America;
The Lost Child!
Editorial submitted by; Bretton Woods. Nov. 2007 (Updated Sept. 2009)
"So you think that money is the root
of all evil?" said Francisco d'Anconia. "Have you ever asked what is the root
of money? Would it not seem more likely that the evil lies in the
pursuit of money?
Money has no value;
The nationalists were diligent in fighting the gold
standard because they wanted to sever their countries from the world market
and to establish national autarky as far as possible. Interventionist
governments and pressure groups are still fighting the gold standard because
they consider it the most serious obstacle to their endeavors to manipulate
prices and wage rates. But the most fanatical attacks against gold and gold
backed currencies are made by those intent upon credit expansion. With them
credit expansion is the panacea for all economic ills. It could lower or even
entirely abolish interest rates, raise wages and prices for the benefit of all
except the parasitic capitalists and the exploiting employers, free the state
from the necessity of balancing its budget—in short, make all decent people
prosperous and happy. Only the gold standard, that devilish contrivance of the
wicked and stupid "orthodox" economists, prevents mankind from attaining
everlasting prosperity.
The main objection raised against the gold standard is that
it makes operative in the determination of prices a factor which no government
can control—the vicissitudes of gold production. Thus an "external" or
"automatic" force restrains a national government’s power to make its subjects
as prosperous as it would like to make them. The international capitalists
dictate and the nation’s sovereignty becomes a sham.
What the expansionists call the defects of the gold
standard are indeed its very eminence and usefulness. It checks large-scale
inflationary ventures on the part of governments. The gold standard did not
fail. The governments were eager to destroy it, because they were committed to
the fallacies that credit expansion is an appropriate means of lowering the
rate of interest and of "improving" the balance of trade and in obtaining
currency and market control.
The struggle against gold which is one of the main concerns
of all contemporary governments must not be looked upon as an isolated
phenomenon. It is but one item in the gigantic process of destruction which is
the mark of our time. People fight the gold standard because they want to
substitute national autarky for free trade, war for peace, totalitarian
government omnipotence for liberty.
The Culprit is The
Federal Reserve
Who is responsible for inflation? It's not you or I because
if we privately increased the supply of money to finance profligate spending,
we would be charged with counterfeiting and go to prison. The Federal Reserve
Bank, our central bank, is the only entity legally permitted to increase the
supply of money, to bailout crooked financial institutions and finance
Congress' profligate spending. The Federal Reserve Bank while supposedly
independent does not institute sound monetary problems and is in actuality the
root of economical problems. Charging interest on all monies issued it is
quite reluctant in abstaining from an out of control market credit system.
Central banks are villains in most countries, including
ours. In 1946, Hungary's central bank gave it the world's highest inflation
rate yet to date. Prices doubled every 16 hours creating an annual inflation
rate of 13 quadrillion percent. Last October, Zimbabwe's central bank produced
history's second highest rate of inflation. Prices doubled every 25 hours,
giving it an annual inflation rate of 80 billion percent. By comparison,
Germany's inflation rate, which brought about the social disruption
responsible for Hitler's rise to power, was a mere 30,000 percent that saw
prices doubling every four days. You say, "Williams, that couldn't happen
here." Except during the Revolutionary War and the War of 1861, our inflation
has never exceeded 20 percent, but keep in mind that any hyperinflation was
once 20 percent.
Knowing the dangers posed by central banks, we might ask
whether our country needs the Federal Reserve Bank. Whenever I'm told that we
need this or that government program, I always ask what we did before. It
turns out that we did without a central bank from 1836, when President Andrew
Jackson closed the Second Bank of the United States, to 1913 when Federal
Reserve Act was written. During that interval, we prospered and became one of
the world's major economic powers.
The justifications for Federal Reserve Act of 1913 was to
prevent bank failure and maintain price stability. Simple before and after
analysis demonstrates that the Federal Reserve Bank has been a failure. In the
century before the Federal Reserve Act, wholesale prices fell by 6 percent; in
the century after they rose by 1,300 percent. Maximum bank failures in one
year before 1913 were 496 and afterward, 4,400. During the 1930s, inept money
supply management by the Federal Reserve Bank was partially responsible for
both the depth and duration of the Great Depression.
It is not wise for us to permit a few people on the Federal
Reserve Board to have life and death power over our economy. My recommendation
for reducing some of that power is to repeal legal tender laws and eliminate
all taxes on gold, silver and platinum transactions. That way there would be
money substitutes and the government money monopoly would be reduced and hence
the ability to tax -- some people would say steal from -- us through
inflation.
The story begins in 1944. After World War II, the United
States was the only industrial power left standing. Germany, Japan, France,
and other European economies were decimated; their factories destroyed, their
people impoverished. Britain, long the world’s dominant economic power and the
issuer of the world’s reserve currency, was in similar shape. The pound,
backed by the rubble that once comprised the world’s mightiest industrial
economy, had been made worthless by the costs of war and could no longer
function as currency by which international accounts were settled. The world’s
leading economists met at Bretton Woods, NH before the war’s end in 1944 to
devise a new system of international payments and exchange rates; what emerged
came to be known by the name of the conference’s location - the Bretton Woods
System.
In this system, all countries would peg the value of their
currencies to the US Dollar, while the dollar was pegged to gold at $35 per
ounce. In this way, the exchange rates of foreign currencies were determined
in relation to the dollar, while governments were able to exchange their
currencies for gold, effectively making the US Dollar “as good as gold.” If
another country got into trouble and saw the value of their currency decline
sharply, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), was able to make adjustments
to the exchange rate regime and/or issue loans to mitigate short-run
balance-of-payment imbalances and stabilize foreign currencies. In this way,
member countries would not have to induce a severe recession or depression in
order to cut imports and national income to a level that was within their
means to fund. The IMF was able to use this leverage to prevent the adoption
of policies which would have caused a nation to default on its outstanding
debt, and to reduce the temptation of poor countries to embark on policies of
economic nationalism - restricting imports and capital outflows - much to the
chagrin of populist demagogues in many third-world nations.
This system worked exceptionally well for thirty years; the
post-war economic boom was one of the longest periods of increasing prosperity
in world history. The United States benefited greatly from its position as the
issuer of the world’s reserve currency. Since other governments had to hold
dollars to participate in the system, the US was able to run persistent budget
deficits and finance ever-increasing consumer spending and private investment
without raising interest rates. While other nations had to either raise taxes
or cut growth by raising interests rates in order to meet their obligations,
the US was able to have it all - low unemployment, high domestic consumption
and investment, low interest rates, low taxes, and high government spending.
In effect, the rest of the world was doing a lot of the USA’s saving, but the
US trade deficit encouraged exports from developing countries and spurred
economic growth. However, it began to show signs of strain in the late 1950s.
The system from whence the USA enjoyed unimaginable benefits was reliant upon
very good behavior to maintain the dollar’s prestigious position. The American
public ultimately rejected the hard decisions necessary to do so.
Beginning with tax cuts and increased domestic spending in
the 1960s, the US trade deficit began to increase rapidly. The Vietnam War
placed an even more enormous strain the federal budget and thus the Bretton
Woods system, as the US borrowed heavily from abroad to finance prosperity at
home while it was undergoing enormous outflows of human and economic capital
in fighting the war. When Nixon assumed office in 1969, the situation
continued to deteriorate. The central banks of France and Germany were piling
up huge amounts of US Treasuries, and economists began to question how long
they would be willing to pay our bills. The Fed induced a recession in 1969,
but inflation stayed elevated due to pressures on the dollar. 1969 also proved
to be the peak of US oil production, and America was soon forced to begin
importing oil more and more oil from overseas, greatly excacerbating the
balance-of-payments problem. Nixon, always the cynic, was advised that the
Bretton Woods was facing collapse, but decided that keeping unemployment low
for short-term political gain was more important than the long-run health of
the economy. “We’ll take inflation if we have to” he said, “but we can’t have
unemployment. Nobody ever lost an election because of inflation.”
And yet, the only trade-off was in the short run. By 1970,
the crisis had become acute. US gold coverage - the amount of gold held in
reserve to back the outstanding fiat (paper) currency - declined from 55% to
22% as more and more dollars were being printed to finance the fiscal and
balance-of-payment deficits. Foreign central banks began losing faith in the
ability of the Treasury to redeem dollars for gold, and began demanding their
gold at $35 per ounce, a huge discount to the value of gold on open markets.
Faced with a run on gold reserves, spiraling inflation, and an impending
election, Nixon unilaterally closed the “gold window” - suspended the exchange
of dollars for gold - implemented trade protections, wage freezes, and price
controls. The Bretton Woods system collapsed.
A successive series of attempted devaluations of the dollar
were unsuccessful in imposing discipline on the the US, and countries began
abandoning their dollar pegs. By early 1973, the last Bretton Woods exchange
markets were closed, and thus began the “Great Inflation” of the 1970s.
Without the discipline of the gold-exchange system, other countries began
attempting to print their way out of trouble as well, and inflation rates in
countries around the world spiked. We in the US could no longer rely on other
countries to do our savings for us, and the choice was either to tighten our
belts, or find a new source of saving to bankroll our consumption. Enter
Nixon’s visit to China.
Bretton Woods II
Far from being an altruistic visit to advance world peace,
Nixon’s normalizing of relations with China had a very specific purpose -
leverage the Chinese supply of cheap labor to enable the US to continue living
beyond its means. However, it was Japan that played the most important role in
the creation of Bretton Woods II. While Japan is often thought of as a
capitalist society, the reality is much murkier. Socialism of the mild sort,
as was the consensus in the UK during this time, generally meant government
control over and central planning of the “commanding heights” of the economy -
utilities and heavy industries - while leaving market forces to determine the
production of higher value-added products. The problem with this idea is that
the “commanding heights” don’t actually command anything; the true commanding
heights of a market economy are not the heavy industries, but the financial
markets.
The Japanese economy, while reliant upon market forces to
do the heavy lifting, is controlled by high-level technocrats at the Ministry
of Finance. In contrast to the import substitution models popular at the time,
the MoF set about developing a policy of strategic development through
export-oriented industrialization. They wanted cheap capital for their
exporters, which was funded by forced savings through MoF purchases of US
public debt. Rather than invest their export earnings to build up domestic
industries, the Japanese plowed them back into purchases of Treasuries,
thereby keeping the value of their currency suppressed and their exports
artificially cheap.
Thus, a new Bretton Woods began to emerge. During the
1980s, the US again slashed taxes and ramped up spending, yet this time they
were able to do so without causing inflation or sky-high interest rates
because the Japanese MoF bought up our debt at huge discounts. On the back of
the US fiscal and balance of payments deficits, the export-oriented Japanese
economy boomed. But when the US economy slowed, imports did too. The “Japanese
miracle” was revealed to be a massive bubble, and rather than let the
export-oriented economy readjust to a more domestically-oriented one, the MoF
propped up the existing economic structures.
With the election of Bill Clinton and the return of fiscal
restraint, the dollar surged, but as the US ran fiscal surpluses, the supply
Treasuries available for purchase by the MoF shrank. The MoF could no longer
boost exports by financing the non-existent US budget deficit, the Yen
appreciated, and rather than allowing domestic demand to increase, Japan
entered a decade of stagnation. Yet, even though the US government was now
living within its means, the American public was not. America still posted
trade deficits year after year, and while Japan still held vast numbers of US
assets, China was on the rise. China’s domestic economy posted solid gains
throughout the 1980s and 1990s, yet their currency was still at artificially
strong levels, making exports uneconomical. But following the Japanese model,
the Chinese government itself began a weak-currency policy.
The Collapse of the .com Bubble and the Bush Era
The budget surpluses of the 1990s freed up an enormous
amount of capital for private investment in the US, much of which went to
hyped-up .com firms with no assets, no revenues, no earnings - but
extraordinary share prices. Wall Street argued, as in asset bubbles past, that
the old rules no longer applied. Consumers took out loans and bought huge
amounts of these absurdly-inflated stocks on margin. They increasingly
financed current consumption against the value of speculative stock picks.
However, reality eventually reasserted itself, and when the bubble burst
(expedited by 9/11), many consumers’ paper wealth evaporated, and they were
stuck with the enormous debt they had incurred during the boom.
But rather than ensure an orderly deflation and market
correction, the Fed slashed (real) interest rates to negative territory, while
Bush and the Republican Congress pushed through massive tax cuts - even with
the expected return to deficits during the downturn. While .com stocks
plunged, the Fed and the new administration worked to ensure that the
consumption-fueled economy that grew up around effortless wealth was
maintained. But investors were soured by the collapse of the stock market;
real estate was the new must-own asset. Consumers, encouraged by their elected
leaders, once again borrowed heavily to finance speculative asset purchases.
Wall Street, now freed from the constraints of much of the regulation put in
place during the 1930s, created numerous securities and instruments that
enabled banks to expand lending to un-creditworthy buyers.
Bush and the neo-cons launched headlong into a war in Iraq
and, like LBJ and Nixon, pursued a guns-and-butter policy of further tax cuts,
massive defense expenditures, and huge increases in entitlement spending. The
budget deficit ballooned, but like Japan, China stepped in to purchase the new
debt at huge premiums. Interest rates in the US stayed absurdly low. Despite
massive government and consumer spending, and the trade deficits those
necessitate, the US was spared inflation, unemployment, and the loss of its
reserve currency status.
Yet, once again, economic reality reasserted itself. The
real estate bubble collapsed, leaving many US households with negative net
worth. The falling dollar, demand from developing energy markets, massive
domestic consumption, and instability in the Middle East caused energy prices
to spike, further squeezing consumers. Unable to pay the bills on their
massive debt, American households began defaulting on their mortgages and
credit cards. The financial system, an elaborate house of cards dependent upon
increasing levels of consumer indebtedness, began imploding. And, like Japan
in the 1990s, rather than ensure an orderly transition to more rational
economic structures, the US government continues to try to prop up the
debt-fueled “consumer economy,” oblivious to the fact that selling debt-backed
securities in exchange for the fruits of the world’s labor is totally
unsustainable and unrealistic.
And once again, we still we have no policies to move the
United States towards a production-oriented economy. Rather than embark on the
spending necessary to make this transition, they instead continue to exchange
noncollectable consumer debt on the balance sheets of banks for US Treasuries
in a futile attempt to bring back the good ole days of unsustainable consumer
spending. Just as how they’re unable to grasp that the sky-high gasoline
prices were the result of inadequate supply and unabated demand, policymakers
seem unable to grasp the reality that this is not some random crisis resulting
from illiquidity in the financial markets, but rather the overall collapse of
the Bretton Woods II system. Try as they might, they will be unable to put the
Humpty-Dumpty bubble economy back together again.
The difference this time is that there are no more China’s
and Japan’s to buy our debt and enable us to live beyond our means. All of the
bailouts in the world won’t do a bit of good without a package to make the
transition to a production-oriented economy. Consumers are unwilling to take
on any more debt, and banks have learned the hard way that they can’t extend
shady loans to shady borrowers without consequence. The sooner Congress and
the Fed realize this, the sooner they’ll stop throwing good money after bad,
and the sooner we can start to recover. Simply put, the era of free lunches
has come to an end.
The below video details
classic Freudian & Hitlerism control of the masses
The Bush Era of Chaos
Shortly before his untimely death,
former British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook told the House of Commons
that "Al Qaeda" is not really a terrorist group but a database of
international mujahideen and arms smugglers used by the CIA and Saudis to
funnel guerrillas, arms, and money into Soviet-occupied Afghanistan. Courtesy
of World Affairs, a journal based in New Delhi, WMR can bring you an important
excerpt from an Apr.-Jun. 2004 article by Pierre-Henry Bunel, a former agent
for French military intelligence.
Watch this MSNBC
intense rebuttal to Bush's corrupt and inept policies after 911
Americans remain in denial of their
Murderous Iraqi - Afghanistan Campaigns
As with every war in the history of
capitalism, its proponents cloak their real aims with high-minded and
noble-sounding phrases. The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq - just like the
slaughter of World War I, the Vietnam War and countless other conflicts - were
sold as battles for freedom, liberty, democracy, good vs. evil and so on. The
Bush administration was hardly original in its rhetoric. It was though,
successful, as the world is easily misled by it's controlled media and fear of
the unknown.
American Imperialists waging war for oil and wealth
The war in Afghanistan could not be more disastrous,
both for the long-suffering people of that country, but also for the chief
aggressor: the United States. And 2007 was the bloodiest year of the war -
so far.
The professed concern for the lives of the occupied
peoples is patently false. It is estimated that these occupations have
caused over one million casualties, as well as establishing a permanent
legacy of death and deformity by the use of weaponry enhanced with
depleted uranium.
The American elite care little about human suffering.
