Now I hear voter enthusiasm has waned. Nobody wants to vote anymore or nobody wants to bother.

Now in March 2015 they wonder why. Well I will tell you why, and it is this:

On November the 4th 2002 2 million of us stood on that mall in Washington people of all color and creed. We thought for the first time if we elected a black man he might be as angry as us. Yes us. All us all white folks angry. We thought our anger might drag us along with him. Jobs gone. This man we thought might be as angry as us.

We wanted someone to be held responsible for these war crimes. The UN just walked away. We wanted someone to be as angry as us.

We tried the vote, of course we did.

We voted for Obama. He said “let’s reach across the aisles” Those aisles did not exist.

Dick Cheyney figured it out with Vietnam that desk soldier in the Nixon administration who took 2 deferments.

Should have been prosecuted as a war criminal.

We wanted that. We wanted someone to be held accountable for all the killing they did in our name.

Now the people in this country realize no matter who we vote for we can’t change it.

We have no power. They destroyed the unions with our vote. We thought someone had to be as angry as us. Black or white we realised what we voted for was a preacher when what we all really needed was a savior.

Keep this war silent. The destruction of jobs in the Midwest. New fodder for this war in the name of patriotism. This war we have a responsibility for?

2 million Syrian people freezing and dying in refugee camps.

The Middle East is erupting in a firestorm as we stand by and eat the next newsfeed.

Now what is left for our soldiers that fought this war for money? A VA someone wishes to destroy? The Israeli’s trying to get us into another proxy war? Corporate war mongers rubbing their hands building bigger and better bombs wondering whom they can sell it to next?

The realization that this country just used us. Our soldiers were willing to give up their life for these people and finally realized they fought a war for a country that never actually gave a damn about them.

It really was all about money. That betrayal of trust is something else isn’t it? It destroyed all our people coming home and it might have just destroyed this country.

Now let’s just go out and vote.

tottcatering -- Who in the govt is denying the video you have taken of that chemtrail process? Have you shown them to your local congress person or senator? Have you checked snopes or politfact for their comments on GeoEngineeringWatch.org?

Thom means "turmeric", not "tumor-ick", right?

John Pranke, I'm surprised you think "warming" makes a phrase sound more frightening.

Also, the term "anthropogenic" is not accurate, as that means that it makes people, not that people make it. Carcinogens make carcinomas, hydrogen makes water, mutagens make mutations. Therefore something that's anthropogenic makes people. There's unfortunately no suffix for the passive variant.

I've seen someone suggest "HIRGO", for "Human-Induced Rapid Global Overheating".

I do believe that Global Warming is destroying the planet and everything else that is trying to survive, but what amazes me why most folks and my dear friend Thom don't see the big elephant in the room that is causing the marjority of Global Warming. It was shocking and horrifying for me when I saw the big elephant. It was on January 15, 2015 and totally by accident that I discovered the BIG ELEPHANT and it was happening in the sky right above my house. I realize now that its been going on for years and years. It's called Geo Engineering which means "weather modification". It also has a partner called "Haarp". Most skies anymore aren't even normal, but its been going on for so long people don't even question it. Before that day, I never even heard of those names, especially CHEMTRAILS. i spent the whole day watching military jets swarming and spraying trails across the skies going in all different directions and not one of them was dissipating or disappearing. In fact each trail expanded and spread like sheets and after a few hours the sun was covered and most of the blue sky. I don't believe they stopped even when the sun went down. Following morning the jets were still swarming the skies spraying, that is how it looked like to me. I got real scared while watching and asking myself "what are they spraying" and is that coming down on me and all my pets? I even sent Obama an email cause I was just frantic of what is in that spray. By the 4th day jets still spraying and swarming and the sky looked totally overcast!! The jets continued for another 2 days and the sky was so thick with all the layers and layers of all those sprayed trails. It is March 19, 2015 and the jets still swarm the skies with maybe a break of 3,4,5 days of sun and blue skies and then their right back at it again. This explains why there is always haze, clouds and overcast. Government denies any such thing and only tell you their contrails and not chemtrails. It's documented that these sprays contain heavy metals that refect sunlight back up into the stratisphere (not sure of the name). The metals are highly toxic: Aluminum, Barium, Mercury just to name a few. I loose sleep over my discovery and most people just can't believe it, their eyes are closed. During my research their are millions and million around the globe that post photos and video of chemtrails. Ever look at a sunrise or sundown that looks like there's a blazing fire going on, that's the affect of looking at chemtrails. GeoEngineeringwatch.org is the most informative websit but there are hundreds more. I myself have amature photos from my cell phone, 4 or 500 of them. God help us all. I sent more emails to Obama and never heard anything back.

Thank you, chuckle8. For the first third of my adulthood I considered myself a "lifelong Democrat," rationaizing LBJ's monumental betrayal of his own self-proclaimed quest for world peace (proven a Big Lie by the Gulf of Tonkin incident and the subsequent Vietnam War) as necessitated by what Bismarck so aptly named realpolitik. I even managed to overlook, for a while, Carter's viciously theocratic betrayal of U.S. womanhood implicit in his approval on the Hyde Amendment. But I could not ignore Clinton's savaging of the working class, whether via NAFTA or the deliberately genocidal malevolence of welfare "reform." Nor could I abide the forcible-disarmament fanatacism that has consumed the Democratic Party so totally that I who in 1963 went to jail for the cause of African-American civil rights have been called to my face a "Nazi" in in response to my support of the Second Amendment. Thus since the 1990s -- actually the late 1980s -- I have therefore been a man without a party.

