This Email has five parts :
Two letters and two commentaries and one summary.
Part 1
John Maynard Keynes - the Giant of Economics. His name is whispered with reverence. His ideas are worshipped in Washington, DC, London and in the dusty offices of international banks. 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 but 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?
Part 2
I read that Colin Firth, an actor of British citizenship was provided an opportunity by the British Broadcasting Corporation to assign an investigative duty to a reported.
The actor then directed the reporter to determine whether political beliefs are ‘hard-wired’ in the brains of humans. That is – are people born to be a member of a specific political party because of the shape of their brain.
The actor and the reporter then secured the services of a ‘scientist’ – Professor Rees.
Then come two politicians, Conservative Alan Duncan and Labour Stephen Pound. The politicians agreed to undergo a structural brain scan using Magnetic Resonance Imaging, or MRI.
The study expanded to include students and post-docs previously scanned at the Institute in other experiments.
These then filled out a questionnaire which reportedly assessed their political values. The answers, it is written, were then compared to the brain scans.
Reportedly Professor Rees concluded that one could deduce political leanings by looking at certain parts of the brain.
Looking inside the brain for patterns is not much different than craniometry – the study of the shape of the skull once used by so-called scientists like Rees to classify humans by race and social class.
The UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience has a long association with an organization known as the Galton Institute.
The Galton Institute was founded in 1908 as the Eugenics Education Society. In 1926 it became the Eugenics Society with the aim of promoting eugenics.
John Maynard Keynes was the director from 1937-1944.
Part 3
I wrote the above letters 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 activities 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?
Part 4
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.
What is the difference between herding people away from their ancestral homelands to die in a strange country or to round them up and kill them in cages? Is it forgivable because the intention was to resettle them but they just had the bad form of ending up dead?
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.
It was an economic move that allowed the strong victors to further enhance their winning position for the present and into the future - or so they thought. The actions following World War I figured in the commencement of World War II but still the victors did not learn from their mistakes and populations were cordoned off, separated, removed, put from one place to another and then the herding and migrations were pushed into the nations that previously had been held as property in the form of colonies.
I should not have to reiterate this to you because this is not a foreign history to you it is a history lived by your nation, shaped by your nation and one which you are now living through and as a part of.
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?
Part 5
I have considered what can be done about the present situation. You will, of course, need to come to a conclusion on your own by private reflection and perhaps religious consideration. However you do it I feel that to continue along with what clearly has become a worldwide and powerful religion of avarice and greed would be cruel in the short term and foolhardy in the long term.
The present system appears to be not creating wealth at all but goes to great lengths to claim that it is doing just that. It is not doing much for the greater number of human beings alive today. Great Britain, in the microcosm, provides a good example. The present system is only benefiting a very limited few people while the rest of the population needs to adjust itself to the whatever stringent methods are put in place to secure the continued phantom wealth and prosperity of the privileged few.
As in the United States there are individuals with incredible wealth existing side by side with large parts of the population just getting by and many living in poverty.
Such a system would be bad enough and difficult to correct but when it advertises itself as something other than what it is and degrades those whom it most severely insults and harms then it has become something else indeed. Add to the fact that in Great Britain, as in the United States, that the government is closely aligned with this bizarre system to the point that it has nearly been absorbed by it and is nearly being controlled by it then it is clear that it would be nearly impossible to change it at all - considering that the wealth and military might of established government stands behind it.
I think I need to remind you that established government in Great Britain and the United States is supposed to stand for liberty and justice and not act as a short sighted security guard for corrupt bankers and financiers.
The system of international finance is clearly extracting wealth by force and deceit. In the case of BP for example - they are extracting wealth from the natural resources of the United States (and in many other nations) but are not providing a return to the society they are exploiting. I only need point at the failure of the well off the coast of Louisiana. They polluted the entire Gulf of Mexico. The reason that most people are not as outraged as you would expect them to be is because the magnitude of the crime and the depth of the ignorance, greed and corruption that caused the problem is so great that they cannot grasp it. There is also a lack of volume coming from those whom one might consider responsible parties - like those in the House of Commons or the House of Lords or the United States Legislature. There is not a peep. British Petroleum is still ducking and avoiding responsibility. It’s just another day in the world of international finance and ‘free trade’.
People lose their businesses, their way of life and even their lives - and still - not a peep. Don’t you think that something might be amiss?
Increasing these financial arrangements and business operations are making money or appearing to generate wealthy merely by keeping services, goods and cash away from those who need it. For example - the banks could renegotiate loans but it is more profitable to reattach or repossess personal property or goods rather than rearranging corrupt payment plans that they had put in place. Because they are benefiting from these failures it can clearly be seen that this pattern may have been foreseen and, in fact, this is not a banking failure but a systemic rearrangement of the system by the very players who caused it.
In the case of foodstuffs - it is said that for US 31 cents a day a child could be fed. At prices like that it would be cheap to feed the starving but is it done? No. Why? It is not cost effective. There is no gain in ensuring that another human being stays alive. There is gain from keeping the over abundance that the world is producing away from those who need it. If you doubt me - look at the commodities exchanges and ask the traders there how prices are determined and who makes the most money from them. Ask the buyers and sellers of wheat, gold, petroleum…it should be easy to find these people and the companies they work for - it would be very easy for American politicians to do so because those are the people that primarily finance their campaigns for office. Is it the same in Great Britain? I would imagine it would not be much different.
The present system allows for hoarding of wealth and encourages it. Shortages are created. Millionaires become billionaires - companies become corporations and then international conglomerates - why? Why should Saudi Arabia hoard its oil and work together with other restrictive and brutal governments to hoard their oil while at the same causing poverty, sickness and ignorance to grow within their own borders? Who benefits by this if not the privileged few of whom I have already mentioned.
It seems all bent towards one goal and that is to ‘win’.
The ‘win’ in this situation is accomplished through the systematic destruction of the enemy or of the competition or even the consuming of the enemy and absorbing them and their ‘wealth’.
This is accomplished in the ‘modern’ world brazenly through phantom competition directly orchestrated and loosely controlled by the state - loosely controlled unless there is a problem and then is brought under straitened control until it is corrected and ‘back on track’ for production and the continued amassing of wealth aggressively.
It is nothing more than a change of emphasis on one part of the business or the other. It is nothing more than a continuation of the old empirical attitudes and business behavior of the 19th Century being brought to bear. In this case, however, it is being done from a position that appears to have no leader, no control - there are, after all, no national flags in the mix. I am sure that it has been considered to have been a particularly bad move to have the word’ British’ included in ‘British Petroleum’. That still attaches too much connection to the mother country. It is a little too obvious that the ‘wealth’ and cash flow that BP produces and sends back to the motherland is used to finance large parts of the government ‘schemes’ that are in place and that have come into vogue into the United States.
Take health care reform in the United States, for example. Fingers point and tongues wag and the successful system that exists in Great Britain but in the United States other people ask - ‘How can we pay for this?’ Scheme after scheme have been floated in the United States and it was finally decided that American citizens will be forced to pay for the health insurance. If they don’t pay they will be fined. Americans must also not consider this to be a tax. That is insane but that is another story - the point being missed and the question never asked in the United States is ‘How does Great Britain pay for their national health insurance?’
It is on taxes and fees on international corporations - among them - British Petroleum. That is how it is done. In effect Great Britain is taxing the United States indirectly by taking resources and selling them on the open market and profiting from them by selling them back to citizens in the United States. Part of the profit which is kept away from the poor and disadvantaged in the United States by this activity is used by the government of Great Britain to provide socialized medicine in a system - which I am told, is inferior to the system in the United States.
So - just exactly what is going on there? It is very clever. It is ornate. It is also dishonest and underhanded.
The object of the entire process is dominance - whether it is being carried out by American guns, British money, Chinese fists or Russian boots. It is to be the ‘top dog’ and to gain the illusion of control of it all and to be the center of attention. It is the real situation in the streets outside the kind hearted and entertaining children’s circus going on at the United Nations.
Now it gets ugly because even though it is called the Free Market or the Five Year Plan - whether it is modern capitalism or modern communism the process is war that is persecuted over extended time with no time set for completion - with no set goal except to gather the spoils. It is a kind of total war. The persons persecuting it and executing it and carrying it on have no intention of ending it. It is too profitable for everyone. In fact - it is the only way to be profitable these days as everything has become wound up in it.
