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Government Gone Mad
Joel S. Hirschhorn
"Perhaps most Americans deserve the
federal government they have."
Perhaps most Americans deserve the federal government they have. A government that, contrary to the lofty rhetoric of Barack Obama, is pure politics as usual. A government that is as corrupted by moneyed interests as ever. A government that is as dysfunctional and inefficient as ever.
A government that should have prevented the current recession but did not and now has spent horrendous amounts of money that has largely been wasted. A government that has put many future generations in debt. A government that makes a mockery out of the concept of democracy.
As Robert J. Samuelson has aptly said, the federal $787 billion stimulus package is “mostly a political exercise, designed to claim credit for any recovery, shower benefits on favored constituencies and signal support for fashionable causes. As a result, much of the stimulus’s potential benefit has been squandered.”
Are All Wars Gang Wars?
Curt Day
The contrast could not be more stark. When we think of gang wars, we think of senseless killings, cruelty, innocent children getting shot, drugs, and turf battles. When we think of the wars our own troops fight, we think of sacrifice, freedom, honor, and loyalty. So to compare gang wars to the wars our country's troops fight seems to show the height of ingratitude, ignorance, contempt, idiocy, and lunacy. To compare gang wars and our nation's wars would indicate the worst of a person until we read Augustine and former Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler.
CHENEY CAN RUN BUT CAN'T HIDE HIS ABUSES OF POWER
Allen L Roland
Three unindicted war criminals march to their inevitable fate
Dick Cheney can run from prosecution but eventually he will have to face his blatant misuse of power which includes the 9/11 cover-up, the illegal war, occupation and economic rape of Iraq, assassination rings, torture and illegal covert operations in Iran:
YOU CAN RUN BUT YOU CAN'T HIDE ~ You can try to escape from what you fear, but eventually you will have to face it. The saying originated in the United States in the 1940s, and is attributed to the American boxer Joe Louis (1914-81), who was quoted thus on the eve of his fight with the light heavyweight champion Billy Conn. It (the phrase) is often used in a political context. From "Random House Dictionary of Popular Proverbs and Sayings" by Gregory Y. Titelman (Random House, New York, 1996).
Censorship in the Internet age: Will burning of books be next?
Ezra Levant
How would censorship work in the Internet age? Australia gives us a sneak preview of the gong show that ensues when medieval thinking is applied to a wired world.
On June 23rd, Defense Secretary Robert Gates created a new military command dedicated to cyber security, reflecting Obama’s plans to centralize and elevate computer security as a major national-security issue, exacerbating concerns about military control of civilian computer systems. NSA Director, Lt. Gen. Keith Alexander, has been designated to take on the additional role as commander of the Cyber Command with the rank of a four-star general. This new structure is gearing up to start operations in October 2009. Meanwhile, this article describes how government censorship of internet is already being tested in Australia, and might be an omen of things coming to our shores soon.
Decreases in Cosmic Rays Affect Athmospheric Aerosols and Clouds
Henrik Svensmark, Torsten Bondo and Jacob Svensmark
Cosmic Ray Decreases Affect Athmospheric Aerosols and Clouds.
Close passages of coronal mass ejections from the sun are signaled at the Earth’s surface by Forbush decreases in cosmic ray counts. We find that low clouds contain less liquid water following Forbush decreases, and for the most influential events the liquid water in the oceanic atmosphere can diminish by as much as 7%. Cloud water content as gauged by the Special Sensor Microwave/Imager (SSM/I) reaches a minimum ≈7 days after the Forbush minimum in cosmic rays, and so does the fraction of low clouds seen by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) and in the International Satellite Cloud Climate Project (ISCCP). Parallel observations by the aerosol robotic network AERONET reveal falls in the relative abundance offine aerosol particles which, in normal circumstances, could have evolved into cloud condensation nuclei. Thus a link between the sun, cosmic rays, aerosols and liquid-water clouds appears to exist on a global scale.
