One has to hand it to the IMF for being creative with its announcement that it expects a 1 per cent uptick in the world economy next year (for the entire year), while reality hits closer to home for those unemployed in the U.S., Europe, and Japan. In fact, it is interesting that the only method in which major industries have been able to secure modest growth levels is by the tried and true method of cutting back on labor, and production while its top CEOs, CFOs, and CIOs continue to reap the lion's share of its capital gains. Companies are laying people off. One has to ask, "Where will these companies find a market for its products when the people who would purchase them have no means of doing so because they are out of work? Of course, to the executives strategizing these cutbacks, the only thing that is real to them are numbers and next quarter's profits reflections for their stockholders. And they know that if the company folds, they will leave with more money than most of the people who work for them will ever earn in their lifetime. This is obscene, immoral, and unjust
And while Congress debates Obama Care, this debate is putting critical help families can get from an extension to their extended benefits on the back burner, and the bill takes a back seat to Obama Care (see http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/oct/05/jobless-benefits-lose-out-to-health-care//print/). And while another, 400,000 out-of-work Americans collected their last check in September, and between 1.3 to 1.6 million more Americans will run out of benefits by the end of this year, the US Senate remains obsessed with Obama Care, as its Democratic members are feeling heat from this White House to ratify something, anything before the end of this year. But in the midst of this 9.8% of our population remains unable to find work, since there are at least six job seekers for every job, and large corporations are continuing to hemmorage jobs and outsource them overseas. The so-called official unemployment figure does not factor in the long term unemployed who have fallen off of the radar and have exhausted all of their benefits, or those who have given up looking for work. If these are factored in, the figure for those unemployed in the United States is a staggering 17 or 18%. These figures are not signs of recovery, but of stagflation; of less than single digit growth or zero growth.
The signs of a full fledged mini-depression are all there, high unemployment, zero growth in four to five quarters, etc. A recovery entails growth not only capital outlays, but also in labor. We are not seeing in that. In fact, what we are seeing is its opposite. A so-called "jobless recovery is no recovery at all, because a true recovery entails purchasing power which spurs growth and investment. In a so-called jobless recovery you have neither. While the unemployed may have a temporary purchasing power, it is a greatly diminished purchasing power due to other obligations brought to bear on the pittance they receive from their state unemployment offices, and it is only as good as the length of time they continue receiving their unemployment insurance or extensions on these. Once it runs out, as it did early last month on over 400,000 people across the nation, the diminished purchasing power they previously had disappears (see the following link http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/oct/05/customer-service-reigns-when-business-fades//print/).
We are told by the Commerce Department and some others, including Barak Obama that we are beginning to see the beginning "sputtering" and "fits" of a "recovery," yet the signs of such recovery are not evident. These pronouncements are nothing more than political window dressing to keep Obama's waning popularity from continuing to fall. Amongst even his ardent supporters, there are pockets of people who are hurting, and are not seeing any turn around as their president claims. All they know is that they cannot find work, their unemployment extensions ran out, Obama Care is holding up key legislation that would extend their unemployment benefits for another 13 weeks, in some cases 17 weeks, and their bills are piling up and they can't pay them. In the meantime, they see the man they voted for travelling overseas and living high and big as the nation suffers, as they suffer. They see their congressman and senator obsessed (as Obama is) with passing a health care bill they don't want and don't need. They need to pay their bills, buy groceries, put food on the table, and keep from being evicted. While the current bill won't do all of this entirely (it is simply too small and the period of 13 or 17 weeks is nothing more than a brief band aid), it will allay their sufferings to an extent.
States like California have run out of money (see the following article at http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/oct/04/california-failing-state-debt, and http://apnews.myway.com/article/20091001/D9B29KL80.html), while magazines are closing (see http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/bloodbath_at_conde_nast_mags_axed_0E28iBTko2radgEPVFPUWP), and country has seen 98 banks have failed since the start of this year. And if one looks at the FDIC's list of failed banks since the start of this Great Recession/Depression in 1976 (See http://cricketdiane.wordpress.com/2009/07/24/fdic-failed-banks-list-how-many-banks-in-the-united-states-have-failed-since-2007-october-entry-into-recession-depression-macroeconomics-of-failed-regulations-and-so-banks-take-peoples-s/), more banks have failed this year alone since the start of this Depression which began with a Great Recession in 2007. This does not bode well of an economy that is already in tatters, it is a sign of continued and accelerated contraction, and contraction even as the Federal Reserve has continued to pump more money (inflation) to keep liquidity at what it believes are sustainable levels. You cannot paper over a depression, because at one point the money supply will be so great and the currency so inflated that collapse will inevitably ensue due to the result of hyper inflation of the type the nation saw during the Carter years, when inflation was at 11.3% and unemployment at 5.9% (see http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/L-carterreagan.htm). Perhaps the best definition of inflation is contained in the following site, http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=inflation where it states the following:
"A persistent increase in the level of consumer prices or a persistent decline in the purchasing power of money, caused by an increase in available currency and credit beyond the proportion of available goods
and services."
Current inflation and unemployment numbers far exceed those of the worst of the Carter years; his last year in office. The Consumer Price Index, which has been used in to gauge inflation, is nothing more than a "doctored" statistic, because it no longer gauges the purchase of good and services in general, but specific goods and services; no a true metric to measure the rate of inflation and its devastating impact on the average American who is hit with the brunt of its affects without the resources to weather it possessed by his/her more affluent counterpart. Have you noticed that the item which only weeks ago cost $4.35 is now priced at $6.75? That is your best gauge to where inflation actually is at. Why? Because you are feeling in a very real manner its affects upon the purchasing power of you money. If your money is inflated by the Federal Reserve Bank to provide this government the liquidity it needs to meet the demands of increased spending (10 trillion projected under Obama), then increased supply of money will force its value to be diminished because the ratio of supply to demand will have been affected. Let me simplify this: increased money supply=inflation=higher prices for goods and services=decreased purchasing power=lower standard of living. Additionally to this, the more the government spends, the more it has to raise taxes, inflate the currency to keep money available to meet the demands of increased spending, and the more it will have to borrow. When it has to borrow more to meet the demands of its spending, it crowds out the small business seeking capital to meet its TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) within its Overhead. If the small business cannot obtain the loan it needs for investing, because the government is crowding the credit market, it cannot grow, and if it cannot grow, it cuts back its Overhead, and the first casualty is its labor - it reduces its workforce by laying its workers off.
There is a double whammy here on the average American because of job loss, because the government, through its increased spending, is now the very cause of job loss by beating the small business in competition for the same money the bank is lending the government (secured by the government through US, the tax payer), and forcing it to reduce its Overhead through massive layoffs. It is a domino affect which feeds on itself. Then the government raises its taxes on the small business who in order to stay in business if forced to pass this on to the consumer through price increases. And the inflated money supply is insidious because it is a hidden tax that devastates the already decimated laborer. Remember, the business owner keeps his profit at a specific level by passing the increased cost of production on to the consumer through higher prices. So the average American - employed or unemployed - pays the brunt of the cost and is squeezed by government policy from one end and industry from the other end. One wonders who many politicians who earn six figures and live lives insulated from the day to day grind of the average tax payer, truly appreciates this reality. Not many, since their profligate spending habits make it evident that they neither care or are aware of the implications of their actions on the very people whose interests they were entrusted to represent.
The only people who are truly benefitting from the current financial climate are the CEOs, CFOs, CIOs and the highest strata of our society who possess enough holdings and diverse investments, as well as command obscene salaries not in proportion for the work they put out, but from the output of cheap labor whose fate they decide when they arbitrate who will be cut and who's salary will be kept at a certain level for the foreseeable and uncertain future. You understand, while they command multi-million salaries, and their perks alone is more than thirty employees make in a year, they haggle with people's fate without taking a cut themselves on their own largesse. This is both obscene and amoral. It is not capitalism, it is an aberrations sin and blight of the human condition. These are the people who are making out like bandits in this economy. These are the people who were taken care of first at tax payer's expense the House of Representatives and the Senate voted for the first TARP of $870 billion dollars late last year just prior to the disastrous presidential elections. Don't get me wrong on this, the elections would also have been just as disastrous with a John McCain win. But it can be claimed that McCain would not have attempted to change our way of government as Obama has and continues to do.
They're calling this the Great Recession. And we were told just a few short weeks ago, and some still posit; a recovery is not expected until the very earliest of 2011, there are some who for political reasons are making claims which are not based on reality, but are as mentioned above, nothing more than political window dressing for the president's supporters, and to shut his critics up. The media is complicit in this also, as it has become an adjunct of the Obama Administration. No. This is not a recovery, this is a depression, as business but back on labor creating more of the workforce on the unemployment lines, and a diminished purchasing power, as the newly and long term unemployed curtail spending to meet the responsibility of monthly expenses such a mortgages, utilities, food, etc.. This is not a recovery, this is nothing more than a big business realignment of its capital and resources to meet the overhead of this quarter and the projections of the next (see the following story http://apnews.myway.com/article/20091001/D9B2A9FG1.html and http://apnews.myway.com/article/20091001/D9B29OOG1.html).
There is nothing worst than to see your elected officials, beginning with your president, attempt to mislead and lie to you while you suffer as he and they live high off of the fruits of the labor you once provided which they taxed generously, as he and they and their political allies in industry, the media, and academia; continue to live lives completely insulated from the rest of US. If you think that they are doing you good, or that they are out for your good, then you are self deluded, and if that is the case, then Goethe's saying applies most aptly to you:
"There is nothing more frightening than active ignorance." - Goethe
Are we beginning to see the unraveling of the American Republic, and is it time for America to undergo judgment? (please read the article at this link: http://www.worldviewtimes.com/article.php/articleid-5388/Brannon-Howse) And if so, can it be averted? Or is it too late? This is a question that every American and every individual must ask within themselves and then seek the G-d of heaven about. Our nation's sins must be expiated, but it begins with each and every one of US. We must turn from electing politicians who serve themselves, cost US more in taxes, and present legislation that throws G-d out of our society, and try to regulate our behavior as it seeks to take the place that only the Almighty deserves.
Monday, October 5, 2009
Saturday, October 3, 2009
39 Reasons Of Change You Can't Believe In
1.) For the first time in US History, an American President has issued standing orders to our military to burn Bibles being sent to Afghanistan so as to not "offend" the Muslims these Bibles are intended for.
2.) This president also has repealed the Mexico City Treaty which the previous administration had enacted that prevented US agencies overseas aiding with tax dollars or as a matter of policy the abortion industry in those countries as a means of birth control or family planning. US agencies are now promoting abortion on demand overseas.
3.) This is a president who on the National Day of Prayer decided he would not publicly pray for the nation as its leader, or call it to prayer, but instead claimed he would pray privately to his god.
4.) This is the first president in this nation's history who has pledged upon assuming office to promote the evil Freedom of Choice Act, or FOCA - which is not about freedom or choice, but a law which supports federally funded abortion on demand as a "fundamental right and entitlement" - the most radical piece of legislation ever devised in going far beyond the dreadful Supreme Court Decision of Roe v. Wade - "in making abortion a government-protected and taxpayer-supported 'right,' right through all nine months of pregnancy." (Governor Mike Huckabee's letter on FOCA) Because this piece of legislation mandates taxpayer-supported and federal protection of abortion throughout all nine months of pregnancy, it will make the crime of infanticide - that is, the willful killing of late term babies who survive abortion - commonplace for the first time in our nation's history on a federal level.
