HOW-OF-WHY
Saturday, April 11, 2009
EASTER, PUBLIC RELATIONS, FEMINISM & MASS MURDER
A Little EASTER History:
You Have Come a Long Way To Earn The Right To Poison Yourself.
1929, The father of spin, Eddie Bernays convinced young stylish debutantes to smoke in public during the Easter parade in Manhattan, as a show of defiance against male domination.
The demonstrators were not aware that a tobacco company was behind the public relations stunt. Bernays own wife smoked herself to death.
I still wanna write a play about Bernays, an American Jew whose books PROPAGANDA & CRYSTALLIZING PUBLIC OPINION were bibles to Hitler's Minister of Information, Goebbels, who used them to turn Germany against the Jews and imprison and murder mass numbers in concentration camps.
Read the entire text of PROPAGANDA at this LINK.
You Have Come a Long Way To Earn The Right To Poison Yourself.
1929, The father of spin, Eddie Bernays convinced young stylish debutantes to smoke in public during the Easter parade in Manhattan, as a show of defiance against male domination.
The demonstrators were not aware that a tobacco company was behind the public relations stunt. Bernays own wife smoked herself to death.
I still wanna write a play about Bernays, an American Jew whose books PROPAGANDA & CRYSTALLIZING PUBLIC OPINION were bibles to Hitler's Minister of Information, Goebbels, who used them to turn Germany against the Jews and imprison and murder mass numbers in concentration camps.
Read the entire text of PROPAGANDA at this LINK.
Sunday, April 05, 2009
SCIENCE REVEALS BUSH/CHENEY WTC 9/11 COVER UP
If you believe the Bush/Cheney lies about 9/11, Science proves you are wrong.
READ THIS!
AND THIS (LINK TO DETAILED PDF FILE)
READ THIS!
AND THIS (LINK TO DETAILED PDF FILE)
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
ENOUGH!
It is time for the USA to take the lead and the other nations to follow and demand that Israel & Hamas stop killing in Gaza and sit down and talk. Neither leaves the room until a treaty is signed. Right now peacekeepers from around the globe must step in to protect civilians in Gaza.
Enough.
Enough.
Labels: corruption, desperate, government, money, peace, war
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
WARMONGERS
The last eight years show just how deceitful U.S. presidents can be. The past provides portraits of how it has changed history and how greed, ego, war and national armed force seems to guide Presidential power
As of 1940, Franklin Delano Roosevelt had failed for eight years to get America out of the Great Depression। FDR knew his historical legacy was destroyed if he couldn't come up with something big to overshadow his failure stoping the Great Depression. The mass media in America had been pushing for America to enter World War Two on England's side. Roosevelt decided to rescue his historical legacy and satisfy the media by pushing America into World War Two, despite the massive opposition to another war by the majority of Americans.
(A very few small nations such as Sweden and Switzerland have successfully avoided the bloodbaths of recent wars. Both of these nations are prosperous and have avoided amassing huge national debts that usually happens during major wars).
America was at peace until Pearl Harbor was attacked (Dec. 7th, 1941).The American public had pressured Congress into creating a series of Neutrality Acts during the 1930s. Most Americans saw World War One as a needless and costly war that America had been misled into entering. The USA lost 120,000 soldiers to warfare and disease, and another 200,000 had been injured. American’s perception is that our nation got exactly nothing out of World War One, but had insured that England avoided losing the war. The Neutrality Acts were designed to keep America from selling weapons to belligerent nations engaged in war.
FDR had promised the American public that he would keep America out of war during the Presidential campaign in 1940. Then as soon as he won the election, FDR began work, doing everything he could to push America into the war. Roosevelt secretly allowed tons of war material to be shipped to the English from the very start of the war in Europe. He completely ignored the Neutrality Act when he gave the British 50 destroyers in September 1940. England had illegally received long range Catalina observation aircraft from America, thanks to Roosevelt. One of these Catalinas played an important role, spotting the German Battleship Bismarck, which led to its sinking. Roosevelt passed the Lend Lease Act in March 1941. England then received unlimited military aid from the U.S. Shortly after Germany invaded the Soviet Union. FDR began sending military aid to the the Soviet Union, sending two billion dollars in war material before Pearl Harbor. Most Americans opposed Communism, yet Roosevelt sent Stalin two billion in weapons.
In August 1941 the U.S. was still at peace, FDR secretly met Winston Churchill in the north Atlantic on a British Battleship and established the "Atlantic Charter." The Atlantic Charter called for "free trade, self-governed nations and military disarmament." But Roosevelt and Churchill made plans to pull America into the war ignoring of what the American public wanted. The Atlantic Charter proved to be a joke. India and the Philippines somehow never got "self-determination" under Churchill and Roosevelt. The "free trade" provision was violated in just a few months when FDR ordered an embargo of scrap iron and oil against Japan. FDR was arming America to the teeth and reinstating the draft in despite to his call for "military disarmament."
The truth always comes out in the long run, and the more truth that comes out, the worse FDR looks. Two incidents were well known from 1941, which involved German submarines torpedoing U.S. destroyers. FDR had ordered US destroyers to hunt down German U-Boats. If the American destroyer sunk the U-Boat, it was covered up. If the U-Boat defended itself and sunk the American destroyer, the Germans portrayed it as an “unprovoked” hostile action. FDR traded the lives of American sailors on a destroyer for a chance to get into World War Two.
FDR discovered another way to World War Two by way of Japan. In July of 1941, Japanese assets in England and America were frozen, illegally confiscating Japanese property. Churchill and FDR cutting off 90% of Japan’s oil supply and 75% of its foreign trade, also imposed a trade embargo. During a meeting with Churchill in August of 1941, Roosevelt made an agreement with Churchill to declare war on Japan if Japan invaded British or Dutch colonies in Asia. On November 26th, 1941, FDR's Secretary of State Cordell Hull delivered an ultimatum to Japan; dictating what policies Japan must follow.
