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Gerald,
Forgive me --- I see I was being redundant...oops!
The Sea Lions have disappeared from Morro Bay, CA, about 4 hrs. south of San Fransisco. The city considered them a problem, sinking docks, etc. But we saw at least 20 dead ones on the beach. I'm afraid they were poisoned. Timeframe is the same.
Gerald,
The website printed in blue in your last post is a URL. :-)
It's all Greek to me!
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/u/URL.html
Dear Thom,
You want President Obama re-elected in 2012 because he will have influence in nominating Supreme Court Justices. I do not even want Obama to run in 2012 because he has failed as a president and as a leader.
Appointment of Supreme Court Justices is no guarantee that the Justices will side more as a progressive than as a conservative. Some of our great justices who were appointed to the Supreme Court were great justices because they were neither progressive nor conservative. They believed in and they followed the U.S. Constitution.
Personally, with his $150 million in his campaign fund from the pursuit of the presidency invested and a great retirement plan for him and his wife I do not know if Obama wants to run for re-election. He receives $500,000 in pension and his wife receives $250,000 in pension per year plus there is a $2 to 4 million stipends for secretaries, office space, etc. Both the former president and first lady have secret service protection 24/7.
Obama is the Grand Experiment that has not worked for a better America.
Sincerely,
Gerald
A third documentary will not be posted because it, too, will await moderation. This third documentary is the crown jewel of the three documentaries. It is titled, "Superpower."
Quark, if the f-word or the n-word is in a comment or if I highlight some articles by authors, these comments await moderation.
The f-word is seven or eight letters that end with a t for singular and s for plural words. The n-word is four or five letters that end with an i for singular and s for plural words.
Quark, please explain URL! I am a neophyte regarding computer literacy.
Gerald,
Do you have more than one URL in your post? That usually gets it sidelined. If that is the case, send each URL in a separate post.
My second documentary by Naomi Wolf cannot be posted because my comment awaits moderation. How does a person moderate a comment when I took direct notes from Naomi Wolf's presentation?
Here are some articles from noted writers.
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2009/12/26/airstrikes/...
http://www.opednews.com/populum/linkframe.php?linkid=103780
On a side note here is Martin Hutchinson’s article about the healthcare bill.
http://www.opednews.com/populum/linkframe.php?linkid=103667
It is interesting that people are complaining about the increase in health care cost to about two billion dollars but are silent on the bailouts of thirteen to fourteen trillion dollars for banksters, financial institutional crooks, and corporate thieves.
There is also silence of ten to eleven trillion dollars for thirty year wars in the Middle East and in Central Asia for wrong and immoral wars that steal another country’s resources, such as natural and human resources.
There is also silence on another nine to ten trillion dollars to aid in the reconstruction of several countries.
But, there is outrage for a two hundred billion dollar help for Americans health care system. My guess is that American human life is irrelevant.
Let us compare the two hundred billion dollar cost with the thirty-two to thirty-five trillion dollar killings of God’s children.
Is there any wonder why non-Americans see the USA as a land where fruit cakes and nutcases reside?
Mark,
More signs of a better economy (more and better jobs?) in the future in the midwest:
State unveils its high-speed Twin Cities-to-Chicago rail plan
http://www.startribune.com/local/80421717.html?elr=KArks:DCiU1PciUoaEYY_...
This was a documentary by Naomi Wolf, titled “The End of America.”
Here are the ten steps.
1. Language of fear – introduce internal and external threats to the USA. Manipulate our fears by colors – red, yellow, orange, etc. Pass laws that give up our rights and no warrants are necessary to violate our rights.
2. Secret prisons where torture takes place. We have black sites around the world. We killed through lies. Prolong isolation can make a healthy person insane.
3. Develop a paramilitary force – Blackwater is an example. Blackwater military forces are trained murderers and torturers. This military force cannot be prosecuted. Blackwater is operating in America today. There is a covert civil war taking place in the USA today.
4. Surveil Ordinary Citizens – Naomi Wolf is considered a high security risk. Every society has a high security list. Four SSSSs on your boarding pass means you are a high security risk.
5. Infiltrate Citizen Groups
6. Detain and Release Ordinary Citizens
7. Target Key Individuals
8. Restrict the press – the Espionage Act of 1917 was passed and you could not criticize the war.
9. Recast Criticism as espionage and be charged with treason – criminalize free speech.
10. Subvert the rule of law – we are no longer a free America. We are operating like Germany in the 1930s. We are now an occupied military country. Criminals are running our country and we are enslaved citizens with no freedoms and rights.
