagmire of the slow self-destruction via poverty and unfairness, and corporate fascism, here at home. </span><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;"> </span><br /><span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;">BUT, hey, we now have Mac Iraq!!!! Mac Vietnam, Mac Philippines, Mac Puerto Rico, Mac Germany, Mac Japan, and COMING SOON, Mac IRAN!!!! YIPPPEEEE!!! SUCH COURAGE. !!!! </span><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;"> </span><br /><span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;">Yep, Jefferson would be proud. Only he would be fit to be tied about his wife and daughter voting. </span><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;"> </span><br /><span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;">BUSH IS America. It is time to deal with that little reality. He didn't come from outer space. He came from Texas. (Although I have said many times, Texas should be a foreign country)</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://www.blogtopsites.com/politics/"><img border="0" src="http://www.blogtopsites.com/tracker.php?do=in&id=13845" alt="Politics Blog Top Sites" /></a>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://embed.technorati.com/embed/atecwhaf8z.js"></script></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9204558.post-1150658246162964142006-06-18T13:17:00.000-06:002007-10-24T13:56:37.040-06:00PATRIOTISM: MacIraq, the Golden Arches<span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;">I just want to address this notion of patriotic fervor, that the Left denounces, yet keep returning to it out of fear.</span><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;">Folks mention they do not want to think that their duty in the military was for </span><em><span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;">not</span></em><span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;">, when in fact, it was. Until Americans can learn the true history, and not the selective history, much will stay the same, get worse, and destroy this nation, this planet and this species. </span><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;"> </span><br /><span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;">Here is what true courage would look like today: Americans stand up and revolt. NOT with guns; with sacrifice and self-discipline. </span><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span><br /><ul><li><span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;">Stop driving, STAY HOME*</span></li><br /><li><span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;">* Form community co-ops to help feed the ones who depend on outside incomes </span></li><br /><li><span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;">Stop ALL Discretionary spending, not hard for some of us. </span></li><br /><li><span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;">Stop paying taxes to the government, put it into escrow accounts; there is a clause in the IRS that states you don't have to pay taxes if money is being used to wage war</span></li><br /><li><span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;">Pay only the balance on the phone bills, MINUS their fees and taxes, with a statement that you oppose this war. </span></li><br /><li><span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;">Stop turning on the TV, the radio. Unplug them. (That alone would shut down the corporate conveyor via the ratings system, although sweeps weeks only happen at scheduled times, but now with interactive TV, they know who and what .... </span></li></ul><span style="font-family:Arial;"> </span><br /><ul><li><span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;">Stop paying your credit card interest rates, pay only for what you purchased, on the balance sheet... the principle</span></li><br /><li><span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;">Stop paying the interest on your mortgages; pay only the principle...</span></li></ul><span style="font-family:Arial;"> </span><br /><span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;">NEVER in a million years, would Americans be able to show this type of strength and courage. It is much easier to pick up a gun and go blow the brains out of an innocent pregnant woman and then label her part of the axis of evil. .... Remain in the quagmire of the slow self-destruction via poverty and unfairness, and corporate fascism, here at home. </span><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;"> </span><br /><span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;">BUT, hey, we now have MacIraq!!!! MacVietnam, MacPhilipines, MacPuertoRico, MacGermany, MacJapan, and COMING SOON, MacIRAN!!!! YIPPPEEEE!!! SUCH COURAGE. !!!! </span><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;"> </span><br /><span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;">Yep, Jefferson would be proud. Only he would be fit to be tied about his wife and daughter voting. </span><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;"> </span><br /><span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;">BUSH IS America. It is time to deal with that little reality. He didn't come from outer space. He came from Texas. (Although I have said many times, Texas should be a foreign country)</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://www.blogtopsites.com/politics/"><img border="0" src="http://www.blogtopsites.com/tracker.php?do=in&id=13845" alt="Politics Blog Top Sites" /></a>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://embed.technorati.com/embed/atecwhaf8z.js"></script></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9204558.post-1146789019894509812006-05-04T18:30:00.000-06:002006-05-04T18:30:19.970-06:00ACCEPTABLE LOSSES: 130,000 TROOPS EXPOSED TO DUIt finally occurred to me, why the low number of troops, 130,000, was planned for the post Saddam Hussein occupied Iraq. Clearly, anyone with even a hint of life experience, much less military-nation invading-re-construction knowledge, would have thought this low number of forces was insane. <br/><br/>Economic efficiency, political brownie points, or simple stupidity didn’t explain the poor planning for post invasion Iraq, relative to the responsibilities of any occupying nation under the international and moral laws of maintaining safe borders, utilities, health care, schools, etc, for the occupied people. <br/><br/>Then it hit me while reading the information about Depleted Uranium. I remembered reading about the Dept of Defense’s plans for Post Nuclear Invasion of any country, and who the troops be and how would they be able to tolerate the radiation. The plan called for battle hardened troops, who would have the advantage over newly radiation exposed troops, because they would have been exposed, over time, and able to build physical tolerance, not immunity, but tolerance to the fatigue of slow onset radiation poisoning. <br/><br/>And since these battle-hardened