I looked at him, (rather stunned, considering the whole reason we were doing this project to begin with) and asked him, “Uh, do ya pay much attention to US politics?” The whole fucking COUNTRY is DEPRESSED! If you can find anybody who ISN’T, they’re either comatose or they’ve already come up with their own concoction for what they think ails them.  (alcohol, crack cocaine, methamphetamine, heroin, or Rapturous Religiosity.)
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Damn, Cyrena!  As often as you piss me off, you give me a big solid belly-laugh far more often with great stuff like this!

I have never been so hopeful about a president in my life.  Intelligent, thoughtful, forward-thinking, with a better understanding of what it means to come from nowhere than anyone since Bill Clinton.

None of the Israel-haters believe this but I DO believe in “Tough Love” for Israel.  Yes, I want to make sure she’s safe.  But I also want to make damn sure the jingoists and ultra-zionists are marginalized. Whereever there is war, I want to see peace, a fair even peace. 

I want to see the settlements out of the West Bank unless….those who live in them are willing to be citizens of Palestine and not Israel.

I think the model for peace should be Northern Ireland.  Yeah, lots of Catholics wanted the Protestants to go back to Scotland, even though they had been there 400 years…and the Protestants got “special” rights under British Law.  And they spent generations murdering each other.

What a waste!  I’ve argued for a fair, just, 2 state solution.  Eventually, trade WILL be optimal for both, and it will happen.  But as long as neither side will back off on violence, it can’t happen and they are locked, like binary stars, circling each other closer and closer until they tear each other apart.

Yet the “usual suspects” spout their repetitive crap.  There’s a cartoon, here in TD, of a Republican elephant holding up a sign as Obama takes the oath “Impeach President Obama!”  I found that hilarious because it describes the bulk of TD posters even more than the GOP!

Lady, you make me laugh! Your intelligent wit, observations, mixed with tantalizing insanity mean no matter WHAT you say, I can never stay mad at you!

I’d say “God Bless!” but I’m an agnostic! (LOL!)

Chris Prince—Thank you so much for your inspiring message, which was a screed of bullshit from beginning to end.  I’m sure it wrung a tear from the eye and the hot flash from the heart rom the suseptable, a real cockerel warmer.

I don’t understand why people are taken in by this kind of drivel.  Fadel, what’s the matter with you.  Obama was ushered into office by the slaughter in Gaza and the first thing he did on getting there was to call Israel and the US client-states to shore up the oppression of the Palestinians.

And you are impressed by a bunch of nice words?  It’s enough to make you puke.  For God’s sake, buck up.

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By Inherit The Wind, January 20 at 3:03 pm

•  “Nothing will change.  The same Truthdiggers will post the same tired slogans about Israel and big money and Obama being just another tool.The guy hasn’t even been President 6 hours as I write this, but why should THAT matter?  You all were tearing him down by the evening of November 4th.”

Actually, Inherit, they were doing it LONG before November 4th, as we’ve had these conversations with the “Chronic Bitchers” since the beginning. They are the crowd who WILLFULLY CHOOSE their own individually negative and pessimistic mentalities, and it seems (to me at least) very critical to make a CLEAR distinction between the CHRONIC bitchers/pessimists of ANY society, under ANY historical conditions, and the more COLLECTIVE pessimism/depression of a society that has been COLLECTIVELY victimized by an illegitimate and brutal political regime.

MOST of us, (and the population of the rest of the world) fall into the category that has been COLLECTIVELY victimized by US policy beginning back in Regan’s Regime, and has of course continued (albeit imperceptibly by the majority) ever since. The past 8 years pounded all of the nails firmly into our collective coffin, leaving our collective society in the worst shape it’s ever been in, probably since the Civil War. So collectively speaking, we’ve all been pretty depressed. (obviously, there are exceptions…I’m talking generalities here). HOWEVER, as any social psychologist worth her salt will tell us, there are multiple duplications among the groups that make up our society, and included among us, are those who are CHRONICALLY pessimistic or negative, and so the external forces that affect the rest of us COLLECTIVELY, are not necessarily the SAME SOURCES of their perpetual negativism. (I hope that makes some measure of sense, because I’m struggling with this in the early morning hours of the day after New Era Day – at least that’s what this is for many of us).