This does not change the fact that the weapons used are time, siege, denial of services and goods, unfair contracts, corruption, fraud and logistics (to accomplish the actions necessary to divert and therefore deny goods to the enemy - the modern methods of siege).
Population resettlement or destruction of populations is used when cost effective. There are many examples - as in Cambodia, the Balkans as earlier noted. As for the Balkans - consider the Balkans. Consider the troubles in the Balkans regarding race and religion. A big deal was made about the present day modern problems stemming from things that took place 800 or a 1,000 years ago - when, in fact, the entire filthy business can be directly traced to the forced resettlements that occurred in that area following World War I.
Resettlements which were based on ideals and ideas tinged with concepts extracted from eugenics.
The result of the process is an ongoing cycle of premeditated mass murder and sometimes genocide. The actions of poor Africans against other poor Africans are often triggered less from race or religious problems than from the problems of hunger, disease and ignorance which have been foisted on their weak governments by financially powerful corporations backed by militarily powerful nations. The actions are unforgivable and inhumane but examining the causes of those abominable actions uncover even more heinous crimes. Consider the act of causing a murder.
Consider these two scenarios. The First : Marching people by force into unfamiliar territory or abandoning them in a bad situation that you caused without food, clothing, shelter and exposed to new diseases without medicine knowing that they will die. The Second : Rounding them up and killing them immediately.
If in either case 100,000 people die - or 1,000,000 or more - what is the difference between those two actions?
There does not seem to be a logical reason for why the world economy is being run this way. There does not seem to be any moral reasons for why the world economy is being run this way.
If, however, you consider that it is to satisfy obligations to a religion of Avarice and Greed - then you have reasons - but you still have no right.
To stop it individuals can smile and rejoice in the wonderful happenstance of our existence and in appreciation of the mighty glories of this Universe and all that encompasses it.
One can avoid cooperating with evil when possible - but these days - that is hard. Take heart.
Have compassion.
Give assistance.
Provide aid.
Be a help to others.
Help others.
This is new territory for me. I would like to mention God but where would I put Him? I mean, there seems to be no place for God anymore and yet -
God save the Queen.
I am sure there is a better economic model than declaring a global religion based on Avarice and Greed that is dedicated to killing off random groups of people on an arbitrary basis.
There is more to all this than meets the eye.
There must be - don’t you think?
I think that the two ministers that participated in the brain scan experiment have done a great dishonor to the House of Commons and embarrassed the government of Great Britain.
That is my opinion.
Monday, January 17, 2011
Saturday, January 15, 2011
West Branch, Michigan Hero
I read a story about a young girl in West Branch, Michigan.
This little neighbor of mine had been bullied to the point of despair.
She wrote a note indicating that she might take some action against herself.
Her friend saw the note and told her grandmother.
The grandmother called the school and read the note to the principal.
The principal called the School Counselor and the counselor summoned police.
The police made a welfare call at the house and found the girl unconscious after having taking an overdose of medication.
They saved her life.
I heard that the bullies that spurred this have actually been harassing the girl who told her grandmother. Unbelievable?
Anti bullying legislation was introduced by Representative Glenn Anderson to the Michigan Legislature in 2006. It had to be introduced again in 2007 because they didn’t do anything with it.
It passed the House and has been sitting in the Senate.
Anderson played musical chairs and he is in the Senate - along with the stalled bill.
A State Senator told me it was ‘In Committee’.
What people would block anti-bullying laws? Bullies.
Once I wrote that many of the figures submitted to the Secretary of State by State Senators and Representatives did not add up and was threatened by one portly Senator who told me he was going to ‘get’ me. That’s a bully.
How many more children have to die before the Senators do what needs to be done about "Matt's Safe School Law"?
This little neighbor of mine had been bullied to the point of despair.
She wrote a note indicating that she might take some action against herself.
Her friend saw the note and told her grandmother.
The grandmother called the school and read the note to the principal.
The principal called the School Counselor and the counselor summoned police.
The police made a welfare call at the house and found the girl unconscious after having taking an overdose of medication.
They saved her life.
I heard that the bullies that spurred this have actually been harassing the girl who told her grandmother. Unbelievable?
Anti bullying legislation was introduced by Representative Glenn Anderson to the Michigan Legislature in 2006. It had to be introduced again in 2007 because they didn’t do anything with it.
It passed the House and has been sitting in the Senate.
Anderson played musical chairs and he is in the Senate - along with the stalled bill.
A State Senator told me it was ‘In Committee’.
What people would block anti-bullying laws? Bullies.
Once I wrote that many of the figures submitted to the Secretary of State by State Senators and Representatives did not add up and was threatened by one portly Senator who told me he was going to ‘get’ me. That’s a bully.
How many more children have to die before the Senators do what needs to be done about "Matt's Safe School Law"?
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Giffords - Nogales International
The shooter in Arizona has been widely acknowledged as not being aligned with any party. Just a ‘nut’. It has been widely noted that he was been influenced by others.
Who?
One of the people he killed was a Federal Judge.
In any case consider words Representative Giffords sent to the Nogales International newspaper just the day before she was shot.
She wrote of concerns, “The first is of special concern to those of us in Southern Arizona: the continued inability of our federal government to secure our border with Mexico.”
“We must extend the stay of National Guard troops. We must increase the number of Border Patrol agents on the border.”
“The second threat is our dependence on imported oil – much of which comes from nations hostile to our principles.”
“The fourth, and most important, threat to our nation is our $14 trillion debt. This is why I introduced legislation on the first full day of the new session to cut the salaries of members of Congress by 5 percent.”The Department of Defense is the world’s largest consumer of energy. We must accelerate the production of biofuels for aviation, promote large-scale renewable energy projects at defense facilities, study the integration of hybrid technology into tactical vehicles and require the military to derive 20 percent of its electricity from renewable sources by 2025.”
“We are a great nation, but these threats to our national security can leave us fragile. We cannot succumb to such menaces.”
Bang!
Any questions?
Who?
One of the people he killed was a Federal Judge.
In any case consider words Representative Giffords sent to the Nogales International newspaper just the day before she was shot.
She wrote of concerns, “The first is of special concern to those of us in Southern Arizona: the continued inability of our federal government to secure our border with Mexico.”
“We must extend the stay of National Guard troops. We must increase the number of Border Patrol agents on the border.”
“The second threat is our dependence on imported oil – much of which comes from nations hostile to our principles.”
“The fourth, and most important, threat to our nation is our $14 trillion debt. This is why I introduced legislation on the first full day of the new session to cut the salaries of members of Congress by 5 percent.”The Department of Defense is the world’s largest consumer of energy. We must accelerate the production of biofuels for aviation, promote large-scale renewable energy projects at defense facilities, study the integration of hybrid technology into tactical vehicles and require the military to derive 20 percent of its electricity from renewable sources by 2025.”
“We are a great nation, but these threats to our national security can leave us fragile. We cannot succumb to such menaces.”
Bang!
Any questions?
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Compare Them Now
We have a great nation.
We are rich beyond measure. We not only have most of the wealth in the world - we make it. I mean actually manufacture it - printing money on a press or stamping coins when we want to. We could end poverty in the world but we don’t. Wouldn’t be right.
We have all the food we need and more. We could feed the world if we cared to but we don’t. Wouldn’t be right.
We are strong beyond belief. We could actually kill everyone in the world nearly all at the same time if we wanted to but we don’t because there is no reason to - right at this moment.
Recently a gunman in Arizona killed 6 people including a Federal Judge, a 9 year old girl, a 79 year old woman, a 76 year old man, a 30 year old man and a 76 year old woman.
Are their names important?
To those who loved them.
To politicians they are very important as well.
The lanky man from Kenya, I mean Hawaii, I mean Indonesia, I mean Illinois - Barack Husein Obama - has been compared to President Lincoln.
Following the Battle of Gettysburg Abraham Lincoln gave a speech that encouraged a nation.
It was 267 words long.
Barack Husein Obama gave a speech tonight that was about 2,606 words long. In it were the words, “If there are rain puddles in heaven, Christina is jumping in them today.”
Compare them now.