5.) This is the first president who has promised to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act (signed into law by President William Jefferson Clinton) which defines marriage as the union of a man and a woman.
6.) This is the first president who has pledged to sign into law the Senate and House's version of the Hate Crimes Law, which makes it illegal to effectively preach the Gospel with regards to deviant lifestyles and behavior and how the Holy Scriptures define all such behavior, because it defines preaching against the "Gay" and "Lesbian" lifestyle as a hate crime, and therefore prosecutable under federal law. H.R. 1913, the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act. This legislation will protect “sexual orientation,” “gender,” and “gender identity” as protected categories under federal civil rights laws. Democrats even refused to exclude pedophilia as a protected class under this legislation!
7.) He placed a militant gay on his faith-based counsel. He has also made it clear that faith-based groups, which prohibit gays in their organizations will not receive federal funding under his “faith” program.
8.) He has passed legislation that creates a civilian security force – a force that can be used the same way Hitler used the Brown Shirts – to control and spy on Americans. This act prohibits anyone who receives this federal funding from participating in or conducting religious worship services or evangelism!
9.) He asked that a monogram for Jesus Christ be covered up during a televised speech at a Catholic University in Washington, D.C.
10.) Under his watch, the FDA has approved Plan B, an abortion pill for 17-year-old girls.
11.) He signed an economic agreement at the G20 conference in England, which creates an international governing group that will have control over our economy. He has outsourced capitalism to European socialists.
12.) He has placed numerous far left lawyers in the Department of Justice, including pro-aborts, and a former pornography industry lawyer!
13.) As a Muslim must, Barak Obama is the only president in US history to have bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia.
14.) Barak Obama has praised Daniel Ortega, the Marxist president of Nicaragua, and has kissed the Marxist president of Venezuela - Hugo Caesar Chavez - on the cheek, a sign of comradeship among socialists.
15.) Barak Obama has endorsed the socialist president ob Bolivia, Evo Morales.
16.) Has pledged to Iran that the United States would meet with its leaders without preconditions, thus undercutting any means of negotiations..
17.) He has given billions of dollars to AIG without pre-conditions, and AIG has funneled this money to several banks in Europe where the very rich have their holdings - the greatest swindle in US history.
18.) The Obama Administration has expanded the federal bailouts beyond the ones administered by President Bush without accountability.
19.) In eight months, the Obama Administration has tripled our national debt. It had up until his sixth month in office, doubled, but this figure has been revised since. And the debt continues to rise astronomically.
20.) The Obama Administration has terminated the space defense system following North Korea's launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile at American territory in the Pacific Ocean this year.
21.) Despite the urgings of Leon Panetta - his current CIA Chief, and the urgings of four prior CIA Directors, the Obama Administration released information on how the CIA gathers intelligence.
22.) Although he had pledged to run the most ethical government, five of his cabinet level members cheated on their taxes and two others withdrew after they couldn't justify their breaking of the tax law.
23.) Spent several weeks circling the globe so he could openly apologize for what he perceived as "America's mistakes" and told the Mexican president that the violence in their country was America's fault.
24.) He has appointed a Homeland Security Chief who quickly identified as "dangers to the nation" groups including veterans of the military, and pro-life groups who oppose abortion on demand, and ordered the word "terrorism" not be used any longer, but that it be replaced with the euphemism "man made disasters."
25.) Appointed as Attorney General a man who orchestrated the forced removal, abduction, and expulsion from America to Communist Cuba of a nine year minor whose mother died trying to bring him to their family in Miami and a life of freedom in the United States.
26.) Politicized the US Census by removing it from the Department of Commerce and moving it into the White House to control it.
27.) While saluting as heroes the three Navy SEALs who rescued an American, Barak Obama announced the next day that members of the Bush Administration would likely stand trail for "torturing" - that is, water boarding a terrorist who had been instrumental in the murder of 3000 Americans in 9/11.
28.) Went out of his way to send his National Defense Advisor to Europe to promise the Europeans that America would no longer give Israel preferential treatment, and that Israel would be alone with the Muslims.
29.) Launched the process of the auto industry's nationalization, and has begun the nationalization of the insurance industry, crucial for his so-called "healthcare reform" - ObamaCare.
30.) Has pledged to pass a strict regulation on emissions with the intent of causing the collapse of the coal industry within the United States.
31.) Despite numerous campaign pledges to read the budget line-by-line, cut wasteful spending and eliminate earmarks, President Obama signed an inflated budget with more than 9,000 earmarks.
32.) If Obama, Pelosi and Reid successfully pass their Cap and Trade climate change legislations it will be the single largest tax increase in the history of the world.
33.) Obama pledged no taxes increases on anyone deemed "not rich." This was quickly broken as he signed a 60-cent excise tax on cigarettes earlier this spring. This regressive tax heavily burdens the working poor.
34.) The Obama Administration is using SEIU and other union thugs to beat people who voice opposition to ObamaCare: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQE1ZqTOu08, and prominent members of the president's Democrat Party are calling average Americans protesting ObamaCare and Obama's profligate spending "mobs," "anti-Americans," and other epithets: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_jNVYtPmjs
35.) This president is methodically moving American foreign policy away from support for Israel, and redirecting it towards Israel's enemies. As he continues to do this, and as American foreign and strategic policies adjusts; America will begin to see a pronounced decline as a world economic and military power. As it continues to disband from its tradition Judeo-Christian roots, and its historic support for Israel and its people, this country will steadily decline even below Europe. Eventually, if this trend continues, it will not be even an important player in world events. Don't think it's possible? Who would have predicted 9/11? Or the economic collapse of this nation - both of which are connected to the unfortunate Oslo Accords of President Clinton which he foisted on Israel in the name of peace with the most disastrous consequences in its history; the Intifada and rise of the suicide bombers.
36.) The following is from a Chassidic website, and this is what it says about Barak Hussein Obama: "There have been some signs along the way that Obama is Amalek, and fighting a war against God - here are a few that come to mind: Since his election, Obama has not attended church, even though in the run-up he made a point of doing so..... (deception)
Obama thinks abortion is a good thing - an obvious give-away that he does not believe in the G-d of the Bible. Obama fumbled his swearing in with the Bible, and did it again the following day, without a Bible.....
37.) He has appointed a committed revolutionary Marxist-Leninist with Maoist leanings as his environmental Tzar to oversee the implementation of Obama's Climate Change on American industry in order to transform it according to Obama's (and Al Gore's) Green Agenda, the one of two of history's greatest con jobs ever perpetrated by politicians and industry upon the citizens of a nation. See the video at this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOgmwyfKuL8
38.) Obama has filled the White House with the most radical collection of Far Left elites in the history of our nation who are behind the several policy measures he has rammed through congress in his first eight months. Watch this video to see who they are, their connections to each other, and what they have done thus far: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJpPktn4f0M&NR=1
39.) Barak Hussein Obama supports legislation which will repeal DOMA (the Defense of Marriage Act) which defines marriage as the union between a man and a woman, and to replace it with ROMA (the Respect of Marriage Act) legislation which redefines marriage as the union between members of the same sex.
2.) This president also has repealed the Mexico City Treaty which the previous administration had enacted that prevented US agencies overseas aiding with tax dollars or as a matter of policy the abortion industry in those countries as a means of birth control or family planning. US agencies are now promoting abortion on demand overseas.
3.) This is a president who on the National Day of Prayer decided he would not publicly pray for the nation as its leader, or call it to prayer, but instead claimed he would pray privately to his god.
4.) This is the first president in this nation's history who has pledged upon assuming office to promote the evil Freedom of Choice Act, or FOCA - which is not about freedom or choice, but a law which supports federally funded abortion on demand as a "fundamental right and entitlement" - the most radical piece of legislation ever devised in going far beyond the dreadful Supreme Court Decision of Roe v. Wade - "in making abortion a government-protected and taxpayer-supported 'right,' right through all nine months of pregnancy." (Governor Mike Huckabee's letter on FOCA) Because this piece of legislation mandates taxpayer-supported and federal protection of abortion throughout all nine months of pregnancy, it will make the crime of infanticide - that is, the willful killing of late term babies who survive abortion - commonplace for the first time in our nation's history on a federal level.
5.) This is the first president who has promised to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act (signed into law by President William Jefferson Clinton) which defines marriage as the union of a man and a woman.
6.) This is the first president who has pledged to sign into law the Senate and House's version of the Hate Crimes Law, which makes it illegal to effectively preach the Gospel with regards to deviant lifestyles and behavior and how the Holy Scriptures define all such behavior, because it defines preaching against the "Gay" and "Lesbian" lifestyle as a hate crime, and therefore prosecutable under federal law. H.R. 1913, the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act. This legislation will protect “sexual orientation,” “gender,” and “gender identity” as protected categories under federal civil rights laws. Democrats even refused to exclude pedophilia as a protected class under this legislation!
7.) He placed a militant gay on his faith-based counsel. He has also made it clear that faith-based groups, which prohibit gays in their organizations will not receive federal funding under his “faith” program.
8.) He has passed legislation that creates a civilian security force – a force that can be used the same way Hitler used the Brown Shirts – to control and spy on Americans. This act prohibits anyone who receives this federal funding from participating in or conducting religious worship services or evangelism!
9.) He asked that a monogram for Jesus Christ be covered up during a televised speech at a Catholic University in Washington, D.C.
10.) Under his watch, the FDA has approved Plan B, an abortion pill for 17-year-old girls.
11.) He signed an economic agreement at the G20 conference in England, which creates an international governing group that will have control over our economy. He has outsourced capitalism to European socialists.
12.) He has placed numerous far left lawyers in the Department of Justice, including pro-aborts, and a former pornography industry lawyer!
13.) As a Muslim must, Barak Obama is the only president in US history to have bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia.
14.) Barak Obama has praised Daniel Ortega, the Marxist president of Nicaragua, and has kissed the Marxist president of Venezuela - Hugo Caesar Chavez - on the cheek, a sign of comradeship among socialists.
15.) Barak Obama has endorsed the socialist president ob Bolivia, Evo Morales.
16.) Has pledged to Iran that the United States would meet with its leaders without preconditions, thus undercutting any means of negotiations..
17.) He has given billions of dollars to AIG without pre-conditions, and AIG has funneled this money to several banks in Europe where the very rich have their holdings - the greatest swindle in US history.
18.) The Obama Administration has expanded the federal bailouts beyond the ones administered by President Bush without accountability.
19.) In eight months, the Obama Administration has tripled our national debt. It had up until his sixth month in office, doubled, but this figure has been revised since. And the debt continues to rise astronomically.
20.) The Obama Administration has terminated the space defense system following North Korea's launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile at American territory in the Pacific Ocean this year.
21.) Despite the urgings of Leon Panetta - his current CIA Chief, and the urgings of four prior CIA Directors, the Obama Administration released information on how the CIA gathers intelligence.
22.) Although he had pledged to run the most ethical government, five of his cabinet level members cheated on their taxes and two others withdrew after they couldn't justify their breaking of the tax law.
23.) Spent several weeks circling the globe so he could openly apologize for what he perceived as "America's mistakes" and told the Mexican president that the violence in their country was America's fault.
