What is the G20?
They are sparking protests and riots in Toronto, Canada.
According to the G20 this is what they do : “The G-20 is the premier forum for our international economic development that promotes open and constructive discussion between industrial and emerging-market countries on key issues related to global economic stability.”
What they do at these meetings is enabling sharing of information.
For instance - the United States now freely shares your tax information with other nations that attend the G20 meetings. Did you know your representatives and senators had done that?
They also work to restrict trade and claim to manipulate the ‘price’ of money or so it seems from what I have read about them (from them).
Because of the outrageous claims they make I think it would be more apt to call them the ‘Geithner 20’ these days. They G20 claims they want to stabilize the world economy and make credit more affordable.
Do you recall Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner saying the same thing in the United States?
The G20 is run by a Troika - a group of three governors - a troika is like the ‘Commission of Three’ in the Soviet Union during the time of Joseph Stalin.
Did you know this new government has supremacy over our government? - here are some other governments the United States has messed around with : G6, G7, G8, G21, G22, G30 and G20+.
Where is our independence?
Who wants this new world order?
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Joe Biden - Trial Lawyer
I was reading through some information the other day and I happened upon some political donation numbers that caused me to become disappointed - to say the least.
As I looked through the list of donations from political groups and individuals to President Obama’s 2008 campaign I became curious to see who had given him money to get elected to the office of the Senate.
It was heavily reported at the time of the presidential election that he had relied on ‘grass-roots’ donations in order to ‘sweep to victory’.
Well, some sweeping may have been done but it looks like whatever it was ended up being swept under the rug.
Can you tell me why so many New York financial firms took an interest in pushing Barack Obama into a Senate seat for the state of Illinois?
This list looks like a rogue’s gallery - and it was repeated for his Presidential bid.
Here are some of the names - can you recognize them?
‘JP Morgan Chase and Company’, ‘Goldman Sachs’, ‘Credit Suisse’, ‘Citigroup’, ‘Bank of America’, ‘UBS’…even ‘Fannie Mae’.
Now for that last one : “Fannie Mae is a government-sponsored enterprise (GSE) chartered by Congress with a mission to provide liquidity, stability and affordability to the U.S. housing and mortgage markets.”
I am inclined to believe and hope - that change will come to Washington once again.
I like Barack Obama - he seems like a real nice guy.
I don’t think he should be President again.
Do you?
As I looked through the list of donations from political groups and individuals to President Obama’s 2008 campaign I became curious to see who had given him money to get elected to the office of the Senate.
It was heavily reported at the time of the presidential election that he had relied on ‘grass-roots’ donations in order to ‘sweep to victory’.
Well, some sweeping may have been done but it looks like whatever it was ended up being swept under the rug.
Can you tell me why so many New York financial firms took an interest in pushing Barack Obama into a Senate seat for the state of Illinois?
This list looks like a rogue’s gallery - and it was repeated for his Presidential bid.
Here are some of the names - can you recognize them?
‘JP Morgan Chase and Company’, ‘Goldman Sachs’, ‘Credit Suisse’, ‘Citigroup’, ‘Bank of America’, ‘UBS’…even ‘Fannie Mae’.
Now for that last one : “Fannie Mae is a government-sponsored enterprise (GSE) chartered by Congress with a mission to provide liquidity, stability and affordability to the U.S. housing and mortgage markets.”
I am inclined to believe and hope - that change will come to Washington once again.
I like Barack Obama - he seems like a real nice guy.
I don’t think he should be President again.
Do you?
Banks
"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered...I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies... The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs." - Thomas Jefferson -1802
Timothy Geithner was the ‘President’ of the Federal Bank of New York while American, Swiss, German, British and Chinese banks plundered our treasure.
He is now the Secretary of the Treasury.
These banks must be dissolved for what they have done. Their Boards, Executives and a good part of the army of immoral and ignorant workers in New York who tore this country apart should be thrown out of work - not miners, grocers, truck drivers, clerks, teachers, engineers, mechanics, factory workers, textile workers…
This is our nation and the people that stole billions and billions of dollars and undermined our way of life right now are the ones the government gave money to and bailed out.
This little piggy went to market, this little piggy stayed home, this little piggy ate roast beef, this little piggy had none - and this little piggy went ‘Hee, hee, hee, as he stole your home.’.
Why won’t you write a letter to your senators and represenatives?
Timothy Geithner was the ‘President’ of the Federal Bank of New York while American, Swiss, German, British and Chinese banks plundered our treasure.
He is now the Secretary of the Treasury.
These banks must be dissolved for what they have done. Their Boards, Executives and a good part of the army of immoral and ignorant workers in New York who tore this country apart should be thrown out of work - not miners, grocers, truck drivers, clerks, teachers, engineers, mechanics, factory workers, textile workers…
This is our nation and the people that stole billions and billions of dollars and undermined our way of life right now are the ones the government gave money to and bailed out.
This little piggy went to market, this little piggy stayed home, this little piggy ate roast beef, this little piggy had none - and this little piggy went ‘Hee, hee, hee, as he stole your home.’.
Why won’t you write a letter to your senators and represenatives?
HUD
I bought a house from HUD (Housing and Urban Development).
I paid 104,000 dollars for it.
I got a 30 year loan with normal levels of interest to pay on it.
I bought it in a small city in Michigan which is across the street from a large Ford plant, two blocks away from gigantic garbage dumps and within walking distance of a major east-west freight train route (that also hosts Detroit-Chicago rickety old Amtrak trains).
Within a couple of months of buying the house the mortgage ‘industry’ fell apart and real estate prices returned to normal levels. I am now living in a house that is worth about 30,000 dollars.
When I got the house I had to repair it. New furnace, new bathroom, new kitchen, new windows - I even had to repair the fences because the company the government used to cut the grass knocked them all down.
I worked hard on this house to make it livable for myself, my wife, my wife’s handicapped aunt and my handicapped mother-in-law.
I paid what the government and banks coerced me to.
I feel the banks and government committed fraud in millions of cases across the United States - both in private and commercial real estate.
Tens of millions of citizens like me (and corporations) should not have to ‘reapply’ to get mortgage rates adjusted.
Don’t you think that mortgage payments across the United States should be immediately reset to match real estate values?
Is this government a bank?
I paid 104,000 dollars for it.
I got a 30 year loan with normal levels of interest to pay on it.
I bought it in a small city in Michigan which is across the street from a large Ford plant, two blocks away from gigantic garbage dumps and within walking distance of a major east-west freight train route (that also hosts Detroit-Chicago rickety old Amtrak trains).
Within a couple of months of buying the house the mortgage ‘industry’ fell apart and real estate prices returned to normal levels. I am now living in a house that is worth about 30,000 dollars.
When I got the house I had to repair it. New furnace, new bathroom, new kitchen, new windows - I even had to repair the fences because the company the government used to cut the grass knocked them all down.
I worked hard on this house to make it livable for myself, my wife, my wife’s handicapped aunt and my handicapped mother-in-law.
I paid what the government and banks coerced me to.
I feel the banks and government committed fraud in millions of cases across the United States - both in private and commercial real estate.
Tens of millions of citizens like me (and corporations) should not have to ‘reapply’ to get mortgage rates adjusted.
Don’t you think that mortgage payments across the United States should be immediately reset to match real estate values?
Is this government a bank?
Hydraulic Fracturing - With Attention to New York
“EPA announced four public information meetings for the hydraulic fracturing study in the Federal Register (75 FR 35023) on June 21, 2010.”
Preamble
This is a set of comments listed as ‘Items’ intended to be public comments to be considered by the United States Environmental Protection Agency. These remarks are against and critical of the practice of ‘Hydraulic Fracturing’.
‘Hydraulic Fracturing’ is a process whereby a hole is drilled into the earth at a location where it has been determined or is believed to contain natural gas in such quantities that it might be commercially viable to attempt to extract it.
The process has not been settled into established specific practice but does have a general process which can be outlined. That process is that the locations for the possible gas quantities are determined, a hole is drilled to the layers that are the target and then a horizontal pipe bore will be extended in one or many ways from the original vertical hole. In this horizontal bore then liquid chemicals, high pressure water or steam or explosives (sometimes a combination of these or a succession of these) will be inserted into the bore and allowed to carry out their intended purpose.
Strictly speaking of ‘Hydraulic Fracturing’ the practice involves forcing high pressure water or steam into the hole in order to ‘fracture’ or put cracks in the layer or seam of material that it is believed contains commercial amounts of natural gas.
Oftentimes the introduction of high pressure steam or water is not enough to fracture the material sufficiently and other chemicals must be added to the mix.
In the case of the Marcellus Shale or sandstone deposits in question the chemicals that can be added to hurry along this process are varied and many are very dangerous because they are poisonous to humans and other forms of life.
At this time the Environmental Protection Agency either does not know what chemicals are being used or have been used or is keeping that information to themselves during secret proceedings to ‘determine’ the actual safety of these dangerous chemicals after being released into the environment by irresponsible and often poorly trained field technicians working for the companies intent on establishing working natural gas wells at these locations.
Item 1 - Social
The proposition has been put forth by various individuals in the gas industry that ‘a million wells have been drilled’. This may be the case and may be a reliable fact but it is a true statement and the truth to state that no one knows how many ‘Hydraulic Fracturing’ wells have been drilled in total. For that matter there is no reliable figure for the number of CO2/Sand Fracturing wells that have been drilled, nor are their figures for the number of wells that have used explosives for fracturing, nor figures for how many times the technique for ‘Formation Refracturing’ has been used. (‘Formation Refracturing’ is when the fracturing needs to be done again, either because it didn’t work the first time or because the hole began to close or became obstructed.
The point being here in Item 1 that arbitrary numbers associated with drilling holes into the earth being used as an underlying basis on which to build a logic allowing wide scale ‘Hydraulic Fracturing’ is a flawed idea and any of these individuals putting forward such logic should not be considered to be reasonable sources of information regarding the relative safety or usefulness of ‘Hydraulic Fracturing’.
Item 2 – Science
Fracturing can cause ‘quickening’ immediately or lead to ‘quickening’ after some period of time after the underground destruction has been performed.
In some locations there are high concentrations of liquids under conditions of extremely high heat and pressure. When certain strata in the rock is fractured it can release pressure on overlying or underlying layers which can lead to pools of trapped liquids, sometimes of very great size, to be released from their current chambers and speed unimpeded at the speed of sound to other areas where the pressure is less.
The path of these seams that are opened to these chemicals may lead to drinking water tables many miles away – anywhere from a few miles to over a hundred miles. This material will remain poisonous and can cause ‘sweet water’ to go ‘sour’ whether it be salt brine or salt brine heavily contaminated with arsenic or other poisonous chemicals – including any used in the ‘Hydraulic Fracturing’ process.
Local seismic imaging will not reveal these faults and cracks before the fracturing begins and they will be hard if not impossible to locate after the fracturing is completed because after evacuating the chamber of their liquids the seams will close again nearly instantaneously.
‘Quickening’ is a feature of mining, drilling and petroleum recovery as well as high-pressure injection operations that is familiar to offices of the Environmental Protection Agency and needs to be publicized before approving destructive process like ‘Hydraulic Fracturing’ or fracturing ‘technology’ of any type.
Item 3 – Economic
The State of New York’s Environmental Protection Office has not, it seems, fulfilled its duties as an independent environmental protection agency and so the State of New York is at fault in accordance with its agreement with the Federal EPA to meet certain standards when attempting to protect the environment from destructive practices such as ‘Hydraulic Fracturing’.
In this case, as it relates to ‘Hydraulic Fracturing’ in rural areas of the State of New York, the New York State Environmental Protection Agency has put profit before duty and appears to have been heavily influenced by so-called ‘Upstate Politicians’. Upstate New York, especially the area targeted for the destructive and unreasonable process referred to as ‘Hydraulic Fracturing’ is a source of drinking water for millions of Americans downstream of the hills, mountains, slopes and valleys that are about to be assaulted.
The Natural Gas industry and local politicians as well as the New York State Environmental Protection Agency itself may be unduly profiting while at the same time causing a shift of payments to the people, communities and businesses which have become dependent upon this water over the past century and a half.
The past 150 years has seen a great increase in growth and population in the region downstream of these proposed destructive operations and the costs associated with ill health, increased water treatment, increased environmental testing, loss of business, loss of quality of life are astronomical in comparison to the short-term profits that may be produced by allowing this type of brute force drilling across the area.
Item 4 – Social and Economic
There are long standing agreements between New York City and New York State explicitly and implicitly protecting water rights for the city and its many suburbs. These have not been visited and New York City itself, under Mayor Bloomberg, has, in my opinion, not taken due diligence in regards to his fiduciary duty as Mayor to protect and uphold the laws of the City and State of New York as well as to protect the people and children of the City of New York.
Governor Paterson, likewise, in my opinion, locked in political battles and unaware or willfully neglecting the importance of clean, fresh water to an increasingly polluted state has not apparently performed his fiduciary duties in this case to ensure that one region of New York does not unduly profit at the expense of the rest of the state as well as its neighbors.
The states of New Jersey and Pennsylvania also, apparently, have interests in this issue though in this case because of the location of many of the properties many of the remarks concerning the State of New York also apply to the State of Pennsylvania which historically has neglected its duty towards quality of life for its citizens in the face of even the barest opportunity of profit or cash savings.
Item 5 – Economic
There is no guarantee that the profits that have been promised by the drillers will materialize. In fact, some aspects of the entire scheme and gigantic parts of it at that, appear to be nothing more than a house of cards.
For example, if two competing companies, or even the same drilling company, arranges financing to purchase mineral rights for an area and drills and starts to produce – there is no guarantee how long those wells will produce or even if they will produce at all.
It is possible that during this destructive practice that much of the gas that is being sought will be lost through the same cracks that are being opened to collect it. In that case the gas can then cause additional problem through the poisoning of the soil or by mixing with heavy metals already present in the soil to produce even more exotic and dangerous environmental chemicals.
Issues in Western New York involving the poisoning of entire valleys and large portions of the region because of 19th century tanning and mining operations is well known throughout New York State. A problem with veracity is encountered when we consider these other poisons because not speaking about them does not make them go away – in fact – this is a possible case of lying by omission by the New York State Environmental Protection Agency if they did not inform the drillers themselves the high stakes game they were entering into.
If the New York State Environmental Protection Agency did not report these potential problems to the greedy speculators then they would be at fault.
Item 6 – Environmental
The Federal Environmental Protection Agency and the New York State Environmental Protection Agency have a mandate to protect drinking water tables – this drilling and destruction will take place far below the drinking water tables but will impact American citizens close to and very far from the work.
It appears that the Federal Environmental Protection Agency and the New York State Environmental Protection Agency may be pretending to be able to license or permit this activity when, in fact, the process is being abused by the greedy speculators in order to get permission to carry out these backward plans.
The Federal Environmental Protection Agency and the New York State Environmental Protection Agency have no jurisdiction over the area in which the activities are going to take place.
It is misleading to Americans then for the Federal Environmental Protection Agency or the New York State Environmental Protection Agency to ‘permit’ activities for which they have no control over.
These issues should be left up to local governments as well as the State government of New York which needs to rein in the out-of-control New York State Environmental Protection Agency.
Item 7 – Economic and Science
The Environmental Protection Agency of the United States permits ‘High Pressure Injection Wells’. These wells are put at risk when fracturing takes place near them or around them. There are so many of these types of chemical disposal wells in the United States that the Environmental Protection Agency of the United States doesn’t even know where they are.
These wells are drilled into and store chemicals at the same levels or just above or just below the area where these ‘Hydraulic Fracturing’ wells are to be drilled. If these chambers of noxious chemicals are disturbed or allowed even the smallest pathway back to the surface then permits and agreements that the EPA has had to guarantee that those wastes will not move for ten-thousand (10,000) years will become invalid.
The chemicals thus released will become a danger to generations to come and may be undetectable in the horrors they wreak for 10, 20 or 30 years or more.
Item 8 – Economic
‘Hydraulic Fracturing’ appears to be a dangerous sham.
It can be likened to a Pyramid Scheme in its financial arrangements.
There is no guarantee for profits nor guarantees for a more secure source of domestic energy.
There is guaranteed danger, however, with disaster waiting in the wings.
In the end it appears that this technique will not only NOT increase the available supply of domestic natural gas for consumption domestically in the United States but will cause disruptions in already established and strained supply lines and ultimately raise home heating, energy generation and transportation costs.
Item 9 - Economic
The United States Environmental Protection Agency, if it should go ahead and permit ‘Hydraulic Fracturing’ will succeed in crippling another industry which promised to be far more long-lived and profitable for many Americans.