FDR approved a CIA operation in April 1941 to allow American fighter pilots to transfer to the "Flying Tigers" squadron to fight the Japanese in China. The CIA actually recruited fighter pilots from aircraft carriers and fighter bases during peacetime. The first pilots arrived in China in September 1941. The Flying Tigers had every intention of waging war on Japan whether war officially broke out or not.
Before the Pearl Harbor attack, 80% of Americans opposed getting involved in World Two. And FDR had covertly sent massive military aid to the English and the Soviets and did everything possible to ignore the interests of the majority of American citizens. FDR was another deceitful President. World War Two increasingly looks like a war that did not the highest interests of Americans.
It is clear that FDR and Churchill did all they could think of to get Japan to attack English or American Pacific islands.
On November 25, 1941 Japan’s Admiral Yamamoto sent a radio message to the group of Japanese warships that would attack Pearl Harbor on December 7. Publicly released naval records prove that from November 17 to 25 the United States Navy intercepted eighty-three messages that Yamamoto sent to his carriers. Part of the November 25 message read: “...the task force, keeping its movements strictly secret and maintaining close guard against submarines and aircraft, shall advance into Hawaiian waters, and upon the very opening of hostilities shall attack the main force of the United States fleet in Hawaii and deal it a mortal blow...”
Since World War II many people (notably Gore Vidal) have claimed that Washington knew the attack was coming. When Thomas Dewey was running for president against Roosevelt in 1944 he discovered America’s ability to intercept Japan’s radio messages, and thought this knowledge would enable him to defeat FDR. Dewey planned a series of speeches charging FDR with foreknowledge of the attack. General George Marshall, then Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, persuaded Dewey not to make the speeches.
Japan’s naval leaders did not realize America had cracked their codes, and Dewey’s speeches could have revealed America’s code-breaking advantage. So, Dewey said nothing, and FDR was elected president for the fourth time.
Robert Stinnett, author of Day Of Deceit, provides the proof. Stinnett’s book is dedicated to Congressman John Moss, the author of America’s Freedom of Information Act. According to Stinnett, the answers to the secrets of Pearl Harbor can be found in the large number of documents he was able to attain through Freedom of Information Act requests. Cable after cable of decryptions, scores of military messages that America was intercepting, clearly showed that Japanese ships were preparing for war and heading straight for Hawaii. Stinnett, an author, journalist, and World War II veteran, spent sixteen years delving into the National Archives. He read over more than 200,000 documents, and conducted dozens of interviews. The research led Stinnet to this conclusion: FDR knew.
“Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars,” was Roosevelt’s campaign statement of 1940. He wasn’t being kidding. FDR’s military and State Department leaders agreed that a victorious Nazi Germany would threaten the national security of the United States. In White House meetings the strong feeling was that America needed a call to action. This is not what the public wanted, however. Again, eighty to ninety percent of the American people wanted nothing to do with another European war. According to Stinnett, FDR provoked Japan to attack the USA, let it happen at Pearl Harbor, and used it to lead the country into another war. Many who knew Roosevelt during that time hinted that FDR wasn’t being forthright about his intentions in Europe. After the attack, on the Sunday evening of December 7, 1941, Roosevelt had a brief meeting in the White House with Edward R. Murrow, the journalist, and William Donovan, the founder of the Office of Strategic Services. Later Donovan told an assistant that he believed FDR welcomed the attack and didn’t seem surprised. The only thing Roosevelt seemed to care about, Donovan felt, was if the public would now support a Declaration of War. In October 1940 FDR adopted a specific strategy to incite Japan to commit an overt act of war. Part of the strategy was to move America’s Pacific fleet out of California and anchor it in Pearl Harbor. Admiral James Richardson, the commander of the Pacific fleet, very strongly opposed keeping the ships in harm’s way in Hawaii. He expressed this to Roosevelt, and so the President relieved him of his command. Later Richardson quoted Roosevelt as saying: “Sooner or later the Japanese will commit an overt act against the United States and the nation will be willing to enter the war.”
If you believe that government conspiracies can’t possibly happen, Day Of Deceit proves otherwise. Stinnett’s well researched and documented book makes the case that the highest officials of the government—including the highest official—fooled and deceived millions of Americans about one of the most important days in the history of the country. It now is considered one of the most definitive book on the subject. Gore Vidal has said, “...Robert Stinnet has come up with most of the smoking guns. Day Of Deceit shows that the famous ‘surprise’ attack was no surprise to our war-minded rulers...” And John Toland, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the Pearl Harbor book, Infamy, said, “Step by step, Stinnett goes through the prelude to war, using new documents to reveal the terrible secrets that have never been disclosed to the public. It is disturbing that eleven presidents, including those I admired, kept the truth from the public until Stinnett’s Freedom of Information Act requests finally persuaded the Navy to release the evidence.”
As of 1940, Franklin Delano Roosevelt had failed for eight years to get America out of the Great Depression। FDR knew his historical legacy was destroyed if he couldn't come up with something big to overshadow his failure stoping the Great Depression. The mass media in America had been pushing for America to enter World War Two on England's side. Roosevelt decided to rescue his historical legacy and satisfy the media by pushing America into World War Two, despite the massive opposition to another war by the majority of Americans.
(A very few small nations such as Sweden and Switzerland have successfully avoided the bloodbaths of recent wars. Both of these nations are prosperous and have avoided amassing huge national debts that usually happens during major wars).
