Neocon Fantasies of Empire Crushed: the New Global Reality

Hey, that's what I'd do as president ! Well, another sausage pizza for breakfast ! LOL !

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Obama is Necon 2.0. He's just as enamored of military violence to solve problems as Bush. Yes, he's more articulate and says nice sounding things, but he's still committed to massive military overspending, a vast archipelago of bases, permanent occupation of Iraq, fomenting unrest and anarchy in Pakistan, violation of the Geneva Conventions and the Convention on Torture, and the rest of the neocon agenda.

So to answer the author's question about the best thing Obama can do: Have Kucinich made Speaker of the House, and then resign along with Biden. That should do it.

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Keep his word. Now that would be revolutionary. And start being a lot less ambiguous.

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Obama is playing a stalling game while the world marches on. The same old faces dominate key diplomatic positions around the world and the rest of the world knows it ... they aren't fooled one iota.

Obama is hoping Geithner, Summers and Bernanke can pull off a miracle here at home to get our economy at least sputtering along instead of rolling backwards down the hill.

The rest of the world blames the U.S. for the economic meltdown, and, they are right. Our housing bubble based bad loans chopped into little pieces have shown up all over the world.

The one thing the U.S. has going for it is that Europe and Japan are playing the same neoliberal games we are. They too are counting on colonial financing to leverage cheap commodity prices. They too need the IMF and World Bank.

The dollar isn't strong because we are healthy, it is strong because all the debt from developing countries is denominated in dollars... As soon as these countries can get away from these dollar loans they will do so. Then we shall see what the dollar is worth.

The American Empire is in decline by every measure ... the worst of it is that we are being eaten from within by the financial oligarchy and the politicians they own ... There is No planned deviation on our trip down the road to serfdom, there are no adjustments to our trajectory which means the path will be littered with failure ...

Britain managed to shrink somewhat gracefully from their Empire always knowing that they would be, if they cooperated, completely protected by the U.S. When the U.S. has to demure there is no Big Brother waiting in the wings to give shelter.

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...only he speaks better and still says nothing of substance.

I hope those of your who swallowed the Obama Kool-Aide platitudes are now realizing that this man is a corporate whore, bought and paid for by corporate pimps.

He has done little to be proud of on the progressive front and worse yet, he does not know what he stands for...say what you want about the Shrub and company...at least you knew what they stood for and what they were going to do to this country.

Obama, on the other hand acts like a wimp and tries to play nice, while they are eating his lunch.

Until people realize that this is a war for the heart and soul for this country and should be fought as such, the neoconazis will win, hands down. THEY do know how to fight.

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Disastrous wars? For whom?
Yes, disastrous for the Iraqis and Afghanis, and for Americans fighting there. Yes, the wars have decimated our national treasury.
But for the Neocons, all of this is "so what?".
The wars were perfect successes!
We maintain control over Iraq, no matter how horrible it all has been for Iraqis. Huge bases that we can keep forever. The place is open for be corporate business. The oil is under control. There is more security for Israel.
In Afghanistan, we have huge bases and continuing war and a launching pad for even more war.
9/11 has been a success. They brought us 9/11, and their goals have been accomplished.

Don't like all of this? Then don't just yap and complain and whine. DO something about it. Alternet and the rest of the alternative media could quickly turn all of it around and get us completely out of those countries...............expose the lies of 9/11. Have many articles about the evidence that 9/11 was an inside job. The facts are there, and the work has been largely done: David Ray Griffin and Steven Jones and Kevin Ryan and Richard Gage and others have done masterful jobs at analyzing and proving the complicity of our government.
But Alternet ignores ALL of it, and has for seven and a half years, along with all of the rest of the media. Why? We don't know exactly. Pressures, threats, nobody knows.

But it is clear that there has been a conspiracy by journalists to avoid this topic. Seven and a half years, the biggest story of all time goes unexamined by the American press. SOMETHING is going on!

So stop yapping and start exposing, Alternet! Save the world you pretend to care so much about. Tell us what really happend on 9/11 and get a new investigation going.

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Much of the neocons' love of military action stems from their complete inability to practise diplomacy.

Neocons don't do diplomacy. As you've probably noticed, neocons have severe problems with social judgment and impulse control. Even neocons don't like other neocons.

If you add their powerful xemonphobia, you quickly realize that neocons can't do diplomacy anymore than they could run a clean political campaign. It's simply not in their nature.

That's probably why we lost all our allies of consequence under Bush II. And world terrorism tripled. And our military is on its knees. And so on.

Of course, Obama vastly increased America's standing in the world merely by taking office, so one presumes he will at least have the option of trying diplomacy. Even if he's a neocon at heart, Obama may at least do the job somewhat competently. Despite complaints, appointing Clinton people to key offices was an excellent start.


Right Will Eat Itself

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It's impossible to be too cynical about U.S. carny "leadership" simulated by the likes of tinsel show puppet Obama, a false media establishment and the Washington corporate follies.

The drawn out essay by the author above sheds nothing on a crisis of skin-deep faux “leadership”. There is even less light when it comes to answers to the present or future of a zombie American Empire gone stone mad and drunk on its own power.

Here’s the rub: The whole DC-media asylum is run by police state industrial felons that create phony “war on terror” and meltdowns to bail out their own "too big to fail" gang that created the insanity to begin with. By now it’s obvious the criminals that let “too-little-to-save” America burn under the mob fire they set only care for their own police state power grab. That’s all the reality anyone needs to know about the status quo “system”.