A clumsy sort of an analogy is experience that I’ve mentioned here in before. . About 4 years ago I was involved in a project with Consumer Watchdog (an organizations here in Calif.) regarding the availability and access of/to prescription meds and REIMPORTATION. for years, we have been selling pharmaceuticals to other countries at BULK rates that are CONSIDERABLY cheaper than what WE pay for the exact same medications here in the US, despite the fact that these pharmaceuticals are manufactured HERE IN THE US! In fact, the ONLY entity to which the pharmies are beholden to sell at bulk rates is the VA. Over the years I’ve watched (and personally experienced) the unnecessary suffering of far too many people, just because they didn’t have access to the latest that modern science has produced; simply because they couldn’t afford it, or because their health care provider would not foot the cost.
Anyway, the project was comprehensive, and required a lot of detailed research. Part of it (the activism at least) entailed a trip (we took the train) up to Canada, to highlight the differences in the prices and the availability of these medications, that ALL come from the US. We duplicated the process there, speaking with physicians, pharmacists and the press. During the process,  one of the physicians asked me why so many Americans were on anti-depressants; that pharmacological category being one of the most widely represented. I looked at him, (rather stunned, considering the whole reason we were doing this project to begin with) and asked him, “Uh, do ya pay much attention to US politics?” The whole fucking COUNTRY is DEPRESSED! If you can find anybody who ISN’T, they’re either comatose or they’ve already come up with their own concoction for what they think ails them.  (alcohol, crack cocaine, methamphetamine, heroin, or Rapturous Religiosity.)

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But my point of course, is that while the majority of us have suffered from a kind of collective negativity based on the political environment of the past 8 years, there is still a small percentage of the population who are and will remain, (for a variety of reasons) COMMITTED to negativity and pessimism, NO MATTER WHAT! These are people who THRIVE on negativity, and will ALWAYS see the proverbial glass not just HALF-empty, but COMPLETELY empty. Because for THEM, that is the chosen and preferred state of their existence. So even in the worst of times, when a larger percentage of the population is likely to see the glass half empty as opposed to half full, you’ve got the perpetual bitchers who are committed to making sure there ain’t nothin’ in the glass for ANYBODY!

These are the types who give meaning to the old adage that “misery loves company.” In black culture folklore, we call this the ‘crabs in the barrel’ mentality.  All the crabs stuck in the barrel, (or at the bottom of the well) are quite comfortable stuck in the misery of the barrel, and they thrive on it. Their existences are dictated by the degree of their misery and maintaining it. If one or more among them attempts to climb out of the barrel, with the intent of gaining access to some freedom, and THEN TURING AROUND TO PROVIDE THE BOOST OR HAND TO HAUL THE OTHERS OUT AS WELL, the rest of the crabs/trolls grab at the legs/claws/whatever…do their very best to PREVENT them from climbing out. The LAST thing they want is for any sort of peace or harmony to exist, because it diminishes or neutralizes their whole premise for existence. If there was nothing NEGATIVE, or nothing that could be perceived or twisted as such, it would be the same as taking away their water and food.

So it’s true that for “THEM”,  nothing will change, because they don’t want it to. But I dispute the claim made by others, (GW+McHammered suggested this on another thread) that the MAJORITY of our population suffers from such affliction. In fact, McHammered suggested that 75% of the American people do NOT want change, and I would reverse those numbers. I would say that the chronic bitchers among us, who will NEVER be satisfied with anything reeking of positive progressivism, EVEN FOR THEMSELVES -  represent a small minority, and that the empirical evidence clearly displays that.
That very small minority is represented here on Truthdig, but in relative terms, they ARE a very small minority, even though they may ‘seem’ like a larger presence than they actually represent, just because of the ‘squeaky wheel gets the oil’ theory. I came to recognize this many years ago, in terms of public servant work with the ‘masses’ of the traveling public. Overall, the majority of the ‘masses’ are reasonable people who’s grievances can be respected as legitimate. But there are always a few who conduct themselves and pattern their lives on negativism/pessimism, and create all the acrimony and chaos. (because they love chaos and thrive on it). Sadly, it is THEY who remain in our memories, instead of the others. We could always remember ‘the passenger from hell’, but failed to give the same ‘recognition’ to those of us…the MAJORITY, who are far more cooperative in our co-existence, and for whom “HOPE “ is NOT a ‘dirty’ word.