We are rich beyond measure. We not only have most of the wealth in the world - we make it. I mean actually manufacture it - printing money on a press or stamping coins when we want to. We could end poverty in the world but we don’t. Wouldn’t be right.
We have all the food we need and more. We could feed the world if we cared to but we don’t. Wouldn’t be right.
We are strong beyond belief. We could actually kill everyone in the world nearly all at the same time if we wanted to but we don’t because there is no reason to - right at this moment.
Recently a gunman in Arizona killed 6 people including a Federal Judge, a 9 year old girl, a 79 year old woman, a 76 year old man, a 30 year old man and a 76 year old woman.
Are their names important?
To those who loved them.
To politicians they are very important as well.
The lanky man from Kenya, I mean Hawaii, I mean Indonesia, I mean Illinois - Barack Husein Obama - has been compared to President Lincoln.
Following the Battle of Gettysburg Abraham Lincoln gave a speech that encouraged a nation.
It was 267 words long.
Barack Husein Obama gave a speech tonight that was about 2,606 words long. In it were the words, “If there are rain puddles in heaven, Christina is jumping in them today.”
Compare them now.
China and Russia Credit
I received an email from InformationWeek featuring some remarks by Mary Hayes Weier. I want to state at first that I take it that Mary Hayes Weier is supportive and encouraging of outsourcing and offshoring American jobs.
She provided some rather strong examples of the responses she had received – the two that I read had to do with ‘foreigners’, ‘Chinese tech workers’ and dolphins.
I should mention that the complaints she mentioned in the email were not really appropriate to receive at a business location but I am going to let that slide because of the gravity of what she wrote in response.
She wrote, “I'm sick--sick and tired--of such xenophobic comments, which are pretty easy to hide behind when using a made-up user name.”
I, personally, am sick and tired of hearing people who support offshoring tell me they are sick and tired.
Ms. Weier does a great job reporting on things like enterprise software, business intelligence, and RFID but her reporting on an explosive issue like this is apparently cluttered by her own opinions which appear, in this case, to be based on faulty and pie-in-the-sky information.
She picks out one item to attack : "...[we should] stop rewarding greedy corporations for their total insensitivity & lack of concern about the quality vs. the quantity."
That sound reasonable, doesn’t it? If a company like Mattel brings in billions of dollars worth of toys that are faulty and contain dangerous chemicals they should be punished for that, shouldn’t they? Mary should be very glad to hear that Mattel really hasn’t been punished for poisoning our children and actually made an apology to their Communist Chinese masters for embarrassing them in the United States . You see – in Communist China it is okay to fail but you aren’t allowed to talk about it.
Ms. Weier’s defense is : “If a company hires inexpensive yet poor quality customer service help--whether it's poor because of a language barrier with the company's customers, rudeness, or inability to understand the problem--than the customer should seriously consider taking her business elsewhere. Only then will a company learn.”
This item reads like something lifted out of a poorly written college textbook.
Let me paraphrase, “If a company in the United States contracts with a chemical company in Communist China that is poisoning the water supply in the countries in which it works it is the responsibility of the customer at Walmart that buys the cleaning fluid they make to shop elsewhere. This will teach those nasty chemical makers a lesson and they will go out of business.”
Ms. Weier does not acknowledge the army of lawyers, liars, artful deceivers, corrupt politicians and hoodlums who have loosely worked together to bring about the situation the lonely shopper at Walmart is supposed to correct by shopping elsewhere – in any case – many of the people that shop at Walmart can’t afford to shop anywhere else.
How does this fit into IT? If you can’t see the analogy I don’t know what to tell you but I shall continue.
What would Ms. Weier do about a foreign owned company in the United States who owns it own bank and performs its own arbitrage in order to ensure that the exchange rate is always in favor of it? What would Ms. Weier do about a foreign owned company who has hired a great many foreigners and then directs them to hire even more employees using the H1-B Visa system and other means for bringing in temporary workers – without even offering an opportunity to any Americans?
Ms. Weier then turns acidic and writes, “As one post says, "If there is a thinking that 'customer service' in a company exists because of morality or ethics, I can only call it 'naive'. ... 'customer service' is a competitive weapon to increase profits, not an 'ethics' or 'moral' responsibility. If and when that competitiveness depletes, irrespective of the ethics or morals, companies will move away from outsourcing or offshoring."
If someone could explain to me how competitiveness depletes I would appreciate it. Keep in mind that the United States is a competitive society – Communist China is not. India itself has deep roots in Anarchy – that is Anarchy with a capital ‘A’ - it is a political force. Their methods for doing business are not just different from the American way they are in many ways opposed to it.
If Ms. Weier thinks that the Communist Chinese are out for the American dream then she should write a letter to their ambassador and ask him how many nuclear-bomb tipped rockets they have pointed at us this year. Just recently a Chinese general made threats against the United States to perform a nuclear strike if we came to the defense of Taiwan if the Communists decided to invade it.
Ms. Weier talks about Xenophobia but she seems to be confusing it with what most Americans feel are in their own best interests. Most of the poor fools who are suffering now have a limited imagination and the only weapon they believe they have to fight with is sarcasm and nasty remarks. It’s too late and it’s their fault so they are complaining.
Lets talk about the continued blockade of Cuba . I assume as a good American Ms. Weier supports her government – she certainly supports it allowing our society to be undermined by foreign competition so lets assume she supports the blockade of Cuban goods into the United States .
Communist China is the second and some years the first largest importer of Cuban sugar.
So you see – by buying Chinese made candy you are assisting the Communists in undermining the embargo against Cuban sugar. You are directly putting Americans out of work and attacking your own nation and undermining the authority of your national, state and local governments. That is an example of global trade under Ms. Weier.
She does defend herself and states that one example she provides is of one company that moved call-center back from India to the United States because it wasn’t working for them. I know of several companies that took the sucker bet - some lost their shirt and others were so cash rich - like Ms. Weier’s example - that they just packed up and came home. Still others pack up and move off to another third world hole in the wall - there are a lot of poverty stricken islands in the South Pacific and they all have telephones.
She then goes off the deep end, however and states, “Indeed, anyone who believes any U.S.-based company owes them a job simply because they were born in America is delusional.”
It’s too bad that what she says is true. Twenty years ago when these problems first came to light we could have had laws that made foreign companies pay into our society for what they took out of it. We could have ensured that only Americans can only American soil instead of making it ready for sale for international companies or even other countries as in the case of some companies from China and Kuwait . We could have ensured our future in the global market instead of prostituting the nation but folks like Ms. Weier and an army of corrupt politicians and businessmen without conscience led us into the nightmare we have today.
Ms. Weier then rants, “First off, the term "globalization" is real: more U.S. companies are becoming multinational and selling to more regions throughout the world, and hiring and contracting more people globally. Of course they are going to look for the lowest cost resources they can. But that doesn't make them bad companies.”
Let’s take the first part first. As for globalization it is an old idea and has risen to prominence and fallen out of favor again and again and again in the last 150 years. It is also known as ‘Free Trade’. Free-Traders (often called Free Traitors) have insisted that free trade will solve all the world’s problems and bring peace and harmony.
Often it has preceded and in some cases caused war.
As for the second part of her assertion - that acting like dogs doesn’t make them bad companies - that is just plain wrong. These are bad companies and they are acting against the best interests of their neighbors and friends and the people that made them successful. They are stabbing their fellow Americans in the back and what they are doing will come back to them in spades - but for now - Free Trade has free reign. Free Trade, or globalization, is a big problem.
For example – two countries have free trade – then one realizes it is getting ripped off and plundered and they impose sanctions or rules of trade. A trade begins and eventually a shooting war follows closely. Such a scenario occurred between China and Great Britain .
How about one country doesn’t want free trade and another does?
The one that wants it attacks the other one to ensure that it gets it.
An example of that is the Spanish-American War and most recently the Iraq War (and occupation).
How about if two countries have free trade and a third wants to play but the first two won’t let it?
That is what is happening now between the ‘First World’ and the ‘ Third World ’.
We will see how that will play out but right now people in the Third World are starving to death while First Worlders take what they want. Now we want IT slaves and that is what we are taking.
Globalization is not fun. It’s not nice. The way it is being practiced now is a form of imperialism with large companies acting the part of little empires while the real powers in Washington and Beijing enjoy the show.