To see sellout corporate shill media hacks like the round table frauds on “Meet the Press”, etc, quack out their usual BS is the kicker. These are the worst of the worst – an entire roost of well-paid dirtbags where job one has got to be to keep Americans asleep, docile and mindless about their own future. STEVEN PEARLSTEIN “Business Columnist, Washington Post” is typical of what passes for a media “expert” on the latest Wall Street created meltdown and American power:

“You know, we can't, we can't rescue the economy without rescuing the banking system, and you can't rescue the banking system without rescuing banks. And people got to get over it, you know… But we ought to really--you know, if the banks are getting healthy, we should--that's a good thing for us. And we've got to get over this thing, "Well, if it's good for them, it's, it's bad for us." We are all in this together. We own the--part of the banks now, so as shareholders maybe we would be cheering the fact that they made a profit.”

Sweet huh?

So who cares that the whole private run “Fed” Corp “too big to fail” banking system is a Ponzi kickback scheme built to shake down the country? Who cares if that fraud has been proven time after time? Not the media. According to these tinhorn shills “we can't rescue the economy without rescuing the banking system” that is more crooked than a mob extortion racket. Never mind reform. Of course we should also forget that torture scam “war on terror” is another proven liar-fest for profit with all the rest.

Despite it all zombie Americans won't wake up. Not till it's too late. By then they'll agree to anything just so long as they can keep watching American Idol and Dancing with the Stars.

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REason no real Progressive ideas ahve been able to flourish in the last 30 yrs is not only due to the Overwhelming influence of the NeoCon Doctrine, but their Blind Allies on the left.
As a "Lefty" this has driven me Wild for decades. In fact the so called Left has often aided the Neocons merely by acting as their nemesis.At other times they work in tantum but claiming different motivators.
Example 'Act Up' helped lable AIDS as a purely Gay disease-not a nation/international threat to the blood supply. the more the gay community screamed and yelled 'They're Killing Us' the homophobes Cheered, allowing Reagan to Ignore it on 'Moral' grounds- a 'Judgement' for 'deviant' behavoir. Act Up helped create a resentment and at time a revulsion against a Disease which threaten all of us.
Example- Lefty protests at the WTO organization fed right into the paranoid delusion of those on the Right of A new World Order Controlled by Global entiities - aka the Submission of the US to the UN. In so doing Our gov't could reject working with other countries in unison to stablize and secure the Global Economy- which we are.
Example- Corn as Biofuel. What better way to Prove Fossil Fuels have a lesser impact on Humanity than to choose a Food Source as the 'new' energy source. Not only did corn cause widespread starvation due to pricing and reduced supply, but also aided in increasing Fossil Fuels to produce it.Wasn't any one curious on the Left as to Why the Energy Corps were so willing to begin convertions, put these tanks in every gas station. How many times have we been duped by the release of a 'new' product, only to have it go Obsolete within a short period of time- How many ran out to buy Beta, only to have VHS replace it in a wink of an eye.
Heres another Area the 'left' should spend more time contemplating beofre they play into the hands of the right and Corps. Electric as the next 'Great' energy source.It's not just the fact Coal & Water ways is used to generate much of the Electricity, Also the side effects associated with Power stations and Power lines.There is some evidence to suggest a higher incidence of Brain cancer is found in the areas surrounding these. Even if we run them underground we must ask what the effect will be on the Soil quality and the organisms which aid us in agriculture.
There is a reason Obama is steering away from the Far Right & Far Left, Their 'passions' often lack real insight or forethought, potentially Beaching US on a Shore for Decades.

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How long has it been since regime change?

LESS THAN 100 DAYS.

What do you people want?

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The war business is no different than any other American business that has grown so large that it can control government policies, regardless of the president. There will be peace on earth when peace is more profitable than war.

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Pouring any more valuable Time, Money, Resources or Attention on this parasitical Corpirate Corrupt System is detrimental to yours and this Planet’s health.


It's hanging on a thread
Of empty promises.
Stand aside and watch it slide.

Move quickly
To higher ground
Cash in your Federal Reserve notes and buy your family’s FREEDOM.
Invest in a sustainable, renewable, green, organic tomorrow.
Become self sufficient, self reliant and efficient.
Start in your own backyard.
By planting heirloom seeds
In a Victory Garden
Grow some chickens
Develop a trade
Use that garage full of stuff
To help build the tools we need
To survive this socially deprived economic and environmental mess!
The New Model is: Decentralize and Revitalize.
Forget the grid.
It is the pathway to failure.
Pour the resources into your own homes instead.
Eliminate The Middle Man.
Join the Micro-Democracy Revolution!

Go Local
Go GREEN
Go Organic

SURVIVE and Prosper!

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If Obama was a change agent, he would prosecute Bush Cheney for treason, mass murder, war crimes and financial fraud, he would open up a new independent investigation of 9/11, he would begin the end of the Federal Reserve Bank, he would change national election vote counting to an all paper ballot with no electronic transmissions of voting results and he would end the fake war on terror and stop all wars of aggression.

Unfortunately, he has no power to do any of this without risking his life. If you are interested in understanding where I am coming from, go to my website which is www.911insidejob.net.

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these are hybrids;faux scholarly scumbags who sunk the ship. Still in denial, one look at Emanuel is enough.

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So when I am Commander-in-Chief, I will set a new goal on Day One: I will end this war. Not because politics compels it. Not because our troops cannot bear the burden -- as heavy as it is. But because it is the right thing to do for our national security, and it will ultimately make us safer.
In order to end this war responsibly, I will immediately begin to remove our troops from Iraq. We can responsibly remove 1 to 2 combat brigades each month. If we start with the number of brigades we have in Iraq today, we can remove all of them 16 months. After this redeployment, we will leave enough troops in Iraq to guard our embassy and diplomats, and a counter- terrorism force to strike al Qaeda if it forms a base that the Iraqis cannot destroy. What I propose is not -- and never has been -- a precipitous drawdown. It is instead a detailed and prudent plan that will end a war nearly seven years after it started.


neocon what?
radical right what?