That said, I too would vastly prefer election of another Franklin Delano Roosevelt (whom I believe was by far the greatest president in U.S. history) over any of more probable alternatives, each of which would be severely destructive to the land I love. But the conditions that forced the nomination and election of FDR -- note the initial verb -- will never again be allowed to obtain. These were a large and rebellious progressive element within the Republican Party -- the "original" Republicans if you will, whose humanitarian ideology was a legacy from Lincoln; a parallel faction within the farmers and industrial workers of the northern Democratic Party; and -- the third largest U.S. party ever -- the Communist Party, the most successfully efficient political organization the U.S. has ever known, complete with the support of the Soviet Union and what may yet prove to have been the most formidable intelligence apparatus in our species' history, not just the OGPU (precursor to the KGB), but the lesser known yet far more effective GRU, Glavnoye razvedyvatel'noye upravleniye, the Intelligence Directorate of the Red Army General Staff. Such was the United Front -- farm and labor Democrats, progressive Republicans, Communists and socialists -- that put FDR in office and kept him there until his death on 12 April 1945. His accomplishments included not only the New Deal, but literally saving the world by defying the Bankers Plot conspirators of 1934 and thus keeping the U.S. from becoming the fourth and ultimately dominant member of the Rome/Berlin/Tokyo Axis.

Significantly, the Russians have always believed FDR was murdrered by the same too-rich-to-prosecute One Percenters who had tried to overthrow him and impose a fascist government. That probability is surely reinforced by the fates of the only two U.S. politicians who have truly tried to follow in FDR's ideological footsteps, John Fitzgerald Kennedy and his brother Robert Francis Kennedy. As I said when RFK was murdered -- at the time I was the news editor of one of the larger New Jersey dailies -- "there goes the last man who could have saved us from ourselves."

Thus the likelihood of "someone like FDR" rescuing the U.S. from the cesspool of fascism in which it is drowning is akin to that of the proverbial snowball surviving in hell. Were such a savior to attain power, he would no doubt be assassinated: welcome to the biggest banana republic of all time. But the greater probability, given the methodical Ayn Rand conditioning that has reduced the U.S. electorate to Moron Nation (note the results of the 2010 and 2014 elections and the near-certainty of Republican victory in the 2016 presidential election), is that an FDR-like candidate would merely be jeered off the political stage by voters so greedily infatuated with their cellphones, automobiles and other instruments of enslavement, any notion of genuine freedom has become too alien to consider. And even if it were not, the combination of Randite my-way-or-no-way selfishness and deliberately fostered ignorance that characterizes even the best-intentioned U.S. citizens -- note for example the collapse of the Occupy Movement (which I witnessed firsthand) -- ensures they have been moronated (dumbed down) to abject powerlessness. Such were the psychodynamics of Nazi Germany in the late 1930s -- which strongly suggests a people so conditioned can never be awakened by any means short of foreign conquest.

I am not, therefore, optimistic. As Winston Churchill reportedly said on the eve of the Battle of Britain, "only a miracle can save us now." But I will probably never know whether we are rescued or not, as I am less than two weeks from my 75th birthday. And -- speaking frankly -- the only future I can logically foresee, that of an old man increasingly afflicted by the genocide of asuterity as part of a doomed species on a dying planet, makes me profoundly angry and sad and profoundly thankful I will probably not live to see the worst of it.

chuckle8- I have to confess I did not watch that entire geoengineering video; I do know that web site does not blame climate change on geoengineering. It does suggest that geoengineering is being used to modifiy climate change and to modify public perception of climate change.

Today you have called Israel '' the apharteid state''... This was a vivid example of dialectical low of transition too mach quantity of progressivism into quality: antisemitism with weak smell of... fascism. - Congratulation ! How successfully was found such country! It looks like you were not able to hide any more your real ''love'' to jews...

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If memory serves Al Gore grought AGW into the national spotlight, he didn't invent it, he just researched what he had learned about in college and put into a powerpoint production a book and film. Originally it was called "Man Made Global Warming". Then GOP spinmeister Frank Luntz massaged it into a more benign term "Climate Change" sounds a lot less frightening doesn't it. Climate Change driven by Anthropogenic Global Warming is probably an accurate description (plus I like to use the term Anthropogenic, though I'm not a scientist). This is one of the few safe places to comment without being swarmed by AGW denier Trolls. Cheers.

chi matt -- I think Thom said the 0.08 trillion was all governmental spending. All non-govermental spending was 0.005 trillion. Yes, $80 billion is just a little when compared to our wealth. Do you know that Jamie Dimon was personally lobbying congress to allow him to take risky bets on our FDIC funds. His lobbying was successful. The result is that wall st firms should make an additional $2000 billion on just the action.

Loren Bliss -- You have outdone yourself. Your reading of the tea leaves is very interesting. Thanks. - c8

I assume you, like me, hope you are wrong. I hope for someone like FDR, but who can forsee someone like Lewis Powell coming along. -c8