8 posts tagged “politics”

Dennis Kucinich blasted the voting congressional majority that voted for a bill that they did not bother to read.  That bill was intended to officially declare that when war crimes are committed, they didn't really happen.  The purpose of the bill was intended to protect certain war criminals. 

Any one that attempts to protect one group of war criminals may as well protect them all.

"Today we journey from Operation Cast Lead to Operation Cast Doubt. Almost as serious as committing war crimes is covering up war crimes, pretending that war crimes were never committed and did not exist.

Because behind every such deception is the nullification of humanity, the destruction of human dignity, the annihilation of the human spirit, the triumph of Orwellian thinking, the eternal prison of the dark heart of the totalitarian." - Dennis Kucinich:

Video and transcript of Kucinich's response are on the same page here.

Have you seen the ads that encourage the public to sell their gold items through the mail? Like the ones on TV where we're told that we just drop our gold items in one of Such-n-Such company's envelopes and then safely mail it to receive cash in return?

I've seen those commercials in English and Spanish.  One company's ad shows us a brief visual "tour" of how the gold is collected and melted, then sold in bouillons to the US government.

I wonder if people actually mail in their gold items and expect an abundant cash return in the mail?  I do not believe that these cash for gold mail exchange companies operate that way.  I don't even know if they actually send a check in the mail, or if they are stupid enough to send cash.

Do yourself a favor.  If you have gold items, especially made of pure gold, hold onto them.  Keep them in a safe place. Not in a safety deposit at a bank and not in the jewelry box, especially if you have one that is kept on a vanity, or dresser.  Use your imagination and don't underestimate the investigative power of thieves.

While the Bush-whacked percentage of Americans argued for years that the Bush regime was "growing" our economy, I expected a market crash on Wall Street before Bush and Cheney left Washington D.C.  (I suspected that they'd get another four years and I prayed that they would not find any way to continue holding this country hostage after then.)  I told many Bush-whacked Americans to expect this crash. One of my own Bush-whacked relatives told another to shift his investments from the stock market into purchases of actual gold because the market is going to crash.

That other Bush-whacked relative (with the money) refused to do it. He argued with the relative that had offered this advice some time after he had angrily argued with me in June 2003 over our differing views of how the Bush regime's US foreign wars would dearly cost us all. He confided in the other Bushwhacked relative that he had lost a fortune (it was before 2006).  He lost more money when the market crashed last year.

Some people laughed at my warnings.  Others tried to argue me down (like that relative). They told me that I must have gotten my information from some crackpot liberal media source off the Internet.

I did find my sources on the Internet.  It was in 2002 shortly after the author published the essays which were my original sources.  They are still available online at the From The Wilderness site:

Moving On Gold, by Michael C. Ruppert

Analysts: Stock Market Heading Toward Crash, Present Rally Called 'Comic Relief', by Joe Taglieri (FTR staff writer)

Predictions made by Ruppert and a number of his sources and associates usually turn out to be accurate.  The timing and severity have been a bit off, but these sources provided more reliable information about topics at hand than sources in the corporate and partisan media.  See for yourself. (No wonder why some people tried to kill Ruppert, and certain others have been trying to discredit him and a number of his associates.)  I never hoped that his dark predictions would come true. When they do, I take no delight in telling some people, "I told you so."

Ruppert, as well as,  Stan Goff (retired US Special Forces), were among my earliest sources to lead me to the oil and war connection.  I had heard some casual talk about "peak oil" and talk of oil and gas  price hikes and shortages off and on for several years, but I dismissed the sources as flakes that got all their "information" from a sci - fi movie.

The majority of people throughout a nation, or a collection of countries controlled by a single empire, might endure mass unemployment, vanishing commerce, crops and cattle; they might lose their homes and go hungry and do without any kind of aid, including medical; while their schools fall to abandoned ruins while members of their own government and their aristocratic relatives and friends sit on piles of gold.  They'll hoard that gold until they have a self-serving purpose to release it to the public.