troops had already been exposed, it made sense that the fewer troops to be exposed, the better. Why contaminate the whole US military capacity? <br/><br/> Additionally, President GW Bush made it clear from the outset, that he wanted recruiters to invite the “illegal” to join, promising them full citizenships upon their successful completions of duty. Of course, most of those individuals have not made it home to the US, nor to South of the border, the same way they left to go fight for the US. Nor do they get a coffin draped in a flag, which is another reason why GW Bush did not want cameras shooting the arrival of the remains of the dead troops, too many coffins without flags would spark too many questions. <br/><br/>Don’t expend all the resources. In this case, the troops in the current DU battle theatres are considered a tolerable loss. Even if they walk off those carriers, with all limbs intact, they are walking dead. <div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://www.blogtopsites.com/politics/"><img border="0" src="http://www.blogtopsites.com/tracker.php?do=in&id=13845" alt="Politics Blog Top Sites" /></a>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://embed.technorati.com/embed/atecwhaf8z.js"></script></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9204558.post-1143755924089594432006-03-30T14:54:00.000-07:002006-03-30T14:58:44.120-07:00WHAT'S ANOTHER BILLION TO BUSH?March 29, 2006<br /><br />by Gwen Gearing<br /><br />The Office of Management and Budget Director, Mitch Daniels, recently told The Wall Street Journal that the motto of congressional appropriators is, "Don't just stand there, spend something.’ That's the only way they feel relevant."<br /><br />When George W. Bush and his political friends need to feel 'relevant' they get on television and talk about spending ten billion dollars here, or a hundred billion dollars there. Sounds impressive coming from a Texas oil man, and when he says it on television, it doesn't sound like too much...<br /><br />So, let's review what I call 'Uncle Scam's Economic Report.'<br /><br />Quote: "Friday, March 17, 2006 - Washington - The Senate approved a $2.8 trillion election-year budget Thursday that broke spending limits only hours after it increased the federal debt limit by $781 billion, bringing the debt ceiling to nearly $9 trillion, or $30,000 for each US citizen, to avert an immediate government debt default. Spending for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan will increase from $6.9 billion a month to $9.8 billion, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. "It is very disturbing, and it gives me a whole lot of heartburn," said Senator Jim DeMint, Republican of South Carolina, who attributed the additional spending to political anxiety. "They want to go and say they are helping people, but we are not helping people when we are selling out their future." End of quote<br /><br />Quote: "2005 Financial Report of the United States Government - Government Accountability Office (GAO) Auditor's Report - David M. Walker - Comptroller General of the United States - December 2, 2005 - http://www.fms.treas.gov/fr/ - page two - The Nation's Fiscal Imbalance<br /><br />"The federal government's reported net operating cost, which included expenses incurred during the year, increased to $760 billion in fiscal year 2005 from $616 billion in fiscal year 2004. The US government's total reported liabilities, net social insurance commitments and other fiscal exposures continue to grow and now total more than $46 trillion, representing close to four times current GDP and up from about $20 trillion or two times GDP in 2000.<br /><br />Finally, while the nation's long-term fiscal imbalance continues to grow, the retirement of the “baby boom” generation is closer to becoming a reality with the first wave of boomers eligible for early retirement under Social Security in 2008. Given these and other factors, it seems clear that the nations current fiscal path is unsustainable." end of quote<br /><br />The US government ran a monthly budget deficit of $119.20 billion in February 2006, an all-time monthly record, according to a Treasury report Friday. The February federal government deficit was 5% greater than a year earlier, according to the Treasury Department's monthly budget statement.<br /><br />In 2000, 1.1% of the federal government's cash flow (revenue plus the annual increase in debt) came from 'new debt'. This reliance on debt grew to 20.4% in 2005.<br /><br />In other words, for every $100 spent by the federal government in 2005, $20.40 came from borrowed money, as compared to only $1.10 in 2000.<br /><br />The US must borrow more than $2 billion per day from foreigners to finance its huge trade deficits. In 2005, for example, there was a record deficit of $805 billion. And now global economists tell us that Medicare will go broke by 2019, and Social Security will go broke by 2042.<br /><br />Mr. Bush makes $46 trillion - in the hole - sound like pretty small change. But maybe that's how 'globalized' GOP oil people think.<br /><br />So I wondered, how many lifetimes of work would it take to give George W. Bush just One Billion Dollars to have a nice - maybe four days - at his war?<br /><br />The CIA, the Labor Department and the economic websites tell us that the average US citizen will earn about $1,452,000 in a 40 year working life. And the average US citizen will pay about a third of his or her total wages (about $483,900) in taxes.<br /><br />The only socioeconomic system under which a person's total lifetime earnings are confiscated for use by another is called: slavery. Of course that's a politically incorrect term to use to describe a current US citizen. But let's use some bonafide demographics to measure how many current US citizens are - in fact - working as slaves.<br /><br />Let's start by seeing what One Billion Dollars really means, as measured by the total lifetime earnings, and that means every dime, earned by an average US citizen, employed full time for 40 years, in a career within these groups:<br /><br />US Ph.D.'s earn on average $3.4 million in a lifetime. One Billion Dollars equals the entire 40 year lifetime earnings of 294 average college professors, scientists or chief engineers.<br /><br />US MD's earn on average $4.4 million in a lifetime. One Billion Dollars equals the entire lifetime earnings of 227 average doctors.<br /><br />US Masters Degree holders earn on average $2.5 million in a lifetime. One Billion Dollars is equal to the entire lifetime earnings of 400 average senior managers or engineers or high school principals.<br /><br />US Bachelor Degree holders earn on average $2.1 million in a lifetime. One Billion Dollars equals the lifetime earnings of 476 average school teachers, or nurses, computer technicians, insurance claims adjusters or accountants.<br /><br />US Associate of Arts Degree holders earn on average $1.6 million in a lifetime. One Billion Dollars equals the lifetime earnings of 625 average sales representatives, mechanics, or service managers.