Rather than the uneconomical destruction of real estate, water supplies and farmland the other industry which the Environmental Protection Agency stands ready to destroy is the renewable energy industry.
Solar panels, wind power and alternative uses of generators in rivers will be curtailed if not destroyed if money, time and effort is uneconomically channeled into the destructive and wasteful acts associated with ‘Hydraulic Fracturing’.
The Environmental Protection Agency will impede progress and interfere in the industrial development of locations far away from the locations it will apply its narrow set of powers.
Just as the Environmental Protection Agency inadvertently at first, and, heavy handedly in present times, uprooted, undermined and destroyed the recycling chemical industry, by encouraging this short-sighted assault on our national resources, the EPA will once again act as agent of economic retardation and reversal. The EPA should act as it is intended to act and not as a cog in the wheel of some hair brained schemes that ultimately leave us all the poorer.
In Quebec, Canada the recycled chemical industry is profitable and busy. There are many jobs and they do fine work keeping the price of chemicals down while quality high.
In the United States the Environmental Protection Agency has destroyed the recycled chemical industry by ‘permitting’ high-pressure injection wells. These wells are used to inject chemical waste into the earth. More than eighty percent (80%) of the chemical waste in the United States is disposed of in this manner. Until recently the EPA even allowed nuclear waste to be disposed of in this manner.
It is time for the EPA to leave the economic arena and step back into its regulatory position or it must be disbanded altogether as its original mandate has been corrupted and perverted beyond recognition. It should stop regulating trade and encoring uneconomic and wasteful practices. The EPA should stop putting Americans out of jobs.
Item 10 - Economic
The petroleum industry to this day burns off most of the natural gas it extracts from the earth when it is drilling for oil.
In a famous case just recently the ‘Deepwater Horizon’, owned by a foreign national corporation, exploded and sank in the Gulf of Mexico because the people running advanced drilling apparatus could not control the natural gas that they were extracting.
They had been burning it off in a giant flare.
When you see a refinery and the flares are burning hot, white, blue, orange and bright - that is a symbol of waste.
It is uneconomical to burn the fuel that could heat homes and power machinery but the petroleum industry does it because the Environmental Protection Agency allows them to do it.
Even though the gasses that they are burning would be more economically used by being trapped and stored the companies involved in that work continue to burn it off into the air because they don’t know how to handle the billions of square feet of natural gas that they collect when they are pumping mud and oil up out of the ground.
There is no economical need for ‘Hydraulic Fracturing’ right now.
It would be more economical to harness the wasted energy and power that is burned into the atmosphere without a care and without a price tag rather than to pursue wasteful and destructive practices like ‘Hydraulic Fracturing’.
In Closing :
The State of New York has made a serious mistake by allowing this process to go forward.
It should be apparent to the United States Environmental Protection Agency that is has strayed into territory beyond its mandate and it would be the truthful and scientific thing to admit this fact now before further mistakes are made.
Preamble
This is a set of comments listed as ‘Items’ intended to be public comments to be considered by the United States Environmental Protection Agency. These remarks are against and critical of the practice of ‘Hydraulic Fracturing’.
‘Hydraulic Fracturing’ is a process whereby a hole is drilled into the earth at a location where it has been determined or is believed to contain natural gas in such quantities that it might be commercially viable to attempt to extract it.
The process has not been settled into established specific practice but does have a general process which can be outlined. That process is that the locations for the possible gas quantities are determined, a hole is drilled to the layers that are the target and then a horizontal pipe bore will be extended in one or many ways from the original vertical hole. In this horizontal bore then liquid chemicals, high pressure water or steam or explosives (sometimes a combination of these or a succession of these) will be inserted into the bore and allowed to carry out their intended purpose.
Strictly speaking of ‘Hydraulic Fracturing’ the practice involves forcing high pressure water or steam into the hole in order to ‘fracture’ or put cracks in the layer or seam of material that it is believed contains commercial amounts of natural gas.
Oftentimes the introduction of high pressure steam or water is not enough to fracture the material sufficiently and other chemicals must be added to the mix.
In the case of the Marcellus Shale or sandstone deposits in question the chemicals that can be added to hurry along this process are varied and many are very dangerous because they are poisonous to humans and other forms of life.
At this time the Environmental Protection Agency either does not know what chemicals are being used or have been used or is keeping that information to themselves during secret proceedings to ‘determine’ the actual safety of these dangerous chemicals after being released into the environment by irresponsible and often poorly trained field technicians working for the companies intent on establishing working natural gas wells at these locations.
Item 1 - Social
The proposition has been put forth by various individuals in the gas industry that ‘a million wells have been drilled’. This may be the case and may be a reliable fact but it is a true statement and the truth to state that no one knows how many ‘Hydraulic Fracturing’ wells have been drilled in total. For that matter there is no reliable figure for the number of CO2/Sand Fracturing wells that have been drilled, nor are their figures for the number of wells that have used explosives for fracturing, nor figures for how many times the technique for ‘Formation Refracturing’ has been used. (‘Formation Refracturing’ is when the fracturing needs to be done again, either because it didn’t work the first time or because the hole began to close or became obstructed.
The point being here in Item 1 that arbitrary numbers associated with drilling holes into the earth being used as an underlying basis on which to build a logic allowing wide scale ‘Hydraulic Fracturing’ is a flawed idea and any of these individuals putting forward such logic should not be considered to be reasonable sources of information regarding the relative safety or usefulness of ‘Hydraulic Fracturing’.
Item 2 – Science
Fracturing can cause ‘quickening’ immediately or lead to ‘quickening’ after some period of time after the underground destruction has been performed.
In some locations there are high concentrations of liquids under conditions of extremely high heat and pressure. When certain strata in the rock is fractured it can release pressure on overlying or underlying layers which can lead to pools of trapped liquids, sometimes of very great size, to be released from their current chambers and speed unimpeded at the speed of sound to other areas where the pressure is less.
The path of these seams that are opened to these chemicals may lead to drinking water tables many miles away – anywhere from a few miles to over a hundred miles. This material will remain poisonous and can cause ‘sweet water’ to go ‘sour’ whether it be salt brine or salt brine heavily contaminated with arsenic or other poisonous chemicals – including any used in the ‘Hydraulic Fracturing’ process.
Local seismic imaging will not reveal these faults and cracks before the fracturing begins and they will be hard if not impossible to locate after the fracturing is completed because after evacuating the chamber of their liquids the seams will close again nearly instantaneously.
‘Quickening’ is a feature of mining, drilling and petroleum recovery as well as high-pressure injection operations that is familiar to offices of the Environmental Protection Agency and needs to be publicized before approving destructive process like ‘Hydraulic Fracturing’ or fracturing ‘technology’ of any type.
Item 3 – Economic
The State of New York’s Environmental Protection Office has not, it seems, fulfilled its duties as an independent environmental protection agency and so the State of New York is at fault in accordance with its agreement with the Federal EPA to meet certain standards when attempting to protect the environment from destructive practices such as ‘Hydraulic Fracturing’.
In this case, as it relates to ‘Hydraulic Fracturing’ in rural areas of the State of New York, the New York State Environmental Protection Agency has put profit before duty and appears to have been heavily influenced by so-called ‘Upstate Politicians’. Upstate New York, especially the area targeted for the destructive and unreasonable process referred to as ‘Hydraulic Fracturing’ is a source of drinking water for millions of Americans downstream of the hills, mountains, slopes and valleys that are about to be assaulted.
The Natural Gas industry and local politicians as well as the New York State Environmental Protection Agency itself may be unduly profiting while at the same time causing a shift of payments to the people, communities and businesses which have become dependent upon this water over the past century and a half.
The past 150 years has seen a great increase in growth and population in the region downstream of these proposed destructive operations and the costs associated with ill health, increased water treatment, increased environmental testing, loss of business, loss of quality of life are astronomical in comparison to the short-term profits that may be produced by allowing this type of brute force drilling across the area.
Item 4 – Social and Economic
There are long standing agreements between New York City and New York State explicitly and implicitly protecting water rights for the city and its many suburbs. These have not been visited and New York City itself, under Mayor Bloomberg, has, in my opinion, not taken due diligence in regards to his fiduciary duty as Mayor to protect and uphold the laws of the City and State of New York as well as to protect the people and children of the City of New York.
Governor Paterson, likewise, in my opinion, locked in political battles and unaware or willfully neglecting the importance of clean, fresh water to an increasingly polluted state has not apparently performed his fiduciary duties in this case to ensure that one region of New York does not unduly profit at the expense of the rest of the state as well as its neighbors.
The states of New Jersey and Pennsylvania also, apparently, have interests in this issue though in this case because of the location of many of the properties many of the remarks concerning the State of New York also apply to the State of Pennsylvania which historically has neglected its duty towards quality of life for its citizens in the face of even the barest opportunity of profit or cash savings.
Item 5 – Economic
There is no guarantee that the profits that have been promised by the drillers will materialize. In fact, some aspects of the entire scheme and gigantic parts of it at that, appear to be nothing more than a house of cards.
For example, if two competing companies, or even the same drilling company, arranges financing to purchase mineral rights for an area and drills and starts to produce – there is no guarantee how long those wells will produce or even if they will produce at all.
It is possible that during this destructive practice that much of the gas that is being sought will be lost through the same cracks that are being opened to collect it. In that case the gas can then cause additional problem through the poisoning of the soil or by mixing with heavy metals already present in the soil to produce even more exotic and dangerous environmental chemicals.
Issues in Western New York involving the poisoning of entire valleys and large portions of the region because of 19th century tanning and mining operations is well known throughout New York State. A problem with veracity is encountered when we consider these other poisons because not speaking about them does not make them go away – in fact – this is a possible case of lying by omission by the New York State Environmental Protection Agency if they did not inform the drillers themselves the high stakes game they were entering into.
If the New York State Environmental Protection Agency did not report these potential problems to the greedy speculators then they would be at fault.
Item 6 – Environmental
The Federal Environmental Protection Agency and the New York State Environmental Protection Agency have a mandate to protect drinking water tables – this drilling and destruction will take place far below the drinking water tables but will impact American citizens close to and very far from the work.
It appears that the Federal Environmental Protection Agency and the New York State Environmental Protection Agency may be pretending to be able to license or permit this activity when, in fact, the process is being abused by the greedy speculators in order to get permission to carry out these backward plans.
The Federal Environmental Protection Agency and the New York State Environmental Protection Agency have no jurisdiction over the area in which the activities are going to take place.
It is misleading to Americans then for the Federal Environmental Protection Agency or the New York State Environmental Protection Agency to ‘permit’ activities for which they have no control over.
These issues should be left up to local governments as well as the State government of New York which needs to rein in the out-of-control New York State Environmental Protection Agency.
Item 7 – Economic and Science
The Environmental Protection Agency of the United States permits ‘High Pressure Injection Wells’. These wells are put at risk when fracturing takes place near them or around them. There are so many of these types of chemical disposal wells in the United States that the Environmental Protection Agency of the United States doesn’t even know where they are.
These wells are drilled into and store chemicals at the same levels or just above or just below the area where these ‘Hydraulic Fracturing’ wells are to be drilled. If these chambers of noxious chemicals are disturbed or allowed even the smallest pathway back to the surface then permits and agreements that the EPA has had to guarantee that those wastes will not move for ten-thousand (10,000) years will become invalid.
The chemicals thus released will become a danger to generations to come and may be undetectable in the horrors they wreak for 10, 20 or 30 years or more.
Item 8 – Economic
‘Hydraulic Fracturing’ appears to be a dangerous sham.
It can be likened to a Pyramid Scheme in its financial arrangements.
There is no guarantee for profits nor guarantees for a more secure source of domestic energy.
There is guaranteed danger, however, with disaster waiting in the wings.
In the end it appears that this technique will not only NOT increase the available supply of domestic natural gas for consumption domestically in the United States but will cause disruptions in already established and strained supply lines and ultimately raise home heating, energy generation and transportation costs.
Item 9 - Economic
The United States Environmental Protection Agency, if it should go ahead and permit ‘Hydraulic Fracturing’ will succeed in crippling another industry which promised to be far more long-lived and profitable for many Americans.
Rather than the uneconomical destruction of real estate, water supplies and farmland the other industry which the Environmental Protection Agency stands ready to destroy is the renewable energy industry.
Solar panels, wind power and alternative uses of generators in rivers will be curtailed if not destroyed if money, time and effort is uneconomically channeled into the destructive and wasteful acts associated with ‘Hydraulic Fracturing’.
The Environmental Protection Agency will impede progress and interfere in the industrial development of locations far away from the locations it will apply its narrow set of powers.
Just as the Environmental Protection Agency inadvertently at first, and, heavy handedly in present times, uprooted, undermined and destroyed the recycling chemical industry, by encouraging this short-sighted assault on our national resources, the EPA will once again act as agent of economic retardation and reversal. The EPA should act as it is intended to act and not as a cog in the wheel of some hair brained schemes that ultimately leave us all the poorer.
In Quebec, Canada the recycled chemical industry is profitable and busy. There are many jobs and they do fine work keeping the price of chemicals down while quality high.
In the United States the Environmental Protection Agency has destroyed the recycled chemical industry by ‘permitting’ high-pressure injection wells. These wells are used to inject chemical waste into the earth. More than eighty percent (80%) of the chemical waste in the United States is disposed of in this manner. Until recently the EPA even allowed nuclear waste to be disposed of in this manner.
It is time for the EPA to leave the economic arena and step back into its regulatory position or it must be disbanded altogether as its original mandate has been corrupted and perverted beyond recognition. It should stop regulating trade and encoring uneconomic and wasteful practices. The EPA should stop putting Americans out of jobs.
Item 10 - Economic
The petroleum industry to this day burns off most of the natural gas it extracts from the earth when it is drilling for oil.
In a famous case just recently the ‘Deepwater Horizon’, owned by a foreign national corporation, exploded and sank in the Gulf of Mexico because the people running advanced drilling apparatus could not control the natural gas that they were extracting.
They had been burning it off in a giant flare.
When you see a refinery and the flares are burning hot, white, blue, orange and bright - that is a symbol of waste.
It is uneconomical to burn the fuel that could heat homes and power machinery but the petroleum industry does it because the Environmental Protection Agency allows them to do it.
Even though the gasses that they are burning would be more economically used by being trapped and stored the companies involved in that work continue to burn it off into the air because they don’t know how to handle the billions of square feet of natural gas that they collect when they are pumping mud and oil up out of the ground.
There is no economical need for ‘Hydraulic Fracturing’ right now.
It would be more economical to harness the wasted energy and power that is burned into the atmosphere without a care and without a price tag rather than to pursue wasteful and destructive practices like ‘Hydraulic Fracturing’.
In Closing :
The State of New York has made a serious mistake by allowing this process to go forward.
It should be apparent to the United States Environmental Protection Agency that is has strayed into territory beyond its mandate and it would be the truthful and scientific thing to admit this fact now before further mistakes are made.
TSA Searches
My mother is 80 years old.
My father, who suffered from Alzheimer’s disease, passed away in April of this year.
My mother now travels on occasion to visit her children, some of whom live in states other than her own.
She has never been arrested.
She votes each election and attends church regularly.
She raised 5 American children to adulthood.
One branch of my family has been in this country since 1621 – the Native American branch of my family has been in this country since before it was a country.
Raised in Germany because her parents could not afford to feed her in the US during the Depression she was there during World War II and witnessed the oppressive actions of a paranoid government raging out of control from fright, addiction to power and stupidity.
My eighty year old, law-abiding and loving, apple-pie baking AMERICAN mother was pulled out of line at an airport X-RAYED and physically body checked.
She stated that the she was stunned by the experience and will refuse travel by air in the future if confronted again at an airport screening.
A murdering 36 year old Tanzanian terrorist was given a pass by a cowardly jury in New York (after affording the right to innocent until proven guilty) while 80 year old American women are being treated as if guilty until proven innocent.
My mother hopes this never happens to any other older people.
Do you believe it possible to stop terrorists by terrorizing Americans?
My father, who suffered from Alzheimer’s disease, passed away in April of this year.
My mother now travels on occasion to visit her children, some of whom live in states other than her own.
She has never been arrested.
She votes each election and attends church regularly.
She raised 5 American children to adulthood.
One branch of my family has been in this country since 1621 – the Native American branch of my family has been in this country since before it was a country.
Raised in Germany because her parents could not afford to feed her in the US during the Depression she was there during World War II and witnessed the oppressive actions of a paranoid government raging out of control from fright, addiction to power and stupidity.
My eighty year old, law-abiding and loving, apple-pie baking AMERICAN mother was pulled out of line at an airport X-RAYED and physically body checked.