AMERICANS HAVE A DUTY TO CRITICIZE THEIR COUNTRY.
Here are some articles from noted writers.
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2009/12/26/airstrikes/...
http://www.opednews.com/populum/linkframe.php?linkid=103780
On a side note here is Martin Hutchinson’s article about the healthcare bill.
http://www.opednews.com/populum/linkframe.php?linkid=103667
It is interesting that people are complaining about the increase in health care cost to about two billion dollars but are silent on the bailouts of thirteen to fourteen trillion dollars for banksters, financial institutional crooks, and corporate thieves.
There is also silence of ten to eleven trillion dollars for thirty year wars in the Middle East and in Central Asia for wrong and immoral wars that steal another country’s resources, such as natural and human resources.
There is also silence on another nine to ten trillion dollars to aid in the reconstruction of several countries.
But, there is outrage for a two hundred billion dollar help for Americans health care system. My guess is that American human life is irrelevant.
Let us compare the two hundred billion dollar cost with the thirty-two to thirty-five trillion dollar killings of God’s children.
Is there any wonder why non-Americans see the USA as a land where fruit cakes and nutcases reside?
This was a documentary by Naomi Wolf, titled “The End of America.” She discusses the ten steps to create a Nazi Society. In the 1930s Germany was like America is today.
Here are the ten steps.
1. Language of fear – introduce internal and external threats to the USA. Manipulate our fears by colors – red, yellow, orange, etc. Pass laws that give up our rights and no warrants are necessary to violate our rights.
2. Secret prisons where torture takes place. We have black sites around the world. We killed through lies. Prolong isolation can make a healthy person insane.
3. Develop a paramilitary force – Blackwater is an example. Blackwater military forces are trained murderers and torturers. This military force cannot be prosecuted. Blackwater is operating in America today. There is a covert civil war taking place in the USA today.
4. Surveil Ordinary Citizens – Naomi Wolf is considered a high security risk. Every society has a high security list. Four SSSSs on your boarding pass means you are a high security risk.
5. Infiltrate Citizen Groups
6. Detain and Release Ordinary Citizens
7. Target Key Individuals
8. Restrict the press – the Espionage Act of 1917 was passed and you could not criticize the war.
9. Recast Criticism as espionage and be charged with treason – criminalize free speech.
10. Subvert the rule of law – we are no longer a free America. We are operating like Germany in the 1930s. We are now an occupied military country. Criminals are running our country and we are enslaved citizens with no freedoms and rights.
AMERICANS HAVE A DUTY TO CRITICIZE THEIR COUNTRY.
Here are some articles from noted writers.
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2009/12/26/airstrikes/...
http://www.opednews.com/populum/linkframe.php?linkid=103780
On a side note here is Martin Hutchinson’s article about the healthcare bill.
http://www.opednews.com/populum/linkframe.php?linkid=103667
Mark,
As an afterthought per my previous link to an article about the end of the ethanol boom, does this company hold any interest or opportunity for you? You are so smart, you'd be a real asset for them. (It's cold in Granite Falls right now, though! brrrrrrrrrrr! LOL)
http://www.fageninc.com/
Here is the first of three documentaries that is lengthy but an important read.
During my respite from using the computer I had an opportunity to view and hear three documentaries. The first documentary was The Corporation. It was a two hour and twenty minute review.
The documentary has said that transnational corporations want to control all of the world’s natural resources. These corporations are so powerful that they can bring down countries and governments.
Two such corporations were highlighted – Monsanto and Coca Cola. Monsanto uses chemicals in their pesticides and feed that can produce cancer cells in the human person and Coca Cola charges twenty-five cents on a dollar for a gallon of water. The water at times is not good for human consumption.
The documentary highlighted a checklist for mental disorders. Since a corporation can be considered a person, the mental disorder checklist can be applied to a corporation and to a person as well.
Here is the checklist.
1. Callousness toward people
2. Impersonal relationships with people
3. Disregard for the safety of others
4. Deceitfulness
5. Incapacity to experience guilt
6. Failure to comply toward social norms to benefit people
From the checklist these transnational corporations displayed a psychopathic mental disorder. The well being of the human person is not important.