<br /><br />US citizens with some college earn on average $1.5 million in a lifetime. So One Billion Dollars equals the lifetime earnings of 667 average contractors, enlisted military people, firemen, policewomen, power company linemen or telephone line installers.<br /><br />US citizens with a High School education earn on average $1.2 million in a lifetime. One Billion Dollars equals the lifetime earnings of 833 average production workers or truck drivers.<br /><br />US citizens without a High School education earn on average $1.0 million in a lifetime. One Billion Dollars equals the lifetime earnings of 1,000 average gardeners and lawn care people.<br /><br />When Mr. Bush spends One Billion Dollars he is spending the entire 40 year lifetime earnings of 689 average US citizens.<br /><br />But Mr. Bush and his political friends regularly talk about spending nice round Hundred Billions. As an example: about three months of war in Iraq. One Hundred Billion Dollars equals the entire lifetime earnings of:<br /><br />29,400 College Professors (or)<br />22,700 Doctors (or)<br />40,000 Senior managers or engineers (or)<br />47,600 Teachers or Nurses (or)<br />62,500 Service Managers (or)<br />66,700 Contractors (or)<br />83,300 Truck Drivers (or)<br />100,000 Lawn care people<br /><br />One Hundred Billion Dollars is equal to an average US citizens' entire earnings for about 68,900 lifetimes.<br /><br />And global economists are talking about the growing US Federal Deficit in nice round Trillions. One Trillion Dollars equals the entire lifetime earnings of:<br /><br />290,400 College Professors (or)<br />220,700 Doctors (or)<br />400,000 Senior managers or engineers (or)<br />470,600 Teachers or Nurses (or)<br />620,500 Service Managers (or)<br />660,700 Contractors (or)<br />830,300 Truck Drivers (or)<br />1,000,000 Lawn care people<br /><br />A One Trillion Dollar Deficit is equal to an average US citizens' entire lifetime earnings for about 680,900 lifetimes. That's a long haul for a 'slave.'<br /><br />So when you sit back in front of your TV set and watch Mr. Bush's oil war and some 'relevant' government talking head tells you how many ‘Billions’ he (or she) is spending, look at your kid sitting there and wonder just how many lifetimes that kid will have to work to give the 'Top Gun" the money he (or she) is going to spend, or give away overseas, or 'loose', in his war, this year...<br /><br />Oh, about that growing $46 Trillion Federal Government Debt problem? Well, if $9 Trillion in debt puts each US citizen $30,000 in the hole, then a $46 Trillion debt puts each US citizen about $157,000 in the hole - payable on demand. Bush billionaires won't mind too much, but how is a 3 year old homeless black kid in Louisiana going to pay up?<br /><br />And $46 Trillion Dollars equals the entire lifetime earnings of: How many? You have the earnings demographics, do the math, forty-six times the $1 Trillion numbers for the 290,400 College Professors, etc, and you'll see how many million US citizens' entire slave lifetimes it will take to pay it down ... or even pay the monthly interest on it...<br /><br />Now, if you are a 'Baby Boomer,' and you think you are going to retire as part of the 'American Dream' - this is the snapshot of your globalized future.<br /><br />IMF Says Rise in U.S. Debts Threatens World's Economy<br /><br />By ELIZABETH BECKER and EDMUND L. ANDREWS, The New York Times<br /><br />(Jan. 8) - With its rising budget deficit and ballooning trade imbalance, the United States is running up a foreign debt of such record-breaking proportions that it threatens the financial stability of the global economy, according to a report released Wednesday by the International Monetary Fund.<br /><br />In the I. M. F. report, fund economists warned that the United States long-term fiscal outlook was far grimmer, predicting that underfunding for Social Security and Medicare will lead to shortages as high as $47 trillion over the next 70 years or nearly 500 percent of the current gross domestic product in the coming decades.<br /><br />Prepared by a team of I. M. F. economists, the report sounded a loud alarm about the shaky fiscal foundation of the United States, questioning the wisdom of the Bush administration's tax cuts and warning that large budget deficits pose "significant risks" not just for the United States but for the rest of the world.<br /><br />The report warns that the United States' net financial obligations to the rest of the world could be equal to 40 percent of its total economy within a few years — "an unprecedented level of external debt for a large industrial country," according to the fund, that would play havoc with the value of the dollar and international exchange rates.<br /><br />Treasury Secretary John W. Snow did not address the fund's report directly. But in a speech to the United States Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday, he said Mr. Bush's tax cuts were central to spurring growth and reiterated the administration's pledge to reduce the deficit in half within five years. But the I. M. F. report said that even if the administration succeeded, it would not be enough to address the long-term problems posed by retiring baby boomers.' end of quote<br /><br />In 1932, President Franklin Roosevelt decoupled the dollar from gold, but gold was still being paid<br />to other countries as they redeemed US dollars. During 1970-1971, the United States was no longer able to pay other governments with gold, and the nations of the world were stuck with continually inflating US dollars. In order to maintain global demand for the US dollar, the US Government made a 1972-73 arrangement with Saudi Arabia to support the House of Saud if they, Saudi Arabia and all of OPEC, the oil producing nations, would accept only US dollars as payment of oil.<br /><br />Now Uncle Scam is between the proverbial rock and the hard place. Iran announced that as of March 21st, 2006, that it will no longer accept US dollars for oil, and that it has persuaded the OPEC nations to accept the Euro and other currencies as well. None of the nations will have to buy and hold dollars to buy oil, and this will reduce the US dollar to nearly junk status on the world market. That is why Bush has determined that Iran must be attacked. If oil no longer backs the US petro-dollar, the collapse of the dollar is imminent.<br /><br />It's no coincidence that 3 days after Iran starts its conversion to the Euro, Bush's Federal Reserve Board will cease publishing the M3 indicator which measures the amount of dollars in circulation. They don't want the US sheeple to know that the bottom is about to fall out of their funny money system.<br /><br />In the George Orwell novel "1984" you read about NewSpeak and NewThink, which were twisted lies authorized by a fascist government gone berserk. The Bush Government is delivering - your - economic demise via NewBank - And you - and your kid - shortly will become NewSlaves.