Most Republican analysis and reasons for not voting for Barak Obama cannot be refuted. They are solid, reasoned, and sound reasonable. They are also the result of pre-determination. There is no possibility that any kind of discussion or facts or input will change a Republican's mind. He is firm in his beliefs and his posture. If you have not yet decided on for whom to vote, then you may be able to search for the inappropriate, the nonsensical, the unimportant, the falsehood bases, even the stupid arguments and assertions in what he writes and says. However, if you strongly agree with Republican Fox News statements and say, "Right on!" stop reading this note now.
The sad truth is that approximately 94% of the electorate is as solidly decided as Republicans are. That electorate places John McCain in the winning position at this time of the race. I say "sad truth" because much of the decisions are based on determinations made prior to input of any kind into the decision mix that would enable a change of choices. Like, "Don't bother me with the facts. My mind is made up."
The amount of money spent on campaign advertising is huge, as you must be aware. The target of of the advertising is the undecided six percent of the electorate. No one really knows what will lead them to decide for or against either party or candidate. The choice by McCain to take Sarah Palin as his running mate for vice president of the country for her sex appeal and what she represents in political smarts and religious zeal, is evidence of cynicism so deep as to be scary. She would become of puppet of the power elites of the country just as George W. Bush has been for the past eight years. But she may well tip the scales using campaign advertising to appeal to a greater number of the undecided than would have an intelligent mature experienced choice by McCain and his advisors, hidden and on camera.
Now, my opinion, which I believe to be more rationally based than any Republican's, is that Obama will make the better president. He is smarter, more and better educated, his experience in and of the world is greater than McCain's, and his underlying philosophies regarding the distribution of his countrymen's products of goodies is more humane and humanistic. His stands on health-care, education, religion, foreign policy, and the Constitution of the United States of America, are best suited to the future well-being of our citizenry and the growth of our country. His stand on the war, its past, present and future conduct will certainly make America safer with much less loss of life and money than McCain could imagine. His choice of vice-presidential running mate is a clear indication of superior intelligence and fundamental understanding of America's position and needs in the world. Calling Joe Biden or anyone else for that matter, a "Liberal" as the Republicans do, simply elevates and enhances his status in my eyes. Conservatives represent the monied interests of the country to the detriment of 95% of the population. How any working person (the majority of people in the U.S.) can believe that voting in a conservative politician is beneficial to their lives is simply the result of low intelligence or high/overdose propaganda intake levels from Fox News.
Though all presidents are beholden to greater or lesser extents to powerful money interests, McCain has shown no inclination or ability to withstand their emoluments or their pressures. Nor does he have the smarts to out-maneuver them.
Finally, if McCain dies in office, the elevation of Sara Palin to the presidency is enough to prohibit any reasonable person from voting for him.
So which is it, Republican voter, cupidity or stupidity?
Sunday, September 14, 2008
Saturday, September 13, 2008
EARLY-STAGE FASCISM - SARAH PALIN'S CHOICE
FASCISM - Webster's definition: A political philosophy, movement, or regime that exalts nation and race above the individual and that stands for a centralized auticratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation and forcible suppression of opposition.
There will be an American version of fascism that grows out of America's national, legal, and governmental systems. The choice of Sarah Palin as a vice-presidential candidate in August of 2008 will be seen as the second step in the take-over of the American government by fascist forces. The first overt step was the choice of Richard Cheney as vice president in the year 2000.
After reading as much as is out there about Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska, John McCain's action in asking her to be his vice-presidential running mate was a border-line criminal act under American law. This is especially true in view of the probability that her being on the ticket resulted from and was based on a series of lies and falsehoods that may enhance his chance of winning the election fraudulently. McCain knowingly, with intent to win the election, chose a potential future president who will endanger the United States of America by what she knows and what she does not know and what she believes and believes in and what she does not believe or believe in. Outstanding in this quagmire of ignorance and prejudice is antagonism to the laws of the country and the constitution of the United States which she will swear to uphold if elected.
