The Way Forward in 2015

"The Only Way Forward In 2015

by Brandon Turbeville
Friday, June 19, 2015

In the year 2015, America and the rest of the world finds itself at a crossroads. The time is fast approaching when the world’s population will receive the final choice between a move toward true freedom or the clampdown of total oppression. Throughout recorded history, tyrannies have arisen and morphed into other forms with the end result being the creation and maintenance of a permanent worldwide oligarchy that is attempting to ensure the end of all independent thought and action.

This oligarchy has maintained its control by a number of different methods, the concept of “divide and conquer” being one of the most important in its arsenal. Throughout history, the divisions of race, religion, national borders, and class have all been cleverly used to keep the many from rightly viewing the few as the enemy.

In the past, there have been times where the façade has shown cracks and there have been individuals who have shown their perception of the obstacle of division and subsequently made strides to overcome it. Those individuals did their best but were promptly silenced or murdered for their efforts. The murders of JFK, RFK, MLK, and others are all testaments to this idea. Particularly with Martin Luther King Jr., the danger to the oligarchy was not so much his fight for civil rights for black Americans, his opposition to the Vietnam war, and his concerns for labor that posed a threat to the oligarchy individually, it was his ability to unify those varied interests – blacks and black civil rights activists, white war protesters, and blue collar workers – that represented the greatest threat.

In 2015, however, after experiencing decades of declining political interest and knowledge on the part of the general public and a few short years of increasing political awareness thanks to the alternative media, the tide has seemingly turned yet again in the downward direction.

In 2015, the presence of “traditional” activists has dramatically declined due to the general lack of interest in political affairs amongst the general public. Even among the alternative media and “awake” activists, the focus has become one of money and self-promotion rather than a cause. The rally cry is “come to MY website!” “listen to MY radio show!” instead of a cry to bring more individuals into the movement as a whole. The focus is now on stealing listeners and readers from other radio shows and websites as opposed to stealing empty heads away from the oligarchy.

Political divisions have taken America down to the lowest depths of division seen in decades. Religious tensions are reaching a new height. Racial tension is increasing as is tension between genders and those of other sexual orientations. With racial movements like “#Black Lives Matter being promoted by the Soros-funded left, radical Christian “conservative” “draw Muhammed” contests and anti-Muslim protests being promoted from notorious Neo-Con networks, and a number of other agitational movements, America is as divided as it has ever been.

Those few concerned with political developments are siphoned off into Republican vs. Democrat debates and Liberal vs. Conservative ideologies. Any issue that arises of any substance is quickly pushed off into one of the two camps. Support the Second Amendment? You must be a crazed right wing white Republican. Support workers' rights and labor protections? You must be a socialist Liberal Democrat. Oppose mandatory vaccination? You must be an anti-science Republican. Oppose police brutality? You must be black and anti-white. Oppose war? You must be an anti-American commie. Have opinions that don’t fit into the mold? You are a crazy conspiracy theorist.

Even among the alternative media and the activist community, political pedigrees have become major obstacles with Libertarians fighting with socialists, conservatives fighting with liberals, anarchists fighting with everyone including themselves, and so on. Groups have allowed egos and minor differences to stand between them and their ultimate goals.

For instance, pro-gun groups may not interact with other pro-gun groups, even within their own state, simply because of minor differences. White gun groups and proponents do not interact with black gun groups and proponents. Likewise with any other issue – economics, vaccines, war, etc. This is not to imply racism as the reason, but it does demonstrate a true disconnect.

Unfortunately, it is a disconnect that we cannot afford.

An example can be seen in recent open carry protests that have taken place all across the country. These protests have caused a stir due to the enormous brainwashing the American people have been subjected to regarding guns, especially when those guns are carried visibly and publicly. The overwhelming majority of these protesters were of the conservative variety. The overwhelming majority were also white.

Later, the Huey P. Newton Gun Club announced a similar protest, inviting all interested parties – black and white – to attend. The end result was two protests – one black and one white. Yet there was only ever one issue! An issue that both parties agreed upon! Unfortunately, blacks did not show up for the white protests and whites did not show up to the black protest. Both absences were tragic squanderings of an opportunity for members of two different “communities” to reach out and express solidarity with one another, even if the only accomplishment was to express support for the Second Amendment and nothing more.

Of course, the Second Amendment is not the only issue where the racial divide has played a part. It certainly was not the first. But it MUST be the last.

Recently, in California, a gathering of protesters assembled to express their discontent with SB 277, a California bill that would have eliminated most of the vaccine exemptions for children in California. The protesters in the crowd, while mostly white (from the videos of the event), were joined by members of the black community, specifically members of the Nation of Islam.

Many of the individuals of the protest movement were no doubt of various backgrounds, some conservative, some liberal, some independent. There is also little doubt that these individuals would have loved to have greater participation in their rally and more individuals fighting for their cause as well as to have involved and worked with members of the black community.

That being said, the black community has largely distrusted vaccinations for decades as they were so often the guinea pigs of experimentation and extermination campaigns in the past. So many informed members of this community undoubtedly wish for their voice to be heard.

So why is this so hard to accomplish? The media-provoked racial divide – growing more and more tense with each Soros-funded #BlackLivesMatter campaign and Koch funded FOX racial stirring report or radical defense of brutal police – has been extremely successful in convincing members of both communities that the “other” is not to be trusted.

Well, here is a newsflash. Both races have distrusted one another for decades, and for decades American activists have been fighting for the same thing. Have they achieved it? No. They have been steadily losing ground with each passing year. After the death of Martin Luther King, Americans as a whole have been moving backwards not forwards in nearly every single category.

The lesson is simple: Separate isn’t working. It’s time to try something else.

Finally, it appears that some activists have finally figured this out. When the Nation of Islam joined the anti-NB277 rally, it was not only expression of both communities’ willingness to work together and engage in enlightened mutual self interest, it was a message to all other activists that this is the way forward. It was also a message to the oligarchy that blacks and whites – at least the more astute ones – are tired of being played against one another.

As Heather Callaghan described the event,

Big Pharma used every psy-weapon available to demonize opponents of forced vaccination bills like SB277 which would remove virtually all vaccine exemptions from California children. This psy-op is evidenced by the four top signs of astroturfing and media manipulation. They not only used typical witch hunt lingo and painted quite the narrative to demonize opponents of vaccination, forming a "debate" where there was none - debates usually include two willing parties and are not driven by one forceful entity - but also twisted it up by politicizing it into a left-right Punch and Judy show which created more confusing division.

Basically, the media tried to shame liberals and blame the middle-class educated crowd for causing disease outbreaks, even though California's children are over 97% vaccinated. They magically drove the choice over one's body into a Right issue and painted it as uneducated, stodgy and outdated. Then they pulled out the conservatives' only known black idols - Drs. Ben Carson and Thomas Sowell (educated by the Pharma/Rockefeller-funded Hoover Institute) who both suddenly came out in glowing support of vaccines.

But others that are beloved in the black community had something to say about vaccines...

No!

Louis Farrakhan and Tony Muhammad simply say No! They don't pull punches by asking for a choice. They've drawn a line in the sand, especially since whistleblowers came out with information of covered up data showing that the MMR vaccine can create higher rates of autism among young black males. Farrakhan recently spoke with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. about vaccines and asked "Am I the only one?..." Meaning the only black man to speak out about forced vaccination as it applies to SB277.

But Tony's epic under-the-radar speech shows more than just the long-awaited ire of the black community who don't wish for another "Tuskegee experiment" - it shows that blacks and whites are not taking the division-bait. They are not being divided and conquered.

If there is to be any hope for this country and the rest of the world, it will lie in the ability for individuals who are part of the masses to put away differences and work together. This idea is not a “We Are The World” pie-in-the-sky “let’s all hold hands and love each other” ideal. It is the concept of Enlightened Self-Interest and Enlightened MUTUAL Self-Interest.

Peace and harmony is the ideal. Friendship, understanding, and compassion between races is also a noble goal. But, in the absence of the ideal, we must be willing to accept a mutual understanding that our own self-interest is inextricably linked. No one is demanding that you like one another. But we must begin to recognize common interests, setting aside differences at least temporarily, before we lose everything.

King understood this concept and he did what he could to implement it. It was such a threat that it got him killed. So with that in mind, we can see clearly what the system sees as a threat and what we must do bring it down or, at least, land a few blows in return.

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War With Russia Will Be Nuclear

"If Nuclear War Doesn’t Exterminate Us Ebola Virus Might

08/02/14

Paul Craig Roberts

Obama’s White House Press Conference

I just heard on National Public Radio two things that have totally destroyed what tiny bit of belief I still had in American leadership. I have concluded that the term “intelligent American” is an oxymoron.