<br /><br />Yes, as economist James Turk recently wrote - it's economic suicide - but worse than that, it's also monetary homicide. The dollar, as we know it, is being killed, poisoned by debt right from the hand of Uncle Scam.<br /><br />So far its been a slow death, with few people watching, but that's about to change. With the horrific new amounts of debt being injected into the dollar's weary remains, its death is not far off.<br /><br />And that's the dollar that you - your kids - and your grand kids - plan to use - to survive.<br /><br />Well, Mr. Bush, 'Mission Accomplished' yet?<div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://www.blogtopsites.com/politics/"><img border="0" src="http://www.blogtopsites.com/tracker.php?do=in&id=13845" alt="Politics Blog Top Sites" /></a>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://embed.technorati.com/embed/atecwhaf8z.js"></script></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9204558.post-1142560817911596612006-03-16T19:00:00.000-07:002006-03-16T19:00:21.286-07:00America HAS NO BEACH CALLED NORMANDYIt occurred to me, while reading the global press, listening to radio shows, watching the entertainment-pretending to be- news on network and cable TV, reading web blogs and message boards, visiting chat rooms, that many things just were not making any sense to me. <br/><br/>It seems, no matter where I go to find information about current events, I am led back to the History of the world. Having to refresh my memory, or learn for the first time, who the players are and how they got where they are today, is always an exercise in frustration for me. <br/><br/>I like for things to make sense. I get really crabby when I cannot make things fit into some logical order, be it by hard fitting physical science, or the familiar and predictable patterns of human behavior that have been nothing but repetitive, and if those fail, then by mythology and magical thinking. Write a letter to Santa Claus. <br/><br/>Well, I am really crabby these days. Nothing was fitting. <br/><br/>Why are Americans so quiet regarding the obvious breeches of trust from their elected leaders? <br/><br/>Why are Americans so quiet about the history of the nuclear testing around the globe, displacement of natural peoples, radiation experimentation, bioweapons creations and use against the American people, by the US leaders?<br/><br/>Why are Americans so quiet about the horror and atrocity being committed in our names? Around the globe and at home?<br/><br/>Why are Americans so quiet about the theft of the people’s money by our leaders? <br/><br/>Why are Americans so quiet about ‘statute of limitations’ when it comes to fighting for justice? <br/><br/>Why are Americans so quiet about the rising prices of natural gas, gasoline, heating oil, water?<br/><br/>Why are Americans so quiet about the wholesale purchase of the core of our Republic, our 2nd Branch, by foreign and domestic powers? <br/><br/>Why are Americans so ready to hand the keys to the bank vault, to the modern day Bonnie and Clyde, or George and Dick, in this case? <br/><br/>Why are Americans so ready to kill and mame their fellow citizens, and others who have not perpetrated any offense against them, simply over ideologies? Not even terrorists commit abuses until they have experienced first, the abuse.<br/><br/>Why have Americans so eagerly and with passion, clung to their status as indentured slaves, and then labeled it, “freedom”, or worse, “democracy”?<br/><br/>I have a list of questions that seem to be endless. <br/><br/>And since answers seem to be as a lost commodity, I have decided to wrap this mess up into a package that I can digest; although it quiets my crabbies, this package awakens my rage, and overwhelming awareness of powerlessness. <br/><br/>Some people in America can accept the current official stories, because it serves their purpose to do so. Of course Islamic Terrorists want to kill Americans because they are jealous of our freedom, for example. The people who believe this, understand full well, what it feels like to hate, resent, fear, loathe, others just because they believe something about them….perceptions. So, it stands reasonable to these people, that terrorist want to hurt the Americans, because these Americans want and do hurt others. <br/>It is Projection. Abortion bombers, gay bashers, pedophiles, rapists, and others, have commonalities that involve control and power over others, in order to meet their personal needs. <br/><br/>It makes sense for these people to latch on to the propaganda, “father knows best” thus honor thy President as thy abusive father, and thus, when fathers says that Islamic terrorists are going to hurt Americans, only father can keep us safe. Substitute the social worker for terrorists and you have the majority of the Bush supporters. <br/><br/>The economic and financial purposes, I believe are the easiest to spot, yet the hardest to accept. Of course we want China to grow, but only if they are externally limiting by their welcome to our corporations who hire their citizens and keep their wages 40x lower than the wages of the Americans. The consequence is, Americans out of work and manufacturing losses that rip caverns in our long-term economic power.<br/><br/>Loss of civil rights, growing oppressions, are nothing new for many Americans. Just as with HIV, it only hit home after the Senator’s straight daughter dies from a tainted blood transfusion, or worse, from her “john” husband. The working class, poor Americans have never been granted the opportunities nor the privileges nor the rights that only money can purchase. So, to those who seem most bothered by the constraints, I say, welcome to America, the other side. <br/><br/>Missile Defense makes the world go round. The US Pentagon money laundering machine, the base of the US economy, must have stoking fires of approval from the public. The cold war must continue. <br/><br/>Americans are not expecting, not truly, the next Holocaust. It makes for great headlines, however. This is the convolution, of the propaganda, however. It is real, It is happening, only, America has no beach called Normandy. The world may never really know the truth about what happened to people of America, or the trail of victims the US government has left, around the world. <br/><br/><br/><br/><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://www.blogtopsites.com/politics/"><img border="0" src="http://www.blogtopsites.com/tracker.php?do=in&id=13845" alt="Politics Blog Top Sites" /></a>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://embed.technorati.com/embed/atecwhaf8z.js"></script></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9204558.post-1141334301165324682006-03-02T14:16:00.000-07:002006-03-02T14:18:21.183-07:00Iraqi Province Cuts Off U.S. Forces<div align="left"><br /><br />uploaded 23 Feb 2006<br /><br /><br /><strong>Karbala Provincial Governor Suspends Contact With U.S. Forces in Iraq, Complained About Dogs</strong><br /><br />KARBALA, Iraq Feb 20, 2006 (AP)- The governing council of Karbala province said Monday it was suspending contact with U.S. forces over the behavior of soldiers during a visit to the governor's office two days ago.