She stated that the she was stunned by the experience and will refuse travel by air in the future if confronted again at an airport screening.
A murdering 36 year old Tanzanian terrorist was given a pass by a cowardly jury in New York (after affording the right to innocent until proven guilty) while 80 year old American women are being treated as if guilty until proven innocent.
My mother hopes this never happens to any other older people.
Do you believe it possible to stop terrorists by terrorizing Americans?
Senator Lindsay Graham
I was sorry to read that Senator Lindsay Graham of South Carolina had made some statements about permanent military bases being established in Afghanistan by the United States.
He reportedly said, "Under the right circumstances I think it would really secure the gains we made to have a U.S. presence in Afghanistan, two airbases that would be beneficial to the Afghan security forces."
He continued, "Only if the Afghans want it as a way to make sure this country never goes back into the hands of the Taliban. I think that would be a good way to end the Afghan conflict."
Afghanistan is an unnecessary conflict for the United States.
It has been and continues to be a waste of life, time and money.
It is unfortunate that Senator Lindsay Graham has fallen under the spell of President Barack Husein Obama’s vision of Afghanistan as a ‘just’ war.
Mexico has been and continues to be a source of unrest and a point of invasion into the United States. The drug trade and illegal immigrant trade is fueled by cash from terrorist organizations and Communist China.
The United States military forces need to be withdrawn from Afghanistan immediately. The United States Army needs to enter Mexico and destroy the corrupt and inept government there along with the entire drug trade infrastructure.
Individually illegal immigrants are not a problem but in total they are undermining our way of life and economy.
Why does Senator Graham think that the Legislative Branch handles diplomacy?
He reportedly said, "Under the right circumstances I think it would really secure the gains we made to have a U.S. presence in Afghanistan, two airbases that would be beneficial to the Afghan security forces."
He continued, "Only if the Afghans want it as a way to make sure this country never goes back into the hands of the Taliban. I think that would be a good way to end the Afghan conflict."
Afghanistan is an unnecessary conflict for the United States.
It has been and continues to be a waste of life, time and money.
It is unfortunate that Senator Lindsay Graham has fallen under the spell of President Barack Husein Obama’s vision of Afghanistan as a ‘just’ war.
Mexico has been and continues to be a source of unrest and a point of invasion into the United States. The drug trade and illegal immigrant trade is fueled by cash from terrorist organizations and Communist China.
The United States military forces need to be withdrawn from Afghanistan immediately. The United States Army needs to enter Mexico and destroy the corrupt and inept government there along with the entire drug trade infrastructure.
Individually illegal immigrants are not a problem but in total they are undermining our way of life and economy.
Why does Senator Graham think that the Legislative Branch handles diplomacy?
French Ship Sale to Russia
Recently President Sarkozy of France announced that our ally, France, would sell advanced assault ships to Russia .
The French are selling advanced helicopter carriers to Russia .
Each one of the ships will cost only about $380 million. The construction will be a 50-50 venture, in which Russians will provide the brawn and the French will provide the brains.
These attack aircraft carriers can carry 16 heavy or 35 light helicopters, dozens of tanks, 450 personnel and up to 70 armored vehicles, including 13 battle tanks.
It was bad news that President Barack Husein Obama pushed through the START Treaty with Russia (the START Treaty allows everyone to recount their weapons).
The Russians have been placing increasing military pressure on their neighbors for years. Even Japan now may be threatened by these new weapons because, like it or not, Russia is an ally of North Korea , not the United States .
It will be a short time before the technology and weapons that the Russians buy with oil and gas money the French paid them to heat their homes and cook their bread will be used to threaten others.
Shortly after the attack on New York on 9/11 President Sarkozy was quoted as saying, “We are all Americans.”
Now he seems to be saying, “We are all Russians.”
I suppose the next step would be for Osama Bin Laden to crawl out of his hole and buy weapons for cash from the French and Sarkozy would be shouting, “We are all Terrorists!”
The French are selling advanced helicopter carriers to Russia .
Each one of the ships will cost only about $380 million. The construction will be a 50-50 venture, in which Russians will provide the brawn and the French will provide the brains.
These attack aircraft carriers can carry 16 heavy or 35 light helicopters, dozens of tanks, 450 personnel and up to 70 armored vehicles, including 13 battle tanks.
It was bad news that President Barack Husein Obama pushed through the START Treaty with Russia (the START Treaty allows everyone to recount their weapons).
The Russians have been placing increasing military pressure on their neighbors for years. Even Japan now may be threatened by these new weapons because, like it or not, Russia is an ally of North Korea , not the United States .
It will be a short time before the technology and weapons that the Russians buy with oil and gas money the French paid them to heat their homes and cook their bread will be used to threaten others.
Shortly after the attack on New York on 9/11 President Sarkozy was quoted as saying, “We are all Americans.”
Now he seems to be saying, “We are all Russians.”
I suppose the next step would be for Osama Bin Laden to crawl out of his hole and buy weapons for cash from the French and Sarkozy would be shouting, “We are all Terrorists!”
Sunday, January 09, 2011
Hunger
I see celebrities beg on television for money to feed the children. There is the ‘Feed the Children’ charity which is competing with UNICEF (United Nations Children's Fund ) to get money to feed children.
A disturbing figure I have seen is that 31 cents will feed a child three meals a day.
I wonder why celebrities are being broadcast on national television to ask people struggling to get by to send money to folks who are being wronged by an international system of fraud sponsored by crooked banks and stockbrokers working together to ensure that everything stays the way that it is. What’s up?
I give what I can - so don’t get me wrong. I am just wondering why someone earning 5 million dollars for one movie that takes three months to film (with guarantees for a share of future revenue) would go on national television and use their acting abilities to try and get me to feel guilty.
How many people would be fed with the money they throw away on television ads?
I am not the one burning mountains of wheat because I can’t get them to market or I can’t get the price I want for it. I am not the one destroying millions of eggs because the market won’t pay what I want for them. I am not the government who through absurd price supports has created a welfare system of gigantic farm management companies that kill livestock to control prices.
Why the Hollywood treatment?
A disturbing figure I have seen is that 31 cents will feed a child three meals a day.
I wonder why celebrities are being broadcast on national television to ask people struggling to get by to send money to folks who are being wronged by an international system of fraud sponsored by crooked banks and stockbrokers working together to ensure that everything stays the way that it is. What’s up?
I give what I can - so don’t get me wrong. I am just wondering why someone earning 5 million dollars for one movie that takes three months to film (with guarantees for a share of future revenue) would go on national television and use their acting abilities to try and get me to feel guilty.
How many people would be fed with the money they throw away on television ads?
I am not the one burning mountains of wheat because I can’t get them to market or I can’t get the price I want for it. I am not the one destroying millions of eggs because the market won’t pay what I want for them. I am not the government who through absurd price supports has created a welfare system of gigantic farm management companies that kill livestock to control prices.
Why the Hollywood treatment?
Friday, January 07, 2011
Mount Soledad
I was shocked to find that a court ruled that a Cross displayed at a Veterans’ Memorial at Mount Soledad, California near San Diego is unconstitutional. Apparently the judge plans to smash it down with a bulldozer.
The United States Navy received the land for free so now it should give it up since it cannot care for it.
Why allow the Cross to be removed from the site? It has been established. It is now a historical marker indicating the life and spirit of the United States at the time of the Korean War - which was a war against Godless Communism.
If it is removed then put it up again and again and again.
I hope they appeal the appeal or do whatever it is necessary to guarantee the right to freedom of religion and speech. We must not allow the government to strike down a symbol of religion and faith for which those men and women have DIED for so that others can live without concern.
Separation of Church and State also means that the state can not suppress religions.
The concept that Christianity is a religion of exclusion is quite confusing. Tolerance should be the order of the day. That court order is an attempt to muzzle, crush and destroy religious practices and moderate them the way that Communist China moderates reincarnation.
Why allow them to drag that Cross down into the dust the way that the statues of Lenin and Stalin and Sadam Husein were?
The United States Navy received the land for free so now it should give it up since it cannot care for it.
Why allow the Cross to be removed from the site? It has been established. It is now a historical marker indicating the life and spirit of the United States at the time of the Korean War - which was a war against Godless Communism.
If it is removed then put it up again and again and again.
I hope they appeal the appeal or do whatever it is necessary to guarantee the right to freedom of religion and speech. We must not allow the government to strike down a symbol of religion and faith for which those men and women have DIED for so that others can live without concern.
Separation of Church and State also means that the state can not suppress religions.
The concept that Christianity is a religion of exclusion is quite confusing. Tolerance should be the order of the day. That court order is an attempt to muzzle, crush and destroy religious practices and moderate them the way that Communist China moderates reincarnation.
Why allow them to drag that Cross down into the dust the way that the statues of Lenin and Stalin and Sadam Husein were?
Barack Obama's Soliloquy
Hello and how are you all doing out there in television land? To the Cadets of West Point, to the those in our armed forces, to my fellow citizens in the United States and Kenya and, most importantly, to the members of Brownie Troop 192 of Aliquippa, Beaver County, Pennsylvania : I want to direct my comments to the forlorn, misguided and hopeless labors I have chosen for you to undertake in far-off Afghanistan – I will talk about our commitment there, I will avoid scope of our interests, and even further elaborate for you the fanciful and imaginary strategy that my Administration has been telling you we will pursue to bring this war to a successful conclusion. It is an honor for me to do so here – in the West Wing – where so many men and women have prepared to broadcast a weekly television program built around dramatized events that may or may not have happen or may yet happen in the White House. These television professionals stand up for our security and with the complicity and cash of advertisers represent what is finest about our country – like Ivory Soap, Cinnamon Flavored Buns and Shaving Cream.
In addressing these issues you should close your eyes and recall exactly what I have been telling you through Press Releases, carefully scripted appearances on Sunday morning political shows, ‘Oprah!’ and ‘The David Letterman Show’ about why America decided to drag our allies into a mock war in Afghanistan in the first place. Do you have your eyes closed? Can you remember what you have been told? Okay, open your eyes now but keep tightly focused on what I have already told you and don’t add anything to it yourself – if you do – you will just spoil it. Okay - we did not ask for this fight – we just decided to go and have it ourselves. On September 11, 2001, nineteen men, most of them Saudi Arabian citizens, many of whom were trained in the United States to fly commercial airliners, hijacked four of those same commercial airplanes and used them to murder nearly 3,000 people – give or take a few hundred and, of course, including all the firemen that Mayor Giuliani ordered into the building at a crucial time which caused the outflow of people to slow and therefore increased the number of dead…enough said on that.
Okay – then they struck at our military and economic nerve centers. They flew a plane into the Pentagon and tried to fly one into the White House but that one crashed in Pennsylvania or somewhere. Recall, remember and believe with me that they took the lives of innocent people some of whom were merely reporting for duty as they normally would to the Central Intelligence Agency offices that we had innocently placed next to the American Stock Exchange.
As you know, if you have been paying attention, these citizens of Saudi Arabia and were men belonged to a group run by Osama Bin Laden which is al Qaeda, Al-Qaeda alternatively spelled al-Qaida and sometimes al-Qa'ida – a group of lunatics who, according to me and the great prophet Mohamad have distorted and defiled Islam, one of the world’s great religions, to justify killing people. al Qaeda, Al-Qaeda alternatively spelled al-Qaida and sometimes al-Qa'ida’s base of operations was in Afghanistan, even though these men came from Saudi Arabia, their base was in Afghanistan, even though they were Saudi Arabians their base was in Afghanistan and not Pakistan where it seems it is now. We believe and you must believe also that they were harbored by the Taliban – a ruthless, repressive and radical movement of invaders from Tajikistan and Pakistan that seized control of Afghanistan after it was occupied by the Russians and finally left in civil war after we supplied the Taliban and Osama Bin Laden with money and weapons to attack the Russians and then commited to an extended civil war using American weapons and financing.
Days after 9/11, Congress authorized the use of force against al Qaeda, Al-Qaeda alternatively spelled al-Qaida and sometimes al-Qa'ida and those who harbored them, like the Saudi Arabians and Pakistanis – an authorization that continues to this day but which we are only exercising in Afghanistan – and this is why I need you people to BELIEVE with me when I talk to you. The vote in the Senate was 98 to 0. The vote in the House was 420 to 1. The scores at the baseball games that week were : 7-0, 3-2, 5-4. Football score tallies included 17-3, 14-7 and 21-9 where I had the Oilers for 4 and would have won it if they had pulled it off.
For the first time in its history, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization invoked Article 5 – the commitment that says an attack on one member nation is an attack on all. So everyone felt attacked. You felt attacked. I felt attacked. Everyone in Europe felt attacked because of Article 5. The United Nations Security Council endorsed the use of all necessary steps to respond to the 9/11 attacks in some way and the United Nations immediately appealed to the United States to get the ball rolling by paying the billions in dollars it had been neglecting to send each year. America, that is North America, or more accurately the United States of America and most of our allies and some of the world were acting as one to destroy al Qaeda, Al-Qaeda alternatively spelled al-Qaida and sometimes al-Qa'ida’s terrorist network, and to protect our common security which was apparently tied up together somewhere but it was never pointed out exactly where considering that Russia and China and the United States and France and England and Israel and North Korea and Pakistan and India all have nuclear weapons pointing at each other and taking into account that childhood diseases, poverty and starvation still occur around the clock and around the world at an even more horrific rate than prior to 9/11. At least we have plenty of weapons and money. That’s what I like to say.
Under the smoke screen of this forced domestic unity forged by fear and international legitimacy forged by a whole lot of money– and only after the Taliban refused to turn over Osama bin Laden after claiming they did not have him and that we should look in Pakistan or even Saudi Arabia– we sent our Army, Marines, Air Force and even the Navy and Coast Guard into Afghanistan. I know Afghanistan is a landlocked county but the important thing is that the Navy and the Coast Guard went there, you know? BELIEVE WITH ME, PEOPLE! Within a matter of months, al Qaeda, Al-Qaeda alternatively spelled al-Qaida and sometimes al-Qa'ida we believed was scattered and a whole bunch of people were killed. The Taliban was driven from power and pushed back on its heels and held over a barrel and pushed down a hole and put between a rock and a hard place and taken back a piece and forced to understand that we weren’t kidding and that eventually we would find the right metaphor for them and they would be vanquished, conquered…uh, wrong word, don’t anyone use the word ‘conquer’ when talking about American forces. Shhh! A place that had known decades of fear now had reason to consider the happiness that can be had through a life of greed and avarice. At a conference convened by the United Nations, after we paid them some money, a provisional government was established under President Hamid Karzai who immediately committed the nation of Afghanistan to a far reaching policy of corruption, bribery and injustic. An International Security Assistance and Chinese Laundry Force was established to help bring a lasting peace to a war-torn country by tearing it up with war.
Then, in early 2003, a decision was made to attack Iraq. The wrenching debate over the Iraq War is well-known and I lost it and was made a fool of over many of my statements so it need not be repeated here. Everyone FORGET IT. It is enough to say that for the next six years, the Iraq War drew the dominant share of our troops, our resources, our diplomacy, and our national attention – and that the decision to go into Iraq caused substantial rifts between America and much of the world. We are not as close to Guatemala, Cuba or Gabon as we could be but after a careful course of sending flowers, candy and calling often and taking them out to dinner, we are making headway.
Today, after extraordinary costs, we are bringing the occupation of Iraq to a quiet end. Shhh! We will remove our combat brigades from Iraq by the end of next summer, and all of our troops by the end of 2011 and they will be sent directly to Afghanistan to my war. That we are doing so is somehow a testament to the character of our men and women in uniform but I am not quite sure how. It doesn’t matter anyway. Thanks to their courage, grit, spit, polish and perseverance , the Iraqis can continue to dominate the Kurds and fight among themselves for as long as want to and as long as they continue to be full of hatred and ignorance as they have been for the past 1800 years.
But while we have achieved hard-earned access to oil in Iraq, the situation in Afghanistan has deteriorated. It turns out they really don’t have anything and that most of the country is rocky and the soil is not that fertile. After escaping across the border into Pakistan al Qaeda, Al-Qaeda alternatively spelled al-Qaida and sometimes al-Qa'ida’s leadership established a safe-haven there. Although a legitimate government was elected by the Afghan people, it has been hampered by corruption, the drug trade, an under-developed economy, and insufficient Security Forces, interference by Pakistan and a continued influx of money from Saudi Arabia and Iran and weapons from China.