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Still, with all of that said, we cannot dismiss ALL of these people because it doesn’t mean that they DON’T have some legitimate grievances. The anti-Israel or anti-Zionists DO have some very legitimate complaints Inherit, and they cannot be denied. The regime in Israel has gone beyond the pale, and has consistently (and we’re talking over a long period of time)and totally ignored the Universal Laws of the Land, and violated them at every turn. There is ALSO no denying the disproportionate influence of the Israel Lobby on US foreign policy. A friend and fellow truthdigger once stated it very simply in an off line conversation when she said nearly a year ago, “WHOEVER the new President is, he or she is gonna HAVE TO DEAL WITH ISRAEL!! “ And, that’s true. Not only can we NOT continue to UNDERWRITE murder, mayhem, and genocide, we have a duty to STOP it. HOW Israel is ‘dealt with’ (as in the possibility of “Tough Love for Tel Aviv”) remains to be seen.  But if ANYBODY can pull it off, it will be Obama. And rest assured that EVEN WHEN HE DOES, the chronically hopeless will NEVER acknowledge it.

In the meantime, Israel is NOT the ‘only thing wrong with the world’ or the reason for all of our woes,  and reasonable people know that as well. Americans particularly (and especially now) know that we have a myriad of problems that cannot and should not all be placed at the feet of Israel. However, WITH THAT REALIZATION comes a certain truth that many people cannot accept, for the obvious reasons. If we accept that we cannot blame Israel or any other specific target for ALL of our problems, it forces the acknowledgment that WE OURSELVES, to a greater or lesser degree, actually have some RESPONSIBILITY for this collective and individual malaise! The worst of the chronic bitchers, (KDelphi, Troublesum, Dihey, to name a few) will absolutely NEVER accept such responsibility. For them, it will ALWAYS be somebody else’s fault, and they will always be the ‘victims’ of a system that they are convinced is rigged against them, AND THEY LIKE IT THAT WAY!!! Open up the gates of their private prisons/hells, and they would REFUSE TO COME OUT!!!

Still, I say they are the fringe of the society that the rest of us are willing enough to try to put back together, for the benefit of all. So for now, if only because there IS so much work to do, and because they can ONLY be counted on to sabotage it, I say “fuck ‘em.”  The CHANGE is gonna happen anyway, (already has) just because change is the only constant.

While I was moved by the historic occasion and some of Obama’s eloquent rhetoric, let there be no doubt as to where Obama’s loyalties lie:

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“The numbers have gone up since we’ve done the last analysis. The last counting was about $42 million. And by the end of it, I expect it to reach about $50 million being raised and spent from private sources.

And the single largest sector paying for this huge inaugural event is Wall Street. You know, you already cited the figures that 80 percent of all this money has come just from 211 wealthy individuals who have bundled anywhere up to $300,000 each to help pay for the inauguration. Well, if you take a look at who those wealthy individuals are, you find that they are representatives of Citibank, of Wachovia Bank, of Goldman Sachs, of Lehman Brothers. These are the people who are footing the bill for the inauguration, for the most part. There is also bundlers representing Hollywood, as well as lawyers and law firms, but the single largest sector is Wall Street.

And what do you suppose Wall Street wants in return for all this, for paying for all these activities? It’s pretty clear. I mean, Wall Street is right in the middle of the largest bailout program we’ve ever seen of the financial sector. Obama is going to be presiding over that bailout program in just a matter of a couple hours. And it’s Wall Street that wants a seat at Obama’s table, when it comes to deciding the nature of the bailout program.

http://www.democracynow.org/2009/1/20/public_citizen_obamas_inauguration_sponsored_by

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But I suppose the Washington Post Writers Group would give Wall Street the “benefit of the doubt” as well.

Thank goodness for Nader and thank goodness for Public Citizen.

The bellicose statements about what the US will do to anyone who gets in our way were hardly neccessary.  With 1.5 million dead in Iraq and property and infrastucture damage in that unfortunate country in the trillions of dollars, and a cost to us of probably $4 trillion according to economists who have researched it, I think the world already has a pretty good idea as to what happens to any country which opposes us.  On to Afganistan.

One thing which is being overlooked in the euphoria surrounding the inaguration is the fact that there is no money for Obama to do any of the fixing that people expect him to do.  It is shocking to see so many people afflicted with the collective delusion that there are nothing but good times just ahead and that Obama is the answer to all of our problems.

Yes, after listening to Obama’s inaugural address today, I am willing to give him the benefit of the doubt despite my previous doubts.

If words are any indication, then I must say that I am optimistic after hearing him today. I liked in particular his saying that “we are a nation of Christians, Muslims, Jews and atheists…,” expressing the demand for mutual respect and recognition.