Ms. Weier then calms down a bit and hits us with the supermarket story : “"If the supermarket on one corner of your block sells you your weekly groceries at 10% less than the one on the other corner, where are you going to go? At 10% cheaper, you may also consider issues of quality, variety etc when deciding - but what happens when there's a 20%+ difference?"
Notice how that analogy starts off with a supermarket in your neighborhood, then introduces the number ’ten percent’ which in the last part jumps to ’20 percent’ without reason.
Even though the example she used there is a bit of logical nonsense I will answer it anyway – because anyone buying goods and services at steeply discounted prices that cannot be supported by normal market forces in our economy is probably a crook and is dealing on the black market.
Why we call the unfair business practices now being carried on between the United States , Europe, China , India and elsewhere ‘globalization’ or ‘free trade’ when it is really the Black Market and Piracy and Plundering may be because of the fundamental dishonesty that has come to infest our society and local communities.
Anyone who thinks that cheap labor leads to higher profits has traditionally been proven a fool.
At this time a majority of liquid credit financing the American economy is held by Russia and Communist China. The true impact of what is happening is beginning to be seen all around us.
Ms. Weier is defending what should not be defended but that is what she gets paid for.
She provided some rather strong examples of the responses she had received – the two that I read had to do with ‘foreigners’, ‘Chinese tech workers’ and dolphins.
I should mention that the complaints she mentioned in the email were not really appropriate to receive at a business location but I am going to let that slide because of the gravity of what she wrote in response.
She wrote, “I'm sick--sick and tired--of such xenophobic comments, which are pretty easy to hide behind when using a made-up user name.”
I, personally, am sick and tired of hearing people who support offshoring tell me they are sick and tired.
Ms. Weier does a great job reporting on things like enterprise software, business intelligence, and RFID but her reporting on an explosive issue like this is apparently cluttered by her own opinions which appear, in this case, to be based on faulty and pie-in-the-sky information.
She picks out one item to attack : "...[we should] stop rewarding greedy corporations for their total insensitivity & lack of concern about the quality vs. the quantity."
That sound reasonable, doesn’t it? If a company like Mattel brings in billions of dollars worth of toys that are faulty and contain dangerous chemicals they should be punished for that, shouldn’t they? Mary should be very glad to hear that Mattel really hasn’t been punished for poisoning our children and actually made an apology to their Communist Chinese masters for embarrassing them in the United States . You see – in Communist China it is okay to fail but you aren’t allowed to talk about it.
Ms. Weier’s defense is : “If a company hires inexpensive yet poor quality customer service help--whether it's poor because of a language barrier with the company's customers, rudeness, or inability to understand the problem--than the customer should seriously consider taking her business elsewhere. Only then will a company learn.”
This item reads like something lifted out of a poorly written college textbook.
Let me paraphrase, “If a company in the United States contracts with a chemical company in Communist China that is poisoning the water supply in the countries in which it works it is the responsibility of the customer at Walmart that buys the cleaning fluid they make to shop elsewhere. This will teach those nasty chemical makers a lesson and they will go out of business.”
Ms. Weier does not acknowledge the army of lawyers, liars, artful deceivers, corrupt politicians and hoodlums who have loosely worked together to bring about the situation the lonely shopper at Walmart is supposed to correct by shopping elsewhere – in any case – many of the people that shop at Walmart can’t afford to shop anywhere else.
How does this fit into IT? If you can’t see the analogy I don’t know what to tell you but I shall continue.
What would Ms. Weier do about a foreign owned company in the United States who owns it own bank and performs its own arbitrage in order to ensure that the exchange rate is always in favor of it? What would Ms. Weier do about a foreign owned company who has hired a great many foreigners and then directs them to hire even more employees using the H1-B Visa system and other means for bringing in temporary workers – without even offering an opportunity to any Americans?
Ms. Weier then turns acidic and writes, “As one post says, "If there is a thinking that 'customer service' in a company exists because of morality or ethics, I can only call it 'naive'. ... 'customer service' is a competitive weapon to increase profits, not an 'ethics' or 'moral' responsibility. If and when that competitiveness depletes, irrespective of the ethics or morals, companies will move away from outsourcing or offshoring."
If someone could explain to me how competitiveness depletes I would appreciate it. Keep in mind that the United States is a competitive society – Communist China is not. India itself has deep roots in Anarchy – that is Anarchy with a capital ‘A’ - it is a political force. Their methods for doing business are not just different from the American way they are in many ways opposed to it.
If Ms. Weier thinks that the Communist Chinese are out for the American dream then she should write a letter to their ambassador and ask him how many nuclear-bomb tipped rockets they have pointed at us this year. Just recently a Chinese general made threats against the United States to perform a nuclear strike if we came to the defense of Taiwan if the Communists decided to invade it.
Ms. Weier talks about Xenophobia but she seems to be confusing it with what most Americans feel are in their own best interests. Most of the poor fools who are suffering now have a limited imagination and the only weapon they believe they have to fight with is sarcasm and nasty remarks. It’s too late and it’s their fault so they are complaining.
Lets talk about the continued blockade of Cuba . I assume as a good American Ms. Weier supports her government – she certainly supports it allowing our society to be undermined by foreign competition so lets assume she supports the blockade of Cuban goods into the United States .
Communist China is the second and some years the first largest importer of Cuban sugar.
So you see – by buying Chinese made candy you are assisting the Communists in undermining the embargo against Cuban sugar. You are directly putting Americans out of work and attacking your own nation and undermining the authority of your national, state and local governments. That is an example of global trade under Ms. Weier.
She does defend herself and states that one example she provides is of one company that moved call-center back from India to the United States because it wasn’t working for them. I know of several companies that took the sucker bet - some lost their shirt and others were so cash rich - like Ms. Weier’s example - that they just packed up and came home. Still others pack up and move off to another third world hole in the wall - there are a lot of poverty stricken islands in the South Pacific and they all have telephones.
She then goes off the deep end, however and states, “Indeed, anyone who believes any U.S.-based company owes them a job simply because they were born in America is delusional.”
It’s too bad that what she says is true. Twenty years ago when these problems first came to light we could have had laws that made foreign companies pay into our society for what they took out of it. We could have ensured that only Americans can only American soil instead of making it ready for sale for international companies or even other countries as in the case of some companies from China and Kuwait . We could have ensured our future in the global market instead of prostituting the nation but folks like Ms. Weier and an army of corrupt politicians and businessmen without conscience led us into the nightmare we have today.
Ms. Weier then rants, “First off, the term "globalization" is real: more U.S. companies are becoming multinational and selling to more regions throughout the world, and hiring and contracting more people globally. Of course they are going to look for the lowest cost resources they can. But that doesn't make them bad companies.”
Let’s take the first part first. As for globalization it is an old idea and has risen to prominence and fallen out of favor again and again and again in the last 150 years. It is also known as ‘Free Trade’. Free-Traders (often called Free Traitors) have insisted that free trade will solve all the world’s problems and bring peace and harmony.
Often it has preceded and in some cases caused war.
As for the second part of her assertion - that acting like dogs doesn’t make them bad companies - that is just plain wrong. These are bad companies and they are acting against the best interests of their neighbors and friends and the people that made them successful. They are stabbing their fellow Americans in the back and what they are doing will come back to them in spades - but for now - Free Trade has free reign. Free Trade, or globalization, is a big problem.
For example – two countries have free trade – then one realizes it is getting ripped off and plundered and they impose sanctions or rules of trade. A trade begins and eventually a shooting war follows closely. Such a scenario occurred between China and Great Britain .
How about one country doesn’t want free trade and another does?
The one that wants it attacks the other one to ensure that it gets it.
An example of that is the Spanish-American War and most recently the Iraq War (and occupation).
How about if two countries have free trade and a third wants to play but the first two won’t let it?
That is what is happening now between the ‘First World’ and the ‘ Third World ’.
We will see how that will play out but right now people in the Third World are starving to death while First Worlders take what they want. Now we want IT slaves and that is what we are taking.
Globalization is not fun. It’s not nice. The way it is being practiced now is a form of imperialism with large companies acting the part of little empires while the real powers in Washington and Beijing enjoy the show.