Over the last several years, the Taliban we keep telling you about, and you must continue to believe has maintained, common cause with al Qaeda, Al-Qaeda alternatively spelled al-Qaida and sometimes al-Qa'ida, as they both seek an overthrow of the Afghan government when it is finally established. Gradually, the Taliban has begun to take control over swaths of Afghanistan and entire regions of Pakistan and big sections of the Moon and one whole side of Mars and they continue to take the biggest pieces of cake after dinner while engaging in increasingly brazen and devastating acts of terrorism against the Pakistani people who have been harboring them and working with them and have themselves been working hard to continue engaging in increasingly brazen and devastating acts of terrorism against India.
Throughout this period, our troop levels in Afghanistan remained teeny. When I took office, we had just over 32,000 Americans serving in Afghanistan, compared to 160,000 in Iraq at the peak of the war. Commanders in Afghanistan repeatedly asked for support and ice machines but these things did not arrive.
That’s why, I, shortly after taking office, just as quick as a could, like a jackrabbit, yes, that’s it, like a jackrabbit, I approved a long-standing request for more and more troops and lots and lots of money. After consultations with our allies, including Bulgaria, I then announced a strategy between our war effort in Afghanistan, and the extremist safe-havens in Pakistan which had nothing to do with what we were doing but the Pakistanis like it because it supported their genocide of the people in the tribal areas. They realized they could quickly colonize the area if the United States would destabilize the area so they could kill all the inhabitants. I set a goal that was narrowly defined as disrupting, dismantling, and defeating al Qaeda, Al-Qaeda alternatively spelled al-Qaida and sometimes al-Qa'ida and its extremist allies and anyone we did not like or who would not work with us and be nice to us and pledged to better coordinate our military and civilian effort. Even though that coordination effort has failed we will still keep trying and spending money and killing anyone who gets in our way. So there!
Since then, we have made progress on some important objectives. High-ranking al Qaeda, Al-Qaeda alternatively spelled al-Qaida and sometimes al-Qa'ida and Taliban leaders have been killed lots of times. Some more than once and others over and over again. We have stepped up the pressure on al Qaeda, Al-Qaeda alternatively spelled al-Qaida and sometimes al-Qa'ida world-wide and hope to out compete them in several markets including fast food, textiles and blowing up mud huts in the near term. In Pakistan, that nation’s Army actually has gone out on its largest offensive in years. We even supplied some of their soldiers with bullets for their rifles and even though many of them shot at us we were able to sustain the attacks because we have much better body armor. In Afghanistan, we and our allies, including Bulgaria, prevented the Taliban from stopping a presidential election in such a way that they did not even try to stop it and it went on and on and when the ballots were counted all 25 billion ballots submitted were for ‘Our Guy Karzai!’. The American choice – can you believe it? YOU MUST BELIEVE IT. Thank you. Although it was marred by fraud – that election produced a government that is consistent with Afghanistan’s laws and Constitution which is based on fraud.
Huge challenges remain. I mean really big ones. For example, Afghanistan is not lost, but for several years it has moved backwards – I mean really far backwards. There seems to be a remnant of Cro-Magnon man living in the mountains that has descended into Afghanistan from Tajikistan and that is who were are fighting now. There is no imminent threat of the government being overthrown because there really is no government, but the Taliban has gained momentum and is going really fast. al Qaeda, Al-Qaeda alternatively spelled al-Qaida and sometimes al-Qa'ida has not reemerged in Afghanistan in the same numbers as before 9/11, but they retain their safe-havens along the border and have several condominiums in Kabul and on the Boston Waterfront near where the USS Constitution is docked. Their design appeal is not hampered at all by their complete lack of regard for the value of human life because as they put it, ‘At least we don’t finance a national system of abortion clinics like the United States does.’
Our forces lack the full support they need to effectively train and partner with Afghan Security Forces once some Afghan Security Forces are found and to better secure the population in concentration camps, I mean, ‘Citizen Population Centers’. Our new Commander in Afghanistan – General McChrystal – has reported that the security situation is more serious than he anticipated. He has also been quoted as saying "Are you asking about Vice President Biden? Who's that?" and "I'm saddened by the accusation that I don't care about soldiers, as it is something I suspect any soldier takes both personally and professionally – at least I do. But I know perceptions depend upon your perspective at the time, and I respect that every soldier's view is his own."
In short: the status quo is not sustainable. As cadets, you volunteered for service during this time of danger so you are out of luck and you are going to have to spend a large part of your young life in a dismal, dry and backward country fighting giant man-shaped monkeys from the stone-age past. Some of you have fought in Afghanistan and you’re gonna’ have to go back.
As your Commander-in-Chief, I owe you a mission that is clearly defined, and worthy of your service. As soon as I figure out what that is I will fax it to you. Let me be clear: there has never been an option before me that called for troop deployments before 2010, so there has been no delay or denial of resources necessary for the conduct of the war. It’s just like you have to BELIEVE me like everybody else and you MUST BELIEVE ME because I am the Commander-In-Chief and I say so.
The review has allowed me ask hard questions. I haven’t gotten any answers but I have made some up.
This review is now complete. I have determined that it is in our vital national interest to send an additional 31,242 U.S. troops to Afghanistan. After 18 months, 19,236 will come home and 14,274 will go back, then 12,900 will come home and 19,001 will go back and then they will all come home and then even more will go back and then some will come home and others will go back and then we will go to North Korea and we will continue to ignore Mexico until the lying, murdering thugs in that nation annex every inch of American territory – but even then troops, that’s you, will go back and forth to Afghanistan for EVER. If you think that sounds crazy, well, next week I am going to show you how we are going to pay for all this. These are the resources that we need to seize the initiative, while building the Afghan capacity that can allow for a responsible transition of our forces out of Afghanistan and back in again and out again and in again.
I do not make this decision lightly. I opposed the war in Iraq precisely because I believe that we must exercise restraint in the use of military force, and always consider the long-term consequences of our actions. We have been at war for eight years, at enormous cost in lives and resources and that is why I believe in this war in Afghanistan because we must exercise restraint in the use of military force, and always consider the long-term consequences of our actions. Wash your hands after every meal. REMEMBER THIS!
Years of debate over Iraq and terrorism have left our unity on national security issues in tatters, and created a highly polarized and partisan backdrop for this effort and that is why we have to get in there, get the ball and keep running like we are never going to stop because we can’t stop and we got the ball and it’s the last down and …excuse me. Having just experienced the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, which is over because I say so and because I ended it along with my assistants from JPMorganChase, the Bank of America, the New York Stock Exchange and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange the American people are understandably focused on rebuilding our economy and putting people to work here at home because many of them have been thrown out of their homes. They have no place to live. You must fight and die for that.
As President, I have signed a letter of condolence to the family of each American who gives their life in these wars. I have read the letters from the parents and spouses of those who deployed. I am really sad. I have visited our courageous wounded warriors at Walter Reed and it really makes me sad to see the guys without eyes, arms, legs – never able to walk, talk or move again – and when they are dead it makes me even sadder. I am sad. Don’t you feel sorry for me? YOU MUST.
I have traveled to Dover to meet the flag-draped caskets of 18 Americans returning home to their final resting place. That was too much. I won’t do that again, I tell you. It was a sorrowful experience and it made me sad and the traffic coming back was terrible especially at the roundabout near the Smithsonian. I see firsthand the terrible wages of war and poor traffic lighting. I see it close up. It’s in my face. I always look at the pictures and sometimes try to draw what I see but I really get more out of drawing what I feel. If I did not think that the security of the United States and the safety of the American people were at stake in Afghanistan, I would gladly order every single one of our troops home tomorrow but I think that and won’t ever change my mind no matter how wrong I might be so – too bad. It’s my war and it’s going to go on and on and on.
So no – I do not make this decision lightly. So, no - I make this decision because I am convinced that our security is at stake in Afghanistan and Pakistan and Honduras and parts of Madagascar but not Mexico – So, no - this is the epicenter of the violent extremism, right here, practiced by al Qaeda, Al-Qaeda alternatively spelled al-Qaida and sometimes al-Qa'ida. It is from here that we were attacked on 9/11, I mean there, from Afghanistan, in New York, New York, Afghanistan, and not from Saudi Arabia where the terrorists are from, it’s from there, Afghanistan, New York, so, no, and it is from here that new attacks are being plotted as I speak. Can’t you hear them? I can. This is no idle danger; no hypothetical threat; no make believe; no Mary Poppins story – how I HATE Mary Poppins stories. In the last few months alone, we have apprehended extremists within our borders who were sent here from the border region of Afghanistan, New York and Pakistan, Venezuela to commit new acts of terror and violence and things.
This danger will only grow if the region slides backwards, and al Qaeda, Al-Qaeda alternatively spelled al-Qaida and sometimes al-Qa'ida can operate with impunity. We must keep the pressure on al Qaeda, Al-Qaeda alternatively spelled al-Qaida and sometimes al-Qa'ida so that they don’t backslide, and to do that, we must increase the stability and capacity of our partners in the region by increasing them and one day finding a partner. Skip to my lou, my darlin’.
So, no, of course, this burden is not ours alone to bear. So, no, this is not just America’s war. It’s my war too. I love this war. It’s my first real war and I’m going to keep it going. Since 9/11, al Qaeda, Al-Qaeda alternatively spelled al-Qaida and sometimes al-Qa'ida’s safe-havens have been the source of attacks against London and Amman and Bali and Macy’s. The people and governments of both Afghanistan and Pakistan are endangered. They are like American Eagles only worse – because there are a few thousand American eagles in the world but only one Pakistan and one Afghanistan. See? See what I mean? Even though they are corrupt, brutal and intent on wiping out several different peoples in their borders because they look a little different we must help them do all that so that they can establish their national identities. And the stakes are even higher within a nuclear-armed Pakistan, because we know that al Qaeda, Al-Qaeda alternatively spelled al-Qaida and sometimes al-Qa'ida and other extremists seek nuclear weapons, and we have every reason to believe that they would use them and, after all, Pakistan is led by a bunch of crazy nut-jobs.
As a country, we are not as young – and perhaps not as innocent, I know I’m not, what with all the pot smoking and things – as we were when Roosevelt was President – the first Roosevelt because we weren’t that young when the second Roosevelt was President but most of you weren’t born yet anyway.
This vast and diverse citizenry will not always agree on every issue – nor should we – every once in a while we should fight – want to fight right now? I’ve got the Army – you don’t.
It is easy to forget that when this war began, we were united – bound together by the fresh memory of a horrific attack and enjoying the sweet feeling of sadness and warmth of the passion of the sorrow of the people we watched on television screaming their heads off.
America – we are passing through a time of great trial. I will put you on trial if you don’t support me. And the message that we send in the midst of these storms must be clear: that our cause is just, our resolve unwavering and we will kill you if you get in the way. It’s out umbrella and we won’t let go. We will go forward with the confidence that right makes might and will act as if might makes right if we need to, so don’t mess with us, oh, no, and with the commitment to forge an America that is safer than it was before I showed up, a world that is more secure than the one that existed before I showed up, and a future that represents not the deepest of fears but the highest of hopes for all Trial Lawyers like the Offices of Vice President Joe Biden – he fights for you. Thank you, God Bless you all, so much, I love every one of you and I want to live in your houses with you. If you want you can get a small replica of me to put on a special table in your house and I will be your household god so that God may Bless our troops, and eventually even may save the United States of America from me. Stay tuned for details. ###
In addressing these issues you should close your eyes and recall exactly what I have been telling you through Press Releases, carefully scripted appearances on Sunday morning political shows, ‘Oprah!’ and ‘The David Letterman Show’ about why America decided to drag our allies into a mock war in Afghanistan in the first place. Do you have your eyes closed? Can you remember what you have been told? Okay, open your eyes now but keep tightly focused on what I have already told you and don’t add anything to it yourself – if you do – you will just spoil it. Okay - we did not ask for this fight – we just decided to go and have it ourselves. On September 11, 2001, nineteen men, most of them Saudi Arabian citizens, many of whom were trained in the United States to fly commercial airliners, hijacked four of those same commercial airplanes and used them to murder nearly 3,000 people – give or take a few hundred and, of course, including all the firemen that Mayor Giuliani ordered into the building at a crucial time which caused the outflow of people to slow and therefore increased the number of dead…enough said on that.
Okay – then they struck at our military and economic nerve centers. They flew a plane into the Pentagon and tried to fly one into the White House but that one crashed in Pennsylvania or somewhere. Recall, remember and believe with me that they took the lives of innocent people some of whom were merely reporting for duty as they normally would to the Central Intelligence Agency offices that we had innocently placed next to the American Stock Exchange.
As you know, if you have been paying attention, these citizens of Saudi Arabia and were men belonged to a group run by Osama Bin Laden which is al Qaeda, Al-Qaeda alternatively spelled al-Qaida and sometimes al-Qa'ida – a group of lunatics who, according to me and the great prophet Mohamad have distorted and defiled Islam, one of the world’s great religions, to justify killing people. al Qaeda, Al-Qaeda alternatively spelled al-Qaida and sometimes al-Qa'ida’s base of operations was in Afghanistan, even though these men came from Saudi Arabia, their base was in Afghanistan, even though they were Saudi Arabians their base was in Afghanistan and not Pakistan where it seems it is now. We believe and you must believe also that they were harbored by the Taliban – a ruthless, repressive and radical movement of invaders from Tajikistan and Pakistan that seized control of Afghanistan after it was occupied by the Russians and finally left in civil war after we supplied the Taliban and Osama Bin Laden with money and weapons to attack the Russians and then commited to an extended civil war using American weapons and financing.
Days after 9/11, Congress authorized the use of force against al Qaeda, Al-Qaeda alternatively spelled al-Qaida and sometimes al-Qa'ida and those who harbored them, like the Saudi Arabians and Pakistanis – an authorization that continues to this day but which we are only exercising in Afghanistan – and this is why I need you people to BELIEVE with me when I talk to you. The vote in the Senate was 98 to 0. The vote in the House was 420 to 1. The scores at the baseball games that week were : 7-0, 3-2, 5-4. Football score tallies included 17-3, 14-7 and 21-9 where I had the Oilers for 4 and would have won it if they had pulled it off.
For the first time in its history, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization invoked Article 5 – the commitment that says an attack on one member nation is an attack on all. So everyone felt attacked. You felt attacked. I felt attacked. Everyone in Europe felt attacked because of Article 5. The United Nations Security Council endorsed the use of all necessary steps to respond to the 9/11 attacks in some way and the United Nations immediately appealed to the United States to get the ball rolling by paying the billions in dollars it had been neglecting to send each year. America, that is North America, or more accurately the United States of America and most of our allies and some of the world were acting as one to destroy al Qaeda, Al-Qaeda alternatively spelled al-Qaida and sometimes al-Qa'ida’s terrorist network, and to protect our common security which was apparently tied up together somewhere but it was never pointed out exactly where considering that Russia and China and the United States and France and England and Israel and North Korea and Pakistan and India all have nuclear weapons pointing at each other and taking into account that childhood diseases, poverty and starvation still occur around the clock and around the world at an even more horrific rate than prior to 9/11. At least we have plenty of weapons and money. That’s what I like to say.
Under the smoke screen of this forced domestic unity forged by fear and international legitimacy forged by a whole lot of money– and only after the Taliban refused to turn over Osama bin Laden after claiming they did not have him and that we should look in Pakistan or even Saudi Arabia– we sent our Army, Marines, Air Force and even the Navy and Coast Guard into Afghanistan. I know Afghanistan is a landlocked county but the important thing is that the Navy and the Coast Guard went there, you know? BELIEVE WITH ME, PEOPLE! Within a matter of months, al Qaeda, Al-Qaeda alternatively spelled al-Qaida and sometimes al-Qa'ida we believed was scattered and a whole bunch of people were killed. The Taliban was driven from power and pushed back on its heels and held over a barrel and pushed down a hole and put between a rock and a hard place and taken back a piece and forced to understand that we weren’t kidding and that eventually we would find the right metaphor for them and they would be vanquished, conquered…uh, wrong word, don’t anyone use the word ‘conquer’ when talking about American forces. Shhh! A place that had known decades of fear now had reason to consider the happiness that can be had through a life of greed and avarice. At a conference convened by the United Nations, after we paid them some money, a provisional government was established under President Hamid Karzai who immediately committed the nation of Afghanistan to a far reaching policy of corruption, bribery and injustic. An International Security Assistance and Chinese Laundry Force was established to help bring a lasting peace to a war-torn country by tearing it up with war.
Then, in early 2003, a decision was made to attack Iraq. The wrenching debate over the Iraq War is well-known and I lost it and was made a fool of over many of my statements so it need not be repeated here. Everyone FORGET IT. It is enough to say that for the next six years, the Iraq War drew the dominant share of our troops, our resources, our diplomacy, and our national attention – and that the decision to go into Iraq caused substantial rifts between America and much of the world. We are not as close to Guatemala, Cuba or Gabon as we could be but after a careful course of sending flowers, candy and calling often and taking them out to dinner, we are making headway.