24.) He has appointed a Homeland Security Chief who quickly identified as "dangers to the nation" groups including veterans of the military, and pro-life groups who oppose abortion on demand, and ordered the word "terrorism" not be used any longer, but that it be replaced with the euphemism "man made disasters."
25.) Appointed as Attorney General a man who orchestrated the forced removal, abduction, and expulsion from America to Communist Cuba of a nine year minor whose mother died trying to bring him to their family in Miami and a life of freedom in the United States.
26.) Politicized the US Census by removing it from the Department of Commerce and moving it into the White House to control it.
27.) While saluting as heroes the three Navy SEALs who rescued an American, Barak Obama announced the next day that members of the Bush Administration would likely stand trail for "torturing" - that is, water boarding a terrorist who had been instrumental in the murder of 3000 Americans in 9/11.
28.) Went out of his way to send his National Defense Advisor to Europe to promise the Europeans that America would no longer give Israel preferential treatment, and that Israel would be alone with the Muslims.
29.) Launched the process of the auto industry's nationalization, and has begun the nationalization of the insurance industry, crucial for his so-called "healthcare reform" - ObamaCare.
30.) Has pledged to pass a strict regulation on emissions with the intent of causing the collapse of the coal industry within the United States.
31.) Despite numerous campaign pledges to read the budget line-by-line, cut wasteful spending and eliminate earmarks, President Obama signed an inflated budget with more than 9,000 earmarks.
32.) If Obama, Pelosi and Reid successfully pass their Cap and Trade climate change legislations it will be the single largest tax increase in the history of the world.
33.) Obama pledged no taxes increases on anyone deemed "not rich." This was quickly broken as he signed a 60-cent excise tax on cigarettes earlier this spring. This regressive tax heavily burdens the working poor.
34.) The Obama Administration is using SEIU and other union thugs to beat people who voice opposition to ObamaCare: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQE1ZqTOu08, and prominent members of the president's Democrat Party are calling average Americans protesting ObamaCare and Obama's profligate spending "mobs," "anti-Americans," and other epithets: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_jNVYtPmjs
35.) This president is methodically moving American foreign policy away from support for Israel, and redirecting it towards Israel's enemies. As he continues to do this, and as American foreign and strategic policies adjusts; America will begin to see a pronounced decline as a world economic and military power. As it continues to disband from its tradition Judeo-Christian roots, and its historic support for Israel and its people, this country will steadily decline even below Europe. Eventually, if this trend continues, it will not be even an important player in world events. Don't think it's possible? Who would have predicted 9/11? Or the economic collapse of this nation - both of which are connected to the unfortunate Oslo Accords of President Clinton which he foisted on Israel in the name of peace with the most disastrous consequences in its history; the Intifada and rise of the suicide bombers.
36.) The following is from a Chassidic website, and this is what it says about Barak Hussein Obama: "There have been some signs along the way that Obama is Amalek, and fighting a war against God - here are a few that come to mind: Since his election, Obama has not attended church, even though in the run-up he made a point of doing so..... (deception)
Obama thinks abortion is a good thing - an obvious give-away that he does not believe in the G-d of the Bible. Obama fumbled his swearing in with the Bible, and did it again the following day, without a Bible.....
37.) He has appointed a committed revolutionary Marxist-Leninist with Maoist leanings as his environmental Tzar to oversee the implementation of Obama's Climate Change on American industry in order to transform it according to Obama's (and Al Gore's) Green Agenda, the one of two of history's greatest con jobs ever perpetrated by politicians and industry upon the citizens of a nation. See the video at this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOgmwyfKuL8
38.) Obama has filled the White House with the most radical collection of Far Left elites in the history of our nation who are behind the several policy measures he has rammed through congress in his first eight months. Watch this video to see who they are, their connections to each other, and what they have done thus far: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJpPktn4f0M&NR=1
39.) Barak Hussein Obama supports legislation which will repeal DOMA (the Defense of Marriage Act) which defines marriage as the union between a man and a woman, and to replace it with ROMA (the Respect of Marriage Act) legislation which redefines marriage as the union between members of the same sex.
The Obama Care Question
Just this morning I received an e-mail claiming that the media's current H1N1 Virus reporting is nothing more than a ploy to make money for a certain pharmeceutical company of which former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is allegedly an executive of.
It's been a long time since I've read anything on Rumsfeld. The media's campaign against him worked, and the White House relented by forcing him to resign. But, it appears that every so often we run into someone who continues to seeth with some pathological visceral hatred of either President Bush or one of those who served in his administration.
President Bush was recognized as the only American President to have done more to combat AIDS in Africa than any other previous US president. This was barely reported by the organs of the alphabet news media because it would have compromised its drive to discredit and dishonor him. I have a lot of pet peeves with the former president, and found myself often agreeing and then often disagreeing with him; but I will not stand idly by and not share this one little known fact with those reading this post. The Scriptures teach US that the LOVE OF MONEY is the root of all evil, and many have become bankrupt in their faith pursuing riches and ill gotten gains at the expense of others.
With the antipathy in which the media holds former President Bush and especially former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, I doubt it has any interest in exclusively promoting a product which will presumably make Mr. Rumsfeld any richer. The media's agenda is to promote the Obama Administration's drive to enforce Socialized Medicine in the guise of health care reform, and to that end it will stop at nothing to do it. Remember how it tried to throw the 2004 elections with a phony story about President Bush's Air National Guard record just one night before the elections?
Take note on how it presents the stories on Obama Care, and the connections it makes to Obama's plan. One question every American must ask of their congressman or senator with regards to Obama Care; a question which will speak volumes as to the intent of those promoting Obama Care and attempting to make it law. The question you must ask your congressman and senator is the following:
"Are there any bills before congress, any plans being offered either by President Obama, the Democrats or the Republicans that will provide the exact same kind of medical coverage for every American that the president and members of congress currently have?"
The answer will be no, but ask anyway, don't' take my word for it.
The answer they will give you will speak volumes about the quality of the healthcare they're trying to ram down our throats "for our good" versus what they have voted for themselves. At a time when the president of the United States and a good number of our elected representatives are obsessed with passing a health care bill that will not be the kind of coverage he and they enjoy, every American must ask if it is worth the cost. Especially when those who need the current coverage are going to be the very ones whom this president and congress will require to give up the most in the name of universal coverage. I don't know about you, but anything that is less than what our congressmen, senators, and president have is not good enough, especially if our senior citizens are being required by them to give up the most to placate their personal obsession in seeing this bill pass at any cost.
No Mr. President, the cost to ailing, and poor Americans is too great for them to bear. Give up your plans first, and do your part by raising your own taxes before you try to pull the same on US.
It's been a long time since I've read anything on Rumsfeld. The media's campaign against him worked, and the White House relented by forcing him to resign. But, it appears that every so often we run into someone who continues to seeth with some pathological visceral hatred of either President Bush or one of those who served in his administration.
President Bush was recognized as the only American President to have done more to combat AIDS in Africa than any other previous US president. This was barely reported by the organs of the alphabet news media because it would have compromised its drive to discredit and dishonor him. I have a lot of pet peeves with the former president, and found myself often agreeing and then often disagreeing with him; but I will not stand idly by and not share this one little known fact with those reading this post. The Scriptures teach US that the LOVE OF MONEY is the root of all evil, and many have become bankrupt in their faith pursuing riches and ill gotten gains at the expense of others.
With the antipathy in which the media holds former President Bush and especially former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, I doubt it has any interest in exclusively promoting a product which will presumably make Mr. Rumsfeld any richer. The media's agenda is to promote the Obama Administration's drive to enforce Socialized Medicine in the guise of health care reform, and to that end it will stop at nothing to do it. Remember how it tried to throw the 2004 elections with a phony story about President Bush's Air National Guard record just one night before the elections?
Take note on how it presents the stories on Obama Care, and the connections it makes to Obama's plan. One question every American must ask of their congressman or senator with regards to Obama Care; a question which will speak volumes as to the intent of those promoting Obama Care and attempting to make it law. The question you must ask your congressman and senator is the following:
"Are there any bills before congress, any plans being offered either by President Obama, the Democrats or the Republicans that will provide the exact same kind of medical coverage for every American that the president and members of congress currently have?"
The answer will be no, but ask anyway, don't' take my word for it.
The answer they will give you will speak volumes about the quality of the healthcare they're trying to ram down our throats "for our good" versus what they have voted for themselves. At a time when the president of the United States and a good number of our elected representatives are obsessed with passing a health care bill that will not be the kind of coverage he and they enjoy, every American must ask if it is worth the cost. Especially when those who need the current coverage are going to be the very ones whom this president and congress will require to give up the most in the name of universal coverage. I don't know about you, but anything that is less than what our congressmen, senators, and president have is not good enough, especially if our senior citizens are being required by them to give up the most to placate their personal obsession in seeing this bill pass at any cost.
No Mr. President, the cost to ailing, and poor Americans is too great for them to bear. Give up your plans first, and do your part by raising your own taxes before you try to pull the same on US.
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
The Classroom, the Far Left, & Obama's Cult of Personality
The video at the following link, http://storyofstuff.com/ at which the following article writes about at http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/11/education/11stuff.html?_r=1 is being put out by Greenpeace, which is a far left organization that has been at the fringes of the most extreme elements of the environmental movement. What we all should be extremely concerned with should be how Greenpeace and other far left and militant organizations with specific agendas have made it into our classrooms, how the two large teachers' unions across the nation have allowed it to penetrate our schools' classrooms, and why public school officials are promoting them.
In a discussion with a close friend on the topic, she stated that she believed that the indoctrination of our children has begun. While I agree with her that there is a program of indoctrination of our young, I disagree with her on its timing. This sort of thing began in the early seventies when young teachers who had just recently received approval to teach in our public schools began to add to their curriculum environmental issues piece by piece. When I was in my last year of grammar school almost forty years ago, I began seeing this. I remember a young student teacher who was visiting our class who was enraptured when a young man (yours truly) espoused world government and transformation of our system of government into a Socialist Democracy (what is currently happening to US). Believe or not, that is what I used to believe back then, and I was praised for it by this young teacher.
This sort of thing has been going on for decades, not just in grammar schools across the nation, but also in our high schools, and colleges. This is not new, but because of the Internet more of US our being exposed to it, and only now are we beginning to awaken to just how pervasive it has been. This is serious folks. This is not fiction. And it is being done right under our nose with our tax dollars, and what is even more disturbing; it is being enforced by the Obama White House.
Recently, the NEA Communications Chief was forced to resign for using the National Endowment for the Arts in recruiting artists to create works that promoted President Barack Obama's policies. Teachers who are members of the two main teachers' unions: American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association, are using the public education system for political purposes. The venue of our public schools is being used by political hacks of the far Left to indoctrinate and brainwash our children to conform to the new political correctness sweeping our nation's government agencies, news and entertainment media. The other day, Fox News exposed a New Jersey elementary school directing its children to sing praises to Barak Obama as to a god. I was born and raised in this country, have lived through the turbulent 60s, chaotic 70s, came of age during the 80s, made it through the 90s, and have come to these times; but I have never in all of my years on this planet, in this country, have ever seen anything which comes remotely close to this in this country. I've seen it in newsreels of Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Soviet Union, Mao's Communist China, Castro's Cuba, Ho Chi Min's Communist Viet Nam, and Saddam Hussein's Iraq, but I have never seen it here. No until now. Not only is it creepy, it is both inappropriate and is illegal, because involves tax payer supported institutions of learning being used for political manipulation of our children.