I also liked in particular his saying, “To the Muslim world, we seek a new way of looking forward, based on mutual interests and respect.” This implies that the previous administration did not deal with the Muslim world based on mutual interests and respect, but rather with arrogance, bullying and taking sides with their adversaries.

However, putting nice words into action is a whole different story that have to stand the test of the future actions before we pass a judgment.

But fixing all what is wrong with America is another long-term serious matter. To borrow a metaphor from the automotive industry, I would say that a mere tune-up will not do the trick; we need a whole new engine. And I hope that Obama will be that engine. And surprisingly enough, I found Rev. Joseph Lowery’s words in his invocation containing the ingredients for that new engine.

I know atheists will not like my words as they didn’t like all the exaggerated religious aspects of the inauguration. But my message for them is that they need to show respect for people of faith if they expect to be respected! This is the golden rule fore all humans to follow!

But regardless of the actual future results in bringing peace, harmony and mutual respect between the cultures of this vast world, America and the world today, with Obama at the helm, has far better chance to be a light unto the nation and a constructive force for peace as it has not been any time before! And my sincere prayers go to him to be protected from the domestic enemies!

ITW—Since when is criticizing “tearig down”? The man is a conservative, and, of course, liberals will criticize—we cannot do much else!

Tony, you are intelligent…how can you say that this is NOT a “reach”??“Totally wrong, omniadeo. Here’s a doubt for you: Obama said “A far reaching network of violence and hatred”. He did not name that network.”

Ok, so who does he mean…he mentioned Muslims in the very next sentence.

“With the Bush administration gone,  investigations will be happening, there will be trials in open court, people will be coming forward. The cover is coming off. Obama just has to let it. It is we ordinary Americans who must help him. Now is the time for 9/11 Truth”

Now, this, is just downright delusional. He has said that he will NOT do “investigations”—of anyone or anything! Tony, Obama would tell you himself to “move on”!!. And, I am a little tired of having to “help” our well paid , lionized, elected officials do the right thing. Just do it!

NOw, one thing I heard, which I do not know if it is true, is that Pres. Obama may put Bush decisions about environmental (as well as other things), made at the last minute, on hold. THAT would be a very good sign.

But, I sure wouldnt get on a bus to DC to wait for the “trials”. And, ot “move on” from some of the last 20 years, will just not be possible.

Nothing will change.  The same Truthdiggers will post the same tired slogans about Israel and big money and Obama being just another tool.

The guy hasn’t even been President 6 hours as I write this, but why should THAT matter?  You all were tearing him down by the evening of November 4th.

There hasn’t been a President with such promise who faced such colossal obstacles since FDR took over in 1933, and that was 76 years ago—3/4 of a century.

The ultra-leftists then tore FDR down, too, and they were just as wrong as you all are.

For the first time in many decades, I actually have hope in our President.  Real hope, not just wishful thinking.  Good Luck, Mr. President.  We all need you to succeed, and you have an awfully big mess to clean up, following the worst President ever.

It is not your (false-anyway) “economy” that is in such desperate need of recovery, tame Sisters and Brothers.  It is your very HUMANITY.

Unfortunately Barack Obama, like most of theamericanpeople and their domesticated counterparts around the world, still takes it as a “given” that all their man-made homo-centric CONceits are right in-tune with Living Reality.  Somehow it never seems to occur to any of ‘em that the mess they’re in today is actually the naturally inevitable consequence of these self-serving beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors….NOT, as they persist in thinking and proclaiming, inexplicable misfortunes visited upon them in-spite-of their “specialness” by some malignant agency who just has-it-in-for-them.

Children often get into a frame-of-mind like that, according to the “papered professional experts,” but with luck, and some good examples in their elders, usually have a pretty good chance to grow out of it.  In the CONtraption called “civilization,” however there are no grown-ups….by-design.  No matter how well he means, big brother Barack is just a kid, even if a precocious one.  His understanding of Life Herownself, as revealed in his own words today, remains esentially still that of a child.

The Ancients tell us even “Young Fools,” caught-between-a-rock-and-a-hard-place, can overcome their predicament, however, if they recognize the insufficiencies of their understanding and seek guidance from sources of Wisdom.  Even after four hundred years of thrashing-and-crashing, fumbling-and-stumbling all over Turtle Island, americans are still behaving like the know-it-all fools they were when first we met.  Only today they’ve used-up all the slack a generous Nature can cut them….and maybe then-some.