American elites have decided that Americans are not sufficiently threatened by war and economic chaos, so they are bringing the ebola virus to America. National Public Radio reported that two people infected with the ebola virus, which cannot be cured and is usually deadly, are being brought to Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia.

Allegedly the ebola carriers will be quarantined in special rooms. But we already know that American hospitals cannot even contain staph infections. What happens to the utensils, plates, cups, and glasses with which the ebola infected persons eat and drink? And who gets to clean the bed pans? One slip-up by one person, one tear in a rubber glove, and the virus is loose. All it takes is one cough, one sneeze, one drop of saliva, and the virus is loose in one of the main transportation centers of the US.

Pandemic anyone? Little doubt but that most of the world would emit a great sigh of relief to be rid of Washington.

If we don’t die from ebola, we still have to dodge nuclear war. I heard part of Obama’s press conference. Obama accused Putin of doing everything that only Obama is doing.

If Obama believes what he told the press, he is utterly disinformed by his advisors. If he doesn’t believe the crude propaganda that he speaks, he is consciously leading the drive to war with Russia which probably means war with China as well and the end of us all.

Keep in mind that after eight years the US military was unable to successfully occupy Iraq and that after 13 years the US is unable to defeat a few thousand lightly armed Taliban in Afghanistan. Russia and China are not Iraq, Libya, or Afghanistan.

War with Russia will be nuclear. Washington has prepared for it. Washington has abandoned the ABM treaty, created what it thinks is an ABM shield, and changed its war doctrine to permit US nuclear first strike. All of this is obviously directed at Russia, and the Russian government knows it. How long will Russia sit there waiting for Washington’s first strike?

Russia hasn’t done anything except get in the way, belatedly, of Washington’s lies that Washington uses to start wars. Russia (and China) went along with Washington’s lies about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. Russia (and China) went along with Washington’s lies that Washington’s 13-year attempted conquest and occupation of Afghanistan had to do with finding Osama bin Laden. Washington (and China) fell for Washington’s deception that a UN resolution establishing a no-fly zone over Libya was for the purpose of preventing Gaddafi’s air force from bombing his own people, only to discover that Washington misused the resolution to send the NATO air force to overthrow the Libyan government.

When Washington drew a “red line” in the sand with regard to the Syrian government’s use of chemical weapons against the outside forces that Washington had organized and sent into Syria to overthrow the government, all the while pretending that these Islamists mercenaries were the true spokesmen for democracy in Syria, most of the world knew that Washington was about to organize a chemical attack and blame Assad. When the Washington orchestrated attack happened on schedule, this time Russia and China did not fall for it. And neither did the British Parliament. Washington was unable to produce any evidence for the charges that Washington made and hoped would bring in at least the British to support Washington’s military assault on Syria. Russia, however, was able to produce evidence, and the evidence foiled Washington’s plot against Syria.

Russia’s intervention angered Washington, as did Russia’s intervention that blocked Washington’s plot to attack Iran. Washington, devoid of all evidence and in contradiction to the reports from the International Atomic Energy Agency from inspectors on the ground in Iran that there was no diversion of uranium from the legal energy program to a weapons program, had Iran set up for attack. Iran was surrounded by about 40 US military bases and two of Washington’s fleets off its coast.

But in stepped Russia and worked out a deal, which Washington had to accept, that kept Iranian uranium enrichment at the low level used for energy, a level far below weapons requirements.

Two black marks agains Russia whose government prevented wars that Washington wanted. Russia (and China) were supposed to endorse Washington’s lies like the puppet states of Europe, Canada, Australia, and Japan, countries that long ago gave up their sovereignty to Washington.

Unfortunately for Russia, Russia demonstrated that Russia had achieved sufficient power and influence to block Washington’s war plans and, thereby, brought into action against Russia the Wolfowitz Doctrine. I have cited this doctrine in recent columns, but you can google it and read it for yourself. The doctrine is the basis for Washington’s foreign policy and declares that the principle goal of Washington’s foreign policy is to prevent the rise of any country that could serve as a check on Washington’s hegemony over the world. (The doctrine explicitly mentions Russia but also applies to China.)

Washington is disturbed that Russia has twice foiled Washington’s war intentions and that the Parliament of the US Puppet State of Great Britain voted with the Russians. Washington is also concerned with the growing economic and political relations between Washington’s EU puppet states and Russia. EU countries, especially Germany, have numerous and profitable economic connections with Russia, and all of Europe is dependent on Russian supplied energy.

Washington concluded that Washington was in danger of losing its control over Europe. While the Russian government was asleep at the switch enjoying the Olympics, Washington pulled off its coup in Kiev.

Neoconservative Victoria Nuland, appointed by Obama as Assistant Secretary of State, announced at a press conference last December that Washington had spent $5 billion purchasing fifth column Ukrainian NGOs that can be put into street demonstrations to destabilize a government and on grooming and purchasing Ukrainian politicians who will serve as Washington’s stooges. Nuland, of course, described Washington’s purchase of Ukraine as “furthering democracy” in Ukraine.

Washington’s coup against a democratically elected government brought to power extreme elements that proclaimed their hatred of Jews and Russians. These elements destroyed Russian war memorials erected to remember Russia’s liberation of Ukraine from the Third Reich, passed legislation outlawing Russian as an official language, and engaged in violent physical attacks on the Russian speaking population.

Ukraine has always been an area of changing borders. As some have put it, “Ukraine is a country in search of borders.” When Ukraine was a Soviet province, Soviet leaders attached, for various reasons, traditional Russian provinces to the Ukraine Socialist Soviet Republic. When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, pressure from Washington on a weak Russia resulted in the separation of Ukraine from Russia and this included Crimea, a part of Russia since the 1700s and Russia’s warm water port.

The Russian populations in the former Russian territories that Soviet leaders foolishly attached to Ukraine were alarmed by the extreme Russophobia of the government that Washington established in Kiev. The former Russian territories voted to rejoin their mother country and to depart the Russophobic US puppet state established in Kiev.

The Russian government accepted the request from Crimea, but not the requests from the other former Russian provinces in order to demonstrate to Europe that Russia was not provocative and not the source of the crisis. Putin even had the Russian Duma rescind his power to intervene militarily in Ukraine in order to protect the secessionist provinces.

This restraint hurt rather than helped the Russian government’s position. Washington used its propaganda machine to label self-determination by Crimeans as “invasion and annexation by Russia of Crimea.”

Russia’s restraint with regard to requests to rejoin Russia from the other former Russian provinces resulted in a Washington encouraged military attack by its puppet government in Kiev against the separatist provinces that Russia refused to accept. Washington’s propaganda then succeeded in blaming Russia for the war that Washington launched on the separatist provinces.

Washington is not interested in the truth, and Russia cannot win a propaganda war with Washington which controls the world language, which is English, the language of Washington’s propaganda. The Western media consists of idiots who are enabling Washington’s drive toward war and the extermination of life on earth.

If the Russian government had accepted the separatist provinces request, there would be no war. The Ukrainian government is demented and controlled by Washington, but it is not going to attack territories acknowledged by Russia as its territory.

By showing restraint, Russia has convinced Washington that Russia is weak, and Washington has increased the pressure. Russia has convinced Europe that there is no cost from Russia to Europe’s complying with Washington’s sanctions. By relying on good will, reasonableness, truth and evidence, Russia has misread Washington and its craven European puppets.

What Obama meant in his White House Press Conference today (August 1) when he said that Putin should use diplomacy–which Putin has been using to no effect–is that Putin should hand Crimea, over the objection of Crimeans and the Russian people, to Washington’s puppet government in Kiev so that Washington can evict Russia from its warm weather port and access to the Mediterranean Sea, thus making redundant Russia’s naval base at Tartus, Syria. Obama also wants Putin to send into the separatist areas of Ukraine, areas that traditionally were part of Russia, Russian military forces to subdue the breakaway territories for Washington’s puppet government in Kiev.

This is Washington’s “diplomatic” position. Only a totally demented person could regard Obama’s position as realistic.

As a person who is considered fair-minded by world media and who arrives at reasonable conclusions independently of Washington’s propaganda, I am often interviewed by foreign as well as US independent media organizations. As of late, the Russian media has turned to me on a number of occasions. What I have learned is that the Russian media is perplexed by Washington’s hostility to Russia.

Russia is not operating in the old Confederate South trying to turn the American South against Washington for Washington’s rapine, murder, and destruction of the Southern culture, but Washington is operating in the Russian South trying to turn Ukraine, long a part of Russia, against Russia.