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After paying for over half of the World's military power to expand the empire's influence, where is the average taxpayer?

The ultimate financier of the empire is now buried in debt without any financial security. His or her job was sent to China or India in exchange for political infulence in those countries. Those who still have jobs find that their wages have been worth less and less over the last 30 years.

The American Empire has been a boon to the top 5%, but to the remaining 95% it has been all cost and little benefit.

While our infrastructure and economy crumble, trillions are spent for an empire that benefits only the wealthy and powerful.

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We have been going the way of all empires for many decades, and it shows painfully. Our economy is incapable of sustaining the huge military expenditures deemed necessary to feed New Rome, our standard of living has been in woeful decline, our prisons are bursting at the seams, despite privatizing them and building new incarceration facilities at breakneck speed, the value of our currency is only butressed by the fear buyers of US Treasuries have of their own countries' economic collapse. So, either nothing changes and we go to Hell in a handbasket, probably within a fairly foreseeable future, or a President truly concerned about our country initiates a necessary reversal of policies. I, for one, am not holding my breath.

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If you think the neocons are losing, I wouldn't be so sure. There are plenty of neoconservative Democrats as there are Republicans. And if that's not bad enough, let's talk about the neoliberals who are no better. Foreign policy for the last 48 years has been nothing but about war and corporate socialism. The neocons and the neolibs mutually rely on each other to keep the ruthless wars and slave trade deals going. And guess who benefits from wars and "free trade" ? Lieberman mentored Obama to keep this kind of tyranny alive. As a matter of fact, all throughout Obama's four years in the Senate, Obama has not only supported more war spending except for one spending bill and "free trade" pacts except for CAFTA, he has even gone on the television and attacked the anti-war folks and allowing the rightwing media to make a laughing stock of the base of the Democratic Party. Even on this forum, I notice a lot of folks imitating Obama's very arrogant behavior to the point of defending the neocons and their ruthless policies. Anyone who denies the fact that Obama is indeed a neocon shill needs serious counseling.

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Ron Paul for President and Peter Schiff for Secretary of Treasury!

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so its OK when Obama does it right?

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The US is not run by a meritocracy. The moniker for Super Power, Imperial Empire are cover for "Failure Is An Option" mentality.

The dire situation now challenging America is a complete introspective 180 degree turn from anachronistic systemic failures correlating 19th and 20th Century policy with 21st Century events. Change is not going to happen any time soon.

Myth of American Invincibility Omnipotent Wall Street
http://newsblaze.com/

http://21stcenturyreversepyramid.blogspot.com/

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Are we the people ready for a serious battle to shut down the Empire, close all the bases and bring the troops home? If Obama were to lead us down that path are we ready, willing and able to take his back, with the Republicans and the media baying for blood and using their power to "manufacture outrage" about God knows what? Do most of us even have access to good information about what's going on in the world?

No, we have some serious organizing to do, not least of which is building an alternative media that the millions will turn to, with our own foreign correspondents to give us a people's-eye view of the world. Even AlterNet readers are not well informed, as we sometimes discover. It has great writers, editors, thinkers; but imagine how the situation would be different if we were getting regular reports from AlterNet's South Asia correspondent, or better yet our own Pakistan correspondent? But as far as I can tell the alternative media are not yet even able to support a Capitol Hill reporter, as witness the fact that AlterNet didn't pick up on the House bill to authorize a naval blockade of Iran until three weeks after it was introduced and it already had 100 co-sponsors!

Obama is doing the right things for right now, lowering tensions, opening doors, defusing situations, and encouraging us to organize and develop the habit and ability to make ourselves heard in Washington. The test will come when we are able to *demand* more - with a voice that's millions strong, unity that is based on experience and good information, and a megaphone that can't be drowned out by Fox. (In this regard, making good use of the window Obama has opened to get the Employee Free Choice Act passed is absolutely key to laying the foundation for such a movement!)

When the time is right, Obama will either respond to our pressure and change directions, or we'll find a new leader. Perhaps he's only our John the Baptist; only time will tell. But even if it's the latter, we'll be building on ground he helped us prepare.

We have serious work to do for now: build the alternative media, inform, teach and organize the people, and build the pressure on Washington - and on Obama. As Joe Hill once said: "Don't kvetch, organize!" (Did he really say that?)

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The following sentence shows the COMPLETE INANITY of this article:

"There is little evidence to suggest that either the U.S. Treasury Department or the international financial institutions are capable of nurturing a truly democratic globalization."

Just where does the author think "global democracy" would lead? Maybe Islamic totalitarianism. . . Western concepts of "democracy" and "individual rights" would certainly NOT BE ON THE AGENDA!

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is a good and fascinating read, and I agree with his prescription for the present in his conclusion, but he fails to appreciate the depth of the economic crisis. When he talks about "now" and "later" he's apparently thinking in decades. I'm thinking years. A few years.

The crisis of Empire and of US hegemony will unfold rapidly, with unforeseen and dramatic turns of event. One thing can be predicted with some confidence however: other governments won't "decide" to replace the dollar as the world's currency; rather, there will at some point be a panic and a race for the exit!

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DEMS run around waiving their arms that about GITMO AND ABU-GARIB and torture while constantly hiding the fact that the USA confiscated in iraq from a taliban safe-house a torture manual with torture so severe it violates every CONVENTION in existence and that gets swept under the rug along with the fact that...

RIGHT NOW friend and foe here and overseas, want to subject the US MILITARY personnel to indictment and prosecution by the ICC.

GERMANY AND ITALY have actually already indicted US CIA agents for supposedly capturing radical islamic terriorists.

This is an infringement on our SOVEREIGNTY and a dagger aimed at our US MILITARY.

As a result, they may soon want to charge our troops overseas whom are fighting against terriorism, with trumped up "war crime" charges.