America was at peace until Pearl Harbor was attacked (Dec. 7th, 1941).The American public had pressured Congress into creating a series of Neutrality Acts during the 1930s. Most Americans saw World War One as a needless and costly war that America had been misled into entering. The USA lost 120,000 soldiers to warfare and disease, and another 200,000 had been injured. American’s perception is that our nation got exactly nothing out of World War One, but had insured that England avoided losing the war. The Neutrality Acts were designed to keep America from selling weapons to belligerent nations engaged in war.
FDR had promised the American public that he would keep America out of war during the Presidential campaign in 1940. Then as soon as he won the election, FDR began work, doing everything he could to push America into the war. Roosevelt secretly allowed tons of war material to be shipped to the English from the very start of the war in Europe. He completely ignored the Neutrality Act when he gave the British 50 destroyers in September 1940. England had illegally received long range Catalina observation aircraft from America, thanks to Roosevelt. One of these Catalinas played an important role, spotting the German Battleship Bismarck, which led to its sinking. Roosevelt passed the Lend Lease Act in March 1941. England then received unlimited military aid from the U.S. Shortly after Germany invaded the Soviet Union. FDR began sending military aid to the the Soviet Union, sending two billion dollars in war material before Pearl Harbor. Most Americans opposed Communism, yet Roosevelt sent Stalin two billion in weapons.
In August 1941 the U.S. was still at peace, FDR secretly met Winston Churchill in the north Atlantic on a British Battleship and established the "Atlantic Charter." The Atlantic Charter called for "free trade, self-governed nations and military disarmament." But Roosevelt and Churchill made plans to pull America into the war ignoring of what the American public wanted. The Atlantic Charter proved to be a joke. India and the Philippines somehow never got "self-determination" under Churchill and Roosevelt. The "free trade" provision was violated in just a few months when FDR ordered an embargo of scrap iron and oil against Japan. FDR was arming America to the teeth and reinstating the draft in despite to his call for "military disarmament."
The truth always comes out in the long run, and the more truth that comes out, the worse FDR looks. Two incidents were well known from 1941, which involved German submarines torpedoing U.S. destroyers. FDR had ordered US destroyers to hunt down German U-Boats. If the American destroyer sunk the U-Boat, it was covered up. If the U-Boat defended itself and sunk the American destroyer, the Germans portrayed it as an “unprovoked” hostile action. FDR traded the lives of American sailors on a destroyer for a chance to get into World War Two.
FDR discovered another way to World War Two by way of Japan. In July of 1941, Japanese assets in England and America were frozen, illegally confiscating Japanese property. Churchill and FDR cutting off 90% of Japan’s oil supply and 75% of its foreign trade, also imposed a trade embargo. During a meeting with Churchill in August of 1941, Roosevelt made an agreement with Churchill to declare war on Japan if Japan invaded British or Dutch colonies in Asia. On November 26th, 1941, FDR's Secretary of State Cordell Hull delivered an ultimatum to Japan; dictating what policies Japan must follow.
FDR approved a CIA operation in April 1941 to allow American fighter pilots to transfer to the "Flying Tigers" squadron to fight the Japanese in China. The CIA actually recruited fighter pilots from aircraft carriers and fighter bases during peacetime. The first pilots arrived in China in September 1941. The Flying Tigers had every intention of waging war on Japan whether war officially broke out or not.
Before the Pearl Harbor attack, 80% of Americans opposed getting involved in World Two. And FDR had covertly sent massive military aid to the English and the Soviets and did everything possible to ignore the interests of the majority of American citizens. FDR was another deceitful President. World War Two increasingly looks like a war that did not the highest interests of Americans.
It is clear that FDR and Churchill did all they could think of to get Japan to attack English or American Pacific islands.
On November 25, 1941 Japan’s Admiral Yamamoto sent a radio message to the group of Japanese warships that would attack Pearl Harbor on December 7. Publicly released naval records prove that from November 17 to 25 the United States Navy intercepted eighty-three messages that Yamamoto sent to his carriers. Part of the November 25 message read: “...the task force, keeping its movements strictly secret and maintaining close guard against submarines and aircraft, shall advance into Hawaiian waters, and upon the very opening of hostilities shall attack the main force of the United States fleet in Hawaii and deal it a mortal blow...”
Since World War II many people (notably Gore Vidal) have claimed that Washington knew the attack was coming. When Thomas Dewey was running for president against Roosevelt in 1944 he discovered America’s ability to intercept Japan’s radio messages, and thought this knowledge would enable him to defeat FDR. Dewey planned a series of speeches charging FDR with foreknowledge of the attack. General George Marshall, then Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, persuaded Dewey not to make the speeches.
Japan’s naval leaders did not realize America had cracked their codes, and Dewey’s speeches could have revealed America’s code-breaking advantage. So, Dewey said nothing, and FDR was elected president for the fourth time.
Robert Stinnett, author of Day Of Deceit, provides the proof. Stinnett’s book is dedicated to Congressman John Moss, the author of America’s Freedom of Information Act. According to Stinnett, the answers to the secrets of Pearl Harbor can be found in the large number of documents he was able to attain through Freedom of Information Act requests. Cable after cable of decryptions, scores of military messages that America was intercepting, clearly showed that Japanese ships were preparing for war and heading straight for Hawaii. Stinnett, an author, journalist, and World War II veteran, spent sixteen years delving into the National Archives. He read over more than 200,000 documents, and conducted dozens of interviews. The research led Stinnet to this conclusion: FDR knew.
“Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars,” was Roosevelt’s campaign statement of 1940. He wasn’t being kidding. FDR’s military and State Department leaders agreed that a victorious Nazi Germany would threaten the national security of the United States. In White House meetings the strong feeling was that America needed a call to action. This is not what the public wanted, however. Again, eighty to ninety percent of the American people wanted nothing to do with another European war. According to Stinnett, FDR provoked Japan to attack the USA, let it happen at Pearl Harbor, and used it to lead the country into another war. Many who knew Roosevelt during that time hinted that FDR wasn’t being forthright about his intentions in Europe. After the attack, on the Sunday evening of December 7, 1941, Roosevelt had a brief meeting in the White House with Edward R. Murrow, the journalist, and William Donovan, the founder of the Office of Strategic Services. Later Donovan told an assistant that he believed FDR welcomed the attack and didn’t seem surprised. The only thing Roosevelt seemed to care about, Donovan felt, was if the public would now support a Declaration of War. In October 1940 FDR adopted a specific strategy to incite Japan to commit an overt act of war. Part of the strategy was to move America’s Pacific fleet out of California and anchor it in Pearl Harbor. Admiral James Richardson, the commander of the Pacific fleet, very strongly opposed keeping the ships in harm’s way in Hawaii. He expressed this to Roosevelt, and so the President relieved him of his command. Later Richardson quoted Roosevelt as saying: “Sooner or later the Japanese will commit an overt act against the United States and the nation will be willing to enter the war.”
If you believe that government conspiracies can’t possibly happen, Day Of Deceit proves otherwise. Stinnett’s well researched and documented book makes the case that the highest officials of the government—including the highest official—fooled and deceived millions of Americans about one of the most important days in the history of the country. It now is considered one of the most definitive book on the subject. Gore Vidal has said, “...Robert Stinnet has come up with most of the smoking guns. Day Of Deceit shows that the famous ‘surprise’ attack was no surprise to our war-minded rulers...” And John Toland, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the Pearl Harbor book, Infamy, said, “Step by step, Stinnett goes through the prelude to war, using new documents to reveal the terrible secrets that have never been disclosed to the public. It is disturbing that eleven presidents, including those I admired, kept the truth from the public until Stinnett’s Freedom of Information Act requests finally persuaded the Navy to release the evidence.”
Labels: government, politics, war and money
Friday, October 24, 2008
DO THE RIGHT THING
I am disabled and once a week I go to the St. Ann’s Center for Intergenerational Care for therapy. The Center is a microcosim of American diversity. There are people of every race, skin color, age, Religion and income level who are staff, volunteers and clients.
One married couple I met there, who happen to be middle aged African Americans, and I were talking about the presidential campaign. We all supported Obama for President. We all also agreed that the main fear of Obama was American Racism. It will be a miracle if racism does not destroy our very troubled nation.
One of my online friends responded to one of my recent blogs.
I have always found her blog entries very well written, interesting and compelling.
She has a very young son, and is married.
I have two young adult daughters and am divorced.
I am literally old enough to be her father.
I am not implying that my age makes me anything better or worse than anyone.
I do think, however, know that my political life experience during the illegal, criminal and senseless Vietnamese invasion has fundamentally shaped my actions, decisions, values and judgement.
John McCain was a Navy pilot in that illegal military action.
Our government threatened me with prosecution and prison if I refused to serve in the military.
I refused and the government did nothing.
I have made many mistakes in life, but that was not one of them.
I am happy, even proud of my actions.
History (even the architect of the war and admitted war criminal Robert S. McNamara agreed) that I did the right thing, while too many (including john McCain) did the wrong thing.
Even today I would reuse to be trained to kill strangers in a foreign land.
John McCain killed peasants fighting for their own nation.
He delivered death from above in his multi-million dollar war plane.
There is no denying that the Vietnamese invasion was about conflict between the USA and China, and that the peasants who shot down his warplane had been armed by the Chinese government.
But John McCain liked to ditch his multimillion dollar warplanes for the fun of it.
He did it 3 other times back in the USA.
McCain was never a "maverick", war hero (he never has served in an actual declared war) and was a foolish, angry, adulterous, bigamist, pathological liar and sociopath.
He remains an untreated mentally ill man.
His illness is officially recognized by professional psychologists as Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD). He displays all the symptoms.
http://www.mydd.com/story/2008/9/14/9551/68488
For an in depth, well researched article on John McCain online, see:
http://tinyurl.com/3toabc
My online friend and I differ politically.
However I agree with her thought,
"We need to vote wisely."
These are perilous times for our nation and for the world.
Economically (recession/depression),
environmentally (global warming, polluting our home - the earth, food shortages)
and politically (the American invasions, nuclear arms and power conflicts, America's enormous debt to fund the invasions, worlrd wide terrorist attack and civil wars).
I do not think John McCain, another dangerous, mentally deranged and incompetent former war criminal, should be elected to lead us during these historically chaotic and dangerous times.
Unfortunately in less than two weeks we will be faced with only two individuals to choose from. I have already voted. I chose to vote for Hope, Education, Problem Solving , Intelligence, Critical Thinking, Honesty and Our Best Chance. I am not trying to tell you how to vote.
I am asking you to do the right thing.
Here is a well written editorial that makes a strong case.
October 24, 2008
EDITORIAL from the New York Times
BARACK OBAMA FOR PRESIDENT
Hyperbole is the currency of presidential campaigns, but this year the nation’s future truly hangs in the balance.
The United States is battered and drifting after eight years of President Bush’s failed leadership. He is saddling his successor with two wars, a scarred global image and a government systematically stripped of its ability to protect and help its citizens — whether they are fleeing a hurricane’s floodwaters, searching for affordable health care or struggling to hold on to their homes, jobs, savings and pensions in the midst of a financial crisis that was foretold and preventable.
As tough as the times are, the selection of a new president is easy. After nearly two years of a grueling and ugly campaign, Senator Barack Obama of Illinois has proved that he is the right choice to be the 44th president of the United States.
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Mr. Obama has met challenge after challenge, growing as a leader and putting real flesh on his early promises of hope and change. He has shown a cool head and sound judgment. We believe he has the will and the ability to forge the broad political consensus that is essential to finding solutions to this nation’s problems.