If Barack Obama intends to “lead” his people through and out-of the self-made mess they’re in here, he’d better seek some Native Guidance, because what he’s offering and proposing at-the-moment is guaranteed to get ‘em only in way worse trouble yet.  Turtle Island, and our Mother Earth, need free wild Human Beings to fulfill with integrity the organic function of the Two-legged within Her Living Arrangement.  That’s a Natural Fact. 

Trying to finesse it has gotten you all right where you are today.  What in Hell makes you think more-of-the-same will get you out?

Hokahey!

Tony, you convinced me to as well as Ominadeo that you are a man of great Faith.  But I mean it in the worst sense, that your faith is in political delusion.  That you are a political loony in the same way that Maani and Trithh are religious loonies.

I just assumed without thinking about that you were cyncial and dishonest like Cyrena, but I see I was wrong.  You actually appear to believe the things you say.

Well, in that case there is hope for you.  I wonder how long it would take to convince you you are wrong.  Obama is not a centrist, as Clinton was,  He is a centerpiece in a right wing consensus that is carrying out Bush policies, not Clinton policies.  But using triangulation on the whole political process rather than on particular issues.

What we can expect in Obama is more war, more class inequality, more privation for the American population, and an increasing police state. 

I wonder if any of that would shake your Faith.  Or that of the American people like you.  Clearly his proposal to gut social security didn’t do it, or his support for the Israeli attack on the Gazan population.  I wonder if anything would, and what it would be.

Tony, you are a man of great faith, and I mean that in the best sense, as a compliment, and if you prove me wrong, this old cynic will die happier.

But I am an old cynic and I look at his appointees, and his actions on the bailout, and I think I am right.

Please win.

By omniadeo, January 20 at 10:33 am #
“Our nation is at war, against a far-reaching network of violence and hatred.” - Obama in Inauguration Speech

This is a lie. Benefit of doubt gone.

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Totally wrong, omniadeo. Here’s a doubt for you: Obama said “A far reaching network of violence and hatred”. He did not name that network. What if he’s talking about the shadow government that has been running this country and al Qaeda and who are the real authors of 9/ll? It’s coming, I tell you. 9/11 truth is coming. I can feel it rumbling like a volcano. With the Bush administration gone,  investigations will be happening, there will be trials in open court, people will be coming forward. The cover is coming off. Obama just has to let it. It is we ordinary Americans who must help him. Now is the time for 9/11 Truth.

Why exactly is it that “the government has been forced to spend a trillion dollars or more just to stave off utter ruin”? Why is it that “there’s precious little money left to finance desperately needed reforms in health care, education, energy, infrastructure…?” Who exactly is it that made these decisions and for whom? This is how “Our mental furniture is being rearranged”? Looks like the same old class-caste system to me. “Seeing Obama in the White House obliterates any logic behind self-imposed limits on imagination and ambition” but not on systemically-imposed limits on proles lacking elite credentials, connections and cash. “The importance of Obama’s mind-blowing historical breakthrough can hardly be” discerned. “These are huge” overstatements—“which makes it ironic that, in the end race is likely to be secondary in defining Obama’s place in history” to class. History, as Henry Ford shrewdly suggested, is often ‘bunk’ anyway. It’s manufactured like political spin to suit the purposes of the class that produces it. All the over-inflated rhetoric about “historical echo”, historical breakthrough”, historical this, historical that, etc. suits the propaganda aims of a decadent American society in the throes of disintegration, desperately clinging to an imaginary “historical” greatness. “All that anyone, including Obama, can be sure of is that his will be a consequential presidency”— a facile “piece of knowledge”, since given America’s vast military power and propensity to misuse it, it’s always consequential – often lethally consequential – to much of the rest of the world what any president does. The early indications are, of course, that there will be very dire consequences indeed for many foreign populations, especially in the Middle East and Afghanistan. ”It took the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks” – as a convenient pretext – “to broaden the scope and ambition of George W. Bush’s presidency, for better or worse” and carry out plans of unilateral aggression that had already been hatched before that. “Obama takes office knowing beyond all doubt that he has no choice but to swing for the fences.”  In that context, it’s hard to know exactly what this can possibly mean, unless “swing for the fences” is an invitation to all-out war or the use of nuclear weapons. “A remarkable 72 percent are ‘fairly’ or ‘very’ confident that Obama’s economic program—whatever it ultimately turns out to be—will improve the economy”, which has to be the biggest case of mass hypnosis on record. How could anyone be confident in something when they don’t even know what it will be?! Only in America, with an essentially illiterate population, a blind faith in authority, and a desperate need to believe that consumer binging can go on forever could these illusions be possible. “After a campaign that had the rest of us”  bamboozled “for months and months”, one that spent almost $1 Billion to buy the Oval Office, it’s perhaps not surprising that Obama Copacabana “seemed temperamentally unchanged”. Once a fraud, always a fraud.