Ms. Weier then calms down a bit and hits us with the supermarket story : “"If the supermarket on one corner of your block sells you your weekly groceries at 10% less than the one on the other corner, where are you going to go? At 10% cheaper, you may also consider issues of quality, variety etc when deciding - but what happens when there's a 20%+ difference?"
Notice how that analogy starts off with a supermarket in your neighborhood, then introduces the number ’ten percent’ which in the last part jumps to ’20 percent’ without reason.
Even though the example she used there is a bit of logical nonsense I will answer it anyway – because anyone buying goods and services at steeply discounted prices that cannot be supported by normal market forces in our economy is probably a crook and is dealing on the black market.
Why we call the unfair business practices now being carried on between the United States , Europe, China , India and elsewhere ‘globalization’ or ‘free trade’ when it is really the Black Market and Piracy and Plundering may be because of the fundamental dishonesty that has come to infest our society and local communities.
Anyone who thinks that cheap labor leads to higher profits has traditionally been proven a fool.
At this time a majority of liquid credit financing the American economy is held by Russia and Communist China. The true impact of what is happening is beginning to be seen all around us.
Ms. Weier is defending what should not be defended but that is what she gets paid for.
US Embassy in Libya
Why is the US Embassy in Libya web site not translated into English?
It only contains Arabic without even a choice to translate into English?
Who, exactly, are they talking to?
Who, exactly, is doing the talking?
What, exactly, are they talking about?
Has the United States Department of State become uncomfortable with the English language?
I am looking forward to you publishing an English version of that web site.
Be kind as to inform me when you have completed that work.http://arabic.libya.usembassy.gov/visa_services2.html
It only contains Arabic without even a choice to translate into English?
Who, exactly, are they talking to?
Who, exactly, is doing the talking?
What, exactly, are they talking about?
Has the United States Department of State become uncomfortable with the English language?
I am looking forward to you publishing an English version of that web site.
Be kind as to inform me when you have completed that work.http://arabic.libya.usembassy.gov/visa_services2.html
China and New York City
The other day Rosie O’Donnell on the television show ‘The View’ made a remark that set off New York City Councilman John Liu. He seemed to handle the off-the-cuff remark as if it were a personal attack.
I felt his reaction was out of proportion to the intent and content of the remark.
I wrote him an email and told him that.
Then something strange happened - I got an automatic notice from his New York City Council account telling me that I had been added to an electronic database and that he would use that database to contact me on a regular basis.
When I attempted to disengage from the electronic database I found that it was difficult to do so - actually - I could not locate the instructions necessary to remove myself.
I then forwarded that fact along with the original letter to the other members of the New York City Council. I found that no other city council member had that set on their account.
The next day (12.21.2006) I received an email from an assistant of John Liu. The language was combative. I thought you would be interested in John Liu’s behavior as well as that of his assistant who set this system up.
I felt his reaction was out of proportion to the intent and content of the remark.
I wrote him an email and told him that.
Then something strange happened - I got an automatic notice from his New York City Council account telling me that I had been added to an electronic database and that he would use that database to contact me on a regular basis.
When I attempted to disengage from the electronic database I found that it was difficult to do so - actually - I could not locate the instructions necessary to remove myself.
I then forwarded that fact along with the original letter to the other members of the New York City Council. I found that no other city council member had that set on their account.
The next day (12.21.2006) I received an email from an assistant of John Liu. The language was combative. I thought you would be interested in John Liu’s behavior as well as that of his assistant who set this system up.
Iowa Abortion by Pill
I just read how in Iowa a woman can enter a pharmacy and by using video conferencing be put in touch with a doctor hundreds or even thousands of miles away who would be able to give permission to the woman to take the abortion drug mifepristone - the medicine (poison) formerly known as RU-486.
The things that caught my eye about this amazing leap in the use of technology in medicine included a note about how people (ghouls) in favor of ‘abortion rights’ found this to a suitable way to make abortions available in far-flung, rural places and communities where abortion providers are unable or unwilling to travel.
If mifepristone does not cause a complete abortion (fetal death), surgery may be necessary - I don‘t think they can do that by teleconference even in Iowa.
The directions for the use of the drug are clear. The patient (victim) must visit the doctor's office three times to complete treatment. Additionally this treatment is normally only given under direct MD supervision, in a doctor's office, clinic, or hospital.
Patients (Victims) are also warned to avoid grapefruit juice.
In the event the drug does not work and pregnancy continues birth defects usually result.
Perhaps the next milestone for the abortion rights activists will be to be able to provide abortions while on vacation at the beach or during a night out at the movies with the rest of whatever family has been allowed to be born.
What is wrong in Iowa?
The things that caught my eye about this amazing leap in the use of technology in medicine included a note about how people (ghouls) in favor of ‘abortion rights’ found this to a suitable way to make abortions available in far-flung, rural places and communities where abortion providers are unable or unwilling to travel.
If mifepristone does not cause a complete abortion (fetal death), surgery may be necessary - I don‘t think they can do that by teleconference even in Iowa.
The directions for the use of the drug are clear. The patient (victim) must visit the doctor's office three times to complete treatment. Additionally this treatment is normally only given under direct MD supervision, in a doctor's office, clinic, or hospital.
Patients (Victims) are also warned to avoid grapefruit juice.
In the event the drug does not work and pregnancy continues birth defects usually result.
Perhaps the next milestone for the abortion rights activists will be to be able to provide abortions while on vacation at the beach or during a night out at the movies with the rest of whatever family has been allowed to be born.
What is wrong in Iowa?
BP - Who Needs Enemies?
They are in offices all across the United States.
They enjoy daily contact with our military establishment.
They are at home in your national bureaucracy in a way that you could not imagine.
They own a 50 percent share in the Alyaska Corporation – the other half being owned by Japanese interests.
They control 80 percent of the oil production in Wyoming alone and most of the profits end up supporting their own socialized healthcare system in their country, far, far away while their lobbyists work hard to defeat American healthcare reform.
Not long ago they were in charge when a petroleum refinery in Texas exploded with the force of a small atomic bomb.
One after another of their mystifying excuses and tall tales reasons for invading Iraq and Afghanistan have unraveled only to be replaced by another flood of lies leading our military down the garden path and buying weapons from them along the way.
The most recent terrible blunder they have made is the DeepWater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. 60 percent of all seafood consumed in the United States originated there. Now they spray poisonous ‘dispersants’ everywhere.
They are, in one stroke, ruining our ability to pump enough oil from our own offshore resources so that we can eliminate oil imports from immoral and cruel countries like Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Nigeria.
Who are ‘THEY’?
British Petroleum – BP – our ‘friends’ - the Brits.
With friends like that – who needs enemies?
They enjoy daily contact with our military establishment.
They are at home in your national bureaucracy in a way that you could not imagine.
They own a 50 percent share in the Alyaska Corporation – the other half being owned by Japanese interests.
They control 80 percent of the oil production in Wyoming alone and most of the profits end up supporting their own socialized healthcare system in their country, far, far away while their lobbyists work hard to defeat American healthcare reform.
Not long ago they were in charge when a petroleum refinery in Texas exploded with the force of a small atomic bomb.
One after another of their mystifying excuses and tall tales reasons for invading Iraq and Afghanistan have unraveled only to be replaced by another flood of lies leading our military down the garden path and buying weapons from them along the way.
The most recent terrible blunder they have made is the DeepWater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. 60 percent of all seafood consumed in the United States originated there. Now they spray poisonous ‘dispersants’ everywhere.
They are, in one stroke, ruining our ability to pump enough oil from our own offshore resources so that we can eliminate oil imports from immoral and cruel countries like Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Nigeria.
Who are ‘THEY’?
British Petroleum – BP – our ‘friends’ - the Brits.
With friends like that – who needs enemies?
Russian Tu-160
On April 25th in 2006 Russian Commander Igor Khvorov claimed that Tu-160 bomber aircraft penetrated North American airspace undetected. A NATO investigation followed whose results have not been released.
On September 10, 2008 two of them landed in Venezuela .
The TU-160 can fly at Mach 2.6.
That is about 2000 miles per hour.
It can cruise at 1380 miles per hour.
It can carry 12× Raduga Kh-15 short-range nuclear missiles each with a range of 185 miles.
After launch the Kh-15 climbs to about 131,000 feet and dives on the target, accelerating to a speed of about Mach 5 (3,800 miles per hour). It carries a payload of nuclear material between 170 to 210 kilotons.