Today, after extraordinary costs, we are bringing the occupation of Iraq to a quiet end. Shhh! We will remove our combat brigades from Iraq by the end of next summer, and all of our troops by the end of 2011 and they will be sent directly to Afghanistan to my war. That we are doing so is somehow a testament to the character of our men and women in uniform but I am not quite sure how. It doesn’t matter anyway. Thanks to their courage, grit, spit, polish and perseverance , the Iraqis can continue to dominate the Kurds and fight among themselves for as long as want to and as long as they continue to be full of hatred and ignorance as they have been for the past 1800 years.
But while we have achieved hard-earned access to oil in Iraq, the situation in Afghanistan has deteriorated. It turns out they really don’t have anything and that most of the country is rocky and the soil is not that fertile. After escaping across the border into Pakistan al Qaeda, Al-Qaeda alternatively spelled al-Qaida and sometimes al-Qa'ida’s leadership established a safe-haven there. Although a legitimate government was elected by the Afghan people, it has been hampered by corruption, the drug trade, an under-developed economy, and insufficient Security Forces, interference by Pakistan and a continued influx of money from Saudi Arabia and Iran and weapons from China.
Over the last several years, the Taliban we keep telling you about, and you must continue to believe has maintained, common cause with al Qaeda, Al-Qaeda alternatively spelled al-Qaida and sometimes al-Qa'ida, as they both seek an overthrow of the Afghan government when it is finally established. Gradually, the Taliban has begun to take control over swaths of Afghanistan and entire regions of Pakistan and big sections of the Moon and one whole side of Mars and they continue to take the biggest pieces of cake after dinner while engaging in increasingly brazen and devastating acts of terrorism against the Pakistani people who have been harboring them and working with them and have themselves been working hard to continue engaging in increasingly brazen and devastating acts of terrorism against India.
Throughout this period, our troop levels in Afghanistan remained teeny. When I took office, we had just over 32,000 Americans serving in Afghanistan, compared to 160,000 in Iraq at the peak of the war. Commanders in Afghanistan repeatedly asked for support and ice machines but these things did not arrive.
That’s why, I, shortly after taking office, just as quick as a could, like a jackrabbit, yes, that’s it, like a jackrabbit, I approved a long-standing request for more and more troops and lots and lots of money. After consultations with our allies, including Bulgaria, I then announced a strategy between our war effort in Afghanistan, and the extremist safe-havens in Pakistan which had nothing to do with what we were doing but the Pakistanis like it because it supported their genocide of the people in the tribal areas. They realized they could quickly colonize the area if the United States would destabilize the area so they could kill all the inhabitants. I set a goal that was narrowly defined as disrupting, dismantling, and defeating al Qaeda, Al-Qaeda alternatively spelled al-Qaida and sometimes al-Qa'ida and its extremist allies and anyone we did not like or who would not work with us and be nice to us and pledged to better coordinate our military and civilian effort. Even though that coordination effort has failed we will still keep trying and spending money and killing anyone who gets in our way. So there!
Since then, we have made progress on some important objectives. High-ranking al Qaeda, Al-Qaeda alternatively spelled al-Qaida and sometimes al-Qa'ida and Taliban leaders have been killed lots of times. Some more than once and others over and over again. We have stepped up the pressure on al Qaeda, Al-Qaeda alternatively spelled al-Qaida and sometimes al-Qa'ida world-wide and hope to out compete them in several markets including fast food, textiles and blowing up mud huts in the near term. In Pakistan, that nation’s Army actually has gone out on its largest offensive in years. We even supplied some of their soldiers with bullets for their rifles and even though many of them shot at us we were able to sustain the attacks because we have much better body armor. In Afghanistan, we and our allies, including Bulgaria, prevented the Taliban from stopping a presidential election in such a way that they did not even try to stop it and it went on and on and when the ballots were counted all 25 billion ballots submitted were for ‘Our Guy Karzai!’. The American choice – can you believe it? YOU MUST BELIEVE IT. Thank you. Although it was marred by fraud – that election produced a government that is consistent with Afghanistan’s laws and Constitution which is based on fraud.
Huge challenges remain. I mean really big ones. For example, Afghanistan is not lost, but for several years it has moved backwards – I mean really far backwards. There seems to be a remnant of Cro-Magnon man living in the mountains that has descended into Afghanistan from Tajikistan and that is who were are fighting now. There is no imminent threat of the government being overthrown because there really is no government, but the Taliban has gained momentum and is going really fast. al Qaeda, Al-Qaeda alternatively spelled al-Qaida and sometimes al-Qa'ida has not reemerged in Afghanistan in the same numbers as before 9/11, but they retain their safe-havens along the border and have several condominiums in Kabul and on the Boston Waterfront near where the USS Constitution is docked. Their design appeal is not hampered at all by their complete lack of regard for the value of human life because as they put it, ‘At least we don’t finance a national system of abortion clinics like the United States does.’
Our forces lack the full support they need to effectively train and partner with Afghan Security Forces once some Afghan Security Forces are found and to better secure the population in concentration camps, I mean, ‘Citizen Population Centers’. Our new Commander in Afghanistan – General McChrystal – has reported that the security situation is more serious than he anticipated. He has also been quoted as saying "Are you asking about Vice President Biden? Who's that?" and "I'm saddened by the accusation that I don't care about soldiers, as it is something I suspect any soldier takes both personally and professionally – at least I do. But I know perceptions depend upon your perspective at the time, and I respect that every soldier's view is his own."
In short: the status quo is not sustainable. As cadets, you volunteered for service during this time of danger so you are out of luck and you are going to have to spend a large part of your young life in a dismal, dry and backward country fighting giant man-shaped monkeys from the stone-age past. Some of you have fought in Afghanistan and you’re gonna’ have to go back.
As your Commander-in-Chief, I owe you a mission that is clearly defined, and worthy of your service. As soon as I figure out what that is I will fax it to you. Let me be clear: there has never been an option before me that called for troop deployments before 2010, so there has been no delay or denial of resources necessary for the conduct of the war. It’s just like you have to BELIEVE me like everybody else and you MUST BELIEVE ME because I am the Commander-In-Chief and I say so.
The review has allowed me ask hard questions. I haven’t gotten any answers but I have made some up.
This review is now complete. I have determined that it is in our vital national interest to send an additional 31,242 U.S. troops to Afghanistan. After 18 months, 19,236 will come home and 14,274 will go back, then 12,900 will come home and 19,001 will go back and then they will all come home and then even more will go back and then some will come home and others will go back and then we will go to North Korea and we will continue to ignore Mexico until the lying, murdering thugs in that nation annex every inch of American territory – but even then troops, that’s you, will go back and forth to Afghanistan for EVER. If you think that sounds crazy, well, next week I am going to show you how we are going to pay for all this. These are the resources that we need to seize the initiative, while building the Afghan capacity that can allow for a responsible transition of our forces out of Afghanistan and back in again and out again and in again.
I do not make this decision lightly. I opposed the war in Iraq precisely because I believe that we must exercise restraint in the use of military force, and always consider the long-term consequences of our actions. We have been at war for eight years, at enormous cost in lives and resources and that is why I believe in this war in Afghanistan because we must exercise restraint in the use of military force, and always consider the long-term consequences of our actions. Wash your hands after every meal. REMEMBER THIS!
Years of debate over Iraq and terrorism have left our unity on national security issues in tatters, and created a highly polarized and partisan backdrop for this effort and that is why we have to get in there, get the ball and keep running like we are never going to stop because we can’t stop and we got the ball and it’s the last down and …excuse me. Having just experienced the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, which is over because I say so and because I ended it along with my assistants from JPMorganChase, the Bank of America, the New York Stock Exchange and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange the American people are understandably focused on rebuilding our economy and putting people to work here at home because many of them have been thrown out of their homes. They have no place to live. You must fight and die for that.
As President, I have signed a letter of condolence to the family of each American who gives their life in these wars. I have read the letters from the parents and spouses of those who deployed. I am really sad. I have visited our courageous wounded warriors at Walter Reed and it really makes me sad to see the guys without eyes, arms, legs – never able to walk, talk or move again – and when they are dead it makes me even sadder. I am sad. Don’t you feel sorry for me? YOU MUST.
I have traveled to Dover to meet the flag-draped caskets of 18 Americans returning home to their final resting place. That was too much. I won’t do that again, I tell you. It was a sorrowful experience and it made me sad and the traffic coming back was terrible especially at the roundabout near the Smithsonian. I see firsthand the terrible wages of war and poor traffic lighting. I see it close up. It’s in my face. I always look at the pictures and sometimes try to draw what I see but I really get more out of drawing what I feel. If I did not think that the security of the United States and the safety of the American people were at stake in Afghanistan, I would gladly order every single one of our troops home tomorrow but I think that and won’t ever change my mind no matter how wrong I might be so – too bad. It’s my war and it’s going to go on and on and on.
So no – I do not make this decision lightly. So, no - I make this decision because I am convinced that our security is at stake in Afghanistan and Pakistan and Honduras and parts of Madagascar but not Mexico – So, no - this is the epicenter of the violent extremism, right here, practiced by al Qaeda, Al-Qaeda alternatively spelled al-Qaida and sometimes al-Qa'ida. It is from here that we were attacked on 9/11, I mean there, from Afghanistan, in New York, New York, Afghanistan, and not from Saudi Arabia where the terrorists are from, it’s from there, Afghanistan, New York, so, no, and it is from here that new attacks are being plotted as I speak. Can’t you hear them? I can. This is no idle danger; no hypothetical threat; no make believe; no Mary Poppins story – how I HATE Mary Poppins stories. In the last few months alone, we have apprehended extremists within our borders who were sent here from the border region of Afghanistan, New York and Pakistan, Venezuela to commit new acts of terror and violence and things.
This danger will only grow if the region slides backwards, and al Qaeda, Al-Qaeda alternatively spelled al-Qaida and sometimes al-Qa'ida can operate with impunity. We must keep the pressure on al Qaeda, Al-Qaeda alternatively spelled al-Qaida and sometimes al-Qa'ida so that they don’t backslide, and to do that, we must increase the stability and capacity of our partners in the region by increasing them and one day finding a partner. Skip to my lou, my darlin’.
So, no, of course, this burden is not ours alone to bear. So, no, this is not just America’s war. It’s my war too. I love this war. It’s my first real war and I’m going to keep it going. Since 9/11, al Qaeda, Al-Qaeda alternatively spelled al-Qaida and sometimes al-Qa'ida’s safe-havens have been the source of attacks against London and Amman and Bali and Macy’s. The people and governments of both Afghanistan and Pakistan are endangered. They are like American Eagles only worse – because there are a few thousand American eagles in the world but only one Pakistan and one Afghanistan. See? See what I mean? Even though they are corrupt, brutal and intent on wiping out several different peoples in their borders because they look a little different we must help them do all that so that they can establish their national identities. And the stakes are even higher within a nuclear-armed Pakistan, because we know that al Qaeda, Al-Qaeda alternatively spelled al-Qaida and sometimes al-Qa'ida and other extremists seek nuclear weapons, and we have every reason to believe that they would use them and, after all, Pakistan is led by a bunch of crazy nut-jobs.
As a country, we are not as young – and perhaps not as innocent, I know I’m not, what with all the pot smoking and things – as we were when Roosevelt was President – the first Roosevelt because we weren’t that young when the second Roosevelt was President but most of you weren’t born yet anyway.
This vast and diverse citizenry will not always agree on every issue – nor should we – every once in a while we should fight – want to fight right now? I’ve got the Army – you don’t.
It is easy to forget that when this war began, we were united – bound together by the fresh memory of a horrific attack and enjoying the sweet feeling of sadness and warmth of the passion of the sorrow of the people we watched on television screaming their heads off.
America – we are passing through a time of great trial. I will put you on trial if you don’t support me. And the message that we send in the midst of these storms must be clear: that our cause is just, our resolve unwavering and we will kill you if you get in the way. It’s out umbrella and we won’t let go. We will go forward with the confidence that right makes might and will act as if might makes right if we need to, so don’t mess with us, oh, no, and with the commitment to forge an America that is safer than it was before I showed up, a world that is more secure than the one that existed before I showed up, and a future that represents not the deepest of fears but the highest of hopes for all Trial Lawyers like the Offices of Vice President Joe Biden – he fights for you. Thank you, God Bless you all, so much, I love every one of you and I want to live in your houses with you. If you want you can get a small replica of me to put on a special table in your house and I will be your household god so that God may Bless our troops, and eventually even may save the United States of America from me. Stay tuned for details. ###
Thursday, January 06, 2011
Colin Firth, John Maynard Keynes and Eugenics
I wrote the above letter as a ‘Letter to the Editor’. I have some other things to add, though, as an addendum about Colin Firth and John Maynard Keynes.
First of all, I am amazed that an actor could rise to such a state in England that he would be honored by the British Broadcasting Company to be a guest editor. So Colin Firth had a wonderful opportunity to use the power of investigative reporting on any subject on earth and he chose what appears to be an experiment in eugenics.
Having said that about the BBC honoring an actor in this way, I realize that as an American you can point out the fact that Ronald Reagan was an actor. I can then point out to you that Ronald Reagan also had ties to John Maynard Keynes in that he believed in that man’s version of economics.
Colin Firth made another comment which I believe is an attempt at humor or scorn but it came across rather flat - at least on this side of the pond. He stated that he would like to try his brain scan experiment on some American politicians to see if they have any brain at all.
It is widely known that we do not send the best among us to do the work in Washington, DC. That is why it is often so shoddy.
For example - the war in Afghanistan drags on to no point. It seemed originally intended to be geared towards capturing Osama Bin Laden but after the Pakistanis hid him away the war changed into a ‘Kill the Taliban’ frenzy, which was accompanied by a parallel story line about ridding Afghanistan of Al-Queda.
Great Britain has had extensive experience in Afghanistan - what with setting it up as a buffer zone against Russia in the 19th century. Today the war in Afghanistan seems to have become an American nightmare of the British dream.
What do we need Afghanistan for when Mexico has been sending a steady stream of illegal aliens, weapons and drugs into the United States. At the same time Mexico has been draining off jobs and work from the United States.
It is believed that the drug trade through Mexico is financed by terrorist money and may in no small way be facilitated directly or indirectly by Communist China.
These threats are real while the imagined one in Afghanistan is made the focus of attention. Thankfully - Great Britain seems poised on leaving Afghanistan - but who can say what will happen tomorrow.
Suffice it to say we have some serious problems here in the United States and it is of no help whatsoever that the BBC should be foisting the likes of Colin Firth’s bizarre political views on the situation.
I am only calling attention to his behavior because of the general support he seems to have drawn from many other in Great Britain.
I was surprised and horrified to find that John Maynard Keynes had been the director of the British Eugenics Society during the period of 1937-1944. That corresponds to the same years that Great Britain was fighting against Nazi Germany whose own practice of eugenics was frowned upon.
The Nazi experiment was destroyed yet the British experiments apparently live on - taking new life from the resettlement schemes following World War I (which led directly to the deaths of at least hundreds of thousands while destroying the lives of millions) to the shuffling of governments, weapons, banking, money and mayhem from the day World War II ended up until the present day.
Take British Petroleum for the one fine example - starting as a scheme to move oil and gas out of Iran and Iraq it has turned into a huge international corporation. It’s activity have recently caused deadly explosions and deaths in Texas and Louisiana in the United States. When the American government moved to punish BP it found it was limited in what it could do because - BP is a major supplier of fuel to the United States Military. BP controls 80 percent of the oil production in Wyoming alone. It is half owner with the Japanese on the Alyaska pipeline in Alaska.
You see - Colin Firth has merely brought up some serious issues that need discussion. Will you discuss them? Would you allow an actor to have a reporter have a professor scan your brain with magnetic wave radiation?
The remark that Colin Firth made that offended me was the one about scanning the brains of some American politicians to see if they have any brains at all. This may seem like a funny item in passing, and, I have to agree, some American politicians do and say things which could be characterized as ‘brainless’. Often they are well meaning chumps who have not thought out what they were going to say or they are incompetent and these remarks assist us in ending their careers.
I was offended initially because Colin Firth specified ‘American’ politicians and did not broaden his attack. For example – under Colin Firth’s experiment extension then President Sarkozy (the Hungarian Prince who is the President of France) and those French Senators who support the sale of advanced tactical weapons to Russia would be likely candidates.