Overcoming Speechlessness
Alice Walker
Alice Walker meets with Hamas Sister, Huda Niam, Mother of five,
Gaza, Palestine. (International Woman's Day 2009)
I have been, once again, struggling to speak about an atrocity: This time in Gaza, this time against the Palestinian people. Like most people on the planet I have been aware of the Palestinian –Israeli conflict almost my whole life. I was four years old in 1948 when, after being subjected to unspeakable cruelty by the Germans, after a “holocaust” so many future disasters would resemble; thousands of European Jews were resettled in Palestine. They settled in a land that belonged to people already living there, which did not seem to bother the British who, as in India, had occupied the land and then, on leaving it, decided they could simply put in place a partitioning of the land that would work fine for the people, strangers, Palestinians and European Jews, now forced to live together. When we witness the misery and brutality still a daily reality for millions of people in Pakistan and India, we are looking at the failure, and heartlessness, of this plan.
What is globalization doing to the world of work, both domestically and internationally?
Wanda Marie Woodward
How does my own work reflect the forces of the global economy? What is an evaluation and description of one organized effort to address problems of the workplace?
The global economy is impacting the workplace both in terms of the types of jobs that are being created versus those that are disappearing and also in terms of the work environment, wages and benefits. Pilisuk (1998) refers to the hidden nature of structural, cultural and direct violence as it pertains to the manifest ways that violence, particularly against females and children, surfaces albeit not in ways which allow people to see that it is a symptom of the globalized economy. Pilisuk (1998) defines the global economy as “a system of exchange in which all goods, services, and information and the resources to produce or distribute them are available for purchase in a single marketplace” (p. 200).
Undoing IMPUNITY — ICC States Rein in Rogue Cop
Dr. Carolyn LaDelle Bennett
By continuing its capricious and insular rulemaking outside the International Criminal Court the current government in Washington forestalls a necessary correction of prior and persisting lawlessness surrounding U.S. “war-on-terror” detentions — Dilemmas deepening dilemmas.
Wouldn’t it be simpler and a better way to resolve mounting dilemmas to obey and be held accountable by the same rule of law to which other countries and their heads of state and citizens and allies are held accountable?
“The Netherlands should not consider taking Guantanamo Bay detainees,” Dutch MEP, Christian Democrat Wilhelmus (Wim) van de Camp said this week, “until the United States first recognises the International Criminal Court (ICC) based in The Hague.”
Obamacare: A Health Care Rationing Scheme to Enrich Insurers, Drug Companies and Large Hospital Chains
by Stephen Lendman
On February 24, Barack Obama told a joint session of Congress that "we must....address the crushing cost of health care....caus(ing) a bankruptcy in America every thirty seconds. By the end of the year, it could cause 1.5 million Americans to lose their homes. In (each of) the last eight years....one million....Americans have lost their health insurance....Given these facts, we can no longer afford to put health care reform on hold....health care reform cannot wait, it must not wait, and it will not wait another year." Behind the facade of reform, Obama and leading Democrats ruled universal, single-payer coverage off the table before debate even began. Instead they've focused on taxing more, rationing care, placing profits above human need, disdaining vital change, shifting the cost burden to individuals and requiring everyone to be insured; imposing fines up to $1000 for non-compliance, and making a broken system even worse.
Obey Jesus Christ or the Government
By Tony Soldo
All true Christians must disconnect themselves from all organized groups of men who's purpose is to control, judge, punish, interfere with, other men. This includes all governments, business corporations, and even religions.
The only form of government that true Christians submit themselves to is the Kingdom of Heaven, which true Christians are citizens of, and Jesus Christ is the only authority and King, and Jesus commands His followers to obey His commands found in the New Testament Gospels.
Commandment 1) Love the Lord God with all your heart, soul, and mind.
Commandment 2) Love your neighbor as you love yourself.
As for Romans 13, that command is null and void if it goes against the commands of Jesus Christ, and all governments do things that go against the teachings and commands of Jesus Christ, including, and especially the US Empire, who is Babylon of Revelation chapters 17 and 18, but the US government has sent out alerts to all Christian organizations telling the pastors to teach Romans 13.
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