<br /><br />The decision followed similar moves by leaders of Maysan and Basra provinces, which have frozen ties with British forces in southern Iraq.<br /><br />Karbala provincial spokesman Abdel Amir Hanoun complained that U.S. soldiers brought dogs inside the building when their commander visited provincial Gov. Aqeel al-Khazraji, considered an insult by the council.<br /><br />They also blocked roads leading to the governor's office, preventing council members and the governor from parking cars outside the building, Hanoun said. The governor instructed the council to suspend contacts until U.S. forces apologize, he said.<br /><br />The Karbala council is controlled by the Supreme Council of Islamic Revolution in Iraq, the country's largest Shiite party, and Dawa, the party of Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari.<br /><br />On Sunday, Maysan province decided to suspend ties with British authorities pending an investigation into a recently released videotape of British soldiers beating Iraqi youths during a January 2004 riot there.<br /><br />British authorities said three soldiers have been arrested in connection with the beatings shown on the videotape first reported by the London newspaper News of the World.<br /><br />The Maysan council also called for the release of all the province's detainees held by coalition authorities.<br /><br />The governing council for Basra province, headquarters of Britain's more than 8,000-member military contingent in Iraq, also cut ties with the British military and civilian operations over the video.<br /><br />Source: Associated Press<br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://www.blogtopsites.com/politics/"><img border="0" src="http://www.blogtopsites.com/tracker.php?do=in&id=13845" alt="Politics Blog Top Sites" /></a>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://embed.technorati.com/embed/atecwhaf8z.js"></script></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9204558.post-1141330040147898752006-03-02T13:05:00.000-07:002006-03-04T20:52:37.733-07:00WORLD COUNCIL OF CHURCHES SAYS, "NO" TO IRAQ WAR<span style="font-family:verdana;"><strong><em><span style="font-family:arial;">A couple of neighbors stopped to chat with me, asking if I would tend watch over their homes while they attended a religious convention out of town. Knowing these people to be hard core fundamentalists, and avid Bush supporters, I jumped at the opportunity to mention an article I had recently read,<br /><br />"Oh, by the way, did you hear about the World Council of Churches' statements regarding the war?...It seems they are opposed to the war in Iraq, and they also sent word to Condi Rice, to allow the detainees at Gitmo due process under the law, or shut the facility down..."<br /><br />I watched as their faces turned white, and they appeared to look as though they had just eaten something very sour. I felt such gleeful retribution.<br /><br />I wrote 5 years ago, about the American fundamentalist movement being the driving force behind Bush's domestic political base, and my left leaning friends thought I was nuts. Now that the WCC have gone public with their countering statements, the real war will begin.<br /><br />GW Bush and players have conducted the global bank heist of the modern era, while throwing this base the bones of 'gay, god, guns and abortion'. The part of this base that gobbled up these bones are a cult. Cult members are best de-programmed by cult members. people who understand this cult and who understand their language. The WCC can help design the language that the left must adopt. It's a trust issue. And if the Left wants to be strategic in any sort of powerful way, they will seize this group by the ears and attach them at the hip.<br /><br />The facts as part of the common reality mean nothing to the Bush base. One must become marketing savvy and the WCC holds the tools and the weapon that will save America from herself.</span><br /></em><br /><br /><br /><strong>US Christian Leaders Apologize For Iraq War</strong><br /><br />28 Feb 2006<br /><br /><br />by Ximena Diego<br /><br />NEW YORK - Christian leaders from the United States lamented the war in Iraq and apologized for their government's current foreign policy during the 9th Assembly of the World Council of Churches in Porto Alegre, Brazil, which ended Thursday.<br /><br />"We lament with special anguish the war in Iraq, launched in deception and violating global norms of justice and human rights," the Very Rev. Leonid Kishkovsky, the moderator of the U.S. Conference for the WCC, told fellow delegates from around the world. Kishkovsky is the rector of Our Lady of Kazan Church in Sea Cliff, New York, and is an officer in the Orthodox Church of America.<br /><br />Taking an unusual stand among U.S. Christian leaders, the United States Conference for the World Council of Churches (WCC) criticized Pres. George W. Bush's actions in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks. "We are citizens of a nation that has done much in these years to endanger the human family and to abuse the creation," says the statement endorsed by the most prominent Protestant Christian churches on the Council. "Our leaders turned a deaf ear to the voices of church leaders throughout our nation and the world, entering into imperial projects that seek to dominate and control for the sake of our own national interests. Nations have been demonized and God has been enlisted in national agendas that are nothing short of idolatrous."<br /><br />The message, written like a prayer of repentance and backed by the 34 Christian churches that belong to the WCC, mourns those who have died or been injured in the Iraq war and says, "We confess that we have failed to raise a prophetic voice loud enough and persistent enough to deter our leaders from this path of preemptive war." Among the attendees was the Rev. Bernice Powell-Jackson, North American President of the World Council of Churches. A civil rights activist for more than 25 years, Jackson previously served as executive director of one of the Justice and Witness Ministries predecessor bodies, the Commission for Racial Justice.<br /><br />The U.S. Conference of the WCC also criticized the government's position on global warming. "The rivers, oceans, lakes, rainforests, and wetlands that sustain us, even the air we breathe continue to be violated... Yet our own country refuses to acknowledge its complicity and rejects multilateral agreements aimed at reversing disastrous trends," reads the message.<br /><br />Earlier this month, a group of more than 85 U.S. evangelical Christian leaders called on Congress to enact legislation that would reduce emissions of greenhouse gases, which most scientists believe contribute to global warming.