In general I am offended by his comments because of the wasted use of medical equipment, time and money to support his biased claims and junk science.
Which brings me then to the final point which reflects back on the fact that John Maynard Keynes was the director of the British Eugenics Society.
How did John Maynard Keynes get in this interaction with the repugnant actions of Colin Firth and the BBC? The institute that carried out this insane experiment for Colin Firth has a long association with the Galton Institute which used to be known as the British Eugenics Society.
John Maynard Keynes, as I have stated, was director of that Society between the years of 1937 and 1944. Those are the years that the British Empire was at war with Nazi Germany. In light of this it hard not to come to the conclusion that as Nazi Germany was instructing all levels of society in the dangerous black arts of eugenics that the elite in the British Empire was actually practicing it – and had been for some time.
Furthermore, considering the weight that ideas and concepts about ‘economics’ that John Maynard Keynes put forward and have been readily grasped and put into practice into the United Kingdom and the United States and elsewhere – I am calling into question the actual reason that these economic ideals and schemes have been put into place.
It is no great extension of logic to see that if the twisted ideas of eugenics are forced into the subject of economics that they would fit quite snuggly. The idea of ‘competition’ and the ‘survival of the fittest’ and ‘culling the herd’ are all part and parcel of the modern market philosophy. But is it modern? Is it a philosophy or is something else at work here?
Consider this quote by Keynes, “The love of money as a possession — as distinguished from the love of money as a means to the enjoyments and realities of life — will be recognised for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity, one of those semi-criminal, semi-pathological propensities which one hands over with a shudder to the specialists in mental disease ... But beware! The time for all this is not yet. For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to everyone that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still. For only they can lead us out of the tunnel of economic necessity into daylight.”
If one believes, as some do, that this is a recipe for prosperity for all then one need reconsider what is written above and broaden the scope of study to get an understanding of what may be the true undercurrent here.
The result of all this bargaining, buying and selling and rearranging of national boundaries and the forced movement of human populations – what does it lead to?
Consider first of all the forced resettlement following World War I. It was supposed to be a scheme to reduce conflict. It turned out to be devastating for many and lethal for just as many. As peoples were forced out of their homelands and into new areas they died by the thousands of starvation and disease. As the world sunk into the Great Depression these peoples were lost to sight and so – out of sight, out of mind – they perished.
In eugenics this would be described as a culling. It would be described as ridding the general population of unwanted degenerates.
In reality it was referred to as resettlement.
In reality these actions born of eugenics were mass murder – that is, genocide.
Now move forward in examining these points – we come then to the quote by John Maynard Keynes about retaining avarice and usury as ‘our gods’ for a little longer. Why would anyone do that? To increase wealth? That certainly has not been what has been done with them.
Look around the world. International corporations backed by sovereign governments enter into rural and agrarian countries, secure contracts for raw materials or labor that are clearly unfair to the locals and the process begins. The local economy is thrown into disarray. Wealth accumulates to the invaders. Povery, famine and war proceed in the local area – while wealth continues to be extracted – and the local population declines.
Because of the resiliency of humankind these actions do not always denude the land of people – but they do introduce misery, hunger, disease and death for many. War becomes a tool to try to respond to the problems but is often used by locals against other locals as the armies and mercenaries fighting are armed by or financed by outside interests (that might be you).
All of this continues and is allowed to go and encouraged to go because many so-called responsible persons have totally agreed that avarice and usury are truly gods to them.
I am making a broad treatment here and I am going to cease attempting to explain it to you. It is new to me and I haven’t fully comprehended the horrible meaning behind the fact that John Maynard Keynes was the Director of the British Eugenics Society. The ramifications of it and the actions that followed from it and the behavior of people who believed these wicked ideals - it’s just a great tragedy….it’s one that you are taking part in now.
The difference is – now you have been informed of your part.
What are you going to do about it?
First of all, I am amazed that an actor could rise to such a state in England that he would be honored by the British Broadcasting Company to be a guest editor. So Colin Firth had a wonderful opportunity to use the power of investigative reporting on any subject on earth and he chose what appears to be an experiment in eugenics.
Having said that about the BBC honoring an actor in this way, I realize that as an American you can point out the fact that Ronald Reagan was an actor. I can then point out to you that Ronald Reagan also had ties to John Maynard Keynes in that he believed in that man’s version of economics.
Colin Firth made another comment which I believe is an attempt at humor or scorn but it came across rather flat - at least on this side of the pond. He stated that he would like to try his brain scan experiment on some American politicians to see if they have any brain at all.
It is widely known that we do not send the best among us to do the work in Washington, DC. That is why it is often so shoddy.
For example - the war in Afghanistan drags on to no point. It seemed originally intended to be geared towards capturing Osama Bin Laden but after the Pakistanis hid him away the war changed into a ‘Kill the Taliban’ frenzy, which was accompanied by a parallel story line about ridding Afghanistan of Al-Queda.
Great Britain has had extensive experience in Afghanistan - what with setting it up as a buffer zone against Russia in the 19th century. Today the war in Afghanistan seems to have become an American nightmare of the British dream.
What do we need Afghanistan for when Mexico has been sending a steady stream of illegal aliens, weapons and drugs into the United States. At the same time Mexico has been draining off jobs and work from the United States.
It is believed that the drug trade through Mexico is financed by terrorist money and may in no small way be facilitated directly or indirectly by Communist China.
These threats are real while the imagined one in Afghanistan is made the focus of attention. Thankfully - Great Britain seems poised on leaving Afghanistan - but who can say what will happen tomorrow.
Suffice it to say we have some serious problems here in the United States and it is of no help whatsoever that the BBC should be foisting the likes of Colin Firth’s bizarre political views on the situation.
I am only calling attention to his behavior because of the general support he seems to have drawn from many other in Great Britain.
I was surprised and horrified to find that John Maynard Keynes had been the director of the British Eugenics Society during the period of 1937-1944. That corresponds to the same years that Great Britain was fighting against Nazi Germany whose own practice of eugenics was frowned upon.
The Nazi experiment was destroyed yet the British experiments apparently live on - taking new life from the resettlement schemes following World War I (which led directly to the deaths of at least hundreds of thousands while destroying the lives of millions) to the shuffling of governments, weapons, banking, money and mayhem from the day World War II ended up until the present day.
Take British Petroleum for the one fine example - starting as a scheme to move oil and gas out of Iran and Iraq it has turned into a huge international corporation. It’s activity have recently caused deadly explosions and deaths in Texas and Louisiana in the United States. When the American government moved to punish BP it found it was limited in what it could do because - BP is a major supplier of fuel to the United States Military. BP controls 80 percent of the oil production in Wyoming alone. It is half owner with the Japanese on the Alyaska pipeline in Alaska.
You see - Colin Firth has merely brought up some serious issues that need discussion. Will you discuss them? Would you allow an actor to have a reporter have a professor scan your brain with magnetic wave radiation?
The remark that Colin Firth made that offended me was the one about scanning the brains of some American politicians to see if they have any brains at all. This may seem like a funny item in passing, and, I have to agree, some American politicians do and say things which could be characterized as ‘brainless’. Often they are well meaning chumps who have not thought out what they were going to say or they are incompetent and these remarks assist us in ending their careers.
I was offended initially because Colin Firth specified ‘American’ politicians and did not broaden his attack. For example – under Colin Firth’s experiment extension then President Sarkozy (the Hungarian Prince who is the President of France) and those French Senators who support the sale of advanced tactical weapons to Russia would be likely candidates.
In general I am offended by his comments because of the wasted use of medical equipment, time and money to support his biased claims and junk science.
Which brings me then to the final point which reflects back on the fact that John Maynard Keynes was the director of the British Eugenics Society.
How did John Maynard Keynes get in this interaction with the repugnant actions of Colin Firth and the BBC? The institute that carried out this insane experiment for Colin Firth has a long association with the Galton Institute which used to be known as the British Eugenics Society.
John Maynard Keynes, as I have stated, was director of that Society between the years of 1937 and 1944. Those are the years that the British Empire was at war with Nazi Germany. In light of this it hard not to come to the conclusion that as Nazi Germany was instructing all levels of society in the dangerous black arts of eugenics that the elite in the British Empire was actually practicing it – and had been for some time.
Furthermore, considering the weight that ideas and concepts about ‘economics’ that John Maynard Keynes put forward and have been readily grasped and put into practice into the United Kingdom and the United States and elsewhere – I am calling into question the actual reason that these economic ideals and schemes have been put into place.
It is no great extension of logic to see that if the twisted ideas of eugenics are forced into the subject of economics that they would fit quite snuggly. The idea of ‘competition’ and the ‘survival of the fittest’ and ‘culling the herd’ are all part and parcel of the modern market philosophy. But is it modern? Is it a philosophy or is something else at work here?
Consider this quote by Keynes, “The love of money as a possession — as distinguished from the love of money as a means to the enjoyments and realities of life — will be recognised for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity, one of those semi-criminal, semi-pathological propensities which one hands over with a shudder to the specialists in mental disease ... But beware! The time for all this is not yet. For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to everyone that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still. For only they can lead us out of the tunnel of economic necessity into daylight.”
If one believes, as some do, that this is a recipe for prosperity for all then one need reconsider what is written above and broaden the scope of study to get an understanding of what may be the true undercurrent here.
The result of all this bargaining, buying and selling and rearranging of national boundaries and the forced movement of human populations – what does it lead to?
Consider first of all the forced resettlement following World War I. It was supposed to be a scheme to reduce conflict. It turned out to be devastating for many and lethal for just as many. As peoples were forced out of their homelands and into new areas they died by the thousands of starvation and disease. As the world sunk into the Great Depression these peoples were lost to sight and so – out of sight, out of mind – they perished.
In eugenics this would be described as a culling. It would be described as ridding the general population of unwanted degenerates.
In reality it was referred to as resettlement.
In reality these actions born of eugenics were mass murder – that is, genocide.
Now move forward in examining these points – we come then to the quote by John Maynard Keynes about retaining avarice and usury as ‘our gods’ for a little longer. Why would anyone do that? To increase wealth? That certainly has not been what has been done with them.
Look around the world. International corporations backed by sovereign governments enter into rural and agrarian countries, secure contracts for raw materials or labor that are clearly unfair to the locals and the process begins. The local economy is thrown into disarray. Wealth accumulates to the invaders. Povery, famine and war proceed in the local area – while wealth continues to be extracted – and the local population declines.
Because of the resiliency of humankind these actions do not always denude the land of people – but they do introduce misery, hunger, disease and death for many. War becomes a tool to try to respond to the problems but is often used by locals against other locals as the armies and mercenaries fighting are armed by or financed by outside interests (that might be you).
All of this continues and is allowed to go and encouraged to go because many so-called responsible persons have totally agreed that avarice and usury are truly gods to them.
I am making a broad treatment here and I am going to cease attempting to explain it to you. It is new to me and I haven’t fully comprehended the horrible meaning behind the fact that John Maynard Keynes was the Director of the British Eugenics Society. The ramifications of it and the actions that followed from it and the behavior of people who believed these wicked ideals - it’s just a great tragedy….it’s one that you are taking part in now.
The difference is – now you have been informed of your part.
What are you going to do about it?
John Maynard Keynes and Eugenics
John Maynard Keynes - the Giant of Economics. His name is whispered with reverence. His ideas are worshipped in Washington, DC, Lansing and in the dusty offices of Wayne County. If you recall Ronald Reagan was very keen on Keynes. It is widely reported that President Barack Husein Obama is basing much of his economic ‘rescue’ on the economic theory of Keynes. That would make him a ‘Keynesian’.
A horrible fact that I have never heard mentioned by learned recently is that John Maynard Keynes was the head of the ‘British Eugenics Society’ from the years of 1937 to 1944.
Those are the years that the British Empire was at war with Nazi Germany.
Eugenics is the applied “science” which advocates the use of practices aimed at improving the genetic composition of a human population. Abuses include racial hygiene (no intermarriage), human experimentation (cloning, genetic manipulation), sterilization of ’subhuman’ individuals and the extermination of undesired population groups.
Eugenics had its origins in the theory of the ‘Survival of the Fittest’.
Keynesian economic policies also boil down to ‘Survival of the Fittest’ with the emphasis on the ‘fittest’ government.
It seems clear that doubts and concerns about the radical and baseless economic ideas that Keynes advocated against common sense are of the same coin as the insane and heartless ideas that are part and parcel of eugenics.
The name of John Maynard Keynes has taken on for me an ominous and dangerous tone. I cannot believe in Economic Eugenics. Can you?
A horrible fact that I have never heard mentioned by learned recently is that John Maynard Keynes was the head of the ‘British Eugenics Society’ from the years of 1937 to 1944.
Those are the years that the British Empire was at war with Nazi Germany.
Eugenics is the applied “science” which advocates the use of practices aimed at improving the genetic composition of a human population. Abuses include racial hygiene (no intermarriage), human experimentation (cloning, genetic manipulation), sterilization of ’subhuman’ individuals and the extermination of undesired population groups.
Eugenics had its origins in the theory of the ‘Survival of the Fittest’.
Keynesian economic policies also boil down to ‘Survival of the Fittest’ with the emphasis on the ‘fittest’ government.
It seems clear that doubts and concerns about the radical and baseless economic ideas that Keynes advocated against common sense are of the same coin as the insane and heartless ideas that are part and parcel of eugenics.
The name of John Maynard Keynes has taken on for me an ominous and dangerous tone. I cannot believe in Economic Eugenics. Can you?
Mount Soledad
I was shocked to find that a court ruled a Cross displayed at a Veterans’ Memorial at Mount Soledad, California near San Diego is unconstitutional and must be removed.
The Navy received the land for free so why not give it up since it cannot care for it?
Why allow the Cross to be removed from the site? It has been established. It is now a historical marker indicating the life and spirit of the United States at the time of the Korean War - which was a war against Godless Communism.
I hope whatever is necessary to guarantee the right to freedom of religion and speech will be done. We must not allow the government to strike down a symbol of religion and faith for which those men and women have DIED for so that others can live without concern.
Separation of Church and State also means that the state can not suppress religions.
The mighty United States Navy and Army combined have not been able to stop the invasion of illegal aliens and drugs onto our shores nor find one stinking murderer by the name of Osama Bin Laden but some nameless courts writes an order and our military will smash the Cross immediately.
This is an attempt to muzzle religious practices and control our lives the way the Communist Chinese do their people.
Why allow them to drag the Cross down into the dust the way they did the statues of Lenin and Stalin and Sadam Husein?
The Navy received the land for free so why not give it up since it cannot care for it?
Why allow the Cross to be removed from the site? It has been established. It is now a historical marker indicating the life and spirit of the United States at the time of the Korean War - which was a war against Godless Communism.
I hope whatever is necessary to guarantee the right to freedom of religion and speech will be done. We must not allow the government to strike down a symbol of religion and faith for which those men and women have DIED for so that others can live without concern.
Separation of Church and State also means that the state can not suppress religions.
The mighty United States Navy and Army combined have not been able to stop the invasion of illegal aliens and drugs onto our shores nor find one stinking murderer by the name of Osama Bin Laden but some nameless courts writes an order and our military will smash the Cross immediately.
This is an attempt to muzzle religious practices and control our lives the way the Communist Chinese do their people.
Why allow them to drag the Cross down into the dust the way they did the statues of Lenin and Stalin and Sadam Husein?
Tuesday, January 04, 2011
French Ship Sale to Russia
Recently President Sarkozy of France announced that our ally, France, would sell advanced assault ships to Russia .
The French are selling advanced helicopter carriers to Russia .
Each one of the ships will cost only about $380 million. The construction will be a 50-50 venture, in which Russians will provide the brawn and the French will provide the brains.
These attack aircraft carriers can carry 16 heavy or 35 light helicopters, dozens of tanks, 450 personnel and up to 70 armored vehicles, including 13 battle tanks.
It was bad news that President Barack Husein Obama pushed through the START Treaty with Russia (the START Treaty allows everyone to recount their weapons).
The Russians have been placing increasing military pressure on their neighbors for years. Even Japan now may be threatened by these new weapons because, like it or not, Russia is an ally of North Korea , not the United States .
It will be a short time before the technology and weapons that the Russians buy with oil and gas money the French paid them to heat their homes and cook their bread will be used to threaten others.
Shortly after the attack on New York on 9/11 President Sarkozy was quoted as saying, “We are all Americans.”
Now he seems to be saying, “We are all Russians.”
I suppose the next step would be for Osama Bin Laden to crawl out of his hole and buy weapons for cash from the French and Sarkozy would be shouting, “We are all Terrorists!”
The French are selling advanced helicopter carriers to Russia .