These corporations want to privatize the entire planet. Privatization takes from the public trust and gives to corporations and influential people. Our lives will be at the mercy of these corporations and the powerful money people. The powerbrokers are interested in private ownership for everything on this planet, such as water, air, land, forests, etc. You will have to pay the corporation for everything.
Corporations want mindless consumers and advertising attempts to control the mindless consumer. Corporations are not good apostles. They are predators. Shareholders want money and not corporate apostles. Corporations advertise a way of life and not a product.
Corporations encourage tax cuts, tax havens, and avoidance of taxes. Every part of our planet will be parceled to corporations.
The call for transnational corporations is globalization.
Globalization is tying the world together. Trade is an issue. Foreign governments want free trade because it means jobs for the foreign worker and less jobs for the America worker. America needs economic reforms and manufacturing work to bring our citizens out of poverty. Why can’t we lift millions of Americans out of poverty? Why do Americans refuse to help other Americans? Why can’t America have economic reforms and create more manufacturing work?
Should corporations be socially responsible? From the mental disorder checklist we can see that corporations are socially irresponsible and psychopathological. The truth is that profits trump social responsibility. In 1989, corporations met to control the entire planet and its resources. Fifteen corporations want to control the entire planet. Corporations are privatizing the resources and selling it back to the people for whatever price it desires. Governments are powerless against corporations. In fact, corporations can overthrow governments.
Governments work with corporations to suppress dissenters. Dissenters are idealistic and corporations are realistic and the corporations are winning. Governments and corporations want to take away the people’s freedoms and rights. Corporations with the help of governments are gaining more and more control over our lives. Three billion people are living in poverty. More children are being exploited as slave laborers by corporations in the emerging countries. Slavery continues in the world and in the United States of America.
Corporations and governments must understand that we are all in it together. People are part of the equation to improve our world. Together we stand or together we will fall.
Fear keeps the masses under control. Corporations and governments keep the fear level high so that people will focus on each other and not the main problems that corporations and governments create to control the people. The people will be divided by the corporations and the governments and they will be too fearful to unite in order to have some influence over the decisions that are made by corporations and governments.
We are leaving a terrible legacy to our children in destroying our planet’s environment and human life. We are heading for a crash in the destruction of the American civilization. We are a greedy people and money is our god.
We are facing a death of birth to all living beings – animal and human. This animal and even human life are facing extinction.
We are seeing the taking away of the commons for exploitation. In time every person, thing, and resource will be taken over by somebody or in the control of someone.
Governments are powerless against corporations. Corporations control governments. Citizens are powerless. The Blackwater Mercenary Group will takeover our country.
Here are some articles from noted writers.
http://www.fff.org/blog/jghblog2009-12-28.asp
http://www.opednews.com/populum/linkframe.php?linkid=103767
mir, you are right!!!
It was a week or so prior to Christmas and Mary Shaw had an article on Charity giving. She highlighted one such Charity. The Charity’s name is well known. The Charity will help people in need but it is quite selective in its giving. Some people will receive help and other people will not receive help.
Her article made me think about my charitable giving. A friend of mine recommended two charities in Haiti. One charity was for feeding the people and the second charity was for health care.
What I did was to try and receive information on these two charities. The only information that I was able to gather was N/A. The only information that was not released to the public was N/A. Well, this will be my last two donations to these charities. I believe, like Mary Shaw, that the people need to have information as to how much direct aid goes to the people in need and how much is spent on salaries, funding raising, marketing, and maintenance of facilities.
Most Americans believe that slavery ended in 1865 when the North defeated the South and the slaves were set free. Well, slavery in America is alive and sick even today in the year 2010.
Here are some examples of such slavery – the exploitation of the human worker, slave wages, lack of salary increases, the destruction of the labor unions, lack of good health care for most human beings, stagnant salaries to help people buy goods and services that drives an economy, and the push to end minimum wage.
The babble coming from the corporations and the rich is that removal of the minimum wage laws would create more jobs. They are right but how much can the American worker buy on less than a dollar per hour in our Consumer-driven economy that requires money to buy the goods and services to keep our economy running?
The issue is not more jobs for the American worker but huge profits for the corporations and for the rich. The elimination of minimum wages would enslave the American worker at an even deeper level in comparison to the worker of today.
There are corporations and the rich who export slavery to other countries in order to have huge profits and we have in America human sweat shops running with no standards for the treatment of our immigrants.