“Our nation is at war, against a far-reaching network of violence and hatred.” - Obama in Inauguration Speech

This is a lie. Benefit of doubt gone.

Obama is a great man. I really believe that.  But so were Robert E. Lee and Napoleon. That is not an endorsement of their policies, and Obama, great and historic or not, has given notice that he will continue to trumpet this lie for the benefit of US imperial forays in service to certain international corporate/military interests, which are not always easily described anymore in terms of Nation states.

We are not “at “war” when we send our troops to bomb and occupy foreign nations over resources and real estate, except by choice.

Obama is a great man, but his greatness is being used to sucker American into more bad deals. I believe he believes he is trying to get us a better deal, but policies based on the same lies never really do.

I am so excited for the President Obama to take office.  I hope he lives up to his motto of ‘change’.  I especially hope that he works to further the green sector.  I think it is particularly important for us, as consumers, to support green business.  For example, http://www.simplestop.net stops your postal junk mail and benefits the environment.  I hope the new administration supports the movement.

THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL- January 20th 2009- Will we spin to the right? will we spin to the left? Or will the weight of our “Seven Deadly Sins” (the mantra of Consumerism) and taking the easy way out by doing nothing, destroy our Eden?
The OBAMARAMA begins at noon. A Trillion Dollar toast, ” To Old Times !”

Obama’s embrace of the FISA legislation, Israel, and the Wall Street Money Pit still known as the “bailout” pretty much removed the doubt.  Sorry about that.

THAT DAY we call 9/11 changed the world as we knew it, for FEAR ruled the heartland and FEAR hardens the heart and closes the mind.

“We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world - no longer a Government of free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of small groups of dominant men.” - Woodrow Wilson

A few days after THAT DAY,when President Bush went on TV and told we the people to “GO SHOP!” If we wanted to HELP and that “They hated us because we were free!”

I did NOT react with FEAR, but curiosity.

I wondered if ‘They’ hated us so much to target and murder innocent people had something to do with Americans mindless over consumption of the world’s resources and apathy towards the poor and oppressed.

Up until THAT DAY we call 9/11, I was your typical self-satisfied, self-centered, uninformed, misinformed comfortable American.

THAT DAY, changed everything, even though I did not know any of the innocent who were terrorized, vaporized, agonized nor their families or friends, i had a visceral connection and a dream the third week of June 2001, that made some sense on THAT DAY we call 9/11.

THAT DAY also inspired me to begin to research so as to learn WHY did some people in the world hate us so much that they could target and murder innocent people?

I learned PLENTY!

And being a Christian Anarchist of The Beatitudes; meaning I follow what the Master taught-not any institution

And what is non-negotiable if you claim you be a Christian is that you wake up and comprehend that to be forgiven; you must forgive.

That to follow him meant you must pray and bless and love your enemies-not bomb, torture or occupy any.

And that it is the Peacemakers who are the daughters and sons of God.

And so, I was also led to the Interfaith non-profit Olive Trees Foundation for Peace, founded by a 1948 refugee from the Galilee, Dr. Khaled Diab and to journey six times to Israel Palestine and all roads lead to Jerusalem.

What follows, is CHAPTER 10: THAT DAY excerpted from “KEEP HOPE ALIVE”

http://www.wearewideawake.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=640&Itemid=176

It would seem that America needs a radical renewal and not a centrist.  Obama was elected to make changes, not resurrect the failures of the past.  Zionists populate his leadership team and the Israeli hegemony in the White House is more of the same.  He promises hardship and asks for sacrifice while securing hundreds of billions for the rich.  He excuses lawless corporations for illegally spying on Americans.  He fails his responsibility to the Constitution by failing to prosecute his lawless predecessor.  While we celebrate the great importance of an African American earning the Presidency and it’s powerful symbolism globally, we must not allow that to obscure our minds and the apparent abandonment of needed progressive change. There is no honeymoon absent honey.