<br />The U.S. Conference of the WCC message also said, "Starvation, the HIV/AIDS pandemic, the treatable diseases that go untreated indict us, revealing the grim features of global economic injustice we have too often failed to acknowledge or confront." "Hurricane Katrina," it continues, "revealed to the world those left behind in our own nation by the rupture of our social contract. As a nation we have refused to confront the racism that infects our policies around the world."<br /><br />The statement comes days after the National Council of Churches (NCC), the United States chapter of the WCC, endorsed a U.N. report on the situation of detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba.<br /><br />Separately, in a letter addressed to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, NCC General Secretary Robert W. Edgar called on the U.S. to bring the detainees to trial, release them, or to "close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility without further delay". It also asked Rice for access to the Guantanamo facility "to monitor the physical, spiritual and mental conditions of the detainees".<br /><br />At the Brazilian conference, the Rev. John Thomas, president of United Church of Christ, was quoted as saying: "An emerging theme in conversation with our partners around the world is that the U.S. is being perceived as a dangerous nation." He called the Assembly "a unique opportunity to make this statement to all our colleagues" in the ecumenical movement. The statement says, "We come to you seeking to be partners in the search for unity and justice."<br /><br />Thomas acknowledged that not all church members would agree with the thrust of the statement, but said it was their responsibility as leaders to "speak a prophetic and pastoral word as we believe God is offering it to us".<br /><br />The final WCC event featured a candlelit march for peace through downtown Porto Alegre with up to 2,000 people -- including two Nobel Prize-winners -- taking part.<br /><br />Organized by local churches as part of the World Council of Churches' Decade to Overcome Violence, it was accompanied by Latin American music from Xico Esvael and Victor Heredia. Young people carried banners highlighting peace and justice issues. One, depicting the world held in God's hand, read "Let God change you first, then you will transform the world."<br /><br />WCC president Powell-Jackson urged the crowd to commit themselves to overcoming violence. Prawate Khid-arn of the Christian Conference of Asia told them, "If we do not take the risk of peace, we will have to take the risk of war."<br /><br />Israel Batista of the Latin American Council of Churches spoke of poverty, injustice and abuse of women and children and asked, "How are we to speak of peace?" Still, he said, "In spite of violence, we will persist in the struggle for peace."<br /><br />After an address by Julia Qusibert, a Bolivian indigenous Christian, the marchers sang the Samba of the Struggle for Peace and the Taiz chant Ubi Caritas, among other songs. The march paused while Nobel prize-winner Adolfo Pez Esquivel improvised a poem and addressed the crowd at the Esquina Democrica or Democratic Corner.<br /><br />The evening was brought to a climax with an address by the second Nobel Prize-winner, Archbishop Desmond Tutu. He began his impassioned speech by saying, "We have an extraordinary God. God is a mighty God, but this God needs you. When someone is hungry, bread doesn't come down from heaven. When God wants to feed the hungry, you and I must feed the hungry. And now God wants peace in the world."<br /><br />The WCC is the largest Christian ecumenical organization, comprised of 340 Christian denominations and churches in 120 countries, and said to represent 550 million Christians throughout the world. The U.S. Conference of the World Council of Churches alone represents 34 Christian churches, including Orthodox, Evangelical, Lutheran and Anglican churches, and four million members throughout the country.<br /><br />The Roman Catholic Church is not a member of the WCC but has worked closely with the Council in the past. Since its origins in 1948, the WCC gathers in an Assembly every seven years with each member church sending a delegate.<br /><br />Source: Inter Press Service 2006<br /><br /><br /><br /></strong></span><span style="font-family:verdana;"><strong></strong></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://www.blogtopsites.com/politics/"><img border="0" src="http://www.blogtopsites.com/tracker.php?do=in&id=13845" alt="Politics Blog Top Sites" /></a>
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<script type="text/javascript" src="http://embed.technorati.com/embed/atecwhaf8z.js"></script></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9204558.post-1139275354914117902006-02-06T18:22:00.000-07:002006-02-06T18:22:35.010-07:00A Challenge to the LEFT: STOP being the Right's Agents<span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;">It is time to stop supporting the Bush agents, in promoting his agenda by way of ‘information’ media. </span><br/><span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;"></span><br/><span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;">Stop and think about this: how many times has the Bush administration refused to hand over documents? For every make believe investigation this administration has conducted, there has been something withheld from the investigators, and or reported as such to the public. The fact is, Bush has classified more documents than any president before him. </span><br/><span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;"></span><br/><span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;">So, knowing that to be true, ask yourself, </span><em><span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;">why are there seemingly very incriminating documents ‘leaked’, available, promoted, FOIA’d, that when taken at face value, have been enough to impeach this whole administration? </span></em><span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;">That’s what </span><em><span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;">Information Strategies </span></em><span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;">are made of. These documents, these morsels of treasure finds, by bloggers and well paid non investigative journalists, are the roots of the new industry, what I call, the </span><em><span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;">Counter-Disinformation = </span></em><span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;">“URGENT!! Call your Senators, Now! please deposit $100.00 by clicking on the pay pals link to the right” movement. </span><br/><span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;"></span><br/><span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;">The fact is, for every document treasure find, a new