Re: Masons
No, there is no conspiracy. The only connection is that Masonry has always been a "rich man's fraternity (until the past 30 years, as membership declined). Mason do not take a blood oath to defend each other, no matter what the crime.
Well said Gerald Socha! This is true of all the existing religious communities of the world.
Bad elements exist in all communities (including religious groups) but it take only one bad deed to get into and dominate the 24hr new cycle today and it takes years of good work to get anywhere close to that kind of converage. We need to marginalise the bad guys and promote the good ones.
It is very interesting we say that Muslims are radical but there is no talk about radical Jews or radical Christians. In the USA we create fear; we blame; we divide; we stereotype; we spread chaos and not democracy; we label; we steal a country’s resources; we kill God’s children; we torture; we use incendiary weapons of mass destruction; we are a terrorist nation but make believe that we are not radical. In the USA we call ourselves Christians. But, Mahatma Gandhi knew, “I like your Jesus. It’s your Christians I do not like.”
Here is the hardest and yet most important of the instructions of Jesus. “Blessed are those who are persecuted for the sake of justice.”
Blessed are you when they insult you and persecute you and utter every kind of evil against you falsely because of me, theirs is the kingdom of heaven. So if you are pretty content, if you haven’t made waves, if you are not being persecuted in some way, maybe, just maybe, you are not working very hard to be a true follower of Christ.
This beatitude warns us that the world is full of sin and will not always welcome the Good News. Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s full commitment to following the way of Jesus gave him clarity and courage to speak out and lead other Christians in opposing Hitler’s injustice and violence against the Jews. He believed that this beatitude gave Christians the guidance they needed for delivering justice and bringing peace to our world.
Jesus encourages us to stand faithful and not change because of all the ideologies that the world, the media, even the neighborhoods in which we live abide by. The only way peace can come into our world is through us. The people of the first three centuries of Christianity really understood this. It is our turn to discover peace in our day.
I think the Underwear Bomber is a better description then the Christmas Bomber.
As a Catholic I am familiar with the Seven Sacraments. At seventy plus years of age the priest’s homily for Christmas Mass was on Sacramental Moments. This was the first time that I heard of Sacramental Moments.
Sacramental Moments are all around us. These moments occur daily. Sacramental Moments are the good deeds we do to help make our world a better place. Each of us has various kinds of Sacramental Moments. Here are some examples, such as caring for and helping the poor, working for justice and peace, and speaking out against wrong and immoral wars. These are a few examples. Other persons may have their ideas as what constitutes Sacramental Moments.
Striving to make Medicare for Everyone a reality is a Sacramental Moment.
Joining the International Criminal Court at The Hague, Netherlands to investigate and prosecute crimes against humanity, war crimes, mass murders in wrong and immoral wars, and torture of human beings is another Sacramental Moment.
Working to stop irresponsible corporations from exploiting human workers is a Sacramental Moment.
We have Sacramental Moments all around us. We should always work to increase Sacramental Moments in our daily lives to help make our world a better place for our environment and for animal and human life.
For years the US government has been trying 'dealing' with existing governments in Muslim areas (countries, kingdoms etc) or trying propping up rulers who are sympathetic to the US for their own selfish means. And time has proven that it just does not work that way.
US needs to deal directly with the people in these areas. Normal muslims on the street are not going to listen to 'experts' who are highly educated in western colleges, but lack basic religious knowlege. Instead US government should start dealing with knowledgable and respected clerics and other people who can speak the language of the locals, and despise attacks against civilians NOT BECAUSE THEY HAVE A SOFT CORNER FOR OR PERSONAL INTEREST IN USA, BUT SINCE IT IS UNLAWFUL TO KILL CIVILIANS even as per the Qur'an. It would be better to finance study of science and english in Madrasas in Pakistan, Afghanistan etc rather than forcing governments to shut all of them down. It would be better to use the manpower and finances of the muslim citizens of US to spearhead our outreach, rather than shutting down (or make it difficult to exist for) Muslim charities here in the USA and rather than sending for profit companies and mercenaries to help in 'development' and 'outreach.
We need to seek the help of people who like us, not because we can help them with F-16s or dollars, but stand by us when we do right, but are not afraid to critize us when they think we are wrong; either way they stand by their believes and do not reinterpret things to suit their point of view (like to the scholar alligned with the extremists or the dictators put in place by past US governments).