In the same time, Senator John McCain of Arizona has retreated farther and farther to the fringe of American politics, running a campaign on partisan division, class warfare and even hints of racism. His policies and worldview are mired in the past. His choice of a running mate so evidently unfit for the office was a final act of opportunism and bad judgment that eclipsed the accomplishments of 26 years in Congress.
Given the particularly ugly nature of Mr. McCain’s campaign, the urge to choose on the basis of raw emotion is strong. But there is a greater value in looking closely at the facts of life in America today and at the prescriptions the candidates offer. The differences are profound.
Mr. McCain offers more of the Republican every-man-for-himself ideology, now lying in shards on Wall Street and in Americans’ bank accounts. Mr. Obama has another vision of government’s role and responsibilities.
In his convention speech in Denver, Mr. Obama said, “Government cannot solve all our problems, but what it should do is that which we cannot do for ourselves: protect us from harm and provide every child a decent education; keep our water clean and our toys safe; invest in new schools and new roads and new science and technology.”
Since the financial crisis, he has correctly identified the abject failure of government regulation that has brought the markets to the brink of collapse.
The Economy
The American financial system is the victim of decades of Republican deregulatory and anti-tax policies. Those ideas have been proved wrong at an unfathomable price, but Mr. McCain — a self-proclaimed “foot soldier in the Reagan revolution” — is still a believer.
Mr. Obama sees that far-reaching reforms will be needed to protect Americans and American business.
Mr. McCain talks about reform a lot, but his vision is pinched. His answer to any economic question is to eliminate pork-barrel spending — about $18 billion in a $3 trillion budget — cut taxes and wait for unfettered markets to solve the problem.
Mr. Obama is clear that the nation’s tax structure must be changed to make it fairer. That means the well-off Americans who have benefited disproportionately from Mr. Bush’s tax cuts will have to pay some more. Working Americans, who have seen their standard of living fall and their children’s options narrow, will benefit. Mr. Obama wants to raise the minimum wage and tie it to inflation, restore a climate in which workers are able to organize unions if they wish and expand educational opportunities.
Mr. McCain, who once opposed President Bush’s tax cuts for the wealthy as fiscally irresponsible, now wants to make them permanent. And while he talks about keeping taxes low for everyone, his proposed cuts would overwhelmingly benefit the top 1 percent of Americans while digging the country into a deeper fiscal hole.
National Security
The American military — its people and equipment — is dangerously overstretched. Mr. Bush has neglected the necessary war in Afghanistan, which now threatens to spiral into defeat. The unnecessary and staggeringly costly war in Iraq must be ended as quickly and responsibly as possible.
While Iraq’s leaders insist on a swift drawdown of American troops and a deadline for the end of the occupation, Mr. McCain is still talking about some ill-defined “victory.” As a result, he has offered no real plan for extracting American troops and limiting any further damage to Iraq and its neighbors.
Mr. Obama was an early and thoughtful opponent of the war in Iraq, and he has presented a military and diplomatic plan for withdrawing American forces. Mr. Obama also has correctly warned that until the Pentagon starts pulling troops out of Iraq, there will not be enough troops to defeat the Taliban and Al Qaeda in Afghanistan.
Mr. McCain, like Mr. Bush, has only belatedly focused on Afghanistan’s dangerous unraveling and the threat that neighboring Pakistan may quickly follow.
Mr. Obama would have a learning curve on foreign affairs, but he has already showed sounder judgment than his opponent on these critical issues. His choice of Senator Joseph Biden — who has deep foreign-policy expertise — as his running mate is another sign of that sound judgment. Mr. McCain’s long interest in foreign policy and the many dangers this country now faces make his choice of Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska more irresponsible.
Both presidential candidates talk about strengthening alliances in Europe and Asia, including NATO, and strongly support Israel. Both candidates talk about repairing America’s image in the world. But it seems clear to us that Mr. Obama is far more likely to do that — and not just because the first black president would present a new American face to the world.
Mr. Obama wants to reform the United Nations, while Mr. McCain wants to create a new entity, the League of Democracies — a move that would incite even fiercer anti-American furies around the world.
Unfortunately, Mr. McCain, like Mr. Bush, sees the world as divided into friends (like Georgia) and adversaries (like Russia). He proposed kicking Russia out of the Group of 8 industrialized nations even before the invasion of Georgia. We have no sympathy for Moscow’s bullying, but we also have no desire to replay the cold war. The United States must find a way to constrain the Russians’ worst impulses, while preserving the ability to work with them on arms control and other vital initiatives.
Both candidates talk tough on terrorism, and neither has ruled out military action to end Iran’s nuclear weapons program. But Mr. Obama has called for a serious effort to try to wean Tehran from its nuclear ambitions with more credible diplomatic overtures and tougher sanctions. Mr. McCain’s willingness to joke about bombing Iran was frightening.
The Constitution and the Rule of Law
Under Mr. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the justice system and the separation of powers have come under relentless attack. Mr. Bush chose to exploit the tragedy of Sept. 11, 2001, the moment in which he looked like the president of a unified nation, to try to place himself above the law.
Mr. Bush has arrogated the power to imprison men without charges and browbeat Congress into granting an unfettered authority to spy on Americans. He has created untold numbers of “black” programs, including secret prisons and outsourced torture. The president has issued hundreds, if not thousands, of secret orders. We fear it will take years of forensic research to discover how many basic rights have been violated.
Both candidates have renounced torture and are committed to closing the prison camp in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
But Mr. Obama has gone beyond that, promising to identify and correct Mr. Bush’s attacks on the democratic system. Mr. McCain has been silent on the subject.
Mr. McCain improved protections for detainees. But then he helped the White House push through the appalling Military Commissions Act of 2006, which denied detainees the right to a hearing in a real court and put Washington in conflict with the Geneva Conventions, greatly increasing the risk to American troops.