Charges like claiming Americans committed genocide, or claim we committed crimes against humanity. There's a leftist group in Paris, plus Argentina, Sweden, whom want to charge Rumsfeld for allegedly authorizing torture at Guantanamo bay, and abu Graib prison in Iraq claiming 1984 convention against torture, which FRANCE has used in previous torture cases.

it's really time to put the UN on notice that the days where the USA would mindlessly supply it with money, men, military equipment and blood without conditions are simply over.

In fact the latest---the new UN SEC GENERAL has already stipulated he wants NYC police officers to serve in UN peacekeeping mission in places like haiti, kosovo, and liberia.

here is one more reason why

CLINTON IN 2000 gave his blessing to the whole globalist thing on the UN "INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT (ICC). The DEMOCRATS all along want to make US citizens SERVANTS TO THE UN AS OUR GOVERNMENT instead of a country governed by WE THE PEOPLE.

Thankfully Bush saw the serious threat this Socialist star chamber posed to our military and he told them to stuff a sock in it. Apparantly at that time the UN was insulted by it. Although the REPUBLICANS tried twice to negotiate immunity for US peacekeepers thru the Sec Council.

Well, the anti-Americans at the UN wouldn't have any of it and the Abu Graib prison gave Kofi Annan the opening he wanted. The he tried to wrap himself in the human right mantle by claiming it would be unfotunate for someone to press for such an exemption given the prisoner abuse in Iraq.

We all know that if Mr. Amman really cared a thing about human rights he would have protested the revolving membership of certain countries with human rights track records. However, the Sanctimonious UN and Annan are always silent on the topic of human rights; except when it comes to taking cheap shots at the US

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What they are really after is for the US to submit to the will of the UN and it's International criminal court. What they want is for the US to relinquish it's SOVEREIGNTY relagating WE THE PEOPLE of the US to the status of servants to the UN INSTEAD of being governed by WE THE PEOPLE

THIS would for example entail that any USA person could be apprehended by local Muslim authorities for an offense, real or imagined slammed into the ICC and flown to the Hage, netherlands where they would rot for months waiting for trial and done ENTIRELY without due process. they would get not trial and no confronting of accusers, No protection from double jeopardy and no unanimous verdict for a conviction.

Take a second to THINK about this all of the globalists within and without the USA think the murderous Al Qaida terriorists should have these rights from way back before the 1990's and NOW... HOWEVER NOT OUR US SOLDIERS and NOT OUR US CITIZENS.

Even though we can't guarantee that no American soldier is ever taken prisoner by a foreighn state and put before the ICC, we at "least" make sure no US soldier and or civilian meets with this fate.

However, the ICC doesn't want to recognize the CONSTITUTIONAL rights that we as Americans are guaranteed. GET IT?? They too think our constitution is FLAWED.

Meanwhile the globalists Anti-American ICC supporters criticized Mr. Bush claiming we were "undermining international LAW, the reality, THEY were writing new INTERNATIONAL LAWS TO protect themselves.



RIGHT NOW --the GRINCHES at the UN want to create something called a TRANSNATIONAL TREATY where anything protecting our USA PUBLIC that happens in our courts that GOVERNMENT DOESN'T LIKE gets kicked out of court would be sent to THE UN whom will then OVERRIDE THE WILL OF AMERICAN PUBLIC and ENFORCE it's SHARIA LAW rule over this NATION.

Want to know WHAT were the "agreement on the Privileges and immunities of the ICC" ratified with the assent of ONLY 10 NATION--it flat out provides the ICC immunity from "every form of legal process anywhere".

**They stated that the "property, funds, and assets" of the ICC "shall be IMMUNE from search, seizure, requisition, confiscation, expropriation and any other form of interference. And, the ICC and it's assets they said "are to be exempt from all direct taxes" including local taxes and customs.

** Meantime they want to IMPOSE the GLOBAL POVERTY TAX which would most certainly bankrupt the USA; while they engage in the Socialist rhetoric of how we are "selfish" for not wanting to pay more taxes. This is their idea of spread the wealth. Notice the funds are always going someplace else instead of to the PUBLIC.

How many people don't know all throughout history the spread the wealth has always been used in facist/socialist/communist elections.



RIGHT NOW-- OBAMA AND DEMS are attempting to seek a seat at the SHARIA LAW UN and the DEMS want to PUT INTO EFFECT ---TRANSNATIONAL TREATY---what does thaaat mean?? it means anything that the PUBLIC decides in court that is beneficial to WE THE PUBLIC that the GOV doesn't like --it WILL get kicked out of all courts at all levels and be sent TO THE UN international court WHERE they will IMPOSE THE WILL OF SHARIA LAW/UN court on the AMERICAN PUBLIC.

OBAMA AND WASH DC SLUGS WANT TO once again endanger this country by FORCING the US under SERVANTHOOD to the U-NATION which is SHARIA LAW. This will DESTROY our CONSTITUTION and make it IMPOSSIBLE for the USA AMERICAN public to govern themselves. --always the bottom line isn't it??

Long and short of it----the ICC MEMBERS have declared themselves IMMUNE form "personal arrest or detention, Legal process of every kind and immigration restrictions.