The cult of personality surrounding Barak Obama is a dangerous aberration in the body politic of this nation at this time, and it is promoted primarily because of race. A very large segment of our population have wedded themselves to this man primarily and above all else because his father was an African. Their affinity to this man because of his race is greater and stronger than their affinity even to this country, because they do no perceive him as ever having done them any wrong, whereas most of the members of this group believe as he has for many years that the injustices of this nation's past must be redressed by means of the redistribution of wealth, and a realignment of this system of government through Obama into a federal autocracy with Obama at its head. And though this man's policies are inimical both to their progress, their acute ignorance of the traditions of this nation, and why the Founders established a balance of power in the creation of an Executive Branch, a Legislative Branch, and a Judicial Branch who share power, and this group's antipathy for many of these because they point to a time when injustices were committed; they tend to view the nation, the Constitution, and the institutions which made this nation great synonymous with the very ills which visited these injustices upon their ancestors. It is not a question of race, it is a question of perspective, of world views. If you believe that your country is at fault for your ills and injustices against your ancestors, rather than objectively view these injustices as aberrations of evil men who abused their office and power to brutalize their fellow Americans - in other words if you think America is at fault, rather than evil men who abused power within it during certain periods of our history, then you will believe that this country is at fault for everything. This also is what the Marxist exploits for his dialectic, and this is Barak Obama's view of America and Barak Obama's worldview. This is why he has spent so much time travelling overseas to apologize for alleged wrongdoing by our country.
It's bad enough that one blames one's own country for the plight of one's own ethnic or racial group decades after such injustices have been effectively redressed. It's worst when one goes out of one's way to go overseas to debunk this nation and its accomplishments by apologizing for ills one believes were committed by this country in the past. This is not humility, it is the height of conceit, because it is the strongest statement put out by an individual that his personal world view and view of America is itself history, and therefore must be redressed through the expression of apology. It is a statement of one's own personal elevation above those of a nation's, indeed above anyone else's. This is the height of arrogance and the epitome of conceit, and it is the type of behavior that the world is beginning to expect from Barak Hussein Obama. France's president Zarkozy was so frustrated by Obama's naïveté and duplicitous actions and statements at the UN with regards to nuclear weapons and Iran that he gave Obama a lecture on the topic (see the following link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwGCTvpOi1I&feature=player_embedded and http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/09/29/sarkozys_contempt_for_obama.html) I never saw I'd see the day when a sitting American president would be upbraided by a French president for appeasing the world's most destabilizing criminal regime, but it has come to pass.
Another example of conceit and arrogance in the guise of humility and peace. But, this conceit and arrogance - a belief that his world view and opinions hold the key to the ills which plague the human race - is dangerous because it is coupled with a domestic and foreign policy that is wrong on every point it attempts to exert itself. One could at least say that if Obama's domestic and foreign policy objectives were correct, that is if they were in the best interest of this country and its people, including those of its allies; then we could meet him where these points and ours converged. But, this man is fundamentally wrong on every key issue, every key topic, and in every key policy objective he puts into motion. In eight months we have been ravaged by it.
A line however must be drawn between opposition to Barak Obama's policies, and opposition to Barak Obama as an American or to take it further, to Barak Obama as a fellow human being. At a time when partisan rankling has been become a degradation of civil discussion into personal ad homonym attacks, we must take the higher ground and separate from personal attacks upon the man. Thus, I will clarify that my criticisms of the president is of his policy measures and not his person. When I write of his ego, his naïveté, or his arrogance, these are character traits which have manifested themselves and have been observed by others working with the man, and not a personal attack on the man. It is an observation and opinion on the domestic and foreign policy deficiencies evident of this elected official who is the current occupant of the highest office in our land, a man who just months ago was a junior senator with no foreign policy experience whatsoever and a dangerously extreme liberal and radical view of this country and the world.
The cult of personality can be put to an end if the president of the United States were to order all organizations involved in it to put a stop to it immediately, and to address the matter with the nation to resolve it once and for all. But the problem is that this cult of personality is an Obama creation, financed by liberal interests, and fueled by the same organizations which worked behind the scenes to get Obama elected. Obama doesn't want to end it, it serves his purposes. It's not enough that CBS, NBC, ABC, MSNBC, CNN, public television, Hollywood, the organs of information and the mass media, academia, and the unions are in his pocket, completely sold out to his cause and to his presidency. That is not enough for Obama. He needs to have it all. This is why he attacks Fox News and allows the charade of schools across the nation to manipulate, indoctrinate, and use our children to further his cause. This is why he and the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives and Democrat-controlled Senate are pushing for some form of the Fairness Doctrine. Because what is being sought is the total control and manipulation of information; censorship of alternative points of view to Obama's radical agenda.
What does all of this entail of where we are as a nation and where we are headed if we put our guard down at this time? It entails that the often times said cliché' that absolute power corrupts absolutely is correct. Obama has eaten of this tree and he and the political party he belongs to which now controls the halls of congress, the media, and the courts; are intoxicated with it.
In a discussion with a close friend on the topic, she stated that she believed that the indoctrination of our children has begun. While I agree with her that there is a program of indoctrination of our young, I disagree with her on its timing. This sort of thing began in the early seventies when young teachers who had just recently received approval to teach in our public schools began to add to their curriculum environmental issues piece by piece. When I was in my last year of grammar school almost forty years ago, I began seeing this. I remember a young student teacher who was visiting our class who was enraptured when a young man (yours truly) espoused world government and transformation of our system of government into a Socialist Democracy (what is currently happening to US). Believe or not, that is what I used to believe back then, and I was praised for it by this young teacher.
This sort of thing has been going on for decades, not just in grammar schools across the nation, but also in our high schools, and colleges. This is not new, but because of the Internet more of US our being exposed to it, and only now are we beginning to awaken to just how pervasive it has been. This is serious folks. This is not fiction. And it is being done right under our nose with our tax dollars, and what is even more disturbing; it is being enforced by the Obama White House.
Recently, the NEA Communications Chief was forced to resign for using the National Endowment for the Arts in recruiting artists to create works that promoted President Barack Obama's policies. Teachers who are members of the two main teachers' unions: American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association, are using the public education system for political purposes. The venue of our public schools is being used by political hacks of the far Left to indoctrinate and brainwash our children to conform to the new political correctness sweeping our nation's government agencies, news and entertainment media. The other day, Fox News exposed a New Jersey elementary school directing its children to sing praises to Barak Obama as to a god. I was born and raised in this country, have lived through the turbulent 60s, chaotic 70s, came of age during the 80s, made it through the 90s, and have come to these times; but I have never in all of my years on this planet, in this country, have ever seen anything which comes remotely close to this in this country. I've seen it in newsreels of Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Soviet Union, Mao's Communist China, Castro's Cuba, Ho Chi Min's Communist Viet Nam, and Saddam Hussein's Iraq, but I have never seen it here. No until now. Not only is it creepy, it is both inappropriate and is illegal, because involves tax payer supported institutions of learning being used for political manipulation of our children.
The cult of personality surrounding Barak Obama is a dangerous aberration in the body politic of this nation at this time, and it is promoted primarily because of race. A very large segment of our population have wedded themselves to this man primarily and above all else because his father was an African. Their affinity to this man because of his race is greater and stronger than their affinity even to this country, because they do no perceive him as ever having done them any wrong, whereas most of the members of this group believe as he has for many years that the injustices of this nation's past must be redressed by means of the redistribution of wealth, and a realignment of this system of government through Obama into a federal autocracy with Obama at its head. And though this man's policies are inimical both to their progress, their acute ignorance of the traditions of this nation, and why the Founders established a balance of power in the creation of an Executive Branch, a Legislative Branch, and a Judicial Branch who share power, and this group's antipathy for many of these because they point to a time when injustices were committed; they tend to view the nation, the Constitution, and the institutions which made this nation great synonymous with the very ills which visited these injustices upon their ancestors. It is not a question of race, it is a question of perspective, of world views. If you believe that your country is at fault for your ills and injustices against your ancestors, rather than objectively view these injustices as aberrations of evil men who abused their office and power to brutalize their fellow Americans - in other words if you think America is at fault, rather than evil men who abused power within it during certain periods of our history, then you will believe that this country is at fault for everything. This also is what the Marxist exploits for his dialectic, and this is Barak Obama's view of America and Barak Obama's worldview. This is why he has spent so much time travelling overseas to apologize for alleged wrongdoing by our country.
It's bad enough that one blames one's own country for the plight of one's own ethnic or racial group decades after such injustices have been effectively redressed. It's worst when one goes out of one's way to go overseas to debunk this nation and its accomplishments by apologizing for ills one believes were committed by this country in the past. This is not humility, it is the height of conceit, because it is the strongest statement put out by an individual that his personal world view and view of America is itself history, and therefore must be redressed through the expression of apology. It is a statement of one's own personal elevation above those of a nation's, indeed above anyone else's. This is the height of arrogance and the epitome of conceit, and it is the type of behavior that the world is beginning to expect from Barak Hussein Obama. France's president Zarkozy was so frustrated by Obama's naïveté and duplicitous actions and statements at the UN with regards to nuclear weapons and Iran that he gave Obama a lecture on the topic (see the following link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwGCTvpOi1I&feature=player_embedded and http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/09/29/sarkozys_contempt_for_obama.html) I never saw I'd see the day when a sitting American president would be upbraided by a French president for appeasing the world's most destabilizing criminal regime, but it has come to pass.
Another example of conceit and arrogance in the guise of humility and peace. But, this conceit and arrogance - a belief that his world view and opinions hold the key to the ills which plague the human race - is dangerous because it is coupled with a domestic and foreign policy that is wrong on every point it attempts to exert itself. One could at least say that if Obama's domestic and foreign policy objectives were correct, that is if they were in the best interest of this country and its people, including those of its allies; then we could meet him where these points and ours converged. But, this man is fundamentally wrong on every key issue, every key topic, and in every key policy objective he puts into motion. In eight months we have been ravaged by it.
A line however must be drawn between opposition to Barak Obama's policies, and opposition to Barak Obama as an American or to take it further, to Barak Obama as a fellow human being. At a time when partisan rankling has been become a degradation of civil discussion into personal ad homonym attacks, we must take the higher ground and separate from personal attacks upon the man. Thus, I will clarify that my criticisms of the president is of his policy measures and not his person. When I write of his ego, his naïveté, or his arrogance, these are character traits which have manifested themselves and have been observed by others working with the man, and not a personal attack on the man. It is an observation and opinion on the domestic and foreign policy deficiencies evident of this elected official who is the current occupant of the highest office in our land, a man who just months ago was a junior senator with no foreign policy experience whatsoever and a dangerously extreme liberal and radical view of this country and the world.