They are committed to the free market, neo-liberal economy policies that
have seen a massive global increase in extreme poverty. They were quick to
apply this economic dogma to their newly conquered Middle Eastern
possessions. Companies like Halliburton made mega-profits for failing to
provide services and infrastructure.
Today, the war in Iraq is totally discredited. The US
overstretched itself trying to link Saddam and bin Laden, and even more
so, in inventing stories about WMDs. The lies were necessary because the
genuine reasons for the war were so perverse and cynical. Chiefly, the war
was about the US ruling class trying to extend its power in the world. In
this case they were seeking to rewrite the geo-political map in the
oil-rich, and strategically important, Middle East.
Afghanistan and Iraq are essentially different theatres
of the same American war. The US occupies both countries for the same
reasons. Indeed the entire "war on terror" flows from the logic of
imperialism.
Imperialist military conflict is the inevitable
extension of the economic competition upon which capitalism is based.
Major companies rely on the states in which they are based to use their
muscle to secure access to raw materials like oil, and to arrange
favourable terms of trade with other nations.
Imperialism is primarily about competition between the
most powerful states in the world. And military strength is the ultimate
arbiter of power between these states. This becomes clear when one
considers how the victors of World War II were able to divide up the globe
as they pleased at the conclusion of the war. The US and its ally Britain
on the one hand, and the USSR on the other hand, simply carved up key
sections of the world into "spheres of influence."
Since the collapse of the USSR, the United States has
been the world's sole superpower. But as its economic position vis-à-vis
other major capitalist nations has declined, the US has become
increasingly reliant on its unsurpassed military might to shore up its
dominance.
Whereas the US economy accounted for a majority of
world production in the immediate post-World War II years, its share of
global GDP has been trending downward for decades. And the figure has
slipped from 30 per cent to 25 per cent in the last five years.
The Afghan and Iraq wars were conceived by the US
ruling class primarily as a reaction to the prospect of US global hegemony
being challenged, either by an integrated Europe, a resurgent Russia, or
most pressingly, by ascendant China. When Bush declared after 9/11 that
"you are either with us or with the terrorists," he was effectively
telling the rulers of all other nations that they must accept the right of
the US to govern the world. Very few of these rulers felt able to
challenge this statement at the time.
But instead of ushering in a renaissance of US
hegemony, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have had actually seen a
diminishing of US power. The reason is that the people of these countries
have resisted in a most determined fashion.
It has been possible to say with complete certainty for
at least the last three years that the chance of the US salvaging some
sort of lasting victory in Iraq is zero. As for Afghanistan, the
occupation is now in its eighth year, with the insurgency continuing to
gain strength. The US-puppet government has no legitimacy in the country,
and no control over most of it.
As the left-wing commentator Tariq Ali put it recently:
"To sum up the situation in Afghanistan, it's a total mess. The US can
never win that war, and the main reason they can never win is that Afghans
don't like being occupied. Afghans kicked out the British in the 19th
century, the Russians in the 20th century, and now they're fighting again
against the US and its NATO allies." Indeed, it is the right of the Afghan
people, and the people of Iraq, to resist the subjugation of their
country.
Rather than admit defeat, the Bush administration
continued to obliterate thousands of US lives, and hundreds of thousands
of Iraqi and Afghan lives. And the Democrats who control US Congress, and
now the presidency as well with the election of Obama, have done literally
nothing to obstruct this process.
In fact, many key Democrats like Barack Obama have
participated in preparing the ground politically for a possible future
attack on Iran. Frighteningly, there are precedents from the last 40 years
of the US lashing out when faced with inevitable defeat in a war. Even
though the US had clearly lost in Vietnam by 1968, they not only persisted
until 1975, but actually extended the conflict into Cambodia killing
millions of mostly civilians.
We can therefore say with complete justification that
the US military machine is the greatest threat to the peoples of the
Middle East and central Asia. And the words of
Martin Luther King during the Vietnam era, that the US government is "the
greatest purveyor of violence in the world", have never been more true
than today.
For this reason, socialists oppose the entire phony
"war on terror." And we oppose any Australian support for America's war.
Australia's involvement in the disaster in Afghanistan
is no mere token undertaking. The roughly 1000 troops deployed there play
an active operational role. That is, they carry out killings, and
themselves come under fire. Three troops have been killed in combat in
recent months.
Furthermore, the Australian Defense Force has had to
abandon its previous attempts at a cover-up, and publicly release a report
into the suicide last February of a soldier who had served in Afghanistan.
The Melbourne Age noted on January 10 that the young man "was
struggling to overcome post-traumatic stress disorder incurred after
shooting a man dead in Afghanistan and telling others of how he had seen a
child raped by a fellow soldier."
The troops stationed in Afghanistan have not and will
not be able to achieve anything, other than to do some of the dirty work
of the US ruling class. They are assisting in one part of a global war
that has involved routine torture at the Abu Ghraib prison, the gulag of
Guantanamo Bay, 25,000 US troop suicides, a million plus dead Iraqis, and
the diversion of trillions of dollars into military spending that ought to
have been spent on alleviating poverty and fixing the climate crisis.
US recent and ongoing
recession may just be a reclaiming of American's wealth by the power
elite. Citizens have lost one or more trillion dollars and with the 4
trillion dollar bailout they will have to repay...they have lost their
future, as well.
How the US created Osama bin Laden
This portion of the main articles was contributed by; Ben Hillier
On July 3 1979, US President Jimmy Carter, under
advice from National Security Adviser Zbignew Brzezinski, signed the
first directive allowing secret aid to be given to the opponents of
the pro-Soviet regime that had recently come to power in Afghanistan.
It marked the beginning of a now infamous convergence of interests,
which saw the CIA, the Saudi Arabian regime and the Pakistani
Interservices Intelligence Directorate (ISI) equip and train the
Islamist mujahideen resistance to the Soviet Union.
For the US, this was an immense opportunity. In the
preceding 5 years, they had been booted out of both Vietnam and Iran.
It had been "the most humiliating half decade in American history".
Now they sought to hand the Soviet Union their own Vietnam by luring
them into an intractable guerilla war in Central Asia.
Over more than a decade up to 35,000 fighters from
the Muslim world were recruited, US$10 billion worth of aid channeled
(including, by 1987, 65,000 tons of arms), and a "ceaseless stream" of
CIA and Pentagon officials helped to plan mujahideen operations.
According to Stephen Coll, writing in The Washington Post,
"at any one time during the Afghan fighting season, as many as 11 ISI
teams trained and supplied by the CIA accompanied mujahideen across
the border to supervise attacks... CIA operations officers helped
Pakistani trainers establish schools for the mujahideen in secure
communications, guerrilla warfare, urban sabotage and heavy weapons."
But not only this. They gave support to the most
retrograde elements like Gulbuddin Hekmatyar. His followers, according
to journalist Tim Weiner, "first gained attention by throwing acid in
the faces of women who refused to wear the veil". The reasoning of the
CIA was simple: The more fanatical the fighters were, the more brutal
they were, the better they would fight so the more support they should
get. Ronald Reagan - the same man who denounced the African National
Congress and the Palestine Liberation Organization for not renouncing
violence - described the mujahadeen as "freedom fighters."
Reagan, now president, met in Washington with rebel
leaders like Abdul Haq, who openly admitted his responsibility for
terrorist attacks, such as a 1984 bomb blast at Kabul's airport that
killed at least 28 people.
Meanwhile, with CIA assistance, the mujahideen
greatly expanded opium production in areas under their control -
turning Afghanistan into what one US official later described as the
new Colombia of the drug world.
One of the first non-Afghan volunteers to join the
ranks of the mujahideen was Osama bin Laden, hailing from a wealthy
construction family in Saudi Arabia. Bin Laden recruited 4,000
volunteers from his own country and developed close relations with the
most radical mujahideen leaders. He also worked closely with the CIA,
raising money from private Saudi citizens. By 1984, he was running the
Maktab al-Khidamar, an organization set up by the ISI to funnel
"money, arms, and fighters from the outside world in the Afghan war."
According to journalist John Cooley, "the CIA gave
Osama free rein in Afghanistan, as did Pakistan's intelligence
generals. They looked with a benign eye on the build up of Sunni
sectarian power in South Asia to counter the influence of Iranian
Shi'ism of the Khomeiny variety".
By 1989 the Russians were exhausted. They indeed
got their "Vietnam". News of the Soviet defeat saw champagne corks
popping all over Washington. The cold war was about to become history
- the US had triumphed. But when the USSR finally withdrew, the
administration of George Bush Sr. turned its back on Afghanistan
-leaving it, in the words of The Economist, "awash with
weapons, warlords and extreme religious zealotry."
As the state funding from the Saudis and the US
dried up, private financiers - like bin Laden himself - further
stepped up their contributions to "the cause". The Soviets may have
gone, but there were new targets, and they weren't limited to within
Afghanistan's borders...
Looking back on his role in the conflict Zbignew
Brzezinski asked (in 1998), "What is most important to the history of
the world... some stirred up Muslims or the liberation of Central
Europe and the end of the Cold War?"
In light of the new "war on terror" Brzezinski's
question is tragic. The hypocrisy is there for all to see: the
"terrorists" of today were trained, funded and backed by modern
imperialism yesterday. In Bush's facade of lies and deceit he used the
made up legacy of Bin Laden as the excuse the US needed to go
into Afghanistan again, and to follow it up with the obliteration of
Iraq. That "war" shows that while Bin Laden may have been a useful
protégé, the US is still the master when it comes to terror.
Oil and Empire: The new scramble for
Africa
Contributed by; Ben Hillier
"The vilest scramble for loot that ever disfigured the history
of human conscience" - Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness.
By the time the European powers had completed
the great scramble for Africa early in the twentieth century, the
wounds they inflicted had left the continent crippled. In the
space of 20-30 years the territory had been almost completely
carved up and subjugated. Its people were put to work, under the
most brutal conditions, extracting the natural resources that were
feeding the rapid industrialization of Europe. The entire Western
world supported apartheid and the slavery of the African
continent.
Today there's a new scramble on. On the one
hand it's driven by geo-political concerns: After the break-up of
the USSR in 1991, the political "certainties" that characterized
the Cold War were brought into question and a space was opened up
for the forming of new strategic political alliances.
On the other hand, it's just one more giant
looting fest, with oil at its centre. The world's two biggest oil
importers - the US and China - are rushing to seal up the
continent and secure every last drop available. Fully one-third of
new oil discoveries since the year 2000 have been in Africa, with
oil investment now representing over 50 per cent of all foreign
direct investment (FDI) in the continent.
China's oil imports from Africa account today
for 30 per cent of total imports. Its oil companies are
constructing pipelines and refineries, and securing exploration
rights particularly in Angola, the Congo and Sudan.
The Wall Street Journal recently noted
that "China has made Africa a front line in its pursuit of more
global influence, tripling trade with the continent to some $37
billion over the last five years and locking up energy assets,
closing trade deals and educating Africa's future elites at
Chinese universities and military schools."
All of this makes the US uneasy, firstly
because an aim of their global strategy since the break-up of the
Soviet Union has been to prevent the rise of any country that
might challenge their global domination. Secondly because US oil
companies have invested more than $50 billion in the region since
1995 and US agencies are expecting oil imports from Africa to rise
from 15 per cent today to 25 per cent of total imports by 2015.
The Council on Foreign Relations, a right-wing
US think tank, depicts China as the leading threat to US interests
in Africa: "China has altered the strategic context in Africa. All
across Africa today, China is acquiring control of natural
resource assets, outbidding Western contractors on major
infrastructure projects, and providing soft loans and other
incentives to bolster its competitive advantage."
You might think that all of this economic
competition must be a godsend to the destitute masses of the
African continent. After all, capitalist development is what the
continent desperately needs, right? Unfortunately, the opposite is
the case.
Nigeria, the continent's largest producer,
struck oil nearly 50 years ago. Between 1960 and 1973 output
increased 120-fold, with government oil-revenues increasing nearly
140-fold in the decade from 1970. Yet as US academic Michael Watts
points out, "Between 1970 and 2000 in Nigeria, the number of
people subsisting on less than one dollar a day grew from 36 per
cent to more than 70 per cent, from 19 million to a staggering 90
million." The IMF could curiously write of this that oil "did not
seem to add to the standard of living." Little wonder, when 85 per
cent of the revenues accrue to 1 per cent of the population.
Added to this is the environmental devastation.
Constant leaks and spills in the Niger Delta have seen the beaches
run black. The water has a constant oily film over the top, fish
stocks are depleted and acid rain diminishes local crop yields. A
group of scientific researchers who visited three of the nine
Niger Delta States in the late 1990s noted "most places we went,
the extent of damage [was] sincerely beyond human description."
One oil spill alone in 1998 released over 800,000 barrels of oil
into the local region.
In most villages there are no schools, medical
clinics, or social services, no clean drinking water and almost no
paying jobs. People struggle to eke out a living, while all around
them oil wells owned by foreign companies pump billions of
dollars' worth of oil a year from under their feet and from their
own land.
A Human Rights Watch report on another
major oil producer, Sudan, noted: "Oil development in southern
Sudan should have been a cause of rejoicing for Sudan's people.
Instead, it has brought them nothing but woe." It points out
evidence of the complicity of oil companies in human rights
abuses: "Oil companies operating in Sudan were aware of...killing,
bombing, and looting...all in the name of opening up the
oilfields. These facts were repeatedly brought to their attention
in public and private meetings, but they continued to operate and
make profits from devastation."
Economic competition becoming military
competition
Despite being the largest economy in the world,
the US is struggling to compete with China on an economic level in
Africa - China just has too much cash to throw around.
The US has therefore concerned itself with
combating China in a way the world to which has become accustomed
- through the expansion of US military operations in the region.
Although the US only has one permanent military base on the
continent, journalist John Bellamy Foster points out that "a newly
established base in Uganda gives the United States the potential
of dominating southern Sudan, where most of that country's oil is
to be found."
In West Africa, the US military has now
established operations in Senegal, Mali, Ghana, Gabon and Namibia
as well as developing a coastal security system in the Gulf of
Guinea (80 per cent of African oil discoveries are here).
So Africa has now become a pivotal zone in war
to secure a "New American Century" - the war to ensure the US
remains top dog for decades to come.
Is there an alternative?
When we turn on the TV, the picture of Africa
is almost always the same: A World Vision ad shows a malnourished
child and the news shows us refugees and conflict. They don't tell
us why the child has arms like sticks, they don't tell us
why all these people are dying of famine. They don't tell
us the root source of violence in conflict areas. The news just
gives us vague and racist commentary about "complex" "tribal" or
"ethnic" divisions, without ever exploring how tensions
arose or how we could actually make a difference by not stealing
their resources. Instead all we hear is there is little chance of
any solution. The picture of Africa is that of an eternally
backward primitive society that desperately needs charity and aid
from the civilized world.
Yet the reality of Africa is that the problems
are primarily external - imperialism, oil and other
multinational corporations - and the real solutions lie within.
All across the continent, there are combative
workers' movements - in Egypt, South Africa, Algeria, Nigeria, and
Zimbabwe. These movements have led the way - fighting for
democratic rights, striking over privatization, annulment of
elections and for fuel subsidies for the poor, greater concessions
from the oil giants, pay increases for state sector workers and so
on.
This year alone there have been general strikes
in both Nigeria and Algeria, two of the biggest oil producers on
the continent, as well as South Africa.
The working class is the key to social
transformation across the continent, firstly because of the
enormous power it wields - especially in the oil-producing states,
where just thousands or tens of thousands of workers have the
ability to completely shut down the economy in an instant.
But secondly, because the working class is the
only force which has an interest in genuine development. Generally
the ruling class in oil states is embedded deeply in the State
machine and survives almost exclusively on oil revenues. As far as
they're concerned, there's no need for a healthy and educated
working class. So precious little is spent on welfare, education
and public health, let alone sanitation, water and electricity.
This is not simply a mistake, or bad policy.
For the African ruling classes (not to mention the oil companies)
there is no economic needfor much
civilian infrastructure - all that is required are the huge
outlays on pipelines, ports and drilling machinery too keep the
profits flowing.
Unless the populations themselves put them
under pressure, why would they really care about the state of the
mass of people? They don't. There's no money in that.
So given the ruling class won't provide, the
workers are forced to fight for their needs. The reality, then, is
that there is a real possibility of the working class in these
countries pushing forward - for example, to nationalize a
country's resources to ensure that the population, not the oil
companies and the ruling elite, are the beneficiaries of the
proceeds. We have already seen these sorts of movements in Bolivia
and Venezuela in the past five years.
The biggest threat to the achievement of
genuine development and decent living standards in Africa will not
be a lack of compassionate donors from the Western world, but the
military operations of the imperial powers, who want to see Africa
remain crippled so that its resources can continue to be pillaged.