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Wrong question. He can't do doodley-squat if we don't communicate with him (snail mail is best in my opinion), firmly but respectfully reminding him of his Constitutional requirements:
1. Overseeing JUSTICE. That includes the prosecution of the bush crime family. This is something Obama cannot and MUST NOT run away from.
2. No more whitewashing of the crooked finaglings and continued theft of our money and futures by banks, mortgage cos., insurance and drug racketeers, etc. Some of these crooks belong in JAIL, and now.
3. Seizure of the "energy" companies, and impoundment of their assets. How many more times do we have to hear or read about record quarterly profits, while the enviornmental degradation they cause continues unabated? Progress toward energy independence and a cleaner enviornment will NEVER happen if they continue to have a free rein.
4. Get us the hell out of Iraq and Afghanistan, NOW, and to hell with the phony baloney about the Taliban and Al Queda "threats" to our imaginary freedoms. Bin Laden is almost certainly dead, and was most likely NOT responsible for 911.
5. In conjunction with #4, pare down the military establishment to a managible size. Withdraw our military personnel from where they're not needed (or wanted). Remind knuckleheads like Saxby Chambliss that pissing away taxpayer money on overpriced crap like F22s is NOT the only way to a healthy economy.
The neocon slugs and their rethug stooges are striving mightily to destroy the Obama presidency, just as they did with Clinton. The truth is irrevalent with them, as they've already bragged about creating "reality" during bush's time in office. If they're allowed to, they'll eat Obama alive, and a promising prospect for real and enduring change will wither on the vine. Let's encourage our President while repeating our demands for justice and egality.

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Oh then then lastly, the "salaries, emoluments and allowances" of the judges prosecutor deputy prosecutor and the registras of the ICC ARE EXEMPT from taxaition.

What hypocrites, it seems to run DEEP in the UN, but it indicates the lengths to which globalists will go to undermine National SOVEREIGNTY.

There's no mistaking it, the ICC SEVERELY undermines our Sovereignty and has over the years placed our troops at great risk.

It CLAIMS complete jurisdiction over every person in the world and it makes no difference to them whether or not that nation has even ratified the treaty.

And, FRANKLY our own constitution may soon be up to the interpretation of 18 foreign -and for the most part hostile-ICC JUDGES.

Long and short of it, the ICC is literally a dagger in the heart of our US SOVEREIGNTY, our freedom and our independence.

DO you want to know what the ACLU thinks about how 'STUPID' they view Americans. Here is what Norman THOMAS one of the Founders of the ACLU says QUOTE Americans will never "knowingly" accept Socialism, but under "liberalism" Americans will accept every fragment; and one day wake up in a Socialist Nation and "wonder" how it all happened.

What we need to investigate is how the DEMOCRATS and ACLU think that they can continue to count on Americans being as stupid as the ACLU thinks Americans are. So they can further their Soc/glob/marx/fac/comm agenda.

Prior to elections AND to present we repeatedly had to complain that our posts were stonewalled by sites because no one wanted to know the truth.

RIGHT NOW--there are signatures needed for the USA to take LEGAL AND LEGISLATIVE ACTION on behalf of USA BUT THE PUBLIC HAS TO GET TO IT

Go see American Center for LAW and JUSTICE

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Here we have the DEMS always needing a bigger shovel for the level of UTOPIAN propaganda they want to throw at the UNSUSPECTING PUBLIC.

wanna? know the latest??? Michael moore made a progpaganda film where they attempt to bamboozle the PUBLIC by claiming CUBA'S healthcare is better than the USA ....and that the USA should go to the CUBAN model for healthcare.

WANNA KNOW??? what the reality is and whaaat they are really HIDING... the reality is in CUBA people have to BEG FROM TOURISTS for allergy inhalers and aspirin. You can bet if Americans are allowed to be bamboozled into Socialist healthcare DEMS will make SURE USA is WORSE OFF than CUBA.

According to the new stimulus if your child needs antibiotics and the GOV only wants to give them Asprin or NOTHING guess whaaat they will get ASPIRIN or NOTHING.

Whats worse.. if your/adult/child are X percent sick they ARE LEFT TO DIE.

Soc healthcare is MORE expensive AND gives NO HEALTHCARE. We are no scholar, but you don't need to be a scholar to SEE whaaat is wrong with the DEMS scenario.

DEMS LIED to claim our healthcare system is broken. SOCIALIST HEALTHCARE is MORE EXPENSIVE and gives NO HEALTHCARE.

PEOPLE, OUR MARKET BASED HEALTHCARE SYSTEM IS ONE OF THE BEST IN THE WORLD. Why, sure it's not perfect. BUT THE SHORTCOMINGS it faces such as high cost of drugs and insurance---are in part THE results of the inroads the SOCIALISTS AND LIBERALS have already made into our market based health care system.

THE REAL SOLUTION TO fixing HEALTHCARE ISN'T to make UNCLE SAME/DEMS your doctor ....BUT to GIVE YOU THE PUBLIC MORE CHOICE.

ALLOWING the DEMS socialize healthcare not only would prove expensive but DEADLY. Think about it?? DEMS WANT TO SPEND MORE MONEY BUT DENY PUBLIC the meds and services it needs while GOV POCKETS THE CASH TO SPEND ON PORK.

don't ALLOW yourselves to be put off seek LEGISLATIVE and LEGAL ACTION TO KICK STIMULUS OUT AND BAILOUT. go see --The National Center for Public policy Research and American center for law and justice

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This article is so detailed that it is difficult to pick any of the points to comment on but one thing did stand out in my mind. The concept of "first amongst equals" is a viable notion to emulate. It would best fit the new order the world seeks where no one country no matter how exceptional holds all the reins.

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I delighted to watch your photograph of Liberty rising from the water after so many years when she was submerged with a right-(wing) foot on her head.

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THE REALITIES OF FISCAL BLINDSIGHTEDNESS
Comment: LET'S TALK ECONOMICS--and what has led to our "meltdown"

prior to 911 when DEMOCRATS WERE IN OFFICE the Usa sent our law enforcement to Yeman to arrest Osama bin laden. The Yeman ambassador promptly got into a 'turf battle" with USA law enforcement to claim the USA LAW ENFORCEMENT was "infringing" on YEMAN ambassadors "turf".

So what happened OUR USA LAW ENFORCEMENTS WERE TOLD by DEMOCRATS--to go home empty handed. The DEMOCRAT Administration didn't know at the time their irresponsible actions had paved the way for terriorist to make plans and lay groundwork for 911.