As Russians, except perhaps for the government, are unaware of the Wolfowitz Doctrine, they do not know that the main goal of Washington is to prevent the rise of all other powers that could limit Washington’s role as sole Unipower, Hegemon over Earth.

Instead of realizing the real threat, Russian media organizations ask me if the Russian budget can stand responding to sanctions from Washington and the EU by cutting off the energy supply to Europe.

Each time I hear this question I am astonished. Russia can shut down much of European industry and deprive the Europeans of heat in winter, and Russian media ask me if Russia can afford it?

Can Russia afford to be demonized by lies, to be driven into the ground by propagandistic sanctions that will hurt Europe and some US corporations, to convey the image that Russia is so weak as to be helpless in the face of Western sanctions as to accept the sanctions without demonstrating the cost to Europe and the US? Does Washington even have Russians brainwashed?

I am concerned about the crisis that Washington has orchestrated, because I believe it is leading to war, which will be nuclear. Are you ready to be destroyed over Washington’s lies about one Malaysian airliner? I am convinced that Washington is behind the destruction of MH-17, because Washington’s propaganda show was already ready and was instantly in performance. That Washington is responsible is the reason that Washington will not release its satellite photos of the area during the moment of the airliner’s destruction. That Washington is responsible is the reason that Washington replies to Russian hard evidence with lies and propaganda. It is Obama and Obama’s stooges in Kiev that refuse to negotiate, not Russia.

Russia has as many nuclear warheads as Washington, and Washington’s “ABM shield” is a farce. If the insane American government drives a crisis, which Washington alone created, to war, we will all die, and for what? The answer is: for a Washington LIE. Do you want to die for a lie? Another Washington lie? If you don’t, you had better let Washington know.

Russia cannot end this crisis unless it puts its foot down. I have previously made the case that Russia should take its case to the UN. Alternatively, the Russian government needs to engage Europe in two questions. One is does Europe want its energy supplies from Russia cut off, energy that Washington, despite its lies, cannot replace for 3 or more years if at all.. The other is does Europe want war with Russia and does Europe think that those idiotic countries that host Washington’s missiles won’t be nuked and exterminated?

The crisis in Ukraine will continue to Russia’s and all of humanity’s cost until Russia explains to the stupid, arrogant, hubris-filled West that the West’s criminal and aggressive actions against Russia bear a real cost, and that Russia is prepared to impose the cost.

The propagandized people in the West have no idea of the fate toward which their demented governments are driving them. Russia needs to make it clear to the brainwashed propagandized peoples in the West that Russia is not going to be a puppet state of the West or to accept gratuitous aggression from the White House Fool.

It would help to save life on Earth if China also made this clear. The sooner the better.

Unless the world reins in the demented criminals in Washington, the world has signed its own death warrant.

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Looking Forward to This Thanksgiving

I usually don't feel that way because I don't like to celebrate the slaughter and holocaust of the native population that extended their hands in peace when the colonialists first arrived, but I've hit the blue moon of Thanksgivings. 

I've already gotten a tremendously fat Globe (admittedly almost all advertisement sections for Black Friday at twice the cost) and my luxurious cup of coffee for the day so the start was fantastic. Now I will seclude and sequester myself for the rest of the day as I prepare the fixings for a Thanksgiving feast.

I have popcorn in a bowl for snack food as I cook the store-prepared and processed imitation turkey roll thing in a room warming oven, with a jar of Heinz gravy simmering on top. I have my corporately-bagged salad along with the instant potatoes and canned vegetable, with airy dinner rolls to sop up any leftovers. 

I will then retire to the couch in my skid-marked shorts and sweats for an entire day of viewing football per Pilgrim tradition. Later comes the hot apple pie and ice cream. The motto of the day (in between punts): to blog and serve.

"Do Not Let the Money Junkies Ruin Your Thanksgiving Day Putting a Strain on Your Family Ruining Your Marriage

November 27, 2013

by The Watchdog

For many people. It is hard to be thankful. Many families will have to go down to the local soup kitchen for a turkey dinner because they are living in their car because they lost their job and was evicted because they could not pay the rent. Many families are a paycheck away from being homeless who will go to the soup kitchen because they are broke thanks to inflation making the cost of food expensive. They can barely afford to feed their kids with macaroni and cheese dinners. They maybe lucky to have enough gas in the tank to make to the soup kitchen and back home.

There are others who still have a home and can barely afford to have a turkey dinner in the comfort of their own home. There are those to who have a home with no electric service and no phone. Regardless of what lot a family and a married couple is in. The day after Thanksgiving signals the coming of Christmas. Many families with young children have it very hard. The parents want so much to give their kids a good Christmas. The last thing a parent wants to do is disappointment their Children if they do not get any presents. Especially when the kids are well behaved, helping Mom and Dad when they can and have made the best out of it all.

It is not going to be an easy day for many. I know many parents and married couple are already starting to feel the stress of it all. These hard times every one is feeling does put a strain on the family. Married couples will fight because lack of finances, especially when the holidays start. These hard times are not no ones fault at all. This economy was caused by greed and those hungry for power. They have no regard for no one who has less than they do. They have no gratitude for what they have and have no compassion for anyone. The money junkies enriched themselves at the poor people’s expense which are many for no reason at all.

What I say to you in advice is simple, but not easy. That is do not let the Money Junkies ruin your Thanksgiving no matter if you are homeless, almost living on the streets, struggling or still doing well but still concerned. Do not give the pleasure of letting the oligarchs see you fight and living miserable. The nation is struggling because bankers have stolen the wealth we worked so hard for. So stop blaming each other for things both have no control over. Just because Christmas is coming up with all the stress and headaches compounded with further financial troubles. Please do not take it out on your spouse and children. Try to communicate and vent frustrations with spouse.

This thanksgiving holiday we call all give thanks this Thanksgiving is we have something the money junkies do not have that all the wealth of the world can not obtain. That is many of these Elite families have no love in their homes. Their ill gotten wealth is the only thing holding them together. If they become poor tomorrow, the family would no know how to stick together. They would starve to death on a deserted island with crate of unopened canned goods and a can-opener.

What we have the Money Junkies don’t .We have regard for our fellow man. We have compassion for the less fortunate. Many of will give the shirts off our backs for a stranger. We have generosity willing to give even if we can not afford it. We will give hospitality to a stranger to share the dinner table this Thanksgiving dinner and have them stay over for pies and watch the football game. We still have a sense of right and wrong. We still have ethics in our everyday lives. This why the money junkies are miserable is because they do not give, they take and steal. They are sociopaths who could care less if they make a single mom poor of no fault of her own freezing to death on the streets with her kids. The money junkies are people without remorse for her disposition.

I say do not let the money junkies ruin this thanksgiving for us. They maybe smoking cigars drinking brandy laughing how they screwed us over. What goes around comes around. They will reap what they sow.

Families need to stick together more than ever. Do not let finances strain your marriage and bring strife in the family. If Families stick together through the darkest of times. The money Junkies lose and we win.

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Gee, now I'm feeling kind of sad and lonely. I guess I'll take my friend up on his offer and scarf down some Turkey and trimmings while watching some football later this afternoon.  

All sarcasm and joking aside, I do convey thanks for the things I still do have, family, friends, food, and a few other things that make life worth living (as a man once said) and wish them upon you as well, readers, no matter who you are. There is nothing wrong with a day of peace and love no matter what the excu$e. May your God or spiritual entity shine on your table today, and may the wars in the world cease for just one day.

Tired of Obomber

That's what happens when you are dealing with the insane. 

"Speaking to a national business group on Wednesday, Obama tried to raise the pressure on congressional Republicans, saying that threats of a fiscal default or government shutdown by his political adversaries risk throwing the US economy back into crisis. 

Yeah, blame that and not the continuous printing of money by Ben Bernanke and his printing press in order to prop up the fraudulent Dow Jones average and buy Wall Street crap that the world no longer wants, or your complete mismanagement of this economy for the wealthy elite. It wouldn't be thrown back into crisis, it's simply that which is continuing.

Obama accused what he called “a faction” of Republicans in the House of trying to “extort” him by refusing to pass a stopgap spending measure or raise the nation’s debt ceiling unless the president’s health care plan is repealed. 