McCain's choice can only be judged as an act against the interests and laws of the United States and the people of the United States. The conspirators who created this criminal plot, placed in their positions of influence in the McCain campaign apparatus by hugely powerful wealthy right-wing ideologues, intend to continue the reign of puppets as leaders of the government in the tradition of George W. Bush as pretend-president to enable the ongoing rape of the country's resources and the ever increasing death toll of the country's youth in money-motivated wars spinning out of control in three countries. These acts have sown the seeds of an overt takeover of the government of the United States.
There is little hope that the forces at work and the people and organizations involved in the McCain campaign will become known to the electorate. Surrogates will appear in conventional advisory campaign roles. The people of the United States are experiencing the growth of a totalitarian regime using the same election techniques that Hitler's Nazi Party used to acquire power in Germany in the early 1930s. National Socialism will grow here under a benign-sounding name like "Republican Conservatism" or "American Economic Fundamentalism" or some other simple combination of words that will slither into place to mystify and befuddle the American people and the rest of the world so that America's Power Elites may continue the depradations of the prior government.
There have been other signs of this onset of erosion of Democracy by Fascist forces. The list of actions by fascistic forces over the past eight years of the George W. Bush presidency shows the elimination of democracy and fundamental freedoms and their replacement with a totalitarian regime. The destruction of the Barak Obama presidential campaign will make the take-over more apparent.
There will be an American version of fascism that grows out of America's national, legal, and governmental systems. The choice of Sarah Palin as a vice-presidential candidate in August of 2008 will be seen as the second step in the take-over of the American government by fascist forces. The first overt step was the choice of Richard Cheney as vice president in the year 2000.
After reading as much as is out there about Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska, John McCain's action in asking her to be his vice-presidential running mate was a border-line criminal act under American law. This is especially true in view of the probability that her being on the ticket resulted from and was based on a series of lies and falsehoods that may enhance his chance of winning the election fraudulently. McCain knowingly, with intent to win the election, chose a potential future president who will endanger the United States of America by what she knows and what she does not know and what she believes and believes in and what she does not believe or believe in. Outstanding in this quagmire of ignorance and prejudice is antagonism to the laws of the country and the constitution of the United States which she will swear to uphold if elected.
McCain's choice can only be judged as an act against the interests and laws of the United States and the people of the United States. The conspirators who created this criminal plot, placed in their positions of influence in the McCain campaign apparatus by hugely powerful wealthy right-wing ideologues, intend to continue the reign of puppets as leaders of the government in the tradition of George W. Bush as pretend-president to enable the ongoing rape of the country's resources and the ever increasing death toll of the country's youth in money-motivated wars spinning out of control in three countries. These acts have sown the seeds of an overt takeover of the government of the United States.
There is little hope that the forces at work and the people and organizations involved in the McCain campaign will become known to the electorate. Surrogates will appear in conventional advisory campaign roles. The people of the United States are experiencing the growth of a totalitarian regime using the same election techniques that Hitler's Nazi Party used to acquire power in Germany in the early 1930s. National Socialism will grow here under a benign-sounding name like "Republican Conservatism" or "American Economic Fundamentalism" or some other simple combination of words that will slither into place to mystify and befuddle the American people and the rest of the world so that America's Power Elites may continue the depradations of the prior government.
There have been other signs of this onset of erosion of Democracy by Fascist forces. The list of actions by fascistic forces over the past eight years of the George W. Bush presidency shows the elimination of democracy and fundamental freedoms and their replacement with a totalitarian regime. The destruction of the Barak Obama presidential campaign will make the take-over more apparent.
Thursday, September 11, 2008
TEACHING MANKIND’S HISTORY
If history is the written story of mankind’s existence on the planet Earth, are the Christian bible or the Jewish Torah, mankind’s early history from the creation to the time when the five books of that bible were completed, or are other lesser known (in the Western World) religious tomes that purport to be the history of mankind’s creation by a deity or deities, to be construed as “history” for educational purposes? This question underlies the ongoing struggle for the minds and votes of people in the United States and has penetrated the country’s schools at all educational levels.