It is precisely because of this that impending
military interventions into Africa have to be opposed. We will be
sold a script about "humanitarian" concerns, but it is important
to recognize that the imperial powers only care about humanitarian
concerns to the extent that it enables them to sell another war
for oil and empire - just like Iraq.
In order to hasten the decline of the continent
the US and her allies, working with WHO, World Health
Organization, has for the last 30 to 40 years purposefully plagued
the land with AIDS and other crippling and deadly viruses.
Americans are as deeply in denial to their wrongdoing as
Nazis were. They imagine that America spent three trillion dollars
($120,000.00 per Iraqi man, woman and child (in a country with an average
monthly wage of $5) to create grief for Iraqis,
all without killing any non-combatants. What nonsense!
Sgt. Frank Wuterich (accused of murdering 24 civilians) explained in a 60
Minutes interview that the US Military policy is to kill anyone who shows
“hostie intent” That would include a child throwing rocks or old women
screaming obscenities. That would include anyone who did not lie on the ground
in submission — something the non-English speaking Iraqis are supposed to
automatically understand. He said that he and his men threw grenades into
houses, without doing any checks first to see if there were any combatants.
Their belief is the only good Iraqis is a dead Iraqi, that Iraqi civilians are
worthless scum, so it is perfectly acceptable to kill children on the off
chance they might kill a resistance fighter in the process. The American
soldiers have lower morality than the Nazis in this regard.
The photos at the top of the page show the tip of the iceberg of the suffering
of both Americans and Iraqis in the Iraq war. This is considered collateral
damage in a $13.5 trillion oil heist of the #2
oil reserves on the planet, callously masquerading as a compassionate regime
change. The occupation and slaughter carries on without an official reason now
that Saddam was captured and hung. That the Iraqis resisted occupation was
justification enough for Bush. It may sound strange, but to Bush, the
following images are erotically
stimulating.
Most Americans are in deep denial that their country would
butcher children and civilians, routinely torture, or bomb homes. Yet nearly
every American saw this live on CNN with his own eyes on
2003-03-20 when America did its Shock & Awe bombing of the residential
sections of Baghdad on the opening day of the war. Granted, they did not see
the blood spurting, but they saw apartments full of families being turned to
rubble. Everyone knows perfectly well what happens when a bomb hits an
apartment. Americans pretend the $2 trillion
they borrowed for the war went for reconstruction. If that were so, every
Iraqi would be living in a
450,000 dollar mansion. That money clearly went
for mayhem and destruction. Soldiers are trained and paid to kill, not build
schools or hand out candy. America has behaved worse than Nazi Germany.
Americans plug their ears while praying for their soldiers, as if that would
erase their responsibility. US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan have posted on
the Internet “several hundred’ photographs of mutilated corpses from “the real
war” in exchange for free on-line pornography.
American Imperialism
Watch this common sense video on how to
take back America.
America...Sinking
Currency, Sinking Country!
Watch the below video on the
causes of debt.
The British pound is back up over $2, the highest level
since the Carter era. The Canadian dollar, which used to be worth 65 cents, is
worth more than the U.S. dollar for the first time in half a century.
Oil recently climbed to over $200 a barrel. Gold, down to
$260 an ounce not so long ago. Gold has climbed steadily while oil took a nose
dive, but will it last?
Gold, silver, oil, the euro, the pound and the Canadian
dollar all suddenly soared in value in just a few years, while the US dollar
has taken a global beating! Now as of May 2009 the world is in a major crisis
with plunging real estate value, tourism, commercialism and credit. S of
Aug.09 the Feds just poured 2 trillion dollars of play money into the corrupt
industries and markets.
The dollar has plummeted in value, more so in Bush's term
than during any comparable period of U.S. history. Indeed, Bush presided over
a worldwide abandonment of the global health and economy.
Was it all Bush's fault? Alone no one man can destroy
America's economy and global status, but through his ignorance and willingness
to let others do as they wish...he has definitely did his share.
The dollar is plunging because America has been living
beyond her means, borrowing $2 billion a day from foreign nations to maintain
her standard of living and to sustain the American Imperialism. And printing
trillions of unsecured paper money.
The prime suspect in the death of the dollar is the massive
trade deficits America has run up, some $6 trillion in total since the passage
of NAFTA and the creation of the World Trade Organization in 1994.
In 2006, that U.S. trade deficit hit $764 billion. The
current account deficit, which includes the trade deficit, plus the net
outflow of interest, dividends, capital gains and foreign aid, hit $857
billion, 6.5 percent of GDP. As some of us have been writing for years, such
deficits are unsustainable and must lead to a decline of the dollar.
A sinking dollar means a poorer nation, and a sinking
currency has historically been the mark of a sinking country. And a superpower
with a sinking currency is a contradiction in terms.
What does this mean for America and Americans?
As nations realize that the dollars they are being paid for
their products cannot buy in the world markets what they once did, they will
demand more dollars for those goods. This will mean rising prices for the
imports on which America has become more dependent than we have been since
before the Civil War.
U.S. tourists traveling to the countries whence their
ancestors came will find that the money they saved up does not go as far as
they thought.
U.S. soldiers stationed overseas will find the cost of
rent, gasoline, food, clothing and dining out takes larger and larger bites
out of their paychecks. The people those U.S. soldiers defend will be
demanding more and more of their money.
U.S. diplomats stationed overseas, students and businessmen
are already facing tougher times.
U.S. foreign aid does not go as far as it did. And there is
an element of comedy in seeing the United States going to Beijing to borrow
dollars, thus putting our children deeper in debt, to send still more foreign
aid to African despots who routinely vote the Chinese line at the United
Nations.
The Chinese, whose currency is tied to the dollar, and
Japan will continue, as long as they can, to keep their currencies low against
the dollar. For the Asians think long term, and their goals are strategic.
China — growing at 10 percent a year for two decades and
now growing at close to 12 percent — is willing to take losses in the value of
the dollars it holds to keep the U.S. technology, factories and jobs pouring
in, as their exports capture America's markets from U.S. producers.
The Japanese will take some loss in the value of their
dollar hoard to take down Chrysler, Ford and GM, and capture the U.S. auto
market as they captured our TV, camera and computer chip markets.
Asians understand that what is important is not who
consumes the apples, but who owns the orchard.
Other nations that have kept cash reserves in U.S. Treasury
bonds and T-bills are watching the value of these assets sink. Not fools, they
will begin, as many already have, to divest and diversify, taking in fewer
dollars and more euros and yen. As more nations abandon the dollar, its
decline will continue.
The oil-producing and exporting nations, with trade
surpluses, like China, have also begun to take the stash of dollars they have
and stuff them into sovereign wealth funds, and use these immense and growing
funds to buy up real assets in the United States — investment banks and
American companies.
Nor is there any end in sight to the sinking of the dollar.
For, as foreigners demand more dollars for the oil and goods they sell us, the
trade deficit will not fall. And as the U.S. government prints more and more
dollars to cover the budget deficits that stretch out — with the coming
retirement of the baby boomers — all the way to the horizon, the value of the
dollar will fall. And as Ben Bernanke at the Fed tries to keep interest rates
low, to keep the U.S. economy from sputtering out in the credit crunch, the
value of the dollar will fall.
The chickens of free trade are coming home to roost.
To find out more about Patrick Buchanan, and read features
by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators
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The
Poisoning Of America with Chemicals, Vaccines, Mercury and Fluoride
Dumbing of Children in the Education System & Mass Media Programming of America.
Killing
Themselves
with Drugs and Pharmaceuticals
America;
The Lost Child!
Editorial submitted by; Mike Smith
Nov. 2007
American wake-up call! Is it not time for the world and especially
Americans to grind their industries of war to a halt and once and for all
realize that the billions of hard working citizen's tax dollars are sucked into
the vacuum of profit generated companies selling weapons of war to every
corner of the globe, which are the main cause of global conflicts. The resources
could definitely be put to better uses. America and most countries producing
weapons are definitely not biased or selective in whom they sell their
weapons. They sell them pretty much to anyone and everyone, dictators, corrupt
regimes, neighboring tribes, etc. and will supply all sides in the conflicts,
such as in the Iraq-Iranian war of the late 80's. As a super power the leading
dog in this pack is the USA and the American tax payers have given free reign
to the war dogs and without batting an eye they continue to fund the
development of new and even more deadlier weapons in a never ending cycle of
insanity. And for what...so some fat cat good ole boys can smoke Cuban
cigars...buy more beach homes and spend more time leisurely traveling the
globe demeaning women in poor countries? Isn't it time to fund alternate
energy, build more and better hospitals, provide affordable health care for
your citizens? The USA, alone could end the world' hunger, develop safe and
clean fuel and other technologies to save our dying planet. They could fund
greater scientific space exploration, spend more resources on curing diseases,
and even fund free global universities? If this vast amount of funds were
freed up the USA could even spend a few billion on building safe electric rail
lines across it's vast expanse as alternate and less environmentally harmful
travel.
Fear Mongering!
Now is the time to acknowledge that the cost for fear mongering is
extremely too high? Where's the sanity? Where is the global peace promised at
the end of each war? The western countries consistently pretend to be under
threat in justifying their global wars, but in reality they're the ones behind
the real terror. Seeking and demanding self empowerment they pre-empty vicious
attacks on countries with little or no defense capabilities, as they continue
to plunder the earth of its resources, and retain their statistical
importance. Loudly and fallaciously these power brokering countries cry out in
fear for their security, while proceeding to destroy the economy and
livelihood of entire regions, mostly vandalizing the poor and hapless victims
of third world nations. Blindfolding their own citizens with panic the western
governments pursue what they believe to be their right to accumulate excessive
wealth in maintaining their leisurely lifestyles. They definitely are masters
of deceit in their continuance of strengthening their global bullying.
Christians vainly declare their absolute redemption from their own self
serving God, thus making it easier to accept their vile deeds of
self-gratuity. These rich, obese and lazy citizens of the west moan the death
of a pet, but turn their backs to the cries of millions of people suffering
from war, famine, and disease, both natural and man-made calamities. Where is
their logic, sanity and compassion, and most definitely... where is the love
for their fellow human beings? America was once a nation of envy, of respect
and gratitude, but now it's a nation of fearing and loathing. Are Americans
proud of their self-serving achievements? Do they really believe in their
ridiculous two party political system, which in its total and quite obvious
corruption is ludicrous. The toughest decision these complacent people ponder
is which of these malignant good ole boy law school graduates do they vote
for...asshole A or asshole B? Either and you still end up in the outhouse. And
to add insult to injury, perhaps as much as a billion dollars is spent on a
single presidential election...peeking into the realm of sheer insanity to say
the least!
With all the fiber of my existence and
worldly experience I will never accept the words of rhetoric spewing from the
mouths of those with the most to gain and when I hear the words "Trust
Me...Vote for Me" or my favorite..."I will keep America Safe" I get chills up
and down my spine. And to influx their self gratifying run for power...they
all proclaim to be God fearing people. Which God...the God of Bullshit?
By birth I am an American, my Mother
being mostly a full blooded Piute Indian with my Father being of Scottish and
Norwegian decent. I guess you might say that I am quite an odd combination of
Viking and native American. My Norwegian blood drives me, while my Indian
blood bonds me to the planet. Reading this article you might assume that I
am no longer a proud American? You would be correct in your assumption. As a
child in America we were taught to feel pride in our country. We were coached
to say our morning pledge of allegiance at school, to salute the flag and to
always be thankful of being born in this God fearing nation. Yes, I, like
millions of other Americans believed, wanted to believe, in the fervor of the
patriotic hype. They fed us their deceit as if it were chocolate candy. The
patriotism, political and religious agendas created by our so called perfect
forefathers and forever manipulated by every preceding leader, educator and
preacher in continuing to perpetuate the lies. They have conspired in making
Americans believe that societies elevated and self proclaimed are the
appointed keepers of the moral truths and that they are the only ones wise or
worthy enough to lead the common man and in keeping them secure and on the
right path...their path! This directional conditioning was designed to keep the people under mass control, like mindless children,
or as some would say...slaves. Thousands of
freedom diminishing laws and ridiculous regulations and more enticement for
the their citizens to work harder, spend more buying fruitless
objects of self indulgence, such as a bigger house, more cars, expensive
jewelry and so on...and making people believe that debt is as American as Apple Pie!
Convincing
you that it is your duty to wave the American flag and support your government
even if it means sending your young off to fight and die in yet another
war. The Whitehouse and Downing Street criminals are quick to bellow their
cries for nationalism by spewing their mind boggling echoes of fear and
patriotic rhetoric to energize the people into frenzy masses of hysterical
idiots and then bleeding them of their monies.
The pulpits of
religion and politics continue their mind controlling rituals of
preparing the next generation of meek and obedient hard workers, tax payers and little tin
soldiers. The psychotic misdeeds of these powerful bloodsucking mongrels cry
out to our patriotism with catchy mottos like: "You have but one life to give"
and "Its your duty to die with honor for your country" and "Your country needs
you" and even more insane, "Onward Christian Soldiers Marching off to War."
Boy that one really perturbs me. Illogical fervor swells rampantly in
citizens, making them feel even more obligated to their religions and
nationalities. The USA military went from mandatory draft to enticing young
recruits with huge pay checks, but one thing that never changed is that the
military immediately sets out to demean and strip any individuality from them,
as they are...after all, just government property, 'GI, does means, Government
Issue.'
Personally I doubt that anyone can
substantially clarify the reasons America is a warring and barbaric nation; a
nation of takers, of people convinced that the world belongs to them and no
matter what the needs of others they have the right to lay claim to the globe'
resources. No country spends trillions of dollars building offensive weapons
they do not plan on using. Westernized nations have and will use their
military might to take what they want...whenever...where-ever. With their
massive armadas they believe that no nation can stop them in which does
nothing more than
leading to increased weapon proliferation of the rest of the world them taking
defensive measures for global bargaining strengths. Western power's policies
of world policing provide endless and golden opportunities to meddle in the
affairs of other nations in which they have become quite successful in their masterfully
deceitful manipulation with bribery, threats, monetary devaluation, economical
and trade barriers and when required...naval blockades and even war under
threat of total annihilation. Unscrupulous power plays and insatiable quenches
of wealth keep the world in utter chaos and millions dying of starvation and
conflict.
Why does the empowerment of 11th century
doctrines of church and state still exist? Why? Because we, the people allow
it to remain and continue to support the institutions that keep it in power.
The USA was founded in war, waging bloody battles with our English brethren
and then continuing to wage one-sided campaigns of murder against the rightful
owners of our newly claimed land...the indigenous Indians...and so began a
long history of warring for self proclamation.
Does morality depend upon religion? Most people believe it
does, which is a major reason behind the appeal of the religious right. People
believe that without faith in a supernatural authority, we can have no moral
values--no moral absolutes, no black-and-white distinctions, no firm
demarcation between good and evil--in life or in politics. This is the
assumption underlying Justice Antonin Scalia's assertion that "government
derives its authority from God," since only religious faith can supposedly
provide moral constraints on human action.
And what draws people to this bizarre premise--the premise
that there is no rational basis for refraining from murder, rape or
anarchism? The left's persistent assault on moral values.
That is, liberals characteristically renounce moral
absolutes in favor of moral grayness. They insist, for example, that criminals
should not be reviled, but should be seen as tragic products of their "social
environment"--that teenage mothers are just as entitled to welfare checks as
wage-earners are to their paychecks, and that to deny welfare benefits for a
child born into a family already receiving welfare is, as the ACLU declares,
to "unconstitutionally coerce women's reproductive decisions"--that America is
morally equivalent to its enemies, with our own policies having provoked the
Sept. 11 attacks and our "unilateralist" actions in Iraq being no different
from any forcible occupation of one nation by another.
Repulsed by such egalitarian, anti-"judgmental"
absurdities, many people disavow what they regard as leftism's essence:
secularism, and turn to religion for their values.
But this is a false alternative. Secularism is simply a
viewpoint that disclaims religion; what it embraces, though, may be
rational or not. And the absurdities of the left stem precisely from its
irrationality--its pervasive emotionalism, its insistence on doing whatever
"feels right," its contention that there are no fixed truths, its credo that
morality is anything one wishes it to be. The left maintains that no objective
principles exist to validate moral judgments. From its multicultural
equalization of all societies--savage or civilized--to its belief in an
indefinable, "evolving" Constitution, the left rejects the logic of objective
standards and enshrines the arbitrariness of subjectivism. Thus, what the
left's opponents should disavow is not secularism per se, but rather the
replacement of a religious variant of unreason--blind faith--with a secular
variant: blind feelings.