website claiming non-profit status emerges. Now, help me out here. The Internet is not a city where one needs to travel distances to get to the best pizza shop, all one has to do is point and click, no matter where you are in the world. So, how many “Impeach Bush” websites are needed? Don’t like what the existing ones say? You have a better point or plan to communicate? Put up a new page. The ask, “Why is the progressive movement not speaking with one voice?” Are people afraid to talk to each other? How can anyone be heard, if the most powerful machine in the world available for communication is being non-strategically utilized? </span><br/><span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;"></span><br/><span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;">Who are Bush and Rove and the cabal’s primary market? I think it is anyone who is not in full support of their policies and require structure. The left has been structured straight into the bullpen. The gate is about lock behind us. </span><br/><span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;"></span><br/><span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;">Ask yourselves these questions: </span><br/><span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;"></span><br/><ol><li><span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;">Why do you believe that if 100 websites all announce the current evidence that Bush lied about x y or z, that people who support Bush will read it, believe, absorb it, or care about it? </span></li></ol><span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;"></span><br/><span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;"> 2. Assuming the Bushites read the information on the website, understand it, acknowledge it, what makes anyone believe that the information will change how one feels or how one perceives the situation? “Truth will set you free”? Oh, okay. </span><br/><span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;"></span><br/><span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;">3. Why is incriminating information available in the national archives, or anywhere in the leaked versions, when the documents that know one seems to remember were important are still under seal? Can you say, “PSYOPS”? </span><br/><span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;"></span><br/><ol><li><span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;">Can you identify 3 events or situations in which using the current methodologies of information or news sites, ‘call your senator’ pleas, have resulted in the ends or goals put forth in the motivational? </span></li></ol><span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;"></span><br/><span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;">5. Why would a person who says they are anti Bush, read a web site which is produced and owned by a Right Wing operative, and who makes Internet headlines with treasure finds that reflects his information comes from the White House insiders, Capital Hill Blues? Who believes that anyone working for the Bush administration, inside the white house, would talk to a person for the sake of smearing the boss, and still have a job? </span><br/><span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;"></span><br/><span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;">The obvious problems here are that the truth is being hidden in plain sight. The Left is as blinded by the information coup, as is the Right. The mainstream media is the filter through which the Internet collates and collects its news. The foreign press is filtered through the same conduit. One puts the picture together piece by piece, not by using the obvious leaks and misleads from the source of attention. </span><br/><br/><br/><br/><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://www.blogtopsites.com/politics/"><img border="0" src="http://www.blogtopsites.com/tracker.php?do=in&id=13845" alt="Politics Blog Top Sites" /></a>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://embed.technorati.com/embed/atecwhaf8z.js"></script></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9204558.post-1138909183693659112006-02-02T12:39:00.000-07:002006-02-02T12:39:43.793-07:00MEDICARE DRUG PLAN IS A FRAUD<span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;">Similar to the obvious bureaucratic nightmares for the Katrina victims, the Medicare Drug Bill in action will turn out to be the nation’s largest misappropriation of funds, to date, leaving 10’s of millions of Americans holding the empty bag of vacant health care services, mounting health care related bills and the tax payer wondering why trillions of dollars aren’t buying the drugs and treatments aimed at reducing costs for the countries most vulnerable. </span><br/><span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;"></span><br/><span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;">What I am about to walk you through, will shock you, and it should enrage you. It has me.</span><br/><span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;"></span><br/><span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;">Helping some with their navigation through the enrollment, with expectations that their benefits were to begin on Jan. 1, 2006, we have been faced with a system totally unprepared, disconnected, filled with layer after layer of subcontractors and insurance underwriters, insurance administrators, benefits evaluation companies, benefits administrators, pharmacy coordinator companies, case management companies, and the list goes on. </span><br/><span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;"></span><br/><span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;">The total system is corrupted by the spending of the Medicare beneficiary’s $88.00 per month compulsory premium for part A, being spread around to multiple subcontractors for third party payers, and 33% escalated drug costs, hiked by RxPharma last year in preparation for the new plan, and failed service provision caused by total incompetence and disorganization by the Executive Branch appointment of ill prepared managers. </span><br/><span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;"></span><br/><span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;">More on this in coming days. </span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://www.blogtopsites.com/politics/"><img border="0" src="http://www.blogtopsites.com/tracker.php?do=in&id=13845" alt="Politics Blog Top Sites" /></a>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://embed.technorati.com/embed/atecwhaf8z.js"></script></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9204558.post-1138741116743147292006-01-31T13:58:00.000-07:002006-01-31T13:58:36.816-07:00AMERICANS WIN FOR MOST UNCIVILIZED<ol><li><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">Europe sends over Land Development companies, eagerly supplying them with ready made labor consisting of Puritans