The next president will have the chance to appoint one or more justices to a Supreme Court that is on the brink of being dominated by a radical right wing. Mr. Obama may appoint less liberal judges than some of his followers might like, but Mr. McCain is certain to pick rigid ideologues. He has said he would never appoint a judge who believes in women’s reproductive rights.
The Candidates
It will be an enormous challenge just to get the nation back to where it was before Mr. Bush, to begin to mend its image in the world and to restore its self-confidence and its self-respect. Doing all of that, and leading America forward, will require strength of will, character and intellect, sober judgment and a cool, steady hand.
Mr. Obama has those qualities in abundance. Watching him being tested in the campaign has long since erased the reservations that led us to endorse Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton in the Democratic primaries. He has drawn in legions of new voters with powerful messages of hope and possibility and calls for shared sacrifice and social responsibility.
Mr. McCain, whom we chose as the best Republican nominee in the primaries, has spent the last coins of his reputation for principle and sound judgment to placate the limitless demands and narrow vision of the far-right wing. His righteous fury at being driven out of the 2000 primaries on a racist tide aimed at his adopted daughter has been replaced by a zealous embrace of those same win-at-all-costs tactics and tacticians.
He surrendered his standing as an independent thinker in his rush to embrace Mr. Bush’s misbegotten tax policies and to abandon his leadership position on climate change and immigration reform.
Mr. McCain could have seized the high ground on energy and the environment. Earlier in his career, he offered the first plausible bill to control America’s emissions of greenhouse gases. Now his positions are a caricature of that record: think Ms. Palin leading chants of “drill, baby, drill.”
Mr. Obama has endorsed some offshore drilling, but as part of a comprehensive strategy including big investments in new, clean technologies.
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Mr. Obama has withstood some of the toughest campaign attacks ever mounted against a candidate. He’s been called un-American and accused of hiding a secret Islamic faith. The Republicans have linked him to domestic terrorists and questioned his wife’s love of her country. Ms. Palin has also questioned millions of Americans’ patriotism, calling Republican-leaning states “pro-America.”
This politics of fear, division and character assassination helped Mr. Bush drive Mr. McCain from the 2000 Republican primaries and defeat Senator John Kerry in 2004. It has been the dominant theme of his failed presidency.
The nation’s problems are simply too grave to be reduced to slashing “robo-calls” and negative ads. This country needs sensible leadership, compassionate leadership, honest leadership and strong leadership. Barack Obama has shown that he has all of those qualities.
One married couple I met there, who happen to be middle aged African Americans, and I were talking about the presidential campaign. We all supported Obama for President. We all also agreed that the main fear of Obama was American Racism. It will be a miracle if racism does not destroy our very troubled nation.
One of my online friends responded to one of my recent blogs.
I have always found her blog entries very well written, interesting and compelling.
She has a very young son, and is married.
I have two young adult daughters and am divorced.
I am literally old enough to be her father.
I am not implying that my age makes me anything better or worse than anyone.
I do think, however, know that my political life experience during the illegal, criminal and senseless Vietnamese invasion has fundamentally shaped my actions, decisions, values and judgement.
John McCain was a Navy pilot in that illegal military action.
Our government threatened me with prosecution and prison if I refused to serve in the military.
I refused and the government did nothing.
I have made many mistakes in life, but that was not one of them.
I am happy, even proud of my actions.
History (even the architect of the war and admitted war criminal Robert S. McNamara agreed) that I did the right thing, while too many (including john McCain) did the wrong thing.
Even today I would reuse to be trained to kill strangers in a foreign land.
John McCain killed peasants fighting for their own nation.
He delivered death from above in his multi-million dollar war plane.
There is no denying that the Vietnamese invasion was about conflict between the USA and China, and that the peasants who shot down his warplane had been armed by the Chinese government.
But John McCain liked to ditch his multimillion dollar warplanes for the fun of it.
He did it 3 other times back in the USA.
McCain was never a "maverick", war hero (he never has served in an actual declared war) and was a foolish, angry, adulterous, bigamist, pathological liar and sociopath.
He remains an untreated mentally ill man.
His illness is officially recognized by professional psychologists as Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD). He displays all the symptoms.
http://www.mydd.com/story/2008/9/14/9551/68488
For an in depth, well researched article on John McCain online, see:
http://tinyurl.com/3toabc
My online friend and I differ politically.
However I agree with her thought,
"We need to vote wisely."
These are perilous times for our nation and for the world.
Economically (recession/depression),
environmentally (global warming, polluting our home - the earth, food shortages)
and politically (the American invasions, nuclear arms and power conflicts, America's enormous debt to fund the invasions, worlrd wide terrorist attack and civil wars).
I do not think John McCain, another dangerous, mentally deranged and incompetent former war criminal, should be elected to lead us during these historically chaotic and dangerous times.
Unfortunately in less than two weeks we will be faced with only two individuals to choose from. I have already voted. I chose to vote for Hope, Education, Problem Solving , Intelligence, Critical Thinking, Honesty and Our Best Chance. I am not trying to tell you how to vote.
I am asking you to do the right thing.
Here is a well written editorial that makes a strong case.
October 24, 2008
EDITORIAL from the New York Times
BARACK OBAMA FOR PRESIDENT
Hyperbole is the currency of presidential campaigns, but this year the nation’s future truly hangs in the balance.
The United States is battered and drifting after eight years of President Bush’s failed leadership. He is saddling his successor with two wars, a scarred global image and a government systematically stripped of its ability to protect and help its citizens — whether they are fleeing a hurricane’s floodwaters, searching for affordable health care or struggling to hold on to their homes, jobs, savings and pensions in the midst of a financial crisis that was foretold and preventable.