The Wall Street journal at that time printed a small article on it and to the recent it has been discussed but apparantly NOT ENOUGH.



I submit for your reading NY Times 1999 - MUST READ!

Well, it???s about time, the mainstream ???brainwashing media??? is finally coming out with the truth on this meltdown???

I think if they would???ve come out with the truth right away instead of letting obama camp point fingers at the Bush Admin. THE Gallup polls etc would HAVE LOOKEDA whole lot different FROM RIGHT NOW!

I just hope the ???American People??? Get it ~ before it???s too late!

Look! The New York Times is catching up to the American people..it???s important for ALL Americans to know who is responsible for this Economic Meltdown we are experiencing???in fact, some of you might remember that I posted the notice from Bill Clinton himself [I posted again, what Bill said at the bottom of this post]

Who???s administration
caused the problem??? See below.

Amazing
foresight!! Take a gander at this while they try to lay blame for the whole meltdown???

9 years ago???this one is priceless and worth the read- right out of New York Times

September 30, 1999
where the DEMOCRATS admitted that faulty lending pracitces along with ACORN activities have brought use to the crossroads our Nation is today IN A CONGRESSIONAL/SENATORIAL INVESTIGATION


Bill Clinton knows who is responsible for this NATIONAL CRISIS!

PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON: “I think the responsibility that the Democrats have may rest more in resisting any efforts by Republicans in the Congress or by me when I was President to put some standards and tighten up a little on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.”



SO here we have it DEMOCRATS BROUGHT ON 911 AND CAUSED OUR MELTDOWN thru their FAULTY LENDING PRACTICES and now are once again all for this FLEECING OF AMERICA thru this bailout bandwagon!

Just found out days ago that this bailout will derail the economy by encouraging businesses to engage in the same kind of IRRESPONSIBLE risky business practices knowing full well that when the irresponsible business practices are overdrawn the PUBLIC WILL once again be left PAYING FOR IT.

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Somewhere, the 2000 pairs of shoes of Imelda Marcos sit in some collector's possession, or perhaps they reside in a Philippine museum in all their glory.

If a human being is about to have a momentous crash, the human instinct seems to be to ignore the problem. So, the short-term solution to national insolvency is to go shopping for a new pair of shoes. Worry about feeding the kids some other day.

In the nation's case, we're currently shopping for a new war in Pakistan. That's what the beautiful people do! Remember to prop up all the insolvent banks and insurance companies with soft accounting rules, so that any property can be worth anything on the books. Hey, just last week the Bank of America had quarterly profits as large as Bernie Madoff's fund had in all of 2007.

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the world has moved on - worldwide measures against the empire have reduced it to rubbles.

Obama is playing a loosing game. Massive debt, inflation, poverty and half a trillion spending on something that has questionable return on investment - unlike spending it on education and healthcare. US cititzens are uneducated, malnourished and among the shortest people on this planet. Lack of language skills keeps them from discovering other truths than the silly flaggism/patriotism at home.

Raping a weaker country, meddling in internal affairs, paying off shady dictators does not constitute an empire.

Nobody fears an US empire - because there is none - unless you live in a manufactured reality.

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the Israeli banks are more secretive than Swiss Banks.

See Israel for exactly what it is;a politica state by day, a religious state for tax purposes, an extradition-free refuge for its citzens who committ crimes elswhere, but always, the exhausting, manipulating and misunderstood victim that demands to be treated as the exception and always at the expense of others.

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Neither war is a disaster. Iraq, while not being a reliable an ally as, say the UK, will at least not be a significant enemy IF we do not leave too soon. Obama, by focusing on Afghanistan and NW Pakistan, will eventually make that region manageable. Total victory, as in WWII, is not required, just the prevention of Islamic extremism and the jihadist from spreading their hate, violence, intolerance and sharia law into the West is success.
If anybody thinks the F/A-22 is an "out moded" weapons system, they have no comprehension of weapon system needs and their development time line. While not useful today in the asymmetric war against Islamic extremism, the F/A-22 will be vital in any future conflict with Russian resurgence militarism and the technological growth of the huge Chinese military machine. Such advanced capabilities act as a deterrance against military adventurism by potential enemies to America. It takes 20 years to develop a weapon system capability such as the F/A-22, so you can not wait until you need it to start building them. That is the lesson of the 1930’s and WWII. Except this time the two oceans, that gave America the time to make up for our defense deficiencies, will not be sufficient to protect us from such folly. We will never surrender, despite those who blame America advocating it.

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War is a form of rape and projecting US power worldwide is a form of sexual intimidation and dominance behavior.

It might be said that the military industrial complex will have to be pried from our cold dead hands.

Hopefully in the 21st century of global consciousness and the recognition of the fragility of our tiny jewel of life called Earth and the mutual interdependence of us all we may give up on this instinctive animal territoriality that we have mapped with our concepts of strategic dominance, US global national interests, acceptable collateral damage, with regard to our western colonial combines of military-merchant-missionary profiteering off of other peoples.

Expropriating the western hemisphere to stripe of its golden eggs and pollute with abandon after having polluted Europe and what do we do once we have gone round the entire planet and ravaged and polluted it all. Then I guess we go around again reravaging?

The western model is going to have to give way to the eastern model exemplified in the yin-yang symbol of a sustainable interdependence and an eco-economic system that respects our planetary environment.

To do this we must learn to coordinate body and mind, our instincts and concepts, in a more efficient and non-destructive way. If humans cannot accomplish this, a feat more important to our planet than going to Mars or Venus, we most likely will be the cause of our own extinction.

Mindfulness meditation has been explored in depth by Tibetans and other eastern traditions as a way to coordinate body and mind.