The cult of personality can be put to an end if the president of the United States were to order all organizations involved in it to put a stop to it immediately, and to address the matter with the nation to resolve it once and for all. But the problem is that this cult of personality is an Obama creation, financed by liberal interests, and fueled by the same organizations which worked behind the scenes to get Obama elected. Obama doesn't want to end it, it serves his purposes. It's not enough that CBS, NBC, ABC, MSNBC, CNN, public television, Hollywood, the organs of information and the mass media, academia, and the unions are in his pocket, completely sold out to his cause and to his presidency. That is not enough for Obama. He needs to have it all. This is why he attacks Fox News and allows the charade of schools across the nation to manipulate, indoctrinate, and use our children to further his cause. This is why he and the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives and Democrat-controlled Senate are pushing for some form of the Fairness Doctrine. Because what is being sought is the total control and manipulation of information; censorship of alternative points of view to Obama's radical agenda.
What does all of this entail of where we are as a nation and where we are headed if we put our guard down at this time? It entails that the often times said cliché' that absolute power corrupts absolutely is correct. Obama has eaten of this tree and he and the political party he belongs to which now controls the halls of congress, the media, and the courts; are intoxicated with it.
Friday, September 25, 2009
Our Days of Awe - The Times We Live In
Riot police in Pittsburgh deployed accoustic weapons to break up swarms of anarchist anti-one world/anti-capitalist protestors http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAwmX5O-FAE This is not the first time this has been used on American soil against citizens of the United States. During the Branch Davidian stand off, the ATF, FBI, and the US Army under the command of then US Attorney General Janet Reno, under orders from the Clinton White House; used the same tactics against the men, women, and children holed up in the Branch Davidian Compound before subjecting them to high powered flame throwers and accelerants.
Ironically, amidst all of the protests which the militant Left organized during George W. Bush's eight years in office and their accusations against him for promoting a police state like atmosphere throughout the country following the terror events of 9/11, none of these weapons were ever used against civilian targets within the borders of this country. It was used by the Clinton White House, and it appears to be well in use by the Obama White House against civilian targets.
The G20 Summit and all others which have preceded it have fostered the ire of hard left and hard right groups; Communists and Anarchists who claim that successive US president and the leaders of many other industrialized nations have and continue to work for a new world order, and to that end, there exits shadow governments within each nation hard at work to see that these measures get carried through. A new book called The Shadow Government http://intermrkts.vo.llnwd.net/o35/u/Intermarkets/0909/Shadow_Govt_Ad_300x250.gif claims that Obama's more than thirty unelected, unvetted Czars are part of his shadow government, working to carry his dictates without congressional oversight, or the protection of the courts as the Constitution mandates.
In the international arena, even Cuba under Raul Castro sees the need for change, but not the kind of change that most Cuban Exiles in the United States and a good many Cubans inside the imprisoned island would like to see - the total coallapse of the Communist government, and the beginnings of a democratic government, or at least serious, verifiable movements in that direction. Raul Castro, who has taken over since his older brother Fidel reliquished power about two years ago, is now asking Cubans to rethink about Cuban Socialism http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2009/09/22/world/international-us-cuba-debate.html?_r=2 and the role its played and is playing in their daily lives. It would appear to outside observers that he is looking for alternatives to the harsh dictatorial rule that has characterized life in Cuba for the last five decades, and which has left the island with no infrastructure, no food, no wealth, and no hope. Others, such as this writer, believe that this is only a ploy to sniff out into the open potential dissidents, and other dissaffected elements of the population, and to gauge its size for possible repressive measures the Cuban government may wish to take in the near future. While it is the hope of many Cubans inside and outside of the island that the government transform, even gradually, into a more democratic style of governing, fifty years of absolute repression and depravation have left Cubans without hope of any change. Some say that they have seen this before, while others hope that this time, they might just mean what they say about changing. Whether it is change or more of the same, every observer agrees that it will not be the end of Castro style Communist rule and the decades long repression it has brought to the Cuban people.
At the UN, world leaders spoke and continue to speak on topics and issues which are of the upmost importance to them and their people. It is unfortunate that we must suffer to see such tyrants as Iran's Achmedinajab, Lybia's Muammar Quaddaffi, Venezuela's Hugo Chavez, and sundry other types castigate the United States, and Israel on their mutual need to protect their citizens, ensure their nation's stability and viability, promote commerce with its neighbors, and establish its own roles in the community of nations. This writer watched Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and thought of how this brave leader stood up to the various criminal nations gathered there, and asked them if they had any shame. Most touching was when the Prime Minister spoke about the Holocaust, and how it personally touched his life and the lives of almost every Jewish family throughout the world. It brought instantly thoughts of the injustice in watching almost daily people deny that the Holocaust never happened, as if to say that family members whom one lost to the terror of the Nazi regime in Europe never even existed; that their horrible sufferings and deaths were but a figment of someone's imagination. I could not contain the ire I personally felt at such a thought, and my complete and total disgust at those who perpetrate it.
But, for those who wish to read Prime Minister Netanyahu's speech, they may go to the following link: http://www.nowpublic.com/world/benjamin-netanyahu-un-speech-full-text-transcript-sep-24-2009 It can also be read and viewed at the following link: http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2009/09/israeli-prime-minister-benjamin-netanyahus-un-speechbut-to-those-who-gave-this-holocaustdenier-a-hea.html It was touching; it was brilliant, and it was moving. Again, imagine what it feels to have had someone close to you suffer and die in Hitler's concentration camps, only to have several world leaders deny that such a thing ever occurred. Imagine if you, yourself are a survivor of the horror, and have decades later someone deny that such a thing ever happened to you at all! Words escape me.
It is not the first time that a Prime Minister of Israel speaks before the world body, and it will not be the last. Israeli Prime Ministers have spoken before it several times before. They have had to address themselves to the greatest of world leaders and the worst. Of honorable leaders and dishonorable ones. But, this writer was taken by this Prime Minister's speech, and it takes him back to how US President Ronald Reagan's speeches moved him more than twenty years before. Benjamin Netanyahu is a real mensch. I have always respected, admired, and liked Benjamin Netanyahu. It is good to see that he is the Prime Minister of Israel. For once, Israel has a leader who can stand up to demands inimical to its people made by well meaning but misguided American politicians.
Ironically, amidst all of the protests which the militant Left organized during George W. Bush's eight years in office and their accusations against him for promoting a police state like atmosphere throughout the country following the terror events of 9/11, none of these weapons were ever used against civilian targets within the borders of this country. It was used by the Clinton White House, and it appears to be well in use by the Obama White House against civilian targets.
The G20 Summit and all others which have preceded it have fostered the ire of hard left and hard right groups; Communists and Anarchists who claim that successive US president and the leaders of many other industrialized nations have and continue to work for a new world order, and to that end, there exits shadow governments within each nation hard at work to see that these measures get carried through. A new book called The Shadow Government http://intermrkts.vo.llnwd.net/o35/u/Intermarkets/0909/Shadow_Govt_Ad_300x250.gif claims that Obama's more than thirty unelected, unvetted Czars are part of his shadow government, working to carry his dictates without congressional oversight, or the protection of the courts as the Constitution mandates.
In the international arena, even Cuba under Raul Castro sees the need for change, but not the kind of change that most Cuban Exiles in the United States and a good many Cubans inside the imprisoned island would like to see - the total coallapse of the Communist government, and the beginnings of a democratic government, or at least serious, verifiable movements in that direction. Raul Castro, who has taken over since his older brother Fidel reliquished power about two years ago, is now asking Cubans to rethink about Cuban Socialism http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2009/09/22/world/international-us-cuba-debate.html?_r=2 and the role its played and is playing in their daily lives. It would appear to outside observers that he is looking for alternatives to the harsh dictatorial rule that has characterized life in Cuba for the last five decades, and which has left the island with no infrastructure, no food, no wealth, and no hope. Others, such as this writer, believe that this is only a ploy to sniff out into the open potential dissidents, and other dissaffected elements of the population, and to gauge its size for possible repressive measures the Cuban government may wish to take in the near future. While it is the hope of many Cubans inside and outside of the island that the government transform, even gradually, into a more democratic style of governing, fifty years of absolute repression and depravation have left Cubans without hope of any change. Some say that they have seen this before, while others hope that this time, they might just mean what they say about changing. Whether it is change or more of the same, every observer agrees that it will not be the end of Castro style Communist rule and the decades long repression it has brought to the Cuban people.
At the UN, world leaders spoke and continue to speak on topics and issues which are of the upmost importance to them and their people. It is unfortunate that we must suffer to see such tyrants as Iran's Achmedinajab, Lybia's Muammar Quaddaffi, Venezuela's Hugo Chavez, and sundry other types castigate the United States, and Israel on their mutual need to protect their citizens, ensure their nation's stability and viability, promote commerce with its neighbors, and establish its own roles in the community of nations. This writer watched Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and thought of how this brave leader stood up to the various criminal nations gathered there, and asked them if they had any shame. Most touching was when the Prime Minister spoke about the Holocaust, and how it personally touched his life and the lives of almost every Jewish family throughout the world. It brought instantly thoughts of the injustice in watching almost daily people deny that the Holocaust never happened, as if to say that family members whom one lost to the terror of the Nazi regime in Europe never even existed; that their horrible sufferings and deaths were but a figment of someone's imagination. I could not contain the ire I personally felt at such a thought, and my complete and total disgust at those who perpetrate it.
But, for those who wish to read Prime Minister Netanyahu's speech, they may go to the following link: http://www.nowpublic.com/world/benjamin-netanyahu-un-speech-full-text-transcript-sep-24-2009 It can also be read and viewed at the following link: http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2009/09/israeli-prime-minister-benjamin-netanyahus-un-speechbut-to-those-who-gave-this-holocaustdenier-a-hea.html It was touching; it was brilliant, and it was moving. Again, imagine what it feels to have had someone close to you suffer and die in Hitler's concentration camps, only to have several world leaders deny that such a thing ever occurred. Imagine if you, yourself are a survivor of the horror, and have decades later someone deny that such a thing ever happened to you at all! Words escape me.
It is not the first time that a Prime Minister of Israel speaks before the world body, and it will not be the last. Israeli Prime Ministers have spoken before it several times before. They have had to address themselves to the greatest of world leaders and the worst. Of honorable leaders and dishonorable ones. But, this writer was taken by this Prime Minister's speech, and it takes him back to how US President Ronald Reagan's speeches moved him more than twenty years before. Benjamin Netanyahu is a real mensch. I have always respected, admired, and liked Benjamin Netanyahu. It is good to see that he is the Prime Minister of Israel. For once, Israel has a leader who can stand up to demands inimical to its people made by well meaning but misguided American politicians.
Why these Changes in Foreign Policy & Terror?
It is interesting that since the Obama Administration declared that the War on Terror is over, it forgot to tell the terrorists that, who continue to plot all sorts of schemes to blow up American targets of interests, and murder as many human beings as possible. In the news in just one day are indictments against three of them for two separate plots http://wcbstv.com/breakingnewsalerts/najibullah.zazi.indicted.2.1205295.html and http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/092409dnmetbombarrest.1b177db8b.html as well as an Illinois man charged with planning to blow up federal office buildings
http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSN2447383520090924, while malfunctioning serviellance cameras in SEPTA. Pennsylvania fail to display several suspicious looking individuals taking photographs of the subway system there http://cbs3.com/local/SEPTA.Broad.Street.2.1206878.html, and two other Muslim men are caught and charged with attempting to blow up the Marine Base at Quantico, Virginia http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSTRE58N6YT20090924. Somehow, somebody forgot to tell these men that the Obama Administration is not at war with them, yet they continue to fight their war against US nevertheless.
