The struggle for peace and justice.

The struggle for peace and justice.

I refuse to surrender to negativity. Surrendering to negativity is like being lost in the wilderness, and choosing to lie down and die.

Actually it’s worse than that. It’s like being lost in the wilderness with a group of people; being sent to go for help, and then choosing to lie down and die.

We need to persevere, never give up, make the best available choices, and continue the struggle.

I supported and $upported Mr. Obama till the bitter end. I had planned to vote for him back in the 2008 $ellections. And then $enator Obama (at the time) voted with $enator McCain (and the other whores) to give WELFARE to the criminal bankster gambler addicts in the Wall $treet casino. I was also flummoxed on why Mr. Obama, a man of mixed race, would so open-lie support the ethno-racist apartheid policies of Zionist $ociopaths in the theocrazy of Israel.

Like the vicious dry drunk $ociopath (Bush the Lessor), Mr. Obama seems to be playing the role puppet… or even worse, the role of “house nigger” for the Amerikan ruling class. Tell me it ain’t so, Mr. Obama.

Don’t like my rhetoric? Hey! It’s not my fault if the truth is ugly. Old Coyote Knose… if it quacks like a duck, and it waddles like a duck, then it’s probably a god damn duck!

It’s a 2 term empire, although Franklin Delano Roosevelt held the American Empire for 4 terms, and if he had not have died, would have held it longer.  The populace Left loved FDR and perhaps President Obama will be able follow to some degree FDR’s plan.  The one thing I know is that one can’t judge what President Obama is doing based upon what the sophists and propagandists in the Conservative Right-Wing Media say.  Here is some of what President Obama has signed:

Caregivers and Veterans Omnibus Health Services Act of 2010, Signed: Friday, April 23, 2010
 
Health Care and Education Affordability Reconciliation Act of 2010, Signed: Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Signed: Tuesday, March 23, 2010
 
Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment (HIRE) Act, Signed: Thursday, March 18, 2010
 
Emergency Aid to American Survivors of the Haiti Earthquake Act, Signed: Wednesday, January 27, 2010
 
2009 Tax Breaks for Haiti Donations, Signed: Friday, January 22, 2010
 
Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment Extension Act of 2009, Signed: Friday, October 30, 2009
 
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010, Signed: Wednesday, October 28, 2009
 
Veterans Health Care Budget Reform and Transparency Act, Signed: Thursday, October 22, 2009
 
Cash For Clunkers Extension, Signed: Thursday, August 6, 2009
 
Homebuyer Assistance and Improvement Act of 2010, Signed on July 02, 2010
 
Airport and Airway Extension Act of 2010, Part II, Signed on July 02, 2010
 
National Flood Insurance Program Extension Act of 2010, Signed on July 02, 2010  

Preservation of Access to Care for Medicare Beneficiaries and Pension Relief Act of 2010, Signed on June 25, 2010
 
A bill to provide for an additional temporary extension of programs under the Small Business Act and the Small Business Investment Act of 1958, and for other purposes, Signed on July 31, 2009

Helping Families Save Their Homes Act of 2009, Signed on May 20, 2009
 
Protecting Incentives for the Adoption of Children with Special Needs Act of 2009, Signed on May 15, 2009

To provide that Members of Congress shall not receive a cost of living adjustment in pay during fiscal year 2011, Signed on May 14, 2010

To permit the use of previously appropriated funds to extend the Small Business Loan Guarantee Program, and for other purposes, Signed on March 26, 2010

To accelerate the income tax benefits for charitable cash contributions for the relief of victims of the earthquake in Haiti, Signed on January 22, 2010.

Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act of 2009, Signed on February 27, 2010

Credit CARD Technical Corrections Act of 2009, Signed on November 06, 2009

Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2010, Signed on October 28, 2009

Veterans Health Care Budget Reform and Transparency Act of 2009, Signed on October 22, 2009

Native American Heritage Day Act of 2009, Signed on June 26, 2009

Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment (HIRE) Act, Signed on March 18, 2010

North American Wetlands Conservation Act, Signed on March 25, 2010

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Signed on March 23, 2010

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Signed on March 23, 2010

Jobs for Main Street Act, 2010, Signed on February 24, 2010

Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010, Signed on February 12, 2010

Veterans Health Care Budget Reform and Transparency Act, Signed on October 22, 2009

Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, Signed on January 29, 2009

Helping Families Save Their Homes Act, Signed on May 20, 2009

Children’s Health Insurance Reauthorization Act, Signed on February 04, 2009

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Signed on February 17, 2009

Weapons Systems Acquisition Reform Act, Signed on May 22, 2009

Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility, and Disclosure (CARD) Act of 2009, Signed on May 22, 2009

FTA: ‘Sen. Lindsay Graham, McCain’s faithful sidekick, said, “This is not President Obama’s war, this is America’s war.” ‘

“Sidekick.” Such a nice word. Catamite would have been more accurate, but sidekick is nicer.