The difference between knowledge and belief has been adumbrated by religionists. That is not surprising. What is surprising is the amount of money expended by power elites to assure the continuance of that struggle between the government support of education and religious influence on the teaching of history and science. That money is being used to equate religious “creationism” with science-based evolution. Why? A foundation of American democracy, separation of church and state, is being attacked and eroded. Why? Tax law that supported that foundational ideal has been attacked and redrawn by elected representatives in both houses of congress and huge amounts of money from religious entities are being poured into presidential races and into the choices of judges and Supreme Court justices, to allow religious institutions and their supporters to pour money into this conflict without suffering detrimental tax consequences. Why?
What is so important about teaching that God created man?
The answer lies in the power that religion holds in the minds of humankind. Creationism is a powerful introduction to the “miracles of God.” God is all powerful and can answer any question that man can ask. And God talks through the religions of man and religion’s minions, the churches, the priests and preachers, the representatives of God on earth. Evolution simply doesn't have the enormous meaning and power that God has.
Power elites want that power, fight for it, fight over it with each other, use it to motivate masses of people to vote, to go to war, and to accept their miserable lot in life. So when “history” is taught in our school systems, it may sound eerily similar to the Sunday preachings from the local pulpit.
The difference between knowledge and belief has been adumbrated by religionists. That is not surprising. What is surprising is the amount of money expended by power elites to assure the continuance of that struggle between the government support of education and religious influence on the teaching of history and science. That money is being used to equate religious “creationism” with science-based evolution. Why? A foundation of American democracy, separation of church and state, is being attacked and eroded. Why? Tax law that supported that foundational ideal has been attacked and redrawn by elected representatives in both houses of congress and huge amounts of money from religious entities are being poured into presidential races and into the choices of judges and Supreme Court justices, to allow religious institutions and their supporters to pour money into this conflict without suffering detrimental tax consequences. Why?
What is so important about teaching that God created man?
The answer lies in the power that religion holds in the minds of humankind. Creationism is a powerful introduction to the “miracles of God.” God is all powerful and can answer any question that man can ask. And God talks through the religions of man and religion’s minions, the churches, the priests and preachers, the representatives of God on earth. Evolution simply doesn't have the enormous meaning and power that God has.
Power elites want that power, fight for it, fight over it with each other, use it to motivate masses of people to vote, to go to war, and to accept their miserable lot in life. So when “history” is taught in our school systems, it may sound eerily similar to the Sunday preachings from the local pulpit.
Monday, September 8, 2008
NEWS, OPINION, AND PROPAGANDA
NEWS: Pedestrian falls into open manhole.
OPINION: A manhole cover, removed for servicing below street-level cables, was carelessly not guarded by city workmen, leading to serious injury to a pedestrian who fell into the open hole.
PROPAGANDA: A careless pedestrian fell into an open manhole being used by city workmen to make crucial repairs to city cables.
David Bauder, The Associated Press: "MSNBC said Sunday it is replacing Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews as co-anchors of political night coverage with David Gregory, and will use the two newsmen as commentators. The change reflects tensions between the freewheeling, opinionated MSNBC and the impartial newsgatherers at NBC News. Throughout the primaries and summer, MSNBC argued that Olbermann and Matthews could serve as dispassionate anchors on political news nights and that viewers would accept them in that role, but things fell apart during the conventions. Gregory, the veteran Washington hand, will anchor MSNBC's coverage of the presidential and vice presidential debates and election night, said Jeremy Gaines, network spokesman."
An event is seen, heard, experienced, described, recorded. It is recorded for history. Between the occurence of the event and its recordation, lies a need for explication, an explication that often needs lies.
The powers that control the media for the disemination of "news," are the powers that determine the explication, the choice of analysis and meaning and often, the very facts themselves of the events. The conflict between the observers and participants in historical events and the recorders for history lies in controlled darkness. The purpose and goal of that control is identical to and a part of the drive for acquisition and control of power, of wealth.