The real alternative to the leftist claptrap is a morality
of reason. Such a morality begins with the individual's life as the
primary value and identifies the further values that are demonstrably required
to sustain that life. It observes that man's nature demands that we live not
by random urges or by animal instincts, but by the faculty that
distinguishes us from animals and on which our existence fundamentally
depends: rationality.
With reason as its cardinal value, this code of
individualism espouses fixed principles and categorical moral judgments. It
demands, for instance, that the initiation of force--the antithesis of
reason--be denounced and that an unbridgeable moral chasm be recognized
between the criminal and the non-criminal.
Since life requires man to produce what he needs,
productiveness is a moral value--thereby making moral opposites out of
the industrious worker and the parasitic welfare recipient. Since life
requires man to use his own judgment rather than submissively accept the
assertions of others, independence is a moral value--making moral
opposites out of the person (or nation) acting on his own rational convictions
and the one deferring to the consensus of his neighbors (or the U.N.). Since
life requires the mind, man's political system must allow him to use it, i.e.,
freedom is a moral value--making moral opposites out of America, the
defender of liberty, and America's enemies, who seek liberty's destruction.
A morality of reason counters the relativism and the
undiscriminating "tolerance" of the left.
It also counters a morality of faith, and establishes a
genuine "culture of life." Individualism upholds your sovereignty over
your life--and refuses to subordinate the preservation of that life to, say,
the preservation of embryonic stem cells in some Petri dish. Individualism
defends your inalienable right to your life, including your right to end
it--and evaluates, say, opposition to assisted-suicide as a desecration
of human life, since forcing someone to live who wishes to die is no less evil
than forcing someone to die who wishes to live.
There is indeed morality without religion--a morality, not
of dogmatic commands, but of rational values and of unbreached respect for the
life of the individual.
Might over Right; Doesn't it bother
Americans that every inch of their soil was wretched from the dead and dying
tribes of free natives? Is not America built on the graves of hundreds of
thousands of these people? Did not our admired and worshipped leaders of the
past murder the native men, women and children in their unrelenting
destruction of not only native’s culture and right to exist they sought and
succeeded in diminishing their future place in society. They were murderously
seeking to actually eradicate
them? The few remaining and scattered tribal people were not
even allowed to speak their native language or to practice their ceremonial
dances!
Today America persists in this practice
of genocide around the globe and remain active in setting up their own
capitalistic societies. America's strong self interest beliefs continue to lead
the country down the same destructive path, evident even today as they attack
and forcibly occupy and wage unrelenting war against Afghanistan and the
people of Iraq. Liberation or a thirst for oil and military bases in their
quest for global expansion. Even after thousands of American deaths
and the million or so Iraq's they continue to rattle their war sabers with
threats against Iraq's neighboring countries of Syria and Iran.
Are Americans and British citizens
naive enough to believe that they can secure their peace by waging war around
the globe? Are their citizens naive enough to allow themselves to be led down
the same path again and again? To go marching blindly off to war every time the
rich puppet masters blow their horn of patriotism and don their cloaks of
terrorism protectionism? Are the emotionally frenzied
people capable of seeing the true reasons for their governments warring
atrocities or are they nothing more than what
their leaders believe them to be...small children afraid of the dark? Are you, the
people, happy living as livestock to be led into constant self-induced chaos?
Take a moment out of your busy, but fruitless lives, and ponder the good we
could do with the trillions of dollars and wasted ingenuity, along with the
countless livelihoods of so many people now laying dead and forgotten in yet
another war cemetery? Isn't it time to stop the madness! Get involved. Put
your own life on hold and do something to better the lives of others, near and
far. Do you part to stop the destruction of our living planet...as it
is home to us all.
Is America
really dependent on War for survival? At this time in our history I
would have to say yes! It is a matter of record that their government sold out
their industries and their people and are now feverishly seeping away the
common citizens right to work, to prosper logistically and passing the
mass tax burden onto the working middle class. The America,
government has allowed and encouraged their companies and industries to move
their production facilities to 3rd world nations. Nations that provide no
health or safety benefits for their workers and no matter their excuses and
reasons...they do it simply in order to increase the company's profits.
Everyone is searching for the fast and easy dollar and seem processed to earn
as much as possible, and as quickly as possible, regardless of the
consequences. Americans sell out their country's interest without conscience
or regret. This mindset stifles the country's growth potential and is now
evident in the collapse of the Dollar, the housing and credit market, as well
as the massive debit and trade deficit. America is borrowing approximately 2
billion dollars a day to fund it's wars and to prop up it's debtor lifestyle.
Commercialism is all about quick profits and living beyond sustainable means.
The American government and their
corporate partners orchestrate laws and ridiculous restrictions making it
nearly impossible for the production of competitively quality cars, steel,
glass, textile, including computers, stereos and other electronic products for
export. It's obvious to anyone with a brain that America itself is its
greatest enemy.
Is America still
a rich nation? Not 'no…but hell no! They nation is and has been for
the last 8 years under the previous disgustingly greedy and corrupt Republican regime
a debtor nation with minuses in every aspect of its domestic and global
enterprises. And now with Obama, the debt and burden on the American people
has sky-rocketed. America has billions in trade deficits with Japan, China, Europe, and
other countries, America prints billions of worthless dollars and borrows billions from allies and adversaries
like
China to finance its Iraqi and Afghanistan wars. The
debt of the country spirals out of control as the value of it's dollar sinks
to new world lows. Under George Bush the Euro had nearly doubled against the
dollar and for the 1st time in nearly 30 years even the Canadian dollar had,
for a while,
surpassed the dollar.
Should America
continue polishing it's pride? Pride of what? America is not only
the fastest collapsing global power it is the most loathed and feared nation
on Earth. It is the brunt of international comedy, especially when our
previously twice
elected President opened his mouth to further embarrass us with his moronic and
ignorant ramblings as he blunders his way through yet another repetitive
speech about terrorism. Hell' the man's an idiot and a joke...a sick joke and a very dangerous
one at that!
Is America a
secured nation? Not in the slightest. Why? Well, when a nation
wages wars and police actions on a global scale they create extremely
dangerous situations, and even more determined enemies, and do it while depleting
their own resources. Even if we changed our policies today it
would take 50 years to rebuild Americas global respect and trust. To initiate
the rebuilding of America we, as Americans, must retake our country by
removing our heads from the sand and standing up to the corporations and our
government by refusing to support them and allowing ourselves to be roll-cast. Did
you know that the dreaded IRS is not even listed in any US Article as a branch
of the government? And did you know that the Federal Reserve is not even
listed in the Governments Blue pages. They are actually listed in the white
pages near Fedx.
America's corrupt and unjust self-serving
world policies will continue to decline it's world's standing as a global
power, as they do nothing more than empower and enrage their enemies on
an ever increasing scale. As a result America and her allies will continue to
be despised and thus have no choice other than to live in constant fear of
it's enemies, real or imagined. The US is its own worst enemy as the nightmarish and fearful scenario scripted by large
American companies selling their souls, and yours, for profits...large
profits continue. The major oil companies reap billions in quarterly profits
while millions of Americans lose their jobs, their livelihoods and even their
homes. Our Gov. bails out the greed and failed financial institutions and as
soon as Wall Street markets go up, even a little, they proclaim the recession
is over, but make no such claims or admissions of our failed social and
economical failures. What
are the western governments doing about the greed and market manipulations? Nothing and why should they
when their very livelihoods are supported by the very same industries they are
supposedly regulating. Who pays for this? Isn't it again obvious that you and every citizen
on the planet pay for these failures by our leaders! I often wonder why are the world's most
crucial commodities traded on the global stock market? It's entirely insane to
allow greedy men and corrupt companies to profit by sky-rocketing oil and
other prices
with induced speculation and hoarding and/or dumping shares?
Inept security
policies. In their endless attempts to keep it's citizens in fear
America's leaders bankrupt the nation with fruitless implementations of
so-called security in the airports and placing metal detectors in schools,
banks, etc., but wouldn't dare go against the gun associations by passing
stricter gun laws. Cheap and easily obtainable weapons kill thousands of
citizens each year! If that isn't bad enough the governments go even
farther...they consistently raise the limits of allowable poisons in your
water, air and food. They seldom, if ever regulate the constant bombardment by the
legal drug pushers, drug companies,
ads encouraging it's citizens to consume a never ending assortment of pharmaceuticals. In the midst of
being over worked, over taxed, immensely burdened and pretty much in a drug
induced state of mind you, the citizen, the tax
payer, must live in fear state sponsored terrorism. Don't allow
yourselves to be herded like cattle with sound-bites. Logic not hysteria
should be applied! And stop poisoning yourselves with drugs...legal or not.
Ignorance leads to either hysteria or
complacency and isn't your life difficult enough in daily turmoil without even
more generated stress from political propaganda? If you persist in living in
hyped chaos at least do so with your eyes wide open. Question everything,
doubt everything and always stand up for your rights...not just as an
American, but as a human. Ask yourself if security is truly elevated by giving
up your water bottle, shampoo and fingernail clippers at the airport? Is it
really making you safer when airport security makes old women and
young kids remove their shoes? Facts are that billions of tons of cargo pour
through your open ports in unchecked containers each month. But the Gov. would
never impede capitalism...just it's people.
Are you safe
on your streets or in your home? Are the threats of so-called global activists
the real danger when considering that your streets, cities and towns are some
of the most dangerous in the world? Americans, as well as 99.99% of the
world's populace are much more likely to die from a car wreck, bad food, a drug overdose, medical malpractice, or a common cold or
even from drowning in your bathwater than
you would ever have from being killed by an extremist. America is one of the
world's leaders in random violence and it's citizens are more likely to get
murdered by a family member or neighbor than a stranger. It leads the globe
in murder, rape, car-jacking, robbery, random acts of violence even in spite
of your country having
more people per capita in jails and prisons than most any country in the
world. It's insane to have more young people behind bars than in
Universities.
America's
educational system is horrific and problematic kids are simply
guided through the system regardless of their grades. A country where moral
value is translated into dollar signs...$$$. Where success is judged by the
car you drive and/or the number of vain accessories you process and not by
social or conservational involvement, such as doing your part in protecting
the environment, charitable work or activities in stopping the actions of your
out of control politicians. America has, had, one of the world's highest GNP,
but
spends a great majority outside of it's borders on global wars, policing,
offensive weaponry, while it's infra-structure crumples. Wouldn't the
country's resources be spent wiser by allocating a larger portion of it's
trillions on global peace initiatives, disease and hunger campaigns in
impoverished nations, arms control and hundreds of other sane and humane
activities at home and abroad. Is war really productive in the long term and
isn't it simply a guise in gaining global dominance? Are not the poisons of
greed and self proliferation really the problems? Americans and western
societies are products of commercialism, radicalism, religionist
self-righteousness and cultureless lifestyles. Their youth are out of touch
and out of control and insensitive to others and being prone to
murdering others for pride, for their cars, money, drugs and in some
incidences...even for their shoes. Americans and many European countries are
deeply burdened in stress and a loss of personal freedoms and in that regard
have become impatient, judgmental, as well as racists with temperamental
tendency of instantaneous violence. The young are alienated, the old abandoned
and the rest are simply stressed to death...what can or could we expect from
such societies. If the American dream is nothing more than being in a pit of
debt than people really should wake up from their horrific dream!
Watch the below video;The Dumbing Down of America
Homeland
Security...what a play on words...like so many words paraphrased in
Bush's 3rd grade speeches of sound bites like the constant referral to freedom, terrorist...and his constant
referral to God. I shivered whenever I dared to listen to his mispronounced words of rhetoric
repetitively used in his brain-dead out-bursts, which to any coherent person
portrayed his sheer and utter contempt for human intelligence and left me,
personally, feeling like I was trapped in a living soap opera. If having to know that
the world is laughing at your president and your country in general isn't bad
enough...there is the constant news bites instilling a blackening veil of
confusion on what's really going on in the world. Taking in the consideration
that most Americans know little about the world and even less about
their country's involvement in global wars, murder, torture of prisoners or
the destruction of the environment. It brings to mind the insane proclamations
from WW2's
Hitler, "Scream it loud and long enough and the people will
believe anything."
Home land security is a staged and well
rehearsed play in America's guise to keep the world divided and on edge. The
leaders constant cry of "Wolf" instills blind obedience and fear in their
citizens in order to keep their support. The hidden and sinister goals are not to be
found in their spoken words and must be viewed at all times with utter
skepticism and if not...the end results of their actions and not their words
may eventually become evident, but at a high cost. The leaders, rather
political, religious or corporate spew their lies with utter disregard of the
consequences and use the media to elevate the sheer panic in proclaiming that
the very way of our Christian life is in grave danger from
Muslims, and pretty much everyone, including immigrants, the Communists, the
Chinese, Russians and so on. The repeated rhetoric provides justification
for their global insurgency and police actions. The people of the world need
to understand that these governments hide the truth that they, themselves, are
the real threats. The global disruptions to peace and equality are central
banks, climate
change, wars, installation of puppet regimes, weapon proliferation, induced poverty, man-made
diseases, along with Free Trade, NAFTA and one world policies are the real and
eminent threats. The continuous mind boggling bullshit not only makes me
angry...it makes me want to take the first available space ship to a galaxy
far, far away! And it's not so much that the governments are doing it, that's
expected, but its because the people actually believe the bullshit. "Oh, and
by the way...God will save you...the sky's falling and your investments are secure."
The truth is that America, as well as
their ass kissing allies, England, Australia and especially Israel, are the
real terrorist nations. I must also mention China and their demonic
involvement with the government and juntas in Sudan's genocide of the tribal
people in Darfur in removing them from their oil rich territory. China also
gives their full support to the military dictators in Miramar and are deeply
involved in controlling resources throughout Africa. And never mentioned is
Israel compilation of over 100 nuclear weapons and that they manufacture
nerve, biological and countless other dangerous weapons of war. Israel was one
of the first nations to build these weapons and there are beliefs that they
began the world's nuclear proliferation, selling the technology to the USSR
and/or China and other regimes. Yet there's never a word from the Jewish
controlled medias!
Think about it! Aren't the rich
civilizations mostly the one's involved in global wars, support of dictators,
arms proliferation, corporate corruption, global scandals, and are they not
the leading polluters? Then there's the pollution of our seas and waterways, deforestation, use of pesticides,
unwarranted slaughter of animals and sea life, and all in their desire for exotic
delicacies and unquenchable lust for novelties and artifacts, such as
skins of endangered tigers, leopards, etc. It's the rich countries that
endanger the elephants for ivory, the dolphins and giant whales for their
meat, the tiger bones for increasing impotent men's sexuality, etc. How could
anyone with a brain believe that eating the bone powder of a beautiful and
endangered Tiger would improve their sex life? The insanity spreads throughout the
globe with the deforestation of rain forests, encroachment on animal habitats,
the pollution of our rivers, lakes, oceans and even our atmosphere with every
possible chemical and toxic waste. Are not these same responsible countries also the
ones invading, occupying, bombing, killing, imprisoning, and torturing,
people all over the world, while passing out bibles and tainted vaccinations?
Do they not set the world's policies, trade agreements, and global prices of
all products and services? Are they not the same countries that steam their
warships and fly their bombers to every corner of the world? I would believe
that it would be most difficult to say no to any offered trade concession when
you face such intimidation???
The rich nations, especially the USA,
Europe, Russia and China are feverish in their goals of arming, impoverishing
and in overthrowing world leaders being of disagreement with their goals and
policies. These countries have gained power and wealth by whatever means
available, corporate, financial, theft, as well as bribery, support of corrupt
leaders, instilment of puppet regimes, and even actual military force when
required. Since the first fleet of wooden ships sailed from England, Spain,
Portugal and Nederland, etc. the world's self righteous have used their
religions and military might to rob, rape and plunder the world's wealth. They
did and are doing so with total disregard to the local populaces and/or
consequences.
The CIA,
Britain's MI6, also known as SIS and Israel's Mossad, as well as
the Chinese and Russian state sponsored power brokers, all have their dirty
hands in the world's economies. They are in fact the perpetrators of the
global distribution of drugs and armaments, just in exposing the tip of the
iceberg. Wealthy nations did not and do not obtain great wealth with tender
mercies or fair treatment of others nor by displaying concern for their planet.
They are and will always be ruthless in their self empowerments.
The real drug
cartels! Haven't you noticed that the poppy fields in Afghanistan
were being cultivated with new American supplied tractors? Do you honestly
believe that America invaded Panama to unseat a dictator? A dictator that
they, themselves, placed into power! George Bush senior was a personal friend
of Noriega and kept him in power as long as he, Noriega, was an asset in the
movement of Columbia's illegal drugs. When Mr. Noriega became a liability Mr.
Bush, at great expense to the American tax payer, ordered the military to
invade, remove their elected President Noriega and regain total control of Panama
and the canal, which had been agreed to be handed over to Panama a few months later than the American
invasion. Again, the American people turned a blind eye and never even
questioned their country's actions. The billions made with illegal drugs
contribute immensely to America's budget of covert activities around the
globe.