Great piece here, but he has the reference to JFK wrong.  Kennedy was committed to an early end to the Cold War, to peace with Castro, to a Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, to reduced defense budgets, and—to getting out of South Vietnam.  He had a poisonous relationship with the CIA, the Joint Chiefs, and the larger forces of the Military Industrial Complex.  Whether one concludes (as many have) that this led to Dealey Plaza is another question, but excellent scholarship (on the question of his foreign policy) for the past decade has been overwhelmingly convincing.  See the work of John Newman, Peter Dale Scott, James Douglass, James Carroll, James Galbraith, and David Talbott, among others.

Kudos to the author for this thoughtful and hard hitting piece.. also thanks to some of the regulars who supplied excellent comments.

Here’s something else not much talked about that may come to have a role in ending our endless wars.. the soldiers themselves.. I saw this recently in a great piece at MMore.com:

“As the American War in Vietnam staggered to a close, U.S. troops were in an open state of rebellion.  Fraggings—attacks on commanders (often by fragmentation grenade)—were rising, so was the escape into drug use.  Troops bucked orders, mutinied, and regularly undertook “search and evade” missions, holing up in safe spots while calling in false coordinates.

AWOLs and desertions went through the roof.  During World War II, Marine Corps desertion rates peaked at 8.8 per 1,000 in 1943.  In 1972, the last full year of U.S. combat in Vietnam, the Marines had a desertion rate of 65.3 per 1,000.  And precious few Marines were even in Vietnam at that point.  AWOL rates were also staggering—166.4 per 1,000 for the much more numerous Army and 170 per 1,000 for the Marines.  In a widely-read 1971 Armed Forces Journal article, retired Colonel Robert D. Heinl, Jr., wrote, “By every conceivable indicator, our army that now remains in Vietnam is in a state of approaching collapse, with individual units avoiding or having refused combat, murdering their officers and noncommissioned officers, drug-ridden, and dispirited where not near-mutinous.”

It didn’t take rocket-scientists to figure out that you couldn’t conduct long-term, wheel-spinning occupations in distant lands with a military like that.”

We may like to think of our soldiers, sailors and airmen as thoughtless automatons, or gun happy un-employed kids.. but there’s much more to them than that..

See the whole article (recommended).. link: http://michaelmoore.com/words/must-read/death-your-doorstep

Adios!

Follow the money.

It’s that simple.

It’s always that simple.

I will vote for President Obama.  I believe President Obama is doing the very best he can.

If America stopped having these wars there would be a million unemployed soldiers wandering around with varying degrees of post traumatic stress disorder and an intimate knowledge of guns and bombs. And since making weapons of mass destruction is one of the few manufacturing industries still making lots of money for the American economy the consequences of simply taking away their fake wars and scaling it down would be enormous. It took decades to make this bipartisan mess and it will take decades to dismantle it: IF the Pentagon and the CIA will allow it to be dismantled which I doubt. People who put the blame on Obama don’t know what the situation actually is and how much time will be necessary to end all this. No one man can do it on his own: it’s the work of generations, as was creating it in the first place. The American economy and its foreign policy has been built around the military/intelligence juggernaut for a very long time and the Republicans are waiting in the wings to do it all again once enough voters blame Obama for what the Republicans themselves are chiefly responsible for.

Obama, what a disgrace! I still can’t believe I voted for this man. These wars will bankrupt us. You need to start buying your cat food, now.

Obama—what a disgrace. Start buying your cat food, now.

Oh, come on now, I am sure that Pravda America (I mean MSNBC or CNN) will have some “expert” commentator or a White House “official” who in the next 20 minutes, will remind everyone how the Bush Administration started all the problems. (Personally like many) I realize that Bush was a kool-aid drinker (like Bush 1, Clinton, and Jimmy boy) from the globalist well and all are the cause (with the Congress’s) for the no-job problem for the next thirty years.

If push came to shove and each and every voting American was forced (by water-boarding?)to answer the following question:

Should we spend even more on defence to ensure our “freedom?”

You KNOW what the answer would be. YES! When it comes to guns or butter, Americans have always been far more willing to spend on guns.

So, please spare me all the fake outrage and Obama name-calling and the naive notion that the U.S. is anything but a military industrial complex. You all forget that, according to the Media and our leadership in 2002, WE WANTED THESE WARS. Now in 2010, we still want them because the represent production and power and “jobs.”

Please quit pretending that we are anything but a failing empire, destined to disintegrate into nothing more than antagonistic, regional areas. It doesn’t really matter if Obama or McCain or the Dahlia Lama was leading us today. We have all chosen this path and will suffer the consequences.

Perhaps we now are the largest imperial power the world ever has known.