‘Little Boy’ – dropped on Hiroshima , Japan had a payload of approximately 13 to 16 kilotons. It killed more than 64,000 people.
The bomb dropped on Nagasaki , ‘Fat Man’, had a payload of 21 kilotons and killed over 39,000 people.
Caracas to Washington , DC is 2052 miles and to New York 2120 miles. Both one hour away for a TU-160.
Do we need a South American dictator being provided access to weapons of mass destruction?
Russia has no place in the Western Hemisphere .
Will the United States allow Russia to colonize Venezuela ?
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is a traitor to all Americans in the Americas .
Russia is violating the Monroe Doctrine and since they act like 19th Century Imperialists they should be treated the same.
When will this threat to our lives and homes be removed?
On September 10, 2008 two of them landed in Venezuela .
The TU-160 can fly at Mach 2.6.
That is about 2000 miles per hour.
It can cruise at 1380 miles per hour.
It can carry 12× Raduga Kh-15 short-range nuclear missiles each with a range of 185 miles.
After launch the Kh-15 climbs to about 131,000 feet and dives on the target, accelerating to a speed of about Mach 5 (3,800 miles per hour). It carries a payload of nuclear material between 170 to 210 kilotons.
‘Little Boy’ – dropped on Hiroshima , Japan had a payload of approximately 13 to 16 kilotons. It killed more than 64,000 people.
The bomb dropped on Nagasaki , ‘Fat Man’, had a payload of 21 kilotons and killed over 39,000 people.
Caracas to Washington , DC is 2052 miles and to New York 2120 miles. Both one hour away for a TU-160.
Do we need a South American dictator being provided access to weapons of mass destruction?
Russia has no place in the Western Hemisphere .
Will the United States allow Russia to colonize Venezuela ?
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is a traitor to all Americans in the Americas .
Russia is violating the Monroe Doctrine and since they act like 19th Century Imperialists they should be treated the same.
When will this threat to our lives and homes be removed?
British Palin - Sarah Palin and BP
I haven’t had anything to say about Sarah Palin because she seemed to be a good mother to her children, however, her attitude about oil and energy is, in my opinion, that of an ignorant and greedy individual - not unlike the executives and workers at BP.
Sarah Palin said, “With [environmentalists'] nonsensical efforts to lock up safer drilling areas, all you're doing is outsourcing energy development, which makes us more controlled by foreign countries, less safe, and less prosperous on a dirtier planet. Your hypocrisy is showing. You're not preventing environmental hazards; you're outsourcing them and making drilling more dangerous.
Extreme deep water drilling is not the preferred choice to meet our country's energy needs, but your protests and lawsuits and lies about onshore and shallow water drilling have locked up safer areas. It's catching up with you. The tragic, unprecedented deep water Gulf oil spill proves it.”
The Alyaska Company runs the Alaskan pipeline. It is nearly 50 percent owned by British Petroleum. British Petroleum is a foreign corporation.
Therefore the dangerous remarks made by Sarah Palin in this instance can be considered to be remarks in favor of a foreign corporation and in the interests of a foreign nation and against interests of the people of the United States of America.
Does this make her unAmerican? No - but it does seem to make her an agent of a foreign power.
Is Sarah Palin a puppet of British Petroleum?
Isn’t greed such a great destroyer?
Sarah Palin said, “With [environmentalists'] nonsensical efforts to lock up safer drilling areas, all you're doing is outsourcing energy development, which makes us more controlled by foreign countries, less safe, and less prosperous on a dirtier planet. Your hypocrisy is showing. You're not preventing environmental hazards; you're outsourcing them and making drilling more dangerous.
Extreme deep water drilling is not the preferred choice to meet our country's energy needs, but your protests and lawsuits and lies about onshore and shallow water drilling have locked up safer areas. It's catching up with you. The tragic, unprecedented deep water Gulf oil spill proves it.”
The Alyaska Company runs the Alaskan pipeline. It is nearly 50 percent owned by British Petroleum. British Petroleum is a foreign corporation.
Therefore the dangerous remarks made by Sarah Palin in this instance can be considered to be remarks in favor of a foreign corporation and in the interests of a foreign nation and against interests of the people of the United States of America.
Does this make her unAmerican? No - but it does seem to make her an agent of a foreign power.
Is Sarah Palin a puppet of British Petroleum?
Isn’t greed such a great destroyer?
BP - Too Big to Jail
British Petroleum is backed by the British Government - they issued a statement as such.
That is good that the British Government should be held responsible for payments of reparation to the United States for this and other destructive accidents British Petroleum has allowed to happen and caused within the territory of the United States.
What about their partners?
MOEX is owned by MOECO - Mitsui Oil Exploration.
In September 2007, MOEX USA Corporation ("MOEX USA") established MOEX Offshore 2007 LLC, its wholly-owned subsidiary. In October 2007, MOEX Offshore 2007 LLC won a open bid and participated in an ultra deep gas exploration project in the Gulf of Mexico together with BP Exploration & Production Inc., the operator.
It is neither here nor there but in November 2008 MOECO established its Hanoi Representavie Office in Vietnam to develop drilling sites off the coast of Northern Vietnam.
Anadarko apparently owns a big chunk of the operation too. They are out of Texas and are currently operating at least 8 deepwater oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico.
It is my opinion that Anadarko, Mitsui and British Petroleum should lose their Federal leases in the Gulf of Mexico and vacate their operations and turn them over to more responsible vendors.
…but BP, Anadarko and Mitsui will go on plundering United States oil and the Federal Government will go on selling our resources.
Do you believe that any one or any company is ever ‘Too Big to Jail’ and ‘Too Big to Fail’?
That is good that the British Government should be held responsible for payments of reparation to the United States for this and other destructive accidents British Petroleum has allowed to happen and caused within the territory of the United States.
What about their partners?
MOEX is owned by MOECO - Mitsui Oil Exploration.
In September 2007, MOEX USA Corporation ("MOEX USA") established MOEX Offshore 2007 LLC, its wholly-owned subsidiary. In October 2007, MOEX Offshore 2007 LLC won a open bid and participated in an ultra deep gas exploration project in the Gulf of Mexico together with BP Exploration & Production Inc., the operator.
It is neither here nor there but in November 2008 MOECO established its Hanoi Representavie Office in Vietnam to develop drilling sites off the coast of Northern Vietnam.
Anadarko apparently owns a big chunk of the operation too. They are out of Texas and are currently operating at least 8 deepwater oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico.
It is my opinion that Anadarko, Mitsui and British Petroleum should lose their Federal leases in the Gulf of Mexico and vacate their operations and turn them over to more responsible vendors.
…but BP, Anadarko and Mitsui will go on plundering United States oil and the Federal Government will go on selling our resources.
Do you believe that any one or any company is ever ‘Too Big to Jail’ and ‘Too Big to Fail’?
British Petroleum and Regional Transmission Organizations
BP is too big to jail.
Marie-Antoinette (1755-93), the Queen consort of Louis XVI is reported to have said, "Let them eat cake."
Randy Prescott, VP Power Origination & Marketing, is reported to have said, “Louisiana isn’t the only place that has shrimp.”
BP isn’t afraid of anyone or anything. They are too big to jail, too big to fail.
For example - BP has fuel oil interests in every major and most minor markets in the United States today. One of the more interesting examples is provided by their participation with ISO New England.
“ISO New England is an independent, not-for-profit corporation. To effectively carry out its charge, the company, its Board of Directors and its 400 employees have no financial interest or ties to any company doing business in the region's wholesale electricity marketplace.”
“ISO New England helps protect the health of New England's economy and the well-being of its people by ensuring the constant availability of electricity, today and for future generations. ISO New England meets this obligation in three ways: by ensuring the day-to-day reliable operation of New England's bulk power generation and transmission system, by overseeing and ensuring the fair administration of the region's wholesale electricity markets, and by managing comprehensive, regional planning processes.”
ISO New England is just one of many ‘Regional Transmission Organizations’ which oversee electric power distribution in the United States. You are serviced by at least one.
Why are ‘public non-profit’ companies allowing foreign corporations like BP to pollute our waters?
Marie-Antoinette (1755-93), the Queen consort of Louis XVI is reported to have said, "Let them eat cake."