The above applies to Saddam Hussein in Iraq.
The US put him in power, made billions from arming his regime than misled him
in attacking Iran, weakening both countries economies and ability to wage war.
Then the USA provoked him into invading Kuwait giving the Western powers the
excuse they sought for destroying Iraq's military even further. Years of
bombing and severe sanctions and falsehoods of his capabilities eventually led
to a full scale imperialist invasion, which occurred years later under
another Bush. After billions of dollars, years of murdering Iraqis and
destroying the entire infrastructure of the country...America now has what it
wanted from the beginning...secured oil supplies. The war in Afghanistan was
never about the Taliban or the so-called non existent Al' Qaeda it was and is
to secure territory for the building of a huge pipe line through Afghanistan's
northern regions and to build large airbases for the future invasion of Iran,
which borders Afghanistan.
The American CIA
and special forces are everywhere undermining the world's governments and
economies in ambushing and removal, or disposal, of anyone in their
way. Their massively intimidating war ships cruise around the world, while
their
policy makers bribes, coerce and/or threaten every nation in the world for the
building of their bases under the guise of protection. Then they forcibly
demand the host countries to open their markets with bribery or bullying them into privatizing their resources,
such as oil, natural gas, electric facilities and even their water. Once
accomplished the American and/or other wealthy nations move in their
corporate partners to purchase the resources and companies for a little of nothing.
Then the new controllers inflate the value of the commodities whereas the local citizens can no longer
afford real estate, access to water, gas, oil, timber, minerals and even their own
produced food products, etc. Do you really believe that Britain and America
became the richest and most powerful nations on Earth because God willed it?
Even though these people believe that the white Christian race are God's chosen
people??? Isn't it more rational to accept the facts that it was because these
nations developed ships and sent their explores around the globe armed with
superior weapons. In the belief that the early Christian crusaders had the
blessings of not only their Kings & Queens, but the actual blessing of their
God they were encouraged to discovery and commandeer the world's resources at
any cost...even if it meant obliterating entire races of people.
The truths are in history, as waste was
laid to the world's aboriginals, such as the American Indians, Australia's
Aboriginals, African tribesmen, South and Central American natives and so on
and so on... Think about it...has anything changed and aren't we now in the
Middle East killing and occupying their land for control of their oil fields?
Aren't we still in Africa stealing their diamonds, timber, oil and the
entirety of their resources. As commercialism's greed for more and more grow
and in supplementing their own limited access to land they coerce the Brazilians to burn down the
world's crucial oxidizing rain forests in order to graze cows for the world's
insatiable desire for more beef. The primary blame for this is another
American profiteer...McDonalds INC. Now our demand for more alternate fuel
oils is enticing poor countries to cut down their forest and tropical jungles
for growing soy beans and palm trees for palm oil. The rich buy the ivory in expediting the
demise of the elephant...the Japanese dine on whale and dolphin meat...the
Chinese consume a few million shark fins a year and so on it goes. The
world's hunger for more erotic food are pushing the world's exotic animals and fishery to extinction...and so it continues with no one...man or God to stop
the destruction of our planet. Prophecy or just man's immaturity?
America's
Industry. Consider that America can no longer even make a decent
car, or pretty much anything else, they have for the past several decades used
their industrial might and budget
in perpetuating their weapons industry, while the country's people are
literally be led into greater and greater debt! That alone should tell you
something agendas. It appears that Americans choose not be too
concerned as after-all they live in the land blessed by the God of Moses and
David...Jewish prophets and deity, nonetheless. America, the land of the free and the brave
where living in blind ambience and debt, still manage to validate their
existence as a God
fearing people. Which God, oh yes...the God written and detailed by Israel...
whom are, by self degree, God's chosen people. It is sad that Americans
actually believe they are blessed by some all powerful Enmity having
inherited his blessings and permission to do whatever they damn well please.
First it was the crusaders, then the Portugal, Spanish, Dutch and English, and
so on, and now America takes it's turn in spreading their self serving
religion and democracy and do it with the force of a so-called avenging
Angel...I believe its called the New World Order!
Do I hate my
country? Absolutely not all the people, just the leaders, the
hypocrites, the elite and those too dumb to see! personally, I am not deaf, dumb or blind and
while I do not believe to be better than others, I am fully aware of man's
inability to govern others with fairness and justice, much less with
compassion and as we all know...power corrupts even the most valiant of hearts. The
world's leaders are bestowed with power over their citizens and in such an
elevated position it is most difficult when looking down on your fellow man,
to share in their challenges, fears and aspirations. In general I would say
that mankind is a very immature species and suffers from self awareness,
self empowerment, self righteousness and an inability to understand the complexities of
our planet fruitful, but fragile ecosystem.
Am I angry?
You god damn right I'm angry and you should be too! Why? Because it's all
happening again in Iraq and Afghanistan and our leaders, being civilian or
political are now beating the war drums against Iran. The seductress of wealth
and power envelopes America and has driven her to conduciveness,
unproductiveness with a sense of self empowerment.
America uses more, wastes more and pollutes more than any other nation and
it's also well known that America spends the world's highest percentage of their
GNP, even going into immense debt, on weaponry in their endless obsession to spread their
cultureless and commercialistic lifestyles in every region of the world.
Prospering by greed, blindness and violence is a fast track to self
destruction and as quoted. "live by the gun...die by the gun" rings ever so
true! Who benefits...the banks, which are the global financers of wars.
Wealth by any means has created a most
dangerous social and environmental predicament in which I am not positive if
mankind has the mordacity, ability and/or the will power to overcome, much less
the inclination to give up their self-inductive lifestyles. To paraphrase an
old cowboy proverb, "It seems we have a tendency to close the barn door after
the cows escape!" We just can't accept or absorb the realities that we are
just one of millions of species on this planet and that each is co-dependent
on the other for survival. It should be apparent that the American and western
civilizations are not living in harmony with the world and are simply existing day
to day, behaving like spoilt children...well armed and extremely dangerous
children.
Tried and proved for centuries by self
serving politicians the art of deception in retaining control is used
repeatedly in uniting the people against both real and imaginary foes, viral,
environmental and/or other species. The most common deceptions are the creation of
pending atrophies, natural or man-made and threats, real and imaginary, from
those wishing to
destroy, or change, their way of live, such as in wars with Japan, Germany,
Vietnam, now Iraq and Afghanistan, and so on. During our 50 year cold war
nightmare with our archrivals, the Russians and Chinese the world suffered
immensely. Then we include our social and racial enemies, the Blacks, Mexicans,
Socialists or Communists and continue our religious differences and
once again declare war on Muslims by classifying them as extremists and terrorists.
Crying wolf and declaring that our western way of life is threaten has worked
in the past and is working now. Just more instilled fears rendering us susceptible to
others rhetoric. Personally
I ponder our logic in bankrupting our nations by spending our time, energy,
talent and resources building trillion dollar arsenals of offensive, not
defensive, weaponry. If America and Europe in general, are indeed under
attack, as so loudly and repeatedly proclaimed, shouldn't we at least be
building up defensively? I just don't accept that we must fight our real and
imaginary enemies abroad for safeguarding our security. Doesn't global
proliferation actually increase the danger by instilling fear and panic thus
creating many additional enemies...turning our neighbors and friends into
foes? Our ships, planes and soldiers wage conflicts around the world in
establishing and retaining our global dominance in the guise of keeping the
peace. The question is...peace for whom?
Why am I so harshly critical toward
America and her allies? It should be obvious that I simply want the America I
once loved to wake up and get their asses of the couch, to turn off their
televisions, stop waving their flags and most definitely to get their heads
out of their bibles and stand up to their government and their profit driven
corporations. The people are the country and need to reclaim their heritage
and their societies back from the despicable policy makers and their corporate
supporters. As an American I ask and demand that our citizens reclaim our
country. Haven't we been pawns and sheep long enough? How long do we intend to
pray and wait for a mystical God to save and redeem us? Please...get involved
with the issues destroying our world and realize that our real enemies are our
fears and complacencies!
Conducive
behavior. Western in general, but all commercialized countries
begin conditioning their children to function in very competitive societies
that focus mostly on wealth and status-quo. Societies where citizens are
evaluated by their university degrees, their jobs, clothes, cars, etc. but
nothing is said about the great debt they have incurred. They are consistently
led to believe that their way of life must be protected at all costs...even if
it means destroying the rest of the world, which includes animals, forests,
oceans, the air and so on. A perfect mind-set for becoming excellent
candidates for their military. Their parents buy them what they want...not
what they need. Do the children really need more war toys, violent video games
and should they be allowed, even encouraged, or at least tolerated to watch an
endless affray of murder and mayhem movies...and to accept that it's ok to
hunt and murder animals, to be aggressive and to do onto others
before they do onto them. They're allowed to lie and cheat and are defended
with sheer mordacity, even if their sons are accused of date-raping a young
girl. These anti-social parents turn a blind eye when their kids consume large
qualities of alcohol, take designer drugs, shop and spend enormous sums of
money on the latest fashions, electronics and non-valued trendy gadgets and
reprehensible clothes. After puberty they have usually been totally
stripped of common sense and respect for others and continue their downward
spiral of self destruction. Some dying of drugs or killed in cars and some
imprisoned for being out of control. It is tragic, but predictable when their
parents never took the time
or had the willingness to get involved in their children's lives. Then when
the child's live has turned out accordingly the parents actually blame their
self created society for their kids failures.
Then we have the
testosterone driven ego maniacal young boys wanting to prove their machismo by
joining the military. Then and if these unbalanced products of a disruptive
society get killed in a bullshit war supported
by their parents than we as a society whine and blubber like babies, blaming
everyone but ourselves. We have been instilled with patriotic fervor to
support our governments policies and thus are proud when our young men and
women march off
to war, but are then so quickly filled with hate and remorse when they are
killed or wounded. We just never seem to realize that our children are our own
products. These young soldiers have been militarized to
kill and even murder proclaimed enemies by our self-serving governments. If
these kids should return alive they are elevated and praised as heroes when in
reality they are nothing more than institutionalized brain-washed robotic
killing machines with no remorse and little consciousness.
Out of touch!
The people of our modern, mostly western, world are totally out of touch with themselves, the world around them
and everything in between. In solving parenting deficiencies children are
pushed toward achieving, even more so than learning. They are given credit cards and birth control pills at 13 and a new car at 16. And
the few kids, that do get jobs end up spending every earned
dollar trying to be something they're not. Splurging their money on designer
jeans, latest cell phones, consistent boozing to impress other degenerates,
they call friends. The rest of their time spent on idle chit chat on
their $200 cell phones or messaging each other on computers, browsing porn
sites, playing video games and the other endless and readily available
assortment of nonsensical items of sheer vanity? The really sad issue is they
aren't responsible...they're just products of their society in pursuing the
consumerism dream, while their parent were too busy to actually do any parenting.
Parents of such socities were never made aware that they're terrible at being
friends, neighbors, parents, teachers, employees and employers and even worst
at being human. They live and die in a small cubicle of work, stress, traffic,
junk food and occasional self indulged leisure...and actually believe they have
a life. A fulfilled life is not being caught up in an induced comma of commercialism.
Such a life is wasteful and truly shameful!
The world's
governments have sold us out to the banks, the lobbyists and their corporate
donors. We seem too busy to notice as we
blindly chase the fucking American dream...leading us further and further into
debt and depression. To pacify our suicidal lifestyles we turn to a long line of
pharmaceuticals and booze, making it somewhat easier to bear. Why do we strut
our accomplishments but never reference our giant debts. Are the people really
proud of having a heavily mortgaged house, that will never
be paid off; a new foreign car and other countless playthings like a giant plasma
TV, remote controlled lawn mower, golf clubs, boat, a motorcycle and etc. that
they seldom ever
have the time to enjoy. People just don't realize that their American dream
lifestyle comes at a high price, not only in stress, but with undrinkable tap
water, chemically polluted air, jammed highways, diets of junk food, unsafe
streets and schools, and an out of control government restricting our few
remaining liberties and increasing our tax burden in order to bail out the
Jewish owned banking system and on top of it all...news of persistent
sound-bites of non important rhetoric spewing from every Jewish owned network.
Which all news is strictly regulated in accordance to networks FCC masters.
(FCC, Federally Controlled Communications.)
Then we must discuss a few million lunatics with guns
and drug infested slum
areas we're afraid to drive through even in daylight. We live and
die up to our eyeballs in debt, but still can't afford to take a decent
vacation and are consistently too stressed to enjoy a little romance with our
spouses. Many live in constant fear that our out of control kids might hate us
and in some incidences...may even murder us for not succumbing to their daily demands for
more money and unrestricted freedom. Yes, we
should all be proud of our robotic lives in our glass, plastic and concrete
environment. But then again, we are taught, conditioned and led to believe that
our God will reward our
worthless lives with everlasting peace in some spiritual paradisiacal heaven. And
while we struggle to retain some sense of reality we are bombarded with fear
mongering by our Gov. and police. Scared into submission of ridiculous
searches and intrusive policing at the airports, schools and etc. Are we
really ignorant enough to live in fear believing that
some terrorists jealous of our decrepit lifestyle wish to destroy our screwed up
way of live? Now that's hysterical!
Commercialized
societies. In this so called modern society neighbors and
co-workers don't know, or care to know, each others names, much less desiring
to get involved with one
another. Living in societies where it's more unacceptable to incorrectly roll
up your water hose than it is to shoot someone for trespassing. Our so-called civilized
countries have far less freedoms than most any 3rd world country. In the US it
is illegal to walk down the street or sit in a park enjoying a beer. We can be
arbitrarily put in jail for a traffic violation...for having a miniscule
amount of marijuana and so on it goes. Now people can be issued fines for
smoking a cigarette in a
park or on the beach. I saw a sign in an Orlando, FL. parking lot that read
that "Loitering is a Felony"...not a fine or a misdemeanor, but a felony!
Speak of a screwed up set of values. It appears that it's perfectly ok to
dispose of millions of tons of daily waste in the ocean or bury it in some
virgin landfill and continuously spew millions tons of chemicals, carbons and etc. into
rivers and atmosphere, etc. but we actually pass laws banning smoking a cigarette!
Talk about screwed up priorities! Any level of
logic would dictate that its insane to legally allow the pollution of the very
air we breath with million of vehicles and factories spewing trillions of
cubic meters of poison gases, chemicals and etc. that endanger our very existence. What?...smoking
a fucking cigarette is so bad, as to warrant penalties?
In the USA I
have read horror news stories where some degenerate woman wanting a baby decided
to invade a pregnant woman's home, kill her, cut out the fetus and take the
infant
home with her. A country that bans prostitution, but spends billions in
producing violent shows, movies and video games. Where men can be arrested for
talking to a female on the street, which at times may even be a cop dressed as
a hooker, but its ok to browse the web in search of extremely disgusting and
degenerate hardcore porn. To live in a country where you can be arrested for a
friendly game of poker with your friends in your own home, but can legally
walk into a billion dollar casino and lose everything you own in a matter of
minutes. A country where you can go to prison for smoking marijuana, but can
legally buy, consume and even overdose on prescription drugs. A land where in
every poor neighborhood there's liquor and gun stores on every other corner
and in sheer mockery...a church on every block for immediate and convenient
redemption.
A Country where self righteous men dignity their existence by
going to church on Sunday and then masturbate to images of young girls on the
internet. These same men that group with drinking buddies at local
bars getting plastered while screaming like childish morons watching a fucking
football game? Yet they have no time for any involvement with the issues that are
destroying their world. They can not or will not devote any time in
giving loving support for their families and never seem to take the time to
teach their children anything of
real value. Just a few more great examples of the American lifestyle! The same
lifestyle, which unfortunately is spreading like a vile spore around the globe? Is such a
cultureless society worth preserving??? A society of brainless money driven
spiritless robots that
actually believe that wrapping their house in plastic sheeting and duct tape
will actually protect them from Anthrax? Or that a plane and small fire
actually collapsed the two tallest buildings in the world...and that building
7 fell when it suffered no damage, and further accept the lies that a
jumbo-jet flew 10 ft. from the ground without hitting streetlights into the
Pentagon, which it's damaged was not filmed or investigated. The we are
supposed to believe afterwards that some terrorist was spreading Anthrax, but
oddly enough, only to non Bush supporters? It eventually leaked that the
Anthrax was from a Utah military research facility, but was not even reported
by the news media.