They are separate issues, but the abomination of Obombercare needs to be repealed anyway; however, as for the debt, this government doesn't need any more money. Stop lavishing money on Wall Street, end the bloated war-profiteering connected with the expanding empire and retract the damn thing, cut off all aid to the blood$ucking parasite Israel, stop all the corporate welfare that is subsidies and tax breaks, and lay off the lavish political lifestyles that bankrupted and broke American taxpayers are funding because that is where all the money is going, folks. All other needs have been neglected by this illegitimate and criminal government.

“You have never in the history of the United States seen the threat of not raising the debt ceiling to extort a president or a governing party,” Obama told the group, the Business Roundtable. “It’s irresponsible.” 

What is irresponsible is going further into debt! Man, is this guy ever a servant of the bankers and wealthy elite!

Obama called upon the business leaders to try to persuade lawmakers to avoid the kind of “brinksmanship” that would lead to promises of “apocalypse” every few months. 

At the bottom it is all about LEADERSHIP! It's GOOD STUFF when you are TRYING to get a WAR GOING!

“I’m tired of it,” he added. “And I suspect you are too.”

You know, we could do without the over-the-top hyperbole -- and the abomination that is Obombercare. Not only is it going to Walgreens pushing more costs on to employees, UPS is going to take it away from spouses even in the model of Massachusetts, the jobs are becoming part-time and temporary, the costs are still going up, the services are still being cut, and yet this guy is going to fight to the death to keep his signature failure -- even after big business got an exemption (labor did not. I thought Obomber was your friend?) meaning no subsidy for you, and removal of caps on patient, 'er, con$umer protection. Even Warren Buffett of all people said we should scrap the $y$tem written by and for the in$urance industry and prescription pharmaceuticals-- or didn't?  

But when it comes to members of Congress and the federal government:

"Separately, Obama came to the rescue of members of Congress and their aides Friday, saying the federal government would continue paying a large share of their health insurance premiums. Ambiguous provisions of the health care law had created serious doubts about whether such contributions would continue."

Ambiguous? All that time getting it written and passed and the law is ambiguous? 

Of course, I'm so glad Obomber took care of them -- at TAXPAYERS EXPENSE!! That is who the "federal government" is in that propaganda pre$$ context.  I would like to say for the record that I AM NOT the federal government when it comes to LYING to START WARS! Just wanted to get that on the record. The mouthpiece jewsmedia does not speak for me!

I know the propaganda pre$$ will shriek about the Republican-inspired shutdown because they will portray this as replay of the Clinton shutdown. The sad fact is the Republicans are right on this one. Obombercare is destroying the American economy, and full implementation will destroy full-time work for all but the privileged few. It's already happening. 

And I didn't even touch on his mass-murdering empire expansion called foreign policy and the mouthpiece media lies that come with it. That's what I'm tired of. I'd rather you deliver those people health care than missiles and bombs, sir. Has anyone ever told you lying is not healthy?

Concert Over?

The writer captures the way I have felt for a while after five long years of blogging:

"A Citizen wonders

I wonder about a lot of things -maybe too many.  One of the things I wonder about is war.

Those involved in the run-up to war with Iran are people I will not suffer.

We've all heard reports from un- named sources regarding the recent panic for war with Iran - I've not bought the bullshit - I hope you have not.

It's all fake my friends.

Fake from the start.  Fake based on previous trumped-up allegations that lead the US into the last two wastes of time, human lives and ....this is the important part to you immoral pukes - money.

America is wasting away - and the wars based on lies are one of the mainstreet avenues the country is taking on the way to hell paved with phony "good intentions."

We are sitting ducks - victims of a corrupt bought-and-paid-for lying GEetc... corporate media - just sitting here awaiting the next bombs to drop - and turn innocent men, women, and children into hamburger.  I hope you - reader - are comfortable with this.  I'm not.

There is not much to say, or write, these days, since it is common knowledge that the US FEderal government is corrupt, the elections are stolen, and the will of We The People goes ignored.

We all know that there is no hope for a legal solution to the mess we are in.  By "legal" I mean "consistient with the US Constitution."  The executive, judicial, and the bought-off houses are all lining their pockets with the loot - oblivious to the wasteland they leave behind  - for the rest of us to sort out, wallow in, and try to fix.

Our republic is under attack - from within - that means  - by elected and unelected "officials" at the highest levels - with the ability to influence the "rule of law" - to form the law - into any shape that suits their nefarious needs.

Population control.  Geoengineering.  911 Truth swept under the rug.  GM food funnelled down the throats of an already obese/dying electorate/population swilling this garbage unbenknowst to them - thanks to a  malfunctioned paid-for-by-the-same-crooks-selling-snake-oil media.

The project to meld America, Canada and Mexico - continues - unabated.

The project to inject you and yours with "vaccines" to "save" you continue - while the same filthy lying corpora-govt lets veterans starve in the streets - pretending to "care."  Why believe these monsters?

The wars for "democracy" overseas continue - selling the blood and bodies of your loved ones for no really good reason that can survive 5 minutes of intellectual interrogation.

No - we are supposed to continue this charade so the powers that be can continue thier agenda - free from questioning - free from the ballot box - free from protesters - yes - the perfect slave-state.

I wonder folks - when you will wake up.  I wonder when YOU will say ENOUGH!  I'm just not seeing it.

Recently, as a philosopher, I've been wondering if you all deserve slavery - since you are all willing to take it.  Slavery as a comfortable curled-up position as if it will last.  Slavery over Liberty - the stretched-out "fuck you!" attitude I've been accustomed to my entire life as an American.

There is no more sense in writing - I understand that - only in action.  I support all guerilla activities to make sure that stolen elections are outed.  I support all whistleblowers that can no longer watch the news tell thepublic the opposite of what is REALLY  going on.

I support anyone that supports the Constitution, Bill of Rights, and Declaration of Independence of the United States - and I support anyone opposing those in opposition to the above.

There is no good reason to murder an American citizen without due process - and many good reason NOT TO MURDER an American citizen WITH due process.

There is no proper definition for 'TERRORIST"  or "WAR ON TERROR."  THESE IDIOTIC BUMPER-STICKER BLATHERS CAN NEVER PASS THE TEST OF A THESIS STATEMENT!

Where are the professors in this country - especially the JEWISH PROFESSORS - given the history of scapegoats in NAZI Germany?  Where the hell are you people?

In the meantime - maybe I should feather my nest, sandbag the house, stock ammo, buy non-perishable food and watch the tyrannical scum-fest about to befall the US - compliments of the sick and twisted Sheriffs, Police, and their "big-brother" fed "leaders" as they all must be followers - unable to understand that the ONLY purpose any of the serve is to protect the Constitutional rights of those living within their jurisdictions.

Yes - maybe it is time to knock off the writing - and just wait.  

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Word of the Day

I couldn't have chosen a better one:

"Bullshit: the perfect academic word for US debt, economic, war policies"

by Carl Herman 
Nonpartisan Examiner

July 30, 2011 

 

On Bullshit, Princeton professor Harry Frankfurt’s 2005 best-seller, defines “bullshit” as saying whatever necessary to dictate an audience’s interpretation of a subject. Bullshit is comprised of lies of omission and commission, of course, but shifts as needed to maintain the desired dictatorship (the literal “say” of what people perceive).

 

Frankfurt observes that bullshit is more prevalent in politics than ever before, has zero respect for the truth, and is intentional and ongoing to replace facts. He explains in the video on the left.

 

Frankfurt provides academic permission for Americans to use “bullshit” to describe US “leadership” obvious use of bullshit in debt, economic, and war policies.

 

Use this academic term at your command.

 

The American public struggles with political and US corporate media bullshit to discern fact from spin. 

“As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.” -  unsourced and attributed to Andrew Carnegie

Here are leading US “leadership” areas of bullshitting the American public:

1. Congressional reports disclose that all “reasons” for war with Afghanistan and Iraq were known to be lies as they were told.
2. avoiding the obvious answer of ending an Orwellian "debt supply" and replacing it with money. A national debt is simply bullshit.
3. a million children a month to die of preventable poverty, even though historically ending poverty reduces population growth rate and the investment is less than 1% of the developed nations' gross national incomes (GNI).
4. Orwellian unlawful wars, including using depleted uranium weapons to damn victims with continuous misery and death.
5. torture, extrajudicial assassinations (including against American citizens) and indefinite detentions. 
6. destruction of the US Constitution into a form of government closest to fascism and nowhere near a constitutional republic.
7. literally throwing Americans onto the streets rather than take any of a dozen acts to allow them to stay in their homes.
8. intentional unemployment, crime, infrastructure decay, fear, anger, depression (both economic and psychological) rather than create money for full employment.
9. allowing 45,000 Americans to die every year from lack of health care, even though universal single-payer saves the nation $100-$300 billion every year.