Therein lies the reason for power elites to control the mass media. Adolph Hitler's propaganda machine provides the quintessential picture of the how and why of mass media control by German unified government and economic forces.
Today, in the United States of America, the "free press" is no longer free. It is chained by interlocking economic interests whose goal is the acquisition of power and wealth. The news media of the country are being consolidated in rapacious fashion by power elites with the cooperation of government agencies established to protect the freedom of the press. As the country moves its economic model closer and closer to a fascistic state, the battle for media control becomes more apparent and more urgent for dueling business giants.
The recognition that control of future history means control of wealth, has accelerated the battle for control of the mass media. The elimination of "free-wheeling, opinionated" commentators and their replacement by politically friendly hacksters, is proceeding under the noses of a complacent and ever more ignorant population and their compliant elected representatives.
Watch this phenomenon take place and ask if there is anything that can be done about it? Let me know your answer, please.
OPINION: A manhole cover, removed for servicing below street-level cables, was carelessly not guarded by city workmen, leading to serious injury to a pedestrian who fell into the open hole.
PROPAGANDA: A careless pedestrian fell into an open manhole being used by city workmen to make crucial repairs to city cables.
David Bauder, The Associated Press: "MSNBC said Sunday it is replacing Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews as co-anchors of political night coverage with David Gregory, and will use the two newsmen as commentators. The change reflects tensions between the freewheeling, opinionated MSNBC and the impartial newsgatherers at NBC News. Throughout the primaries and summer, MSNBC argued that Olbermann and Matthews could serve as dispassionate anchors on political news nights and that viewers would accept them in that role, but things fell apart during the conventions. Gregory, the veteran Washington hand, will anchor MSNBC's coverage of the presidential and vice presidential debates and election night, said Jeremy Gaines, network spokesman."
An event is seen, heard, experienced, described, recorded. It is recorded for history. Between the occurence of the event and its recordation, lies a need for explication, an explication that often needs lies.
The powers that control the media for the disemination of "news," are the powers that determine the explication, the choice of analysis and meaning and often, the very facts themselves of the events. The conflict between the observers and participants in historical events and the recorders for history lies in controlled darkness. The purpose and goal of that control is identical to and a part of the drive for acquisition and control of power, of wealth.
Therein lies the reason for power elites to control the mass media. Adolph Hitler's propaganda machine provides the quintessential picture of the how and why of mass media control by German unified government and economic forces.
Today, in the United States of America, the "free press" is no longer free. It is chained by interlocking economic interests whose goal is the acquisition of power and wealth. The news media of the country are being consolidated in rapacious fashion by power elites with the cooperation of government agencies established to protect the freedom of the press. As the country moves its economic model closer and closer to a fascistic state, the battle for media control becomes more apparent and more urgent for dueling business giants.
The recognition that control of future history means control of wealth, has accelerated the battle for control of the mass media. The elimination of "free-wheeling, opinionated" commentators and their replacement by politically friendly hacksters, is proceeding under the noses of a complacent and ever more ignorant population and their compliant elected representatives.
Watch this phenomenon take place and ask if there is anything that can be done about it? Let me know your answer, please.
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
PAST HEROES - FUTURE HISTORY
The New York Times, September 3, 2008 (The front page.)
NABATIYE JOURNAL
Hezbollah Shrine to Terror Suspect Enthralls Lebanese Children
by Robert E. Worth.
The editors of The New York Times, a most influential newspaper by any standard, has allowed their reporter, Mr. Worth, to venerate a mass murderer, Imad Mugniyah ("the shadowy Hezbollah commander suspected in the West of masterminding devastating bombings, kidnappings and hijackings in the 1980s and '90s.") on its front page. The article describes the shrine and its educational impact, "capturing the hearts and imaginations" of the busloads of people, including children, who are being indoctrinated in hatred via the adulation shown by teachers and religious, militant leaders for this murderous assassinated terrorist.
The Times calls this murderer a "terrorism suspect." This yellow-livered description of Mugniyah makes the newspaper a partner in this horrific educational process.