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"historically, dominant world powers doomed themselves by engaging in overseas adventures that drained their strength and strained their finances"

For an illustration of the hard truth of this statement, we need only look at the doomed Athenian attempt to besiege Syracuse during the Pelopennesian War. The expedition to Sicily lasted from 415 to 413 BCE. It was a disastrous blunder. One of the chosen generals in charge of the expedition advised against it in the assembly, pointing out that a previous expedition had already failed miserably, that Sicily was far away, a large island with many great cities and that even if Athens won, they would hardly be able to hold on to so many cities, many of whom would revolt at the first chance.

But the citizens were carried away with patriotism and an absurd confidence. They knew Sicily is an island and they thought perhaps of the islands of the Aegean sea, small and mostly powerless. Why they had conquered quite a few of those already and many more had joined their league seeking Athenian protection against Sparta. Most of those voting had no idea how large an island Sicily really is, nor how many people lived there. They were anxious to strike against Syracuse, an ally of their enemy Sparta, and ignored the warnings that they would simply be starting a war even worse than the one already in progress against Sparta.

So they sailed with their two generals and wasted most of two years in unsuccessful campaigns in Sicily, ill-prepared, ill-equipped and ill-supplied, against a new enemy, well-prepared and aided by Sparta to defend their city. The war in Sicily ended with the crushing defeat of the Athenian forces, the execution of the two generals by the Spartans, the deaths of most soldiers of Athens and the enslavement of the rest.

The most recent reminder of this poorly planned mistake is the US effort in Vietnam during the sixties and seventies of the last century--although the ill-conceived invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan may yet surpass even that famous military stupidity before it's over.

And why all this stuff about a war that happened over two thousand years ago? Because a wise man once said, "Those who do not remember history are condemned to repeat it." Lately it seems that most Americans, especially the politicians, can't remember what happened a few decades ago, much less two millenia ago. We may well be doomed by our failure to learn from the past mistakes of our ancestors.

Yet Athens still stands despite the defeat, while Sparta has vanished despite the victory. Many things led to Sparta's fall, mostly the hubris that came from a long and brilliantly successful military history. They failed to realize that the world's greatest military is more of a liability than an asset to any nation, unless handled very, very skilfully. We Americans seem to lack that skill. We should consider reducing our military to a force adequate to defend our nation and give up trying to impose our imperial ambitions on the rest of the world.

With love under will

Bob, Adastra,
The Wizzard of Jacksonville

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The United States is _not_ strongest nation in the world. It is merely being used by the globalists in order to further their stranglehold on various countries. The globalists consist of corporations, world bankers, and the super-rich, super-powerful that I call the Powers That Be. They are in control of our Congress, our President, and our Supreme Court, and it is they who are pulling this nation's strings. We're their representative, and _their shield_, sheltering them from the very real rage that so many disenfranchised people are feeling. Until we search out the names of these people, their countries, their places of residence, and just what part they play in this effort to globalize the world into one _giant plantation_ (guess who are the slaves now?)--American citizens and citizens of the world will be merely pawns in this global grab for power. The small-press newspaper, American Free Press keeps tabs on this outrage. They have a web site. Editor Jim Tucker has been following the notorious group "The Bilderberg Group," which charts the path for the corporations, the super-rich, and a few choice nations/states every year. They meet in a secret place with strict security, and plan how to grab more of the world's riches and relegate the rest of us to slaves. Tucker has written a book, "Bilderberg Diaries," about this. Luckily for the rest of us--sometimes someone does talk. That's how we learn what this nefarious group is planning. They will soon be meeting (May 14-17) at Vouliagmeni, Greece--a fancy resort area. They have imposed a gag order on the mainstream media, who obediently refuse to cover this extremely important event. You will not hear a breath of information about this world group of the PTB on mainstream television while it's going on. If Bilderbergers plan no harm--why is everything always done IN SECRET?

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Dear Mr President

• In 2001, George W Bush did not become president of the USA by democratic majority vote as every other president was, but was instead ushered in by other means that were not democratic, but instead could be construed as a non violent coup d’état.
• The 2005 presidential election was riddled with accusations of vote rigging;
• Had eligibility not been limited to 2 terms of office, as you well know, George W Bush would still be president;
• If you watch any of the mainstream 911 videos on utube, there will not be the slightest shadow of doubt in your mind that the twin towers could not possibly have collapsed because planes may or may not have flown into them;
• Any official explanations for the absence of any intervention by NORAD and the FAA in the hour or so leading to the first explosion must be treated with total contempt and suspicion;
• The deployment of an entire military machine takes months, possibly years, to plan, organise and execute, yet the invasion of Afghanistan was launched on October 7th, less than 1 month after 911. How was this possible if, before 911, there was no possible motive for wanting to invade that particular country, yet when it did happen, the entire apparatus was put into effect in pursuit of just one man?
• According to your CIA fact file, poppy production in Afghanistan (the world’s largest producer) remains at an historically high level, while in 2001 prior to the invasion, production was at an all time low owing to the Taleban’s attempts to suppress it. How do you explain this, unless one of the motives for invasion was precisely this?
• Likewise, the 2003 invasion of Iraq is fraught with contradiction. None of the official reasons for the invasion has ever been proved or uncovered, yet foreign military presence is still very much in evidence. The invasion bears all the hallmarks of illegality that is not constitutional, and is morally reprehensible.
• How do the Authorities apprehend individuals who once held high office, but who no longer have immunity from prosecution? George W Bush and Dick Cheney and the rest of the inner sanctum in particular need to be questioned in open court about what they knew. There are numerous utube videos of George W Bush caught unintentionally or unwittingly making statements that couldn’t possibly be true.
• The US legal system is not the absolute power on this planet. There are higher ones. The absence of any apprehension of individuals leads me to think that the events of 911 and subsequent actions must therefore have been given the seal of approval by all international institutions that have stood to gain. For want of a better term, I would venture to suggest that the Bilberberg Group, which is international in its membership and allegiance, is in all likelihood, the true mastermind behind global upheavals that have been deliberately planned.
• A total mindset spans the whole planet and recognises no boundaries, either physical or political. Countries, nations etc are just another tool for controlling people. Members of Bilderberg have no allegiance to any country or nation. They just want us to think they have.
• The real tragedy of the human race is that everything of any real significance is driven by military conquest which at its base destroys and blights the lives of literally millions and millions of people.
• Until this changes, the world will never change or be any different.