With all respect, these bullshitting literal psychopaths in US “leadership” knew/know exactly what they're doing. A psychopath has a veneer of social grease thinly covering vicious acts.

The bullshitters’ last strands of support are dissipating; cognitive dissonance of the American public is embracing the “emperor has no clothes” facts. 

The good news is that every step "leadership" takes down their path of deceit and destruction, they become easier to see for what they are.

We will win with critical mass of public recognition of what’s right in front of everyone to see (and smell).

You, citizen, have unique opportunity to contribute your unique, beautiful, and powerful self-expression to building a brighter future if you choose the intellectual integrity and moral courage to do so.

Please do.

Millions will live or die, billions will have a life worth living or misery, and trillions of dollars of power are directed at our collective choice.

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What If.... We Are Winning

"What If....

What if the mainstream media were to tell us what is really going on in the world? (they won't)

What if we knew that we are on the verge of another nuclear disaster? (some of us do)

What if the majority knew that at least 6 US states are being ravaged by wildfires with over 1.2 million acres burned to a crisp? (who cares, right?)

What if folks knew about the 3.5 million of acres of fertile farmland being destroyed by flooding? (they WILL know this one in the fall 2011)

What if the teevee showed the reality of our senseless wars? (would we cry?)

What if people remembered the Gulf of Mexico oil spill? (anyone?)

What if we stopped for a day and quit buying useless trinkets from impoverished foreign workers? (could we see our future?)

What if all of us realized that we cannot earn our salvation by working harder, longer and acquiring more stuff? (what you talkin' 'bout Willis?)

What if God really does exist? (what can I say? I'm just wondering)

Why all the questions in this post?

To find the answer to that question go HERE

"Lessons from the "Fugowi"

Have you heard of the Fugowi?  It's an ancient tribe - if you haven't you are forgiven in advance.  They were known for having a poor sense of direction.  In fact - that's where their name originates - as historians have discovered reading the obscure journals of the brave souls who risked it all to live with the Fugowi.  Every time the Fugowi got lost  - they would ask:  "Where the fu@# are we?" - the rest is history.

Perhaps we can learn something from the Fugowi - that we can all get lost - but what is important is to take stock once in a while to determine where we are.  Not geographically speaking - but generally speaking.  Progress toward the America we want can only proceed with an idea of our current status - after all - so much is going on and the rate of change is accelerating.

The good news is:  people are talking to each other mutually recognizing that our mainstream media simply parrots an agenda dictated by their corporate masters.  This is progress.  Not too long ago - subjects that could not be discussed seriously in the open are now OK.  Like 911 truth - the Federal Reserve scam - the New World Order agenda - the disproportionate Israeli influence on American politics - the police state - and many other topics.  All were considered "dirty words" just months ago.  But not now.  THAT'S PROGRESS.  Here are some more:

1. Rigged Elections- Here we are - June 2011 - another corporate pep rally for president already in the works.  America is dying while the NAZI-Feds grasp for ever more power hoping that the politicians and consumers will cower.  Federal monies used as virtual bribes for the state governments are losing their appeal as the citizens press their "representatives" to stiffen their spines bent from years "under the yoke."

Repeated dicussions with friends and family have ended with:  "Well - THEY voted him/her in" while discussing the latest federal slap in the face toward some congressional district.  But - did they?  I have my doubts as the voting machines are so easily rigged one would have to be a two-year-old to trust them.

The electronic "voting" machines have to go if we are to rely on our elections.

2.  Crooked Federal Reserve - yep - Ron Paul has led this charge forever - and finally he's being recognized for the independent thinker and leader he is.  If the secret leeches that run this blood-sucking pyramid scheme are not ejected from our financial system - we are doomed.  They are crooks plain and simple.  They lie, cheat, and steal - BIG MONEY - while the little minimum-wage workers they hired with our bailout money after they went bankrupt call out-of-work taxpayers demanding late fees, interest and all kinds of other greed-based usurous sums.

Greed is really a diseased state of mind.  Greed is NOT good.  Greed is a disgusting form of gluttonous behaviour that relies on the impoverishment of many to feed one fat pig - a fat pig that can never ever get enough to sate their sick greed-need.  And these gluttonous pigs hide behind laws emplaced by lobbyist-operatives they cleverly emblaced to screw YOU out of everything you have.

By the way - NO - there is NO government agency monitoring these swine - that's why we are in the crisis we are in.  You are on your own.

Dump the Fed.  We are all hungry - time to kill the pig.

3.  Unjust War - An unjust war can only end one way - as a victory to the just.  I know this sounds optimistic - but that depends on which side of the war you are on.  I am on the losing side - being an American.

"We" are "fighting" a war based on lies based on torture based on false-flag attacks.  These attacks could only have happened with the endorsement of elements of our own military.  If you still believe the government version of what happened on 911 - I feel sorry for you - because either you haven't read the information available - or you can't absorb the information available - or you rely on the mainstream media to digest the information available and you believe the lies they are selling to you on General Electric television (NBC, MSNBC.)

Don't forget that as of right now - America has lost the moral high ground - the only podium upon which anyone has the credibility to point at human rights violators like communist China and make demands.  The only podium upon which one can complain when someone tortures American soldiers, POWs etc...

When you endorse torture, like Sean Hannity, well......you endorse torture.  Period.  You know - for your father, brother, mother, etc... in the US armed forces.  Yeah - that's what Hannity is doing - saying torture works - that means it will work on your son or daughter if/when they are captured.  Don't forget to mail that little scumbag Sean Hannity a thank-you letter for his endorsement of torture.  After all - if it works on the enemy - it oughta' work on our boys/gals too - right?  How sick.  Tar and feathers.

End the wars.  Prosecute torturers and put them away - including their radio-salesmen.

4.  More war - oh yes - don't think the PNAC NAZIs are finished yet.  These nutcases are serious.  No - not enough to carry their own machine gun into the field - for YOUR kids to go fight their fantasy war for world domination.  Iran.  Syria.  The Project for a New American Century.  Billy the Krystol - yeah - I'll bet his kid is going to war - after all - he's selling these wars all the time.  Or is that clown's kid in college - or maybe collecting money originating from your tax dollars?

Stop the warmongers - the power of the purse was put there for a reason.

5.  Economy - A wasteland.  Americans are draining every asset they have - their savings - meaning retirement - just to pay off the usurous bankers.  Yes - the bankers need more and more and more money all the time - and they pay lots of collection agents to harass and abuse Americans every minute of every day in an attempt to torture them into delivering money they couldn't come up with if they robbed a bank.  Meanwhile - the lying politicians line their pockets, put up a fake protest while the king starts another war in the middle east - and tread water as they await their guaranteed slot as a lobbyist when they have to flee office to let the next liar in.

Make our own stuff here.

6.  Industry-  Military-industrial-"education" - complex.  Get a "job" in the military for short-term escape from poverty - go kill poor people in an area that has natural resources we need - do so many tours your head is ready to explode - then come home and get a job at McCheesburgers saying "yes maam" - then live with what you did over there.  Well - maybe not - when you take the depleted uranium and other hazardous exposures that are delivered to every GI.

There is no industry in the US anymore - that is - civilian.  This is a treasonous state of affairs - because it was the ability of the US to transform civilian industry quickly into war industry that won WWII.  What are we gonna do now?

Bombs end up as shards of waste - many times embedded in the bodies of innocent victims.  We can do better than that.

7.  Sovereignty-agenda 21 is taking root at the local level.  This is not a joke - ignore at your own risk.  United Nations based bullshit.  Unelected scum coming to take everything away from private property owners from "sea to shining sea."  Can't say I blame them  - damn nice property to steal from the mushroom-masses.

Abide by the constitution - strict adherence.  Treason has been defined  - send treasonous scum to the big house.

8.  Food - genetically modified corporatized and government backed poison.  Watch "Food-Inc" - and see if you can ever stomach another burger from the yellow arches.

No more Monsanto et al - we never needed them in the past and we don't need these greedy scum now.

9.  Media Crisis - the only industry protected by the Constitution - usurped by the immoral and monied greed-motivated scoundrels who think it's OK to pay talking-heads to lie to the public rather than report the truth to the public so they can make up their own minds.

No - the owners of OUR airwaves - are so smart - that they just KNOW what is right for the public - and that THEY - being the wise ones - will do whatever it takes - including lying to YOU - about what is really going on - who is really the best candidate for you -  but who is the best candidate for THEM - that is - who will allow these elitists to maintain their domination over YOU?  That's the news they feed you - sh#t - since they consider you mushrooms to be kept in the dark.