When the Obama Administration decided to scrap the Bush Doctrine of Preemptive Action against terrorist base camps, and center of operation, and instead opted for the failed and dangerous Clinton policy of treating terrorism as nothing more than a law enforcement issue, he sent a clear signal to every terrorist organization - it's open season on Americans again. The Bush Doctrine allowed military, intelligence, and law enforcement to work together with allies throughout the world to investigate and preemptively strike against terrorist camps, bases of operations, and hideouts throughout the world without the knowledge of the rogue nations harboring them. For eight years, this policy protected America and its interests abroad from the kind of terrorist attacks it saw during the Clinton years, as every terror attack escalated in frequency and in size until it culminated with the attacks of September 11th, 2001, just months after Clinton presidency had ended and the new Bush Administration was beginning to transition in.
What is flawed about the Clinton policy (and now Obama's policy) of treating terrorism as a law enforcement issue is that it does not allow for prevention, because it is only investigated after the "crime" has been committed. By then, the damage will have been done, hundreds, maybe even hundreds of thousands of lives in the next attack, will have been lost; and the damage to commerce and infrastructure, including this fragile economy, inestimable.
This policy explains why Barak Obama has decided to close Camp X-Ray at GITMO in Cuba, the only secure place on this planet where the world's most dangerous terrorists can be kept under watch, and has instead wished to irresponsibly move these terrorists to "secure" locations throughout the 48 contiguous states on this continent. It also explains why Barak Obama has granted terrorists and foreign combatants the right of Habeas Corpus, and every right Americans Citizens enjoy under this Constitution, while directing his Attorney General to investigate and prosecute former intelligence officials who were tasked by the previous administration with fighting domestic and foreign terrorists for eight years. It is a flawed and dangerous policy because it penalizes those who served this nation while rewarding its most dangerous and worst enemies - the terrorists these officials in the CIA helped capture and interrogate.
This has not been lost on America's enemies, who have been watching Obama's every move since he came into office. His expensive traveling junkets overseas to apologize for alleged supposed misdeeds by past administrations is the worst display of appeasement and provocation by an American president in memory. In Afghanistan, seeing weakness and vacillation in the new president, a resurgent Taliban is attempting to overrun and overtake US forces fighting in that country alongside token NATO Forces, and the Afghan Army http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/09/24/60minutes/main5335445.shtml. Barak Obama does not yet know whether to retreat and leave Afghanistan at the mercy of the Taliban, or to commit more troops and allow the military to run an effective counter-insurgency operation in that country. Obama's conflicting loyalties have kept him from providing the leadership necessary as Commander in Chief to win this war once and for all, because he has not allowed the Pentagon to commit more troop or supplies which are desperately needed by those brave Americans fighting the war there. We have not seen the end of this.
At the United Nations, Barak Obama declared territories which Israel won in the Six Day War with Jewish blood, "Occupied Territories," effectively taking the side of the Intifada against Israel, and bringing America closer to abandonment of its long time ally. One Jerusalem reported the following as to the implications of these statements, and the crossroads this brings in the relationship of our two countries:
"President Obama became the first US President to refer to the territories that Israel won in the (defensive) Six Day War as, "Occupied Territory." This implies that Israel must retreat from its own land, return to indefensible '67 borders, divide Jerusalem, and capitulate to Palestinian forces bent on destroying Israel."
This of course, is impossible, but Israel's and America's enemies are seeing precisely the trajectory that this president is taking his nation, and the implications of this upon their war of national liberation against countries whom have strong relationships with the United States in the past, but again see themselves being left out in the cold by the current administration as they did during the Carter and Clinton years. When the Obama Administration authorized $900 million be given to Hamas a few months ago in the guise of "humanitarian aid," it was the first time the government of the United States took tax payer money to reward a terrorist entity sworn to the destruction of the State of Israel and the wholesale slaughter of the Jewish people. This is not good for this country, because it serves to embolden our enemies to take action here against this country in new and varied acts of terror, as we saw during the Clinton years up until 9/11. Weakness, appeasement, and ambivalence, and vacillation are tools tyrants, despots, and murderers have always taken advantage of. History tells US that if we continue down such a road, it will cost more in lives and property than if we would have otherwise taken the path on preemptive prevention President George W. Bush placed on, and kept US save through eight very dangerous years.
Because the former junior senator and now president rose up the ranks from within the most militant of far left organizations such as ACORN, and worked within that organization as a community organizer, following the teachings of Communist Saul Alinsky, and his association throughout his entire career have been individuals and causes of the most radical, and Anti-American and Anti-Semitic nature, including the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, based upon Black Liberation Theology, which is an outgrowth of Marxist Liberation Theology and the rise and support of movement of national liberation, i.e.; terrorist movements, his foreign and domestic policy will reflect these radical causes and movements, and we are seeing its byproduct; the abandonment of long held American foreign policy objectives, allies, and the adoption and implementation of the current policies we are seeing at play in this administration.
This is why he is calling territory Israel fought for when invaded during the Six Day War as "occupied territories," because the cause of national liberation under the banner of Hamas, Hezbollah, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and other organizations which have since been absorbed by these all claim that such territories are "occupied territories." This explains why he supports Marxists dictators overseas such as ousted Honduran president Zelaya, who attempted to abridge his country's Constitution by extended his presidency indefinitely. This is why the world's worst Marxist tyrants have praised his foreign policies. And this is why if he continues this path, more innocent lives will be put at risk and lost than at any other time in recent memory. Let US be clear here, it is not Obama the man whom this writer objects to, but Obama's foreign and domestic policies and the objectives behind them. If they are not opposed, the consequences will be disastrous for this country and for its allies overseas, and will place its citizens and this nation in jeopardy. At a time when the human race can destroy itself, and weapons of mass destruction are the most sought for by terrorists, we dare not allow well meaning platitudes and bone headed policies govern the day, because to do so will mean our end.
http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSN2447383520090924, while malfunctioning serviellance cameras in SEPTA. Pennsylvania fail to display several suspicious looking individuals taking photographs of the subway system there http://cbs3.com/local/SEPTA.Broad.Street.2.1206878.html, and two other Muslim men are caught and charged with attempting to blow up the Marine Base at Quantico, Virginia http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSTRE58N6YT20090924. Somehow, somebody forgot to tell these men that the Obama Administration is not at war with them, yet they continue to fight their war against US nevertheless.
When the Obama Administration decided to scrap the Bush Doctrine of Preemptive Action against terrorist base camps, and center of operation, and instead opted for the failed and dangerous Clinton policy of treating terrorism as nothing more than a law enforcement issue, he sent a clear signal to every terrorist organization - it's open season on Americans again. The Bush Doctrine allowed military, intelligence, and law enforcement to work together with allies throughout the world to investigate and preemptively strike against terrorist camps, bases of operations, and hideouts throughout the world without the knowledge of the rogue nations harboring them. For eight years, this policy protected America and its interests abroad from the kind of terrorist attacks it saw during the Clinton years, as every terror attack escalated in frequency and in size until it culminated with the attacks of September 11th, 2001, just months after Clinton presidency had ended and the new Bush Administration was beginning to transition in.
What is flawed about the Clinton policy (and now Obama's policy) of treating terrorism as a law enforcement issue is that it does not allow for prevention, because it is only investigated after the "crime" has been committed. By then, the damage will have been done, hundreds, maybe even hundreds of thousands of lives in the next attack, will have been lost; and the damage to commerce and infrastructure, including this fragile economy, inestimable.
This policy explains why Barak Obama has decided to close Camp X-Ray at GITMO in Cuba, the only secure place on this planet where the world's most dangerous terrorists can be kept under watch, and has instead wished to irresponsibly move these terrorists to "secure" locations throughout the 48 contiguous states on this continent. It also explains why Barak Obama has granted terrorists and foreign combatants the right of Habeas Corpus, and every right Americans Citizens enjoy under this Constitution, while directing his Attorney General to investigate and prosecute former intelligence officials who were tasked by the previous administration with fighting domestic and foreign terrorists for eight years. It is a flawed and dangerous policy because it penalizes those who served this nation while rewarding its most dangerous and worst enemies - the terrorists these officials in the CIA helped capture and interrogate.
This has not been lost on America's enemies, who have been watching Obama's every move since he came into office. His expensive traveling junkets overseas to apologize for alleged supposed misdeeds by past administrations is the worst display of appeasement and provocation by an American president in memory. In Afghanistan, seeing weakness and vacillation in the new president, a resurgent Taliban is attempting to overrun and overtake US forces fighting in that country alongside token NATO Forces, and the Afghan Army http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/09/24/60minutes/main5335445.shtml. Barak Obama does not yet know whether to retreat and leave Afghanistan at the mercy of the Taliban, or to commit more troops and allow the military to run an effective counter-insurgency operation in that country. Obama's conflicting loyalties have kept him from providing the leadership necessary as Commander in Chief to win this war once and for all, because he has not allowed the Pentagon to commit more troop or supplies which are desperately needed by those brave Americans fighting the war there. We have not seen the end of this.
At the United Nations, Barak Obama declared territories which Israel won in the Six Day War with Jewish blood, "Occupied Territories," effectively taking the side of the Intifada against Israel, and bringing America closer to abandonment of its long time ally. One Jerusalem reported the following as to the implications of these statements, and the crossroads this brings in the relationship of our two countries:
"President Obama became the first US President to refer to the territories that Israel won in the (defensive) Six Day War as, "Occupied Territory." This implies that Israel must retreat from its own land, return to indefensible '67 borders, divide Jerusalem, and capitulate to Palestinian forces bent on destroying Israel."
This of course, is impossible, but Israel's and America's enemies are seeing precisely the trajectory that this president is taking his nation, and the implications of this upon their war of national liberation against countries whom have strong relationships with the United States in the past, but again see themselves being left out in the cold by the current administration as they did during the Carter and Clinton years. When the Obama Administration authorized $900 million be given to Hamas a few months ago in the guise of "humanitarian aid," it was the first time the government of the United States took tax payer money to reward a terrorist entity sworn to the destruction of the State of Israel and the wholesale slaughter of the Jewish people. This is not good for this country, because it serves to embolden our enemies to take action here against this country in new and varied acts of terror, as we saw during the Clinton years up until 9/11. Weakness, appeasement, and ambivalence, and vacillation are tools tyrants, despots, and murderers have always taken advantage of. History tells US that if we continue down such a road, it will cost more in lives and property than if we would have otherwise taken the path on preemptive prevention President George W. Bush placed on, and kept US save through eight very dangerous years.
Because the former junior senator and now president rose up the ranks from within the most militant of far left organizations such as ACORN, and worked within that organization as a community organizer, following the teachings of Communist Saul Alinsky, and his association throughout his entire career have been individuals and causes of the most radical, and Anti-American and Anti-Semitic nature, including the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, based upon Black Liberation Theology, which is an outgrowth of Marxist Liberation Theology and the rise and support of movement of national liberation, i.e.; terrorist movements, his foreign and domestic policy will reflect these radical causes and movements, and we are seeing its byproduct; the abandonment of long held American foreign policy objectives, allies, and the adoption and implementation of the current policies we are seeing at play in this administration.