Each one of the ships will cost only about $380 million. The construction will be a 50-50 venture, in which Russians will provide the brawn and the French will provide the brains.
These attack aircraft carriers can carry 16 heavy or 35 light helicopters, dozens of tanks, 450 personnel and up to 70 armored vehicles, including 13 battle tanks.
It was bad news that President Barack Husein Obama pushed through the START Treaty with Russia (the START Treaty allows everyone to recount their weapons).
The Russians have been placing increasing military pressure on their neighbors for years. Even Japan now may be threatened by these new weapons because, like it or not, Russia is an ally of North Korea , not the United States .
It will be a short time before the technology and weapons that the Russians buy with oil and gas money the French paid them to heat their homes and cook their bread will be used to threaten others.
Shortly after the attack on New York on 9/11 President Sarkozy was quoted as saying, “We are all Americans.”
Now he seems to be saying, “We are all Russians.”
I suppose the next step would be for Osama Bin Laden to crawl out of his hole and buy weapons for cash from the French and Sarkozy would be shouting, “We are all Terrorists!”
Sunday, February 10, 2008
Obama and Odinga
Senator Barack Husein Obama’s father is from Kenya.
His name was Husein Obama.
He was a member of the Luo tribe.
The Luo or Lwo are a family of linguistically affiliated ethnic groups who live in an area that stretches from the southern Sudan, through northern Uganda and eastern Congo (DRC). During their history they were at one time one of the main tribes to enslave and sell their neighbors into slavery to the whites or to the Arabs - whoever was closest and had the most money.
Specifically Barack Husein Obama’s tribe is the Joluo and his father was a nationally known political agitator.
Even though Husein Obama Senior was politically active the Luo tribe in Kenya took a back seat during the years of conflict for independence from Britain. The preferred to leave their fighting to others.
After Kenya gained its independence it became one of the exceptions to the rule in Africa.
Being a liberated colony the new leadership took power with little or no violence and maintained order for nearly forty years.
During this time Kenya became one of the most powerful and richest black African nations. Many people look to Kenya in the east, Nigeria to the west and South Africa in the south to form the basis of a triangle of peace and prosperity.
Kenya was able to put a controlling pressure on Uganda during the violent years of Idi Amin Dada’s rule. It was Kenya, it was hoped, that could lead the way to stop the genocide in the Sudan.
Recall that the Luo tribe, of whom Barack Husein Obama claims for his own, live throughout southern Sudan - the location of the atrocities against mankind.
Barack Husein Obama is a mystery to me but I do know that within 6 months of his visit to Kenya on August 26, 2006 the country has been teetering toward madness. His family in Kenya has been catapulted again into the public eye in Kenya. From the way they are acting it is as if the Luo people are expecting something that is not clear to the rest of us.
This much is clear - after the last election President Mwai Kibaki became president of Kenya.
Raila Odinga, his opponent and a radical, whose son, by the way, is named Fidel Odinga after Fidel Castro, did not like the result of the election and began to protest it.
His followers became violent.
Protests turned into riots.
Many people were killed and some of President Kibaki’s supporters, in towns where they were outnumbered, began take refuge in Christian churches.
Some of the churches were burned down.
One of them - the Kenya Assemblies of God was surrounded by a screaming mob of political maniacs and set ablaze with women and children inside. Twenty-five children were burned to death along with four elderly people.
The religion of the Luo for some time had been animism. That is, they believe in spirits and such. These days, however, the Luo are muslims. So what happened to the Kenya Assemblies of God was a crime of religious hatred but not only that it was an act of ethnic cleansing. In fact the Luo seem intent on driving out every other tribe or anyone different from them as soon as they can.
What is it they want?
As in Sudan there are large stores of untapped oil, gas and minerals. By driving off their rivals and putting one of their own in power they could hope to cement their power and increase their role in the Muslim world.
After the election Senator Barack Husein Obama according to his spokesman called Raila Odinga "to express grave concern over the election outcome" of the election.
Then Barack Husein Obama went off to an election rally of his own in New Hampshire to run for President of the United States and he apparently breathed not a word about the murderous and maniacal actions the followers of one of his friends had just carried out.
When asked what the platform of his campaign was (and continues to be even after he lost the election) Odinga says, “My platform is change.”
The first thing he wants to change in Kenya is the Constitution.
Says Odinga, “…we ran on a platform of change.”
Obama’s platform, according to his ‘official’ website is : “It’s about change.”
There you have it.
The questions remain :
What is Barack Husein Obama - a Senator from Illinois - doing when he is interacting with a violent rebel, muslim leader in Kenya who may have been responsible for the murder of dozens of innocent people burned to death simply because they took refuge in a church?
What is Barack Husein Obama doing when he interferes in the internal operations of a foreign nation like Kenya?
Are you going to let a well organized and well financed representative of a foreign government push his way any further into your national government?
How many more people have to die before Americans come to understand that Barack Husein Obama is not a product of the land of Lincoln?
Born in Hawaii he spent most of his life in the violent and backward nation of Indonesia – where not too long ago the Australians had to stop the Muslims from killing all the Christians in East Timor.
When will this blood soaked travesty of our national political system come to an end? When will the mocking smirk of our enemies be wiped from our television screens?
Change they want? With the gun? With the torch?
His name was Husein Obama.
He was a member of the Luo tribe.
The Luo or Lwo are a family of linguistically affiliated ethnic groups who live in an area that stretches from the southern Sudan, through northern Uganda and eastern Congo (DRC). During their history they were at one time one of the main tribes to enslave and sell their neighbors into slavery to the whites or to the Arabs - whoever was closest and had the most money.
Specifically Barack Husein Obama’s tribe is the Joluo and his father was a nationally known political agitator.
Even though Husein Obama Senior was politically active the Luo tribe in Kenya took a back seat during the years of conflict for independence from Britain. The preferred to leave their fighting to others.
After Kenya gained its independence it became one of the exceptions to the rule in Africa.
Being a liberated colony the new leadership took power with little or no violence and maintained order for nearly forty years.
During this time Kenya became one of the most powerful and richest black African nations. Many people look to Kenya in the east, Nigeria to the west and South Africa in the south to form the basis of a triangle of peace and prosperity.
Kenya was able to put a controlling pressure on Uganda during the violent years of Idi Amin Dada’s rule. It was Kenya, it was hoped, that could lead the way to stop the genocide in the Sudan.
Recall that the Luo tribe, of whom Barack Husein Obama claims for his own, live throughout southern Sudan - the location of the atrocities against mankind.
Barack Husein Obama is a mystery to me but I do know that within 6 months of his visit to Kenya on August 26, 2006 the country has been teetering toward madness. His family in Kenya has been catapulted again into the public eye in Kenya. From the way they are acting it is as if the Luo people are expecting something that is not clear to the rest of us.
This much is clear - after the last election President Mwai Kibaki became president of Kenya.
Raila Odinga, his opponent and a radical, whose son, by the way, is named Fidel Odinga after Fidel Castro, did not like the result of the election and began to protest it.
His followers became violent.
Protests turned into riots.
Many people were killed and some of President Kibaki’s supporters, in towns where they were outnumbered, began take refuge in Christian churches.
Some of the churches were burned down.
One of them - the Kenya Assemblies of God was surrounded by a screaming mob of political maniacs and set ablaze with women and children inside. Twenty-five children were burned to death along with four elderly people.
The religion of the Luo for some time had been animism. That is, they believe in spirits and such. These days, however, the Luo are muslims. So what happened to the Kenya Assemblies of God was a crime of religious hatred but not only that it was an act of ethnic cleansing. In fact the Luo seem intent on driving out every other tribe or anyone different from them as soon as they can.
What is it they want?
As in Sudan there are large stores of untapped oil, gas and minerals. By driving off their rivals and putting one of their own in power they could hope to cement their power and increase their role in the Muslim world.
After the election Senator Barack Husein Obama according to his spokesman called Raila Odinga "to express grave concern over the election outcome" of the election.
Then Barack Husein Obama went off to an election rally of his own in New Hampshire to run for President of the United States and he apparently breathed not a word about the murderous and maniacal actions the followers of one of his friends had just carried out.
When asked what the platform of his campaign was (and continues to be even after he lost the election) Odinga says, “My platform is change.”
The first thing he wants to change in Kenya is the Constitution.
Says Odinga, “…we ran on a platform of change.”
Obama’s platform, according to his ‘official’ website is : “It’s about change.”
There you have it.
The questions remain :
What is Barack Husein Obama - a Senator from Illinois - doing when he is interacting with a violent rebel, muslim leader in Kenya who may have been responsible for the murder of dozens of innocent people burned to death simply because they took refuge in a church?
What is Barack Husein Obama doing when he interferes in the internal operations of a foreign nation like Kenya?
Are you going to let a well organized and well financed representative of a foreign government push his way any further into your national government?
How many more people have to die before Americans come to understand that Barack Husein Obama is not a product of the land of Lincoln?
Born in Hawaii he spent most of his life in the violent and backward nation of Indonesia – where not too long ago the Australians had to stop the Muslims from killing all the Christians in East Timor.
When will this blood soaked travesty of our national political system come to an end? When will the mocking smirk of our enemies be wiped from our television screens?
Change they want? With the gun? With the torch?
Saturday, January 19, 2008
Willard Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney is running for President of the United States.
He was Governor of Massachusettes.
He's a Mormon and proud of it. Now that he is running for President he made a big deal about it in Texas.
When he was in Massachusettes, however, it seemed not to be a polite topic of conversation.
Mitt is not his first name. That's the name he uses as a first name. If you detect a small amount of dishonesty in that you would not be alone.
His first name is Willard - Willard Mitt Romney.
Do you recall the movie 'Willard' with Ernest Borgnine?
It was about a social misfit named 'Willard' who had an attraction for rats.
He talked to the rats and fed them.
It's a horror story.
Sort of what I imagine having Willard 'Mitt' Romney in the White House.
His father had been Governor of Michigan.
His father was born in Colonia Dublán, Galeana, in the Mexican state of Chihuahua.
That didn't stop his father from trying to run for President in 1968. Obviously - he didn't win.
His mother, an ex-actress, was born in Utah and tried to become one of the United States Senators from Michigan. She lost.
Willard 'Mitt' Romney's great grandfather ran from the United States to live in Mexico because he was a polygamous Mormon and wanted to avoid the laws of the United States of America.
Well - the Romney's are back in a big way.
Willard 'Mitt' Romney is no stranger to spreading the word - he is related directly to Parley P. Pratt who was one of the original member of the 'Quorum of Twelve Apostles'.
When Willard 'Mitt' Romney says, "I believe in my Mormon faith and I endeavor to live by it. My faith is the faith of my fathers -- I will be true to them and to my beliefs." don't you think you better listen?
He was Governor of Massachusettes.
He's a Mormon and proud of it. Now that he is running for President he made a big deal about it in Texas.
When he was in Massachusettes, however, it seemed not to be a polite topic of conversation.
Mitt is not his first name. That's the name he uses as a first name. If you detect a small amount of dishonesty in that you would not be alone.
His first name is Willard - Willard Mitt Romney.
Do you recall the movie 'Willard' with Ernest Borgnine?
It was about a social misfit named 'Willard' who had an attraction for rats.
He talked to the rats and fed them.
It's a horror story.
Sort of what I imagine having Willard 'Mitt' Romney in the White House.
His father had been Governor of Michigan.
His father was born in Colonia Dublán, Galeana, in the Mexican state of Chihuahua.
That didn't stop his father from trying to run for President in 1968. Obviously - he didn't win.
His mother, an ex-actress, was born in Utah and tried to become one of the United States Senators from Michigan. She lost.
Willard 'Mitt' Romney's great grandfather ran from the United States to live in Mexico because he was a polygamous Mormon and wanted to avoid the laws of the United States of America.
Well - the Romney's are back in a big way.
Willard 'Mitt' Romney is no stranger to spreading the word - he is related directly to Parley P. Pratt who was one of the original member of the 'Quorum of Twelve Apostles'.
When Willard 'Mitt' Romney says, "I believe in my Mormon faith and I endeavor to live by it. My faith is the faith of my fathers -- I will be true to them and to my beliefs." don't you think you better listen?
Sunday, January 06, 2008
Obama? Oh, NO!
So Senator Barack Obama won the primary in Iowa.
How that happened is as mysterious to me as how he ended up in the United States Senate in the first place.
I cannot understand why the people of Illinois took it on themselves to send as a representative of that great state a man whose father is Kenyan and whose stepfather is Indonesian. How many people in Illinois share that combination?
To complicate matters his mother is a white American. I mention that only because he is being advertised as the first black president. Colin Powell would have been the first black president. Barack Obama would be the first half-black president.
Even considering that the blacks in Illinois sent him to the Senate - why did they do that? Why didn't they vote in an American black man? Why are they crowing over a half-black, half-American guy?
The answer is in our American past.
Even before the Civil War there was a concern about what would happen to freed slaves.
Questions like 'Should they be allowed to wander around on their own?' were important points of discussion.
Putting the freed slaves on ships and sending them back to Africa was a big topic.
The cost, however, of just sending the newly born children of the 4 million slaves then in the country (about 40,000 to 50,000 a year) would have bankrupted the United States Treasury so that was abandoned. The fact that it would have cost so much to ship the slaves back should be a point of interest to anti-immigrant candidates like Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee. Even if laws were passed to send all the illegal Mexican immigrants back to Mexico there isn’t enough money to do it.
In any case - the Presbyterian Church in the United States became embroiled in this problem of what to do with the freed slaves. In the South the Presbyterians became the spiritual backbone of the Confederacy while in the North they tried to become the conscience of the Union but did not succeed.
At the end of the war the Presbyterian Church in the North succeeded in setting up colleges for the freed slaves throughout the South (and a couple were located in the North). Several of these colleges still exist today.
During the past 140 years since the Civil War the Presbyterian Church has split and split again. There are several sects and splinter sects in the United States today that can trace their history to that time - but they certainly don’t point that out.
There was considerable discussion about the benefits of providing these colleges. The main point being that eventually the freed slaves would leave on their own. In fact it was widely believed and encouraged that after the slaves were freed they would eventually collect all their things and return to Africa.
The scenario was similar to that of the story that is found in the Bible of the Jews leaving Egypt. Many black churches today closely identify themselves with the Jews in Egypt. Many popular black spirituals reflect that ideal -
“Pharoah’s Army Got Drowned”, “Go Down Moses” and et cetera.
The Presbyterian Church defended and encouraged the colleges by claiming that educated American blacks, when they eventually decided to leave the United States and return to Africa, would give the United States an advantage in Africa because they spoke English, had been educated in the Bible (the Protestant Bible - they were keen to ensure that ‘Romanist‘ blacks would not dominate Africa - Romanist meaning Catholic) and so, would be able to conquer and overwhelm the illiterate savages that had been left behind when the slaves were taken from Africa.
The ignorance of this stance is clear to many modern Americans but, and this point is very important, there are many churches and groups in the United States that still believe that it is the destiny of American blacks to return to Africa and rule there.
That brings us back to Barack Obama because the church he belongs to in Illinois is descended from those splinter sects that had been first chartered by the white, Northern Presbyterian Church.
Barack Obama seems to be, to many black Americans, the Messiah who is destined to lead them all back to Africa to conquer and regain their birthright.
There are several problems to this scenario. First of all, it may be said that the poor unfortunate men and women who were taken from Africa to be used as slaves were not, in the main, what one would call the ruling class in Africa at the time. The ruling class in Africa at the time were rounding up their enemies and taking them down to the shores to sell them for gold and manufactured goods to the Portugese, the Spanish, the English and later, the Americans.
The peoples who remained in Africa are not looking forward to being conquered again - no matter what the color of the returning avenger.
In the case of Barack Obama there are other troubling matters.
First of all his father, from Kenya, was in the United States getting a college education. Like many men and women in his position he apparently thought it a good idea to stay here. He then got married and fathered his son. Unlike many others in his privileged position he decided to return to where he came from and packed up and went to Kenya. He divorced his wife and abandoned his son - Barack Obama - apparently in Hawaii.
Obama’s mother then married an Indonesian and carted her son off to Indonesia - which is widely recognized as having a cruel, ignorant society based on exploiting the poor by violent means. That is - Indonesia is a slave economy. They are second only to Myanmar in their vicious treatment of their own citizens.
Obama claims that because he attended a mixed school in Indonesia that he has insight into the Muslim mind. Please recall that it was mixed school in Sudan where a visiting English teacher was threatened with death for naming a Teddy Bear ‘Mohamed’.
So Senator Obama is apparently wearing the crown of the Messiah for a splinter sect of the Presbyterian Church who believes he will lead them all back to Africa, glory and prosperity.
