*Be warned that the
artificial sweetener;
Aspartame
(NutraSweet)
is banned in most regions of the world as it has been proved to cause
leukemia's and lymphomas, as
well as seizures and cancer. It
should only be used for killing ants.
In 1977 Donald Rumsfeld, then
George Bush's defense secretary but also chief executive of the
pharmaceutical company GD Searle, publicly stated that he would "call in
his markers" to win a license for aspartame, the sweetener that had been
discovered by chance in Searle's laboratories, according to Roger
Williams in the Commons yesterday. The warnings and science reports of
it's dangers were ignored and a license was granted.
Please watch the below video and
do not allow your family to take the H1N1 Vaccine
"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 truer 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
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of Oct. 2009; One in 100 American Children have Autism
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!
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 was 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 under President George H. Bush 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 word Al' Qaeda
in some Arabic tongues means toilet and in others it means base, which
is a CIA term given to the Afghanistan mujahideen fighters
during their war with Russian occupation.
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 led into greater and greater
debt! That alone should tell you something of their true agendas. It
appears that Americans choose not be overly 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 deity having inherited his
blessings and permission to do whatever they damn well please. The
plunder of the globe began with the crusaders, then the Portugal,
Spanish, Dutch and English all proceeded to murder aborigines
everywhere they sailed. As that America was the last industrial nation
standing after world war 2 they have extended their power grab and
taken their turn in spreading their self serving version of religion
and democracy. Without morality or consensus they do it with the force
of an avenging Angel...They and Europe, as well as Israel will enslave
us all under the guise of a New World Order!
Do I hate my country?
Not necessarily all the people, just the leaders, the hypocrites, the
elite and those too dumb to see reality! 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 or
justice, much less with compassion and as we should all know...power
corrupts even the most valiant of hearts. The world's leaders were
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. All politicians have
degrees in Law. The clue in being a successful lawyer is to be able to
con, cheat, make powerfully connected friends and stand up in court
and endlessly lie while smiling. Personally I don't believe those to
be decent qualities for leaders. Living and traveling the globe for 45
years I truly believe that mankind is an immature species suffering
from acute self awareness, self empowerment, self righteousness and an
inability to understand the complexities of our fruitful, but fragile
ecosystem, much less their fellow humans.
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;
9-11 and the inner war
In 2001 the then president George W Bush, Donald Rumsfeld and Dick
Cheney, along with their power partners the Rockefellers and others,
played out one of history's most vile and criminal attacks against it's
own people. The attacks were designed, as was Pearl Harbor, the Bay of
Tongan in Vietnam to get America into war. A war that would kill
millions and cripple Iraq, Afghanistan, as well as the US financially
and morally. The puppet masters attacked the Twin Towers...the US's
icons of wealth, killing over 3,000 citizens and brought the US to it's
knees. The Jewish owned medias quickly went to work weaving their web of
lies in uniting the country for war. As most Americans live
self-righteous and complacent lives it is blasphemous to even consider
that their own leaders would carry out such a sick cowardly attack on
their own country and people. Facts the power elite were full aware of,
as these ploys had been carried out successfully many times in the past.
Thousands of questions went unanswered; the feeble and blatant lies
of the cover-up were so obvious as to be ludicrous...but nevertheless
they were accepted by the mast majority. People around the world
automatically cried out in support. As were the Americans they were
quick to rattle the sabers for war against the accused; which were a
rag-tail band of mountain men called the Taliban. America and it's
western cronies had given a fictitious name to these so-called
terrorists...The Al Qaeda. The fear mongering and loud speeches of
patriotic fervor seemed to justify any and all actions against real or
imagined enemies near and far...and so it all began.
Looking back it should be apparent that steel buildings do not
collapse from fire. They never crumble upon themselves. Jet fuel does
not generate near enough heat to melt such massive steel girders. Why
were so many witnesses testifying during the incident of several smaller
explosions rippling through the towers, but within 2 days their
statements were eradicated from the news and never mentioned again. Why
did the government order all steel debris quickly and secretly removed
and to be deposed without any outside investigation in determining their
sudden collapse? Even a small house fire is investigated. Why did
building 7 collapse with no damage? Why did the properties owner, Larry
Silverstein tell the fire department to "Pull the building" a term used
by demolition experts?
The Pentagon is and was the most secured building in the world with
hundreds of cameras lining every inch of it's exterior, so why were
there only one very poor quality shot of where the supposed plane hit?
Where were the pieces of the plane? Why were there no general grass
firs, Why were there never any film or photos of bodies, off fuselage,
seats, baggage, etc. Why was the hole in the exterior wall 80 feet
narrower than the plane. If the fire in the two towers melted 110
stories of 4 foot x 4 inch steel girders and concrete flooring, etc.
then why did the sized plane with the same amount of fuel do so little
damage to the Pentagon?