Our mainstream media is a model of corruption and cowardice - as those with the shows take their orders and report nothing that will benefit the listener - just a bunch of garbage orchestrated to provide a smokescreen to hide the unconstitutional crimes being committed every day by our federal guvmint.

Break up mainstream media monopolies - let the independent voices set us free.

Finally:

What to do?

Keep talking - if you are an awakened citizen - stay informed - keep talking to everyone you know.  So far the truth is bleeding into the fabric of lies woven for so many years.

The truth is coming out - although a slow process - it is an unstoppable force - that is reaching critical mass.

Together - although independently - and in our own ways - with our own means - we are winning.

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Bushbama

Obama Year Two: Continued Betrayal and Failure (Part I) - by Stephen Lendman

Last December, a two-part article discussed Obama's year one betrayal and failure, accessed through the following links:

http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2009/12/obama-year-one-betrayal-and-failure.html

http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2009/12/obama-year-one-betrayal-and-failure_23.html

In year two, the pattern continued, revealing domestic and foreign policies that:

-- outdid George Bush by exceeding his harshness, lawlessness, belligerency, and public trust betrayal;

-- maintained a 30 year agenda of shifting public wealth to the rich, as well as supporting capital, not public welfare, including targeting middle class households for destruction;

-- looted the nation's wealth, wrecked the economy, and consigned growing millions to impoverishment without jobs, homes, savings, social services, or futures;

-- let hunger, homelessness, poverty, and those uninsured grow to unacceptable levels;

-- backed Wall Street's financial coup d'etat by greater Fed empowerment, as well as institutionalizing speculation, "too-big-to fail," super-wealth, and big money power;

-- plans new global monetary measures to control the world's money;

-- continued America's permanent war agenda by expanding imperial adventurism, increasing covert and overt aggression on new fronts with out-of-control military spending, exceeding the rest of the world combined at a time America has no enemies;

-- became the latest war criminal Nobel Peace Prize recipient;

-- executed his first successful coup d'etat in Honduras against its democratically elected president, then backed the fascist regime replacing him;

-- failed attempting regime change in Iran;

-- continued providing military, economic and political aid to the world's most ruthless, corrupt despots;

-- maintained a longstanding policy of supplying Israel with annual billions, more on request, other add-ons and extras, interest-free loans, the latest weapons, munitions and technology, unrestricted US market access, free entry of its immigrants, and unbridled support for its illegal belligerence, occupation, and crimes of war and against humanity;

-- presides over a bogus democracy under a homeland police state apparatus, sacrificing due process, judicial fairness, and other civil liberty protections in the name of national security;

-- continued torture as official policy, extraordinary rendition to prison hellholes, and for the first time, targeted US citizens for assassination;

-- invoked the state secrets privilege to prevent lawsuits by victims of rendition, torture, abuse, and those opposing warrantless wiretapping;

-- targets whisleblowers, dissenters, Muslims, environmental and animal rights activists, anyone challenging state power, and civil rights lawyers who defend them too vigorously called terrorists or threats to national security;

-- endorsed preventive detention without charge for those at Guantanamo considered dangerous, but no evidence allows prosecuting them;

-- expanded Bush administration spying and secrecy;

-- refused to prosecute its officials, suppressing proof of their culpability;

-- planned cybersecurity tyranny, threatening a free and open Internet, consumer privacy, and civil liberties; more on how below;

-- waged war on organized labor through fewer jobs, less pay, reduced benefits, and gutted work rules, including health and safety on-the-job protections;

-- tried controlling the media more aggressively than Nixon;

-- denied budget-strapped states financial help, forcing them to slash welfare programs, education, health care for the poor, and other vital services when they're most needed;

-- continued to commodify public education, end government responsibility for it, and make it another business profit center;

-- promoted dangerous vaccines for a non-existent threat;

-- promoted health care legislation that rations care; enriches insurers, drug giants and large hospital chains; places profits above human need; and keeps a dysfunctional system in place; Peter Singer's July 15, 2009 New York Times article endorsed administration policy, headlined: "Why We Must Ration Health Care," saying it's essential to apportion a "scarce resource" to those who can afford it; others will get only what they can pay for;

-- on the pretext of improving food safety, enacted agribusiness-friendly House legislation, harming consumers, small farms and food producers without improving America's industrial food system; on November 30, the Senate passed its own version; more on that below;

-- wants so far not passed legislation to let corporate polluters reap huge windfall profits by raising energy cost, while creating a speculative bonanza through a new carbon trading derivatives scheme;

-- cracks down harder on undocumented immigrants than George Bush, deporting a record number in FY 2010; others are held in over 300 detention facilities in nearly every state in the country, treated like criminals or terrorists; and

-- promoted a national ID card for all citizens and legal residents to be able to monitor them everywhere at all times.

Year two: Obama's destructive agenda continued.

Militarizing and Exploiting Haiti

An earlier article explained that Haiti is no stranger to adversity. Except for a brief time after its successful 1791 - 1803 revolution turning slaves into citizens and during Jean-Bertrand Aristide's tenure, it's experienced over 500 years of severe oppression, slavery, despotism, colonization, occupation, reparations, embargoes, sanctions, deep poverty, starvation, unrepayable debt, and natural calamities from destructive hurricanes to powerful earthquakes, most recently on January 12. It devastated greater Port-au-Prince, killing up to 300,000, leaving around 1.5 million Haitians homeless with little aid and no help to rebuild.

Some countries reacted quickly, mostly a few Latin American ones, including Cuba and Venezuela. Washington did nothing, deploying marines and paratroupers instead, militarizing the country, obstructing, not providing aid, promising $1.1 billion, delivering none, planning only exploitation of Haiti's resources and cheap labor.

Haiti was opened for business, occupied to be plundered, its people on their own, sink or swim under circumstances assuring mass suffering, starvation, disease and for many, death. Only corporate interests mattered at a time of dire need.

Eleven months later, Haiti is still plagued by rubble everywhere, extreme deprivation, promised aid undelivered, none from Washington, 1.5 million without shelter in streets and other open spaces, and now raging cholera, and the aftermath of a sham election, institutionalizing coup d'etat rule.

Washington's imperial hand orchestrated it, denying Haitians any chance for real change. It represents another betrayal by a president showing contempt for essential needs, human rights, and basic freedoms, at home and abroad, even under the most dire conditions.

America's Permanent War Agenda

America glorifies wars in the name of peace, historian Gore Vidal titling his 2002 book, "Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace," saying:

"Our rulers for more than a century have made sure that we are never to be told the truth about anything that our government has done to other people, not to mention our own."

It's persisted mainly since Franklin Roosevelt goaded Japan to attack us. It then continued in Korea, Vietnam, numerous proxy wars, the Cold War until the Soviet Union's 1991 dissolution, and now Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, and new wars to be launched at opportunistic times against unnamed enemies.

Obama is America's latest warrior president, talking peace, waging war, packaged as liberating ones for democracy, freedom, and justice against bogus threats, when, in fact it's an imperial agenda for wealth, power, and unchallengeable global dominance.

He lied calling Afghanistan a "war of necessity, not choice," doubled the force contingent since taking office, yet stays mired in an unwinnable quagmire. He also destabilized Pakistan, plans control over the Caspian Sea's oil and gas riches, as well as energy routes to secured ports for export.

He approved US military bases encircling Russia, China and Iran, obstructing their solidarity and cohesion. He promised change and delivered betrayal, nearing year three of his tenure. Like his predecessor, he aroused global anger, his agenda endangering everyone, including Americans, heading the country for tyranny and ruin.

Enacting Obamacare

An earlier article called March 21 a day of infamy when House and Democrat leaders bullied, bribed, cajoled, muscled, and jerry-rigged Obamacare to pass, despite most Americans opposing it with good reason. Ralph Nader called it a "pay-or-die system that is the disgrace of the Western world," costing double what other Western countries spend and delivering less, rationing care to enrich corporate providers while making a dysfunctional system worse.

Henceforth, junk insurance policies will leave millions underinsured. Costs will remain out-of-control. Insurers can still deny care by delaying, contesting, preventing or over-charging people from accessing it. Everyone must have coverage or be penalized if opt out, a provision many states are contesting. A Virginia federal judge just ruled it unconstitutional, a battle the Supreme Court will decide. Company-provided policies will be taxed as ordinary income, harming working households most of all.

Physicians for a National Health Program denounced it, saying the new law "will enrich and further entrench (private insurers, forcing) millions of Americans to buy" defective coverage leaving most worse off than before at a cost of hundreds of billions of tax dollars given predators to game the system for profit, the public losing out. Moreover, 23 million Americans will remain uninsured, "translate(d) into an estimated 23,000 unnecessary deaths annually and an incalculable toll of suffering."