Randy Prescott, VP Power Origination & Marketing, is reported to have said, “Louisiana isn’t the only place that has shrimp.”
BP isn’t afraid of anyone or anything. They are too big to jail, too big to fail.
For example - BP has fuel oil interests in every major and most minor markets in the United States today. One of the more interesting examples is provided by their participation with ISO New England.
“ISO New England is an independent, not-for-profit corporation. To effectively carry out its charge, the company, its Board of Directors and its 400 employees have no financial interest or ties to any company doing business in the region's wholesale electricity marketplace.”
“ISO New England helps protect the health of New England's economy and the well-being of its people by ensuring the constant availability of electricity, today and for future generations. ISO New England meets this obligation in three ways: by ensuring the day-to-day reliable operation of New England's bulk power generation and transmission system, by overseeing and ensuring the fair administration of the region's wholesale electricity markets, and by managing comprehensive, regional planning processes.”
ISO New England is just one of many ‘Regional Transmission Organizations’ which oversee electric power distribution in the United States. You are serviced by at least one.
Why are ‘public non-profit’ companies allowing foreign corporations like BP to pollute our waters?
Timothy Geithner in India
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner was in India and he decided not to release a report that was supposed to detail the evidence related to the belief that Communist China is manipulating its currency. Timothy Geithner announced that he was not going to release that report because he was going to let the blood-soaked and corrupt Communist Chinese decide what they were going to do about their currency.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates called for changes in trading rules and laws with Columbia as a reward for…I am not sure what they did to be given preferential treatment, but in any case, he is looking for a handout for the cocaine capitol of the world.
This Administration seems to be at odds with itself. Why are the Secretary of the Treasury and the Secretary of Defense acting like the Secretary of State?
In the United States federal government, "Secretary of State" refers to the official responsible for foreign policy. Mrs. Clinton is a very good one.
The United States Secretary of Defense is the head of the U.S. Department of Defense, concerned with the armed services and military matters. Mr. Gates does not seem to be a good one.
The United States of America Secretary of the Treasury is the head of the Department of the Treasury, concerned with finance and monetary matters. Mr. Geithner seems to be the worst one we have ever had.
Does it seem that people in this Administration are acting without regard to the rule of law?
Defense Secretary Robert Gates called for changes in trading rules and laws with Columbia as a reward for…I am not sure what they did to be given preferential treatment, but in any case, he is looking for a handout for the cocaine capitol of the world.
This Administration seems to be at odds with itself. Why are the Secretary of the Treasury and the Secretary of Defense acting like the Secretary of State?
In the United States federal government, "Secretary of State" refers to the official responsible for foreign policy. Mrs. Clinton is a very good one.
The United States Secretary of Defense is the head of the U.S. Department of Defense, concerned with the armed services and military matters. Mr. Gates does not seem to be a good one.
The United States of America Secretary of the Treasury is the head of the Department of the Treasury, concerned with finance and monetary matters. Mr. Geithner seems to be the worst one we have ever had.
Does it seem that people in this Administration are acting without regard to the rule of law?
Senator Brownback
I am concerned for my neighbors in Kansas.
Senator Sam Brownback is running for the office of Governor.
He has a screwy idea concerning ‘The State Office of the Repealer‘. This person‘s job would be to start disposing of laws outside of the regular process in Kansas.
Is he unaware that the State of Kansas has a Kansas Supreme Court?
When a law or case is appealed the Kansas Supreme Court reads the record of the trial and written briefs filed by the parties and hears oral arguments of lawyers. They research and review the law involved in the case and then write an opinion which is usually published in bound volumes. The court announces its decisions by filing them with the Office of the Clerk of the Appellate Courts. Laws may be repealed in this fashion.
“People just love this idea,” Brownback reportedly said. “They feel like they’re getting their brains regulated out of them.”
“…it’s always, ‘Well, we need this, we need that, we need this.’ Nothing is ever subtracted in the system.” How about common sense, Sam?
He reportedly said the Repealer would come from an existing state position reassigned to the task of elimination - instead of a State Trooper he would appoint a State Pooper.
It would be nice to see drug, illegal immigration and abortion laws enforced in Kansas before Brownback goes about repealing them.
Do you think a State Repealer would sound good to drug running illegal immigrants or law abiding Kansas citizens?
Senator Sam Brownback is running for the office of Governor.
He has a screwy idea concerning ‘The State Office of the Repealer‘. This person‘s job would be to start disposing of laws outside of the regular process in Kansas.
Is he unaware that the State of Kansas has a Kansas Supreme Court?
When a law or case is appealed the Kansas Supreme Court reads the record of the trial and written briefs filed by the parties and hears oral arguments of lawyers. They research and review the law involved in the case and then write an opinion which is usually published in bound volumes. The court announces its decisions by filing them with the Office of the Clerk of the Appellate Courts. Laws may be repealed in this fashion.
“People just love this idea,” Brownback reportedly said. “They feel like they’re getting their brains regulated out of them.”
“…it’s always, ‘Well, we need this, we need that, we need this.’ Nothing is ever subtracted in the system.” How about common sense, Sam?
He reportedly said the Repealer would come from an existing state position reassigned to the task of elimination - instead of a State Trooper he would appoint a State Pooper.
It would be nice to see drug, illegal immigration and abortion laws enforced in Kansas before Brownback goes about repealing them.
Do you think a State Repealer would sound good to drug running illegal immigrants or law abiding Kansas citizens?
Special People
Sarah Palin is a well known politician. She has a son with a ‘condition’ known as ‘Down’s Syndrome’. He is a person with special needs.
The television cartoon show ‘Family Guy’ mocked him.
His sister, Bristol Palin, responded to the senseless attack and I would like to repeat her words in this letter.
“When you’re the son or daughter of a public figure, you have to develop thick skin. My siblings and I all have that, but insults directed at our youngest brother hurt too much for us to remain silent. People with special needs face challenges that many of us will never confront, and yet they are some of the kindest and most loving people you’ll ever meet. Their lives are difficult enough as it is, so why would anyone want to make their lives more difficult by mocking them?
As a culture, shouldn’t we be more compassionate to innocent people – especially those who are less fortunate? Shouldn’t we be willing to say that some things just are not funny? Are there any limits to what some people will do or say in regards to my little brother or others in the special needs community? If the writers of a particularly pathetic cartoon show thought they were being clever in mocking my brother and my family yesterday, they failed. All they proved is that they’re heartless jerks.”
‘Family Guy’ is one of the cartoon programs that your children may be watching.
Do you know what they are teaching?
The television cartoon show ‘Family Guy’ mocked him.
His sister, Bristol Palin, responded to the senseless attack and I would like to repeat her words in this letter.
“When you’re the son or daughter of a public figure, you have to develop thick skin. My siblings and I all have that, but insults directed at our youngest brother hurt too much for us to remain silent. People with special needs face challenges that many of us will never confront, and yet they are some of the kindest and most loving people you’ll ever meet. Their lives are difficult enough as it is, so why would anyone want to make their lives more difficult by mocking them?
As a culture, shouldn’t we be more compassionate to innocent people – especially those who are less fortunate? Shouldn’t we be willing to say that some things just are not funny? Are there any limits to what some people will do or say in regards to my little brother or others in the special needs community? If the writers of a particularly pathetic cartoon show thought they were being clever in mocking my brother and my family yesterday, they failed. All they proved is that they’re heartless jerks.”
‘Family Guy’ is one of the cartoon programs that your children may be watching.
Do you know what they are teaching?
Tea Party 'Fun'
I have watched and listened as attention has focused on the group that is called ‘The Tea Party’.
‘The Tea Party’ is very different than the men who participated in the raid against the British Empire’s on December 16, 1773.
Boston Patriots raided three tea ships to dump the tea into the harbor to declare that taxation without representation would not be allowed in America and they also proved that individual rights are more powerful than corporate rights.
‘The Tea Party’ remained silent as the Supreme Court of the United States recently declared corporations are equivalent to individual Americans. Of course - we can’t buy and sell each other but corporations can.
Glenn Beck’s book ‘Arguing with Idiots’ is a ‘Tea Party’ Bible. The title of the book has the letter ‘R’ printed in reverse. ‘The Tea Party’ is mocked by the same foreign corporation supporting them.