This is true now but we’re on our way out.  The bigger they are, the harder they fall.  The average life span of an American male is 78 years.  That seems like a long time because it’s your life but historically speaking, it’s very, very short.  In 78 years the United States will be nothing like it is today.  We will be one of a number of sweating mercantile tyrannies but the empire will be gone.  And Obama?  No one will even remember that contemptible shyster.

“Carl” asks, “Why does anyone support Obama? Where is the outrage? Where
are the anti-war protests?”

Despite my profound disappointment over Afghanistan, I continue to support
Obama because the other major-party choice was McCain-Palin with air
attacks on Iran likely to follow. Yes, campaigner Obama proposed ramping up
in “the right war” in Afghanistan. Am I the only one who thought he said that
just to look tough for election purposes?

I am outraged that Obama couches his doomed Afghanistan policy in terms of
“defending our freedom” and “needing to win.” Unlike predecessor Bush,
Obama is smart enough to know how ridiculous that sounds.

As for Charles Krauthammer’s touting of the 19th-century British model,
“Englishmen self-confident in their jodhpurs and pith helmets,” British author
George MacDonald Fraser (1925-2008) captured the lunacy there in his 1985
novel, “Flashman and the Dragon.” Fictional rogue Harry Flashman, who got his
start in Afghanistan circa 1842, comments 25 years later on British policy in
foreign adventures: “That’s the great thing about policy, and why the world is
such an infernal place: the man who makes the policy don’t have to carry it out,
and the man who carries it out ain’t responsible for the policy.”

Let’s see. Who is making policy in Afghanistan these days?

Obama. As Harry Flashman would say, he don’t have to carry it out.

Who’s carrying it out?

Right now, Gen. David Petraeus. And he ain’t responsible
for the policy.

You bet I’m outraged. And yes, this is a protest against this nation’s policy of empire and perpetual war. It is helping make this world, as Flashman put it, “an infernal place.”

A corporal only get’s moved up to a seargent. A slave or near-slave, get’s promoted to a free serf [in movement only, tho].]
Of course, serfdom is layered [not all serfs are equal]as is masterhood [not all masters are equally masterful]
In any case, i evaluate as true that in US and many asocialistic lands, there are two-much-tiered groups of people: a minority of people as masterclass and majority of ‘people’ or nonpeople as an underclass.
{OK! An explanation is needed for this: u are either a person or ur not;i.e., in the arena of pie sharing}

As in the old days, a master [agha, bey, king, prince, lord, boyar] needs many servants [cook, maid, gardener, horse groomer]

Similarly, in US with its 10 to 30 mn lords [of various wealth-power], need at least 200mn adult servants.

These servanst serve the lords in mining, army, forestry, transport, fishing, tilling, repairing, etc.

Masterclass realizes that in modern times, peace and masterhood cannot coexist. And that is frightful to them. So waging, poverty, fears, uncertainty, ignorance must go on; it is the only way US can go on and wage wars.

But it does seem to me that more and more americans are espying these facts [? one mn]and if this trend continues, vast mastery by a minority over majority may subside or even evanesce in decades to come! tnx

I have to think that Obama is too deluded or too political to give up on wasting billions for an empire that sustains the military-industrial complex.

“every discussion of Afghanistan should start
with the recognition of the TAPI pipeline in the (southern) Helmund province”

The snake he’s long
seven [hundred] miles

http://michaelfury.wordpress.com/2009/05/11/the-gas-must-flow/

Do any “liberals” or “progressives” realize that Obama is spending more on our military each year than Bush ever did? This was not pushed by a big spending Congress, Obama proposed these large increases over Bush’s massive budgets.

So why does anyone support Obama? Where is the outrage? Where are the anti-war protests?

Look, who needs another article that paints our continued empire-building as a
mania, or mistake, or “mind-set”? Rather than marvel at the wackiness of our
deadly interventions, it’s time to ask what real motivations fuel them. Like “oil”.
With Iraq it’s blatantly obvious, but every discussion of Afghanistan should start
with the recognition of the TAPI pipeline in the (southern) Helmund province,
you know, where Obama sent the “surge troops” instead of the (N.E.) Waziristan
province where the (supposed) target, Al Qaeda fighters (all 50-100 of them)
are holed up. Because it lays bare the undeniable fact that, Global Warming be
damned, the US government is working as it always has, for the oil industry.
Despite the lip service, the vague references to do something, eventually, about
killing the Earth, the fact is, every substantive action actually taken, in the
Caucuses, Middle East or Gulf of Mexico is designed to not interfere with, but
actually increase our reliance on hydrocarbon fuel. Both parties are owned by
those interests. Breathlessly dissecting their serial failures is to buy into that
tired perspective that “if the leaders only knew better…” Don’t fool yourself,
they know everything you do.