On Oct. 30  the Moscow Times reported that the Russian "[G]overnment plans to sell 25 tons of gold from the state precious metals and gems repository, Gokhran, possibly on the local market, Interfax quoted a Finance Ministry official as saying Thursday."  If you read the aforementioned (linked) essays and then read this, it ought to give you something to think about for a while.  Believe me when I tell you, there is more. Oh, so much more than this little blogger can include in a single post.

There is a new documentary out that received positive (and bone chilling) reviews after it was featured at the recent Toronto Film Festival.  The title is Collapse, produced by Chris Smith.  Michael Ruppert is interviewed in this documentary. Click the link to see if it is playing in a theater in your area when it opens in theaters on Nov. 6 for a one-week run in a number of cities in the US and Canada.

When election season in the United States rolls around modern candidates, their campaign team, and citizen supporters now use public communities to attract and unite their supporters.  Official campaign sites and communities are usually deactivated soon after the campaign ends.  Those assigned to such tasks often place domain names and URL's in semi-, or full retirement.

That is usually not the case for campaign communities and single-owner blogs that permit and display comments by readers, or members.  Most often, the blogs, or communities are abandoned by their creators.  The members that supported those candidates, at least with their votes, also tend to stray, especially when the creators, hosts, and moderators quit hanging around them.

When the candidate (in whose honor the blogs, or communities were created) wins the election, his or her opponents might find the abandoned blog, or community.  If, or when they do, they will likely spread mischief at the candidate's and his or her supporters' expense.

This happened to the Barack Obama Group here on Vox.  Most of the group's hosts and members appear to have lost interest in that group.  Actually, some, perhaps many members (including yours truly) allowed our own blogs at Vox to gather dust for many months.  In the meantime,  President Obama's critics, particularly partisan ones have obviously taken over this Obama group for their own anti-Obama amusements.

That's one way for them to find posts by like-minded bloggers at Vox. They may as well turn that Obama group into a social network for people that hate our current president, his party and its policies.  Give them enough time and the links and opening lines of their anti-Obama posts will outnumber all the positive posts made about him in the past, sporadically since the election, and (if he chooses to run for President again) during the next major elections campaign season. To casual observers, this might look like an anti-Obama group.The occasional post that supports, at least, some of President Obama's ideas and policies then appears to be the exception.

Perhaps, the people that are still mostly pleased with Obama and the job he's doing need to consider the benefits of adding positive content about him in still-active communities, like the group I singled out.  If only they knew that some of us are inclined to explore link after link, page after page to see what people are saying about issues, events, and high profile individuals and groups.  Paid and volunteer researchers would have a field day at this specific group, especially if their hunting for negative content at Obama's expense which might not have been quickly and easily accessed at a search engine site.

President Obama's citizen supporters can bury the links to those anti-Obama posts and surround them with counter-points.  But will they?

First they need to know what is happening over there.  The rest is up to them once they learn about it.

I am so proud of the people in my adopted home state (Florida), including the civil rights activists and lawyers that have been working tirelessly and against great politial and bureaucratic odds to defend the voting rights of all Florida residents.

I still  have moments when I get choked up and my eyes go moist and blurry.  I feel a fluttery sensation rise up my chest and burst in my head, as if every chakra from from my heart, to the crown are havin their own Happy-Happy, Joy-Joy dance. Barak Obama is the first presidential candidate that got my vote and won!

I did a double-take when I first saw the words, "President-elect Barak Obama."  They flashed on the screen right after  I heard, "But it's still too soon to declare a winner..."

Once I was finally convinced that Obama was declared the winner, I sent up a prayer to request that our next president and his loved ones be kept safe and secure.  We pay the Secret Service to ensure it.  We won't accept any "excuses" if something dreadful happens to any of them, to put it mildly.

It feels great to know that we have made a big step to correcting the course of our nation.  But we sure do have our work cut out for us.