This is why he is calling territory Israel fought for when invaded during the Six Day War as "occupied territories," because the cause of national liberation under the banner of Hamas, Hezbollah, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and other organizations which have since been absorbed by these all claim that such territories are "occupied territories." This explains why he supports Marxists dictators overseas such as ousted Honduran president Zelaya, who attempted to abridge his country's Constitution by extended his presidency indefinitely. This is why the world's worst Marxist tyrants have praised his foreign policies. And this is why if he continues this path, more innocent lives will be put at risk and lost than at any other time in recent memory. Let US be clear here, it is not Obama the man whom this writer objects to, but Obama's foreign and domestic policies and the objectives behind them. If they are not opposed, the consequences will be disastrous for this country and for its allies overseas, and will place its citizens and this nation in jeopardy. At a time when the human race can destroy itself, and weapons of mass destruction are the most sought for by terrorists, we dare not allow well meaning platitudes and bone headed policies govern the day, because to do so will mean our end.
Thursday, September 24, 2009
The Varied Consequences of the Misguided Policies of An Obama Presidency
When I first read the story (http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/75036.html) about 4 Marines pinned down in Afghanistan who lost their lives because help did not get to them soon enough, I expressed my remorse in the following manner:
When we were attacked unprovoked on Tuesday, September 11th, 2001 by Al Qaeda, hiding in the mountains of Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, we responded with overwhelming force, and in less than three months, we ran them out of the country into the mountain regions of northern Pakistan, where they were for the next eight years.
The media has all but forgotten this story, as well as covering the war in Afghanistan, which is one of the reasons - but not the principle reason why it spiked this story. The story of the war in Afghanistan is one which every American family needs to know. It is a story of bravery under fire, of men serving far from home, fighting to rid the world of the most pernicious vermin the human race has ever seen who use religion as a cover for murder and tyranny.
But, there is an untold story here as well. It is the story of lack. A lack of leadership and resolve at the very top of the command structure. Of ambivalence, and indecision. Of conflicting interests, and objectives. Of a Commander in Chief asleep at the wheel of our ship of state. And this is costing US lives. Precious American lives. The news media is quick to rush to report collateral damage (as its called) of civilians killed when one of our bombs misses target, or when (as is often the case, ask the Israelis) terrorists use mosques, hospitals, and populated areas to attack from because they're aware we will not strike there due to our rules of engagement when civilians are involved.
But the story below is perhaps the most telling testament to a lack of leadership from the White House with regards to how it is pursuing this country's fight against its most dangerous and mortal enemies. And if you think that if we turn tail and return, and let bygones be bygones; remember that it was this thinking that led to our inability to prevent the most tragic event in recent years from occurring on that fateful Tuesday morning in which 2,000 of our fellow human beings perished without warning, victims of our own apathy, and the well laid plans of a group of "towel head" in some far off mountain region thousands of miles away.
Too far away to be of any concern to US? If they try to tell you that, remind them of the events of September 11th, 2001, and then remind them that in a world full of nations like Iran, Syria, and North Korea, and their surrogates all across diverse continents, where technology, organization, money, and training even such odds, it is more likely that another 9/11 occur here from such diverse places than any other possibility they might be able to conjure up in their infertile minds.
I do not know how strongly I can make the case that the trajectory in which the Obama White House is taking this nation is not the right one. Take a look for a moment at just what is being done, and you'll understand.
1.) It wishes to shut down CAMP X-RAY at GITMO, the only fully secured American controlled maximum security prison outside of the contiguous forty eight states.
2.) It wishes to do this without first securing a site with all of the attributes offered by CAMP X-RAY.
3.) It has even expressed the plan to put some of these - the world's most dangerous terrorists in parts of the continental United States.
4.) It has ordered the Federal Bureau of Investigation to cease all surveillance of foreign nations who might be conducting terrorists plots.
5.) It has redefined terrorism as "man-made catastrophes.
6.) It has declared that the United States is no longer fighting a "War on Terrorism."
7.) Obama Administration head of Department of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, has declared in a memo that it now considers certain types of American nations, including pro-life Christian Evangelicals and Catholics, many returning veterans of foreign wars, gun owners, and conservatives to be "potential enemies of the state."
8.) Declarations made from the Oval Office to the effect that it wishes to engage America's enemies (like Iran and North Korea) without prior conditions has left it denuded and without anything to bargain for or against in its talks with their leading negotiators.
9.) The Obama White House did nothing to support the democratic movement in Iran during or following the elections, and turned a blind eye when its tyrannical government arrested, murdered, and tortured dissidents.
10.) Barak Obama has embraced the most brutal dictatorships in Latin America, such as Castro's Cuba, and Chavez's Venezuela, while shutting all aid to Honduras, whose ousted Marxist president attempted to take power by tossing its Constitution and extending his presidency indefinitely like Chavez did in Venezuela, and Castro did decades ago in Cuba.
11.) The Obama-run and directed Department of Defense is not resupplying fast enough its military units overseas engaged in combat. This is costing American lives. Consider if you will if one or more of your sons and daughters are serving right now in Iraq, or Afghanistan. How would you feel about this?
12.) Barak Obama brazenly choose the date of the Soviet Invasion of Hungary to announce that he is abandoning the missile protection President Bush promised would be forthcoming when he left office, but which Obama promised as a candidate when campaigning for the White House that he would shelve as soon as he got elected. This leaves Eastern Europe vulnerable to Russian and Iranian aggression.
13.) Barak Obama has travelled to Europe and the Middle East to apologize for alleged wrongs he personally sees as this country having committed in its foreign policy - a sign of appeasement and weakness - because it sends signals to allies that we are returning to the era (error) of the Carter and Clinton years of aiding and abetting our enemies while alienating our friends and allies by cutting aid to them.
14.) His White House has pursued the burning of Bibles sent to Afghanistan, while it is in process of promoting Islam and Muslim-centered programs in America's public school system (something is very wrong here).
15,) Obama's White House is tracking web activity and e-mails of private citizens from the White House, and using the information for political and other purposes.
16.) It is on track in the nationalization of private industry, and to this end is seeking to also nationalize the healthcare industry.
17.) It is in the process of overturning DOMA (Defense of Marriage Act) signed by President Clinton into law which defines marriage as the union between a man and a woman, with ROMA (Respect of Marriage Act) granting marital rights to homosexuals and lesbians.
18.) It has pulled money from President Bush's faith based initiatives program from organizations which it considers discriminate against gays and lesbians in their hiring. This means that in order for these organizations to receive any federal help in their programs for the poor and needy, they will need to drop their Bible-based rules and hire homosexuals and lesbians.
19.) It has dropped the Mexico City Provisions which prevented federal money for abortions overseas, and has adopted a pro-abortion policy as a means of contraceptive, returning US to the Clinton years where abortion on demand was promoted by this country overseas.
20.) It has given $900 million (just $100 million short of a TRILLION DOLLARS) to Hamas in Gaza as foreign aid; the first act in which the United States aids and abets a sworn enemy of Israel, and terrorist entity in this country's history.
21.) As terrorism against Israel continues unabated, the Obama Administration is pressing Israel to make further concessions to the Palestinian Authority without any kind of reciprocation on their part to combat terrorism from the territories it controls. Hamas shoot missiles into Israeli homes every day, but it is not reported either by the news media, or by this White House, yet both want Israel to give more up.
22.) When running for president, Barak Obama promised a change in Washington: a departure from the old politics of corruption and partisan interests to one of healing, and inclusion, yet less than a year into his presidency, the only change seen in Washington is the number of tax cheats, Lobbyists, Leftwing radicals, and Communist revolutionaries he's made into unelected czars in his cabinet, and an increase in the same old politics of the past, only this time everyone who disagrees with his policies or belong to a political party other than Democrat or Communist are shut out of his office. Chicago style radical politics has come to the White House in spades, and it is this politics that is running the show on every domestic and foreign issue that comes before this president.
23.) Currently, Obama's mixed signals - his ambivalence to commit more troops to Afghanistan, his opposition to provide central Europe with a missile shield against aggressive regimes such as Russia, and Iran, and his attack on those who have provided their service to this nation against terrorists and terrorist regimes and organizations in the past - have emboldened the Taliban, weakened confidence in our reliability as an ally overseas, and has brought praise from such dictators as Fidel Castro, Hugo Caesar Chavez, and Muammar Qaddaffi. You know something is terribly wrong when praise is coming from such quarters.
26.) The willful manipulation of children to promote a political agenda, cause, person, organization, or movement in the public school system is being conducted throughout many of our public schools across the country as a concerted effort to manipulate and shape public opinion without the input or consent of the parents of these children, and it is being done as it was during the presidential elections, to promote and favor Barak Hussein Obama (see the following link: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2347194/posts). This is against the law, what's more, this is un-American!
Fox News reported that this song WAS taken from a Christian Hymn, but did not specify which one it was. This is idolatry. I have lived for a long time, and I have never seen such idolatrous behavior here in America. I've seen it in dictatorships such as Nazi Germany (Adolf Hitler), Soviet Russia (Joseph Stalin), Red China (Mao Tsetong), Communist Cuba (Fidel Castro), Communist Viet Nam (Ho Chi Min), and the Islamic Republic of Iran (Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini). But, I have never seen such expressions in this country. Not even the most popular presidents in our history - George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, or Ronald Reagan have ever had children in public schools directed by their teachers to sing the praises of an American President. This is the first time, and it is scary. This is nothing short of blasphemy, since these teachers are taking a hymn sung as worship and adapted it to a political leader for political purposes. What's more, our public schools are being used without the consent of the public, as centers for propaganda and political manipulation. Teachers who are members of the two main teachers' unions: American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association, are using the public education system for political purposes. The venue of our public schools is being used by political hacks of the far Left to indoctrinate and brainwash our children to conform to the new political correctness sweeping our nation's government agencies, news and entertainment media.
25.) Barak Obama's commitment on saddling America with a UN Climate Tax, and his direct involvement in the climate change/global warming scam is the biggest power/money grab in the history of this country, if it passes through both houses of congress. A form of it has already passed the Democrat-controlled House, and it is being worked on in the Democrat-controlled Senate. If passed, it will pale TARP One and Two in scope and cost to the average American family. It will be another tool in bankrupting America without providing alternative sources for America's energy needs and dependency on foreign oil.
There are not enough working Americans and enough revenue for this kind of federal spending, and because of this, the US Treasury has allowed the privately stock holder owned Federal Reserve Bank to inflate the money supply in order to create the necessary liquidity. But this has caused the dollar to free fall, and has sent commodities and hard assets through the roof. Gold is now currently higher than it was during the Carter years when it had peaked at $1000 per ounce. This is devastating the average American whose wages have not gone up in years, and whose savings and investments have dwindled following the collapse of the stock market earlier this year. The DOW has recovered, but it is largely paper created, and not real wealth and growth. The job figures simply tell a different story, while the special interests claim that a recovery is under way, even in the face of earlier claims, and some persistent claims that this Great Recession/Depression is going to be with US for at least another two to three years before we see its end.
Unemployment figures continue to soar, and Obama himself has conceded that they will likely reach ten million before the end of this year. The month of August alone saw another 550 million Americans file for new unemployment compensation, while another half million exhausted all of theirs and are no longer counted as a statistic. It is believed by experts and National Employment Law Project that this figure will soar to over one and a half million; a staggering number when one considers the impact of these people not being able to find work, unable to pay their utility bills, buy food, or pay their mortgages is going to have on the overall economy, especially in such high unemployment states as California, Michigan, and Detroit where the figures are already double digits and climbing.