Personally I was raised and educated in
nature, camping, hiking, fishing, exploring, swimming and playing with my friends and
my dogs. We swam
in the creeks, rivers and lakes and never worried about contaminates or being
murdered by some whacko. I loved star gazing, day dreaming, working on our
small farm and basically just being a kid. When I did watch TV I had no desire
to watch trash TV. I, instead loved shows like Lost in Space, Gilligan's Island, Bewitched, the
Andy Griffin show and so on. Today kids cut their teeth on computer porn,
sexual videos from MTV, violent shows of cops, forensics, murder and mayhem...violent shootouts where guns and murder are glorified.
Then some Mothers, supposed defenders of their children, become to lazy to
cook and thus feed them
junk food. The non working women lounge around watching soap operas that go on and on for generations.
And let's
not forget our music; disgusting black rap and hip-hop about whores, guns,
murder and easy money and never ending ghetto trash relentlessly blasting from stereos, Ipods,
computers, TV's
and countless other gadgets. Think about it for a minute...being raised and
living in the mindless societies of America and western counties "just what the
hell do you expect from the people, especially your kids? Living in a country where honking
the horn at someone can get you killed is definitely not where I want to live
and especially not where I would want to raise my kids. A land where guns are
legal but prostitution is not?
America...the
land of the free and the home of the brave, yeah, but only if and
when
superiorly & overwhelmingly armed to the teeth with the latest high tech kill
toys, so they can fight the wars without seeing the faces of those slaughtered. Why would any sane person want
to live in a land that morns the death of one of their soldiers, but feels
nothing for the thousands of innocent people killed in the war that we always
start? A country
where traffic laws are strictly enforced with a high percentage of the police
forces while robbery, murder and mayhem are more common and frequent than an
average family going out for dinner. Crime soars while the macho
police hide behind every bush, tree and sign waiting to pull you over for
going 5 miles over some ridiculously low speed limit. They always have their
hands on or near their guns as they walk up to your window. We must never
forget the fact that traffic citations generate a hell of a lot of money for
our screwed up judicial system. The law states if stopped...stay in your car
and keep your hands where the under-trained highly paranoid cop can see them
or he might just shoot you...a few dozen times...as happens daily somewhere in
the USA. They are geared and instructed to issue as many tickets as they can,
so it's almost fruitless to try and persuade them otherwise. They make
you feel as if it's a deserved payment for protecting your safety. And heaven forbid if you're not wearing your seat-beat! There's
another couple of hundred dollar fine. In all irony a loaded gun on your seat
may go totally
unmentioned. It’s just one of the country's thousand or so warped concepts of
selective freedoms. based on one of our archaic amendments that made a vague
reference that we as good ole Americans have the right to bear arms and if we
feel threaten...we have the right to shoot and kill another human being for whatever reason we
believe is necessary. We hold greater value on things than human lives.
Let's not forget the patriotic
bumper stickers on most cars and trucks proclaiming "God bless
our troops in Iraq." Not that the typical American even knows where the fuck
Iraq or Afghanistan are located. Shouldn't we at least be obligated in learning how to
spell the name of the country we're destroying? Hey people...we've
fallaciously declared war on those poor people...please...give a damn!
And is this, our American lifestyle, what
we're fighting and dying for? What we're pushing down the throats of others
around the world? Our fucked up culture of bigotry, racial despise, hated,
impatience, intolerable treatment of others, as well as hunting our wild
animals, and then there's our self serving global policies, along with our
malcontent, obesity, greed and cruelty, as well as our philosophy of "God
loves me because I'm a white Christian" So much bullshit, it's frightening!.
The for all you people wearing your self-righteous asshole attitude cops and
security guards, wearing your gun and badges around like you have the absolute
right to kill someone for shop lifting some over-priced clothes at a boutique
or not obeying your commands quickly enough? This is the culture and lifestyle
you're protecting? Your right to carry concealed guns and the absolute right
to shoot someone for generally just pissing you off? That's not freedom...its
mayhem. Freedom is having the right and obligation to keep your government in
check...having the right to not roll up your fucking water hose, the right to
sit on your porch or in the park and drink a beer or smoke a cigarette.
Freedom is the right to walk you dog at 3:AM without fear of getting mugged or
shot by a paranoid cop. Freedom is having the right to be gay or an Atheist
without persecution. If I remember my history correctly...isn't escaping
religious bigotry and micro-control of our everyday lives by self appointed
masters just a few of the reasons we left England so long ago?
The British pound is back up over $2, the highest level
since the Carter era. The Canadian dollar, which used to be worth 65 cents, is
worth more than the U.S. dollar for the first time in half a century.
Oil is back on the rise. Gold fell off its recent mark.
Millions have lost their homes and jobs and the world's just basically falling
apart.
Have gold, silver, oil, the euro, the pound and the
Canadian dollar all suddenly soared in value in just a few years?
Nope. The dollar has plummeted in value, more so in Bush's
term than during any comparable period of U.S. history. Indeed, Bush presided over a worldwide abandonment of the American dollar.
Is it all Bush's fault? Alone no one man can destroy
America's economy and global status, but he has definitely did his share.
The dollar is plunging because America has been living
beyond her means, borrowing $2 billion a day from foreign nations to maintain
her standard of living and to sustain the American Imperio.
The prime suspect in the death of the dollar is the massive
trade deficits America has run up, some $14 trillion in total since the passage
of NAFTA and the creation of the World Trade Organization in 1994.
In 2006, that U.S. trade deficit hit $764 billion. The
current account deficit, which includes the trade deficit, plus the net
outflow of interest, dividends, capital gains and foreign aid, hit $857
billion, 6.5 percent of GDP. As some of us have been writing for years, such
deficits are unsustainable and must lead to a decline of the dollar.
A sinking dollar means a poorer nation, and a sinking
currency has historically been the mark of a sinking country. And a superpower
with a sinking currency is a contradiction in terms.
What does this mean for America and Americans?
As nations realize that the dollars they are being paid for
their products cannot buy in the world markets what they once did, they will
demand more dollars for those goods. This will mean rising prices for the
imports on which America has become more dependent than we have been since
before the Civil War.
U.S. tourists traveling to the countries whence their
ancestors came will find that the money they saved up does not go as far as
they thought.
U.S. soldiers stationed overseas will find the cost of
rent, gasoline, food, clothing and dining out takes larger and larger bites
out of their paychecks. The people those U.S. soldiers defend will be
demanding more and more of their money.
U.S. diplomats stationed overseas, students and businessmen
are already facing tougher times.
U.S. foreign aid does not go as far as it did. And there is
an element of comedy in seeing the United States going to Beijing to borrow
dollars, thus putting our children deeper in debt, to send still more foreign
aid to African despots who routinely vote the Chinese line at the United
Nations.
The Chinese, whose currency is tied to the dollar, and
Japan will continue, as long as they can, to keep their currencies low against
the dollar. For the Asians think long term, and their goals are strategic.
China — growing at 10 percent a year for two decades and
now growing at close to 12 percent — is willing to take losses in the value of
the dollars it holds to keep the U.S. technology, factories and jobs pouring
in, as their exports capture America's markets from U.S. producers.
The Japanese will take some loss in the value of their
dollar hoard to take down Chrysler, Ford and GM, and capture the U.S. auto
market as they captured our TV, camera and computer chip markets.
Asians understand that what is important is not who
consumes the apples, but who owns the orchard.
Other nations that have kept cash reserves in U.S. Treasury
bonds and T-bills are watching the value of these assets sink. Not fools, they
will begin, as many already have, to divest and diversify, taking in fewer
dollars and more euros and yen. As more nations abandon the dollar, its
decline will continue.
The oil-producing and exporting nations, with trade
surpluses, like China, have also begun to take the stash of dollars they have
and stuff them into sovereign wealth funds, and use these immense and growing
funds to buy up real assets in the United States — investment banks and
American companies.
Nor is there any end in sight to the sinking of the dollar.
For, as foreigners demand more dollars for the oil and goods they sell us, the
trade deficit will not fall. And as the U.S. government prints more and more
dollars to cover the budget deficits that stretch out — with the coming
retirement of the baby boomers — all the way to the horizon, the value of the
dollar will fall. And as Ben Bernanke at the Fed tries to keep interest rates
low, to keep the U.S. economy from sputtering out in the credit crunch, the
value of the dollar will fall.
The chickens of free trade are coming home to roost.
America's God.
Consider that America can no longer even make a decent car, or pretty much
anything else, as their industrial might and their budget is spent toward
perpetuating the weapons industry and doing so at the demise of their own
infrastructure! That alone should tell you something about the insane policies
of their leaders. Americans are ignorant in believing that they shouldn't be
too concerned and leave their lives and the future of the world in the hands
of their self appointed God...the Jewish God of Moses and Abraham. America,
the land of the free and the brave and in immense debt still manage to find
blind validation as a God fearing people. Which God, oh yes...the God written
in some old notes and scrolls transcript by Israel... which are, by self
degree, God's chosen people. It is sad that Americans actually believe they
are blessed by some all powerful Enmity and have inherited his blessings and
permission to do whatever they damn well please. First it was the crusaders,
then the Portugal, Spanish, Dutch and English, and so on, and now America
takes it's turn in spreading their self serving religion and democracy with
the force of an avenging Angel...I believe they call it TheNew
World Order!
Do I hate my
country? Absolutely not! But then, I am not deaf, dumb or blind and
while I do not blame anyone specifically, I am, however, fully aware of man's
inability to govern others with fairness and justice, much less with
compassion and as we all know...power corrupts even the best of hearts. The
world's leaders are bestowed with power over their citizens and in such an
elevated position it is most difficult, when looking down on your fellow man,
to share in their challenges, fears and aspirations. In general I would say
that mankind is a very immature species and is suffering from self awareness,
self empowerment, religion and an inability to understand the complexities of
our planet fruitful, but fragile ecosystem.
Self empowerment
over others and our planet in general has created a most dangerous social and
environmental predicament in which I am just not positive if mankind has the
mordacity, ability and/or the will power to correct by changing the way we
live. To paraphrase an old cowboy proverb, "It seems we have a tendency to
close the barn door after the cows have gotten out!" We must understand that
we are just one of millions of species living on this planet and that each is
co-dependent on the other for survival. It is also apparent that this is more
true in American and western style of civilization where they live they
fruitless lives of spoilt children, but sadly and most precariously, they are
very well armed and extremely dangerous children.
And it has been tried and proved for
centuries by greedy politicians that to keep the people under control they
must unite them against both real and imaginary foes, viral or chemical,
social and/or human. The most common are and have been potential enemy
combatants, such as the Japanese, the Germans, Russians, Chinese, etc. Then
there's always the social and racial enemies, such as Blacks, Mexicans,
Socialists or Communists and now if that's not enough we've included religious
differences and declared war on Muslims by classifying many as extremists and
terrorists. Crying wolf and declaring that our western way of life is threaten
seems to be working as we sell our very souls to our fears. Personally I keep
asking myself that if America is under attack, as so loudly and repeatedly
proclaimed, then why are the majority of our arsenals of weapons offensive
instead of defensive? Why do we proclaim that we must fight our enemies abroad
in safeguarding our welfare when all we really succeed in doing is turning our
imagined enemies into real ones! Our ships, planes and soldiers wage conflicts
around the world in establishing and retaining our global dominance, while
pretending to establish peace...peace for whom?
Why am I so
critical toward America and her allies? It should be obvious that I
simply want the America I once loved to wake up and get their asses of the
couch, to turn off their televisions, stop waving their flags and most
definitely to get their heads out of their bibles and stand up to their
government and their profit driven corporations. In every global locale the people are
the country and
they need to reclaim their heritage and their societies back from the
despicable Jewish bankers, political policy makers and their corporate supporters. As an American I ask
without pause for our citizens to reclaim our country. Haven't we been pawns and
sheep long enough? How long do we intend to pray and wait for one of our mystical Gods
to save and redeem us? Please...get involved with the issues destroying our
world and realize that our real enemies are our fears and complacencies!
Conducive
behavior. Western in general, but all commercialized countries
begin conditioning their children to function in very competitive societies
that focus mostly on wealth and status-quo. Societies where citizens are
evaluated by their university degrees, their jobs, clothes, cars, etc. but
nothing is said about their mind-boggling debt they have incurred. They are
consistently led to believe that their way of life must be protected at all
costs...even if it means destroying the rest of the world, which includes
nations, millions of people, animals, forests, oceans, the air and so on. A
perfect mind-set for the young to become excellent candidates for the
military. Their parents buy them what they want...not what they need. Do the
children really need more war toys, violent video games and should they be
allowed, even encouraged, or at least tolerated to watch an endless affray of
murder and mayhem movies...and to accept that it's ok to hunt and murder
animals, to be aggressive and to do onto others before they do onto them.
The pampered
children of the decadent are allowed and even encouraged to lie and
cheat in order to achieve their selfish goals and are then defended with sheer
mordacity by their parents when their behavior is reprimanded. How many times
have I heard the proclamations of innocence by parents when their children are
involved in serious crimes. These social misfits, posing as parents, turn a
blind eye when their kids consume large qualities of alcohol or designer
drugs, or when they spend enormous sums of money on the latest, and must have,
fashion trends, electronics, etc. These children of complacent parents, having
never been taught to apply simply logic in their decisions, soon lose respect
for themselves and others as they venture further down their pathway of
destruction. Some dying of drugs others killed in cars or shootings and even
more imprisoned for their out of control behavior. The parents of these killed
or imprisoned children whine and sob, and without hesitation pass all of the
blame on the very society they created. Never realizing or admitting that
their children's failures lay in the fact that they, themselves, never had the
willingness or time to get personally involved in their children's lives.
Heroes or
militarized executioners? Conducive to the western lifestyles
thousands of super competitive testosterone driven young boys are quick to
join the military in proving their machismo, and in legally venting their
frustrations onto others. The trained and physically, but not mentally,
conditioned young warriors are quickly sent off to fight for their country's
agendas in far away land. Then, heaven forbid, that these unbalanced products
of a disruptive society should get killed in the publicly supported bullshit
war the families and their society in general bestow heroism on their young
fallen warriors, but fail to questioned the war or their country's
involvement. I guess it's true that hindsight and not foresight are the
authors of history. How conveniently the blame falls on others for their
loses, while remaining constant in their support of their country's agendas.
It is and has always been deemed patriotic to blindly and obediently bow to
their religions and to their leaders. Personally I feel that these hypnotic
behaviors are the real fault of our murderous contempt for others. How can we
simply ignore that our young are being militarized to kill and even die in
combating self proclaimed enemies of our governments. How can we elevate them
to martyrdom and heroic figures of reverence, while ignoring the realities
they are no more than institutionalized robotic killing machines. How can we
not but blame ourselves for our blind obedience to our self appointed
masters...whether they be man or God?
Out of touch!
The people of the world in general, and specifically people of westernized
democracies, are totally out of touch with themselves, the world around them
and everything in between. In resolving their parenting deficiencies young
children are given credit cards and birth control pills at 13 and the more
wealthy children get a new car at 16 years of age. Then there's the few kids
that do get jobs that spends their every earned dollar in trying to be
something their not. Splurging their money on designer jeans, latest cell
phones and designer drugs, as well as constantly booze themselves into a
constant state of limbo to impress the degenerates they call friends. If not
working or in school most spend their remaining time in idle chit chat on
their $200 cell phones or messaging each other on their $2000 computers, while
browsing porn sites. With no real family obligations they also find plenty of
time for playing video games and shopping in the malls for an endless
assortments of readily available and mostly nonsensical items of vanity? The
really sad issue is they aren't responsible...they're just products of their
society and are simply pursuing the American dream. The same dream their
parents blindly labored away their lives...never having the time or desire to
actually do any parenting. A home grown society of horrific parents, dangerous
schools and streets, unknown neighbors, timid teachers, and lazy employees and
profit driven employers, and under these circumstances how could the people
learn to be decent and thoughtful human beings. They live and die in a small
cubicle of work, stress, traffic, junk food with rare opportunities of
intimacy or leisure, but still believing they actually have a life...sad to
say the least! Existing in their self made world of commercialism, where
nothing else matters...is not having a life!
America's
governments have sold out their citizens to their corporate
brethren, while encouraging the over burdened to blindly persist chasing the fucking American
dream...which is nothing more than a psychotic existence in a self contained maze of work, debt and stress where the
only relief is self indulgence, booze and prescribed pharmaceuticals. Clinging to
a false and mindless pride
of living in a super inflated and heavily mortgaged house and driving a
foreign car they can't really afford. The women of the West remain depressed
and disillusioned and therefore substitute contentment with endless and shopping for items of self reward...clothes,
jewelry and tons of numerous
playthings for their kids. The men also are being absorbed into the shopping
for pleasure and just have to have a giant screen TV, a boat, new golf clubs
and so on. This shadowy lifestyle is nothing more than bragging rights when
his buddies are invited over for lots of drinking and yahooing at some ball
game. Then to push themselves further into debt they charge even more toys
like a remote controlled lawn mower, a new car or putting in a pool, or perhaps a motorcycle they have absolutely no time to ride.