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Considering that they are smart enough to engineer a coup of the US government (and all the past government coups), you'd think by now they would have figured out how the hell you maintain your empire.

Seriously, it's not rocket science. Repeating the same shit over and over again expecting to get different results is suicide.

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I didn't vote for him (I voted for McKinney) and I don't support much of what he's done so far but I don't think the anti-Obama vitriol on here is appropriate just yet. He has made a few good gestures. Let's see what he actually does.

He eased up on Cuba. He met with Chavez. He told Israel to back off. He made diplomatic advances to Iran. He's started to tone down the anti-Russian rhetoric. How about we give him a few more months?

There's a lot that should be done that Obama hasn't done (dismantling NATO for one) but he's nowhere near as bad as Bush (damned faint praise that, I know).

Time spent writing your representatives telling them to sponsor single-payer health care legislation or actual reductions in military spending would be time much better spent than endless posts on Alternet calling Obama "Bush Lite."

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Seen in National Geographic pg. Letters, May 2009. So true.

"Inside the Presidency

I fear the "Imperial Presidency" has become a reality. Our Presidents disappear behind the gates of the Forbidden City, isolated and advised by the thousands of eunuchs, never to hear the voices of the people beyond the waters of the Potomac. "

Ross Anderson, Sutter Creek, CA.

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The end of military imperialism? I only wish I could believe in such a rosy scenario. The American quest for Empire will in all likelihood continue unabated, albeit with less obnoxious swagger, simply because way too many people are turning way too many bucks sucking the Defense Department's teat. Which is why Congress, probably quid pro quo, continues to underwrite a Defense budget so ludicrously bloated that it would appear the US is anticipating an attack by the Klingons.

It's worth noting that while long-established corporations are finding themselves looking into the Abyss, those with big fat Defense contracts are humming along like a new Lamborghini. Coincidence? Maybe. Or maybe, having witnessed the rapacious Military-Industrial Complex stuffing itself like a Strasbourg goose in Vietnam, I'm just way too cynical.

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An empire on borrowed money?

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In the paper this morning I read a good political analysis I had not heard before, quoting I believe a 19th Century British statesman but am not able at the moment to go look this up. It was something along the lines of "some politicians are foxes and some are hedgehogs. The fox knows many smaller things and the hedgehog knows only one big thing." The article expanded this by saying that Reagan was a hedgehog (one idea=shrink government, although the author conceded that perhaps Reagan had two ideas, the other being, defeat the Soviet Union) and Obama is a fox (has many agendas).

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Wow dude that is some pretty scary stuff dude you have to admit!

TR
Is your ISP watching?

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Bravo! The neocon idiocy of trying to control the world, spending as much on armaments as the rest of the planet combined, needs to go directly into the rubbish bin. The US spends scores of billions of dollars per year, in order to "protect" Israel (meaning to enable the Israelis to oppress the Palestinians decade after decade). Obama needs to tell the Israeli government to look at a map of 1967 and see the borders Israel must accept. The "Greater Israel" fantasy also needs consignment to the rubbish bin of history.

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The man who will bring peace and change and hope.

As IF.

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The QUESTION is not what can he do. The QUESTION is, "Will he do anything?"

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I read an old New Yorker article from 2000 about Alan Greenspan: at that moment in time there are many grand adjectives to describe his character and intelligence. We read about his childhood, his experiences, his friends etc. Like his long friendship with Aynn Rand; and how he has businesses and then enters govt; how many of his long time friends are all business people directly influenced by his job in the Federal Reserve. The writer shows no real suspicions about Alan's business or govt affairs: we must give HIM the benefit of the doubt. The writer sees no undemocratic structures set by his liaisons, by his economics views.
There are no fundamental causes for a crisis being set up by Alan Greenspan; only that if he is wrong about the economy, people will blame him. But, what I read in that article was the unrelenting agenda of a group of individuals who decided sometime ago that the vast majority of Americans could be sacrificed so that a deserving business world could prosper relentlessly. And the writer's tone is telling: his admiration and reverence for the man and his world blinds him to that speck of grime: believing that the BigBusiness Alan and his 'family' created could love the world.It really showed me that seeing the world through his economic eyes created this current collapse; it was already our future back then.

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That Obama left the Wall Street machine intact because he knew the weasels would otherwise run...?
Could it be all our little theories and panic attacks are a little premature considering he's showing a lot of promise all the way around?
An impressive amount of shit has happened some of us want to ignore,
but it doesn't change facts that we're heading AWAY from the precipice faster than we're going over the edge. Something of a change from the last administrations fiddling while Rome burned, telling the blindly faithful all was well, while the rest of us prepared for the collision of reality headlong into fantasy's front fender.
Can Chicken Little's on both sides of the fence try dropping the posturing long enough to be Americans, united behind a President who seems to actually give a shit about how this all might turn out, despite the insanity of his own countrymen?
I for one, look forward to it. I will bet against ALL nay sayers that your view is too narrow and the picture is forming of a United States we thought was extinct. Freedom will ring again.
IF WE WANT IT TO.
It actually takes a bit of work on our part, too.
I mean besides typing nasty crap at each other.

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