I saw an opened booked on a small wooden table just a few feet into
the exposed cavity and it was unburned. How could the so-called
terrorist with only a few hours of flight training in a simulator manage
to fly such a behemoth plane a few feet off the ground at a 30 degree
angle, when most professional pilots state it is impossible?
In continuance; Why was Dick Cheney seen in the white house bunker on
the morning of Sept. 11th? Why was George Bush far away in a small
school in Homestead, Florida? Why would he remain for another 30 minutes
or so even after being informed of the 2 attacks? Why did he later lie
during a conference that he saw the 1st plane crash into the tower on a
small TV in the school. No one filmed it and there were no TVs turned
on, if there were any at all. Why did Dick Cheney assume total control
over all US Air Defenses, including NORAD a few days before the attack?
Why was he telling military pilots to "Stand Down?" Then the lies
stating that the flight in Pennsylvania was brought down by passengers,
then in another conference Donald Rumsfeld said he had no choice but to
shoot it down? You may say their statements were just errors of
confusion, but there were just too many lies...to many cover-ups...to
many mistakes...yes, there was one issue that was definitely too
many...too many people died that die and every day since in 2 wars. We
elected oilmen, Bush, Cheney the Rockefellers and so many others were
all oilmen. Oilmen need oil...America needs oil...Iraq had oil, lots of
oil. Let's not forget the billions in no-bid contracts issued to
Halliburton, Cheney's company. The pieces of the puzzle just fit to
perfectly...the reasons and the actions were just too neatly planned for
9-11 to have been the result of a few uneducated desert rats from Saudi
Arabia, which of course we didn't attack.
Oh and the word Al Qaeda means toilet in some Arabic languages and
'The base' in others, which the latter was a CIA term. Eight years of
bloodshed and trillions of dollars we are still in Iraq and Afghanistan
and the oil prices while skyrocketing in Iraq have not come down in the
US. We destroyed two countries, murdered a million or more of their
impoverished citizens and for what? The war drums in America are beating
loudly, but with our 60 trillion dollar world debt, our deep depression
and industry collapse, along with millions losing their jobs and
homes...the next set of drums you may hear will be from some radio in a
soup kitchen.
"The truth is, there is no Islamic army or terrorist group called Al
Qaeda. And any informed intelligence officer knows this. But there is a
propaganda campaign to make the public believe in the presence of an
identified entity representing the 'devil' only in order to drive the
'media couch potatoes' and the patriotic youth to sign up for the
military in defense of their country's honor and to accept a unified
international leadership for a war against terrorism. The country behind
this propaganda is the US and the lobbyists for the US war on terrorism
are only interested in making money." War stimulates the war industry
and makes billions for the players. The costs of suffrage and deaths, as
well as the bleeding of the common man's livelihood mean absolutely
nothing to these people.
There are and will remain just too many unanswered questions and it
seems that no one, especially not any of our so-called keepers of
democracy, nor Obama...has the fortitude to re-open a thorough
investigation into the sham of 9-11. Nor even investigate the murderers
and war mongers Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld., who together changed America
forever for the worst. From the 9-11 attacks, the cover-ups, the 2 wars,
the missing billions, the no-bid contracts, the torturing and killing of
peasants in Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo as well as in hundreds of dark
cells around the globe.
Obama, like them all, is a coward and a fool that sells his soul
for fleeting elitism. A small minded child in a man's body, but without
the "Balls" to do what's right!
Wake up people!!!!
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 earnings turning the country into a basic sweat
shop for western interests.
Due to over-spending Argentina turned to the IMF for assistance. 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. It is obvious that the world organizations, such as the IMF,
the world bank, WHO and even NATO are controlled by America. They are
the largest contributors and therefore set the policies.
Argentina had no real choice but to implement the IMF's plan. The
results were quick and predictable. Higher taxes sent the economy deeper
into recession. 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. Several
months later 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, 2001. 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, riots and tear gas
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's
continued imperialism. As that the British had illegally and immorally
laid claim to the small isolated and barren Falkland Islands it was they
that commenced the military action against the inferior Argentina. The
brief, but crippling war was never about the Islands. One good note;
without the multi-billion pipe deal Enron soon collapsed. They had been
doctoring their financial records for years and to save their criminal
enterprise they played their last bullying gamble. They were snug in
their initial beliefs that they could make the Government of Argentina
bow down with the aid of America's Bush and the UK's Margaret Thrasher.
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.
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USA's Crippling Global Debt.
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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BIG
PICTURE - $57 TRILLION of DEBT in America, and rising rapidly.