I hope, you take the time to read the following essays that were written by one man I've grown to trust -  Michael C. Ruppert Please not the dates.  I can personally verify that the dates are accurate, because I had read the two older ones shortly after they appeared online:

Interregnum (written Nov. 5th)
What Really Happened Today,  Written Sept. 29th, regarding the market crash, where Mr. Ruppert predicted that Obama would win, and includes speculations of what might be in store for us and our new president.
Now is the Time: There is hope, written Sept. 17, with more details of  predictions Ruppert made over the years which have come to pass.

I Voted Today!

Last I heard, Obama was leading in the Texas polls.

I dropped by the Democratic office to see if they needed any help.  While there, a white haired man stopped by, absolutely euphoric.  He picked up a bunch of first-time voters today to get them to the polls and participated in making sure that anybody needing a ride to go vote got transportation.  He said that there was a bus full of people being transported to their polling place and declared,"I haven't felt like this since I participated in the civil rights marches."

 Another phone call, this time to inform me that the response from those of us that were asked to count votes was so positive, they had to call some of us to tell us that we won't be needed.

The hand counting process for which I was originally called to do was for ballots with write in votes.  The machine used to count ballots rejects the ones with write in votes.  So the rejected ones must be counted and documented by people.

I feel disappointed.

I was then asked if I wanted to volunteer at the local Democratic office.  This reminds me of how obvious the people I met that work at this office appeared to zone out, as if they didn't hear me when I stated quite bluntly, "I'm non-partisan."

I won't mind volunteering to answer phones.  If it helps voters to get to their proper polling place on time, or to help anybody that might have complaints, or questions, I don't mind.

I just want this to be a fair election.

I received an interesting call yesterday.  I was informed that there is a shortage in my district and precinct of honest people to count ballots on Tuesday morning (election day here in the USA).  I was asked if I might be interested in working Tuesday morning to help ensure that every vote in the precinct and district where I live is accurately counted.

 I agreed to accept the job.  It's an honor, a right, and a duty.

So, I'll have to get an extra early start to cast my vote.  Then I'll be off counting ballots at the court house!

May the outcome of this election be fair and accurate!

Of all the stupid rumors about Barak Obama that have circulated this country (i.e., He's a Muslem trying to turn America into a Muslem ruled state.  He's Arab.  He's Egyptian. He's going to raise common people's taxes.), I think the one alleging him to be The Anti-Christ is the most amusing of all.  (However, the claims of him being Muslem, Arab and Egyptian were funny.)  This, as well as, the others, indicate desperation on the part of people that make up and spread these fabrications.  Such rumors are intended for gullible and ignorant members of America's voting population, the sort that believe rumors which are loosely based in scripture from the Christian bible. (Most often from the King James Version.)

Obama is not the first person accused of being The Anti-Christ.  I recall when Bill Clinton was pinned with this label during the 2004 election season.

Was Al Gore, John Kerry, or any other Democratic presidential  candidate for the 2000 and 2004 elections branded as The Anti-Christ during those election years?  If not, I might know why.

George W. Bush (most likely with the aid of Karl Rove) knew how to work the fundamentalist "Christians" without relying on the age-old "anti-Christ" scare tactic to attract these people's money and other support.  Bush used wedge issues like abortion, gay rights, including the controversy over gay marriage, to lure religious groups, particularly under the Christian banner, to support each of his presidential campaigns.  He wore religion on his sleeve, passing himself off as the kind of guy that prays for divine guidance and frequently called Billy Graham for advice since he was a kid.  Bush used his claims to faith in God and Jesus to attract  mass support from so-called "Christian conservatives" for anything in his regime's agenda. He and his regime added the religious based manipulations to other things, like physical fear of terrorist attacks, and patriotic (or rather, nationalistic) fervor to convince scores of Americans to readily sacrifice themselves, or their loved ones (including their own adult children).That was enough for him to rally political support from the so-called Christian conservatives.

If anybody was being called The Anti-Christ during Bush's first term, it was Osama bin Laden.  That didn't last long.  Once Bush, Cheney, Rove, and their pals decided that bin Laden was no longer an important tool (except when they needed the recycled and other suspicious "videos", reportedly of Osama bin Laden for diversionary causes), Saddam Hussein became The Anti-Christ.