Obama's centerpiece domestic policy scammed the public with a package of expensive mandates, new taxes, and sweetheart deals, creating a fragmented, dysfunctional, unsustainable system, denying Americans what they urgently need - universal coverage, an expanded, improved Medicare for all, everyone in, no one out, what neither party or Obama delivered.

Capitulating on Financial Reform

Omitting real structural reforms, Democrats, Republicans, and Obama agreed on a patchwork of half-measures. Instead of restraining financial fraud, too-big-to-fail empowerment, an out-of-control Fed, and casino capitalism's ability to game the system with public money, it institutionalized business as usual. The Financial Times (FT) quoted a Wall Street banker saying "We are all breathing a sigh of relief here....we can live with this." Indeed so since Wall Street lawyers wrote it. The FT added: investors believe the "overhaul in financial rules would not have a significant impact on the industry's structure and profitability."

Indeed not by:

-- empowering a financial aristocracy;

-- letting Wall Street run the country;

-- institutionalizing fraud, speculation and bailouts;

-- leaving executive pay, bonuses and perks untouched;

-- letting credit agency scams continue;

-- permitting giant banks, insurers and other financial firms to get bigger; and

-- establishing a toothless Consumer Financial Protection Bureau along with other anti-reform provisions.

Bottom line: the worst of bad practices will continue, besides teams of lawyers devising ways around whatever regulations emerge. According to University of San Diego Law Professor Frank Partnoy, "Wall Street has always been very skilled at getting around rules, and this law will be no different," especially with its loopholes, half-measures, and overall weakness. Bankers got the best deal big money can buy. The public again was scammed.

Part II will conclude Obama Year Two: Continued Betrayal and Failure.

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The More the Merrier

'Tis the Season:

Mid-Holiday Ramblings

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What a year.  But wait - not so fast:  Yogi Berra said "the game  ain't over 'till it's over."

We are all trying to determine how to plan and prepare for the future - after all - we all know we are responsible for ourselves.  So we absorb information - evaluate it - take decisions - and hope for the best.  Hardly a novel experience.

 Yogi Berra  also said that "it's tough to make predictions - especially about the future."  Actually I think it's easy to make predictions about the future - the hard part is getting them right.  But amidst our economic no-man's-land - our task is further complicated by a lying, self-serving corporate-bought-and-paid-for media - part of an attempt at "total propaganda" - belied by chinks in the armor available only because the internet has not yet been "adjusted" to the likes of Cass Sunstein and Joseph Lieberman - champions of the war on freedom of speech - the FIRST AMENDMENT.  Yes - somehow we still have slivers of light penetrating the corpora-wet-blanket media that so desperately and traitorously tries to smother the fires of liberty.

Ironically the "future" we are living in right now, in other words the outcome of our recent past was completely predictable if one is a student of history.  But who's "history?"  Yes - history is a spiderweb ready to ensnare - so how to traverse the mine-field of propaganda, manipulation, corporate-media, nanny-state elitists, religious extremists - all of those skewing our perceived reality presented to us by those working only to the advantage of their pet cause?  How to winnow the truth from the lies?

1.  911 Truth - anyone - and I mean anyone - that pretends that the attacks of 911 happened the way we were told - must be ignored as a source of reliable information.  I say this for several reasons.  First - they are incapable of thinking for themselves.  WTC7 was never hit by an airplane - was not really on fire that bad - etc... - the videos are available showing the building dropping like a rock.  The videos are available of  Lucky Larry Silverstein admitting that they "pulled" the building - after talking to the fire dept. commander.   The entire story is crap from A to Z - supported by elements of our government with many fingers of evidence pointing to another certain middle eastern government in the possession of nukes.  I don't know where to begin if you are unfamiliar with the topics I'm bringing up here - obviously you are a Rush, Laura, Neil, Sean, Glenn, Hartmann, Rhodes, Olbermann, Schultz, Miller, Press - fan.  They are all ignoring the issue of 911 - which is evidence that they work in lockstep - pretending with their circus - that they don't like each other - while they talk about God, Guns and Gays - and other topics that for the most part Americans really are not divided on.  These people are all shills supporting an agenda of global government - pretending to be on one side or the other of issues that wouldn't even have "sides" without their constant hammering on the air - to ensure that issues that are unimportant clutter the airwaves while every penny and square inch of property you own is stolen from you by international bankers.  911 Truth serves as a great acid test for Wikileaks - Julian Assange is an anti-911-truth person. This means he is not to be trusted - period.

2.  The Federal Reserve-  This secretive organization of thieves must be dissolved forever.  Ron Paul recently took over oversight of this group?  Yeah - that's what I thought I read.  Ron Paul will reveal this outfit of usurous internationalists for what they are.  That's exactly why volunteers must offer themselves up to serve as a security detail for Ron Paul.  Go ahead and laugh.  I'm not kidding.  Nobody has survived trying to get rid of these vermin banksters - except for Andrew Jackson - and that's 'cause the powder in the pistols that would have killed him musta' got damp in the Washington D.C. humidity.  We have got to have a public debate on how to set up a monetary system that serves our economy - that can expand when necessary and contract when necessary - with the checks and balances in place - enforced by law - that ensure that the crookery is taken out of our financial system.  We will NEVER have a functioning nation unless we fix this problem NOW.  The leaders that have stepped up to address it publicly must be guarded from assassination or they will be killed.

3.  Food Supply - our food supply is being corrupted - again - under the evil guidance of monsters like Monsanto - while the FDA and USDA watch football games or something - maybe they are drunk - or maybe just fluoridated.  Regardless - the food supply of this nation - the containers - the water - the food - the agricultural structure - is a complete disaster - and a major security risk to the nation.  Without food we are DEAD.  Without good food we are DEAD.

4.  Water - same as the food supply.  Poisoned - the information is out there.  The criminals responsible for poisons presently existing go unpunished.  Without clean pure water we are DEAD.

5.  Education - this is a complete success.  Yes - I really mean that.  Because as a so-called "conspiracy theorist" (superior critical thinker) I am convinced that the public education system in our ailing nation has been deliberately hijacked by people who's intention is not to produce coruscating masterpieces from diamonds-in-the-rough - but to stamp out conformist debt-slaves - ignorant of the very foundations of the tri-partite government responsible for the little freedom they've been able to experience in their young limited lives.  Our education system is a complete success - our youth know nothing.  That's not to say they won't be part of solving the problem - because they are far from stupid.  In fact - the "educators" will be the first victims of their own success as these former "kids" mature and see that they were lied to.  Many will want answers.  Many will want revenge.

Despite being indoctrinated and cowed by modern Gestapo-cops- where the lesson to be learned in every case is "obey" - Always "obey" and don't resist - they will do the opposite.  They are young - and they are truly the most free among us - because they have nothing to lose.  They are to be most feared by the scum that have put us in the position we are in.  Maybe after the veterans.  We'll see.  Hard to draw a line here since many of the younger generation were double-screwed - via "education" and via military "service" to Halliburton.

6.  TSA, DHS etc... - these Gestapo-agencies have been created for one reason - to cow YOU.  The machines at the airports, to the benefit of the likes of Chertoff etc..., scream corruption, recklessness regarding public health, disregard for basic human dignity - and defy everything that is American.  They are a disgrace.  They are - to put it plainly - NAZIs.  I am not throwing that term around loosely.  Search for former posts on this blog that will make the case.  Incrementally like the drip of an anesthetic - the population is lulled into a hypnotic state one step at a time - until - it is normal behaviour to have some perverted swine at the airport grabbing your genitals - and the genitals of your children - and viewing the naked body of your children - WHILE YOU WATCH!  And you stand there - like a good victim - and do nothing.

7.  Federal spending - this topic is THE issue on all the phony radio programs broadcast on AM here in C-ville and other cities.  Everybody cries about the deficit - the spending  - but there is a glaring lacuna that serves as a common denominator - a truth-telling flare:  Dems and Repubs omit the cost of the wars that are sucking the life out of this country.  Suddenly Americans are "lazy."  Suddenly Americans don't want to work.  My ancestors worked their asses off in coal mines - and we work our asses off every day - as does everyone I know - regardless of nationality - and everybody is losing.  Everybody is working for peanuts - except for the government welfare-queen workers.  They live an insular existence in Fairfax, Alexandria, Arlington, DC, parts of Maryland - as they leech their money from us - in return for the "service" of spying on us - the taxpayers footing the bill for their "services" keeping us "safe" from ourselves.  This insane circle-jerk is dangerous.  But no wonder.  Think about it - all of these order-takers have security clearances - the union-card of the modern world.  A security clearance is a job guarantee in the military-security apparatus.  A security clearance is one of the only things of value in this world that is awarded to a person for having done - NOTHING!  Yes - if you've never done anything - you have the best chances for the meal ticket known as the security clearance.  And to maintain it - just make sure you continue to do NOTHING.  And make sure you are a perfectionist when it comes to living your life like a pathetic follower - a sheeple - the exact opposite of the true American - the rebel.  But hey - the paychecks are good right?