Most important is the growth in awareness of the civilized world that religious fundamentalism is akin to cancer in the human body. The elevation of the creed of "death to non-believers" to millions of "believers" will lead to continuous conflict and irreconcilable differences between peoples the world over. And with the growth of poverty, the soil in which these seeds of death are planted, the horror of immoral religious teachings will bring ever greater speed to the descent of mankind into the abyss of a modern dark age.
For their own future safety, the power elites of the world must share their wealth and reduce the enormous economic gap between classes. Absent a concentrated organized program to achieve this goal is suicidal for the upper classes in all societies. No amount of fire-power will hold back the forces of destruction unleashed by religious terrorism.
NABATIYE JOURNAL
Hezbollah Shrine to Terror Suspect Enthralls Lebanese Children
by Robert E. Worth.
The editors of The New York Times, a most influential newspaper by any standard, has allowed their reporter, Mr. Worth, to venerate a mass murderer, Imad Mugniyah ("the shadowy Hezbollah commander suspected in the West of masterminding devastating bombings, kidnappings and hijackings in the 1980s and '90s.") on its front page. The article describes the shrine and its educational impact, "capturing the hearts and imaginations" of the busloads of people, including children, who are being indoctrinated in hatred via the adulation shown by teachers and religious, militant leaders for this murderous assassinated terrorist.
The Times calls this murderer a "terrorism suspect." This yellow-livered description of Mugniyah makes the newspaper a partner in this horrific educational process.
Most important is the growth in awareness of the civilized world that religious fundamentalism is akin to cancer in the human body. The elevation of the creed of "death to non-believers" to millions of "believers" will lead to continuous conflict and irreconcilable differences between peoples the world over. And with the growth of poverty, the soil in which these seeds of death are planted, the horror of immoral religious teachings will bring ever greater speed to the descent of mankind into the abyss of a modern dark age.
For their own future safety, the power elites of the world must share their wealth and reduce the enormous economic gap between classes. Absent a concentrated organized program to achieve this goal is suicidal for the upper classes in all societies. No amount of fire-power will hold back the forces of destruction unleashed by religious terrorism.
Saturday, August 23, 2008
FUTURE HISTORY - AN OXYMORON?
Futurists attempt to predict the world as it might appear in the unwritten history books that generations to come will read. Perhaps the details of mankind's impact may not be known, just as the details of nature's fury cannot be foretold. However, the forces of mankind and the forces of nature are presently known to a great extent. When and where the third atom bomb will burst and who will initiate its explosion may not be known. But those are minor details of future history just as the timing and targets of a tsunami or an asteroid impact on earth are not known.
Is there any difference between the forces of nature and the forces of man? I postulate not. Darwin's theory - more factual than theoretical - of "Survival of the Fittest," provides the futurist foundation for prediction. From the time that humankind gave up its independence as hunter gatherers in exchange for structured societies, the script was ordained that power wielded by the powerful in the variegated forms of those societies would determine the course of events leading to survival of the fittest, in effect, survival of the most powerful.
The vast majority of the billions who populate this planet are mere pawns in struggles waged by power elites in all societies. From the most primitive to the most sophisticated of those human groupings united by language, geography, religion, race, skin color, education, tribe, family, history, or any other tie, the people are divided numerically into a pyramid by the power exercised by each of them with power divided inversely to their numbers.
Future history will be determined by the power elites at the top of the pyramid at any point in time. The shifting of power between and among those elites will make little difference and have only marginal impact on the masses that sustain them in their struggles to aggrandize, protect, and acquire power. The masses will be indoctrinated and propagandized to believe in their religion and God, be patriotic, love their leaders, fear and hate the "others," and lay down their lives, all in the belief and hope that their lot in life will be benefitted by such loyalty.
The past and the present are the future. Future history can be written today.