To prove my
point about citizens be driven into debt by becoming even bigger players in
consumerism just count the number of brain dread commercials during one 30 or
60 minute TV show. Then watch the constant commercial bombardments from
pharmaceutical companies that have succeeded in getting 80% of Americans
hooked on dangerous and expensive chemicals.
People must realize that their western
commercial lifestyle comes at a high price, not only in stress, undrinkable
tap water, chemically polluted air, jammed highways, a hasty meal of junk food
from the multitude the joints on every corner, but more serious issues like
out of control governments, wasteful spending, increased taxes, 34 million
illegal immigrants, as well as daily laws depriving them of what few rights
they have remaining. In America alone there are a few million lunatics with
guns, deployable slum areas that most people wouldn't dare drive through even
in daylight, and then to add confusion to mayhem there's the constant
bullshit bombardments of news-bites from the puppet casters of CNN, BBC, ABC,
NBC and all the rest of the brain dead stations blaring out their
governmentally approved rhetoric all in accordance to their FCC masters. (FCC,
Federally Controlled Communications.)
The citizens working their very live away
in anticipation of a better live and a secured retirement, but generally end
up in debt up to their eyeballs and even after retirement they still can't
afford to take a decent vacation. Is this the life you planned...a live so
stressed that you can't relax long enough to play with your kids or steal a
few passionate moments with your spouse? Does living such a live make you
proud? A robotic existence in a glass, plastic and concrete environment. And
if such a life isn't bad enough you're ignorant enough to live in fear of
actually believing that some terrorists may be jealous of your lifestyle and
wishes to destroy your screwed up way of live? Sad, but definitely
hysterical! But it will be OK, after all you are a Christian and you do
believe without doubt that your God will reward your worthless live with
everlasting bliss in some rainbow paradise you call heaven. Sure' and the
tooth fairy lives around the corner and good ole Saint Nick will stop by for
some cookies on Xmas Eve.
Commercialized
societies. In this so called modern society neighbors and
co-workers don't even know each others names, much less get to know one
another. Living in societies where it's more acceptable to carry a fire arm
than to incorrectly roll up your water hose. These so-called civilized
countries that can put you in jail for smoking a a joint and issue fines for
smoking a cigarette in public places. A society that can jail an adult for
enjoying a beer in a park or on the beach or even for parking in a restricted
area. When in Orlando, FL. back in 2004 I saw a sign in front of a convenience
store that non customer parking or loitering was a Felony...not a fine or even
a misdemeanor, but a felony! Hell, I thought felonies were for criminals?
Speak of a screwed up set of values. Why is it perfectly legal to dispose of
millions of tons of daily waste in the ocean or buried in some landfill and in
the spewing of deadly chemicals and carbons into the world's waters and air,
but it's illegal to park in front of a store or even enjoy smoking a cigarette
in public or in a bar? Does this seem rational to you...to anyone? Where's the
logic that would allow the legal pollution of the very air that we breath with
million of vehicles and factories spewing trillions of cubic meters of poison
gases that endanger our very existence and "what?...smoking a fucking
cigarette is so bad!"
I have sat in awe at bizarre news
articles on Yahoo and read an incomprehensible story just a few months ago
where some degenerate woman wanting a baby decided to invade a pregnant
woman's home, kill her, cut out the fetus and take it home with her. Good ole
America, where a grown man has to wear a seat-beat when driving...a helmet
when riding his bike and an endless array of other restrictive rules, but at
the same time, as mentioned previously, can legally arm himself with as many
guns as he wants or can afford. Mmm, this must come from watching too many
western and gangster shows and movies for the last 45 or so years? That
would help explain while every man, woman, child and hooligan is armed to the
teeth! Then there's the music, hip hop, rap, ghetto crap about guns and
whores...hell' that's logical..., well, at least in America. Simply brain wash
the kids with mega-million dollar movies of rape, murder and mayhem and lets
all drop our pants down to expose the crack of our asses while bopping to some
ghetto rap, but oh' sorry...smoking isn't allowed???
Condoning the film industry's spending of
billions of dollars in producing violent TV shows, movies and video games each
year and in allowing your police forces to waste resources dressing up female
cops as prostitutes just so they can arrest men for talking to them...this is
sane? And isn't it acceptable behavior to browse the web in search of
extremely disgusting and degenerate hardcore porn, but at the same time isn't
it illegal to park your car in front of your own house? Is this another
example of living the American dream? Why would any mildly sane person want to
live in a country where they can be arrested for a friendly game of poker with
their friends in their own home, but can legally walk into a billion dollar
casino and lose everything they own in a matter of minutes. The same country
where a person can go to prison for smoking marijuana, but can legally buy,
consume and even overdose on prescription drugs. A land where in every poor
neighborhood there's liquor and gun stores on every other corner and, of
course, a church at the end of the block for immediate and convenient
redemption.
Isn't America a country where self
righteous men dignity their existence by going to church on Sunday, but then
wouldn't hesitate to have sex with a 16 year old girl or in locking their
families out of their bedrooms while masturbating to porn on the web. A nation
where so-called macho males group together on the weekends to get plastered
and scream like pathetic losers while watching a fucking football game. Are
not these the same men that have no time to get involved with their kids or
much less actually give a damn about the issues destroying their world. Isn't
America also the land where fearful people believe that wrapping their house
in plastic sheeting and duct tape will actually protect them from Anthrax? The
same people never believing that the Anthrax used in the 2000 DC and Florida
attack was traced back to a US Military Research Facility in Utah ..surprise
...surprise!!! You didn't really believe it was a terrorist attack did you?
Naw...it was just good ole American politics and the beginning of a 8 year
reign of insanity by Mr. George W Bush and his do anything for a
paycheck...cronies. Where the question of the day might be...you want us to
kill Bin Laden, Mr. President, but doesn't he work for the CIA? And then
there's Bush's "Iraq's weapons of mass destruction" that was nothing more than
weapons of America's mass hysteria!
Personally I don't classify rednecks,
guns and hunting harmless animals and pickup trucks as part of any culture I
would want to be associated. So is this the culture and lifestyle the
terrorists are supposed to be jealous of and wish to destroy? Sadly and
unfortunately, it is the lifestyle that the western countries wage war in
spreading around the globe. Seeking to carbon copy themselves they are
feverish in commercializing every section of the planet.
Personally I was raised and educated in
nature, hiking, fishing, exploring, playing with my friends and dogs, swimming
in the creeks, star gazing and just being a kid. When we did watch TV we tuned
in to bloodless TV shows like Lost in Space, Gilligan's Island, Bewitched, the
Andy Griffin show and so on. Today the kids cut their teeth on computer porn,
sexual videos from MTV, violent shows of cops, forensics, murder, and mayhem,
violent shootouts where guns and murder are glorified. Mothers feeding them
junk food, while watching soaps that go on and on for generations. And let's
not forget their music; disgusting black rap and hip-hop about whores, guns,
murder and easy money and other ghetto crap blasting from stereos, Ipods, TV's
and countless other gadgets. Think about it for a minute...being raised and
living in the sick societies of America and western counties "just what the
hell do you expect from the people, especially the kids? Living where honking
the horn at someone can get you killed is definitely not where I want to live
and especially not where I would want to raise my kids. A land where war is
common, porn is accepted and where guns are legal, but prostituted sex between
adults and smoking a cigarette are not?
America...the land of the free and the
home of the brave, yeah, but only if their superiorly & overwhelmingly armed
to the teeth with the latest high tech kill toys, so they can destroy at a
distant. Why would any sane person want to live in a land that morns the death
of one of their soldiers, but feels nothing for the thousands of innocent
people killed in their wars. A country where so much of their resources are
utilized enforcing traffic laws, while robbery, murder and mayhem are as
common and frequent as an average family going on a vacation.
America's restrictive traffic laws are
enforced with Nazi uniformed macho cops hiding behind every bush, tree and
sign to pull drivers over for going 5 miles over the posted speed limit...even
if it's in the middle of the Nevada desert with no one else in sight. They
pretend to be concerned for your safety as they promptly issue you a $200
dollar citation. A good example of "taxation without representation." Heaven
forbid if your not wearing your seat-beat when stopped, as that's another
three hundred dollar fine. Oddly, having a loaded gun on your car seat is not
an issue. It’s just one of thousands in America's warped concept of selective
freedom.
As good ole boys, Americans believe it's
quite normal to feel they have the right to shoot and kill another human being
for whatever reason they believe is necessary, but at the same time panic when
stopped by a cop for some minor traffic violation. I assume it's because they
know traffic laws are much more strictly enforced as huge money revenue
industries for the states. Isn't just a little odd that a murder conviction
can be appealed a numerous amount of times, but rarely can a traffic citation
be appealed, much less over turned?
So, if and when you're a visitor to the
wild west culture of the USA be extra cautious if pulled over by a cop. Stay
in your car, don't make any sudden movements and definitely keep your hands
where the gun happy cop can see them, or he just might shoot you...a few dozen
times. "Hey, it happens daily somewhere in the USA. And be sure to read the
various bumper stickers on most Americans. Most are quite funny and some are
insanely illogical...like, "God bless our troops in Iraq." My question is
always, well if God is blessing their troops and Mohammad is blessing the
Iraqis...then it's going to be a long war." Sadly, the typical American has
no clue where the fuck Iraq is located and most can't even spell the name of
the country their destroying. Hey people...you've fallaciously declared war on
those poor people...please...give a damn!
Is this American lifestyle worth fighting
and dying for? Are you wars and global policies worth the actual downfall of
your country itself? Commercialism is the contributing factor to the demise of
our very world and yet you, Americans, continue allowing your industries to
push commercialism down the throats of the world knowing full well it's
malignant effects? Commercialism breeds nothing but a culture of bigotry,
racial despise, self-hatred, impatience, intolerance, and the slaughter of
wild animals, legally hunted to extinction? Cultures of self serving global
policies, international malcontent, obesity, greed and just general
insurrection, and lets not forget your all encompassing philosophy of "God
loves me because I'm a white Christian" As they say in America's South, "Raise
your feet...the bullshit's getting deep."
Isn't America the home of the armed high
school dropouts wearing police and security badges? Degenerates with the
absolute right to shoot and kill another human being for shop lifting some
over-priced clothes at a boutique or for simply not obeying their commands
quickly enough? This is the culture and lifestyle you're protecting? Is your
interpretation of freedom mean having the right to carry concealed guns and
them anytime you feel the circumstances are justified...or simply when someone
just pisses you off? That's not freedom...its mayhem. The real meaning of
freedom is having the right and obligation to keep your government in
check...having the right to not roll up your fucking water hose, the right to
sit on your porch or in the park and drink a beer or smoke a cigarette. The
right to paint your house any color you desire without asking permission from
the local government! Freedom is the right to walk you dog at 3:AM without
fear of getting mugged or shot by a paranoid cop. Freedom is having the right
to be gay or an Atheist without persecution. Do you in America have those
simple rights? If I remember my history correctly...isn't escaping religious
bigotry and micro-control of your everyday lives by self appointed masters
just a few of the reasons your ancestors left England and other bigoted
nations so long ago?
Bigotry
is when the nation's people turn their back on the needy and pray that God
will save them. When people whine about pollution while driving a gas guzzling
SUV in allowing the giant oil companies to triple gas prices in three
years, which tripled their profits. Bigotry is when you you make a big issue
of Janet Jackson's nipple being partially exposed on TV, but do nothing to
stop the endless flow of disgustingly demeaning porn sites. The same sites
that your citizens masturbate to when alone on their computers! Is this
acceptable behavior and is allowing your kids to watch grotesque movies of
violence and then not make the connection when some maniac shoots dozens of
kids in a university!!! Please get your heads out of your asses...you created
the nightmare, so do something to end it! "Hell even sheep wouldn't follow a
moron like Bush."
Watch the below video
showing the small controlled explosions
bringing the Towers down
Watch the below videos of how the
US Republican Party Created a Phantom Al Qaeda...
The beginning of Religious Neo Conservatism
Part 1; Using Fear and Religion as
a tool for their agendas
Part 2; The Phantom Victory
Part 3; The US raises it's
power game by arresting it's own people
Part 4; Super Paranoia;
Making terrorists out of normal people
Part 5; The lies that led
to US Iraq Invasion
Part 6; The Terrorism
Illusion
America's Imperialistic
Aggressions Against the World Since 1890
COUNTRY OR STATE
Dates of intervention
Forces
Comments
SOUTH DAKOTA
1890 (-?)
Troops
300 Lakota Indians massacred at Wounded Knee.
ARGENTINA
1890
Troops
Buenos Aires interests protected.
CHILE
1891
Troops
Marines clash with nationalist rebels.
HAITI
1891
Troops
Black revolt on Navassa defeated.
IDAHO
1892
Troops
Army suppresses silver miners' strike.
HAWAII
1893 (-?)
Naval, troops
Independent kingdom overthrown, annexed.
CHICAGO
1894
Troops
Breaking of rail strike, 34 killed.
NICARAGUA
1894
Troops
Month-long occupation of Bluefields.
CHINA
1894-95
Naval, troops
Marines land in Sino-Japanese War
KOREA
1894-96
Troops
Marines kept in Seoul during war.
PANAMA
1895
Troops, naval
Marines land in Colombian province.
NICARAGUA
1896
Troops
Marines land in port of Corinto.
CHINA
1898-1900
Troops
Boxer Rebellion fought by foreign armies.
PHILIPPINES
1898-1910 (-?)
Naval, troops
Seized from Spain, killed 600,000 Filipinos
CUBA
1898-1902 (-?)
Naval, troops
Seized from Spain, still hold Navy base.
PUERTO RICO
1898 (-?)
Naval, troops
Seized from Spain, occupation continues.
GUAM
1898 (-?)
Naval, troops
Seized from Spain, still use as base.
MINNESOTA
1898 (-?)
Troops
Army battles Chippewa at Leech Lake.
NICARAGUA
1898
Troops
Marines land at port of San Juan del Sur.
SAMOA
1899 (-?)
Troops
Battle over succession to throne.
NICARAGUA
1899
Troops
Marines land at port of Bluefields.
IDAHO
1899-1901
Troops
Army occupies Coeur d'Alene mining region.
OKLAHOMA
1901
Troops
Army battles Creek Indian revolt.
PANAMA
1901-14
Naval, troops
Broke off from Colombia 1903, annexed Canal Zone 1914.
HONDURAS
1903
Troops
Marines intervene in revolution.
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
1903-04
Troops
U.S. interests protected in Revolution.
KOREA
1904-05
Troops
Marines land in Russo-Japanese War.
CUBA
1906-09
Troops
Marines land in democratic election.
NICARAGUA
1907
Troops
"Dollar Diplomacy" protectorate set up.
HONDURAS
1907
Troops
Marines land during war with Nicaragua
PANAMA
1908
Troops
Marines intervene in election contest.
NICARAGUA
1910
Troops
Marines land in Bluefield and Corinto.
HONDURAS
1911
Troops
U.S. interests protected in civil war.
CHINA
1911-41
Naval, troops
Continuous occupation with flare-ups.
CUBA
1912
Troops
U.S. interests protected in civil war.
PANAMA
1912
Troops
Marines land during heated election.
HONDURAS
1912
Troops
Marines protect U.S. economic interests.
NICARAGUA
1912-33
Troops, bombing
10-year occupation, fought guerillas
MEXICO
1913
Naval
Americans evacuated during revolution.
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
1914
Naval
Fight with rebels over Santo Domingo.
COLORADO
1914
Troops
Breaking of miners' strike by Army.
MEXICO
1914-18
Naval, troops
Series of interventions against nationalists.
HAITI
1914-34
Troops, bombing
19-year occupation after revolts.
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
1916-24
Troops
8-year Marine occupation.
CUBA
1917-33
Troops
Military occupation, economic protectorate.
WORLD WAR I
1917-18
Naval, troops
Ships sunk, fought Germany for 1 1/2 years.
RUSSIA
1918-22
Naval, troops
Five landings to fight Bolsheviks
PANAMA
1918-20
Troops
"Police duty" during unrest after elections.
HONDURAS
1919
Troops
Marines land during election campaign.
YUGOSLAVIA
1919
Troops/Marines
Intervene for Italy against Serbs in Dalmatia.
GUATEMALA
1920
Troops
2-week intervention against unionists.
WEST VIRGINIA
1920-21
Troops, bombing
Army intervenes against mineworkers.
TURKEY
1922
Troops
Fought nationalists in Smyrna.
CHINA
1922-27
Naval, troops
Deployment during nationalist revolt.
HONDURAS
1924-25
Troops
Landed twice during election strife.