8.  Obama - this topic is a waste of time.  It is time for the fake puppet show known as American politics to install a Republican in the White House.  Palin has been presented to the Wal-Mart public - but she's so f'n stupid - even the dummies know something has gone horribly wrong.  Also - didn't she quit her post as governor?  Regardless - the acceleration of events requires that the presidential crown be tossed over the net at a faster rate - because the elected liars are just flat out lying and doing whatever they want - so blatantly - that the biggest suckers can't ignore their intuition - that they were lied to during the campaign.  Obama doesn't care about any of that.  Obama is running for prez of the world - the UN - so the US presidency - just like the footstep he walked over briefly known as his Senatorial spot - is nothing  but a temporary walk up the world corporate ladder.  The "progressive" talkers have already - with perfect synchronization - ended their support for him - and all wised up at the same time.  This will throw the election to the fake "right" - the public will vote in a fruitless election - and America will march toward war with Iran, a North American Union, a super-national currency, and more debt-enslavement - that is - as long as Americans allow it.

Conclusions:  Face the facts - your leaders - except for a few are bought and paid for professional liars.  Many have allegiances to causes that require that America as we know it be dissolved.  A financial crisis bad enough to stampede the masses into a corner where they will agree to "anything" that will fix the problem - is just part of the plan.  Unchecked immigration is allowed because the end effect is the diluting of American culture - so the merging of Canada, US, and Mexico will actually make sense when the move is made.  The Federal Reserve will ruthlessly attempt to eliminate anyone and anything that attempts to dilute their stranglehold on America.  Unless each and every American stands up and does something, anything, no matter how big or how small - this country will succumb to the international criminals that got us into this debt, these wars, and cause all hatred directed toward our nation.

A return to enforcement of our own laws must happen.  A return to respect for human life is essential.  Crooks must pay.  I think it was Ghandi who said something like:  "What you do may seem insignificant - but do it anyway."

We all have our talents.  We all have our limitations.  We all have to eat, pay some bills and basically keep a roof over our heads.  But as citizens, if we really want to live in a free republic, have to perform our DUTY as citizens - and that means holding our government accountable.

Holding them accountable means FORCING them to do their job.  That means that Eric Holder must be FORCED to address the issue of torture or get lost.  That means 911 Truth has to be addressed.  That means that anybody carrying out extrajudicial murder of American citizens - or any human being must be put on a list - either as the murderer - the one giving the orders - or the judge pretending that somehow this is all legal - they all need to go on a public list - so when we sort all this out - they will pay for the bloodstains they've put on our flag.

We will wash the bloodstains out of Old Glory - YOU - my friend, my fellow citizen - MUST find your place and do whatever - no matter how small - action to make the American republic, once again - that beacon shining the light of liberty to the foundering ships-under-oppression - and bring them all to shore - to a shore of peace, prosperity and human dignity.
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Mirror Mirror on the Wall, Who is the Most Evil of All?

"Monsanto must go into Saddam Hussein's Shredder

Dog Poet Transmitting…….

I an occasionally stunned by some piece of news that comes to my attention but nothing has hit me quite like this. When my friend Yuka told me about it last night I thought it couldn’t be true, could it? Monsanto needs to go into Saddam Hussein’s plastic shredder. We found out that this story was a lie but I suspect the shredder is real. Those who own Monsanto and those who serve its agenda and those who operate it should meet the proper fate and the shredder seems fitting. It should be on network TV and it should be sponsored by Monsanto. I didn’t feel that Saddam Hussein was any better or worse than anyone else in his position in a country like Iraq. He was probably just what the country needed and he was certainly the type of leader that the residents expected and respected. That’s how it is over there. Saddam had a sensitive side that is not well known to the rest of the world outside of his country. I corresponded with him, while he was awaiting trial by his Zionist neo-con enemies and translated some of his poetry for posterity.

Iraq was better in every respect before the Zionist controlled, American government invaded the country under the orders of their banker bosses. Years later there have not only been no improvements but life is measurably worse than it was for the Iraqis before the occupation. Things were better under Saddam.

Monsanto has some kind of power that is not immediately apparent. It has the backing of major political figures around the world and people like Al Gore and others lobby for and argue for the products and policies of this corporation. Like the global warming scam with the carbon tax credits and the aftermath of the BP murder of the Gulf of Mexico, it has heavyweight influence in the right circles of the upper echelon of satanic world control.

It is becoming more and more apparent that Monsanto is a vicious enemy of humanity and should be put out of our misery. If it takes a French style revolution with an industrial plastic shredder in place of the guillotine, then so be it and the sooner the better. The guillotine is not an appropriate instrument of justice in this instance. The plastic shredder is not even adequate but it will do. No one is destroying human health and ruining personal independence in terms of diet and food production like they are. They are the primary force behind making it illegal to grow your own food. They are the ones forcing genetically modified food upon the world’s populations. They are an authentic representation of the darkest evil known on Earth. The destruction of Monsanto would be a remarkable victory for the human race.

I would like to ask everyone who reads here to affirm in their mind that it is a fait accompli that Monsanto and all those connected with its agenda are to be destroyed ASAP by any possible means. Just drop the thought into your subconscious that something terrible has been ordained for everyone engaged in the agenda and promotion of Monsanto. Take a moment and say, “Hmmm… Monsanto is going to be completely destroyed in an agonizing and terrible manner. That’s good news for the rest of the world.” Believe it to be so and let the mysterious forces of the universe act upon the certitude in all of our minds. You would be surprised how effective such practices can be.

It is the usual order of things at this time that corporations have become more powerful than governments. They purchase the governments and control who is elected and what those elected officials act and do not act upon. Years ago, United Fruit and Coca Cola were routinely murdering people in South and Central America. Union Carbide wiped out and/or blinded thousands of people in India. BP has destroyed the Gulf of Mexico fisheries and is responsible for thousands and thousands of deaths that have yet to occur.

Prostitution can occur in a free lance manner but it seldom remains so. Politicians are no different than the woman who leans into your car window, with the exception that you won’t be getting any pleasure or release from the exchange. It’s the pimps who operate the prostitution rackets and if you want to eliminate the racket you have to eliminate the pimps. Of course there will always be fat and ugly, old white men who need sex and can get it no other way. I don’t know what to do about that end of the equation. Not surprisingly, Israel is the main human trafficking nation on Earth. They funnel the ladies into Tel Aviv with lies and then keep them prisoners, while they sell then to the orthodox men and settlers and anyone who wants them. They have the highest population of female sex slaves on Earth per capita and that is in keeping with what Israel is all about. They are also the main traffickers for the same thing in countries around the world. It’s anti-Semitic to say this because it is true and the truth is anti-Semitic. Things like this are the truth and a record made by the one official organization that was in a position to know the truth.

The entire country of Israel should also go into Saddam’s shredder....

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Monsanto is about control of the world’s food supply. Coca Cola and other corporations are seeking control of the world’s fresh water and drive their trucks into rural communities from Maine to Oregon and suck the water from the streams and lakes and have the lawyers to protect their right to steal the water without paying a cent for it. You might want to see the movie Tapped.

Corporations want to control every area of human life, no matter the cost to you and no matter what lengths they have to go to, to enforce your compliance. Corporations are monsters; not all of those who labor in the market place are monsters (not by a long shot) and business is a reality we cannot avoid but… there is the fair profit of able dealing and then there is Hell on Earth.

Monsanto and those like it must be dealt with in the most dramatic and public way. They are committing mass murder on a global scale. They are the enemy of life and anyone apologizing for or protecting them is a criminal or a fool. There’s no wiggle room here.

The mining corporations and so many other criminal and murderous enterprises that are destroying and poisoning the Earth must be brought to justice. I am okay with permanent exile to an inescapable island of rock, where the employment of the inmates is crushing the rock to powder until it is gone; subsisting on basic necessities with no contact to the outside world. I look at this as the compassionate option but I leave the final decision in the hands of those most affected....

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