As tough as the times are, the selection of a new president is easy. After nearly two years of a grueling and ugly campaign, Senator Barack Obama of Illinois has proved that he is the right choice to be the 44th president of the United States.
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Mr. Obama has met challenge after challenge, growing as a leader and putting real flesh on his early promises of hope and change. He has shown a cool head and sound judgment. We believe he has the will and the ability to forge the broad political consensus that is essential to finding solutions to this nation’s problems.
In the same time, Senator John McCain of Arizona has retreated farther and farther to the fringe of American politics, running a campaign on partisan division, class warfare and even hints of racism. His policies and worldview are mired in the past. His choice of a running mate so evidently unfit for the office was a final act of opportunism and bad judgment that eclipsed the accomplishments of 26 years in Congress.
Given the particularly ugly nature of Mr. McCain’s campaign, the urge to choose on the basis of raw emotion is strong. But there is a greater value in looking closely at the facts of life in America today and at the prescriptions the candidates offer. The differences are profound.
Mr. McCain offers more of the Republican every-man-for-himself ideology, now lying in shards on Wall Street and in Americans’ bank accounts. Mr. Obama has another vision of government’s role and responsibilities.
In his convention speech in Denver, Mr. Obama said, “Government cannot solve all our problems, but what it should do is that which we cannot do for ourselves: protect us from harm and provide every child a decent education; keep our water clean and our toys safe; invest in new schools and new roads and new science and technology.”
Since the financial crisis, he has correctly identified the abject failure of government regulation that has brought the markets to the brink of collapse.
The Economy
The American financial system is the victim of decades of Republican deregulatory and anti-tax policies. Those ideas have been proved wrong at an unfathomable price, but Mr. McCain — a self-proclaimed “foot soldier in the Reagan revolution” — is still a believer.
Mr. Obama sees that far-reaching reforms will be needed to protect Americans and American business.
Mr. McCain talks about reform a lot, but his vision is pinched. His answer to any economic question is to eliminate pork-barrel spending — about $18 billion in a $3 trillion budget — cut taxes and wait for unfettered markets to solve the problem.
Mr. Obama is clear that the nation’s tax structure must be changed to make it fairer. That means the well-off Americans who have benefited disproportionately from Mr. Bush’s tax cuts will have to pay some more. Working Americans, who have seen their standard of living fall and their children’s options narrow, will benefit. Mr. Obama wants to raise the minimum wage and tie it to inflation, restore a climate in which workers are able to organize unions if they wish and expand educational opportunities.
Mr. McCain, who once opposed President Bush’s tax cuts for the wealthy as fiscally irresponsible, now wants to make them permanent. And while he talks about keeping taxes low for everyone, his proposed cuts would overwhelmingly benefit the top 1 percent of Americans while digging the country into a deeper fiscal hole.
National Security
The American military — its people and equipment — is dangerously overstretched. Mr. Bush has neglected the necessary war in Afghanistan, which now threatens to spiral into defeat. The unnecessary and staggeringly costly war in Iraq must be ended as quickly and responsibly as possible.
While Iraq’s leaders insist on a swift drawdown of American troops and a deadline for the end of the occupation, Mr. McCain is still talking about some ill-defined “victory.” As a result, he has offered no real plan for extracting American troops and limiting any further damage to Iraq and its neighbors.
Mr. Obama was an early and thoughtful opponent of the war in Iraq, and he has presented a military and diplomatic plan for withdrawing American forces. Mr. Obama also has correctly warned that until the Pentagon starts pulling troops out of Iraq, there will not be enough troops to defeat the Taliban and Al Qaeda in Afghanistan.
Mr. McCain, like Mr. Bush, has only belatedly focused on Afghanistan’s dangerous unraveling and the threat that neighboring Pakistan may quickly follow.
Mr. Obama would have a learning curve on foreign affairs, but he has already showed sounder judgment than his opponent on these critical issues. His choice of Senator Joseph Biden — who has deep foreign-policy expertise — as his running mate is another sign of that sound judgment. Mr. McCain’s long interest in foreign policy and the many dangers this country now faces make his choice of Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska more irresponsible.
Both presidential candidates talk about strengthening alliances in Europe and Asia, including NATO, and strongly support Israel. Both candidates talk about repairing America’s image in the world. But it seems clear to us that Mr. Obama is far more likely to do that — and not just because the first black president would present a new American face to the world.
Mr. Obama wants to reform the United Nations, while Mr. McCain wants to create a new entity, the League of Democracies — a move that would incite even fiercer anti-American furies around the world.
Unfortunately, Mr. McCain, like Mr. Bush, sees the world as divided into friends (like Georgia) and adversaries (like Russia). He proposed kicking Russia out of the Group of 8 industrialized nations even before the invasion of Georgia. We have no sympathy for Moscow’s bullying, but we also have no desire to replay the cold war. The United States must find a way to constrain the Russians’ worst impulses, while preserving the ability to work with them on arms control and other vital initiatives.
Both candidates talk tough on terrorism, and neither has ruled out military action to end Iran’s nuclear weapons program. But Mr. Obama has called for a serious effort to try to wean Tehran from its nuclear ambitions with more credible diplomatic overtures and tougher sanctions. Mr. McCain’s willingness to joke about bombing Iran was frightening.
The Constitution and the Rule of Law
Under Mr. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the justice system and the separation of powers have come under relentless attack. Mr. Bush chose to exploit the tragedy of Sept. 11, 2001, the moment in which he looked like the president of a unified nation, to try to place himself above the law.
Mr. Bush has arrogated the power to imprison men without charges and browbeat Congress into granting an unfettered authority to spy on Americans. He has created untold numbers of “black” programs, including secret prisons and outsourced torture. The president has issued hundreds, if not thousands, of secret orders. We fear it will take years of forensic research to discover how many basic rights have been violated.