PANAMA
1925
Troops
Marines suppress general strike.
CHINA
1927-34
Troops
Marines stationed throughout the country.
EL SALVADOR
1932
Naval
Warships send during Marti revolt.
WASHINGTON DC
1932
Troops
Army stops WWI vet bonus protest.
WORLD WAR II
1941-45
Naval, troops, bombing, nuclear
Hawaii bombed, fought Japan, Italy and Germany for 3
years; first nuclear war against 2 Japanese cities.
DETROIT
1943
Troops
Army put down Black rebellion.
IRAN
1946
Nuclear threat
Soviet troops told to leave north.
YUGOSLAVIA
1946
Nuclear threat, naval
Response to shoot-down of US plane.
URUGUAY
1947
Nuclear threat
Bombers deployed as show of strength.
GREECE
1947-49
Command operation
U.S. directs extreme-right in civil war.
GERMANY
1948
Nuclear Threat
Atomic-capable bombers guard Berlin Airlift.
CHINA
1948-49
Troops/Marines
evacuate Americans before Communist victory.
PHILIPPINES
1948-54
Command operation
CIA directs war against Huk Rebellion.
PUERTO RICO
1950
Command operation
Independence rebellion crushed in Ponce.
KOREA
1951-53 (-?)
Troops, naval, bombing , nuclear threats
U.S./So. Korea fights China/No. Korea to stalemate;
A-bomb threat in 1950, and against China in 1953. Still have bases.
IRAN
1953
Command Operation
CIA overthrows democracy, installs Shah.
VIETNAM
1954
Nuclear threat
French offered bombs to use against siege.
GUATEMALA
1954
Command operation, bombing, nuclear threat
CIA directs exile invasion after new gov't
nationalized U.S. company lands; bombers based in Nicaragua.
EGYPT
1956
Nuclear threat, troops
Soviets told to keep out of Suez crisis; Marines
evacuate foreigners.
LEBANON
l958
Troops, naval
Marine occupation against rebels.
IRAQ
1958
Nuclear threat
Iraq warned against invading Kuwait.
CHINA
l958
Nuclear threat
China told not to move on Taiwan isles.
PANAMA
1958
Troops
Flag protests erupt into confrontation.
VIETNAM
l960-75
Troops, naval, bombing, nuclear threats
Fought South Vietnam revolt & North Vietnam; 6 million
killed in longest U.S. war; atomic bomb threats in l968 and l969.
CUBA
l961
Command operation
CIA-directed exile invasion fails.
GERMANY
l961
Nuclear threat
Alert during Berlin Wall crisis.
LAOS
1962
Command operation
Military buildup during guerrilla war.
CUBA
l962
Nuclear threat, naval
Blockade during missile crisis; near-war with Soviet
Union.
IRAQ
1963
Command operation
CIA organizes coup that killed president, brings Ba'ath
Party to power, and Saddam Hussein back from exile to be head of the
secret service.
PANAMA
l964
Troops
Panamanians shot for urging canal's return.
INDONESIA
l965
Command operation
Million killed in CIA-assisted army coup.
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
1965-66
Troops, bombing
Marines land during election campaign.
GUATEMALA
l966-2009
Command operation
Green Berets intervene against rebels. The CIA
involvement continued until 1990 and has recently be reactivated. A United
Nations-organized commission conservatively estimated that over 200,000
people were killed in the US-backed counterinsurgency war. Just 10 days
before Rumsfeld March, 2005 visit, Guatemalan troops opened fire with live
ammunition on protesting peasants, workers and teachers opposed to the
Central American Free Trade Agreement.
DETROIT
l967
Troops
Army battles African Americans, 43 killed.
UNITED STATES
l968
Troops
After King is shot; over 21,000 soldiers in cities.
CAMBODIA
l969-75
Bombing, troops, naval
Up to 2 million killed in decade of bombing,
starvation, and political chaos.
OMAN
l970
Command operation
U.S. directs Iranian marine invasion.
LAOS
l971-73
Command operation, bombing
U.S. directs South Vietnamese invasion; "carpet-bombs"
countryside.
SOUTH DAKOTA
l973
Command operation
Army directs Wounded Knee siege of Lakotas.
MIDEAST
1973
Nuclear threat
World-wide alert during Mideast War.
CHILE
1973
Command operation
CIA-backed coup ousts elected marxist president.
CAMBODIA
l975
Troops, bombing
Gas captured ship, 28 die in copter crash.
ANGOLA
l976-92
Command operation
CIA assists South African-backed rebels.
IRAN
l980
Troops, nuclear threat, aborted bombing
Raid to rescue Embassy hostages; 8 troops die in
copter-plane crash. Soviets warned not to get involved in revolution.
LIBYA
l981
Naval jets
Two Libyan jets shot down in maneuvers.
EL SALVADOR
l981-92
Command operation, troops
Advisors, over-flights aid anti-rebel war, soldiers
briefly involved in hostage clash.
NICARAGUA
l981-90
Command operation, naval
CIA directs exile (Contra) invasions, plants harbor
mines against revolution.
LEBANON
l982-84
Naval, bombing, troops
Marines expel PLO and back Phalangists, Navy bombs and
shells Muslim positions.
GRENADA
l983-84
Troops, bombing
Invasion four years after revolution.
HONDURAS
l983-89
Troops
Maneuvers help build bases near borders.
IRAN
l984
Jets
Two Iranian jets shot down over Persian Gulf.
LIBYA
l986
Bombing, naval
Air strikes to topple nationalist gov't.
BOLIVIA
1986
Troops
Army assists raids on cocaine region.
IRAN
l987-88
Naval, bombing
US intervenes on side of Iraq in war.
LIBYA
1989
Naval jets
Two Libyan jets shot down.
VIRGIN ISLANDS
1989
Troops
St. Croix Black unrest after storm.
PHILIPPINES
1989
Jets
Air cover provided for government against coup.
PANAMA
1989 (-?)
Troops, bombing
Nationalist government ousted by 27,000 soldiers,
leaders arrested, 2000+ killed.
LIBERIA
1990
Troops
Foreigners evacuated during civil war.
SAUDI ARABIA
1990-91
Troops, jets
Iraq countered after invading Kuwait. 540,000 troops
also stationed in Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, UAE, Israel.
IRAQ
1990-?
Bombing, troops, naval
Blockade of Iraqi and Jordanian ports, air strikes;
200,000+ killed in invasion of Iraq and Kuwait; no-fly zone over Kurdish
north, Shiite south, large-scale destruction of Iraqi military.
KUWAIT
1991
Naval, bombing, troops
Kuwait royal family returned to throne.
LOS ANGELES
1992
Troops
Army, Marines deployed against anti-police uprising.
SOMALIA
1992-94
Troops, naval, bombing
U.S.-led United Nations occupation during civil war;
raids against one Mogadishu faction.
YUGOSLAVIA
1992-94
Naval
NATO blockade of Serbia and Montenegro.
BOSNIA
1993-?
Jets, bombing
No-fly zone patrolled in civil war; downed jets, bombed
Serbs.
HAITI
1994
Troops, naval
Blockade against military government; troops restore
President Aristide to office three years after coup.
ZAIRE (CONGO)
1996-97
Troops
Marines at Rwandan Hutu refugee camps, in area where
Congo revolution begins.
LIBERIA
1997
Troops
Soldiers under fire during evacuation of foreigners.
ALBANIA
1997
Troops
Soldiers under fire during evacuation of foreigners.
SUDAN
1998
Missiles
Attack on pharmaceutical plant alleged to be
"terrorist" nerve gas plant. It was later discovered to be only a
pharmaceutical plant. The US issued no
compensation. It was rumored that the US destroyed the plant to protect
their global drug markets.
AFGHANISTAN
1998
Missiles
Attack on former CIA training camps used by Islamic
fundamentalist groups alleged to have attacked embassies.
IRAQ
1998-?
Bombing, Missiles
Four days of intensive air strikes after weapons
inspectors allege Iraqi obstructions.
YUGOSLAVIA
1999
Bombing, Missiles
Heavy NATO air strikes after Serbia declines to
withdraw from Kosovo. NATO occupation of Kosovo.
YEMEN
2000
Naval
USS Cole, docked in Aden, bombed.
MACEDONIA
2001
Troops
NATO forces deployed to move and disarm Albanian
rebels.
UNITED STATES
2001
Jets, naval
Reaction to hijacker attacks on New York, DC. resulting
in the shoot down of the passenger plane over Pennsylvania.
AFGHANISTAN
2001-?
Troops, bombing, missiles
Massive U.S. mobilization to overthrow Taliban, hunt
Al Qaeda fighters, install Karzai regime, and battle Taliban insurgency.
More than 30,000 U.S. troops and numerous private security contractors
carry our occupation.
YEMEN
2002
Missiles
Predator drone missile attack on Al Qaeda, including a
US citizen.
PHILIPPINES
2002-?
Troops, naval
Training mission for Philippine military fighting Abu
Sayyaf rebels evolves into combat missions in Sulu Archipelago, west of
Mindanao.
COLOMBIA
2003-?
Troops
US special forces sent to rebel zone to back up
Colombian military protecting oil pipeline, considered as a US interest.
The US has coerced Colombian officials with bribes and threats for the
last 35 years. It is rumored the CIA is deeply involved with Colombia's
drug trade to the US.
IRAQ
2003-?
Troops, naval, bombing, missiles
Saddam regime toppled in Baghdad. More than 250,000 U.S.
personnel participate in invasion. US and UK forces occupy country and
battle Sunni and Shi'ite insurgencies. More than 160,000 troops and
numerous private contractors carry out occupation and build large
permanent bases for future Middle East expansion. Saddam was placed into
power with US support and then instructed to invade Kuwait for a prelude
for a US final invasion and take over of Iraq's oil fields.
LIBERIA
2003
Troops
Brief involvement in peacekeeping force as rebels drove
out leader.
HAITI
2004-05
Troops, naval
Marines land after right-wing rebels oust elected
President Aristide, who was advised to leave by Washington.
PAKISTAN
2005-?
Missiles, bombing, covert operation
CIA missile and air strikes and Special Forces raids on
alleged Al Qaeda and Taliban refuge villages kill multiple civilians.
SOMALIA
2006-?
Missiles, naval, covert operation
Special Forces advise Ethiopian invasion that topples
Islamist government; AC-130 strikes and Cruise missile attacks against
Islamist rebels; naval blockade against "pirates" and insurgents.
SYRIA
2008
Troops
Special Forces in helicopter raid 5 miles from Iraq
kill 8 Syrian civilians. Many more incidences occurred that were not
reported.
In Addition there were and
are countless other US interventions not listed above;
George H. Bush threatens a
military navy blockade and cancellation of previous IMF loans to Argentina
if they did not sign an agreement allowing Enron to build a major pipeline
through their country with little compensation. As of Jan 22 2002 Argentina's
collapse was inevitable, as under such threats they had just swore in their
fifth president in two weeks. The IMF, International Monetary Finance provides
cheap loans, subsidized mostly by the U.S. government; in return, it dictates
economic "advice" to the borrower. That advice is always the same. First, the
IMF tells a country to increase its taxes in order to reduce budget deficits.
The IMF always advocates higher taxes, never lower spending. Then the IMF
suggests devaluing the nation's currency, a kind of one-shot hyperinflation
that allegedly "stimulates" the economy and encourages exports. yes, cheaper
exports, less worker earning and turns the country into a basic sweat shop for
Western interests.
It was recommended that the first component of the
suggested IMF economic program was to devalue the peso by another 40 percent.
Bear in mind that 80 percent of Argentina's private and government debt is
denominated in dollars, so borrowers would now have to pay many more pesos for
every dollar they owe. Under this scheme, any Argentine business that had not
already gone bankrupt surely would.
The IMF's prescriptions are as far from the free market as you can get:
unchecked government spending, higher taxes and government-induced inflation.
The results in Argentina were predictable. Higher taxes
sent the economy deeper into recession. Then, early last year, Domingo
Cavallo, the architect of Argentina's stable currency system, made plans to
demolish his work, proposing a thinly veiled devaluation that dropped the
peso's value by 7 percent. Last fall, he began hinting that the peso was
"overvalued" and needed to be brought down further.
Investors got the message: He was planning to make the peso
worthless. They bailed out, everyone raised prices, and the economy went into
a tailspin. The final result? The angry mobs of newly impoverished Argentines
who rampaged in the streets in December. It's the same cycle we saw after the
IMF gave advice in Russia and Southeast Asia. The final assessment is simple;,
"Wherever the IMF goes, rubber bullets are sure to follow."
Argentina's refusal to agree to Enron's criminal proposal
and in allowing the IMF to ruin their economy led to the Falklands war, which
was a farce from the beginning. Just another example of America and Allies
continued imperialism. The brief, but crippling war was never about the
Falkland Islands. One good note; Enron soon collapsed, as they had based their
profitability on the success of the gas pipeline through Argentina.
Pentagon chief escalates threats against
Venezuela
26 March 2005
US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld used his brief
three-nation tour of Latin America this week to step up US threats against
Venezuela and pressure the region’s governments into joining Washington’s
campaign to isolate the government of President Hugo Chavez.
“Propaganda war” to justify seizing oil
Rangel characterized the remarks by the Pentagon chief as a
“propaganda war” that represented “a new phase in US imperialist aggression”
aimed at “taking possession of our energy resources. A potential war against
Venezuela is just one step in US global ambitions.”
*The US has been creating friction between Colombia and
Venezuela, as well as beefing up Colombia's military since 2004 in order to
stage a possible Venezuelan invasion.
March, 2005; DonaldRumsfeld arrived in
Buenos Aires, Argentina just two days before the anniversary of the 1976
military coup that brought to power a dictatorship which murdered, tortured
and “disappeared” tens of thousands of Argentines. Also during that period,
Rumsfeld occupied the top post at the Pentagon and participated in formulating
policies that aided and abetted the police-state repression.
Sept. 2009; The US and allies consistently threaten
Iran with stronger and stronger sanctions and possible military intervention
for not complying with IAEA regulations in regard to their work on nuclear
enrichment.
BIG
PICTURE - $57 TRILLION of DEBT in America, and rising rapidly.
The USA economy is 2-3 times more
debt-dependent - with $36 Trillion DEBT EXCESS compared to prior debt ratios!
As of July 2009 the USA has just spent another 5+ Trillion Dollars. Along with
Billions of monthly compounded interest...DO THE MATH!
Here's one graphic of many shown in the main Total Debt
Report, linked below.
This is A SCARY CHART - showing trends of
total debt in America (the red line, reaching $57
trillion in 2008 vs. growth of the economy as measured by
national income (blue line). (adjusted
for inflation). That debt increased $3 Trillion in the past year.
Which line goes up faster, the red
debt line or the blue net national income line?
Answer: the debt line.
And, that debt line is 12 to
14 times faster than national income!
(Perhaps, like this chart, your own personal or business debt is also
going up much faster than your income?)
As mentioned, debt is defined as all U.S. debt (sum debt of federal and
state & local governments, international, and private debt, incl.
households, business and financial sector debts, and federal debt to trust
funds).
This chart shows, for the period 1957 to mid 1970s, total debt (red line
on chart) was increasing close to the growth rate of national income (blue
line on chart), despite war debt for WW II, Korea and Vietnam.
Who is selling out America?
Ask Timothy
F. Geithner, Secretary of the Treasury, and his
cooperative big business cohorts on Wall Street, such as Citi Group,
Goldman Sachs, Lehman Bros and companies like AIG,
and so forth. Then do a little research in the USA past Treasury Secretaries,
like Henry M. Paulson, Jr. and
Ben Bernanke, and don't forget Former Federal Reserve
Chairman Alan Greenspan. These men
are but just the tip of a huge iceberg. Then check into their common ties &
heritages along with the vast majority of our country's mega companies and
even our FDIC & Treasury Departments! From banking, major news medias to
Wall Street to Hollywood these groups are bleeding our country and leaving
the middle class to pay the debt. Click on the below link to discover
more about The British Insurance Group Willis
Holdings. They are now the majority lease holder and are now
changing the name of our country's icon, The Sears
Tower; Click on the following link to learn more about this company
and the CEO, Joseph J. Plumeri's close ties
to several failed US Financial Groups;
Willis-Holdings!
Isn't it also quite coincidental that Michael
Chertoff is the new Secretary of the Department of Homeland
Security. (some of the links will take you
from this site. To return, simply click the back button, upper left of
your screen)
Who Controls America? Draw your own
conclusions!
Click Here! to learn how Bank of America
was forced to buy Merrill Lynch with the taxpayers money.
Click Here! to learn why
Larry Silverstein owner of
World Trade Towers blew it up? It's also
interesting that the Towers, as well as Building 7, were on
Rockefellers controlled New York Port Authority
property!
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