Is there any difference between the forces of nature and the forces of man? I postulate not. Darwin's theory - more factual than theoretical - of "Survival of the Fittest," provides the futurist foundation for prediction. From the time that humankind gave up its independence as hunter gatherers in exchange for structured societies, the script was ordained that power wielded by the powerful in the variegated forms of those societies would determine the course of events leading to survival of the fittest, in effect, survival of the most powerful.
The vast majority of the billions who populate this planet are mere pawns in struggles waged by power elites in all societies. From the most primitive to the most sophisticated of those human groupings united by language, geography, religion, race, skin color, education, tribe, family, history, or any other tie, the people are divided numerically into a pyramid by the power exercised by each of them with power divided inversely to their numbers.
Future history will be determined by the power elites at the top of the pyramid at any point in time. The shifting of power between and among those elites will make little difference and have only marginal impact on the masses that sustain them in their struggles to aggrandize, protect, and acquire power. The masses will be indoctrinated and propagandized to believe in their religion and God, be patriotic, love their leaders, fear and hate the "others," and lay down their lives, all in the belief and hope that their lot in life will be benefitted by such loyalty.
The past and the present are the future. Future history can be written today.
Friday, July 18, 2008
THE PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY
Hi Readers:
The history of presidential actions can often be encapsulated in their libraries. Because much of the material included is chosen with an eye on the president's importance in the eyes of future historians, presidents (if living) and their staffs place in the archives the most positive material, the most laudatory symbols that can be obtained from their years in office.
Here then is a compilation of those important historical moments and achievements of the George W. Bush presidency.
The George W. Bush Presidential Library is now in the planning stages.
The Library will include:
The Hurricane Katrina Room, which is still under construction.
The Alberto Gonzales Room, where you won't be able to remember anything.
The Texas Air National Guard Room, where you don't even have to show up.
The Walter Reed Hospital Room, where they don't let you in.
The Guantanamo Bay Room, where they don't let you out.
The Weapons of Mass Destruction Room, which no one has been able to find.
The National Debt room which is huge and has no ceiling.
The 'Tax Cut' Room with entry only to the wealthy.
The 'Economy Room' which is in the toilet.
The Iraq War Room. After you complete your first tour, they make you to go back for a second, third, fourth, and sometimes fifth tour.
The Dick Cheney Room, in the famous undisclosed location,complete with shotgun gallery.
The Environmental Conservation Room, still empty.
The Supreme Court's Gift Shop, where you can buy an election.
The Airport Men's Room, where you can meet some of your favorite Republican Senators.
The 'Decider Room' complete with dart board, magic 8-ball, Ouija board, dice, coins, and straws.
The museum will also have an electron microscope to help you locate the President's accomplishments.
The history of presidential actions can often be encapsulated in their libraries. Because much of the material included is chosen with an eye on the president's importance in the eyes of future historians, presidents (if living) and their staffs place in the archives the most positive material, the most laudatory symbols that can be obtained from their years in office.
Here then is a compilation of those important historical moments and achievements of the George W. Bush presidency.
The George W. Bush Presidential Library is now in the planning stages.
The Library will include:
The Hurricane Katrina Room, which is still under construction.
The Alberto Gonzales Room, where you won't be able to remember anything.
The Texas Air National Guard Room, where you don't even have to show up.
The Walter Reed Hospital Room, where they don't let you in.
The Guantanamo Bay Room, where they don't let you out.
The Weapons of Mass Destruction Room, which no one has been able to find.
The National Debt room which is huge and has no ceiling.
The 'Tax Cut' Room with entry only to the wealthy.
The 'Economy Room' which is in the toilet.
The Iraq War Room. After you complete your first tour, they make you to go back for a second, third, fourth, and sometimes fifth tour.
The Dick Cheney Room, in the famous undisclosed location,complete with shotgun gallery.
The Environmental Conservation Room, still empty.
The Supreme Court's Gift Shop, where you can buy an election.
The Airport Men's Room, where you can meet some of your favorite Republican Senators.
The 'Decider Room' complete with dart board, magic 8-ball, Ouija board, dice, coins, and straws.
The museum will also have an electron microscope to help you locate the President's accomplishments.
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