In my neighborhood is the indignity of an American flag tied to the handle of a garbage can at the house of a ‘Tea Party’ advocate.
I believe in ‘One Nation Under God’ so I offer these words from the real Bible to my neighbors:
“The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:
But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.”
Is ‘The Tea Party’ fun?
‘The Tea Party’ is very different than the men who participated in the raid against the British Empire’s on December 16, 1773.
Boston Patriots raided three tea ships to dump the tea into the harbor to declare that taxation without representation would not be allowed in America and they also proved that individual rights are more powerful than corporate rights.
‘The Tea Party’ remained silent as the Supreme Court of the United States recently declared corporations are equivalent to individual Americans. Of course - we can’t buy and sell each other but corporations can.
Glenn Beck’s book ‘Arguing with Idiots’ is a ‘Tea Party’ Bible. The title of the book has the letter ‘R’ printed in reverse. ‘The Tea Party’ is mocked by the same foreign corporation supporting them.
In my neighborhood is the indignity of an American flag tied to the handle of a garbage can at the house of a ‘Tea Party’ advocate.
I believe in ‘One Nation Under God’ so I offer these words from the real Bible to my neighbors:
“The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:
But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.”
Is ‘The Tea Party’ fun?
Eleven Men Dead
I have an opinion.
In early May, 2010, BP (British Petroleum) had placed a 98 ton plug on top of the failed well pipe that broke in the Gulf of Mexico .
They stuck in a pipe and tried to pump oil to the surface.
Pressure and cold temperatures in the water turns oil into ‘hydrates’.
Gas hydrate looks very much like water ice. It is stable in ocean floor sediments at water depths greater than 990 feet, and where it occurs, it is known to cement loose sediments in a surface layer several hundred meters thick.
When BP (British Petroleum) started sucking oil and gas up to their ships (to sell) the pipe got gummed up.
They took the plug off.
My opinion is they are repairing the well – not plugging it.
They licensed and flagged the platform in the Marshall Islands – which depends primarily on coconut exports.
Did the cap in early May stop the rupture as in a natural case? Because BP could not collect the oil to process did they pull the plug and allow the flow of about 19,000 barrels a day to resume?
Is this Obama’s fault? He’s dealing with Communist lunatics and religious fanatics. Is it your fault? Why are you letting oil companies lie?
Are you actually depending on the Coast Guard to oversee this process?
When will they start pumping?
The current estimate is late August with three supertankers worth of oil swirling around in the Gulf.
…oh, and 11 men dead.
In early May, 2010, BP (British Petroleum) had placed a 98 ton plug on top of the failed well pipe that broke in the Gulf of Mexico .
They stuck in a pipe and tried to pump oil to the surface.
Pressure and cold temperatures in the water turns oil into ‘hydrates’.
Gas hydrate looks very much like water ice. It is stable in ocean floor sediments at water depths greater than 990 feet, and where it occurs, it is known to cement loose sediments in a surface layer several hundred meters thick.
When BP (British Petroleum) started sucking oil and gas up to their ships (to sell) the pipe got gummed up.
They took the plug off.
My opinion is they are repairing the well – not plugging it.
They licensed and flagged the platform in the Marshall Islands – which depends primarily on coconut exports.
Did the cap in early May stop the rupture as in a natural case? Because BP could not collect the oil to process did they pull the plug and allow the flow of about 19,000 barrels a day to resume?
Is this Obama’s fault? He’s dealing with Communist lunatics and religious fanatics. Is it your fault? Why are you letting oil companies lie?
Are you actually depending on the Coast Guard to oversee this process?
When will they start pumping?
The current estimate is late August with three supertankers worth of oil swirling around in the Gulf.
…oh, and 11 men dead.
Television Crime Dramas
Television or the present content on television is blocking information getting to people. The type of material that used to be distributed by newspapers is now primarily being transmitted via the internet. Television – through the selection of the programs being broadcast is blocking the normal transfer of this information further.
National broadcasting of ‘crime-dramas’ that deal with child murder or drugs and which are financed by advertisers blocks real coverage and response to real local problems.
What may not be obvious to advertisers like Kellogg’s, Sears, McDonald’s, Walmart, Pfizer and others is that even though they may believe they are getting a bargain by advertising with these trashy, violent and oftentimes psychotic programs – they are missing even more cost savings and profits by not going direct to local markets and so they pass up real, cost-effective entertainment that would be chock-full of good information and good will.
Of course – the larger drug makers who sell drugs which treat depression or other psychological problems and who often advertise during the running of these horrible programs are NOT likely to be interested in stopping the broadcasting of television shows that feed on and support and encourage fear, excessive sorrow, dramatic emotion, violence, rage and other aberrant behavior.
When you watch your television shows are you actually aware of what it is you are watching?
Are you watching it because there is nothing else on or because you enjoy stories about children being murdered, women being raped and men reacting with violent rage?
National broadcasting of ‘crime-dramas’ that deal with child murder or drugs and which are financed by advertisers blocks real coverage and response to real local problems.
What may not be obvious to advertisers like Kellogg’s, Sears, McDonald’s, Walmart, Pfizer and others is that even though they may believe they are getting a bargain by advertising with these trashy, violent and oftentimes psychotic programs – they are missing even more cost savings and profits by not going direct to local markets and so they pass up real, cost-effective entertainment that would be chock-full of good information and good will.
Of course – the larger drug makers who sell drugs which treat depression or other psychological problems and who often advertise during the running of these horrible programs are NOT likely to be interested in stopping the broadcasting of television shows that feed on and support and encourage fear, excessive sorrow, dramatic emotion, violence, rage and other aberrant behavior.
When you watch your television shows are you actually aware of what it is you are watching?
Are you watching it because there is nothing else on or because you enjoy stories about children being murdered, women being raped and men reacting with violent rage?
Long Beach Aquarium and BP
The Long Beach Aquarium in Long Beach, California is a ‘non-profit’ organization. They do actually charge a fee for entry but the enterprise is arranged as a ‘non-profit’. Private individuals and corporations can then take the amount that they donate off their taxes.
British Petroleum is foreign company.
A refinery of theirs in Texas blew up with the force of a small nuclear bomb and the Alasakan Oil Pipeline still leaks frequently and in large quantities. Recently they used technology designed for 50 to 300 feet of water at a depth of over 5,000 feet and a massive oil spill has occurred.
The food chain the Gulf of Mexico has been broken. Until recently 60 percent of American seafood came out of the Gulf of Mexico.
Four years ago BP donated $1 million to the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach for a Sea Otter habitat.
BP has killed or maimed Thousands of Pelicans, terns, seagulls, porpoises, dolphins along with interrupting the life cycle of and killing untold millions of fish including but not limited to : pompano, wahoo, sturgeon, red fish, tuna, pompano, shad, anchovy, sheepshead, sea bream, mackerel, triggerfish, catfish, menhaden, spinner shark, silky shark, bull shark, blacktip shark, oceanic whitetip shark, dusky shark, bank sea bass, rock sea bass, black sea bass…
Don’t you think the Long Beach Aquarium should give that dirty money back or donate it to cleaning up an aquatic environment from which they derive the income they use to run their ‘non-profit’?
British Petroleum is foreign company.
A refinery of theirs in Texas blew up with the force of a small nuclear bomb and the Alasakan Oil Pipeline still leaks frequently and in large quantities. Recently they used technology designed for 50 to 300 feet of water at a depth of over 5,000 feet and a massive oil spill has occurred.
The food chain the Gulf of Mexico has been broken. Until recently 60 percent of American seafood came out of the Gulf of Mexico.
Four years ago BP donated $1 million to the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach for a Sea Otter habitat.
BP has killed or maimed Thousands of Pelicans, terns, seagulls, porpoises, dolphins along with interrupting the life cycle of and killing untold millions of fish including but not limited to : pompano, wahoo, sturgeon, red fish, tuna, pompano, shad, anchovy, sheepshead, sea bream, mackerel, triggerfish, catfish, menhaden, spinner shark, silky shark, bull shark, blacktip shark, oceanic whitetip shark, dusky shark, bank sea bass, rock sea bass, black sea bass…
Don’t you think the Long Beach Aquarium should give that dirty money back or donate it to cleaning up an aquatic environment from which they derive the income they use to run their ‘non-profit’?
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