and Calvin, (gee thanks your Royal Sirs), to be the land workers for the early mercantile trade. </span></li></ol><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"></span><br/><ol><li><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">Manifest Destiny and stupidity and oppression and indentured slavery, result in the mass slaughter of 10’S of millions of indigenous natives. Rifles were primary tool for survival and for feeding oneself and for slaughtering humans and for trade with the natives and then crybaby when the natives turned the weapons against the colonists. (Hmmm, seems familiar, perhaps a pattern begins)</span></li></ol><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"></span><br/><ol><li><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">Right to Bear Arms Amendment was enacted, aimed at allowing healthy males to participate in militias for the protection of their states.... sort of like the first police. (WAS NEVER INTENDED FOR PRIVATE CITIZENS TO SIMPLY CARRY WEAPONS AND SHOOT EACH OTHER)</span></li></ol><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"></span><br/><ol><li><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">NRA was formed after a militiaman discovered his fellow troops didn't know how to shoot straight and deemed the act of firing a weapon to be a science. (Hmmm, wonder if intelligent design considered)</span></li></ol><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"></span><br/><ol><li><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">Only after the Feds decided that the mafia gang style machine guns were a bit over the top for normal citizens in or out of a police or militia structure, did the NRA decide to 'expand' the amendment interpretation. (Hmmm, could it be they were actually the mafia infiltrates?)</span></li></ol><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"></span><br/><ol><li><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">Interestingly, the Southern or 'slavery' states, including Wyoming and Idaho, Ky, Kansas, Texas, Nevada, have the highest gun related crimes, child accidents, and the most liberal gun ownership laws. (Hmmm, my statistics professor might call this causal)</span></li></ol><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"></span><br/><ol><li><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">DC is the highest gun crime in the nation. A gun kills 32 out of 100,000 people. Hawaii, the lowest with 2 / 100,000. NY 5/100,000. LA 9/100,000. La 19/100,000. MS 16/100,000. Fl 13/100,000</span></li></ol><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"></span><br/><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">Back in 1996, the International numbers looked like this:</span><br/><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">Murder by Handgun:New Zealand: 2Australia: 13Japan: 15GB: 30</span><br/><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">Canada: 106Germany: 213UNITED STATES: 9,390Now, accounting for the NRA's argument that 4 million acts of self defense were committed with the use of hand guns, thus asserting that 4 million lives were saved, well, if the 4 million assumed perpetrators had not been armed, then, perhaps 4 million uses of fire arms would not have produced the 9,000 deaths. ? Of course not all of the 9,000 deaths were caused by others defending themselves. Maybe some of those 4 million shooters missed their targets and then got shot? The fact is, the gun toting states don't have requirements for gun ownerships, no to few restrictions, none to few permits required. So, when the NRA says "legal" vs "illegal" gun ownership, maybe they are talking about paid for or stolen guns.</span><br/><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"></span><br/><ol><li><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">The nation that exports more weapons than any other nation in the world. Has used chemical weapons of mass destruction on many occasions; used or tested the nuclear weapons of mass destruction on many occasions, including the current use of DU. Americans have been the victims of radiation, chemical testing for 60 years. </span></li></ol><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"></span><br/><ol><li><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">The US is the only nation in the industrialized world to maintain the death penalty, while the faction of Americans known as the Christian Fundamentalists, proclaim the inherent right to murder these people or any people they deem unworthy to be among their peers, while placing the unborn fetus in a bronze memorial. (Hmm, wonder if it has something to do with the dogma of Original Sin). </span></li></ol><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"></span><br/><ol><li><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">A criminal justice system that places more weight on the notion that a crime must have prosecution of a perpetrator, even if the man standing accused requires the police force and prosecutors create or manufacture evidence, in order to satisfy the political quotas. (Hmm, wonder what happened to the notion that one guilty man who goes free is worth it to keep the one innocent man from being jailed, or worse, murdered).</span></li></ol><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"></span><br/><ol><li><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">The nation who now openly and overtly agrees to torture humans. Additionally, to be able to jail them, without the writ of habeas corpus, listen to phone conversations you may have with your doctor, in the event you might be talking to him about the Saturday night bombing you are planning of the local YMCA. </span></li></ol><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"></span><br/><ol><li><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">A people who prides themselves in the attributes of the world’s most notorious hit squad and coup d’etat promulgator, the CIA. (Hmm, wonder how the KGB felt when they were so rudely mislabeled for their innocent activities)</span></li></ol><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"></span><br/><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"></span><br/><ol><li><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">Generationally inherent of child abuses, high illiteracy rates, and in order for the techno-industrial progression, we must import the brains. Poverty is growing at alarming rates, currently, and work place pressures are increasingly reflecting the corporate standard of corruption. America's workers are learning just how replaceable they are, and combined with the decreasing standard of living, it makes for a really bad hair day.</span></li></ol><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://www.blogtopsites.com/politics/"><img border="0" src="http://www.blogtopsites.com/tracker.php?do=in&id=13845" alt="Politics Blog Top Sites" /></a>
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