(Please note that the Kenya that Obama comes from is now embroiled in political violence as a petty dictator continues to rape that country for everything it is worth.)
So I can understand that the people of Illinois, who also have hosted Louis Farrakhan (an American black-muslim leader who believes that spaceships have encircled the earth and are ready to destroy all the white people), another leader who believes in the eventual repatriation of American blacks to Africa, voted in Barack Obama.
The question of what happened in Iowa is still unclear to me, however. Was it a bunch of Republican voting in the Democratic primary who have given us a choice between white and black or were the voting machines tampered with again like they were in Florida for the last presidential election?
We may never know.
It is a sad commentary on the people of Iowa that they have decided to potentially hand the reigns of our national government over to a man who admits smoking pot like a chimney and who is associated with a church whose very basis for belief is founded upon racism, bigotry and ignorance.
Maybe it is all a bad joke but I don’t want Barack Obama to be put into a position where he has access to nuclear weapons. I don’t want Barack Obama to burrow any further into our national government as he will bring along with him his followers. Even if we, like the deluded people of Illinois, give him the benefit of the doubt what guarantee is there that among his bizarre followers there are not some traitors who for a chance at glory with Allah would betray us all?
Having a man like Barack Obama in charge of the largest arsenal on earth which contains nuclear weapons, biological horrors and advanced technology is not wise.
Let him lead his people home, if they are fool enough to follow him into the ocean when he pretends to part the water, but let him leave our people alone.
I think he has gotten just about enough out of America and America has had just about enough of him.
What do you think?
How that happened is as mysterious to me as how he ended up in the United States Senate in the first place.
I cannot understand why the people of Illinois took it on themselves to send as a representative of that great state a man whose father is Kenyan and whose stepfather is Indonesian. How many people in Illinois share that combination?
To complicate matters his mother is a white American. I mention that only because he is being advertised as the first black president. Colin Powell would have been the first black president. Barack Obama would be the first half-black president.
Even considering that the blacks in Illinois sent him to the Senate - why did they do that? Why didn't they vote in an American black man? Why are they crowing over a half-black, half-American guy?
The answer is in our American past.
Even before the Civil War there was a concern about what would happen to freed slaves.
Questions like 'Should they be allowed to wander around on their own?' were important points of discussion.
Putting the freed slaves on ships and sending them back to Africa was a big topic.
The cost, however, of just sending the newly born children of the 4 million slaves then in the country (about 40,000 to 50,000 a year) would have bankrupted the United States Treasury so that was abandoned. The fact that it would have cost so much to ship the slaves back should be a point of interest to anti-immigrant candidates like Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee. Even if laws were passed to send all the illegal Mexican immigrants back to Mexico there isn’t enough money to do it.
In any case - the Presbyterian Church in the United States became embroiled in this problem of what to do with the freed slaves. In the South the Presbyterians became the spiritual backbone of the Confederacy while in the North they tried to become the conscience of the Union but did not succeed.
At the end of the war the Presbyterian Church in the North succeeded in setting up colleges for the freed slaves throughout the South (and a couple were located in the North). Several of these colleges still exist today.
During the past 140 years since the Civil War the Presbyterian Church has split and split again. There are several sects and splinter sects in the United States today that can trace their history to that time - but they certainly don’t point that out.
There was considerable discussion about the benefits of providing these colleges. The main point being that eventually the freed slaves would leave on their own. In fact it was widely believed and encouraged that after the slaves were freed they would eventually collect all their things and return to Africa.
The scenario was similar to that of the story that is found in the Bible of the Jews leaving Egypt. Many black churches today closely identify themselves with the Jews in Egypt. Many popular black spirituals reflect that ideal -
“Pharoah’s Army Got Drowned”, “Go Down Moses” and et cetera.
The Presbyterian Church defended and encouraged the colleges by claiming that educated American blacks, when they eventually decided to leave the United States and return to Africa, would give the United States an advantage in Africa because they spoke English, had been educated in the Bible (the Protestant Bible - they were keen to ensure that ‘Romanist‘ blacks would not dominate Africa - Romanist meaning Catholic) and so, would be able to conquer and overwhelm the illiterate savages that had been left behind when the slaves were taken from Africa.
The ignorance of this stance is clear to many modern Americans but, and this point is very important, there are many churches and groups in the United States that still believe that it is the destiny of American blacks to return to Africa and rule there.
That brings us back to Barack Obama because the church he belongs to in Illinois is descended from those splinter sects that had been first chartered by the white, Northern Presbyterian Church.
Barack Obama seems to be, to many black Americans, the Messiah who is destined to lead them all back to Africa to conquer and regain their birthright.
There are several problems to this scenario. First of all, it may be said that the poor unfortunate men and women who were taken from Africa to be used as slaves were not, in the main, what one would call the ruling class in Africa at the time. The ruling class in Africa at the time were rounding up their enemies and taking them down to the shores to sell them for gold and manufactured goods to the Portugese, the Spanish, the English and later, the Americans.
The peoples who remained in Africa are not looking forward to being conquered again - no matter what the color of the returning avenger.
In the case of Barack Obama there are other troubling matters.
First of all his father, from Kenya, was in the United States getting a college education. Like many men and women in his position he apparently thought it a good idea to stay here. He then got married and fathered his son. Unlike many others in his privileged position he decided to return to where he came from and packed up and went to Kenya. He divorced his wife and abandoned his son - Barack Obama - apparently in Hawaii.
Obama’s mother then married an Indonesian and carted her son off to Indonesia - which is widely recognized as having a cruel, ignorant society based on exploiting the poor by violent means. That is - Indonesia is a slave economy. They are second only to Myanmar in their vicious treatment of their own citizens.
Obama claims that because he attended a mixed school in Indonesia that he has insight into the Muslim mind. Please recall that it was mixed school in Sudan where a visiting English teacher was threatened with death for naming a Teddy Bear ‘Mohamed’.
So Senator Obama is apparently wearing the crown of the Messiah for a splinter sect of the Presbyterian Church who believes he will lead them all back to Africa, glory and prosperity.
(Please note that the Kenya that Obama comes from is now embroiled in political violence as a petty dictator continues to rape that country for everything it is worth.)
So I can understand that the people of Illinois, who also have hosted Louis Farrakhan (an American black-muslim leader who believes that spaceships have encircled the earth and are ready to destroy all the white people), another leader who believes in the eventual repatriation of American blacks to Africa, voted in Barack Obama.
The question of what happened in Iowa is still unclear to me, however. Was it a bunch of Republican voting in the Democratic primary who have given us a choice between white and black or were the voting machines tampered with again like they were in Florida for the last presidential election?
We may never know.
It is a sad commentary on the people of Iowa that they have decided to potentially hand the reigns of our national government over to a man who admits smoking pot like a chimney and who is associated with a church whose very basis for belief is founded upon racism, bigotry and ignorance.
Maybe it is all a bad joke but I don’t want Barack Obama to be put into a position where he has access to nuclear weapons. I don’t want Barack Obama to burrow any further into our national government as he will bring along with him his followers. Even if we, like the deluded people of Illinois, give him the benefit of the doubt what guarantee is there that among his bizarre followers there are not some traitors who for a chance at glory with Allah would betray us all?
Having a man like Barack Obama in charge of the largest arsenal on earth which contains nuclear weapons, biological horrors and advanced technology is not wise.
Let him lead his people home, if they are fool enough to follow him into the ocean when he pretends to part the water, but let him leave our people alone.
I think he has gotten just about enough out of America and America has had just about enough of him.
What do you think?
Friday, December 07, 2007
The Golden Compass
The cute, cuddly Panda Bear of the World Wildlife Federation is on the web site of the movie, 'The Golden Compass'. That movie, as you may know, and the books it is extracted from is fervently anti-Catholic with select attacks on every Christian branch with the exception of the Church of England, whose Archbishop of Canterbury Dr. Rowan Williams, supports it.
The book the movie was made from was written by an Englishman, you see, and many of the arguments in it support that particular Christian branch. The production company hails from New Zealand, where again, hatred of the Catholic Church and love the Church of England is strong.
The Archbishop was also hotly against the invasion of Iraq and luridly opposes the continued occupation of that country by the United States.
Says the Archbishop of Canterbury, "We are doing all we can to support the Iraqi people."
Recently in a British Muslim magazine the Archbishop of Canterbury called the United States the ‘worst’ imperialist.
He further stated, “We have only one global hegemonic power. It is not accumulating territory: it is trying to accumulate influence and control. That’s not working.”
He then started talking in glowing tones about the British travesties in India, “It is one thing to take over a territory and then pour energy and resources into administering it and normalising it. Rightly or wrongly, that’s what the British Empire did — in India, for example.”
He skipped the part about mass killings, deforestation, the destruction of the countryside, disease and starvation caused by the ignorant and heavy-handed occupation of India which lasted over 200 years.
The movie ’The Golden Compass’ echoes and brings to the modern movie screen centuries of ignorance and hatred. Many of the misguided morals and themes of the movie are the same as those which have pushed many animals to the brink of extinction. Just which way is World Wildlife Federation headed? Towards the light of civilized society or into the darkness of fear and dread? The movie presents half-baked science and twists philosophical ideas until they make no sense - ideas like conservation, love, fidelity and honor. I have no intention of giving any more money to that fund nor even supporting it in public unless they distance from that flickering obscenity of hate that is being circulated in movie theatres as 'entertainment'.
Though I am no religious extremist I will not truck with people whose minds are filled with hate for humanity and the natural world in which we live. Your organization is being exploited by the marketers of the movie who now know beyond a shadow of a doubt that they have a major problem on their hands.
The movie is being advertised as being in line with stories like Narnia or Middle Earth. It is really only a collection of wicked ideas which have led to burning witches, war and the dark ages in centuries and eons past.
Here is what the WWF claims to be doing : “By 2015 WWF will conserve 19 of the world's most important natural places and significantly change global forces to protect the future of nature.”
…protect the future of nature. How? By destroying the United States and attacking the pope with armored polar bears?
The book the movie was made from was written by an Englishman, you see, and many of the arguments in it support that particular Christian branch. The production company hails from New Zealand, where again, hatred of the Catholic Church and love the Church of England is strong.
The Archbishop was also hotly against the invasion of Iraq and luridly opposes the continued occupation of that country by the United States.
Says the Archbishop of Canterbury, "We are doing all we can to support the Iraqi people."
Recently in a British Muslim magazine the Archbishop of Canterbury called the United States the ‘worst’ imperialist.
He further stated, “We have only one global hegemonic power. It is not accumulating territory: it is trying to accumulate influence and control. That’s not working.”
He then started talking in glowing tones about the British travesties in India, “It is one thing to take over a territory and then pour energy and resources into administering it and normalising it. Rightly or wrongly, that’s what the British Empire did — in India, for example.”
He skipped the part about mass killings, deforestation, the destruction of the countryside, disease and starvation caused by the ignorant and heavy-handed occupation of India which lasted over 200 years.
The movie ’The Golden Compass’ echoes and brings to the modern movie screen centuries of ignorance and hatred. Many of the misguided morals and themes of the movie are the same as those which have pushed many animals to the brink of extinction. Just which way is World Wildlife Federation headed? Towards the light of civilized society or into the darkness of fear and dread? The movie presents half-baked science and twists philosophical ideas until they make no sense - ideas like conservation, love, fidelity and honor. I have no intention of giving any more money to that fund nor even supporting it in public unless they distance from that flickering obscenity of hate that is being circulated in movie theatres as 'entertainment'.
Though I am no religious extremist I will not truck with people whose minds are filled with hate for humanity and the natural world in which we live. Your organization is being exploited by the marketers of the movie who now know beyond a shadow of a doubt that they have a major problem on their hands.
The movie is being advertised as being in line with stories like Narnia or Middle Earth. It is really only a collection of wicked ideas which have led to burning witches, war and the dark ages in centuries and eons past.
Here is what the WWF claims to be doing : “By 2015 WWF will conserve 19 of the world's most important natural places and significantly change global forces to protect the future of nature.”
…protect the future of nature. How? By destroying the United States and attacking the pope with armored polar bears?
The Mormon Speech
Well, Mitt Romney must be getting ready to drop out of the race for President. He has given the ‘Mormon Speech’. In it he told us little about the bizarre sect and just repeated a lot of what we already know.
The United States of America was founded partly to provide a haven for religious freedom. As a result this nation protects Jews, Catholics, Protestants, Bhuddists, Muslims, Agnostics, Atheists and people who believe in witches and small singing mushrooms who live in the woods.
The Mormon’s have gotten their twisted views in the national spotlight and that should, hopefully, keep them quiet for 15 years or so. Putting Mitt Romney in the White House, however, makes little sense. His campaign, like that of Barack Obama, seems to be a vehicle for undermining our nation, rather than strengthening it. Barack Obama, you see, has a large following of fringe Muslims – some of whom believe that spaceships are circling earth prepared to destroy white people and put black people in command of the earth.
The Mormon religion was founded by one Mr. Smith – who was about 15 years old and apparently suffering from epilepsy as he (according to a Mormon instruction book) fell down a lot and immediately thereafter seemed to have a vision.
The boy grew to a man and along the way became convinced that an angel named Moroni revealed to him a metal book that described how Jews had landed in Chili hundreds of years before the birth of Christ. They believe that these Jews built the cities of the Incan, Mayan and Aztec empires and were eventually exterminated by the rest of the Indians in what appears to be one of the first holocausts.
The angel Moroni was apparently the ghost of the son of the last leader of the Jews, known as Nephites.
To give you an idea of the sort of racism that is promoted by the Mormon religion one need only to note the description of Native American Indians given by the ‘Book of Mormon’.
“The Lamanites led a roving, aggressive life; kept few or no records, and soon lost the art of history writing. They lived on the results of the chase and by plunder, degenerating in habit until they became typical progenitors of the dark-skinned race, afterward discovered by Columbus and named American Indians.”
Smith claimed to find the book on a mountain in New York near his home in Vermont . Later on he and some of his followers claimed that John the Baptist came back to life or descended from heaven and came to the United States to baptize them.
There were many reasons that the Mormons were driven west into the desert – among them were racism, marrying more than one woman and slavery.
Romney’s speech boiled down to, “I believe in my Mormon faith and I endeavor to live by it.”
Well that’s all well and good but do you want him to live by his faith while he is supposed to be working for you?
Spaceships filled with Black Panthers and Jews in Chile – you can’t say we don’t have a lively Presidential contest brewing up this time.
The United States of America was founded partly to provide a haven for religious freedom. As a result this nation protects Jews, Catholics, Protestants, Bhuddists, Muslims, Agnostics, Atheists and people who believe in witches and small singing mushrooms who live in the woods.
The Mormon’s have gotten their twisted views in the national spotlight and that should, hopefully, keep them quiet for 15 years or so. Putting Mitt Romney in the White House, however, makes little sense. His campaign, like that of Barack Obama, seems to be a vehicle for undermining our nation, rather than strengthening it. Barack Obama, you see, has a large following of fringe Muslims – some of whom believe that spaceships are circling earth prepared to destroy white people and put black people in command of the earth.
The Mormon religion was founded by one Mr. Smith – who was about 15 years old and apparently suffering from epilepsy as he (according to a Mormon instruction book) fell down a lot and immediately thereafter seemed to have a vision.
The boy grew to a man and along the way became convinced that an angel named Moroni revealed to him a metal book that described how Jews had landed in Chili hundreds of years before the birth of Christ. They believe that these Jews built the cities of the Incan, Mayan and Aztec empires and were eventually exterminated by the rest of the Indians in what appears to be one of the first holocausts.
The angel Moroni was apparently the ghost of the son of the last leader of the Jews, known as Nephites.
To give you an idea of the sort of racism that is promoted by the Mormon religion one need only to note the description of Native American Indians given by the ‘Book of Mormon’.
“The Lamanites led a roving, aggressive life; kept few or no records, and soon lost the art of history writing. They lived on the results of the chase and by plunder, degenerating in habit until they became typical progenitors of the dark-skinned race, afterward discovered by Columbus and named American Indians.”
Smith claimed to find the book on a mountain in New York near his home in Vermont . Later on he and some of his followers claimed that John the Baptist came back to life or descended from heaven and came to the United States to baptize them.
There were many reasons that the Mormons were driven west into the desert – among them were racism, marrying more than one woman and slavery.
Romney’s speech boiled down to, “I believe in my Mormon faith and I endeavor to live by it.”
Well that’s all well and good but do you want him to live by his faith while he is supposed to be working for you?
Spaceships filled with Black Panthers and Jews in Chile – you can’t say we don’t have a lively Presidential contest brewing up this time.
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