I can go on and on, but I'll spare you the rest. You know it already. The two million man Tea Party in Washington, D.C. recently, and the town hall meetings, and other Tea Parties preceding these are all testaments to the silent majority having had it with the status quo of bigger and bigger federal meddling into their lives with over-regulation, high taxation, no representation, and an expansion of government by corrupt politicians with the most corrupt at the top running the White House like it's some kind of flop house and the country like it's some kind of Marxist Community Organization.
When we were attacked unprovoked on Tuesday, September 11th, 2001 by Al Qaeda, hiding in the mountains of Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, we responded with overwhelming force, and in less than three months, we ran them out of the country into the mountain regions of northern Pakistan, where they were for the next eight years.
The media has all but forgotten this story, as well as covering the war in Afghanistan, which is one of the reasons - but not the principle reason why it spiked this story. The story of the war in Afghanistan is one which every American family needs to know. It is a story of bravery under fire, of men serving far from home, fighting to rid the world of the most pernicious vermin the human race has ever seen who use religion as a cover for murder and tyranny.
But, there is an untold story here as well. It is the story of lack. A lack of leadership and resolve at the very top of the command structure. Of ambivalence, and indecision. Of conflicting interests, and objectives. Of a Commander in Chief asleep at the wheel of our ship of state. And this is costing US lives. Precious American lives. The news media is quick to rush to report collateral damage (as its called) of civilians killed when one of our bombs misses target, or when (as is often the case, ask the Israelis) terrorists use mosques, hospitals, and populated areas to attack from because they're aware we will not strike there due to our rules of engagement when civilians are involved.
But the story below is perhaps the most telling testament to a lack of leadership from the White House with regards to how it is pursuing this country's fight against its most dangerous and mortal enemies. And if you think that if we turn tail and return, and let bygones be bygones; remember that it was this thinking that led to our inability to prevent the most tragic event in recent years from occurring on that fateful Tuesday morning in which 2,000 of our fellow human beings perished without warning, victims of our own apathy, and the well laid plans of a group of "towel head" in some far off mountain region thousands of miles away.
Too far away to be of any concern to US? If they try to tell you that, remind them of the events of September 11th, 2001, and then remind them that in a world full of nations like Iran, Syria, and North Korea, and their surrogates all across diverse continents, where technology, organization, money, and training even such odds, it is more likely that another 9/11 occur here from such diverse places than any other possibility they might be able to conjure up in their infertile minds.
I do not know how strongly I can make the case that the trajectory in which the Obama White House is taking this nation is not the right one. Take a look for a moment at just what is being done, and you'll understand.
1.) It wishes to shut down CAMP X-RAY at GITMO, the only fully secured American controlled maximum security prison outside of the contiguous forty eight states.
2.) It wishes to do this without first securing a site with all of the attributes offered by CAMP X-RAY.
3.) It has even expressed the plan to put some of these - the world's most dangerous terrorists in parts of the continental United States.
4.) It has ordered the Federal Bureau of Investigation to cease all surveillance of foreign nations who might be conducting terrorists plots.
5.) It has redefined terrorism as "man-made catastrophes.
6.) It has declared that the United States is no longer fighting a "War on Terrorism."
7.) Obama Administration head of Department of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, has declared in a memo that it now considers certain types of American nations, including pro-life Christian Evangelicals and Catholics, many returning veterans of foreign wars, gun owners, and conservatives to be "potential enemies of the state."
8.) Declarations made from the Oval Office to the effect that it wishes to engage America's enemies (like Iran and North Korea) without prior conditions has left it denuded and without anything to bargain for or against in its talks with their leading negotiators.
9.) The Obama White House did nothing to support the democratic movement in Iran during or following the elections, and turned a blind eye when its tyrannical government arrested, murdered, and tortured dissidents.
10.) Barak Obama has embraced the most brutal dictatorships in Latin America, such as Castro's Cuba, and Chavez's Venezuela, while shutting all aid to Honduras, whose ousted Marxist president attempted to take power by tossing its Constitution and extending his presidency indefinitely like Chavez did in Venezuela, and Castro did decades ago in Cuba.
11.) The Obama-run and directed Department of Defense is not resupplying fast enough its military units overseas engaged in combat. This is costing American lives. Consider if you will if one or more of your sons and daughters are serving right now in Iraq, or Afghanistan. How would you feel about this?
12.) Barak Obama brazenly choose the date of the Soviet Invasion of Hungary to announce that he is abandoning the missile protection President Bush promised would be forthcoming when he left office, but which Obama promised as a candidate when campaigning for the White House that he would shelve as soon as he got elected. This leaves Eastern Europe vulnerable to Russian and Iranian aggression.
13.) Barak Obama has travelled to Europe and the Middle East to apologize for alleged wrongs he personally sees as this country having committed in its foreign policy - a sign of appeasement and weakness - because it sends signals to allies that we are returning to the era (error) of the Carter and Clinton years of aiding and abetting our enemies while alienating our friends and allies by cutting aid to them.
14.) His White House has pursued the burning of Bibles sent to Afghanistan, while it is in process of promoting Islam and Muslim-centered programs in America's public school system (something is very wrong here).
15,) Obama's White House is tracking web activity and e-mails of private citizens from the White House, and using the information for political and other purposes.
16.) It is on track in the nationalization of private industry, and to this end is seeking to also nationalize the healthcare industry.
17.) It is in the process of overturning DOMA (Defense of Marriage Act) signed by President Clinton into law which defines marriage as the union between a man and a woman, with ROMA (Respect of Marriage Act) granting marital rights to homosexuals and lesbians.
18.) It has pulled money from President Bush's faith based initiatives program from organizations which it considers discriminate against gays and lesbians in their hiring. This means that in order for these organizations to receive any federal help in their programs for the poor and needy, they will need to drop their Bible-based rules and hire homosexuals and lesbians.
19.) It has dropped the Mexico City Provisions which prevented federal money for abortions overseas, and has adopted a pro-abortion policy as a means of contraceptive, returning US to the Clinton years where abortion on demand was promoted by this country overseas.
20.) It has given $900 million (just $100 million short of a TRILLION DOLLARS) to Hamas in Gaza as foreign aid; the first act in which the United States aids and abets a sworn enemy of Israel, and terrorist entity in this country's history.
21.) As terrorism against Israel continues unabated, the Obama Administration is pressing Israel to make further concessions to the Palestinian Authority without any kind of reciprocation on their part to combat terrorism from the territories it controls. Hamas shoot missiles into Israeli homes every day, but it is not reported either by the news media, or by this White House, yet both want Israel to give more up.
22.) When running for president, Barak Obama promised a change in Washington: a departure from the old politics of corruption and partisan interests to one of healing, and inclusion, yet less than a year into his presidency, the only change seen in Washington is the number of tax cheats, Lobbyists, Leftwing radicals, and Communist revolutionaries he's made into unelected czars in his cabinet, and an increase in the same old politics of the past, only this time everyone who disagrees with his policies or belong to a political party other than Democrat or Communist are shut out of his office. Chicago style radical politics has come to the White House in spades, and it is this politics that is running the show on every domestic and foreign issue that comes before this president.
23.) Currently, Obama's mixed signals - his ambivalence to commit more troops to Afghanistan, his opposition to provide central Europe with a missile shield against aggressive regimes such as Russia, and Iran, and his attack on those who have provided their service to this nation against terrorists and terrorist regimes and organizations in the past - have emboldened the Taliban, weakened confidence in our reliability as an ally overseas, and has brought praise from such dictators as Fidel Castro, Hugo Caesar Chavez, and Muammar Qaddaffi. You know something is terribly wrong when praise is coming from such quarters.
26.) The willful manipulation of children to promote a political agenda, cause, person, organization, or movement in the public school system is being conducted throughout many of our public schools across the country as a concerted effort to manipulate and shape public opinion without the input or consent of the parents of these children, and it is being done as it was during the presidential elections, to promote and favor Barak Hussein Obama (see the following link: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2347194/posts). This is against the law, what's more, this is un-American!
Fox News reported that this song WAS taken from a Christian Hymn, but did not specify which one it was. This is idolatry. I have lived for a long time, and I have never seen such idolatrous behavior here in America. I've seen it in dictatorships such as Nazi Germany (Adolf Hitler), Soviet Russia (Joseph Stalin), Red China (Mao Tsetong), Communist Cuba (Fidel Castro), Communist Viet Nam (Ho Chi Min), and the Islamic Republic of Iran (Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini). But, I have never seen such expressions in this country. Not even the most popular presidents in our history - George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, or Ronald Reagan have ever had children in public schools directed by their teachers to sing the praises of an American President. This is the first time, and it is scary. This is nothing short of blasphemy, since these teachers are taking a hymn sung as worship and adapted it to a political leader for political purposes. What's more, our public schools are being used without the consent of the public, as centers for propaganda and political manipulation. Teachers who are members of the two main teachers' unions: American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association, are using the public education system for political purposes. The venue of our public schools is being used by political hacks of the far Left to indoctrinate and brainwash our children to conform to the new political correctness sweeping our nation's government agencies, news and entertainment media.
25.) Barak Obama's commitment on saddling America with a UN Climate Tax, and his direct involvement in the climate change/global warming scam is the biggest power/money grab in the history of this country, if it passes through both houses of congress. A form of it has already passed the Democrat-controlled House, and it is being worked on in the Democrat-controlled Senate. If passed, it will pale TARP One and Two in scope and cost to the average American family. It will be another tool in bankrupting America without providing alternative sources for America's energy needs and dependency on foreign oil.
There are not enough working Americans and enough revenue for this kind of federal spending, and because of this, the US Treasury has allowed the privately stock holder owned Federal Reserve Bank to inflate the money supply in order to create the necessary liquidity. But this has caused the dollar to free fall, and has sent commodities and hard assets through the roof. Gold is now currently higher than it was during the Carter years when it had peaked at $1000 per ounce. This is devastating the average American whose wages have not gone up in years, and whose savings and investments have dwindled following the collapse of the stock market earlier this year. The DOW has recovered, but it is largely paper created, and not real wealth and growth. The job figures simply tell a different story, while the special interests claim that a recovery is under way, even in the face of earlier claims, and some persistent claims that this Great Recession/Depression is going to be with US for at least another two to three years before we see its end.
Unemployment figures continue to soar, and Obama himself has conceded that they will likely reach ten million before the end of this year. The month of August alone saw another 550 million Americans file for new unemployment compensation, while another half million exhausted all of theirs and are no longer counted as a statistic. It is believed by experts and National Employment Law Project that this figure will soar to over one and a half million; a staggering number when one considers the impact of these people not being able to find work, unable to pay their utility bills, buy food, or pay their mortgages is going to have on the overall economy, especially in such high unemployment states as California, Michigan, and Detroit where the figures are already double digits and climbing.
I can go on and on, but I'll spare you the rest. You know it already. The two million man Tea Party in Washington, D.C. recently, and the town hall meetings, and other Tea Parties preceding these are all testaments to the silent majority having had it with the status quo of bigger and bigger federal meddling into their lives with over-regulation, high taxation, no representation, and an expansion of government by corrupt politicians with the most corrupt at the top running the White House like it's some kind of flop house and the country like it's some kind of Marxist Community Organization.
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