When I was a kid, right-wing extremists tried to convince young Christians and Christian parents to help ban rock-n-roll by implicating certain rock and rollers  as The Anti-Christ.   Did you know, Elvis Presley was The Anti- Christ? He was rumored to mesmerize women and teen girls, not just with his good looks and songs, but also with his gyrating pelvis.

In the 60's and 70's, John Lennon (Beatles) and Mick Jagger (Rolling Stones) were each accused of being The Anti-Christ. Little wonder with Lennon's social and political views, such as, his opposition to war, and Jagger's reportedly acid-trip inspired song, Sympathy for the Devil.

Ozzie Osborn, who openly described himself as a Satanist (before the luggage mixup incident which reportedly changed his religion), was called The Anti-Christ.  That was when right-wing extremists with a socio-political agenda set about their task of convincing concerned parents that Satanic cults were cropping up all over the country in every suburban and rural community, and every small town with a small-minded population. (Like the people of West Memphis, Tn.)

More believable:  the John Birch Society warned that The Anti-Christ would rise among the political and geographic rulers of so-called communist countries (where socialism and bans on free enterprise were used as a tool for mass control).  What made this more easily believed was that religious discussions, literature, practice, and institutions were banned by the governments of the U.S.S.R., the Republic of China, and Castro's Cuba.  As I recall, such bans also existed in East Germany before the Berlin Wall was breached and destroyed.

Why Barak Obama? What did he do to inspire some covert group of religious propaganda to elect him as the latest accused anti-Christ?

Obama is probably the latest alleged anti-Christ for the same reason why President Bill Clinton was so accused.  Talk of Clinton being The Anti-Christ seemed to circulate wildly around the time of the 1996  major US election season. His political enemies were calling him names like Slick Willie and Teflon Bill.  No matter what, they couldn't seem to ruin his popularity among more than half of the US voting population.  They had plenty of help from the so-called liberal media, which they condemned for not being severe enough on Clinton's image.  Clinton was too resiliant, and obviously more clever than his political enemies, until he testified in his own defense to the Grand Jury.

I've heard frequent remarks about Barak Obama's Teflon-like image. He's handling himself and his campaign quite well.  He's consistently leading in polls which are intended to compare his popularity among US voters, to John Mc Cain's.  In recent weeks, John Mc Cain's and Sarah Palin's popularity has waned, now that the newness surroundin Palin is wearing off, along with her "folksy" talk.  Additionally, Mc Cain appears to attract a lot of supporters that strike many of us as being ripe candidates for psychiatric evaluation. They've  been seen and heard on TV!  One (crazy lady with messed up hair) was parodied on the prime time Thursday night SNL specials.  This is causing desperation among partisan Republicans, especially since Bush's popularity dwindled lower than any US president's, even among the most mentally whacked, right-wing religious fanatics that had once held Bush as equal to Jesus.

One other thing:  Obama is the son of a black man and he has a Muslem-sounding name, according to some hicks in Wood County, Texas. Since high-profile Republicans don't feel comfortable with openly stating that they don't want any president with anything, except an all Caucasian family history, they must find another reason to discourage more voters (namely Christians) that aren't hung-up on ethnic backgrounds and names.

It is pointless to attempt to reason with the kind of Americans that really believe all this talk of Obama being The Anti-Christ.   If you've gotten to know any of these people very well, then you know that they are inclined to learn a lot of life lessons the hard way, regardless of how obviously foolish their choices tend to be.  They foresake logic and truth for twisted perspectives and lies that sound "right" to them, because those lies and twisted perspectives reflect what these people want to be true. Many of them never really learn from the consequences caused by their poor choices, no matter how many rounds of cause-and-ill-effects they experience.

My way to handle this is to laugh and shake my head.  If I say anything, it's, "So, this is the latest so-called anti-Christ.  I wonder, who will be the next one."