Both candidates have renounced torture and are committed to closing the prison camp in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
But Mr. Obama has gone beyond that, promising to identify and correct Mr. Bush’s attacks on the democratic system. Mr. McCain has been silent on the subject.
Mr. McCain improved protections for detainees. But then he helped the White House push through the appalling Military Commissions Act of 2006, which denied detainees the right to a hearing in a real court and put Washington in conflict with the Geneva Conventions, greatly increasing the risk to American troops.
The next president will have the chance to appoint one or more justices to a Supreme Court that is on the brink of being dominated by a radical right wing. Mr. Obama may appoint less liberal judges than some of his followers might like, but Mr. McCain is certain to pick rigid ideologues. He has said he would never appoint a judge who believes in women’s reproductive rights.
The Candidates
It will be an enormous challenge just to get the nation back to where it was before Mr. Bush, to begin to mend its image in the world and to restore its self-confidence and its self-respect. Doing all of that, and leading America forward, will require strength of will, character and intellect, sober judgment and a cool, steady hand.
Mr. Obama has those qualities in abundance. Watching him being tested in the campaign has long since erased the reservations that led us to endorse Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton in the Democratic primaries. He has drawn in legions of new voters with powerful messages of hope and possibility and calls for shared sacrifice and social responsibility.
Mr. McCain, whom we chose as the best Republican nominee in the primaries, has spent the last coins of his reputation for principle and sound judgment to placate the limitless demands and narrow vision of the far-right wing. His righteous fury at being driven out of the 2000 primaries on a racist tide aimed at his adopted daughter has been replaced by a zealous embrace of those same win-at-all-costs tactics and tacticians.
He surrendered his standing as an independent thinker in his rush to embrace Mr. Bush’s misbegotten tax policies and to abandon his leadership position on climate change and immigration reform.
Mr. McCain could have seized the high ground on energy and the environment. Earlier in his career, he offered the first plausible bill to control America’s emissions of greenhouse gases. Now his positions are a caricature of that record: think Ms. Palin leading chants of “drill, baby, drill.”
Mr. Obama has endorsed some offshore drilling, but as part of a comprehensive strategy including big investments in new, clean technologies.
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Mr. Obama has withstood some of the toughest campaign attacks ever mounted against a candidate. He’s been called un-American and accused of hiding a secret Islamic faith. The Republicans have linked him to domestic terrorists and questioned his wife’s love of her country. Ms. Palin has also questioned millions of Americans’ patriotism, calling Republican-leaning states “pro-America.”
This politics of fear, division and character assassination helped Mr. Bush drive Mr. McCain from the 2000 Republican primaries and defeat Senator John Kerry in 2004. It has been the dominant theme of his failed presidency.
The nation’s problems are simply too grave to be reduced to slashing “robo-calls” and negative ads. This country needs sensible leadership, compassionate leadership, honest leadership and strong leadership. Barack Obama has shown that he has all of those qualities.
Wednesday, October 08, 2008
A FUNNY THING HAPPENED TO ME ON THE WAY TO THE ELECTION
THE SCHEDULED DEBATES
WERE REPLACED BY BAD POLITICS
AS SEEN ON BAD UNREALITY TV
WERE REPLACED BY BAD POLITICS
AS SEEN ON BAD UNREALITY TV
Angry, Bitter, Retired Tommy Mushmouth.
Bad toupée, worse diction, lame newsreading talking head, faux journalist,
incompetant moderator,
who thinks he is Brett Favre (still wants to play) even though he never had an "A" game.
The Angry, Bitter, McCain campaign hand-picked Tom Brokaw
to moderate the October 7 debate.
Will the third and final Presidential Debate on Wednesday, October 15 th, at Hofstra University, be an actual debate, or another Looney Tunes, Tex Avery, Chuck Jones style absurdist comedy romp where ElmerFudd McCain and Bugs Bunny Obama fiddle as America's revolutionary democracy burns, Silly Sara Palin plays the flute and Say-It Ain't So Joe Biden runs into the fire trying to save the Constitution for our kids?
I guess it all comes down to this guy.
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Saturday, October 04, 2008
NEXT PRESIDENT? YOU HAVE BASICALLY TWO CHOICES.
THE SOCIOPATH OR THE OTHER GUY...
Suggestion: do not read this just before or after eating. It may make you feel like throwing up - m
A VIDEO THAT TELLS IT LIKE IT IS
Make-Believe Maverick
A closer look at the life and career of John McCain reveals
a disturbing record of recklessness and dishonesty
The Double-Talk Express
From tax cuts to torture, John McCain has flip-flopped on a host of issues
- including his own immigration bill
Mad Dog Palin
The scariest thing about John McCain's running mate isn't how unqualified she is
- it's what her candidacy says about America
Suggestion: do not read this just before or after eating. It may make you feel like throwing up - m
A VIDEO THAT TELLS IT LIKE IT ISMake-Believe Maverick
A closer look at the life and career of John McCain reveals
a disturbing record of recklessness and dishonesty
The Double-Talk Express
From tax cuts to torture, John McCain has flip-flopped on a host of issues
- including his own immigration bill
Mad Dog Palin
The scariest thing about John McCain's running mate isn't how unqualified she is
- it's what her candidacy says about America
LISTEN TO THIS MAN
Don't listen to Bush or his crew of crooks.
Don't listen to Banks & Wall Street thieves.
Don't listen to the Presidential Candidates or other political puppets of the wealthy thieves.
Instead:
No bailout necessary ~ economist Dean Baker PhD
Don't listen to Banks & Wall Street thieves.
Don't listen to the Presidential Candidates or other political puppets of the wealthy thieves.
Instead:
No bailout necessary ~ economist Dean Baker PhD
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